Welcome to Monday Morning Murder in the News with Alyssa Carroll.

Good morning heathens and happy murder in the news Monday that I have been releasing

every single Monday morning by some miracle because the rest of the regular news is just

hot scary fucking garbage and you know you'd rather be hearing me and my bullshit anyway.

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beloveds, and others. So thank you for submitting. And as I always say, unlike my regular podcast that I write out in its entirety before I record to keep me on task because heaven help us.

I do not read these articles ahead of time. This is unscripted. So outside of just reading the headline, we are reacting together.

Okay, so let's just jump right in.

So our first article comes from... Okay, so let's just jump right in.

So our first article comes from Action News 5.com title reads, Cordova Elementary Schooler to get mental evaluation

after writing students name in quote death note.

This is coming from Cordova, Tennessee.

A Cordova elementary school student will undergo a mental evaluation after creating a threatening list of classmates' names in a composition book entitled Death Note, according to the police report.

Police say the child got the idea from, quote,

a horror movie where the devil writes names

in a notebook and the individual whose name is in the book dies.

A plot likened to that of Death Note,

a popular Japanese manga series that was adapted for television

and later a film under the same name, which is something I am familiar with.

So the movie is rated is not suitable for children under 17. They have those ratings for a reason, so I am sure if that was a horror movie, it was probably not age

appropriate for someone, especially under the age of 12.

The local school psychologist Dr. Karen Streeter said.

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