Mary Gibbs, the Fourth and Final Member of the Davis Family to Die of Seemingly Natural Causes in Six Weeks

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Mary gibbs was 30, and the stated cause of her death was exhaustion. Her father had been checking in on his daughter in law when she died. He says he thinks there's something really wrong with the way mary died. The doctor actually started looking into it. And they found a record that she had actually purchased morphine from a falm pharmacy.

Jane Toppan was born in Massachusetts in 1857. She attended the Cambridge Nursing School, and established a successful private nursing career in Boston. Said to be cheerful, funny and excellent with her patients, nothing about "Jolly Jane" suggested she could be "the most notorious woman poisoner of modern times” responsible for the death of at least 35 people. She would later be committed to the Taunton Insane Asylum.

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