Genene Jones
Genene Jones | |
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| Born | Genene Jones |
| Criminal penalty | 99 years with triple credit; mandatory parole in 2017 |
| Details | |
| Victims | one confirmed; believed to be up to 50 |
Span of crimes | 1971–1984 |
| Country | U.S. |
| State(s) | Texas |
Date apprehended | 1984 |
Genene Jones (born July 13, 1950) is a former pediatric nurse who worked in several medical clinics around San Antonio, Texas, and is thought to have killed somewhere between 11 and 46 infants and children who were in her care (around 1980-1982). It is said that she did this to feel like a hero and feel needed by others. When she was born she was rejected by her real parents and adopted. Her close brother died young and later her other brother and father died of cancer. She used injections of heparin and later succinylcholine to kill the babies. Novel succinylcholine detection methods were used to prove her guilt. An accurate number may never be known because hospital officials at one San Antonio hospital shredded records of her employment and activities.
In 1985, Jones was sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing Chelsea McClellan with succinylcholine. Later that year, she was sentenced to a concurrent term of 60 years in prison for nearly killing Rolando Jones with heparin. However, she will serve only one-third of her sentence because of a law in place at the time to deal with prison overcrowding. Jones will receive automatic parole in 2017. She is currently eligible for early parole every two to three years, but has been denied six times so far.
She was portrayed by Susan Ruttan in the television movie Deadly Medicine (1991) and by Alicia Bartya in the straight to video movie Mass Murder (film) (2002)
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