“That is my ambition, to have killed more people - more helpless people - than any man or woman who has ever lived.”
Jack the Ripper may be more notorious, but while he was busy killing five prostitutes in the alleyways of Victorian London, another Victorian murderer, Jane Toppan (1880-1901), was apprehended on charge of having killed close to one hundred people in Connecticut as a live-in nurse. Her murder method was poisoning. She confessed to thirty-one counts of murder, and she was confined to an insane asylum, where she died.
