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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter (A TRUE CRIME BOOK)
Release Date: March 9th, 2021
Rating: ★★★★★
(I would highly recommend this to those who study/are interested in true crime, forensics, serial killers/mass murderers, psychopathy, nature vs. nurture, etc.)
Maniac is an amazing piece of work, but it also hurts like hell. Harold Schechter is thorough and devastating in this true crime chronicle of a “human time bomb” whose acts of violence seem to foreshadow an era of mass murder and bombings.
Schechter consulted books, newspapers, journals, census records, and so much more to detail the lives of so many people and communities together in order to accurately tell the story of The Bath School Disaster. There are so many elements that played a part in making this book as good as it was. The background into the area that would become Bath, the life stories of the immigrants who would give birth to Andrew Kehoe, the contemplation on the public’s tendency to remember certain crimes for generations while others, such as this one, that are just as publicized and heinous are forgotten almost overnight. The inclusion of other events throughout the story to help you understand what was shaping the way people lived at the time, and even to remind you of all the things happening at once that you don’t think about, was incredible.
Using records, quotes, and facts, Schechter gives you the information you need to make your own analysis. Andrew Kehoe was the first son born after six daughters and thus pressure was placed on him to be the heir, especially in comparison to his siblings’ successful lives. Placed on a pedestal and developing a pathologically inflated sense of self-importance. Reportedly a genius who was cold and distant, as well as a loner. You read the reports from others that show cruelty in the first half of his life. For true crime readers this book has a little bit of everything that we tend to see and study in a mass murderer, but with a relatively above average life at the time and a seemingly good environment what could have caused it?
In the climax of the story, the events leading up to and during the bombing of the school, my heart was palpitating. The short snapshots throughout this chapter felt like the flashing scenes in a movie before bad things happen that drive up your anxiety. The worst part was the aftermath. The newspaper reports and witness accounts of the reactions of the parents and the community, as they lose 45 people to Kehoe’s horrifying act, most of them children. This book’s worst quality is that it’s so real.
While my heart is aching after reading this, I can’t help but be impressed with Harold Schechter and his ability to put these events to paper with so much going on at once, and to have me at the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading it. This is definitely an author who stands out, and one who I’ll have to read more from.
Thank you to NetGalley, Little A, and Harold Schechter for this advanced review copy, this was a great book to read and you broke my heart.
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Saylor Rains
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This town don’t got much to do / You and I haven’t got much to lose.
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~ conan gray
Don’t act like this Dix, I can’t live with a maniac.
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Maniac on stage
Maniac, left the band in 2004 through mutual consent. But not before Blasphemer [Euronymous’s replacement] had made his displeasure known, at what he felt was Maniac’s lack of commitment, by kicking him down a flight of stairs as they came off stage - and twice slamming his head facefirst into a wall. ‘Blasphemer actually came and asked my permission beforehand,’ an amused Necro Butcher confides.‘Maniac had terrible stage fright. He’d get so drunk beforehand that he couldn’t remember the words.’ - Necrobutcher, Chris Campion’s Chris Campion on metal’s maddest: Mayhem (2005)
Some words from Euronymous to Maniac about the Euronymous, Manheim and Ihlen project L.E.G.O and a match.
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well, people like you always want back what they can’t have
but I’m past that and you know that
so you should turn back to your outback tellin’ ‘em trash.
Conan Gray - Maniac(Live)
Conan Gray — Maniac (2019)