Birth
Information:
date:
1954
location: Massachusetts
birth
name: Nora Kelly
Active
Period: 1880-1901 (ages 26-47)
Victim
Information: Confessed to 31 murders. It is believed that
she murdered between 70 and 100 individuals
Method: Lethal Injections of morphine
Motive: A classic Angel of Death who was insane.
Toppan explained her motive this way: "That is my ambition, to have
killed more people- more helpless people- than any man or woman who has
ever lived"
Disposition: Toppan confessed to 31 murders in 1901.
She was declared insane and institutionalized until her death in
1938