Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer

Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer

In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all.

AN ANGEL OF MERCY

In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New Engl…

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