Second Indictment Handed Down For Notorious Texas 'Killer Nurse' Genene Jones

SAN ANTONIO — A Bexar County grand jury on Wednesday returned a second indictment against Genene Jones—the infamous serial murderer nicknamed the "killer nurse"—after she was previously charged with murder in other infant and child deaths.

The Bexar County District Attorney's Office said Jones is now charged with the 1981 murder of 2-year-old Rosemary Vega, according to media reports. In May, the DA's office announced Jones was indicted in the 1981 murder of 11-month-old Joshua Sawyer.

The jury has recommended for a bail to be set at $1 million in the second indictment, according to media reports.

Jones' crimes sent a chill of fear throughout Texas after she was found to be behind a series of infant deaths that had baffled officials. Given her access to drugs as a former nurse, Jones was found to have injected children with a powerful muscle relaxant. She worked at Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio during the 1980s, and later at a private practice in Kerrville, Texas.

Jones was previously sentenced to 99 years in prison for the 1985 death of Chelsea McClennan, who was 15 months old at the time.

The latest indictments were heightened as Jones was set to be released in February 2018 for her previous convictions. Prosecutors quickly went to work on securing the new indictments following a huge outcry from the public about Jones' potential release.

But according to the DA's office, she may still be released next year if only briefly. In a statement, officials at the district attorney's office said that due to a law in effect at the time Jones was sentenced, she will be released from prison in March 2018. Yet prior to that mandatory release, she will be extradited back to Bexar County to await trial for the new charges. She is currently behind bars at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Lane Murray Unit in Gatesville, Texas.

"I believe Genene Jones is an evil woman," Bexar County DA Nico Lahood said in a previous press conference about the case. "I think her conscience is seared. I don't think she looks at the world the way we do.”

>>> Uppermoste photo of Jones from Texas Department of Criminal Justice via Associated Press