QUOTE: At Geneva in 1880, a sick-nurse, Jeanne Raies, was convicted of having poisoned twelve persons. Why? The sole motivation that the indictment was able to invoke was that funeral parlors offered a small payment to those who carried to them the first news of a death.
[Translation from : P. Bouardel, Les Intoxications: Arsenic, Phosphore, Cuivre, Mercure et Plomb, Paris, J. B. Ballierre et Fils, 1904, p. 8]
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For more cases, see Sicko Nurses
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EXCERPT :
Economic competition between
morticians in Geneva, Switzerland, inspired the serial murders committed by
nurse Jean Raies. In 1880, after one undertaker tried to “scoop” the competition with a financial bounty on reports of local deaths, Nurse
Raies saw an opportunity to line her pocket. Before year’s end, she poisoned
twelve of her patients, “selling” each in turn to the free-spending
mortician. Arrested after the twelfth killing, she was convicted of multiple
murder and spent the rest of her life in a Swiss prison.
[Michael Newton, Bad Girls Do It : An Encyclopedia of
Female Murderers, Loompanics, Port Townsend, Wa., 1993, p. 147]
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EXCERPT: C’est, à Genève, il y a sept ou huit ans, Jeanne
Raies la garde-malade, qui fait douze victimes. Et pourquoi? Pourquoi? Pour
toucher la prime misérable que le pompes funèbres attributent à ceux qui leaur
apportaient la première nouvelle d’un décès!
[Gaston Lèbre, Revue des grands procès contemporains, Tome
VIII – Annee 1890. Paris. Chevalier-Maresq et Cie. P. 10]
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For more cases, see Sicko Nurses
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