June 15, 1950 - Genene Jones

Genene Ann Jones (born July 13, 1950) is an American licensed vocational nurse and confessed serial killer, currently serving a sentence of life in prison for the murder of an 11-month-old baby boy in 1981. She was previously convicted in 1984 for the murder of a 15-month-old baby girl and sentenced to 99 years in prison.

In 2017, prosecutors in Bexar County, Texas, found out that Jones was on path to be released in March 2018 due to an old state law aimed at relieving prison overcrowding. In response, district attorney Nico LaHood created a task force to investigate cold cases and prevent Jones from leaving prison. She was ultimately charged in May 2017 with the murder of five babies who died at the Bexar County Hospital in the early 1980s. Jones initially pleaded not guilty, but accepted a plea deal in January 2020 and pleaded guilty to one of those counts (the murder of Joshua Sawyer) in exchange for the remaining charges to be dismissed and avoid a trial by jury, as well as recovering personal belongings taken from her prison cell as evidentiary proof.

Jones was sentenced in the Sawyer murder case on January 16, 2020, to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 20 years.

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