10: Claudia Ochoa Felix Claudia Ochoa Felix, one of the nastiest female
assassins the world has ever seen, died from a drug overdose back in 2019.
She went under a few different names and was known by the media under a few different aliases.
She was called the Empress of Antrax and even the Kim Kardashian of organized crime.
And for good reason.
Claudia allegedly ran the assassin unit for El Chapo.
The attractive and voluptuous brunette worked as a model, and was romantically connected
to Jose Rodrigo Arechiga, better known as “El Chino Ántrax,” who headed the gang
before he was arrested, according to reports.
She was reported to have taken on the role of the Ántrax leader after Arechiga’s arrest.
This means she was thought to be the head of the notorious Mexican drug lord’s Sinaloa
Cartel’s unit for killing high-profile targets.
Yet despite being rumored as a skilled assassin, she was found lifeless in the home of her
lover in the city of Culiacan, dead from a drug overdose.
She had allegedly gone out with her lover the night before to a nightclub, took way
too much of whatever she was taking, and suffered a complete organ failure.
When he woke up the next day, she was dead in bed beside him.
And while we don't know exactly who Ochoa may have killed, we do know that she was supposedly
the head of Los Antrax.
This was an armed enforcement division of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Any killings she may have done were done in secret, and so it could have been as many
as zero or in the hundreds.
There's just no possible way to know how many people she may or may not have assassinated.
9: Kim Hyon Hui Kim Hyon Hui was the female assassin who participated
in blowing up a passenger jet at the behest of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, resulting
in the deaths of 115 people.
It happened on November 29, 1987.
Kim was one of just two agents behind the bombing of Korean Air flight 858.
It was on its way from Baghdad to the capital of Seoul.
The Boeing 707 was brought down just off the coast of Myanmar two weeks prior to the Summer
Olympics being held in South Korea.
All the passengers on board, every last crew member, most of whom were South Korean, were
killed in the crash.
And it was all under the order of Kim Jong-Il.
At the time, he was the son of the leader Kim Il-Sung.
Kim's story is one of shock and surprise.
She was selected at the young age of 18 to join the Secret Service in North Korea because
of her ability to speak many different languages.
She was given rigorous training and then handed her first assignment at the age of 25.
She and another agent, Kim Seung Il, traveled to Austria disguised as a Japanese couple
on their holiday.
There, they picked up a bomb disguised as a Panasonic radio and then transported it
to the Baghdad airport.
While going through security, airport officials said that Kim couldn't take the radio on board
because it looked dangerous.
But when she turned the radio on and music came out, airport officials figured it was
just an ordinary radio.
But it wasn't.
The bomb was planted in the overhead locker and then Kim got off the plane as it made
a stopover in Abu Dhabi.
The bomb then detonated shortly after the plane took off, killing everyone on board.
The two agents were caught in Bahrain trying to escape back to North Korea.
But in this case, the assassin was actually given a pardon.
In 1990, President Roh Tae-woo pardoned Kim because he felt that she was brainwashed into
participating in the crime by North Korea.
Nowadays, Kim is working for South Korea’s National Intelligence Service against her
homeland in the north.
8: Mistress Marcia Mistress Marcia was the female assassin responsible
for killing one of the worst emperors in Roman history.
I'm talking about Emperor Commodus, a man who rose to the head of state by having his
father poisoned.
You might actually remember the name from Ridley Scott's legendary film Gladiator.
In this rendition, Commodus was played by Joaquin Phoenix.
But in real life, Commodus was much worse than the character in the movie.
He became the Roman emperor in the year 180, following what is known as the period of the
Five Good Emperors.
He did a major 180, becoming one of the worst emperors Rome had ever seen.
He had an obsession with sports and with women.
He had his wife, Crispina, his mistress named Marcia, and a harem of about 600 concubines.
These concubines were equal parts young women and young boys.
The Senate hated Commodus so badly that they continuously tried to have him killed.
His sister even led a conspiracy to have him executed before she herself was executed at
his orders.
Plenty of assassins tried to kill him with daggers and poison, but he got away clean
every time.
That was, until Mistress Marcia finally turned on him.
She was sick of being the emperor’s toy and had actually uncovered a plot in which
he was planning on killing everyone close to him, including her.
So, she did what none of the assassins before her could do.
She handed the emperor a cup of poisoned wine, making him sick.
While he was in the bathtub, weak and incapacitated, Marcia had a man named Narcissus come in and
finish the job by strangling him.
That’s one way of leaving a disastrous relationship with a murderous emperor.
7: La Tosca La Tosca has been called the deadliest female
assassin in all of Mexico.
She even confessed to murdering at least twenty different people.
Her real name is Maria Jimenez, and she was arrested in the northern city of Monterrey
for her participation as an assassin in the Los Zetas drug cartel.
What makes this even more incredible is that she was only 26 years old at the time of her
arrest and already a hardened killer.
According to local news reports, she was being paid only $1700 a month to be on retainer
as a contract killer.
Maria worked alongside other assassins, though she was the only woman among them.
When she was arrested, it was for gunning down a group of rival drug traffickers and
executing a police officer.
Still, her 20 assassinations are only a drop in the bucket when looking at the over 50,000
drug-related killings that have gone on in Mexico since December of 2006.
6: Shi Jiangiao Almost 100 years ago, on October 14, 1936,
a Chinese woman named Shi Jianqiao got away with murder.
She also became one of the first famous female assassins in history.
13 months before she got away with the killing, she walked into a Buddhist prayer meeting
in the city of Tianjin.
She approached a man named Sun Chuanfang, who was leading the recitation.
When he wasn't looking, she shot him three times in the back of the head, then put her
gun on the ground and surrendered herself to the authorities.
She admitted that she had planned the assassination with great detail and had even changed her
name to Jianqiao, which translates to English roughly as “Sword-Wielder.”
But why did she kill this man and how did she get away with it?
To understand the circumstances, it’s important to know that this era of Chinese history was
called the “Warlord Period.”
It was a time when Beijing had very little power and most of the country was run by small
warlords.
It started after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and persisted until very recently.
The man whom Shi Jianqiao assassinated was the warlord responsible for killing her father
and then displaying his head on a pike outside the local railway station.
She got away clean because of mitigating circumstances.
A judge ruled that because her father was wrongfully killed, her revenge was justified
and so her sentence was subject to leniency.
In other words, a court literally let her go free on account of her killing Sun Chuanfang
for revenge.
Do you think we should implement these types of laws in today's society?
Should a person get away with murder if it's to avenge a different murder?
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5: Melissa Calderon Ojeda Melissa Calderon Ojeda, known in Mexico as
La China, was a dangerous female assassin who got arrested after her boyfriend ratted
her out to the authorities.
She was at one point one of the most notorious assassins in all of Latin America.
But when her boyfriend ran into some trouble with the Mexican government, he agreed to
give up information about her so that he himself could get a reduced sentence.
Who was Melissa Calderon Ojeda?
Just the leader of a small gang, a kind of mini cartel with only around 300 followers.
Yet despite their low numbers, they were responsible for an estimated 150 murders in the past decade.
And Melissa very likely pulled the trigger on many of those killings.
In fact, her boyfriend – probably ex-boyfriend by now – took the authorities to a mass
grave where he claimed Melissa had been dumping her victims.
He also claimed that she sometimes took the victims out of the grave and deposited them
on the doorstep of one of their family members, usually to influence someone in authority
or even intimidate a police officer.
Have you heard of any cases like hers before today?
Tell me in the comments!
4: Charlene Gallego Charlene Gallego went on a murderous rampage
that left 10 people dead in California.
It went on for nearly two years, between 1978 and 1980.
She wasn't committing the murders alone, but had an accomplice.
It was her husband, Gerald Gallego.
Together, they worked to lure youngsters into their vehicle with the promise of smoking
marijuana together.
And seeing as Charlene was an attractive young brunette, it worked pretty much every time.
But she had no interest in partying with her victims, only with exploiting, torturing,
and ultimately murdering them.
She was an unquenchable serial killer, an insane assassin by every definition.
Charlene and her husband only got captured once they got careless.
The California killing spree ended with nine women bludgeoned or shot to death, most of
them teenagers and one of them pregnant.
Some were beaten to death with shovels, some with hammers.
It was ultimately a frat boy who witnessed the Gallegos trying to force some students
into their car that called the police.
The pair tried to run away to Nebraska but were quickly apprehended and brought to justice.
3: Charlotte Corday Charlotte Corday assassinated French revolutionary
leader Jean-Paul Marat on July 13, 1793.
Jean-Paul was one of the main leaders of the French Revolution, stabbed to death in his
bathtub by a Royalist sympathizer and the world’s first famous female assassin.
While there were definitely female killers before this, none shot to fame quite like
Charlotte Corday.
Charlotte was the daughter of an impoverished aristocrat and viewed Jean-Paul as an enemy
of France.
Jean-Paul was a strong criticizer of those who were in power at the time.
This was truly an era of revolution, with the king having been arrested in August of
the year Jean Paul was killed.
He was actually elected as a deputy of Paris and championed the people as an opponent of
the Republicans in power who wanted a constitutional government and a war across the continent.
But like every political upheaval in history, there were people on both sides.
Charlotte was on the other side.
She hated Jean-Paul so bad that she hunted him to his home.
She gained an audience with the man by pretending to have information that could help bring
down his opposition.
But when she got to his home, she stabbed him several times in the chest while he was
in the bath.
He died almost immediately, and Charlotte was arrested by the police.
As punishment for her crime, she was decapitated four days later on the guillotine.
2: Khioniya Guseva Khioniya Guseva was an ordinary talented woman
born in the year 1880 or 1881.
In 1899, she moved to what is now known as the city of Volgograd in Russia.
There, she became involved with a monk by the name of Iliodor and tried to assassinate
Grigori Rasputin in 1914.
Historical records don't tell us a lot about her life.
We know that she was probably around the age of 33 when she tried to assassinate the legendary
Rasputin.
He was the Russian mystic who befriended the family of Nicholas II and ended up wielding
a significant amount of influence in Imperial Russia.
This was during the days of the last emperor.
We also know that Khioniya didn't have a nose, but we don't know why.
It could have been a bad case of syphilis.
The assassination attempt was carried out after Rasputin had finished eating and was
on his way to reply to a telegram.
Khioniya attacked him in the street, stabbed him in the abdomen, and then chased him screaming,
“I’ve killed the Antichrist!”
But her aim was off and Rasputin didn't die.
He smacked her in the face, she fell to the ground, and she was picked apart by the angry
crowd.
She was then found to be insane during court proceedings and placed in an asylum until
1917.
When she was released, she went on to try and assassinate Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
in 1919.
What happened to the insane assassin after that is unknown.
1: Sara Jane Moore Sarah Jane Moore is the woman who tried to
assassinate President Ford back in September of 1975.
She was from West Virginia, 45 years old, married five times, and arguably deranged.
When President Ford walked out of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, Sara Jane
Moore was waiting in the crowd on the other side of the street.
She pulled out a gun, began to fire, but was quickly disarmed by a former marine who happened
to be standing near her.
The bullet missed Ford by only a couple of feet, bouncing off a wall and injuring a cab
driver.
Later on, it was determined by FBI case agent Richard Vitamanti that if the sight of her
.38-caliber gun hadn't been faulty, she would have gotten a centered headshot that would
have definitely killed the president.
As it was, the faulty sight put her shot off by about 6 inches.
Sarah pleaded guilty to the attempted assassination and was given life in prison.
She was eventually paroled in 2007 after serving 32 years.
In an interview in 2009, she blamed the times for what she had done.
It was the Vietnam War, people wanted a revolution, and she felt that by shooting the president,
she could have changed the country for the better.
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