America's First Female Serial Killer
Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster (Mind of a Serial Killer, True Crime, Women's Studies History, Irish American, Mindhunter)
by Mary Kay McBrayer
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appears in Crime and Nonfiction.
America_x0092_s first female serial killer was not always a killer. America_x0092_s First Female Serial Killer novelizes the true story of firstgeneration IrishAmerican nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Although all the facts are intact, books about her life and her crimes are all facts and no story. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did ...
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