Who do you turn to when the people who are supposed to be caring for you are killing you instead? Healthcare serial killers have been in the media quite a bit over the past few years and yet it is still happening all around the world. These Angels of Death kill innocent and often helpless people, people they are entrusted to take care of so that makes them some of the most heinous serial killers around. Why do they do it? What makes these nurses, doctors and healthcare workers want to kill their patients? We see on the news all of the time that some healthcare workers are abusing the infirmed and elderly. However, there is even a more twisted and sickening turn when it happens to children.

In 1982, a licensed vocational nurse, working in a healthcare clinic was doing that very thing. She was killing children. Genene Ann Jones was this person. In a two month period when she was first hired, seven children had to be rushed to the hospital for succumbing to seizures. The owner of the clinic, Dr. Kathleen Holland, didn’t think anything mysterious was going on. The hospital staff thought otherwise. Thankfully, all of the children but one survived. The one child, who didn’t survive, was a fifteen month old girl named Chelsea McClellan, died while on the way to the hospital. Three weeks prior to the seizures, Jones had reported that a bottle of succinylcholine, a powerful muscle relaxer and a paralytic that is used to intubate patients, was missing. Shortly after the death of the girl, Jones told Dr. Holland that she had indeed found the missing bottle. When the doctor examined the bottle, she found the top was missing and the rubber top had puncture marks in it from a needle. Dr. Holland fired Genene Jones after this discovery. It was also later discovered that the bottle was filled with a saline solution instead of the drug.

In 1983, a grand jury was convened to look into the deaths of forty-seven children over a four year period at the Bexar County Medical Center Hospital; the place where Genene Jones worked before resigning and going to work at Dr. Holland’s clinic. A second grand jury was asked to look into the deaths at Dr. Holland’s clinic. The body of Chelsea McClellan was exhumed and her tissues were tested. As a result of the autopsy, it was discovered that the toddler did indeed die from being injected with the muscle relaxant. Jones was questioned by both grand juries and they felt there was enough evidence to indict her on two counts of murder and many other charges of injuring six other children. Jones and Dr. Holland were both named in a wrongful death lawsuit by Chelsea’s parents.


Genene Jones was found guilty of murder and guilty of injuring another child by injection and sentenced to 159 years in prison. However, she would be eligible for parole in twenty years but in 2017, if she is still imprisoned, she will receive mandatory parole. In 1991, Susan Ruttan portrayed Jones in a television movie called “Deadly Medicine” and was portrayed by Alicia Bartya in a 2002 straight to video movie called “Mass Murder”.