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Jane Toppan

1854 - 1938

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Jane Toppan (born Honora Kelley; March 31, 1854 – August 17, 1938), nicknamed Jolly Jane, was an American serial killer who murdered 12 people in Massachusetts between 1895 and 1901, although she confessed to killing 31 and is suspected of killing more than 100. The killings were carried out in Toppan's capacity as a nurse, targeting patients and their family members. Toppan, who admitted to have committed the murders to satisfy a sexual fetish, was quoted as saying that her ambition was "to have killed more people—helpless people—than any other man or woman who ever lived". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jane Toppan is the 203rd most popular extremist (down from 179th in 2019), the 5,776th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,159th in 2019) and the 70th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Jane Toppan ranks 203 out of 283. Before her are Amelia Dyer, Robledo Puch, John Wesley Hardin, Émile Henry, Irmgard Möller, and Charles Starkweather. After her are Ramadan Shalah, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Robert Ford, Stanley Williams, Ibn al-Khattab, and Stand Watie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Jane Toppan ranks 84. Before her are Giovanni Battista Grassi, Franz Rohr von Denta, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Alexandru Marghiloman, Nikolai Ruzsky, and Marcel Brillouin. After her are José Canalejas, Johan Turi, L. A. Ring, Robert Borden, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, and Charles Angrand. Among people deceased in 1938, Jane Toppan ranks 151. Before her are Víctor Morales, Saken Seifullin, Erik Werenskiold, Lev Schnirelmann, Akmal Ikramov, and Osip Piatnitsky. After her are Ahn Changho, Édouard-Alfred Martel, Axel Ljung, Teodor Axentowicz, Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, and Georg Schrimpf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jane Toppan ranks 5,776 out of 20,380. Before her are Leon Fleisher (1928), Eugene Odum (1913), James Burton (1939), Charles Yerkes (1837), Robert Lockwood Jr. (1915), and Robert Towne (1934). After her are George Ritzer (1940), Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), George Marshall (1891), Frances Marion (1888), and Vincent Gallo (1961).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Jane Toppan ranks 70. Before her are Bugs Moran (1893), Carl Panzram (1892), Patty Hearst (1954), Mary Surratt (1823), John Wesley Hardin (1853), and Charles Starkweather (1938). After her are Robert Ford (1862), Stanley Williams (1953), Stand Watie (1806), Richard Speck (1941), Robert Berdella (1949), and William Bonin (1947).

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