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

      Many Things Can Be True

      PART 1 INDENTURE

PROLOGUE THE STAFF BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM, 1862

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

      CHAPTER 6

      THE UNDERTAKER

      CHAPTER 7

      CHAPTER 8

      PART 2 HOSPITAL

      CHAPTER 9

      CHAPTER 10

      CHAPTER 11

      CHAPTER 12

      CHAPTER 13

      PART 3 HOMES

      CHAPTER 14

      CHAPTER 15

      CHAPTER 16

      CHAPTER 17

      PART 4 CRIMINAL

      CATAUMET, MA: THE TOWNSPEOPLE

      ANNA GENEVIEVE GORDON (née DAVIS)

      ALDEN DAVIS

      MINNIE GIBBS (née DAVIS)

      BEULAH JACOBS

      JESSE GIBBS

      CAPTAIN PAUL GIBBS

      CHAPTER 18

      CHAPTER 19

      Chapter 20

      STATE DETECTIVE JOSEPHUS WHITNEY

      MRS. CASH, MATRON

      JANE TOPPAN

      EPILOGUE THE STAFF TAUNTON ASYLUM, 1938

      Acknowledgements

      Bibliography

      About the Author

Many Things Can Be True

      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 СКАЧАТЬ