After starting her career as a nurse in 1885, "Jolly" Jane Toppan started wracking up countless victims to her experimentations with various poisons. Some of these victims survived, many did not. It wasn't until 1901, when Nurse Jane killed an entire family that she was finally stopped. In Part 1 we explore Nurse Jane's childhood, how she started her nursing career and became one of the most successful private nurses in her area. Nurse Jane first began by killing those that were misfortunate enough to fall under her care and then she became more intentional with her targets killing those close to her and anyone left in the wake of her crimes.