Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson were 11 and 12 years old when they planned a crime that shocked the whole world. In 1998, Johnson managed to get his parents’ van and then went to Golden’s grandparents’ house. They loaded the car with guns that the grandfather used to keep unlocked and drove to their school. At the lunchtime, they pulled the fire alarm and opened fire against teachers and students.
The aftermath is well known: four children were killed and ten people were wounded. Both boys were arrested and charged for the shooting. During the trial the student Cadance Porter revealed that Johnson joked about the shooting one day before. The boy said that he had “a lot of killing to do” and that they would know on Tuesday if they were destined to live or die.
Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson were convicted and released a few years later. They are the only living U.S. mass school shooters who are not currently in prison.
In 1988, the police arrested David Brom, then 16 years old, for killing his whole family in Minnesota. After a fight with his father, Bernad Brom, the boy used an axe to kill him, his mother Paulette, and his siblings Diane (14) and Rick (9). The only person who wasn’t killed was Joe (19), who wasn’t living at the house.
The person who called the police was the administrator of Brom’s school after they heard a rumor among the students that the boy killed his family the night before. Brom was arrested the day after and according to the police, he didn’t resist, wasn’t confused and didn’t question why he was being arrested. The boy was charged with the first-degree murder of his family.
Brom got a lifetime sentence and he can ask a parole when he is 70 years old. The song “David Brom Took An Axe” is about the case.
The media often referred to Cindy Collier (14) and Shirley Wolf (15) as “ baby-faced killers.” In 1983, their name made the headlines after they killed an 85-year-old woman in California.
Before committing the crime, they knocked on several doors with different excuses: asking for directions, to use the phone, or asking for a glass of water. A witness said that he and his wife felt very uncomfortable with the girls’ presence and felt something was wrong with them.
But they found Anna Brackett, 85, to be their perfect victim. Wolf strangled the victim and threw her on the floor and Collier stabbed her to death. Brackett’s son found her body just a few minutes after the girls ran away.
The policed soon found the girls and in her confession Collier said: “To honestly tell you the truth, we didn’t feel any badness. Then after we did it, we wanted to do another one. We just wanted to kill someone. Just for fun.We both felt excited. I had done something I had never done before.”
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