Why Did Genene Ann Jones Kill Victims Hero?

During the year 1982, Dr. Kathleen Holland decided to open her own pediatrics clinic in Kerrville, Texas. She would need help to run her clinic and so she hired licensed vocational nurse, Genene Anne Jones. Jones had been employed by a hospital prior to working in Holland’s clinic. She was a nurse in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Medical Center Hospital in San Antonio. Her peers began to notice that more of the child patients were dying only during her shift. Eighty-two patients had died in the PICU from January 1979 through June 1982. More of the children were suffering from severe conditions even if their initial reason for entering the clinic wasn’t close to being as deadly or serious.
Jones had previously asked to work

Individuals with this syndrome kill for the power and control they experience when they kill their victims. It boosts their egos. That is exactly what Jones experienced and as I mentioned before she loved to be considered her victims’ hero. Later, it was discovered that she may have been injecting the victims with muscle relaxants including saline. Investigators stated that children were 25% more likely to experience cardiac arrest during Jones’ shift. Also, 10% of those children were most likely to die during her shift than for any other shift. On February 15, Jones was convicted of murder and also during that year she was found guilty of injuring another child by injection. Those two sentences totaled up to 159 years and she would be eligible for parole after serving 20

Early on while Jones was working with Dr. Holland at her clinic, a bottle of a power muscle relaxant, also known as succinylcholine, was reported missing. Three weeks later Jones informed Dr. Holland that she found the bottle which had a missing cap, and a rubber top that had been punctured by needles. Jones and Dr. Holland were the only two who had access to the room in which the bottle had gone