Vickie Dawn Jackson

Vickie Dawn Carson Jackson (née Carson; born February 13, 1966) is an American serial killer who killed at least 10 patients at the Nocona General Hospital in Nocona, Texas, between 2000 and 2001, using the muscle paralytic drug mivacurium. Despite protesting her innocence, she was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Background Born Vickie Dawn Carson on February 13, 1966, in Montague County, Texas, little is publicly known about Jackson's early life. A licensed vocational nurse since 1989, who worked at several other hospitals and a nursing home around North Texas, she eventually found employment at the Nocona General Hospital sometime during late 2000.

Mysterious deaths and investigation Between December 2000 and February 2001, Nocona General Hospital recorded an unusually large surge in patient deaths, all of whom were between the ages of 62 and 100 and had previously been in healthy condition. While this was initially attributed to the patients' advanced age and weaker immune system, rumors spread around the facility that perhaps somebody had purposefully began killing them. This eventually led the hospital's administrator, Charles E. Norris to contact a pharmacist about a discrepancy he had taken note of: during this period, vials of Mivacron had been going missing, which was initially ascribed to inventory mismanagement, as it was not considered a lethal substance. After consulting with the pharmacist, and tracing that all of the deaths occurred during one particular shift, Norris ordered that the cabinets with Mivacron be locked up and accessed only by the supervisors, and that the police should be immediately notified. While exhumations from cemeteries in North Texas and Oklahoma were underway,

Arrest, trial and imprisonment After being fired from the hospital, Jackson found herself a new job at a local grocery store, where she was arrested on July 16, 2002, on four capital murder charges. She was remanded to await trial on $2 million bond, while the authorities continued to exhume and examine bodies for any further potential victims. In January 2004, Jackson was charged with an additional six murders, and her bond raised from $2 million to $6 million. As a result, the venue for the upcoming trial was moved to San Angelo, and that new jury would be selected. Guerrero had told the jurors that investigators had located vials of Mivacron at Jackson's home, and suggested that her failing marriages and losing custody of her children might have been contributing factors for her decision to start killing her patients.

As of August 2021, she remains incarcerated at the Christina Melton Crain Unit in Gatesville, with her earliest possible parole date being in 2042.

Victims Number Name Sex Age Date of death 1 Donna Alice Jennings F 100 December 11, 2000 2 Sanford Ray Mitchell M 62 December 20, 2000 3 James Wesley Gore M 80 December 29, 2000 4 Jimmy Ray Holder M 65 January 7, 2001 5 Dorothy Jean Vandenburg F 78 January 7, 2001 6 J. T. Nichols M 80 January 11, 2001 7 John Walter Williams M 78 January 11, 2001 8 Omo Ovella Glenn Wyler F 95 January 24, 2001 9 Orvel Lee Moore Jr. M 82 January 30, 2001 10 Everett E. Jackson M 92 February 4, 2001