1,179,231 views 21 Feb 2022 Jennifer San Marco killed six people when she took revenge on her former postal service colleagues, but why? When a killing spree occurs, the inevitable reaction is one of shock and disbelief at the unexpected and unimaginably violent chain of events. This compelling new series features such murders in forensic detail, drawing upon the testimony of those involved and those who knew the perpetrator to tell the story behind each chain of rapidly executed killings. In this episode, we explore the events leading up to former US Postal Service worker Jennifer San Marco’s vengeful 2006 attack on former colleagues and an old neighbour, before taking her own life in Goleta, California.
EX POSTAL WORKER SHOOTS HER FELLOW WORKERS, KILLING 6 PEOPLE
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics: Revenge – Former US Postal Service employee – Shooting spree
Number of victims: 7
Date of murders: January 30, 2006
Date of birth: December 6, 1961
Victims profile: Beverly Graham, 54 (her one-time neighbor) / Ze Fairchild, 37 / Maleka Higgins, 28 / Nicola Grant, 42 / Guadalupe Swartz, 52 / Dexter Shannon, 57 / Charlotte Colton, 44
Method of murder: Shooting
Location: Goleta, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
Status: Committed suicide by shooting herself the same day
San Marco’s background
San Marco had previously worked as a dispatcher for the Santa Barbara Police Department in the mid-1990s, a job for which she underwent a background check and psychological evaluation. She left the job after several months, not unusual for the high-stress occupation.
San Marco eventually went to work for the postal service as a clerk, but left on psychological disability following a 2003 incident in which she had to be removed from her workplace by police. San Marco subsequently moved to a small town in New Mexico sometime in 2004. According to colleagues, she had a history of making racially charged statements, and once attempted to start a publication entitled The Racist Press.
The spree shooting
On January 30, 2006, San Marco shot and killed her one-time neighbor, Beverly Graham, and then subsequently drove to the mail processing plant at which she previously worked in Goleta, California. San Marco entered the sprawling plant by driving through a gate behind another car. She gained entry to the building by taking an employee’s identification badge at gunpoint. She then shot and killed six employees of the plant with a pistol before taking her own life.
San Marco apparently believed that she was the target of a conspiracy centered at the Goleta postal facility, according to writings recovered from her house in New Mexico. A spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department speculated that San Marco’s paranoia and history of mental illness may have motivated her to commit the murders.
Postal killer believed she was target of a plot
