Brenda Spencer: murder for the sake of entertainment

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. The perfect crime has no motive, people have paid with their lives only for the sake of fun bored girl.

Childhood Brands

The girl was born in the USA, California, the city of San Diego, in 1962. Full name is Brenda Ann Spencer.

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. The girl herself from an early age was interested in weapons and everything connected with him. Do not leave her indifferent and stories about violence. Brenda loved to listen to stories with a tragic end, she liked the details of the bloody murders.

People who knew the girl, claim that in her biography there was a theft. Brenda Spencer She indulged in drugs and often skipped classes at school.

Parents were not too concerned about this behavior of her daughter, her interest in firearms was supported by her father. When she was 16 years old, at Christmas, her father presented her with a rifle with an optical sight. A good addition to the gift was the box, which contained more than 500 rounds.

The day on which the tragedy occurred

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.

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. On that day, students of Grover Cleveland's primary school were on the street, they waited while their teacher Burton Regg opened the gate to them. The total number of shots from the murderer's window was 36.

During the uninterrupted shooting, two teachers were killed, who saved their children at the cost of their lives. Burton Regg - the teacher, who was waiting for the children, was killed almost immediately. The second victim, Michael Sucher, got his bullet, trying to save his fallen colleague. Eight schoolchildren and a policeman who ran into the shots were injured.

After the shooting

The shooting at school was over, and the murderer, frightened of the consequences, hid in the house. She barricaded herself and 7 hours did not succumb to the police persuasion. Brenda threatened with new shots, so for such a long time she could not be forced to surrender to the police. Only after this time, she voluntarily surrendered to the hands of justice.

The search showed that there was a bank of beer in the house, there was a bottle of whiskey, but the policemen who detained the criminal stated that she was sober.

A creepy explanation

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. These conversations began a week before the sad event, but, unfortunately, no one paid any attention to them.

The most terrible thing in all this story was the announcement of the reasons for shooting from the mouth of the murderer. Brenda Spencer explained her act by shooting at children just for the sake of her pleasure, and also for laughs. It's just that the girl at the time had fun.

The tragedy happened on Monday, so the killer ended her speech with the phrase: "I just do not like Mondays".

A song dedicated to the tragedy

The history of the shooting of schoolchildren was widely publicized and inspired by the Irish musician Bob Geldof to create the song "I do not like Mondays". The composition was released a month after the tragedy and immediately became popular.

Spenser's relatives tried in vain to prevent the release of the hit. The song in 1979 was in the lead in the British charts for four weeks in a row. Only in San Diego, the city where the tragedy happened to spare the feelings of local residents, the song was banned for several years.

Severe sentence

Justice was ruthless. The murderer was tried as an adult. The crime was committed in front of numerous witnesses, so the girl admitted her guilt. For two murders and an attack with firearms, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. She can only ask for pardon after 25 years in prison.

Spencer was not once searching for ways to go free. In 1993, she tried to prove that she committed the act, being under the drug and alcohol intoxication. Examinations conducted at the time of the crime, refute this version. 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.

Four times the murderer asked for parole, and four times she was refused. Brenda Spencer is currently serving his sentence and looks forward to a pardon. However, according to the rules of imprisonment, the next time, giving her the right to request pardon, will come in 2019.

The history of criminology has many stories about the shootings, which are arranged by schoolchildren. The reasons for such actions are different: alcohol, drugs, insults from classmates or outrages of teachers, problems with the psyche, disturbed peace of mind. The tragedy that occurred in the primary school Grover Cleveland, most striking is that the murderer took away the lives of people for fun. 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.