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Killer Psyche

Encore - Andrew Kehoe: The Bath School Massacre

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong takes a look at Andrew Kehoe, who committed the first school massacre in the United States. Kehoe, a well regarded school board member, changed the fate of a tiny Michigan town with a bomb that shook the community to its core.

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0:18.0

On May 20th, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew his plane, the spirit of St. Louis, 33.5 hours from New York to Paris.

0:37.5

Although this was not the first transatlantic flight ever, this was the first conducted from one major city to the other.

0:47.0

For this accomplishment, Lindbergh won the Ortega prize of $25,000 and the adoration of the public and the press.

0:58.5

When his story first graced the headlines of all major newspapers, it pushed another significant historical event right off the front page.

1:09.5

However, this competing headline was not about the glories of winning an aviation, but was about devastating loss.

1:20.5

Two days before Lindbergh's famous journey, the town of Bath, Michigan experienced tragedy.

1:29.0

One of the largest mass murders in American history had claimed 38 of its children and six of its adults, including the mastermind behind it.

1:42.0

Most people never heard of the Bath Massacre thanks to Lindbergh's flight, but the devastation haunted generations of Michigan families.

1:56.0

On May 18th, 1927, a local man named Andrew Keeho bombed the consolidated schoolhouse in Bath with the intention of killing all 236 children inside.

2:13.0

And what did the children do to incur his wrath? Absolutely nothing.

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From Wondery and Trifort, I'm Candice DeLong and this is Killer Psychie.

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I've spent five decades studying people's minds through my work as an FBI profiler and psychiatric nurse.

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