Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers by Carol Anne Davis Page B

self-assured during an emergency that theparamedics assisting her believed she was a Registered Nurse rather than the basic Licenced Nurse she actually was. Genene now had even fewer witnesses around her than she’d had on The Death Shift - and soon Kathleen’s healthy young child patients began to collapse .
    An eight-month-old girl, Chelsea, was brought in with a cold and Genene took her away to the play area whilst Kathleen talked with the mother. Moments later Genene reported that the child had stopped breathing and put an oxygen mask over the baby’s face. She was rushed to hospital and soon recovered. Though baffled as to what had made their child collapse, the parents assumed that the fast-acting Genene had saved her. Nine months later they’d bring her back to the clinic - and this time she’d die at Genene’s hands.
    Meanwhile a severely disabled seven-year-old boy, Jimmy, was brought in suffering from seizures. Kathleen decided to send him to hospital in the air ambulance and instructed Genene to accompany the experienced paramedics in the helicopter. Genene immediately packed her medical bag.
    She gave the impression that she was a trained and flight-practiced medic so the paramedics merely reminded her that it’s impossible to listen to a patients heart or lungs through a stethoscope whilst a helicopter is in flight - but once the flight started Genene insisted on trying to do just that. She was then seen to injectsomething into the child’s intravenous tube. She said it was to assist his breathing, but until now he had been stable. Within minutes he turned blue and went into cardiac arrest.
    Genene then began to hyperventilate or to have an orgasm - she sweated, gasped and looked strangely high. The enraged army medics kept her to one side whilst they stabilised their child patient. Later she would lie to colleagues, saying that the paramedics didn’t have a clue what they were doing and that she’d had to save the day. By now she’d also changed her story about what she’d injected and said it was Valium. She described the experience as one of the most exciting days of her life.
    Strange things continued to happen at the clinic when Genene was around. A twenty-one-month-old girl was brought in with suspected meningitis and Genene set up the IV. Thirty seconds later the child went limp. Her mother would later report that the baby’s eyes looked terrified, as if aware of what was going on. The mother pleaded with the LVN to do something but Genene said the child was just having a temper tantrum and holding her breath. Her boss, Kathleen Holland, revived the little girl and sent her to the largest local hospital. The baby survived.
    Then Chelsea, who Genene had ‘revived’ before, was brought back in by her mother to have her inoculations. By now Chelsea was fifteen months old. Geneneinjected the child whilst she lay happily in her mothers arms. Chelsea soon started to whimper and her eyes became strange. Her mother asked Genene to do something but Genene said that Chelsea was just breath-holding and gave the baby a second shot. By now Chelsea was having difficulty breathing. Kathleen and a wide-eyed Genene did what they could then rushed the child to the emergency room, where she quickly died. She was the eighth baby to die in this way within a few months.
    At this stage the local hospital started to investigate the new clinic, wondering why so many infants were dying after being treated there. Kathleen spoke with them then made sure that her drug consignment was in order. To her horror she found a bottle of the muscle relaxant succinylcholine - which could cause respiratory failure - was missing. She asked Genene about it and Genene admitted it had disappeared.
    Later she said that the drug had turned up and was in the fridge. Kathleen investigated and found one full vial - and one with holes in the cap which had clearly been tampered with. Tests showed that most of the succinylcholine had gone,