The song became No 1 in the UK singles chart and was backed by an eerie video in which the band performed the piano ballad to a classroom of young children. They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol . [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. /T1_4 1 Tf [(Langman, P)90.1 (. 0.4 Tw /Span<>> BDC A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. She was so young and ruined her life so quickly. After all of the shooting was over the Principal and Janitor were dead, eight students and one police officer was injured. Basically, what shes telling this board are a series of untruths, the representative concluded. [(H)23 (are, R. )]TJ EMC I find it really interesting to build this article and its literary resources to hook the reader. After firing 30-36 rounds of ammunition, Spencer barricaded herself inside her home for nearly seven hours. Mondays always carry with them a negative connotation and contain components such as depression, fatigue, and anguish. /T1_3 1 Tf The commissioner read into the record several victim-impact statements. Only after this time, she voluntarily surrendered to the hands of justice. /Span<>> BDC )]TJ 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Principal Wragg was fatally shot in the heart. -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_3 1 Tf We have estimated 84. But this marked a terrible development in the countrys violent history, triggering an era of school massacres in which children were ready to blast away at fellow pupils. [( N)23 (ew Y)60 (ork: J)23 (ason Aronson, 1976, p. On January 17, 1989, almost ten years after the events at San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary, there was another shooting at a school named Grover Cleveland Elementary, this one in Stockton, California. /T1_4 1 Tf Police later found half empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. We hear about it so much today, and it is incredibly sad that there are people who are willing to do this to innocent children. ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf "[2] Those comments were the inspiration to the song I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats, which reached #1 in the United Kingdom in mid 1979. The issue is in plain sight but nobody in the right places of power wants to say it because its easier to point fingers. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 /T1_5 1 Tf )]TJ [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj Brenda Spencer is a sixteen-year-old murderer who entered the top five criminals who participated in the most massive mass shootings of schoolchildren in the history of world criminalistics. ( )Tj by Michael Thomas Barry. There didnt seem much I or the rest of the family could do to help her., He went on to say that his father had gotten out alive from some rough times in the Pacific during World War II. Yet her father, who died in 2016, was by all accounts a very odd man. [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ At least one of Spencers victims agrees. Whether Spencer was a cold-hearted killer or a truly lost and confused soul that simply wanted an escape, it is undeniable that her horrible actions have had some frightening consequences in our modern world. California has some of the most stringent gun control laws in the country and yet still there is gun violence, like the school shooting described in this article. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf I am from a town a few miles from Santa Fe High School where the 2018 shooting took place. ( Lanham, )Tj [( pp. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ xmp.did:84468427512268118C14E112F7938AD6 The court sentenced her to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 25 years. /T1_3 1 Tf She had asked her father for a radio. ( )Tj Principal Burton Wragg was speaking with teacher Daryl Barnes (who was gave testimony on the episode) when the gun shots started and ran outside to see school children falling to the floor, some first grabbing a body part and screaming in pain before falling. (-)Tj )Tj We must support them to maintain justice in our society and prevent school shootings from reoccurring ever again. )]TJ Biography (76)Tj BT -2.118 -1.529 Td Brenda Spencer was born April 3rd, 1962 to her mother and father, Dorothy and Wallace Spencer. 0.177 Tw /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td Born in Decatur, Illinois, Jan 29,. The death toll would have been far higher if a policeman hadnt blocked Spencers line of fire by parking a rubbish lorry in the way. ( )Tj Brenda Ann Spencer (born in San Diego, California on April 3, 1962) is a convicted American murderer who performed a deadly shooting spree, during which she killed two people at the Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego on January 29, 1979. /T1_4 1 Tf In 1993, she tried to prove that she committed the act, being under the drug and alcohol intoxication. /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj ( )Tj These are the other shootings reported on: the Columbine High School shooting, the shootings at Simon's Rock College, the Bethel Regional High School shooting, and the Pearl High School shooting. The song never mentions her name and Geldof admitted that most fans thought it was about how having a hangover made Mondays unbearable. /T1_4 1 Tf School custodian Michael Suchar ran out in an attempt to pull the still-alive Wragg to safety. Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was given an indefinite sentence.
EMC EMC -0.06 Tc 0.479 Tw /Span<>> BDC A former student named Cam Miller attended the hearing in person and offered the last statement. (71)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf She is eligible for a Parole Suitability Hearing in September 2021. EMC Police proceeded to move a garbage truck in front of Spencer's line of fire. 79, 80. Spencer has also stated in a letter from prison that she experiences grand mal seizures that she has to counteract with medications.5 Such a brain injury would definitely be a precursor to epilepsy, which is two to four times more common among violent offenders than the public.6 The lack of treatment she received for this disease, to some, proves the neglect that she experienced from her family and in her childhood. Brenda would go to claim sexual abuse by her father. Full name is Brenda Ann Spencer. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /Span<>> BDC 40. Here he met his wife-to-be, Valentina. He recalled the phone call from the neighbor who said there had been a shooting at Cleveland, the frustration of not being able to get near the school because the incident was still going on, the terror in my wifes eyes, her screams of anguish at not knowing whether our girls were involved, the phone call from the hospital telling us that one of them had been wounded, looking at the bullet hole in her right elbow and the bullet burns on the inside if each thigh where a bullet had passed between her legs.. Brenda Spencer excuse was that she had been abused by her father, yet i dont believe that is a true motive as there are hundreds of other victims and not all of them end up shooting elementary schools. Normally, very few people convicted on a charge of murder were able to obtain parole in California before 2011. )]TJ (101)Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 538.5 Tm 35 years later, Brenda Ann Spencer, who killed two and wounded eight, faced her victims in a parole hearing. Because I knew that if I fired on the school the police would show up, and they would shoot me and kill me, she said. I walked into court and saw this monster glaring at me, he remembered. Her life and career after prison. Her behaviour including telling a friend she wanted to kill someone, probably a police officer became increasingly disturbing. Spenser's relatives tried in vain to prevent the release of the hit. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ !4!r`8} @~Ohb&54"bpW8I> 0.184 Tw /Span<>> BDC Every new school shooting by a teenager reinforces the argument that she was not uniquely wicked or crazed. In 2001, Spencer accused her father of physically and sexually abusing her (he denied the allegation) and forcing her to share a bed with him. EMC A)40 (vailable at )]TJ Spencer shot and killed Wragg as he tried to help children. With every school shooting, I feel Im partially responsible, Brenda Ann Spencer told the parole board back in 2001. The woman eventually left. The Brenda Spencer Murder Case, which was published in 2012, and is the single best source I am aware of regarding Spencer. EMC Deadly Women Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. She is now 51 and will no doubt hear of more school shootings and ask herself if they got the idea from what she did on that long ago Monday. EMC (94)Tj A good addition to the gift was the box, which contained more than 500 rounds. Spared the death penalty because of her age, Spencer was sentenced to two terms of 25 years to life in prison, running concurrently and with the chance of parole. Monday blues are common among teenagers, who are forced to wake up at 8 am to get on a yellow school bus. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Spencer barricaded herself in her house for hours before an offer for a Burger King meal from negotiators convinced her to surrender. [(www)80 (.scho)-5 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj /GS0 gs /Span<>> BDC 0.184 Tw /Span<>> BDC As of April2020, she remains in prison and is housed at the California Institution for Women in Chino. ( pp. [(1)2.3 (02)]TJ Brenda Spencer /T1_4 1 Tf EMC ( p. And apparently you two slept in the same bed?. ( p. Even as an adult, he was gripped by an abiding fear of leaving his back exposed in restaurants he always sits with his back to the wall. 0.002 Tc 0.176 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf 78, 80. EMC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td My question is, will there be another boring Monday for her? he asked. ( )Tj Survivors of the shooting who attended court recall a bespectacled Spencer staring at them blankly. Sixteen-year-old Brenda Spencer fired from the window of her house children who had come to school, across the road from the ill-fated home. Thus, he had first- EMC I was 9 years old when I was shot, he began. 42. On January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer opened fired from her home across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. A police officer (age28), responding to a call for assistance during the incident, was wounded in the neck as he arrived. The commissioner asked if she remembered the police coming, and she said she did. Whether these theories are true or not, Brenda Spencer was tried as an adult and pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and nine counts of assault. -gG1dd[I
mg=:a -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ EMC 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC I was shooting into the parking lot.. Numerous tests and examinations proved that Spencer was absolutely adequate, she was not offended at school, loved at home, and she was absolutely sober at the time of the murder. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ A month later, on January 29, 1979, she achieved infamy when she began shooting at her school, Grover Cleveland Elementary in San Diego from her home, located across the street. The brother said that although his widowed sister-in-law lived until 1991, her life actually ended in January 1979. ( )Tj And she began to fire. He was an antisocial loner who lived in poverty in a house strewn with empty beer and whisky bottles. Jonathan Fast, Unforgiven and Alone: Brenda Spencer and Secret Shame, in, College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences. /T1_4 1 Tf This was a horrible event that resulted in two lives lost I have never heard of this case before this article. adobe:docid:indd:dd4a55d2-0e77-11de-96a0-c0933d61f99d [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Victims -2.118 -1.529 Td Mary Rintoul aged nine when she was shot in the attack has mixed feelings about letting her out. /Span<>> BDC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Spencer was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf We are no longer accepting comments on this article. My dad and Mike were the only two to die that day, he said, The kids that they were trying to save all lived. [(Langman, P)90 (. People have told me that I look like him, act like him, that my kids are the spitting image of him, she said. ( )Tj /T1_2 1 Tf Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh) Its entirely possible I said that, Spencer told the parole board. In between all the chaos, 28 year old Robert Robb, a recent graduate of the police academy, while examining Wraggs and Suchars bodies, was shot under his right shoulder blade.1 He would go on to survive though, along with the eight other children who were wounded in the incident. [(Langman, P)90 (. 81. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td EMC 0.038 Tw 2.118 0 Td )]TJ (90)Tj When the kids hear this, they cant possibly relate to such statements, because they have never met their grandfather, and they know they never will, because Ive told them over and over again that he is dead, that he was murdered by Brenda Spencer.. -2.118 -1.529 Td She often spent her time copying out the lyrics of violent punk songs. One survivor of the 1979 shooting described herself as "shocked, saddened, horrified" by the eerie similarities to their own traumatic experience. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_4 1 Tf It would have been the drugs and the alcohol talking., The commissioner quoted the police negotiators report, which said she had told him, It was fun to watch the children that had red and blue ski jackets on, as they made perfect targets. The negotiator added that she told him she liked to watch them squirm around after they had been shot.. ( )Tj Spencers absent mother, Dot, claimed she suspected father and daughter had an unhealthy relationship but insisted she couldnt afford a lawyer to fight for custody. /T1_3 1 Tf The tragedy that occurred in the primary school Grover Cleveland, most striking is that the murderer took away the lives of people for fun. -2.118 -1.529 Td _+lM.>c'WiUZ^;>\9Mi\4U2)tR^{pWZSbQUpL"1^|_eQU]'g$4J]]DSlgm40K0brD{:\w\+ O 4s(J(cPDF(iCky%5xw6??J_~s7\b\tc'^K@7C z{O"~~X` 0.007 Tc -0.126 Tw /Span<>> BDC The principal of the elementary school, Burton Wragg, age 53, had gone to the aid of the students and was subsequently shot himself, the commissioner said. EMC With every school shooting. /T1_4 1 Tf The reasons for such actions are different: alcohol, drugs, insults from classmates or outrages of teachers, problems with the psyche, disturbed peace of mind. ( )Tj Four times the murderer asked for parole, and four times she was refused. A)40 (vailable at www)80 (.scho)-4.9 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. In another letter she wrote in prison, she stated that her father had done everything a person could do to another person. /T1_5 1 Tf I felt like he wanted me to kill myself, she said later. The pain these children must have felt is unforgivable. The commissioner inquired how many rounds she had fired, and she said she did not recall. A few weeks ago, she marked her 40th anniversary in prison after successive parole applications had been refused. The court sentenced her to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 25 years. But to a San Diego elementary school, and to a troubled sixteen year old, Monday, January 29, 1979 held an even more distressing meaning. -2.118 -1.529 Td This is a very interesting article and also very relevant to today, as we hear about shootings quite often. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ /T1_3 1 Tf The uninjured looked around confused as to what was happening. 0.238 Tw /Span<>> BDC The campaign of Genghis Khan to Russia, Olive oil: composition, properties and application. /T1_5 1 Tf When we arrived, we found him not in the hospital room, but down in the basement, dead. . [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ However, lawyer Michael McGlinn, who defended Spencer at her trial, told me he continues to believe she will never reoffend. 26. ( )Tj Because I wanted to die, she said. This article did a good job of explaining what had happened that day and what her motive was. A nine-year-old student, Cam Miller, was struck in the back with a bullet that exited through his chest without hitting any internal organs. EMC Little did they know, however, that across the street, sixteen-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer was aiming her .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle right at societys ultimate refuge, the elementary school, and its surroundings. A comment so flippant, sarcastic and callous as "I don't like Mondays" as a motivation for shooting up a school tells FBI profiler Candice DeLong that Brenda Spencer was not mentally ill at the time of the shooting and knew what she was doing. )]TJ Brenda also gets two mattresses and pillows, three blankets and is the priority for the coveted bottom bunk. -2.118 -1.529 Td 0.297 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj Not long after Brenda Spencer went to jail, her father married his daughter's teenage cellmate. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. ( p. )]TJ The diminutive 16-year-old with bright red hair then armed herself with the .22 rifle and telescopic sight that her father, Wally, had given her for Christmas and started firing shots from a window. During her pretrial psychological testing, an injury to Spencers temporal lobe came to light. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC ( )Tj /T1_5 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td I was 10 years old when I was shot by Brenda Spencer.. *JHRD%G'6F':,2CSIxV+KH77XdKtdJ'Z^NUhd~/Hy6D+)r( E(jJQn456Tj
EoS)5D):IBgdVVWN/#/Cq:~(x{:xhaeB+:?b#{?LSAOk;HDFfMF>479.%1$kvgY / ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 30. Going to school should be a safe place and not a place to fear. )]TJ EMC Ugh, its Monday are the words that usually follow the arrival of the most dreaded day of the week. (84)Tj Why pick the school across the street? the commissioner asked. /T1_4 1 Tf (82)Tj Spencer, who was charged in court as an adult, pleaded guilty in 1980 to two counts of murder. 25 to life in prison EMC representative added that Spencer had complained to the police negotiator that the custodian had tried to get everybody off the school grounds. /T1_3 1 Tf But that is not true of her shocking explanation for the mass shooting for it inspired Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, to write I Dont Like Mondays after he read a report of the tragedy. 0.006 Tw 2.118 0 Td \223Rob)-5.3 (ert Benjamin Smith: An Analysis,)79.7 (\224 2016. But for the heroic efforts of a police officer who risked his life to drive a trash truck in front of her residence to block her field of fire, no doubt further children would have been shot.. /T1_3 1 Tf People are recognising that todays young are capable of doing anything, he said. EMC The perfect crime has no motive, people have paid with their lives only for the sake of fun bored girl. You didnt go to school that day? the commissioner asked. She said she had been under the influence of alcohol, pot, and downers. She was later diagnosed with depression and epilepsy and received medication to treat her mental issues. (81)Tj [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ The diminutive 16-year-old with bright red hair then armed herself . 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Brenda Spencer is America's first female school shooter. /T1_4 1 Tf Police were told she had fantasised about being a sniper and would hunt birds around the neighbourhood. -2.118 -1.529 Td 58tba4u0)^[=0Ue[]Z|_x-~uIwc|64gk{x6%-m>4K;m/e_9*W>^>iL]&S>SzL^eAyC8qk#;+LGOOO,drP n7a S)f ( )Tj 9 year old Cam Miller was wearing a blue vest. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td ( )Tj )]TJ 1 Colonization and Settlement (1500-1763), 2 Revolution and Early Republic (1754-1801), 4 Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), 5 Emergence of Modern America (1877-1929), 4 Late Middle Ages-Renaissance-Reformation Europe (1300-1648), 3 Post-Classical History (600 CE-1492 CE), HS 1302 United States History since 1877, SP 3392 Language Variation and Dialectology of Spanish, Jonathan Fast, Unforgiven and Alone: Brenda Spencer and Secret Shame, in. They later had a daughter together. Brenda Ann Spencer @craymondaykilla On January 9,1979 I shot at Grover Cleveland Elementary School across the street from my house and killed the principal and the custodian, also injured 9 others San Diego, CAmondaysarentmything.tumblr.comJoined January 2016 3Following 51Followers Tweets Tweets & replies Media Likes Brenda Ann Spencer's Tweets Barynes and Principal Wragg bravely jumped into the line of fire to help get the kids inside the school for cover. The tragedy happened on Monday, so the killer ended her speech with the phrase: "I just do not like Mondays". EMC No school or kids deserve to be shot up. What about your mother? the commissioner asked. )Tj Despite Spencer still being imprisoned, the pain and suffering of the casualties and their families would not magically disappear. /Span<>> BDC 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td Despite watching the principal die, he continued saving kids from the line of fire. ( )Tj /T1_5 1 Tf She shot eight children, and she shot a responding police officer, Robert Robb, in the neck. As of May 2020, she remains in prison.
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0.02 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC /T1_4 1 Tf I dont think the shooting should have been the choice at all, she could have gone to her mom if she had some problems. /T1_5 1 Tf EMC /Span<>> BDC [(Langman, P)89.7 (. 0 -1.176 TD The shooter killed a principal and a custodian as they tried to pull students into safety. 1.647 0 Td [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. ( )Tj Successive parole hearings have heard powerful testimony from those who say their lives were permanently scarred by Spencer. 0.003 Tc 0.082 Tw 1.662 0 Td She shot him because, by her own words, he was making it more difficult for her to shoot the kids, the representative said. People who knew the girl, claim that in her biography there was a theft. At various parole hearings since the first in 1993, she has blamed her father and also the influence of drugs for the shooting. EMC Peter Langman I dont like Mondays, she famously replied when asked her motive. Brenda loved to listen to stories with a tragic end, she liked the details of the bloody murders. During the six-hour stand-off, a newspaper reporter rang up her neighbours to try to get eyewitness testimony. 2 dead9 wounded Under the terms of her indeterminate sentence, Spencer became eligible for hearings to consider her suitability for parole in 1993. On January 29, 1979, Cam Miller, a 9-year-old student who was waiting for the principal to open the gate to Grover Cleveland Elementary, was injured by a gunshot, along with eight other innocent children. 7)30 (3, 75. It was completely uncontrollable., There was also a statement by a parent, Francis Stile, whose two daughters attended the school. This livens up the day.. Brenda Spencer and Laura Troiani parole hearings - YouTube 0:00 / 2:29 Brenda Spencer and Laura Troiani parole hearings CBS 8 San Diego 175K subscribers Subscribe 88 Share 11K views 5. 36. EMC /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf I wasnt specifically aiming at people, she said. The girl was born in the USA, California, the city of San Diego, in 1962. Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA Today, she is 56 and still behind bars at the California Institution for Women. As of December 2015, shed been denied parole four times. I cannot reconcile the fact that Brenda claimed she started shooting just for the fun of it with the trauma she probably experienced in her childhood because both are terrible and inexcusable acts. The 1982 Japanese-American documentary film The Killing of America depicts the incident. 1.667 0 Td 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf )]TJ I think that article such as these, that have to do with people like this that kill or shoot up schools filled with little kids are so heartbreaking to read. ( )Tj Instead, he gave her a Ruger semi-automatic rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition for Christmas. Copyright 2018 en.unansea.com. 0.38 Tw /Span<>> BDC Spencer has tried to garner sympathy by stating that her father beat and sexually abused her. It's just that the girl at the time had fun. Her father left home for work around 7 oclock in the morning. So, why did you commit this crime? the head parole commissioner asked. EMC Well, thats pretty good shooting to hit as many folks as you did if youre not trying to hit anybody from across the street, the commissioner noted. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ I was just set on committing suicide., I am sorry you had to go through everything you went through, but what Im trying to do is find out why you would open fire and kill two people and hurt so many others, the commissioner said. ( )Tj EMC He ended by saying on behalf of his deceased parents and the surviving members of the family that they opposed parole for Spencer. The shooting at school was over, and the murderer, frightened of the consequences, hid in the house. 24\22625. ( )Tj 22. In her 2001 hearing, Spencer first claimed that her father had been subjecting her to beatings and sexual abuse, but he said the allegations were not true. The murderer was tried as an adult. After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. ( )Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ EMC By then, police were responding to the school shooting. In December, a psychiatric evaluation arranged by her probation officer recommended that Spencer be admitted to a mental hospital for depression, but her father refused to give permission. -2.118 -1.529 Td Spencer was 16 on Jan. 29, 1979, when she opened fire with a .22 rifle on Grover Cleveland Elementary School across from her home in San Diego, killing the principal and the custodian while wounding eight youngsters and a police officer. [(W)5 (ithout Conscience: T)-45 (he Disturbing W)40 (orld of the Psycho)]TJ [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ Other statements came from children now grown. The parole board chairman said that as she had not previously told any prison staff about the allegations, he doubted whether they were true. Brenda Spencer explained her act by shooting at children just for the sake of her pleasure, and also for laughs. -2.118 -1.529 Td Most can agree with former FBI profiler Candice DeLong's remarks that Brenda's father bears responsibility for what happened that day by buying her the gun. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ EMC /T1_4 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC Some of them were seriously injured, but all survived. /Span<>> BDC /Span<>> BDC ( p. EMC Her claims were treated with scepticism, given that she had never mentioned them before. She had a parole hearing in September 2021, but she waived the hearing for one in 2022. Their effort to save the children will be appreciated forever. )Tj Spencer barricaded herself in her house for hours before an offer for a Burger King meal from negotiators convinced her to surrender. )Tj For Christmas 1978 her father, Wallace, had given her a .22 rifle as a present. She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. Brenda Spencer's net worth He blames total negligence and unbelievably bad parenting by her father in giving her the gun. 1)40.1 (3, 14. From 2005 to 2017, it housed the Magnolia Science Academy, a public charter middle school serving students in grades 68. ( )Tj ( )Tj \223Charles Andrew W)5 (illiams: S)23 (orting Out the Contra)]TJ 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.4751 0 0 8.5 561.6812 581.5 Tm FBI profiler Candice DeLong says doll mutilation is something that has been observed in children and teenagers who latter become killers or stalkers. )]TJ (85)Tj Her ashes are to be buried at a later date. -2.118 -1.529 Td Brenda Spencer was born on April 3, 1962 in San Diego, California, USA. (88)Tj EMC )]TJ This is such a sad case because those kids did not deserve to go through something so traumatizing. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf Defence experts from Yale University who examined her said she had been in a disassociated state, he said. 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC I feel Im partially liven up the day. In 2009, the board again refused her application for parole and ruled it would be ten years before she would be considered again. 0 Tw (-)Tj The beatings, the touching, the emotional abuse. She went on to state that no one, not teachers or counselors, gave her assistance through this, so she simply thought that this was how the world and how life worked.
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