‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ killer: The godmother of school shootings

Brenda Spencer is often remembered as one of the first school shooters in American history. Just 16 years old and standing at 5’2”, she was far from a stereotypical suspect. Yet her chilling words - “I don’t like Mondays” would be heard around the world, later inspiring a song by The Boomtown Rats.

Today, Chloe McPolin is joined by the author of I Don’t Like Mondays, N. Leigh Hunt, to discuss his personal connection to the story and how an unlikely teenage shooter became infamous for all the wrong reasons.

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