Description

In 1979 Brenda Spencer a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent She recieved a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street

The event is forever glorified by the song I Dont Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings Long before Columbine and Sandy Hook there was Brenda Spencer

I Dont Like Mondays The True Story of Americas First Modern School Shooting sifts through the mythology that has sprung up around this fateful day presenting the raw and riveting facts for the first time

N Leigh Hunt spent years researching and uncovering shocking details from officers investigators and lost police dispatches He has interviewed people who were on the scene and local reporters who spoke with the perpetrator directly after her shooting spree Hunt has even cultivated an unlikely rapport with the killer and shed light on previously unknown details about her upbringing and influences

Contains mature themes