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Dont discard the probability of a character being the culprit just because of how they act, because of their age or gender. Eliminating a person from a list of potential culprits should only be done after all the evidence is presented and only if it that evidence exonerates that person. I still have a lot of unanswered questions regarding Maria and in my view she's pretty high on the list of possible culprits or at the very least an accomplice.
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Pieces are unable to act outside of their character; in other words, we can take the characterizations of everyone on the island as factual. If you're going to insist that Maria is knowingly implicit in the murderers, you're tantamount to saying she's aware that these murders aren't being done by Beatrice, which pretty much unravels every single piece of character development she's ever been given.
In other words, it's loveless and antithetical to the information we've been given. The only way Maria can be involved is if she is witlessly, unknowingly helping the murderer without being aware of the real consequences of her actions, which is consistent with her presented behavior of innocently reading threatening letters and the like.