With seemingly endless stories of school violence and suicide bombers filling today's headlines, Bath Massacre serves as a reminder that terrorism and large-scale murder are nothing new. His school tax bill was 198 in 1927, which is equivalent to 2,758 today.

The next day, on Kehoe's farm, what was left of his wife-burned beyond recognition after Kehoe set his property and buildings ablaze-was found tied to a handcart, her skull crushed. Interview: Arnie Bernstein, author of Bath Massacre Novemby Tonya Blust 1 Comment Arnie Bernstein is a Chicago author who wrote a book about a crime whose effects are near and dear to my heart: the 1927 bombing of the Bath Consolidated School building in Bath Michigan. Kehoe owned 80 acres of farmland that had an assessed value of 10,000 in 1927 - about 139,000 in todays dollars. Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally blown himself to bits by setting off a dynamite charge in his car. On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Mardi Link, author of When Evil Came to Good Hart Contemporary mass murderers Timothy McVeigh, Columbine's Dylan Klebold, and Virginia Tech's Seung-Hui Cho can each trace their horrific genealogy of terror to one man: Bath school bomber Andrew Kehoe.' 'A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, can wreak on a small town. Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights

'With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. A gripping account of America's first-and largest-school mass murder| Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing Arnie Bernstein 206 Paperback 18 offers from 3.91 Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer Harold Schechter 1,403 Paperback 21 offers from 6.

Bath Massacre by Arnie Bernstein