The Angel of Death aka Vickie Dawn Jackson

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Today we are here to discuss the case of Vickie Jackson. Vickie Jackson was a nurse in her hometown hospital in Nocona. She dreamed of being a nurse as a kid and she aspired to be Florence Nightingale. She had been practicing as a nurse’s aide since junior year of high school and she had taken care of many patients, ensuring their comfortability and health. She was a tidy person who had a tradition of going to the local Dairy Queen before her shift began. She was a nice and respectable woman who lit up a room and she spent most of her free time with her nose in a textbook. Vickie was described as one that was mild-mannered, one who never uttered a bad word on another person’s name. However, soon Vickie Jackson would earn the nickname Angel of Death, and the irony was intentional. From the ages of 33-35 Vickie was killing patients at the hospital left and right, quiet as a mouse and as slick as a snake with every move she made.

December 11, 2000 Vickie picked up a syringe full of mivacurium chloride, which is a short-acting skeletal muscle relaxant that is used to induce anesthesia during intubation, surgery or mechanical ventilation. This drug was highly tied with Physcian Assisted suicide as of the guidelines for Physcian Assisted suicide published by the FDA in 2012. She continued this practice until February 18th, 2001. Vickie Jackson took a total of 10 patients at Nocona General, she also killed another 10 and attempted 5 more.

Vickie Jackson did not have a classification for murder. She wasn’t looking to use the drug for the physcian assisted suicide, she was using on people who weren’t teriminally ill, not ones that suffered from pain. Vickie wasn’t trying to bring the patient close to death and save them, making herself appear a hero for attention, Vickie merely wanted people dead. They were people she knew, people close to her. She had treated some of the patients, parents of friends she knew, a woman around her age, a teenage girl that went to school with her children, even her estranged husband’s grandfather. But not to confuse, Vickie did attend the funeral and even brought along a plate of food for the reception. She emphasized with the family and offered any service she could be to the family.

Her first victim was Donna Alice Jennings better known as Donnie, she was 100 years old and died at the hands of Nurse Vickie on December 11th, 2000.

Next came Sanford Ray Mitchell on December 20th, then Boyd Brue Burnett on the 24th. On December 29th, Nurse Vickie administered a fatal overdose to James Welsey Gore.

Nurse Vickie would walk up smiling and an overall joy and stand bedside to 65 year old Jimmy Ray Holder, or better known as Jim, and took his life on January 7th, 2001, but not before she summoned other nurses and stood by to watch him wither away. This also was the day that Dorothy Jean Vanderburg died.

Already in the hospital suffering from pneumonia, 80 year old J.T. Nichols received a fatal dose of mivacron from Vickie Jackson on January 11th, 2001.

The list goes on with 95 year old Oma Ovella Glenn Wyler, who had been enduring her stay at Nocona General Hospital due to congestive heart failure and had been given treatment and was ready to return to her home. January 24th, Nurse Vickie had administered a lethal dose of mivacron and had succeeded at her second attempt to kill Wyler.

At age 82, Orvel Lee Moore Jr. had called Vickie “a fat ass” and had later been administered a lethal dose of mivacron and died on January 30th.

When Everett E. Jackson better known around town as “Preacher” had gone into the hospital for treatment of cellulitis and fevers, it was his estranged ex-daughter-in-law, he received a lethal dose of mivacron on February 4th, 2001, her estranged husband Kirk Jackson also worked alongside his ex-wife Vickie at Nocona General hospital.

On January 30th hospital officials know that on the overnight shift, one mivacron vial was taken from the crash carts and it triggered an internal investigation

In the beginning months of 2001, families of the victims had begun filing lawsuits against the hospital claiming negligence, by allowing Jackson to continue her work without as little as an investigation done on her work. By 2002 her job had fired her and soon 10 bodies were exhumed and further tested due to the investigation of their deaths. On July 16th Vickie Jackson was arrested at her new job, at a grocery store making sandwiches, after the 2 indictments from the Grand Jury. During trial in 2005, it was originally set for, and was declared a mistrial due to Prosecutor Ralph Guerrero stating that “Nobody not even Jackson herself may ever be able to produce a motive”. And on October 3rd, 2006 Vickie Jackson pleaded no contest.

No Contest: The accused person accepts the conviction but remains innocent meaning they avoid a factual admission of guilt.

However, on October 5th Vickie received a life sentence with parole eligibility at 40 years. This sentence was accrued of all 10 patients' deaths and unfortunately due to privacy laws, there is much speculation about who those 10 people are necessarily. Today, Vickie is serving out her life sentence in Montague County Jail (as of 2002, there is no updated information with where she is being held in 2021).

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