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Troublemakers: Jane Toppan

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The Toppins and Janet Toppin

In 18 87, in her early thirties, jane decided to embark on a career. She enrolled at the nursing school at cambridge hospital. By her own count, she may have killed up to a dozen people by poison. Jane dosed patients with just enough poison to harm them and then nursed them back to health. An alarming number of elderly patients died in her care. In 19 hundred, a friend of hers named myra suddenly died of peritonitusAt the funeral, jane proudly told others she owed it to myra to take over her job - which included an apartment and a regular check.

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