On May 18th, 1927, the children of Bath consolidated school were settled into their morning lessons when the world exploded around them. 38 kids would never make it home. The man responsible, their own school board treasurer, who'd been planning this attack for months right under everyone's noses. The Andrew Philip Kehoe was born into chaos.

February 1, 1872 in Tacompson, Michigan,

as one of 13 children fighting for attention in a household that

probably felt more like survival of the fittest than family dinner.

When you're competing with 12 siblings for everything from food to affection, you learn

to fight dirty. Andrew found his escape through education, clawing his way into electrical

engineering at Michigan State College.

He was smart, he was determined, and hungry for something better than farm life.

After graduation, he headed to St. Louis, where he built himself a respectable career as an electrician.

Life was looking up for Andrew Kehoe. Then everything changed.

During a fall, Andrew suffered a severe head injury that left him unconscious for several weeks.

When he finally woke up, his family noticed something different.

That stubborn streak that had always been a part of Andrew's personality had transformed

into something more volatile. His temper was shorter, his irritability more pronounced.

More devastatingly, for someone who prized his independence above everything else,

he was forced to move back into his father's farm to recover.

The farm was no longer the place Andrew had left behind.

After his mother's death, his father Philip married

Francis Wilder, a much younger widow. Francis was only three years older than Andrew himself,

making their relationship awkward from the start. Here was this woman, barely out of her 20s,

now playing stepmother to a man who was almost her peer. Andrew despised the arrangement.

Here he was, a grown man with a college degree, reduced to living under the authority of his

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