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S1.E99 - Medicine & Murder: The Deadly Career of Genene Jones

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By 1981, Jones demanded the sickest patients and kept showing up where children died most often.

1. The Pandemonium Witches episode focuses on Janine Ann Jones and the murders and medical crises tied to her nursing career. 2. Kat, Rachel, In, and Meg host the show, and their banter, research notes, and trigger warning frame the story. 3. The episode asks how a licensed vocational nurse born on July 13, 1950, came to be linked to up to 60 infant and child deaths. 4. Jones was adopted by Dick and Gladys Jones, and the hosts describe a home shaped by failed businesses, gambling, and money problems. 5. Her brother Travis died at 14 from a pipe bomb accident, and her father died at 56 after terminal cancer. 6. The hosts say Jones thought marriage would solve her grief, then married James 'Jimmy' Delaney after claiming she was pregnant. 7. They also describe her affairs, her dependence on Gladys for money, and her move into beauty school before nursing. 8. Jones worked in a hospital beauty salon, then trained as an LVN because she wanted to be near doctors and power. 9. Her first nursing job at San Antonio's Methodist Hospital ended after eight months because she tried to make decisions without authority. 10. At Bexar County Medical Center's PICU, the hosts say a statistically improbable number of children became sick while she was on shift. 11. Jones reportedly used injections to create medical crises and then wanted to participate in the rescue and praise that followed. 12. One child had seizures on three consecutive days only when she was working, and Jones allegedly said, 'They're going to start thinking I'm the death nurse.' 13. The episode describes Jose Antonio Flores, who went into cardiac arrest, was revived, then arrested again the next day and died from heparin in his system. 14. Rolando Santos suffered seizures, cardiac arrest, and unexplained bleeding, and a doctor reportedly warned hospital staff that Jones was killing children. 15. At Kerrville Clinic, Dr. Kathleen Holland found an open bottle with two puncture marks, which the hosts say suggested Jones had drawn out and refilled the drug. 16. The hosts explain that succinylcholine can cause temporary paralysis and breathing failure, which makes the clinic allegations more serious. 17. Chelsea McLian's case becomes the legal centerpiece, and the hosts describe her seizure after an injection and her death in transit to San Antonio. 18. The tone is conversational, fast-moving, and heavily interjected with commentary, parenthetical definitions, and side discussions about comparisons to Lucy Letby. 19. Fans of true crime cases about nurses, pediatric wards, and courtroom timelines would likely follow this episode closely. 20. Listeners wanting a tightly focused, minimal-banters story about medical homicide might skip it.

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