0:00

Hi. How are you today? I hope you're having a wonderful

0:02

day so far. My name is Bailey Sarian,

0:04

and today is Monday, which means

0:06

it's butter, mystery, and makeup

0:11

Monday. I'm a sure. I understand. I

0:14

understand. I understand. Can't

0:18

believe him this theme song is still going strong.

0:20

Never intended it for to be that way,

0:22

but here we are. We made it. Anyways,

0:24

hi, how are you? I hope your day is as

0:27

bright as my forehead and you're

0:29

staying safe out there. You know what I'm saying? Nothing

0:31

fits me right now unless it has an elastic

0:34

piece as a waistband. That's where

0:36

I'm at and I hope you still

0:38

fit into your pants. Alright. Cool. Oh, you

0:40

know what? I forgot to say, if you're interested

0:42

in true crime and you like makeup, I would highly

0:44

suggest you hit that scribe button because I'm here

0:46

for you every Monday. Okay. So

0:49

today we have a story, a story

0:51

about Jane Topping. Have you

0:53

heard of her? Other than that, I will shift

0:55

my dirty little trap and let's

0:57

get right into it maybe. So Jane

1:00

actually Okay. Book She had

1:02

a lot of names. Jane was one of them and she

1:04

also went by the name, Jolly Jane,

1:06

but we'll get to that. Jane, she was

1:08

born March thirty first eighteen

1:11

fifty four. Oh, yeah. We're going back.

1:13

So Jane was actually born

1:15

with the name Hanora Kelly.

1:18

Because this is such an old story, there isn't

1:20

a lot of information as far as her upbringing

1:22

goes. There's a lot of theories of how her upbringing

1:25

was. But things that we do know

1:27

are that she had a sister

1:29

and her sister's name was Delia. And

1:32

Delia was a little a bit older than

1:34

Jane. We're gonna call her Jane because that's

1:36

where she went by. Her parents were

1:38

Irish immigrants and her

1:40

mother bridget, she died at a young age

1:42

from tuberculosis. And then her

1:44

father, his name was Peter. It was

1:46

said that he was an alcoholic And

1:48

Peter also earned the name Kelly

1:51

the crack, like Kelly the crackpot.

1:53

That's just the nickname he had. Okay. Peter

1:56

was crazy as they

1:58

say, like, these neighbors and

2:00

coworkers, they all knew Peter because he

2:02

was so crazy. Peter, Jane's

2:04

father, he actually sowed his own

2:06

eyelids shut when he was

2:08

working as a tailor. Like, one day

2:10

he just snapped and sowed his eyelids

2:13

shut. In eighteen sixty three,

2:15

a few years after Bridgette, Jane's

2:18

mom, after she had died, Peter,

2:20

he ended up taking his two daughters

2:22

off to what was called the Boston

2:24

female asylum, which was

2:26

an orphanage. And it was said that

2:29

he took them to this orphanage

2:31

because he couldn't take care of his children

2:33

anymore due to his mental state

2:36

declining. And he had gotten into

2:38

trouble and was being sent to a mental

2:40

institute himself. So

2:42

he had to drop the kids

2:45

off. So he takes his girls there.

2:47

He drops him off and that is

2:49

that, which is awful. When the kids

2:51

were dropped off at the orphanage, the

2:54

staff would make notes in their file describing

2:56

something about them like the children.

2:59

In both of the girls' file, it was noted

3:01

that both came from a very bad

3:03

home. That's all that we

3:05

know it said, so it was a very descriptive

3:08

file I must say. So a married

3:10

woman from a wealthy family. Her

3:12

name was miss Anne top in.

3:14

She was looking for a servant. So

3:17

she went to an orphanage which is

3:19

not funny, but, like, come on, wild

3:21

times. So, yeah, she was looking for a servant

3:23

like some help around her house, and that's

3:25

when she decided to take an orphan, not

3:27

because she really wanted to help name the children. Oh,

3:29

no. But she thought that this maybe

3:32

an orphan would make a great servant. So

3:34

that's when miss Anne Topin decided

3:36

to take in Jane. Now Jane wasn't

3:39

technically, legally adopted by this

3:41

family, but she was given the surname

3:43

of the family. And they changed her name as well,

3:45

and that's how she got Jane Toppen.

3:48

Her other name, they just didn't like it.

3:50

They wanted like an American sounding

3:52

name. The Toppen's also had another

3:54

daughter and her name was Elizabeth. She

3:56

and Elizabeth got along pretty well.

3:59

They were around the same age. But

4:01

of course, Elizabeth would often

4:03

remind Jane that she

4:06

was technically beneath her

4:08

and the family and just really set

4:10

Jane in her place. The family

4:12

was overall pretty fair to Jane,

4:14

but they did remind her constantly of her Irish

4:16

heritage and where she came from.

4:19

At this time, Irish immigrants were

4:21

highly criticized sometimes

4:23

or a lot of the times they would not be able

4:25

to find work or live in certain apartments

4:28

or homes due to being Irish.

4:30

A common sign that would be placed,

4:32

like, on a window or or door,

4:34

whatever outside of workplaces with

4:37

state, quote, no Irish

4:39

need apply, end to quote. So

4:41

they would constantly the family would

4:43

remind Jane that she couldn't go anywhere

4:46

else, you know, and that she should be think

4:48

full to the family for providing her

4:50

with such a wonderful life. Anytime

4:53

Jane would kind of like maybe act out

4:55

of her place they would remind

4:58

her where she came from and

5:00

how she pretty much wasn't wanted.

5:02

Again, just kind of like patting themselves on

5:04

the back, like see what we gave you. You

5:07

need to be thankful, Jane. You need to be thankful.

5:09

It's like if Cinderella was a horror

5:11

film, not horror, but like horror.

5:14

Film. Elizabeth and Jane, they were

5:16

good friends, best friends, but deep down,

5:18

you know. Jane would be feeling a little bit jealous.

5:21

Okay. Elizabeth was the daughter

5:24

of this amazing wealthy family, and Jane

5:26

was just a servant. And

5:28

Jane was really nice to Elizabeth,

5:30

like, to her face or whatever, you know. But

5:33

down, it was like the tension would build

5:35

and build and build as years went

5:37

on.

5:40

We all have that friend that cooks,

5:42

and I'm in those friends that, like, really cook,

5:45

you know, you walk into their house and they,

5:47

like, whipped up something really really quickly

5:49

and it's like incredible. And

5:51

you're like, how did you do that? I

5:54

don't know. Anyways,

5:56

with HelloFresh, you

5:58

can cook like a pro and you don't even have

6:00

to leave your house to go shopping for ingredients.

6:03

That's right, baby. You too can be the pro.

6:05

HelloFresh delivers farmfresh pre

6:08

portioned ingredients right to your door

6:10

to make cooking nutritious, easy,

6:12

and fun. I personally have been

6:14

enjoying the soy glazed salmon with

6:16

rice. Soy glazed,

6:18

go off. It's so delicious. But

6:21

if that doesn't sound like your jam, HelloFresh

6:23

has forty weekly recipes to choose

6:25

from to fit any dietary need,

6:27

picky eaters, and any occasion. You

6:30

can even customize meals to eat what you

6:32

love, swap outsides, or add a

6:34

protein to a veggie dish. Cooking

6:36

with HelloFresh is fast and

6:38

easy. Uh-huh. Like me. Just

6:41

kidding. Nope. No. Not me. And

6:43

right now, murder mystery and makeup

6:45

listeners can get sixty percent off

6:47

plus free shipping by going to hello

6:49

fresh dot com slash makeup

6:52

sixty. Go to hello fresh

6:54

dot com slash makeup sixty. And

6:56

use code make up sixty for

6:58

sixty percent off plus free

7:01

shipping. That's HelloFresh, America's

7:04

number one meal kit.

7:09

As Jane was a teenager, many would describe

7:11

her as super Chaddy. She was

7:13

friendly. She was really easy to like.

7:16

She was a fantastic party guest

7:18

and told many great stories. Many

7:21

in the neighborhood trusted Jane

7:23

to babysit the children or

7:25

to, like, watch friends, children, friends

7:28

would come over for party at the home,

7:30

dropped the kids off with Jane. She would watch

7:32

them. People just really trusted Jane,

7:34

and everyone seemed to really like her too.

7:36

But Jane Jane

7:38

Jane Jane Jane. Jane was so liked

7:41

because she created a character.

7:44

Okay? She was a pathological

7:46

liar. Jane told great

7:49

stories, right, grand stories.

7:51

She would go on about her family saying

7:53

that her father was a sailor

7:55

and that her sister married a wealthy

7:58

prince, people would just

8:00

be like, wow, Jane, wow, wholesaler,

8:03

prince, Oh wow, Jane.

8:06

Say no more. They believed her. I don't think

8:08

they had a reason to question her really.

8:10

But the reality was that her

8:12

father was a drunk, who sowed his

8:14

eyes long and shut, and

8:17

her sister sadly ended up passing

8:19

away. Her sister passed away

8:21

because she ended up becoming a

8:23

sex worker and she got killed

8:25

when she was working the

8:28

sex. I guess we could do a whole another video

8:30

on that. I don't really know too much about the cis

8:33

Like, it's not much as said other than

8:35

she died in her place of

8:37

work. Jane's stories would

8:39

continue, like, over into school

8:41

and she just loved to gossip and

8:44

she loved or just enjoyed

8:46

bringing other people down. Jane would

8:48

make up stories about fellow

8:51

classmates, things like that

8:53

they were cheating in school or

8:55

just up to no good. Just lies,

8:57

you know, lies, she would make up lies about

8:59

people who she just didn't really like

9:01

that much. A lot of the times, it would

9:04

lead to them getting into trouble. The students

9:06

would get pulled into the office and get talking.

9:08

They get talking to, and then they would

9:10

get, like, spelled from school. I know.

9:12

So Jane felt like she was really just running the

9:14

show. Right? I mean, she hadn't gotten in

9:16

trouble called out for any of these

9:18

things that she was doing. And

9:21

when the rumors would come back around

9:23

and they'd be like, Jane, when you talk

9:25

to you, we heard you were the one who, like, started this

9:27

rumor. Jane was just able to talk

9:29

herself out of anything. She was

9:31

just a really good talker, which she

9:33

was also just a good liar

9:35

too. So she was never got in trouble

9:37

for anything she did in school. In the late

9:40

eighteen eighties, from eighteen eighty five

9:42

to eighteen eighty seven, Jane began

9:44

nursing training at Cambridge Hospital.

9:47

Jane was a strong woman. That would

9:49

be important because she would have

9:51

to like lift up patients. Helped

9:54

them out. They needed to get up,

9:56

you know, like, she was strong, so she was

9:58

able to hold her own. And most importantly

10:00

though, she was charming. She had a great

10:02

personality. She was helpful. She

10:04

was wanting to help people. But she was able

10:07

to really just woo the patients. They

10:09

loved her. But also her coworkers

10:12

loved her. Okay? She was always

10:14

laughing. She made everybody laugh.

10:16

She just seemed happy all the time.

10:18

She wanted to be there. Everyone just

10:21

loved her and that's how she ended

10:23

up getting the nickname Jolly Jean.

10:26

Because she was just so goddamn

10:28

jolly. Okay. So where's the

10:30

story at? Well, this is where

10:33

Jane just swim downhill

10:35

real quick. Okay. So Jane,

10:38

she would often misuse morphine

10:40

on her patients. She was intrigued

10:43

by the way it affected her

10:45

patients and she would often use

10:47

her patients as a guinea pig. She would mix

10:49

medicine to see how the body would react

10:51

to it. Jane, you should have been a chemist. Jane,

10:54

if you wanna get some react, chins chemistry

10:57

could have solved all her problems here. Jane Wood

10:59

injects her patients with morphine and atropine.

11:02

The mixture could knock her patients

11:04

completely out like they were sleeping,

11:06

you know, just not kill them. Or

11:08

she would give a little bit

11:10

just to prevent them from moving around,

11:12

but they were they would be like still awake. But

11:15

they couldn't move their body, which sounds

11:17

fucking awful. But she would kinda like

11:19

play around to see, you know, what kind

11:21

of result she would get when she makes

11:23

these together. And a lot of the times, she liked

11:25

it when the patients would be in like this zombie

11:27

state where they're awake, they know what's

11:29

going on, but they can't move their

11:32

body. That's not really a zombie baby,

11:34

but okay, she like that. She spent

11:36

a lot of her time alone with patients

11:38

making up fake charts and

11:40

medicating them to drift in and out

11:42

of consciousness, even getting into

11:44

bed and sexually abusing them

11:46

when she knocked them out. It was said

11:48

that Jane only did this if the patient

11:51

was knocked out. But then if you read

11:53

other articles, Jane said that she liked

11:55

it when people were in and out when

11:57

they were so awake. This is personal

11:59

opinion, but I feel like she probably also

12:01

did it when they were awake too. That sense

12:03

of control anyways. Jane would give

12:06

the patients the medicine by

12:08

needle. Sometimes she would mix it into

12:10

the patient's strength or through

12:12

enemas. Whoa. She was

12:15

like making her own aquatifana. Right?

12:17

I know. So this concoction, the

12:19

morphine, and the atropine. Sometimes

12:22

it would kill her patients. And

12:24

as they lie dying, she would

12:26

crawl into bed with them, she would

12:28

hold them, she would caress them, and

12:30

she would whisper in their ears. We

12:32

don't know what she said, but she said

12:34

sometimes she would just whisper, like, soothing

12:37

things into their ear. So

12:39

she's just a full blown creep, honestly.

12:41

But who might judge? Later,

12:44

she would admit that the death of her patients

12:46

held a sexual release for her.

12:49

Now, This is the eighteen eighties. Hospitals

12:51

were not that great, and it was very common

12:53

for a certain percentage of patients to

12:55

not make it through the night or not make it

12:57

through their illness because it's the eighteen

13:00

eighty's and medicine hasn't come that far

13:02

yet. You with me? Okay. Cool. When

13:04

Jane's patients died. The hospital

13:07

wouldn't really question Jane Too much. They

13:09

would ask her what happened, but they wouldn't do

13:11

like a full blown study or research

13:13

into Jane's patients because

13:16

they just trusted the fact that they died

13:18

because that's just kind of how it was. A

13:20

good percentage of patients did indeed

13:22

just die even when they were being

13:24

taken care of by a nice nurse.

13:27

So they trusted that she tried

13:29

her best that she used her best judgment

13:31

and sadly they died and they didn't

13:33

think anything other than that. It

13:35

was also very common for nurses

13:38

to give like an injection of

13:40

medicine and then kind of stand there

13:42

and watch their patients to make sure that

13:44

nothing was going wrong. So when

13:46

they would see changes standing over

13:49

her patience like a

13:51

creek. They didn't think anything of it,

13:53

nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Jane

13:55

was recommended for the stiges,

13:58

Massachusetts General Hospital

14:00

in eighteen eighty nine. And while working

14:02

there, it said that's where she claimed numerous

14:04

more victims. Before she was

14:07

fired. She wasn't fired because

14:09

she was caught murdering people. She was

14:11

fired just because she was not being

14:13

responsible as far as taking care

14:15

of her patients and giving them

14:17

the right amount of drugs,

14:19

I should say. She returned back to Cambridge,

14:22

but she was fired from there for

14:24

administering opiates recklessly.

14:26

So she's fired from these two places

14:28

and she's like, you know what? I don't need them. I'm

14:30

just gonna become like private nurse,

14:33

an in home caregiver that people can

14:35

hire directly and not have to go through

14:37

a hospital, which it worked out for

14:39

her because She ended up getting a lot

14:41

of clients this way, patience this way,

14:43

I'm sorry. And people again, they loved her.

14:45

It was perfect. For her. So

14:47

becoming a in home caregiver.

14:50

It was a way for her to continue offering

14:52

her support without the big

14:54

guys in charge firing her. She

14:56

was able to be completely alone

14:59

with her patience this way as well. Like, nobody

15:01

there's no oversight, you know. Jane was

15:04

well sought out in the private

15:06

sector. She had access to lot of

15:08

sick elderly people that she could

15:10

take care of and slash or

15:13

experiment upon and just take

15:15

advantage of. She first killed

15:17

an elderly couple who was also

15:19

her landlord. His name was Israel

15:22

and his wife's name was lovely. She

15:24

had also been living with them. So first,

15:26

she had poisoned Israel. And

15:28

then once he had died, she moved

15:30

in with lovely, the now grieving wife.

15:33

And she lived with her for almost two

15:35

years, and then she poisoned

15:37

and killed lovely. I know this is

15:39

very similar to the Aquatifana story,

15:42

but Jolly Jane here was using

15:44

some hardcore drops. Okay? After

15:46

that Jane got a job taking care of

15:48

an elderly woman whose husband had

15:50

just died. He was her main care

15:53

taker. This widow's granddaughter

15:55

just loves Jane. She met her, decided,

15:57

like, Jane is gonna now be the caretaker.

16:00

Oh, she's great. She's so cheery, so

16:02

positive. I just love our personality. She

16:05

thought Jane would just be great

16:07

to take care of her grandmother. Sadly

16:09

though, Jane did not work for her

16:11

long as Jane poisoned the poor

16:13

elderly woman and told the granddaughter

16:16

it was due to natural causes. Because

16:18

the grandmother was a mature

16:20

woman, it just wasn't questioned. So

16:23

Jane was kind of smart about this because she

16:25

was targeting older, elderly

16:27

men and women who were already sick and

16:29

being taken care of. So I was like, people

16:31

just weren't questioning

16:32

it.

16:37

One of the hardest things about hiring in

16:39

this day and age is standing out to

16:41

top talent. Job seekers

16:43

want more from remote work to easy

16:45

applying, and people in charge wanna know

16:47

they are hiring someone who's going to be a

16:49

good fit. Sometimes it's like finding

16:52

your perfect match. And hiring

16:54

can feel like speed dating, just

16:56

talking to random people and hoping

16:58

one of them stands out and sticks.

17:01

Good thing there's ZipRecruiter to serve as a

17:03

professional matchmaker. If you're

17:05

job hunting, you can apply easily,

17:07

which is the click of a button, so no more

17:09

inputting all of your job history as if you

17:11

didn't already attach a resume. Which

17:14

we love that. Get your job noticed

17:16

by the best and brightest candidates with

17:18

ZipRecruiter. Four out of five employers

17:21

who post on ZipRecruiter, Cooter, get a quality

17:23

candidate within the first day.

17:25

Just see for yourself. Go

17:28

to this exclusive web address to

17:30

try ZipRecruiter for free. That's

17:32

zip recruiter dot com slash makeup.

17:35

Again, that's zip recruiter dot com

17:37

slash makeup. MAKEUP.

17:41

ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to

17:43

hire.

17:45

This podcast is sponsored by the new

17:47

Pepsi Zero Sugar. Pepsi

17:49

Zero Sugar is new and improved.

17:51

It's more refreshing, smooth, tasty,

17:54

and delicious. It's the perfect

17:56

drink when enjoying a meal. Gathering with

17:58

friends or as a delicious refreshing

18:01

pick me up. You can grab a Pepsi Zero

18:03

Sugar while you're in between meetings. In

18:05

the middle of a road trip or my favorite

18:08

pairing it with a plate of nachos. Pepsi

18:10

Zero

18:11

Sugar, Zero never tasted so

18:13

good. Try it now. Price

18:17

line presents, go to your happy

18:20

price. What's up?

18:22

It's Kayli Quova. When it comes to travel,

18:24

we all have a happy place. You can see

18:26

yourself already there. It's beautiful.

18:29

It might be sunny and sandy for some,

18:31

neon and urban for others, deserts

18:33

or rainforest or hiking trails. With

18:35

by sign, you can get to your happy

18:37

place for a happy price. With deals

18:40

you really can't find anywhere else. Click

18:42

up to sixty percent off select hotels

18:44

to Costa Rica or five star hotels

18:46

for two star prices than cabo. Go

18:49

to priceline dot com and travel to

18:51

your happy place for a happy price.

18:53

Alright. See you. I'm off Miami. No.

18:56

Actually, wow. Look at that. No. I I'm going to

18:58

Hawaii now. Oh. Cancun looks

19:00

nice. You know what? Belize

19:02

looks pretty nice this time of year. Or pump

19:06

springs. Go to y'all happy

19:08

place. Oh, happy

19:10

surprise. Go to your

19:12

happy prize. Price line.

19:19

Jane then moved to her old foster

19:21

sister. Remember Elizabeth from

19:24

the beginning? Do you remember? Well, guess

19:26

what? Jane had visited with

19:28

the now married Elizabeth over

19:30

the years they kept in touch and Elizabeth

19:32

didn't think twice when Jane invited

19:34

her to Cape Cod for vacation. But

19:37

Elizabeth would not make it through the

19:39

week. Jane would later say

19:41

that out of all the victims Elizabeth

19:44

was the only one that she killed out of malice.

19:46

She made the death long and drawn out

19:49

poisoning her for weeks before

19:51

she finally killed her. Then like

19:53

always, she climbed into bed with

19:55

Elizabeth, was holding on to her,

19:57

caressing her, loving her, loving

20:00

her, and just watched her died. But

20:02

Jane said that this one was like really

20:04

satisfying for her because it was

20:06

somebody that she obvious they had this

20:09

built up anger, jealousy, everything

20:11

was built up in sight, so she was like really

20:14

getting off on this one. Jane had moved

20:16

into a house owned by a family named

20:18

the Davis family and they thought

20:20

once again very highly of Jane

20:22

as she was so helped full,

20:24

especially with the the remedies to any

20:26

of their sicknesses or illnesses. The

20:28

neighbors also enjoy Jane as

20:30

well. Jane would make little house calls

20:32

to them if anyone was feeling ill

20:34

or needed help and she's just building this

20:37

community of of trust. Right?

20:39

Again, they would let Jane watch their

20:41

children sometimes take large groups

20:43

of them altogether to the beach

20:45

for picnics. And Jane would say in her

20:48

years living on the day this home,

20:50

Jane had collected a debt of five

20:52

hundred dollars, which today would be equal

20:54

to fifteen thousand dollars. Jane

20:56

had collected the jet. It was money

20:59

that she had borrowed from the family over

21:01

time. She said it was for her

21:03

supplies or any medications. Stuff

21:06

that was like work related. The matriarch

21:08

of the family, of the Davis family,

21:11

her name was Maddie, and she went over it

21:13

because Jane was like living in the back

21:15

house. So she went over to Jane

21:17

and she asked Jane, can you

21:19

give us some of the money, like make a payment,

21:21

anything, you know? Because you will ask Jane

21:24

ended up talking her way out of the situation, and

21:26

then instead invited her in,

21:28

offered her a glass of mineral water.

21:31

But of course, it was not just any mineral water.

21:33

They name. No, of course not. This

21:35

mineral water was laced with heavy

21:38

doses of pain killers, just a

21:40

typical lens day. Once Maddie

21:42

was knocked out, Jane then took

21:44

Maddie to the spare room in the home

21:46

where she injected her with more and more pain.

21:48

She would drug her and then let her rest

21:51

keeping her going in and out

21:53

of consciousness for an entire

21:55

week. Jane had told the family

21:58

that Maddie had some kind of illness and was

22:00

being treated, but Maddie was so out of it.

22:02

Nobody could even ask her what was wrong or

22:04

what happened. Sadly, Maddie

22:06

died one week later. Soon after

22:08

this, Jane Winchiggo live with the patriarch

22:10

of the fans, the Davis family. And his name

22:13

was Alden to take care of him and his

22:15

children now because the wife died.

22:17

So Jane decided to

22:19

kill this family. Jane still owed the

22:21

family money. And because of this, she's like, I

22:23

just gotta get rid of them because that's

22:26

the only way I can resolve

22:28

this in her mind, you know, I'm like,

22:30

okay. So Jane

22:32

ended up starting with the youngest

22:34

daughter first, and her name was Jenniffe.

22:36

And she had killed Gen Aviv by

22:39

poisoning her with putting it in her drinks.

22:41

And sadly, she died pretty

22:44

quickly. Jane spread a

22:46

rumor around town saying that

22:48

Genevieve had been suicidal and

22:50

that she had been seen holding an arsenic

22:53

like glass before were turning it to

22:55

the shelf. Jane ended up killing her

22:57

with her traditional overdoses of

22:59

morphine. So Jane had this rumor

23:01

going around that Genevieve killed her, so

23:03

self. People believed it. I don't know why

23:06

no one was questioning Jane. Not even

23:08

two weeks after Genevieve's death. Jane

23:10

killed Alden. And then four

23:13

days after his death, Jane finished

23:15

off the Davis family by killing the

23:17

eldest daughter mini. Doctors

23:19

were confused by these deaths because there were

23:21

no signs leading up to the death. They

23:23

couldn't figure out what had caused them

23:25

in general. And they couldn't seem to get

23:28

any answers as to what killed

23:30

them. People are thinking, but there's

23:32

no proof that anything fishies

23:34

really go going on. The night that Jane

23:37

had killed or injected mini,

23:39

somebody was watching. Somebody

23:44

saw what Jane was

23:46

up to. Thank God. Right? Minnie's

23:49

father-in-law had dropped by the

23:51

home the day that Jane decided to

23:53

inject Minnie. He went looking

23:55

for, you know, for the family, kinda

23:57

looking around, and Jane is over

24:00

Minnie's bed about to She's

24:02

about to inject So this father-in-law

24:04

is like peeking through the door. You

24:07

know? He's like, what's going on in here?

24:09

And he sees that Jane

24:11

was injecting her with something, standing

24:14

there watching. And then this father-in-law found

24:16

out later that many had died.

24:18

And he's putting the pieces together like,

24:20

oh, shit. I saw Jane just kind

24:22

of standing over her, inject her with

24:24

something. I mean, maybe she's up to

24:26

it. He didn't have any proof that Jane

24:29

had killed many, but he had that

24:31

gut feeling that something wasn't right. And

24:33

most of the times, if you ever listened to your

24:35

gut, it tells you things like hey,

24:37

that was some bad to know you had. Or

24:40

it says, hey, something's not

24:42

right here. He is the one that went to doctors

24:44

and was asking more He's like, well,

24:46

it's up with this whole Davis family. What

24:48

caused the death? He's the one pushing. Can

24:50

you find some answers? We need answers. Something's

24:53

just not right here. As anyone looked

24:55

into this Jane lady and he's just pushing,

24:57

pushing, pushing, and because of his suspicion

24:59

and because it's a wealthy family, investigators

25:03

decided to exhume the bodies of the Davis

25:05

family, not good for Jane. So

25:07

Jane went on to try and woo

25:09

her dead foster sister's husband.

25:12

I know. I'm sorry. This is confusing. Okay. So

25:14

Elizabeth, remember, the foster

25:16

sister, she was married to this man named

25:19

Ormel? Now Elizabeth is already

25:21

dead. She killed Elizabeth. Ormel,

25:23

he was working as a church pastor. Now,

25:25

this is a personal opinion, but I think

25:27

Jane wanted to prove that she

25:29

was better than Elizabeth. And that the

25:31

best way she could get

25:34

true revenge or prove that she's better

25:36

than Elizabeth was to get her mouthful

25:38

in love with her or to marry her. Personal

25:40

opinion. I don't know if this was her motive, but

25:43

this is what I leave. Jane moved in with

25:45

Dormel, his sister, Dormel's

25:47

sister, and their housekeeper. Jane

25:49

was just gonna be their live in

25:52

nurse. To take care of them if they ever need anything,

25:54

plus it was she was technically family.

25:56

So I was like, sure, come on it. Jane,

25:59

though, was like, I need to get rid of

26:01

the house so then I can have this

26:03

job as a housekeeper. So

26:06

Jane did just that. She first killed

26:08

the housekeeper. Okay? Then she took

26:10

the job. So now she's a housekeeper.

26:13

She's like, you guys, I can do it.

26:15

I'll be your housekeeper. Then

26:17

Ormell's sis sister was questioning

26:19

Jane. She was like, I'm not getting good

26:22

feeling with this Jane girl. So Ormell's

26:24

sisters kind of like in the way and

26:26

Jane knew this. Is this not a lifetime

26:28

movie? I know. It truly is. Jane

26:30

was like, I need to get rid of the sister.

26:33

So she was putting some

26:35

stuff in her drink, in the sister's drink,

26:37

and then the sister was getting more and more

26:39

ill, and then the sister dies.

26:42

Jane is wiping them out. Bye. You

26:44

know, she's getting rid of everyone in her

26:46

way. don't know what she wants. Jane thinks

26:48

this or Mel guy is gonna like solve all her

26:50

problems, but he's not. So everyone

26:52

is now dead around Oramel, the

26:55

whole family. Jane is trying to

26:57

show some interest, get his attention.

26:59

And Oramel showed no interest Jane,

27:02

and he want nothing to do. Nothing to do

27:04

with her. Jane finally realizes he's

27:06

not going to marry me. He's not in love with

27:08

me. So my best bet is to

27:10

just now kill him because he's just

27:13

he'll know. He'll eventually know what have

27:15

really happened if she keeps him alive.

27:17

So she began to lightly poison

27:20

him. She then threatened him saying that she

27:22

would tell the town that she was pregnant and

27:24

that he was the father if he ever

27:26

decided to question her

27:29

or go after her. Because

27:31

of this, Ormel decided that she

27:33

was fired. And Jane

27:35

decided that she was just gonna kill

27:37

herself because she needed him

27:39

in her in her life. So she's like, I'm just

27:41

gonna kill myself. But she

27:43

didn't really wanna kill herself. She

27:46

just wanted the attention because

27:48

she knew what she was doing. Hear me out. Don't

27:51

come after me for comment because this is

27:53

what she was doing. She gave herself enough

27:55

morphine to make herself go on cautious,

27:57

but she didn't give herself enough

27:59

to kill her she wanted to be unconscious,

28:01

but she didn't wanna die. She just wanted him

28:03

to be like, oh my god. No. He

28:05

knew though. He no. Or Mel went

28:08

to police. And told him, look,

28:10

this Jane Girl is up to no

28:12

good. I know what she's doing. She's trying to kill

28:14

me. She's trying to poison me. She killed my whole family.

28:16

He's making all these claims. Again,

28:18

he didn't have proof of this. He

28:20

just knew it. On October

28:23

twenty ninth, nineteen o one, Jane

28:25

was arrested. Police

28:27

initially began to suspect that

28:29

Jean had used arsenic to kill her

28:32

patients, but police couldn't

28:34

prove that she actually purchased arsenic.

28:37

They thought that was gonna be the smoking gun.

28:39

Can we find her receipt? Can we find any

28:41

type of proof she was buying arsenic.

28:43

Anybody? None. She does get arrested

28:46

though because suspicion was

28:48

enough. Now they went to court and

28:50

win Jane appeared in court,

28:52

she actually wore a nurse's uniform

28:55

to persuade the public that she had

28:57

just been doing her job long and that

28:59

everybody else was just an asshole for

29:01

accusing her of such crime. I

29:04

am a nurse. Look

29:06

at me nurse. A smart move

29:08

because people were feeling bad

29:10

and on Jane's side. Why

29:12

wouldn't they be? She's a nurse. Look

29:14

at her. Just helping the people.

29:17

So Janea's sitting her ass in prison. Okay?

29:19

Waiting for her trial. And when

29:21

she's in prison, she started writing

29:23

romance. Novels and she had a new

29:25

goal in life. She wanted to become an

29:27

author. January, you should've thought this a

29:29

long time ago, but that wouldn't happen. Because

29:32

let me tell you, police finally found

29:34

the morphine and the atropine in the

29:36

bodies of the Davis daughters. Remember,

29:38

the Davis family. Their bodies

29:40

were exhumed, and they were actually going

29:42

to look and see if they could find something in

29:44

the system. They found it. They got

29:47

it. So at this time, she was going to be

29:49

charged with just three murders.

29:51

But before she could stand trial, Jane

29:53

needed to be interviewed by a psychiatrist to

29:55

see if she was sane. At first,

29:58

Jane wouldn't admit to the murder saying

30:00

she was afraid of corpses, so

30:02

she couldn't kill anyone because she had

30:04

this big fear of corpses. You

30:07

have to believe me, I'm afraid of dead

30:09

people, but this act didn't last long.

30:11

Jane ended up confessing after

30:13

some pushing, and she told the psychiatrist

30:16

that she had killed only about twelve

30:18

people, but the doctors believed that

30:20

she had killed a lot more. Way

30:22

more than that actually. Additionally,

30:24

Jane told the doctors that she had gotten a sexual

30:27

pleasure from the murders. Because of

30:29

that, the doctors would find her insane

30:31

and they noted that she had a lack

30:33

of moral sense. So they believed

30:36

her. They're like, yeah, she's not okay.

30:38

Jane told her defense lawyer a completely

30:40

different story. Now she told them that

30:42

she had killed about thirty

30:44

one people and probably a lot

30:46

more than that. She went on to describe

30:49

them and use her fingers to

30:51

count them off and that's how they got to thirty

30:53

one because she could remember thirty

30:55

one. The trial lasted eight hours

30:58

and Jane was found not guilty

31:00

by reason of insanity. She was sentenced

31:02

to life in Taunton

31:04

insane hospital. And when her

31:07

verdict was read aloud, it was said

31:09

that Jane just laughed. And they

31:11

really took that jolly Jane, you know, in

31:13

the newspapers and everything because she

31:15

was laughing jolly Jane. So

31:18

her confession was published in the paper

31:20

and it said something along the lines of

31:22

quote, she had convinced the doctor she

31:24

was insane by saying she

31:26

was sane. So I guess that's

31:28

how you get them. Additionally, she had

31:30

probably killed more than thirty one people,

31:33

but she could only remember again

31:35

the thirty one. The superintendent of

31:37

the asylum said that she had no remorse

31:39

for the murders. Was proud of the amount

31:42

of murder she had committed. As time

31:44

went on inside of the hospital, it

31:46

was said that Jane's mental well-being

31:48

to find. She was seeing people

31:50

who weren't there. She would have conversations

31:53

with people that weren't there, and she had

31:55

no idea why she was there in the first place.

31:57

Jane would stay at the Taunton insane

31:59

hospital until the age of eighty one

32:01

when she died of pneumonia. She

32:04

Jane was considered to be the first female

32:07

serial killer, and it's believed that she

32:09

had over a hundred victims because she had

32:11

worked at so many hospitals and saw so many

32:13

patients. They believe investigators

32:16

that she had killed over a hundred people.

32:18

I swear every female serial

32:20

killer, they claim that she is the

32:22

first female serial killer in America,

32:25

you know, like, so I guess it's up for

32:27

debate who the first female serial killer

32:29

is, but Jolly Jane was

32:31

definitely up there. Now, this story is

32:33

terrifying because obviously you

32:36

are heavily relying on

32:38

a nurse to take care of you and not murder

32:41

you. So when this story got out,

32:43

people were truly terrified that.

32:45

There was some corrupt nurses

32:48

out there. And throughout history,

32:50

there has been, but for the most part,

32:52

thank God, nurses do the

32:54

right thing and are here to help us.

32:56

Thank you, nurses. And that, my

32:58

friends, is the story of Jane

33:01

Topping. Jolly Jane. She was

33:03

truly a fuck job. I believe that she

33:05

probably killed a lot more people

33:07

because she had

33:09

these patients Why, like,

33:11

why I don't know. Maybe she didn't,

33:14

but it's hard to believe that she didn't

33:16

count more people. I felt like that was really

33:18

short. Was that I'm I apologize

33:20

if this was a short one. Some of these stories,

33:23

especially these older ones, it's really

33:25

hard to find information. It's like one big

33:27

game of telephone, you think that she

33:29

kills more? Do you think she was the first female

33:31

serial killer? The insanity plea

33:34

always confuses me because

33:36

it's like sometimes these killers that we've

33:38

talked about here on my channel, I feel like

33:40

you have to have something a

33:42

little off in your brain

33:45

in order to go on up killing

33:47

sbury. Am I right? Maybe I'm not.

33:49

But I personally feel like if you're able

33:51

to kill people and kind of like carry

33:53

on with your life, I feel like that to me

33:56

would qualify for an insanity plea.

33:58

Like, right? Or that's just to me. What

34:00

what do you what do you call that? Thank you so much for

34:02

hanging out with me today. I have a list

34:04

of people that you guys are always recommending

34:07

that I keep it on my little notes all organized.

34:09

So I do appreciate you guys for always recommending

34:12

stories for me and I don't want you to think

34:14

I don't see them because I do. I hope

34:16

you have wonderful day today. You make

34:18

good choices and be seeing

34:21

you guys later. Do

34:24

you think Jane had help? Oh

34:26

my gosh. I just thought

34:28

of that. Do you think somebody knew? Somebody

34:30

had to know because she would be going through

34:32

these drugs like crazy. Right? Hey, nurses

34:35

out there from the eighteen eighties.

34:37

If you're here watching, do you have to

34:39

like make a log of Do you think

34:41

they had to make a log of like today I used

34:43

this much more fain and do you think more

34:45

people knew? I'm now thinking my brain

34:47

is kinda like, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

34:50

Okay. Bye.

36:33

Escape to the y for some new

36:35

time. The YMCA is here to

36:37

help you reset and offer you a community

36:40

of support, bring the kids, and we'll

36:42

watch them while you work out. Make taking

36:44

care of yourself a priority in twenty twenty

36:46

three. There's something for everyone

36:48

at the y, invest in yourself and

36:50

your community. Join any of our thirteen

36:53

Central Ohio locations today.

36:55

Find your y at YMCA

36:57

columbus dot org and get started

36:59

on a healthier u. That's YMCA

37:02

columbus dot org. Escape

37:04

to the y for some u time.

37:06

The YMCA is here to help you reset

37:09

and offer you a community of support,

37:11

bring the kids, and we'll watch them while you

37:13

work out. Make taking care of yourself

37:15

a priority in twenty twenty three.

37:17

There's something for everyone at the y.

37:19

Invest in yourself and your community.

37:22

Join any of our thirteen Central Ohio

37:24

locations today. Find your

37:26

y at YMCA columbus dot

37:28

org and get started on a healthier

37:30

u. That's YMCA columbus

37:33

dot org.