Bath School Massacre: The Making of America's First School Bomber

Episode 78

On May 18, 1927, the quiet farming town of Bath, Michigan, was shattered by the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history. Long before Columbine, Sandy Hook, or Parkland, one man wired an entire school with explosives — and changed the way America would understand mass violence forever.

In this episode of Crime to Burn, we dig into the life and mind of Andrew Kehoe — a farmer, a school board treasurer, and the man who became America’s first school bomber. What drove him from grievances and financial struggles to an act of calculated terror? Was it narcissism, psychopathy, or something even more insidious simmering beneath the surface?

Join us as we walk through the events of that fateful day, the psychology of grievance and vengeance, and the community that was left to pick up the pieces.

Listener discretion is advised.

Background music by Not Notoriously Coordinated 

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Sources:

• Bernstein, Arnie. Bath Massacre: America’s First School Bombing. University of Michigan Press, 2009.

• Schechter, Harold. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer. Little A, New York, 2021.