The Angel Of Death Went on A Poisoning Spree -Jolly Jane

The people we trust to save our life might take it horrors of pain.

Tooba mirza
8 min readOct 26, 2020

Jane Toppan was an American serial killer who took her nursing career into a horror poisoning spree. She was worse than political profligates of the medieval type because they used it against enemies while she used it against friends. Nobody no matter how close to her wasn’t safe from her.

Source: Wikipedia

CHILDHOOD:

Jane was born as Honora Kelley in Boston in 1857 in an Irish-immigrant family. Her childhood began with the death of her mother who died from tuberculous when she was only one year old. Her father tried his best to raise her and her sister but had but due to his alcoholism and mental state, he ended up giving them away to an orphanage. In 1862 a widow named Ann Toppan fostered Honora out as an indentured servant. She wasn’t legally adopted by the Toppan family but she took the name of them because Anna didn’t like her Irish name. Jane was raised alongside Anna’s daughter Elizebeth. They both get along quite well because of the similarities of age but Elizbeth never allows her to forget her place. She went to school with Elizbeth, she wasn’t popular but her wild fanciful tales about her family were. Many people trusted Jane every easily and her neighbours usually trust her to babysit…

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