A handy list of female mass murderers

Some people claim mass murder has to do with maleness. While mass murderers are disproportionately male and male aggression shouldn’t be ignored if you hope to understand and end mass murder, maleness doesn’t explain any of the following:

1. Vehicular Homicide

Olga Hepnarová, a Czech woman, deliberately hit a crowd of people with a truck, killing eight of the twenty that she struck.

Priscilla Joyce Ford, an African American woman, drove down a Reno sidewalk, killing six and injuring 23 more.

2. Guns

Brenda Ann Spencer, a 16-year-old, killed two adults and wounded a police officer and eight children at the Cleveland Elementary School.

Jennifer San Marco killed her neighbor, then drove to the Goleta postal plant where she had worked and killed six more people before killing herself.

Aileen Carol Wuornos, perhaps America’s most famous female serial killer, killed at least seven men in two years.

Sylvia Seegrist took a rifle to a shopping mall, where she killed three people and wounded seven.

Amy Bishop killed three people and wounded three more at a meeting of the biology department where she worked.

After accusing Youtube of restricting her videos, Nasim Najafi Aghdam shot three people at Youtube’s headquarters, then killed herself.

3. Arson