Maniac – 3.5 stars Decades before the modern school shooter burst onto the national stage, a man in Bath, Michigan blew up his local elementary school because he resented that his taxes had been increased to help build and maintain it. This is such a strange and shocking crime that it’s hard to understand why it’s also rather little known, but Schechter makes a compelling case for why it has mostly faded into the shadowy corners of history. He does a good job of recreating […]
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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter
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