Power Seeker Killers

            Power seeker serial killers have the ability to manipulate the behavior of other people to make it more in accordance to their own. They feel they have ultimate power over their victims.

            In Texas at the time of 1950, a pediatric nurse would claim the lives of at least 50 people, 16 of which were infants. Her name was Genene Jones. Her method of killing her victims was done by lethal injections. Her victims were mostly young children who were admitted to the hospital. Jones felt she was very important due to the fact that she was a primary medical caretaker for the hospital. Like her, most offenders who are power seekers gain some sort of psychological satisfaction as they feel they are being praised by the patients and their families. Genene Jones received 99 years for these crimes.

            In Georgia in 1955, a woman by the name of Martha Ann Johnson killed her own 4 children. By the time Johnson was 22 years old she had already been married 3 times. She had 4 children in this time and she killed everyone one of them one at a time. She confessed to killing 3 of the children. She would suffocate her children as they slept by rolling over on them. The motive that she gives was that every time her and her husband would get into an argument, she would kill a child. She was later executed for these crimes.

            Born in 1963, Christine Falling pled guilty to 3 murders by the year 1982. Most thought she was mentally challenged and she had a history of animal abuse. She was also on medication to treat her epilepsy. Her mother however, believes that her mental problems came from a blow to the head by a club when she was an adolescent. Falling was married the first time when she was 14. This was a short lived marriage. She eventually became a babysitter and then confessed to killing 3 children in her care. Falling was convicted and sent to prison where she is serving 3 life sentences.

Serial Murder, Ronald M. Holmes, Steven T. Holmes, http://books.google.com