A Devil Among Angels - E-book - ePub

"Her old friends were very nice people, proud of their respectable New England ancestry. They say that Jane was amiable, sweet-tempered girl, deeply sympathetic, full of fun, always ready for a joke, rather impatient, generous to a fault, kind, devoted, and loyal to her friends, and ever ready to do them a favor, audacious, unconventional in a way, but modest, virtuous, and refined, though now and then showing temper." That was how friends described Jane Toppan, America's first female serial killer.
They had no clue that this deeply sympathetic monster was full of rage, capable of killing up to 31 people according to her own words. In this short account, author C. C. Gunn gives the reader a riveting synopsis of a life that few understood and of a person who few knew or were aware of her crimes.