Genene Jones
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Genene Jones | |
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Born | Texas, U.S. | July 13, 1950
Children | 2 |
Criminal penalty | 99 years with triple credit |
Details | |
Victims | Two confirmed; possibly over 60 |
Span of crimes | 1970–1982 |
Country | U.S. |
State(s) | Texas |
Date apprehended | 21 November 1982 |
Genene Anne Jones (born July 13, 1950) is an American
Early life and marriages
Jones was adopted by a nightclub owner and his wife.[6] She worked as a beautician before attending nursing school in the late 1970s.[7][8]
Jones was married to her high school sweetheart between 1968 and 1974, and they had one child during that time. The relationship ended in divorce. Three years later Jones and her husband reconciled and had another child together in 1977.[6] Just before her indictment, she married a 19-year-old nursing assistant. He filed for divorce a short time later.[7]
Career and background
While Jones worked as a licensed vocational nurse (LVN) at the Bexar County Hospital (now University Hospital of San Antonio) in the pediatric intensive care unit, a statistically improbable number of children died under her care.[9] Because the hospital feared being sued, it simply asked all of its LVNs, including Jones, to resign and staffed the pediatric ICU exclusively with registered nurses. No further investigation was pursued by the hospital.[10]
Jones left and took a position at a
Jones claimed she was trying to stimulate the creation of a pediatric intensive care unit in Kerrville.[13][14]
Prosecution
In 1985, Jones was originally sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan with succinylcholine. She was subsequently charged with harming Brandy Benites on August 27, Chris Parker and Jimmy Pearson on August 30, Misty Reichenau on September 3, Jacob Evans on September 17, All indictments charged that the nurse “intentionally and knowingly”[15] injured the children by injecting them with succinylcholine or some other drug. Later that year, she was sentenced to a concurrent term of 60 years in prison for nearly killing Rolando Santos with heparin.[16]
As of May 2016, Jones was held at the
In popular culture
She was portrayed by Susan Ruttan in the television movie Deadly Medicine (1991)[24] and by Alicia Bartya in the straight-to-video movie Mass Murder (2002).[25] She was also featured in a Discovery Channel documentary, Lethal Injection; Forensic Files season five episode ten entitled Nursery Crimes;[26] a season one episode of the British docuseries Nurses Who Kill (2016);[27] as well as "Dark Secrets," an episode of the Investigation Discovery series Deadly Women.[28]
See also
General:
References
- ^ a b c "TDCJ Offender Details". offender.tdcj.texas.gov. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
SID Number: 03193016 TDCJ Number: 00380650 Name: JONES, GENENE
- ^ Bever, Lindsey (May 26, 2017). "'Angel of Death' nurse charged with killing another baby, suspected in up to 60 other deaths". The Washington Post.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ^ a b "Personality Spotlight;NEWLN:Nurse Genene: Convicted murderer". United Press International. February 15, 1984. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ^ a b Anderson, Teresa (January 14, 1984). "Nurse Genene faces trial in children's hospital deaths". United Press International. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ISBN 0816069875. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ^ Zielinski, Alex (May 26, 2017). "Bexar County Prosecutors Re-Open "Angel of Death" Case". San Antonio Current. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
In 1982, Jones was a young nurse working in the pediatric intensive care unit at Bexar County County Hospital (now University Hospital).
- ^ Elkind, Peter (August 1983). "The Death Shift". Texas Monthly. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
- S2CID 13473555. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
- ^ Elkind, Peter (August 1, 1983). "The Death Shift". Texas Monthly. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
- ISBN 978-0-495-60081-7.
- ISBN 978-0-7619-1421-1.
- ^ Elkind, Peter (August 1, 1983). "The Death Shift". Texas Monthly. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
- ^ Elkind, Peter (August 1, 1983). "The Death Shift". Texas Monthly. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
- The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
- ^ Elkind, Peter (May 25, 2017). "Prosecutors Race to Keep Angel-of-Death Behind Bars". Texas Monthly. Pro Publica. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
- ^ "Former Texas Nurse Accused of Killing Dozens of Kids in '80s". Snopes. May 26, 2017. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
- ^ Ellis, Ralph; Kaye, Randi; Andone, Dakin (May 26, 2017). "Texas nurse indicted in second child's death". CNN. Turner Broadcasting System. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ Zavala, Elizabeth (April 23, 2018). "Judge won't dismiss new cases against convicted child killer Genene Jones". mysanantonio.com. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
- ^ Zavala, Elizabeth (January 16, 2020). "Genene Jones, dubbed 'killer nurse,' gets life in prison". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
- ^ Andone, Dakin (January 17, 2020). "A former nurse suspected of killing dozens of children has been sentenced to life in prison". CNN. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
- ^ Tucker, Ken (November 8, 1991). "Deadly Medicine". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- imdb.com. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ "Forensic Files - Season 5, Ep 10: Nursery Crimes". FilmRise. July 8, 2016. Archived from the original on September 1, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ "Nurses Who Kill". www.netflix.com. DCD RIghts. 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ Dark Secrets: Deadly Women. www.investigationdiscovery.com (video). October 30, 2008. Retrieved October 21, 2017.