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“WOMEN ARE NOT VIOLENT.” - The biggest myth of all time. (And this myth was invented in the late-20th century).
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The following quote by expert Jack Levin, director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University in Boston and author of the book “Extreme Killing.” Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder [Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition, 2005] on the subject of family annihilation is frequently repeated in the popular press:
“The pattern [of family annihilation cases] is so strong. It’s almost always a husband-father who methodically executes the members of his family. He plans the attack far in advance. He’s suffered a prolonged period of frustration and depression. He experiences what he sees as the catastrophic loss of his children. He blames everybody but himself for his problems.”
It is not clear what “almost always” is meant to signify. But the effect of this phasing is to lull the hearer or reader into forgetting about VbW (Violence by Women).
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►• ►• Don't miss the collection of remarkable (and forgotten -- until now) IMAGES at the bottom of this post.
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The “pattern” Dr. Levin describes does not however comport with findings in newspaper reports where such familicides are far from “almost always” deeds done by men. In fact family annihilation by women appears so often in sources that are consulted for the purpose of researching a different type of crime – serial murder – that collecting them all has been an impossible task. An effort will be made here to begin to examine historical cases of female perpetrated family annihilation.
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With regard to the family annihilator with a worry over child custody who “experiences what he sees as the catastrophic loss of [the perpetrator’s] children” we can offer up many, many compelling cases showing that the “gendered” criminological approach. When expressed with such language that deflects from female perpetrators as “almost always” in reference to the male sex as what is commonly thought of as “the violent sex,” the generalizations tend to cause the reader to imagine incorrectly that female aggression is uncommon and unthreatening.
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Here is a typical statement of criminological “fact” which is not a fact but rather a bold-faced lie that comes from ideological academics who subscribe to the fallacy of fundamentalist social constructionism:
“A woman usually kills her husband only in self defence but almost never takes the lives of her children as part of the attack, a leading criminologist said today. [Paul Carter, Police Reporter, “Murder-suicide defies usual criminal pattern,” AAP (Australian Associated Press), Mar. 21, 2005, p. 1]
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This post which will be continually added to is meant to assist those who wish to do research and to understand just how off-base public perception of VbW (Violence by Women) has become due to decades of incessant ideological “gender” propaganda:
CHECKLIST: Family Annihilation cases involving 2 or more family members murdered on the same day:
(Cases involving a child custody dispute are not included. They are to be found at Maternal Filicide: Spousal Revenge)
1816 – Susannah Holroyd – England – 3 children
1829 – Mlle. Treuque – Auch Assizes, France – 4 deaths (father, mother, 2 brothers); 2 survived – 8 months of poisoning; 4 buried same day
1841 – Mrs. Roper – Louisville, Mississippi – 3 children (decapitated)
1854 – Mary Ann Brough – Esher, England – killed six of her seven children
1856 – Mrs. Lott Ward – Sullivan, Illinois – 4 children, 1 escaped, attempt suicide
1858 – Christiana Schilling – Grove City, Ohio – 4 children, suicide
1870 – Catharine Marsh – Baltimore, Rhode Island – 4 children, mother (decapitation)
1872 – Mrs. Henry Southworth – Rockport Township, Ohio – 3 children, suicide
1874 – Mrs. Michel Devine – Brooklyn, New York – 3 children, husband
1878 – Mary Dean – Hillsboro, Missouri – 2 children (“pathetic plea”)
1880 – Annie Casey – Toronto, Canada – 2 children
1880 – Margaret O’Connor – Jersey City, New Jersey – 3 children
1882 – Mrs. Dr. Edward Seguin – New York, New York – 3 children, suicide
1884 – Amelia Barnett – Easton, Pennsylvania – 2 children
1886 – Fannie Smith – New Jersey – 3 children dead; 1 survived (with nearly severed wrist, lost 3 fingers); suicide
1888 – Baracoa Mother – Baracoa, Cuba – 4 children (decapitate)
1891 – Mrs. Frank Hancock – Blue Run, Pa. – husband, children
1891 – Ludwig Anderson – Brockton, Mass. – 3 children, jealous
1891 – Jesse Higbee – Muldraugh, Kentucky – 3 children
1893 – “Obecse Stepmother” – Obecse, Hungary – 4 step-children
1895 – Mary Carruthers – Paris, Texas – 2 children (to elope with paramour)
1895 – Mrs. H. H. B. Williams – Grove City, Ohio – 2 children
1896 – Mrs. Charles W. Green – Kansas City, Missouri – 3 children, suicide
1897 – Karoline Rivinius – New York, New York – 4 children, suicide
1898 – Mrs. Joseph Clotier – St. Severin, Canada – 4 children (mutilated corpses)
1905 – Naomi Aldrich – Grayling, Mich. – 2 children, (plan to elope, insurance)
1905 – Mary Brockwell – Paducah, New York – 3 children
1905 – Olga Anthony – Grove City, Ohio – 3 (1 + 2) recidivist
1906 – Mrs. Frank Palsgrove – Biggot, Arkansas – husband, 3 children
1908 – Mrs. Daniel Cooper – Cadillac, Michigan – husband, 6 children, suicide
1908 – Mrs. John Rosen – Montpelier, Idaho – 4 children, suicide
1909 – Mrs. John Lensch – Cedar Rapids, Iowa – 2 children dead, 3 injured, suicide
1912 – Mrs. John Kulp – Allentown, Pennsylvania – 4 poisoned, survived (H, M-in-l, f-inl, sister)
1912 – Sarah Syphers – New York, New York – 3 children
1913 – (Henry) Sternweis – Dubuque, Iowa – husband, children; murdered husband & 3 children, 11 shots with revolver, arson, then suicide
1913 – Mrs. Jerome Harris – Toledo, Ohio – 1 dead (drowned); 3 rescuded from arson fire
1917 – Mrs. Everett Crozier – Greeley, Coloado – 5 children, suicide
1920 – Laura Balada – Morris Park, Long Island, New York – 3 children, suicide
1920 – Laura L. Brown – Madera, California – 2 children, suicide attempt
1922 – Johanna Healy Bacher – Greenwich, Connecticut – 3 children, suicide
1924 – Mrs. Anton Antal – Perth Amboy, New Jersey – 2 children, suicide
1924 – Emma Hobaugh – Logansport, Indiana – 4 (f, m, br, child) (3)
1924 – Rosemary Sparkman – Salt Lake City, Utah – 2 sons, suicide
1926 – Ada B. Chamberlain – Los Angeles, California – 3 children, suicide
1928 – Masuya Hirano – Los Angeles, California – husband, 2 children, shot
1929 – Helen Smith – Blenheim, Ontario, Canada – arson, paris green, children.
1931 – Ruth Bearce – Glens Falls, New York – 3 children
1932 – Mildred Briggs – Niagara Falls, New York – 2 children, suicide
1933 – Inez Carrell – Charleston, Illinois – 3 children
1933 – Mrs. Arthur Dickrell – Town of Russell, Michigan – husband died, sevant survived, 4 (?) children survived, attempted suicide
1934 – Kathryn D. Schoch, Dunkirk, New York – 6 dead (suicide) Sister, brother, 4 nephews (11, 6, 9, age?) sister-in-law
1936 – Minnie Rose Jenkins – Little Rock, Arkansas – 3 children
1936 – Annie E. Jones – Madison, Maine – 3 children, suicide
1937 – Jeanette Martin – Aurora, Illinois – 3 children, suicide
1938 – Margaret Thomsen – Riverhead, New York – 2 children
1940 – Mrs. Kenneth Edwards – Frsno, California – 3 children
1943 – Christine Dickey – Dayton, Ohio – 3 children, suicide
1945 – Inez Campbell – Glasgow, Montana – 4 children dead, 1 survived, suicide
1948 – Margaret Louise Morgroft – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 4 children, suicide
1949 – Georgette Brucks – Los Angeles, California – 2 children IMAGE
1952 – Louise Coonan – Fort Knox, Kentucky – 4 children, attempt suicide
1952 – Mary Edna Glenn – Oakland, California – 2 children
1952 – Ruth Edwards – Chicago, Illinois – 3 children
1955 – Ann Williams – Galveston, Texas – 2 children, dismembered
1956 – Opal Collins – Crown Point, Indiana – paralyzed husband, mother-in-law, 2 sisters-in-law
1956 – Lorene Culbeck – Lake Wales, Florida – 3 children, shot
1959 – Ruth Urdanivia – Allentown, Pennsylvania – 5 children, attempt suicide
1960 – Marianne Breidenbach – Canoga Park, California – husband, 2 children (1 shot 3 times, survived), suicide
1963 – Elizabeth Gregor – Butler, Pennsylvania – husband, 5 children, suicide
1964 – Judith E. Cox – Falls Church, Virginia – three children dead, 1 child survived; suicide
1969 – Glenda E. Cooper – Schoharie, New York – 3 children (axe)
1971 – Elinore Basore – Fayetteville, Arkansas – 4 murdered, 3 wounded (midddle-aged and elderly relatives)
1976 – Patricia Bolin – Upper Arlington, Ohio – Husband, 2 children, suicide
1983 – Barbara Carroll – Mastic Beach, New York – 2 children, suicide
1987 – Frances Newton – Huntsville (prison) Texas – husband, 2 children, (insurance)
1992 – Robin Lee Row – Boise, Idaho – husband, 2 children (insurance)
1993 – Donna Brown – Florida – 2 children (custody case)
2002 – Dee Etta Perez – Hudson Oaks – husband, 3 children, suicide
2007 – Manling Tsang Williams – Rowland Heights, California – husband; 2 children (sword)
2011 – Sara McMeen – Emington, Illinois – “boyfriend,” 3 children, suicide
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“Even in the present, the female criminal, especially the female mass murderer, continues to receive little theoretical attention in academia.” (Katie Fleming, 2012)
A recent (2012) master’s thesis takes on the problem of academic failure to study female criminality and the specific type of crime called “family annihilation,” in particular.
Katie Fleming, “The Female Family Annihilator, Restructuring Traditional Typologies: An Exploratory Study,” A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in The Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Criminology University of Ontario Institute of Technology June 2012.
https://ir.library.dc-uoit.ca/bitstream/10155/263/1/Fleming_Katie.pdf
Case histories from 1970-2010 are given for the following murderesses, each who “killed, or attempted to kill, four or more family members.”
Almarez, Stella Delores (Date of murders: June 18, 1980)
Bolin, Patricia (Date of murders: December 8, 1976)
Brar, Harjit Kaur (Date of murders: May 1, 1979)
Eubanks, Susan (Date of murders: October 26, 1997)
Her, Khoua (Date of murders: September 3, 1998)
Wright, Jeanne Anne (Date of murders: November 10, 1983)
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