S1 Ep58: Jane Toppan: Jolly Jane – The Angel of Death in a Nurse’s Cap
In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale takes you back to 19th-century New England to unravel the twisted legacy of Jane Toppan—better known as Jolly Jane. Behind her cheerful smile and nurse’s uniform was a mind consumed by obsession, sadism, and a fatal thirst for control. Toppan, born Honora Kelley, was orphaned, renamed, and molded into a seemingly devoted caregiver. But under the surface, she was experimenting with death—mixing morphine and atropine to toy with patients, sometimes reviving them… only to poison them again. She later confessed to over 31 murders…
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