Awful Aries: The Employee

She earned twenty-five dollars a week when most women earned five. She was Jolly Jane — bright, cheerful, well-liked, the nurse patients requested by name and doctors recommended to their wealthiest clients. While her patients slept, she experimented on them. She altered their prescribed dosages of morphine and atropine to watch what it did to their nervous systems. She climbed into bed with them and held them as they died, because the dying was the part she wanted. Her ambition, in her own words: to have killed more people — more helpless people — than any man or woman who has ever lived. She was dismissed from two hospitals for administering opiates recklessly. The doctors who dismissed her recommended her to their wealthy private clients anyway.Donald Harvey claimed to have murdered eighty-seven people. He told his coworkers about it when he was drunk. They decided he had an overactive imagination and sent him to a psychiatrist. Security caught him with a gym bag containing a gun, hypodermic needles, surgical gloves, a serial killer biography, and medical texts. The hospital let him quietly resign and pay a fine. He went to work at another hospital.Episode 17 goes deep on the Employee — the dark Aries who kills inside the institution that employs them, using the access the institution gives them and the silence the institution maintains.Three cases. Three institutions that knew. Not suspected — knew. And in every case made the same calculation: the cost of admitting the problem was higher than the cost of passing it along. Eight warning signs, including the capstone: the institution that lets the problem resign rather than reporting it is not protecting you. It is protecting itself.Featuring: Jane Toppan (Jolly Jane) | Donald Harvey | Christopher Duntsch (Dr. Death).Sources: Wikipedia | ProPublica | D Magazine | Texas court records | Murderpedia | Taunton State Hospital records |Kentucky court recordsThank you for liking, subscribing and sharing. When you subscribe, make sure to also click the bell to ensure delivery of my posts in your feed.Astrological profiles are presented for entertainment and psychological exploration purposes only. Not all Aries are killers. Most aren't.© 2025 Signs of Danger. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.#TrueCrime #TrueCrimeAstrology #Astrology #SignsOfDanger #ApexAries #Aries #SerialKiller #CriminalPsychology#Podcast #AriesKillers #JollyJane #DrDeath