The first school mass shooting in the U.S. is committed by a 16-year-old year girl.

   Brenda Spencer's mugshot. January 29, 1979. Wearing her "lucky" hat.

Brenda Spencer goes to court.

"I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats

"Does Anyone Like Mondays? The Brenda Spencer Murder Case" by Eric Hart

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An 11-year-old is accused of murdering two boys in the 1960s.

Also this week - a thank you to Mike from Sword and Scale and Justin from The Generation Why Podcast as well as a shout out to Aurelia305!

And, my thoughts on the Adnan Syed case - new trial granted this week.

Mary Bell, true crime, murders, young killers,

For more on Mary Bell check out "The Case of Mary Bell" by Gitta Sereny. 

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A bonus episode partially recorded at The Warfield Theater in San Francisco, CA. Making a Murderer's Dean Strang and Jerry Buting on their speaking tour "A Conversation on Justice".

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A young serial killer terrorizes South Boston in 1872.                  

Book links: The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer by Roseanne Montillo

Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer by Harold Schecter

The Autobiography of Jesse H. Pomeroy written by Himself Murder, serial killers, true crime, Jesse Pomeroy, Boston, Massachusetts