What is the Psychology of the Murderess?

There has been yet another devastating school shooting in America; this time at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. They seem to occur with such numbing regularity that in 2018 South Park captured the response with cutting accuracy in the episode “Dead Kids.” Shootings keep taking place at South Park Elementary, nobody cares any more, and when one mother does, it is assumed she has Pre-Menstrual Tension. However, there is a key difference when it comes to the Madison shooting, in which three people, including the shooter, were killed. The perpetrator was a natal female: 15 year-old Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow.

School shooters are overwhelmingly male, as are murderers and suicides. In the US, according to Bureau of Justice, the male-female murderer rate is 9:1, the suicide rate is 3:1 and the mass murderer rate is 20:1. For a female to behave like this is astonishingly unlikely. This begs a crucial question: What makes a murderess? How is a female murderer psychologically different from a male murderer, in particular when it involves killing in an extremely violent fashion?

According to the available research, such as the review “Risk of Homicide and Major Mental Disorders,” male murderers tend to have Psychopathic Personality Disorder. This is characterised, among other traits, by lack of empathy, a Narcissistic sense of entitlement and grandeur, and a high level of aggressiveness and impulsivity. Such killers will feel an overwhelmingly sense of rage against a society or an individual, which they believe has been impertinent enough to fail to recognize their importance. These feelings overwhelm them to such an extent — the negative feelings will be so potent — that they will kill. Further, their self-importance will be such that they’d rather kill themselves than allow others to have power of them. These traits will stay in populations because when they come together with other traits — such as optimal intelligence, social skill or even with forms of depression — they can result in extremely high social status; demonstrated by Felix Post in his British Journal of Psychiatry study “Creativity and Psychopathology.” David Buss explains in The Evolution of Desire that females are evolved to find status highly sexually attractive. This is because if a male has the genes which permit him to survive and flourish then so will the offspring and, also, because such men will have resources which they can invest in the mother and child, aiding survival.

The murderess is psychologically very different, as noted in the Walden University PhD thesis “Examining Psychosocial Characteristics of Female Serial Murderers.” They display evidence of Borderline Personality Disorder, its close relative Post-Traumatic Stress, and what is known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Fascinatingly, Natalie Rupnow appears to make sense, in terms of these conditions, to an extraordinary degree.

As I have explained in my book Woke Eugenics, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterised by highly unstable and extreme moods, poor emotional regulation, a fundamental fear of abandonment and of being alone, pronounced feelings of shame, intense and unstable relationships (including sexual risk-taking, perhaps due to a feeling that “love” may not come again) and unstable goals and even sense of identity, due to being plagued by intense negative feelings (such as shame, anxiety, self-loathing and self-doubt), and a weak sense of self. They may swing from overtly loving to psychopathic; from grandiose to victim; from histrionic to schizoid and avoidant.

In that sufferers from BPD cannot regulate their emotions, they cannot regulate their self-esteem; so they may swing between grandiose Narcissism (believing one is perfect, superior and being entitled) and self-loathing in an attempt to suppress their fears and feelings of abject worthlessness. For the same reason, their identity and goals can radically change in accordance with these swings in self-esteem and in mood.

Due to their fear of abandonment, such people will tend to idealise those with whom they have relationships. This is a way of suppressing their anxiety about potential problems in the relationship that may cause it to end. It evidences their relatively immature way of seeing the world and their desire for someone to fill the void of emptiness and meaninglessness which they often feel. In other words, they cannot cope with their extreme negative feelings, so they create a fantasy world which produces positive feelings; this perfect person being their rescuer. However, due to their instability, they can easily de-idealise them, regard them as evil and in consequence become psychopathic and degenerate into paranoid psychosis, similar to paranoid schizophrenia, in which everyone wants to destroy you. Hence, paranoid schizophrenia crosses over with BPD.

In females in particular, BPD correlates with autism (poor social skills, anxiety, imbibing too much information, a need for order), possibly because autistics are more likely to be abused. BPD symptoms also manifest as a result of Post-Traumatic Stress and though BPD is about 50% genetic, the key environmental component appears to be abuse: an unstable childhood in which parents are unpredictable, love is capricious, and the world is impossibly frightening.

Now, in her manifesto, War Against Humanity, what do we discover about Rupnow? She describes her parents as “scum” who “didn’t love her” and made her feel she was the “wrong child.” They have both been divorced multiple times, something which implies high psychopathic traits and high levels of mental instability, both of which cross-over with BPD and both of which have a significant genetic component. They are also substance abusers, further implying anti-social traits. In other words, they have created precisely the kind of unstable childhood which would cause BPD.

Her manifesto also reveals evidence of autistic traits, most obviously that she is obsessed with school serial killers, has researched everything about them, has concluded that they are morally good, and identifies with them, even noting that her birthday is the same as the date of one of their killing sprees. Those with BPD are plagued by self-doubt due to a world where they haven’t found the stability to see who they are in relation to others. They search for a sense of identity and then create a very pronounced (though unstable) one when they seem to find it. This is what Rupnow has done.

There is also a degree to which she sees herself as a victim; a component of “Vulnerable Narcissism,” in which you are the world’s most misunderstood victim but you are brilliant and you look for a man upon whom you can be a parasite. Munchausen Syndrome relates to this: you pretend to be ill so that others will look after you and give you attention. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy involves projecting the “illness” onto your child; something which also provides you with care and attention. Female murderers can kill via this motivation, persuading themselves that it’s morally good that the person must die. Rupnow argues, in essence, most people are vermin so it is “better for evolution” that she kill some of them.

Rupnow, then, clearly conforms to the available studies on female murderers. We should be no more shocked that Rupnow has committed murder than we should be that there has been yet another school shooting in the US. The question now is: How can we identify females like this and keep them away from society? One marker is that 80% of females with BPD have self-harmed, and will have scars from cutting or burning accordingly.