Why did you have to shoot the people at the school? the commissioner asked. /T1_4 1 Tf However, her method of expressing her resentment is definitely unjustifiable. Spencer was sentenced to only 25 years to life, despite the cruelty of her crime. /T1_4 1 Tf Mike to the children, ran to Mr. Wraggs aid, and the inmate shot him in the chest and killed him. adobe:docid:indd:dd4a55d2-0e77-11de-96a0-c0933d61f99d Dorothy who goes by Dot recounts Brenda as a child who was "very active, always happy, a good child, well behaved, [and] never had any problems in school" (Dower, 2016). /T1_4 1 Tf The 1982 Japanese-American documentary film The Killing of America depicts the incident. Brenda Ann Spencer - "I Don't Like Mondays" - 1979 - Crime Magazine Pandemonium ensued as staff charged out of the school in San Diego to help terrified and injured children, shouting at parents to drive on as they arrived to drop off more pupils. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. EMC EMC -2.118 -1.529 Td 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td )]TJ [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ 16. 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.. The issue is not owning guns, the issue is mental health. Former student [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf 93. /Span<>> BDC )Tj 0.521 Tw /Span<>> BDC /Span<>> BDC Brenda Spencer is however, America's first female school shooter. /T1_3 1 Tf ( p. ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf Some of them were seriously injured, but all survived. Brenda Spencer was born on April 3, 1962 in San Diego, California, USA. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ She was home alone, as her single father had left for work. ( )Tj The most terrible thing in all this story was the announcement of the reasons for shooting from the mouth of the murderer. Including shooting each other in school., The comments below have not been moderated, By He was an antisocial loner who lived in poverty in a house strewn with empty beer and whisky bottles. 88. 1.647 0 Td Mondays always carry with them a negative connotation and contain components such as depression, fatigue, and anguish. Eventually, officers persuaded her to come out offering her a Burger King meal as an inducement, it was reported and found she had another 200 rounds of ammunition. . He recalled that his mother had just dropped him at school directly opposite Spencers home and he had been starting up the sidewalk when he saw the bodies of the principal and the custodian. /T1_4 1 Tf Are you pretty good with a rifle? he asked. Brenda Spencer | WickedWe - The Dark Side Of Humanity /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf Brenda-Spencer - San Diego Police Historical Association 0 -1.176 TD 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. He suggested that the testing of the time may have simply failed to detect the intoxicants. ( )Tj In 1979, 16 year old Brenda Ann Spencer was arrested after killing two EMC The Investigation Discovery network portrayed Brenda Spencer's crimes in one of the three cases presented in the premiere episode of season 2 on the crime documentary series Deadly Women, titled "Thrill Killers", first air date: October 9, 2008. The campaign of Genghis Khan to Russia, Olive oil: composition, properties and application. Neighbors claimed Spencer had . This article did a good job of explaining what had happened that day and what her motive was. /T1_4 1 Tf Today, she is 56 and still behind bars at the California Institution for Women. He believes that the shame, ridicule, inferiority, and powerlessness that she felt encouraged her to go as far as she did. /T1_3 1 Tf It also be projection, a signal that she's being abused at home by someone. On January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer killed two people and wounded nine when she fired on San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary School with a .22-caliber rifle from her family's house across the street. /T1_5 1 Tf Jonathan Fast, Unforgiven and Alone: Brenda Spencer and Secret Shame, in, College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences. He had died trying to help the children and Principal Wragg, killed by Ms. Spencer trying to liven up her Monday., She was lonely and scared, and became more and more depressed, he said. /T1_3 1 Tf (95)Tj )Tj ( )Tj 79, 80. The school was closed in 1983, along with a dozen other schools around the city, due to declining enrollment. Age 16, she was 5'2" (157cm) and had bright red hair. Years of life and reign of Genghis Khan. /T1_1 1 Tf Brenda Spencers income source is mostly from being a successful . /T1_4 1 Tf And every time I had tried suicide in the previous year I had screwed it up.. She later also spoke with police negotiators, telling them those she had shot made easy targets, and that she was going to "come out shooting." A lawyer representing Spencer spoke next. ( )Tj Spencer barricaded herself in her house for hours before an offer for a Burger King meal from negotiators convinced her to surrender. -2.118 -1.529 Td ( p. ( )Tj ( )Tj 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. 24\22625. ( )Tj 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. Spencer who says she was gay from birth lived with her university technician father from the age of nine after her parents broke up. )]TJ Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh) 1 0 obj <>>> endobj 2 0 obj <>stream Early Life Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0.007 Tc -0.126 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj EMC 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC Spencer has tried to garner sympathy by stating that her father beat and sexually abused her. /T1_0 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. EMC /T1_4 1 Tf Classmates of the murderer after the shooting of schoolchildren recalled that Brenda Spencer dreamed of an act after which they would talk about her on television. He returned to the shooting. 8+ Legendary Brenda Spencer Facts - Be Surprised They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years. I do not feel sorry for the shooters of the crimes. Spencer was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. (paths Among Us. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. /T1_4 1 Tf Mikhail Andreevich Osorgin: Biography and Creativity, Sovereign of all Russia Ivan 3: biography, years of government, Prince Potemkin: biography, photo, the activities of Prince Potemkin-Taurian, Ushakov's medals. )]TJ [(T)-44.9 (he Cr)-19.9 (iminal P)10.1 (ersonalit)-34.9 (y)20.1 (: V)30 (olume\037)50.7 (1:)-3 ( )]TJ [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ ( pp. EMC Brenda Spencer: Sorting Out the Contradictions /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj 58tba4u0)^[=0Ue[]Z|_x-~uIwc|64gk{x6%-m>4K;m/e_9*W>^>iL]&S>SzL^eAyC8qk#;+LGOOO,drP n7a S)f /T1_5 1 Tf Brenda Spencer has spent over four decades in prison and currently belongs to the Golden Girls Club at her prison. EMC /T1_3 1 Tf At her first hearing, Spencer said she had hoped police would shoot her and that she had been a user of alcohol and drugs at the time of the crime, although the results of drug tests done when she was taken into custody were negative. ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf 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. Her ashes are to be buried at a later date. The number of shots fired and the number of vital hits speaks of incredibly accurate, directed shooting, and these were moving targets.. 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC /Span<>> BDC As Spencer acknowledged at one of her parole hearings: With every school shooting, I feel Im partially responsible. She recalled lying in the nurses office, bleeding as bullets crashed through the window. (70)Tj Another, Christy Buell, was shot through her abdomen and in the buttocks, and had to undergo surgery in order to repair her intestine.2, When Gus Stevens, a reporter for the San Diego Evening Tribune, began calling around the area to gain more information about the shooting, he coincidentally placed a call to Spencers home where she gave him exactly what he wanted. /Span<>> BDC The commissioner reminded her that she had eventually surrendered. 0.02 Tc -0.02 Tw 9.5 0 0 9.5 48 42 Tm She described the shooter, a sixteen year old, and the shooters address. /Span<>> BDC I was 10 years old when I was shot by Brenda Spencer.. -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ The head custodian, Michael Suchar, known as Mr. /T1_4 1 Tf EMC School custodian Michael Suchar ran out in an attempt to pull the still-alive Wragg to safety. Geldof has later mentioned that, "[Spencer] wrote to me saying 'she was glad she'd done it because I'd made her famous,' which is not a good thing to live with. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ The next time (2001), she began to advance the theory that her brutal act was preceded by her father's abuse of her, but these facts were also not confirmed. /T1_3 1 Tf For Christmas in 1978, her father, Wallace Spencer, gave her a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 571.5 Tm I think her premature death in 1991 was at least partly the result of this traumatic experience.. 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. [( p. 77)70 (. /T1_3 1 Tf 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. On April 4, 1980, a day after her 18th birthday, she was sentenced to 25 years to life. The commissioner observed that Spencer had described a dark side to her father, while others described him as a decent man. However, according to the rules of imprisonment, the next time, giving her the right to request pardon, will come in 2019. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ (75)Tj Being from San Diego, California this article sparked my interest. ( )Tj Tom Leonard for the Daily Mail ( )Tj -0.196 Tw /Span<>> BDC 28. Supporters, though, say she would not have shot anyone if her emotional problems had been addressed. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_5 1 Tf Oddest of all, he married his daughters 17-year-old prison cellmate and brought her to live in the house from which Spencer had shot at the school. (84)Tj proof:pdf I had never heard of this case prior to reading this article. These conversations began a week before the sad event, but, unfortunately, no one paid any attention to them. Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated Mondays. )]TJ /T1_5 1 Tf ( )Tj She is from California. /T1_4 1 Tf That had been just before Christmas. Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun." After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. Ultimately, she surrendered. /Span<>> BDC 0.46 Tw /Span<>> BDC Although it did not make the Top 40 in the U.S., it still received extensive radio airplay (outside of the San Diego area) despite the Spencer family's efforts to prevent it. (157 cm) and had bright red hair. Brenda also gets two mattresses and pillows, three blankets and is the priority for the coveted bottom bunk. On January 29, 1979, in San Diego, California, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who lived just across the road from the Cleveland Elementary School, opened fire on the students and school personnel with a .22-caliber rifle. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ After the first bell rang, Brenda broke the panels on the front door of her home, which was located right across the street from the elementary school. 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. EMC A lot of kids laughing and doing their thing? the commissioner asked. EMC I dont remember aiming at anybody, Spencer insisted. Defence experts from Yale University who examined her said she had been in a disassociated state, he said. A Case of the Mondays: Brenda Spencer and the Cleveland Elementary California rarely grants parole for people convicted of murder, but it hasnt stopped Brenda from trying. EMC In prison, Spencer was diagnosed as an epileptic and received medication to treat her epilepsy and depression. The board denied her and she will not be eligible for another hearing until 2019. )]TJ What if they got the idea from what I did?. Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA ( )Tj Blue was Spencer's favorite color so he would be her first victim. She described arriving at school and hearing shots and seeing the principal and the custodian lying dead. The commissioner read into the record several victim-impact statements. Cam [Charles] Miller was seven when she shot him in the back. The brother said that although his widowed sister-in-law lived until 1991, her life actually ended in January 1979. -0.06 Tc 0.479 Tw /Span<>> BDC M.O. The 1999 book Babyface Killers: Horrifying True Stories of America's Youngest Murderers, authored by Clifford L. Linedecker dedicates the book's prologue to Spencer and refers to her crimes in multiple chapters. -2.118 -1.529 Td I had never heard of a female school shooter. I walked into court and saw this monster glaring at me, he remembered. 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. ( )Tj (78)Tj She is eligible for a Parole Suitability Hearing in September 2021. /T1_4 1 Tf [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ 75. We will update Brenda Spencer's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. (A Pro\036le for Change. ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td ( )Tj EMC The song never mentions her name and Geldof admitted that most fans thought it was about how having a hangover made Mondays unbearable. 35 years later, Brenda Ann Spencer, who killed two and wounded eight, faced her victims in a parole hearing. KGsvVk4g#|$TQS(kPh=dKIj-\eA Across the street, Brenda Ann Spencer was watching them from her home, a ramshackle house filled with empty alcohol bottles and a single mattress she shared with her father. At another hearing, she claimed she had opened fire because she wanted police to kill her. EMC 8.5 0 0 8.5 48 744.5 Tm /Span<>> BDC People who knew the girl, claim that in her biography there was a theft. [( p. 7)30 (3. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td I wasnt specifically aiming at people, she said. Brenda Ann Spencer has a cenotaph in Fairlawn Cemetery Stillwater Oklahoma. She grew up relatively poor and spent most of her early life with her father, Wallace Spencer, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. [(H)23 (are, )]TJ ( )Tj /Span<>> BDC Brenda Spencer and Laura Troiani parole hearings - YouTube Even if she maybe had her own problems with her father, she is just as guilty to if she only did it to make a better Monday. She was suffering from poverty with his alcoholic father since her parents separated. Here he met his wife-to-be, Valentina. Students at Grover Cleveland Elementary School, located in San Diego, California, began what they believed would be a normal Monday morning like any other, with bells ringing and students racing to their classes. Any inmate over 55 years can join the club, which offers its members special privileges. He said his wife had heard on the radio of a shooting at the school and called him at work. Brenda Spencers name is largely forgotten now. /T1_5 1 Tf (77)Tj The cellmate looked so much like Spencer, even local police officers believed Brenda had been released early from prison. In what sense is that okay? 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. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0.002 Tc 0.176 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf [(and )0.5 (A)4.9 (dult P)10 (erpetrat)-10.1 (ors. 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. 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.4751 0 0 8.5 561.6812 581.5 Tm ( )Tj Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. The likelihood of a successful parole hearing is slim at best. EMC Mass Murderer Up For Parole 40 Years After She Opened Fire On School To ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td The 2008 book Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings, by Jonathan Fast, analyzes the Cleveland Elementary shooting and four other cases from a psychological perspective. 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. Brenda Spencer was born April 3rd, 1962 to her mother and father, Dorothy and Wallace Spencer. ( )Tj A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. The representative further reported that blood and urine samples taken after Spencers arrest tested clean. Three shots rang out. You didnt follow through with your plan.. /T1_4 1 Tf She resembled Brenda. Monday blues are common among teenagers, who are forced to wake up at 8 am to get on a yellow school bus. Spencer, who was charged in court as an adult, pleaded guilty in 1980 to two counts of murder. Despite what former District Attorney Richard Sachs said on the episode of Deadly Women, Spencer's rampage was not "the country's, if not the world's first school shooting case before 1979." (76)Tj )]TJ 0 Tc 0.76 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj The commissioner inquired how many rounds she had fired, and she said she did not recall. EMC /Span<>> BDC Police proceeded to move a garbage truck in front of Spencer's line of fire. EMC (66)Tj In another letter she wrote in prison, she stated that her father had done everything a person could do to another person. Almost a year after receiving the semi-automatic weapons of the 22nd caliber, namely on January 9, 1979, shooting took place in the school, which took the lives of several people. Barynes and Principal Wragg bravely jumped into the line of fire to help get the kids inside the school for cover. ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td You didnt go to school that day? the commissioner asked. Name 1.647 0 Td ( )Tj As of December2015, she has been unsuccessful at four parole board hearings. The court sentenced her to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 25 years. This page was last changed on 2 May 2022, at 09:58. 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. EMC ( )Tj The girl was born in the USA, California, the city of San Diego, in 1962. (93)Tj ( )Tj uuid:abfef72d-ac1c-9d47-b406-9a703c3e820b Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh) Copyright 2018 en.unansea.com. No school or kids deserve to be shot up. The blood hadnt been scrubbed from where he had fallen on the concrete. 22. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td Wallace Spencer got married to a woman younger than Spencer and had a daughter. )]TJ This livens up the day." /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf -0.003 Tc -0.051 Tw 0.476 0 Td /T1_4 1 Tf EMC Brenda Spencer is considered the mother of schoolyard shootings like Columbine and Newton. 46. 36. Let alone an elementary school shooting. )]TJ EMC The two victims were Principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar. The fact that she shot up the school was because she didnt like Mondays and she wanted to cheer it up. /T1_5 1 Tf 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. 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC So, why did you commit this crime? the head parole commissioner asked. /T1_4 1 Tf Eight schoolchildren and a policeman who ran into the shots were injured. /T1_3 1 Tf In the meantime, she will sit as inmate W14944 in the California Womens Institution, seeming to see no irony in having used heated metal to brand the words Courage and Pride across her chest. Both girls had witnessed the death of the principal and the custodian. 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. The uninjured looked around confused as to what was happening. At various parole hearings since the first in 1993, she has blamed her father and also the influence of drugs for the shooting. Mass murderer up for parole 40 years after she opened fire on school to /T1_3 1 Tf A psychiatric evaluation in December 1978 concluded that she should be put in hospital as a danger to herself and others but again, her father resisted. He liked to keep appearances up, that everything was fine in the house, Spencer now said. ", In early 1978, staff at a facility for problem students, into which Spencer had been referred for truancy, informed her parents that she was suicidal. )Tj "I don't like Mondays"Possible depression Brenda Spencer is America's first female school shooter. -2.118 -1.529 Td ( )Tj ( pp. ( )Tj Where is Brenda Spencer now in 2021? She might secure - VoxBliss Across the road from Grover Cleveland Elementary school in San Diego, California, 16 year old Brenda Ann Spencer observed elementary children prepare for class from her bedroom window. However, lawyer Michael McGlinn, who defended Spencer at her trial, told me he continues to believe she will never reoffend. She can only ask for pardon after 25 years in prison. 20 years after the shooting, Spencer made claims that her father sexually abused her. /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td By then, police were responding to the school shooting. [(\223H)23 (earing 1994,)80 (\224 pp. For Christmas 1978, he gave her a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition. Contrary to her initial claim, she later went on to state in her 2001 parole hearing that she had been "sexually abused by [her] father" and was "waiting for the cops to show up so they could shoot [her]." 4 This new information has fueled many more theories today about Brenda Spencer's true motives in . 0.319 Tw /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_4 1 Tf She kept busy behind bars by learning Latin just for the fun of it, she said. Mr McGlinn says such a troubled young girl should never have been allowed near guns and believes her claims that she was hallucinating under the influence of drugs and alchohol. We found her singing as she gardened in the backyard, the son recalled. Michael Suchar, the schools custodian, ran outside with a blanket in order to cover Wragg and keep him from going into shock, but he quickly became the second victim of Spencers shooting and lost his life. A good addition to the gift was the box, which contained more than 500 rounds. According to the testimony of neighbors and family acquaintances, parents often spoke about weapons in her presence, moreover, my father even taught her how to shoot. (69)Tj ( )Tj Victims She was sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison, and is still serving her sentence at the California Institute for Women. Brenda Spencer was sixteen years old when she shot and killed two people at a school in California. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf Three of the worst, including the worst in American history, before the Spencer shootings in 1927 in Bath, Michigan School when a 55 year old man blew up Bath Consildated School, killing 43 (as well as his wife beforehand), in 1966 at the University of Texas, where a gunman killed 17 people and wounded 31, and in 1976 at Cal State Fullerton, where seven were killed and two were wounded involved adult male shooters. )]TJ After a 20-minute shooting spree, eight children and three adults had been hit, among them a police officer who was shot through the neck. /T1_4 1 Tf [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. 27)70 (. Brenda Spencer (Brenda Ann Spencer) was born on 3 April, 1962 in San Diego, California, is a School shooting in San Diego, California (USA). The girl herself from an early age was interested in weapons and everything connected with him. EMC )]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ ( )Tj Brenda Ann Spencer. 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.
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