Olga Hepnarová was an autistic female in communist Czechoslovakia who came of age during the 1970s. She couldn't bear the manifold stresses of her adult life, and so she rented a truck and rammed it into pedestrians who were waiting for the bus on the sidewalk, killing 8 and injuring 12.
She immediately confessed to her crime rather than lying or confabulating about her intentions, and impugned the "bestial society" in which she lived as having been responsible for it. She showed no remorse either during her trial or in the initial interviews that were conducted on her, and even had a motive of sexual immiseration leading up to her rampage.
But just like Alek Minassian, who would decades later and in another context share her modus operandi, motives, and flippant attitude regarding her actions, it soon became evident that what Olga Hepnarová displayed publicly was not an entirely serious persona, but rather an act that was meant to make her look impressive, and like a champion for a broad swath of outcasts.
In her time and place, Olga Hepnarová claimed to have sacrificed herself for the interests of "all Prügelknabe" -- literally meaning "whipping-boys" in German, or those who are victims of bullying.
And in his time and place, Alek Minnasian took up the banner of inceldom in order to universalize and moralize his massacre -- to give content to his perception of having righted a wrong writ large.
But the personal insufficiencies of each person were not far from the surface. Olga Hepnarova's fractured personality quickly unraveled in prison, revealing that her grandiose false-self which lacked all remorse and acted with bold daring merely served to cover up for the broken shell of a person underneath, who would scream and plead and defecate and urinate while being hanged. And Alek Minnesian's roleplay, for its part, was never convincing, being over-saturated from the start with the modern, masochistic cope of ironic, meme culture -- a form of protracted gallows humor.
In the final analysis, the true source of the problem in both of these cases is the particularly aberrant existences of those with autism, and how the condition utterly alienates and estranges those who have it from their wider society, such that all attempts to rebel against that society by them are rendered especially disassociated and irrelevant. It's precisely this reflection which inspired Albert Camus to write The Stranger, a book about the absurd existence of an autistic protagonist which involves arbitrary killing and punishment.
This becomes disturbingly evident when you look at retrospectives which have been done on the life of Olga Hepnarová. The fact that she is autistic, as I write above, was clearly the primary issue in her life. And yet you couldn't really tell this fact if you only watch the Czech movie that was made about her, which places undue emphasis on her sexual confusion as resulting in lesbian forays (a secondary issue). In fact, nearly half of the movie is lesbian pornography!
Yet as an autistic female, it was completely unsurprising that Olga was masculinized, because autism is known to be associated with high prenatal testosterone levels and a male-type brain. So this naturally produced a tendency in her to want to dominate sexually, one which she could only readily fulfill with other women.
But as it happens, and usually does with so-called "lesbians," Olga actually had a boyfriend, and it's through him that much of Olga's personality is known. His statements in particular point to autism as being her primary impediment:
Also, Olga lived in a secluded cottage before selling it to an older couple, and the latter noted that her eyes were piercing, "like an X-Ray" (exactly how Adolf Hitler's eyes were described, btwngl).
But the best quote of all comes from Olga herself, and seems to apply perfectly as a definition of Asperger's Syndrome:
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