Victims included multiple landlords, friends, a foster sister, housekeepers, would-be lovers who scorned her. That's about the same time she started experimenting with drugging patients and then getting in bed with them as they fell unconscious, a pastime that escalated into murder. Known as "Jolly Jane" for her bubbly nature, it was early on in her career that her supervisors became concerned by the fact that she seemed to like autopsies a little too much.
Raised in a well-to-do home as an indentured servant, she eventually ended up at the Cambridge Hospital, where she trained to become a nurse. She later testified that she tried killing "just to see what happens," then used it as a way to relieve stress. She was ultimately found guilty and given a life sentence. It was later found that Wettlaufer's preferred method of killing - with an overdose of insulin - wasn't just hard to detect in an autopsy, but it was pretty easy to miss from a drug control standpoint, as well. It wasn't until 2016 that someone did something about it, and convinced her to give herself over to law enforcement. Worse? She had confessed multiple times before, to her then-girlfriend in 2007, then to another care worker, her pastor, an ex-boyfriend, a lawyer, and her Narcotics Anonymous sponsor. Possibly even more terrifying is that no one had even suspected there was anything foul afoot, and it was only after she confessed her crimes to a psychiatrist at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health that she was arrested and the deaths she'd been responsible for were finally investigated (via Global News).
It's unknown how many children she killed, but the Bexar County District Attorney's office suspects the number is somewhere around 60. New evidence was brought, and five new murder charges were filed, though, and she was given another life sentence.
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Jones's conviction for the death of one child and the attempted murder of another came in 1984, and according to USA Today, there was - at the time - a mandatory release law that very nearly saw her walk free in 2018. Amid the upheaval at Bexar, Jones quit and went to work with a pediatrician in another part of Texas. The high death rate went with her, and when a small-town pediatrician's office was suddenly seeing one sick and dying child after the other, it was a red flag that couldn't be overlooked anymore. When investigations finally started in earnest, it was found that there was no explanation for the high number of fatalities on Genene Jones's shift - but there was no proof that she was to blame, either, and it was possible to argue that children were just succumbing to bizarre complications.
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