Postal killer acted irrational years before attack (Pic)

MSNBC ^ | 2/3/2005 | MSNBC Staff

[xsrdx]

MSNBC staff and news service reports

Updated: 7:08 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2006

Long before former postal employee Jennifer Sanmarco went on a suicidal rampage inside a mail processing plant in Santa Barbara, killing six people there and a seventh elsewhere, acquaintances and others took note of her odd behavior, a spiral of bizarre acts that began at least two years ago.

A former plant worker said the attacker had made racist comments in the past, and at least six of the victims were minorities, but investigators have refused to discuss a motive in the slayings.

But interviews with officials and others in New Mexico, Sanmarco's home state, to which she returned in 2004 after she lost her job at the mail facility, paint a picture of an unpredictable woman.

[DAC22]

"Did anybody else see that picture and think "that could be a man in a wig?"

Is Austin Powers in the house, Ya baby!

[MensRightsActivist]

"Yes, you also are insightful to mention how hard unions make it to fire really bad employees. Managers suffer under an endless process of appeals and more appeals, while co-workers observe the non-productive, trouble-making employee, seemingly getting away with all kinds of things, while the "process" drags on at great length. Unions, endlessly defending bad employees, is a real "rate buster.'"

Managers, under rules of strict confidentiality in personnel matters, are not at liberty to divulge to other employees things that are going on in the discplining of any employee. Therefore, it is not uncommon for a good hard working employee to come to a manager and say, "Hey, I'm working my butt off, and Joe or Jane Doe is doing nothing and you never do anything about it." The sad truth of the matter is, when mangers are working there way through the long, drawn out disciplining process, required to eventually get rid of a problem employee, they can't say anything. Consequently, other good employees are demoralized and motivated to do no more than the employee(s) seeming to get away with their nonproductive work behavior.

[Sans-Culotte]

Did anybody else see that picture and think "that could be a man in a wig?"

Actually, no.

[xsrdx]

And I was thinking how "normal" she looks.

Concur. She's not exactly "pretty" but I was really expecting truck stop Alice.

The sundress makes the photo even more disconcerting.

[xsrdx]

She looks like Dr. Frank-n-furter from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I was thinking Agnes DiPesto from "Moonlighting".

[kajingawd]

B nice?...about what?

[theFIRMbss]

Soon to be a film
by Uwe Boll, starring Gary
Coleman. You go Uwe!

[Sally II]

Okay, I can see the Rocky Horror similarity. But seriously, I was expecting her to look more obviously weird. She was probably starting to look weird by the time all this happened, but if someone showed me this photo and asked me to describe who she is and what she does I'd say she looks like a typical suburban housefrau who probably spends her time shopping at Michael's and Joanne's when she isn't driving her 3 kids around in the family Suburban.

[gondramB]

Me: "Did anybody else see that picture and think "that could be a man in a wig?"

San-Culotte: "Actually, no."

Maybe I've lived in Atlanta too long... we have the third largest gay population and the highest per capita... Over the last 30 years I've run into a lot "prettier" men in dresses than this lady.

I've got relatives in South Georgia and one little niece was flying back from trying out for a catalog shoot in New York. On the plane, as loud as could be she said "Look, Mama, its a man and he's wearing a dress!" My aunt just explained you have to expect that sort of thing in the big city. As she told the story I was apologizing on behalf of my city, my aunt said "as least nobody tried to buy her, like in New York."

[Sans-Culotte]

I never said she was a looker. I've just seen a lot of unattractive women in the world, and she's one of them. I live in Houston, and work in the Montrose (i.e. Gay) area, so I've seen my share of he-she's as well.

A pic of Princess Di's face could be construed as that of a man as well, I suppose.

[Global2010]

Oopsie should have added a : ) and the fact that I am a huge fan of the "Golden Girls" tv show.

[kajingawd]

:D

it was a pretty fun show...

[Global2010]

Thank you for your post as it makes one realize the ripple effect of harm, hurt and destruction this woman did by her selfish act of hate/evil.

Sometimes news articles don't convey the hard reality of what crime has been done and some (myself) don't think about it until someone like you point out the truth.

Your right there should be some way to intercede before such a heinous crime happens.

I don't know the answer.

[RKV]

I know I don't have all the answers, I do know that it is too hard to institutionalize the mentally ill in our society now. Their rights should be limited so that they don't infringe on OUR rights. Dealing with the mentally ill, alcoholic or otherwise addicted isn't an easy thing, but, it needs done and we have the money to pay for it without raising taxes. Some other transfer of wealth from a productive person to an otherwise able nonproductive one will just not take place.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I'm so sorry you lost your friend in this horrible, absolutely preventable way. I have a half sister who's schizophrenic, and completely dysfunctional. Lives in a shack made of cardboard boxes and tarps. No teeth -- some knocked out in fights, the rest rotted out. My father has tried and tried to get her locked up, to no avail. So far, she hasn't hurt anyone else, as far as we know. And neither had this woman who killed your friend, until she suddenly did.

[MD_Willington_1976]

lol...my thoughts exactly...

[RKV]

Sorry to hear about your sis. That has got to be tough.

[Stentor]

Managers, under rules of strict confidentiality in personnel matters, are not at liberty to divulge to other employees things that are going on in the discplining of any employee.

I'd be surprised if this was honored in a government facility. More likely she was the butt of jokes between the supervisor and his/her cronies.

[Uri’el-2012]

SSRI ?

[hershey]

She was crazy.