Heartbreaking and riveting.' -Gregg Olsen, 'New York Times' best-selling author of 'Starvation Heights' '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. '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. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. 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. 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. 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.

Bath Massacre by Arnie Bernstein