America's First Female Serial Killer. Mary Kay McBrayer
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America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2019954727
ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-207-7, (ebook) 978-1-64250-208-4
BISAC category code TRU002010—TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers
Printed in the United States of America
We know how to make serial killers. You just take a Type-A kid who’s fairly bright and just beat the crap out of him day after day. That’s how it’s done.
—Cormac McCarthy
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
—Toni Morrison
No one can handle the kids.
—Charles Bowden, “Torch Song”
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE THE STAFF BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM, 1862
ANNA GENEVIEVE GORDON (née DAVIS)
STATE DETECTIVE JOSEPHUS WHITNEY
EPILOGUE THE STAFF TAUNTON ASYLUM, 1938
A Note from the Author
Dear reader,
Here’s the truth: I learned Jane Toppan’s story for the first time when I was trying to make myself clean my apartment on Atlanta’s west side, across from the vacant lot that still had