1. In 1984, Jones was convicted of murder and injury to a child.
12 Facts About Genene Jones
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Genene Jones had used injections of digoxin, heparin, and later succinylcholine to induce medical crises in her patients, causing numerous deaths.
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Genene Jones was adopted by a nightclub owner and his wife.
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Genene Jones worked as a beautician before attending nursing school in the late 1970s.
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Genene Jones was married to her high school sweetheart between 1968 and 1974, and they had one child during that time.
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Genene Jones left and took a position at a pediatrician's clinic in Kerrville, Texas, some 60 miles northwest of San Antonio.
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Genene Jones claimed she was trying to stimulate the creation of a pediatric intensive care unit in Kerrville.
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In 1985, Genene Jones was originally sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan with succinylcholine.
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Genene Jones had been scheduled for mandatory release in 2018 due to a Texas law meant to prevent prison overcrowding.
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On January 16,2020, Genene Jones pleaded guilty to the murder of 11-month-old Joshua Sawyer on December 12,1981, as part of a plea bargain in which four other charges were dropped.
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Genene Jones was portrayed by Susan Ruttan in the television movie Deadly Medicine and by Alicia Bartya in the straight-to-video movie Mass Murder.
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Genene Jones was featured in a Discovery Channel documentary, Lethal Injection; Forensic Files season five episode ten entitled Nursery Crimes; a season one episode of the British docuseries Nurses Who Kill ; as well as "Dark Secrets," an episode of the Investigation Discovery series Deadly Women.