Fred dinenage (narrates): In September 1982,
Chelsea mcclellan
had what appeared to be a severe reaction to an inoculation
and died in a small hospital in comfort, Texas.
She was just 15 months old.
Doctors couldn't work out why Chelsea had died so suddenly,
but the truth was she had been murdered,
and her killer was the nurse who was meant to be caring for her.
When you're sick and in need and you need a doctor,
the last place you'd think something happen
to injure a child or hurt a child is the medical field.
And when that happens,
well, it's the worst of the worst in my opinion.
The killer nurse was 32-year-old genene Jones
and Chelsea mcclellan was not her first victim.
It's believed this twisted angel of death
could have taken the lives
of over 50 babies and young children.
A monster disguised in the outfit of a caring nurse,
a woman who should have been there
to help to make young lives better.
But she never did. She ended them.
Jones's arrest and trial sent shockwaves across Texas.
Her crimes had gone undetected for almost four years.
If you look at the graph of deaths that occurred
at the hospital district,
genene Jones was always on the shift
and somehow always found herself immersed
in whatever happened in the death of an infant,
on what later became known as the death shift.
Genene Jones, a killer of helpless children
had been exposed
as one of the world's most evil killers.
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In January 2020,
69-year-old genene Jones pleaded guilty to the murder
of 11-month-old Joshua Sawyer.
She had already served 36 years of a life sentence
for killing 15-month-old Chelsea mcclellan
over three decades earlier.
Proving that a nurse was killing children
by injecting them with a lethal amount of drugs
was no mean feat.
It was an investigation that took its toll
on Texas ranger, Joe Davis.
When we go to bed at night, we were thinking about it.
And when we woke up the next morning,
we started investigating again
because this was a crime that we all felt like we had to solve.
This is a crime that you don't see happen normally.
We had to get it done
and we'd give it our all to make it happen.
Jones had begun her insatiable killing spree
while working in a paediatric intensive care unit
in San Antonio, Texas.
But she went undetected for almost four years.
Victim advocate, Andy kahan
worked with the parents and siblings of many children,
who believe Jones was responsible for the death of their loved ones.
When you look back in hindsight,
you know you can pretty much squarely say
that something was irregular, something was happening.
But back then nobody put two and two together.
This killer's story begins on the July 13, 1950.
Genene Ann Jones was born in San Antonio, Texas.
But at a young age she was put up for adoption by her birth parents.
It was the start of a difficult childhood.
Looking at back at Jones' early life,
there is quite a lot of trauma in that adoptive family.
So, we see that two of her brothers died.
One died in an accident at home, another one died of cancer.
And then later on, her father died of cancer.
So, there are a lot of things going on in this family unit
that she does not feel in control of.
She does not feel that stability and that safety and that security.
And I think that potentially is a factor
that accelerated her on the course that she took.
Growing up,
Jones felt like she didn't belong in the family unit.
She wasn't raised in the best conditions.
She always felt, from what I could find out,
that she was a black sheep of the family.
She would often say that
she was unwanted
that she was unloved.
And I think when you hear somebody spinning that narrative,
you've got to look at the motivation behind it.
So, what is it that they're trying to get?
They're trying to get validation.
They're trying to get attention.
So, we have this poor me character that emerges.
By June 1976
Jones had been married, divorced,
had two children with different fathers.
And after a brief time working at a beauty parlour,
the 25-year-old was training for a new vocation.
I think genene Jones' choice of a career in nursing
was quite a deliberate one, quite a strategic one.
So, she's somebody who always felt that she was unloved,
that she was unwanted.
And when you are a nurse,
people are very grateful for the work that you do,
they're very thankful for what you do to help them
and to help their relatives.
So, I think this was something about validation
in this career appealed to her.
In October 1978,
genene Jones began working
on the paediatric intensive care unit
known as picu
at bexar county hospital in San Antonio.
Her former colleague cheri pendergraft
remembers meeting Jones for the first time.
When she was hired on,
I was in charge of orienting her to the unit,
making her feel comfortable with surroundings,
where things were, what procedures we did
and all of those things.
And then also assessing her knowledge and nursing skills
to make sure that she would fulfil the requirements
needed for patient care in the picu.
Jones seemed interested in treating patients hands on.
Genene took one of the advanced courses
that we offered in the education and training department,
one of which included iv therapy.
She became very proficient at starting ivs
and liked doing procedures on patients.
Starting an iv itself requires a bit of finesse and skill
because getting the tiny needle into the tiny, tiny little vein
of a paediatric patient can be very challenging.
But she became very proficient at it.
Cheri found Jones to be an intense personality
on the picu ward
and sometimes her compassion came across as eerie and extreme.
It was the first or second night that she came on duty
and there was a very...
Small premature baby admitted who was very sick.
And the likelihood of it surviving was very slim.
So, we cared for the baby for a few hours and it passed away.
And genene asked me if she could hold the baby.
And I said, "well, yes,"
which I thought was kind of unusual but I thought...
Maybe she felt deep compassion for the baby
because this was her first exposure to this particular kind of incident
where a baby died.
And so, she took the baby over the corner of the picu
and sat in the rocking chair and rocked the baby for...
I think about an hour and was sobbing.
And I just thought that was an unusual reaction
to the death of a very...
Tiny, tiny premature baby that she had no attachment to.
She hadn't had time to form any attachment to it.
The longer Jones was in the role, the more difficult she became
and she seemingly had ideas above her station.
Jones was a licensed vocational nurse.
So, this is more of a nursing assistant type role
and it contrasts with a registered nurse,
who is a fully qualified certified nurse.
And I think Jones always felt entitled to more.
She was never happy and content with what she had.
She always had to go further.
But she would step over the line.
She would push the boundaries in ways
that were unprofessional and unethical.
She was crass and foul-mouthed
and she came across as arrogant and know-it-all a lot of times
and some of the nurses really did not like that.
She would be making decisions
that registered nurses would normally be making.
And those were things that
she shouldn't really have been doing.
So, that sense of entitlement, that sense of grandiosity
is there from the very beginning.
Cheri clashed with Jones on more than one occasion
during her time at bexar county hospital.
On one particular night shift,
cheri came to relieve Jones from a traumatic situation,
but her reaction was far from professional.
I went and put my things down in the back
and came into the room
where genene was performing cpr on a little...
Maybe eight-year-old boy or so...
Who had been a near drowning.
She had been working for 16 hours at that point
and or a little bit more than
and she was due to come back the next morning for another shift.
But a clearly exhausted Jones
refused to hand over control to cheri.
And she said, "no.
"I'm performing cpr."
And I said, "no, you...
"I can take over.
"I'm perfectly capable of performing cpr and taking over.
"So, you really need to go home."
And she refused and she yelled at me.
And so I called the nursing house supervisor,
told her the situation and she came down.
And told genene that she needed to leave and go home
and get some rest.
She stormed out the room.
I took over cpr.
She went and grabbed her things and then she stormed out of the icu,
swearing and yelling...
Which I thought was a strange sort of overreaction
and a possessiveness of the patient situation
at that time, not wanting to relinquish.
She wants attention.
She feels entitled to attention.
She likes drama.
She thrives on it.
She's somebody who wants to be centre stage
and I think that is the motivation here.
She's always entitled to... to more.
She always wants to create a drama
and place herself right in the middle of it.
Cheri pendergraft had no idea that her colleague's lust for drama
had in fact turned deadly.
And a staff logbook would soon reveal
an unnatural number of infants were dying on the picu ward
at bexar county hospital whenever genene Jones was working.
No child was safe on the death shift.
In the early 1980s genene Jones was working as a nurse
on the paediatric intensive care unit
at bexar county hospital in San Antonio, Texas.
Her colleagues had begun to notice
that the infant death rate would rise
whenever she was on the wards.
Jones used to work a late shift, 3pm until 11pm,
and this shift became known as the death shift
because for a period of around 15 months,
people were 10 times more likely to die
during this period of time than any other period of time.
One baby who survived his time on the death shift
was four-week-old Rolando Santos,
who arrived on the ward in December 1981.
He had some issues with pneumonia, some breathing problems
and he was admitted
to the paediatric intensive care unit.
And he becomes even more unwell when he's in there
and he starts to bleed from a site
where he's previously had an injection.
Now, a doctor orders some tests to be carried out.
And they come back positive for heparin
which is a blood thinner.
And this doctor ordered Rolando
to be taken off the paediatric intensive care unit
and this was a decision that actually saved this child's life.
A staff logbook was used to record
Rolando's near death experience
and a host of other similar incidents.
The abnormal spike in the death rates
was highlighted by the colleagues of nurse cheri pendergraft.
Several of the nurses in the picu
called my attention to the logbook one day
when we were sitting in the nursing station.
And they noticed that
there was a higher than usual mortality rate.
And so, I looked at the log book
and yes, there did seem to be a higher mortality rate
during that time.
And it seemed to happen mostly on the 3:00 to 11:00 shift.
More of the deaths occurred on the 3:00 to 11:00 shift
according to the logbook.
Cheri took the logbook to her superiors,
but her concerns fell on deaf ears.
At that point in time
it was at the discretion of the head nurse,
and if she didn't see anything worth...
Investigating because she...
She trusted all her nurses.
So, I don't think that she saw any particular reason
to investigate it any further
other than my bringing it to her attention.
The hospital managers and administrators will say,
"well, show me the proof," but there is no proof.
But doctors and nurses, their intuition is really well honed
and it's not some mystical thing.
It's a thing that's based on experience and expertise
as somebody with compassion,
as somebody who relates very well to other people.
You can pick up when somebody is not quite right
and those are warning signs
that really should have been heeded here.
The lack of scrutiny of the hospital records
stunned victim advocate, Andy kahan
when he became involved in the case decades later.
When the bexar county hospital district
decided to actually take some action
involving the high rate of infant mortality death,
they didn't call for an investigation.
They didn't bring you know the police department down there.
They didn't take statements.
They wanted to sweep this under the carpet.
So, all of the licensed vocational nurses
were replaced with registered nurses.
Jones was offered another position in the hospital
but she chose to resign instead.
And I think at this point,
she realises that the net is closing in
and she needs to move on.
And so genene Jones
was for all intents and purposes now,
no longer working at the hospital district.
And as a result of her no longer working there,
gee, guess what?
All of a sudden, the deaths declined.
Wow, what a fascinating coincidence.
So, as far as the bexar county hospital district is,
they're out of it.
I think at this point in time, she feels absolutely untouchable.
I think there's a part of her that...
That realises that this is a PR job.
This is the hospital trying to make the problem go away.
And it suits her down to the ground.
Cheri pendergraft had no idea
she had been working alongside a woman
who was intentionally harming babies
in the paediatric intensive care unit,
the one place children were meant to feel safe.
It's difficult to believe that I worked with someone
who became so evil.
To take the lives of other people's children
for their own attention-seeking or goals...
Is just beyond comprehension for a normal person.
But we're not talking about a normal person here.
So, it has affected me in the sense that I worked with her
and I wish that...
I had become aware of something
that may have stopped her from progressing.
We just had no...
Evidence of any direct connection with...
Kids dying on genene Jones' watch...
And I think it was beyond our comprehension
that anything like that could even happen on our watch.
In march 1982
genene Jones left bexar county hospital,
and five months later she started another job,
60 miles northwest of San Antonio
at a new paediatric clinic
in the small town of kerrville, Texas.
At the time of this investigation, it was approximately 20,000 people.
We were located off interstate 10
about 60 miles west of San Antonio.
It's mainly a retirement town.
In September 1982
a case landed on Joe's lap that would change the town forever.
I was in my office when I received a telephone call
from an investigator for the board of nursing in Austin.
Tony hall,
who was a hospital administrator at sid Peterson hospital
in kerrville
had advised him that they had started an investigation
on a nurse and doctor
who was having several babies were coming into the emergency room.
They had never witnessed
this before in kerrville.
And one of the babies had died.
And during the conversation with the investigator,
he told me, he said, "Joe, I think
"you have a child killer in kerrville."
All the babies had come into the hospital
via the new paediatric clinic in town run by dr Kathleen Holland
who was assisted by nurse genene Jones.
It was Jones's behaviour in the aftermath of the revelations
that focused Joe's attention on her.
He had told me also that genene Jones
had come into the hospital the day before
and apparently and tried to commit suicide.
Only they were found suspicious of that from what she had taken.
It wasn't that serious.
When the investigation gets underway,
Jones stages a suicide attempt.
So, she ingests some drugs
which are nowhere near enough to bring about her death.
But they're enough to create the illusion
that she's tried to take her own life.
And when we look at the impact of this kind of behaviour,
it's going to bring you quite a lot of sympathy,
quite a lot of attention.
You... you'll get considerable compassion...
From other people.
So, I think it was that outcome that she was interested in.
This was not a serious attempt to end her life.
Joe went to meet Jones at the hospital
to get her side of the story.
So, I told her I'd like to go ahead and interview her at that time
since she's there at the hospital.
So, he arranged for me to go to a conference room
in the hospital and they brought genene Jones in,
and that's when I first met her
and started an interview with her over the investigation.
For the first time,
genene Jones was under investigation for murder.
I was in the conference room when they brought genene Jones in
and identified myself as a Texas ranger
and told her I was there to investigate some emergencies
that were coming into the hospital from their office
and that one of the babies that were brought in had died.
And so, I started interviewing her regarding the emergencies.
Throughout the brief discussion, Jones didn't flinch.
She didn't seem upset.
She had pretty cool and collected,
answered the few questions I had for her,
and was cooperative with me at that time.
But something told Joe
it wouldn't be the last time he would cross paths
with genene Jones.
Before I left her, I asked her,
I said, "ok, I'm starting an investigation
"and would you be willing to take a polygraph test
"in the near future?"
And she said she would.
So, I told her I would be getting back with her
later when I had more information, and she agreed.
Ok, and that more or less ended the interview
at that time with her.
With no evidence against her,
genene Jones was free to leave the hospital.
Joe Davis' detective instincts however told him
that everything was not as it should be.
He was certain Jones was involved and now, he had to prove it.
In September 1982,
nurse genene Jones was working at a new clinic
in the town of kerrville, Texas.
She had taken a job with paediatrician
dr Kathleen Holland
who like Jones had previously worked
at bexar county hospital in San Antonio.
A number of suspicious infant collapses
had led detectives to speak genene Jones
and next on their radar was dr Holland.
And during the interview with dr Holland,
she told me and I found out that
when these patients were brought in by their mothers,
these young infants, genene Jones would say,
"let me take the baby back to the back.
"So, y'all can talk."
The babies may be crying or making some noises.
And not long after the baby was taken to the back,
genene Jones would holler out, "oh, the baby stopped breathing.
"I needed a emergency.
"Come back quick.
"We need to call an ambulance."
Dr Holland was ruled out as a suspect
and attention turned solely to genene Jones.
One of the babies who had fallen ill at the clinic
was Chelsea mcclellan.
Victim liaison officer Andy kahan
got to know Chelsea's mother petti in the aftermath of the case.
She had taken her 15-month-old daughter
for some routine inoculations in September 1982.
Petti pretty much told me the story of what happened.
I mean, she just brought Chelsea
to the clinic.
She's only 15 months old.
It wasn't anything really serious going on with Chelsea.
And the next thing she knows,
all of a sudden you know there's a code blue with Chelsea.
Just like the other children,
Jones had volunteered to give Chelsea her injections.
Sat facing petti mcclellan,
Jones had Chelsea on her lap and injected her twice,
once in each leg,
before the 15-month-old began struggling to breathe.
An ambulance took Chelsea to the emergency room
at the sid Peterson hospital in kerrville
where her condition seemed to improve.
But now back in the ambulance, Chelsea suddenly deteriorated again.
One of the nurses had actually seen genene Jones
before the ambulance left the hospital in kerrville,
give the baby another shot as the doors were shutting.
But on the way,
she and an attendant was in the back
when Chelsea went into cardiac arrest.
Dr Holland was following in a car.
They immediately pulled over, tried to revive her.
Dr Holland said let's take her in to the hospital in comfort
and that's where she passed away.
Genene Jones had brazenly murdered Chelsea mcclellan
in front of her own mother.
When we look at Chelsea's murder,
we can see that Jones was absolutely determined
to end this little girl's life.
So, when she gave her these so-called routine immunisations
and she became incredibly unwell but they didn't kill her,
Jones made sure that she was in the ambulance
with this child on the way to hospital.
She wanted to finish the job.
How personal...
That must be...
To have an infant in your hands
and taking a needle and knowing full well
that you're taking their life,
that's about as coldblooded diabolical
as you can get.
Despite Jones's actions, nobody was aware
that she was responsible for Chelsea's death.
The drug that Jones administered to Chelsea
was a drug that essentially disappears without a trace
when it's entered into the body of somebody.
So, an autopsy is not able to establish
what the cause of death is.
So, sudden infant death syndrome is entered on the death certificate.
And I know for petti, it was like, I brought my child in.
You know, there wasn't anything serious going on
and now she's dead.
And so, she started questioning
and she brought up a lot of questions.
And she brought this to the attention
of the kerrville county district attorney's office
who eventually opened up an investigation.
As part of a deeper look into the death of Chelsea mcclellan
and the other collapses coming out of the clinic,
detective Joe Davies visited dr Kathleen Holland once more.
She had spotted some superficial damage
in a vial of a drug called Succinylcholine,
an anaesthetic muscle relaxant.
Dr Holland notices that the vial of Succinylcholine
has got puncture marks in the top
and she knows that she hasn't used it.
And so obviously,
it has to be Jones because they were the only two people with the key.
Two bottles, one was capped and one was uncapped.
And then the top of that one bottle that was uncapped
was several puncture holes, needles,
as if they were taking that drug out.
Somebody was.
However, the bottle appeared to be full.
So, I told her at that time,
I needed that bottle to have it checked
to make sure that the drug was still in there or what...
What was in that bottle or if it'd been refilled.
The results proved to be a huge turning point
in the investigation.
They checked it and notified me later
that it was a saline solution.
It was not the drug that was supposed to be in it.
It looked like it had been refilled.
And so that indicated,
that maybe the whole bottle had been used
in some of these emergencies,
which was good to know.
You know, in courtrooms and in law enforcement,
there's like a smoking gun.
That's kind of what it's called.
And the smoking gun...
Was that tiny little puncture wound
in that bottle of Succinylcholine.
A search into her background meant the finger of suspicion
suddenly began to point directly at Jones.
I found out also that genene Jones had taken a class
in San Antonio strictly on the use of this drug
while she was there being a nurse.
She asked for that class and learned the ins and outs
of administering that drug.
So, she was very familiar with it
before she came to kerrville and what doses to use.
Joe scoured the world for a way to prove
that Succinylcholine was used to murder Chelsea.
He found a doctor from Sweden who had developed a way
to identify the supposedly undetectable drug
in body tissue,
but that meant investigators had to make a difficult decision.
On the may 7, 1983, with the permission of her parents,
Chelsea mcclellan's body was exhumed.
When they exhumed Chelsea and open the casket, I was present.
It was amazing that
she looked like a little doll laying there
had her bonnet on,
and her favourite little toy was a little duck.
It was really a sad moment for all of us to witness.
The body tissue was examined in Stockholm
and the results showed conclusively
that dangerously high levels of Succinylcholine
were present in Chelsea mcclellan.
She had been callously murdered
by the nurse who was meant to be helping her.
After we found the drug,
of course we knew that genene Jones had been lying to us
and she had been observed also by another nurse
as I previously stated,
giving another shot when Chelsea went down.
And it all indicated,
based on all the evidence now that she was in our minds guilty.
On may 25, 1983,
genene Jones was arrested for the murder of Chelsea mcclellan.
But the 32-year-old nurse denied any wrongdoing.
I took genene Jones down first
to be examined on the polygraph
and questions were asked regarding the investigation
and her contact with the patients
and did she do anything to injure them
or give her any substance or anything?
And she actually failed the polygraph.
Based on the questions asked, she did not pass it.
Tried to talk to her more, but she just,
being who she was, she's saying the polygraph wrong,
"I didn't do nothing wrong,"
and maintained she was innocent of anything to those babies.
In February 1984,
genene Jones was on trial for murder.
In her defence,
Jones argued that she had used Succinylcholine
on Chelsea mcclellan appropriately and denied trying to kill her.
I mean, this is a complicated case.
This is 1984.
You know, there's a lot of medical jargon that has to...
You know, go around for the jury to comprehend.
But I'll tell you what, this jury saw right through.
And when people were testifying in the courtroom...
I mean, there wasn't really a dry eye
in the courtroom.
The only dry eye in the courtroom was genene Jones
who didn't show any emotion, anything.
Jones was found guilty
and sentenced to 99 years for murder.
In October 1984, Jones was found guilty once more
for attempting to kill Rolando Santos
at bexar county hospital
between December 1981 and January 1982.
She was given another 60-year sentence
that would run concurrently to the 99 years
she was already serving.
It took the jury no time to become completely convinced
that she had indeed set out to kill both Chelsea and Rolando...
In a heartless, cruel manner.
Thereby, trying to make herself look,
at one moment saviour, at the next moment killer.
It is a dreadful conceit, an evidence of pure wickedness.
Genene Jones was finally in prison.
But under Texas legislation, she was due to be freed in 2018.
Outraged by the impending release date,
a group of relatives
who were certain Jones had killed their loved ones
came together to fight the injustice.
They wanted to keep genene Jones
behind bars for good.
By 2017 convicted baby killer genene Jones
had served 33 years in prison for murder,
but her time inside was coming to an end.
Legislation put in place to ease the over population
of prisons in Texas, meant she would soon be free.
Court reporter Elizabeth Zavala followed the latest chapter
in the story of the killer nurse.
Because of that law to ease prison crowding,
genene Jones would have been eligible for parole
in march of 2018.
And for people in the San Antonio community,
bexar county, south Texas,
even they just didn't want to see a convicted baby killer
like genene Jones be released out into the public.
The fight for justice was spearheaded
by the mother of genene Jones's murder victim,
Chelsea mcclellan.
Petti mcclellan-wiese
had refused to give up the fight over the years
whenever Jones was up for parole.
Petti would go to the parole board hearings
and she made it a point to be there every time
and argue for genene Jones to stay behind bars.
She was very passionate about that
because of her own child's death,
but also petti felt very protective
of the San Antonio mothers.
Mothers in San Antonio
who had lost babies at bexar county hospital
during Jones's time there
all believed their children could have been murdered
by the killer nurse.
Victim advocate Andy kahan worked with petti mcclellan-wiese
to find some new cases.
We ended up actually forming a Facebook group,
a closed Facebook group called victims of genene Anne Jones.
And that's how we communicated.
And we started hearing from other families.
Their infants also died under quote 'the death shift'.
And that's how we started getting other people involved
and other families involved.
And it just spiralled from there.
With the help of petti and Andy kahan,
district attorney Joe Gonzalez
identified a handful of potential victims...
We had five separate indictments,
the strongest
of which was the case involving young Joshua Sawyer.
And I will tell you that the reason that
that case was the strongest case that we had
was because of his mother, Connie weeks.
She had kept meticulous records
of her child going to the doctor.
Had it not been for her,
I don't believe we would have been able
to prosecute genene Jones the way we did.
11-month-old Joshua Sawyer had died at bexar county hospital
while Jones was working
in the paediatric intensive care unit.
Joshua Sawyer was brought into hospital in December in 1981
because there'd been a fire in his home
and he'd experienced some smoke inhalation.
And that shouldn't have been the end of his life
but he had a cardiac arrest when he was in the hospital.
And it transpired
that he had a huge amount of anti-seizure medication
in his system way more than the normal range.
Joshua Sawyer had been injected with a deadly amount of Dilantin,
an anti-seizure medication.
And so, the effect
that it would have had was a violent effect
on his body, I think on...
On the muscles.
Basically, it was an overdose of Dilantin.
And so, that's what caused the death of Joshua Sawyer.
A series of hearings followed in which it was decided
that the new charges could be brought
against genene Jones.
Much to the relief of petti mcclellan-wiese
and Andy kahan.
I was floored.
And it was quite an emotional day, obviously for petti.
It was emotional for me, who'd been involved with this for...
For so long to see her charged and to know at least right now,
she wouldn't be legally released,
but she was brought back to bexar county jail
and held in custody under a one million dollar-bond
pending the charges.
Jones would remain behind bars until a new trial date was set.
Unfortunately, petti mcclellan-wiese
would not get to see justice served for a second time.
She passed away in June 2019 at the age of 64.
I remember getting a call and sadly, at this time,
petti had passed away and that was...
I was just
so saddened by her sudden passing.
And she didn't get to live to see the culmination of her efforts
or culmination of efforts lived through other families
that she brought together.
And she was kind of like the godmother of this group.
And everyone looked up to her.
Suddenly, as preparations were being made for the trial,
word came through that genene Jones had agreed to a plea bargain.
She would plead guilty to the murder of Joshua Sawyer
in exchange for a life sentence
and the other four cases to be dropped.
She was due to confirm this at a San Antonio courthouse
in January 2020.
And you know keep in mind,
at that time Jones could change her mind at any moment.
Because she's the one who had agreed to the deal,
and the deal was she would plead guilty
to the one murder
and the other charges would be dropped.
There's always that little apprehension
that this isn't gonna happen.
And when she finally had pled guilty,
it was quite a sense of relief for everybody there that day.
Genene Jones had finally admitted to killing
at least one baby under her care.
Has she suddenly developed a conscience?
Does she suddenly feel compassionate for her victims and their relatives?
No. I don't think so whatsoever.
I think what's going on here
is she's trying to prevent a trial from taking place,
because during a trial a lot of information
becomes known about you.
And she would not want that information to become known.
So, she is essentially taking back control
by putting in this guilty plea.
I actually looked to see whether or not she had any reaction,
I never saw any tears in her eyes.
I never saw any indication of any remorse,
which is pretty indicative of your cold-blooded serial killers.
Here you had a lady that as far as I'm concerned was evil incarnate.
She was a woman
who made a point of ending infants' lives
and she didn't appear to have any remorse.
She never indicated in court that she was sorry for what she did.
In January 2020,
genene Jones was given another life sentence
for the murder of 11-month-old Joshua Sawyer.
Genene Jones was sentenced to life in prison,
which means that she will have to serve the sentence
until 2038,
that is the first opportunity that she has to be eligible for parole.
Now, she will be about 87 years old at that time.
And so, we suspect that she may not make it
or if she does that her parole will be denied.
We believe that she will spend her very last breath in prison.
I think that
the families feel they have justice.
The one thing that was always constant
with each family member of one of these children...
Was that they wanted for genene Jones to die in prison.
Genene Jones has officially been found guilty
of two murders,
but experts suggest the real number of deaths
caused by her deadly injections
could be somewhere between 40 and 60.
But her continued silence
means we may never know the full story.
Families will be wondering for generations,
whether or not they lost their loved ones
at the hand of this cold killer.
When I look back at genene Jones's reign of terror,
I get angry and so upset and very emotionally drained.
Because, look at who her victims were.
These were infants.
None of her victims could run, yell, scream for help.
They were at her mercy
and they were at with someone
whom families believed they could trust.
When somebody in the medical field takes advantage of,
especially a young baby
that can't talk and say what happened,
and tell the story of what genene Jones did
when she took the baby to the back...
And pretty bad.
And it's people that you trust with your own kid...
To help that kid get well, and they ended up causing its death.
What could be worse than that?
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Jones was a cold-hearted killer.
She took the lives of young children
who did not have the voice or strength to fight against her.
To intentionally harm a child is a callous act,
but to do it under the guise of a caring nurse is abhorrent.
And that's why genene Jones will forever be remembered
as one of the worlds' most evil killers.
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