Female Serial Killers and Guns

This list is still incomplete.

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Gas gun

1938 – Mary Eleanor Smith – Pocatello, Idaho, USA

Grenade

1953 – Yoke Ying – Bentong area of Pahang, Malaysia

 

Machine-gun

1943 – Antonina Makarova – Lokot Autonomy (Russia)

1982 – Brigitte Mohnhaupt – Germany

Pistol (or presumably a pistol)

1883 – Mary Ganole – Flemingsburg, Kentucky, USA

1884 – Leonarda Martinez – Quetaro, Mexico

1884 – Angenette Haight – Dereuter, New York, USA

1887 – Amastaa Rubio de Pascadera – San Antonio, Zacatecas, Mexico
1896 – Fatima Ben Abdel Kader – Oran, Algeria
1899 – Bertha Lankford – Houston, Texas, USA

1900 – Molly Foxwater – Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA 
1905 – Anna Bergmann – Berlin, Germany

1905 – Frau (Ziesig) Manko – Lyck, West Prussia (Germany)

1908 – Grete Beier – Brand, Saxony, Germany

1911 – Jane Taylor Quinn – Chicago, Illinois, USA 
1912 – Mary T. Godau – Mobile, Alabama, USA

1914 – Minnie Wallace Walkup – Emporia, Kansas & Chicago, Illinois, USA

1915 – Frona McMahan – Sunburst, North Carolina, USA
1920 – Latvian Female Bolshevik Executioner – Soviet Russia

1924 – Euphemia Mondich – Detroit, Michigan, USA
1927 – Alma McClavey (Theede) – Memphis, Tennessee, USA

1938 – Lillie May Curtis – Center, Texas, USA

1938 – Maria Gomes de Oliveira, “Maria Bonita” – Pernambuco State, Brazil

1944 – Louise Peete – Pacific Palisades, California, USA

1954 – Winnie Ola Freeman (Winola Green) – Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

1958 – Putli Bai – Chati, India

1964 – Sharon Kinne – Independence, Missouri, USA
1966 – Margo Freshwater – Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, USA
1972 – Carolyn Elizabeth McCrary – Santa Barbara, California, USA

1974 – Carol Campbell – Santa Cruz, California, USA

1980 – Carol M. Bundy – Los Angeles, California, USA

1980 – Charlene Gallego – Sacramento, California, USA

1980 – Blanche Wright – New York, New York, USA

1982 – Bessie M. Pierson –Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1982 – Judith Neelley – Fort Payne, Alabama, USA

1983 – Suzan Carson – San Francisco, California, USA
1983 - Charmaine Phillips – Durham, South Africa

1985 – Mary Lou Beets – Henderson County, Texas, USA

1989 – Sara Maria Aldrete – Matamoros, Mexico

1990 – Diane Spencer – Wayland, Michigan, USA

1976 – Patricia Allanson – Zebulon, Georgia, USA – handgun, (& rifle?)

1991 – Aileen Carol Wuornos – Port Orange, Florida, USA
1992 – Celeste Carrington – East Palo Alto, California, USA
2001 – Josephine Gray – Rockville, Maryland, USA

2001 – Brookey Lee West – Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
2003 – Raynella Dossett Leath – Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
2004 – Michelle Knotek – South Bend, Washington, USA
2004 – Kusuma Nain – Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, India

2004 – Caroline Peoples – Chicago, Illinois, USA
2004 – Angel Wright-Ford – Chicago, Illinois, USA

2007 – Shauntay Henderson – Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2008 – Betty Neumar – Augusta, Georgia, USA

2010 – Cristina Soledad Sánchez Esquivel – Mexico

2011 – Verónica Mireya Moreno Carreon – San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico

2011 – Nancy Manriquez Quintanar – Ecatepec, Mexico

2012 – Maria Guadalupe Jimenez Lopez – Monterrey, Mexico

2016 – Marinda Steyn – Krugersdorp, West Rand, Gauteng, Province, South Africa 

2018 – Mariam Abiola – Ilasamaja, Lagos, Nigeria

 

Rifle, Musket

1865 – Maria Oliviero – Cattanzaro, Italy

1891 – Mila – Požarevac, Serbia

1989 – Faye Della Copeland – Mooresville, Missouri, USA

2000 – Seema Parihar – Uttar Pradesh, India

2014 – Claudia Ochoa Felix – Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico

2011 – Verónica Mireya Moreno Carreon – San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico

2012 – Maria Guadalupe Jimenez Lopez – Mexico

2013 – Inessa Tarverdiyeva – Stavropol region, Russia

2015 – Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda – Bellavista, Baja California Sur, Mexico

2015 – Joselyn Alejandra Nino (Niño) – Lauro Villar, Matamoros, Mexico

2015 – Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda – Bellavista, Baja California Sur, Mexico

2016 – “Maria” (Filipino Hitwoman) – Phillipines

2016 – Yuri Patricia Sanchez – Monteria, Cordoba province, Colombia

2020 – Maria Guadalupe Lopez Esquivel – Aguililla, State of Michoachan, Mexico

Shotgun

1949 – Inez Brennan – Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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Black Widows (2 victims: husband or “partner”)

Pistol
1875 – Minnie Taylor – Humboldt, Tennessee, USA
1881 – “Broncho Lou” (Mrs. Yankers) – Southern Colorado, USA

1888 – Martha Johnson – Stafford, Connecticut, USA
1899 – Bertha Lankford – Houston, Texas, USA

1903 – Minnie Cummings – St. Louis, Missouri, USA

1914 – Gertie Kidd-Williams – Oklahoma, USA

1915 – Frona McMahan (McMahan) – Sunburst, North Carolina, USA
1920 – Marie-Louise Victorine Bessarabo – Paris, France
1926 – Georgia Brown – Girard, Kansas, USA

1926 – Ora Lee Thacker – Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA

1938 – Florence “Flossie” Hartman – Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, USA

1952 – Margie Zeglen – Texas, USA
1980 – Blanche Wright – New York, New York, USA

1988 – Hazel Allison – Clover, North Carolina, USA

1988 – Sandra Bridewell – Texas & Oklahoma, USA
1988 – Barbara Stager – Durham, North Carolina, USA

1992 – Frances Beasley Truesdale – South Carolina, USA

1993 – Jill Coit – Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA

1986 – Terri Gilbert – Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

1996 – Della Dante Sutorius – Hamilton County, Ohio, USA

2001 – Dena Thompson – Yapton, West Sussex, England

2003 – Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong – Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

2008 – Betty Neumar – Augusta, Georgia, USA

2009 – Miriam Helmick – Whitewater, Florida, USA

2009 – Sonia Rios Risken – Lomita, California, USA
2011 – Angelina O'Mara – Sauk Rapids, Minnesota; Ashland, Wisconsin, USA

2012 – Catherine Symanowski – Red Level, USA
2014 – Rebecca Barker – Liberty Cty, Cherokee Cty., Texas, USA

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SEE: Female Serial Killer Collections: MASTER LIST

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