| Genene Jones | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name: | Genene Jones |
| Born: | 13 July 1950 Texas |
| Killings | |
| Number of victims: | one confirmed; believed to be up to 50 |
| Span of killings: | 1971 – 1984 |
| Country: | U.S. |
| State(s): | Texas |
| Date apprehended: | 1984 |
Genene Anne Jones (born July 13, 1950) is a former pediatric nurse who killed somewhere between 11 and 46 infants and children in her care. She used injections of heparin and later succinylcholine to induce medical crises in her patients, with the intention of reviving them afterward in order to receive praise and attention. Many children however, did not survive the initial attack and could not be revived. The exact number of murders remain unknown, as hospital officials destroyed records of her activities to prevent further litigation after Jones' first conviction.
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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