Can you think of any mass killings like VT that were done by a solitary woman? Or is it just the men?

Question

Wow! You guys are quite an intellegent group of people! This stuff is interesting.I did not know.

Answer 1

There have been mass murderers that were female. In 1980, a woman plowed through a groups of people with her car and was angry that she was stopped by someone that drove their car in front of her to stop her. Some of the Manson killings were thought to be done, at least in part, by women.

Ultimately, men are going to end up having more violent eruptions based on the testosterone that can lead to aggression. Women can have the same episodes, but not nearly with the same frequency.

Answer 2

Any person who feeds on anger and rage and who wants an outlet for it can become a killer. Men tend to use guns more but a woman could do the same .....or worse.

to name a few...

Jennifer San Marco - shot 7 people and then killed herself. Criminologists called San Marco's rampage the worst workplace shooting by a woman in United States history.

In Flash Point: The American Mass Murderer, a sociology text, author Michael Kelleher mentions a couple of female mass murderers and notes a lack of attention to them. The author, however, does not delve into a psychological analysis of these women.

Patricia Pearson hypothesizes in her book, When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away With Murder. Pearson points out that while people in general tend to view women as non-aggressive, in fact, "women commit the majority of child homicides in the United States, a greater share of physical child abuse, an equal rate of sibling violence and assaults on the elderly, about a quarter of child sexual abuse, an overwhelming share of the killing of newborns, and a fair preponderance of spousal assaults."
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/female_mass_murderer/4.html

Priscilla Joyce Ford - decided to plow into people on the sidewalk on North Virginia Street in Reno, Nev. The woman stared straight ahead as she accelerated, striking several people without stopping.
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/female_mass_murderer/5.html


http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/female_mass_murderer/1.html

Answer 3

of direction no longer. A technology in the past all of us became blaming violence on teevee. And, granted, there became a study completed the place one set of 5yo teenagers watched Tom and Jerry and the different set watched some thing like Sesame highway and those that had considered violence used humorously then theory it became humorous to hit one yet another. yet it is 5yo teenagers! by the point you attain the age of reason you could differentiate between fiction/myth and reality. If something, i could say that violent video games steer away from this sort of subject by offering a socially suited outlet.

Answer 4

To grab the gun and shoot-doubtfully, but as long as I see there are many women who used poison to commit mass murders
In Japan, Wakayama pref. there was a woman, called Masumi Hayashi. She put poison at the curry prepared of the local summer party, which led to the death of 4 and 67 were with different levels of poisoning. Some left handicapped for life.

Answer 5

Well, in Cho's case, he was picked on by bullies and psychologically or physically harassed. Mostly, bullies pick on boys, instead of girls. Now usually in these kinds of shootings, it was because someone had a bad past in that place, and they feel like no one got punished because of that. So, if they were bullied to that extent, they will go over the edge. Women, they are USUALLY not harassed to Cho's extent. Probably because men don't like to beat up the feminine kind, I guess. I WILL NOT, say women are smarter than men and they'll never do something like that.

Answer 6

In the 65 mass killings in the US over the many years, only 2 were perpetrated by women.

Answer 7

Michael D. Kelleher wrote a book called "Murder Most Rare.", in which he speaks of such "black widow" murderesses as:

Belle Gunness, who between 1896-1908, killed 49 people, including husbands, ranch workers and children.

Amy Gilligan, between 1901-1914, killed 9 elderly women.

Lydia Trueblood, between 1915-1919, killed 5 spouses, a brother-in-law and her own children.

Rhonda Belle Martin, between 1932-1956, killed her mother, two husbands and 5 of her children.

Janie Lou Gibbs, between 1965-1967, killed her husband and four children.

Kelleher's list goes on and on. I have only named a few. Most female serial killers seem to prefer poison. I guess they think it's not so messy.

Answer 8

I think it has just been men so far. But who knows, maybe tommorrow it will be a woman someplace. Seems to be the time of year for it now.

Answer 9

Yes! Not as brutal, but there was an elderly woman in Northern California who killed homeless men and cashed their Social Security checks long after she killed them and buried them in her backyard. I believe Cleopatra was quite a killer too.

Answer 10

Yeah that chick whose life was based on the movie "Monster". Patty Hearst killed some people didn't she? Its mostly men because of too much testosterone, lol.