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There seems to be no. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

There seems to be no end in sight to the almost daily occurrences of mass shootings in the United States.

This has become such an everyday tragedy that we've almost become numb to the grief and loss that accompanies it.

Almost.

Every time we hear that innocent people just going about their daily lives, students, teachers, churchgoers, shoppers, and others.

Have been killed in another mass shooting.

It rips our hearts out once again.

Even though I cover true crime on a daily basis, I am no less affected by the senselessness and loss that these stories bring.

So this week I decided to change it up a little bit and bring you one case of hope that ends not in heartbreak

and loss but in triumph. In this story a young girl becomes an unlikely hero when she acts

upon a hunch

derailing an evil plot before it could begin.

This is real life heroes, the foiled Deansa College shooting. January 29th 2001 was by all accounts a pretty typical day in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A thick layer of clouds had persisted all night and there was a brief misting that morning,

but the sky cleared by breakfast and the temperate California sunshine broke through.

The temperature rose into the mid-50s that day, light sweater weather, and 18-year-old

Kelly Bennett was working an ordinary shift processing photos at a long-strung store in the Barriessa neighborhood of San Jose.

In 2001, having photos developed at a physical photo lab was just about obsolete.

In a few years, digital photography would replace most film cameras, so having photos developed

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