The details of the March 2023 mass killing in Nashville, TN were all too familiar. Little children were slaughtered in cold blood and innocent educators gunned down.
Yet something was different about this tragic massacre.
This one took place in a Christian school, the very school the killer went to as a child, and the murderer was a woman.
As noted by the New York Times on March 27, 2023, “In a database of 172 public shootings involving at least four fatalities over the last five and a half decades, all but 4 of the perpetrators were male.”
Yet this female mass murderer, Audrey Hale, was different in one other way:
She identified as a man.
It has been known since last year’s horrific attack that Hale’s writings, called a “manifesto,” outlined the reasons for the massacre. But until last week, those writings were not released by the police.
Now that some of them have been made public, we have a window into Hale’s tormented soul....