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File Size: 10923 KB
Print Length: 348 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1439182647
Publisher: Pocket Books; Reprint edition (November 13, 2012)
Publication Date: November 13, 2012
Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
Language: English
ASIN: B009NHBJJ2
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I loved this book. I first heard about Jane Toppan watching an episode of Deadly Women on Investigation Discovery and was immediately fascinated. I am very glad I bought this book, not only was it worth reading, but it will be worth re-reading, which is how I judge whether a book is worth paying for. The writing style has a depth that isn't always present in true crime, which often reads like a newspaper article. Schechter does a great job of making you feel like you're in the room with Toppan and her victim, and I loved that. Highly recommended!!!!!
Conventional wisdom says that the female serial is a rarity, but according to Harold Schechter, a knowledgeable scholar of sociopaths, this not true. Throughout our history female serial killers have existed and in surprisingly high numbers. Female serial killers differ from their male counterparts not in their lust for and enjoyment of murder, but in their style. For the most part women kill their nearest and dearest with deadly love: a spoonful of poison, a pillow over the face of a child, a hypodermic filled with blood thinner or muscle relaxer. A selfless caretaker in the eyes of the world, the female serial killer turns her loved ones or patients into corpses. There are exceptions as Schechter points out, such as Aileen Wuornos who shot men she did not know. Wuornos was unusual in that she used a gun to dispatch her victims, and those victims were strangers. According to Schechter, we need fear the strange woman with the gun, but Mommy, Granny, or Great-aunt Jane with her kind words and a bowl of chicken soup laced with arsenic. While a number of female serial killers murder for money, most murder because they enjoy it! They crave it!In his lengthy introduction Schechter delineates the difference between lust-murder, or the sexual mutilation of his victims, "as a form or serial killing exclusive to men--a monstrous expression of male sexuality," and the female serial killer performing "a grotesque, sadistic travesty of intimacy and love." The author then illustrates the history of female serial killers, or at least the history of those who were caught. For centuries women were thought too delicate and caring to actually feed arsenic to members of her family and watch their suffering for days, weeks, and sometimes, months. Not true as Schechter shows. He begins with an account of Lydia Struck, who in the author's words, saw herself as "an utterly devoted wife and mother,." When Lydia's husband is fired by the New York City's police department and falls into clinical depression, she feeds him oatmeal and arsenic, a compound that carries him off in agony. This worked so well that she dispatched her six children by similar means, all certified as dying from "natural causes." This was in the 1860s, and everyone sympathized with Lydia's multiple misfortunes. After all, she was forced to kill her family for their own good, so they wouldn't live in poverty and want. They all might have preferred poverty to motherly love. Lydia went on to kill two more husbands and two stepchildren before she was caught.Schechter continues his history of female serial killers with the account of Sarah Jane Robinson whose life is littered with the corpses of friends and relatives. A visit from Sarah Jane was like inviting the Grime Reaper into your home; neither was likely to leave you alive. According to the New York Times Sarah Jane's tally was an even dozen victims.Perhaps the most depraved of the Victorian-era female serial killers is the story of orphaned Honora, who was "taken into service, and given the name of Jane Toppan, although she was never formally adopted by the Toppan family. Abused by her chronically drunk father, turned over to the Boston Female Asylum at age six which placed her with the Toppan family, possessed of self-hate combined with a monstrous ego, Jane was a serial killer waiting to express herself. Leaving the Toppan home at age twenty-eight, Jane trained as a nurse, an fortune occupation for one who said "there was no use in keeping old people alive." And she didn't. By the time she was caught she no longer remembered the number of her victims.Schechter's writing draws in the reader. While he discusses the psychological roots of serial killers, he does so without miring the reader in psycho-babble. He is concise while still being precise in his case studies. I highly recommend this title to those interest in true crime.
Great author, lousy book-I have read several books by Mr. Schechter. This one is a real disappointment compared to his others. I returned it as it is a collection of very brief, very boring stories. Sorry.
This book is extremely well researched and written, documenting the fact that women have been serial killers in past times. The story of Jane Toppan is very chilling; here is a rare account of a female sociopath in the late 19th century. The book also shows how easily physicians and other "experts" were fooled in regard to the murders Jane committed by poison, and how common and easy-to-get these substances were at that time. Probably no one will ever know exactly how many people Jane killed. What is available is her own account of how much she enjoyed watching people die.This book is a perfect accompaniment to the PBS documentary, "The Poisoner's Handbook," which documents how important were the advances in isolating poisons in the body of a dead human being. After those advances, it was more difficult for a person like Jane to carry out their deadly fantasies.
After an informative introduction, Schechter sets the mood for Jane Toppan by briefly covering serial murderesses Lydia Sherman and Sarah Jane Robinson, two predecessors to Toppan with affiliations for arsenic. Then along came Jane Toppan with her morphia and atropia cocktails.Born into the world as Honora Kelley, Jane was indentured to, and adopted by, Mrs. Ann C. Toppan and thus became Jane Toppan. Jane resented growing up as a servant to her family, and especially resented her sister Elizabeth, who would later fall victim to Jane's careful ministrations.Jane took nursing school, a rigorous training in its day, but never graduated with a certificate before taking herself out of hospital care and into family home care, where her poisonous ways became more noticeable. Still, it was years before Jane was ever suspected and brought to trial, leaving a wake of corpses behind her.'Fatal' is very well written, although drawn out at times. The prose enchants you back to the era of the murders, specifically pointing out many differences in both medical and courtroom procedures between 1901 and our modern day world. Schechter rounds out the case with Jane's life as a child and the unsavory circumstances of her childhood, to her early years, on through her active killing spree and ending with court proceedings and what happened to Jane afterward. There's a lot of detail on Jane's life, and while there is no bibliography there's an Acknowledgements section that lists Schechter's resources. If you like true crime, you'll like this unique account of one of the first female serial killers ever documented. Enjoy!
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