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Maniac
- The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first - and worst - mass murders in American history.
In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school - one of the most modern in the Midwest - Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it. Thirty-eight children and six adults were murdered that morning, culminating in the deadliest school massacre in US history.
Maniac is Harold Schechter’s gripping, definitive, exhaustively researched chronicle of a town forced to comprehend unprecedented carnage and the triggering of a “human time bomb” whose act of apocalyptic violence would foreshadow the terrors of the current age.
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- Linnéa
- 17-01-24
Interesting
This book diverts off at points that can seem a bit disconcerting but it all pulls together eventually. I had no idea this had ever happened, and it is heartbreaking to still see this sort of thing happening today.
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- Rachael littler
- 10-03-21
Narrator is simply dull
Such a dull narration that I couldn't listen past the second chapter, I couldn't picture any of the story because of this.
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