Atentado contra una escuela en EUA || Relatos del lado oscuro (Podcast)

0:00 Surely you have heard on many occasions about the attacks in the United States. You probably imagine that the attack on the Twin Towers was the most important and the first. Perhaps if you have a few more years, you will remember the attack on the Federal building in Knocklahoma City, United States. But in fact, it' s not something that' s new. Over the years, the United States has always had a problem of unbalanced people with some kind of very severe disorder who attack the American population itself. This has happened over a long time, even the shooter from Vegas this last one a year ago.

0:53 A thing like that isn' t one of the first either. There had already been an attack from the land of the University of Texas in the 1950s. Then there were other shooters out there in the same way, among others a 15- year- old girl who with a rifle twenty- two killed eight people. These types of situations have occurred over a long period of time. And while the idea of gun control is a very good idea, since this would largely limit anyone going and buying a machine gun and then going and killing I don' t know twenty people in a supermarket. The problem is beyond, what happens in the minds of these people accounts of the dark side. Missing strange beings happening is inexplicable stories that other minds prefer ignorant wes and I don' t mean that horrible things don' t happen here.

2:10 Terrible things happen here. We can read it in any newspaper all the time. You don' t need to be guessed, but it' s hard to think that someone here suddenly goes and puts a huge bomb in an elementary school for no reason. So, for no reason, simply because he' s under pressure, because he got sick, because he felt like it, because he wanted to see fire. I don' t know that' s got a story behind me in time, it' s probably not very well known, because, in fact, it' s a story that' s many years old now. Let me return to a thousand nine hundred and twenty - seven in Michigan, in the United States, in a population called Bath b a t h this city is technically called bath, yes as taking a bath. That' s the name of that town. In the 1920s, the Bath Michigan region was essentially agricultural. They had survived World War I and I mean surviving even though the World War had not been fought in the United States, but many of the young men from all over Michigan never returned.

3:49 So, after World War I, Bath Michigan began to experience a problem of absence of men. This leads to a crisis situation. Many people worked constantly, especially women, who had stayed with the young husbands' farms and therefore had labour problems. This made people come from other places. And, anyway, by a thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven the situation had improved a little bit, but it was still a completely agricultural rural colony At some point, between a thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven thousand, it happens that someone has a good idea to think that a school was needed. Bath Michigan was one of those American communities that had several small one- class schools in the far west style There was a little school with a single living room, with a little bell, with a very pretty teacher carrying food in a basket with a little square tablecloth. This was a problem because all children studied in the same classroom, all grades. So someone has the good idea of putting

5:24 up a reasonably large school, with several classrooms, with a much more functional facility, and this makes a lot of people go to study there. A lot of kids come to this place. It was a breakthrough, certainly, and then, strange things happen. That place dawns a good day of nine hundred and twenty- seven with strange news. It' s May 18th of a thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven. The news among the farmers is that the Kehow farm is on fire. It is a farm that has in the back a barn very American style, with chickens and horses and all the owner, Mr Kihow, is known by all, although it is not of the natives of the region, This man of about fifty years is known and suddenly his house is burning. This makes everyone worried about why they' re

6:58 neighbors. So out of all the farms people begin to arrive to help extinguish the fire. The fire department of the city of Bath also arrives. They ' re volunteer firefighters who get to see what happens when they arrive. Your first concern is to see if there' s anyone hurt, someone to rescue. The house is burning. Besides, she' s really hurt in the house. There' s a lot of broken pieces. When the firefighters approach one of the neighbors, which will be about a hundred meters away, he claims that his windows were broken by an explosion, that is, that something inside Androw quijo' s house exploded and threw pieces of the house at the neighbor' s house. That' s worrying. Someone' s gonna be hurt. Firefighters get in, they check, and they realize there' s nobody there. Then they go down the stairs and start taking out furniture and stuff, until the moment one of them discovers that in one of the corners of the room there is a box full of dynamite. Yeah, it' s a box of dynamite. He takes it and he takes it out and everybody runs out and they' re standing. That' s when he shows

8:28 up andru Kiho in his truck, someone signs him, the guy stops and yells at you, hey, you guys are my friends. Better get out of there and start for the people who had come to help you extinguish your house. That was a very strange thing. It didn' t make sense why the guy' s seeing his house burn down like that. Worse yet, what the hell does a box of explosives do in a farmer' s box and where is it? Andrew Nelly' s wife is a well- known woman. He worked at Lancing Hospital, which is in town. Why he' s not here, something' s not here, it' s not okay. People finally finish trying to shut that down, but the house is completely consumed. During the fire successive small explosions are heard, which causes a certain gloom in those men. What happened because there were explosives. It was an accident. Maybe Kie Howe was thinking of doing some work, maybe mining, maybe exploration, maybe something. But now we have to put an

10:03 end to this. The people who are there include the County Commissioner, who has come to see what this is about. It must be about eight forty - five in the morning when you' ve seen this guy leave, that restlessness arises and you start walking around here, over there, to the barn. When you get to the barn, the show isn' t nice. That has not also been partially set on fire. There are also some dead animals, there are watered objects, evidence of the explosion. They enter the remains that are still there watching. Over here and over there. There' s Nelly, Nelly, Kiho' s wife, and it' s not a nice show. Nelly ki Howe' s body is cracked, severely damaged and probably not just by fire. When they discover it they realize that the body was in a particular position and presented a particular rigor. It didn'

11:35 t take a genius to realize that body hadn' t died in the fire a while later. It is evident that the woman had been killed, previously placed on a wheelbarrow where she had taken an almost fetal position and then there had been an explosion that had thrown pieces everywhere and a fire. That explained what had happened to Nelly, but it didn' t explain why. And soon I wouldn' t explain everything that would happen around this. But in nineteen hundred and twenty- seven, a small rural agricultural population in Michigan with a very particular name, Bath Bath. Early in the morning, several of the local farmers have spread the word that Andrew Kiho' s farm is burning.

12:43 People have come to collaborate with firefighters, volunteers, etcetera, and they are there. It' s a normal day. While this happens at the Kihow farm. The children have arrived at the People' s School. It ' s a new school, it' s pretty good. Those little schools of the self- abnegated master, who was a teacher for forty- so many children or fifty of all ages, have been completed. This is a fit school. The land was bought, everything necessary was done, even the people of the village gave an extra money so that there was enough to build it. Of course, some people didn' t like it because they had to pay an extra tax. And of course, during the meetings there had been discrepancies. A few, especially some farmers who apparently had no children or had no interest in their children’ s education. They opposed this, but progress was necessary. There had also been very hard times in that region.

14:05 Now was the time to have a big school and it was something that liked very much. Kiho. The guy from the farm who' s burning up when he got the idea of doing the school was such a dislike for the extra money he had to pay, that he even ran for some kind of mayor of that community. Of course, he lost yes, he wasn' t considered. No one voted for him. He was a guy they didn ' t want. They knew him. Yeah, certainly, everybody knew he wasn' t a whiner, but he wasn' t a very dear guy. He was a grumpy old man, so to speak. His wife, Nelly, had worked constantly. His eyes were always tired and so forth.

14:58 There were no children in the family, only that farm with a few mistreated horses, an old truck and this man ran. But of course, once the school was open, things changed by one thousand nine hundred and twenty- six. A year before this date when I' m talking to you, a year before the 18th of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven, Andrew Kiho even went to work at school, yes as the full maintenance. This was well seen, a subject who knew about manual matters.

15:41 He was even a good electrician. I' d been out there on some of these. He was a good mechanic, he was a guy who could collaborate. So you' re hired as an assistant. Many people didn' t like the idea. Don' t lose sight of the fact that ki How didn' t want school. But how about that morning of the eighteenth of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven. Despite the enmity he had with many of the people’ s acquaintances, people couldn’ t help but feel very uncomfortable and very sad to hear the news of the farm fire and the news of Nel’ s death still didn’ t run through the streets. In fact, the news of the fire had mobilized all sorts of vehicles in the direction of the Kihows farm. While Androw kie Hown was not very dear, his wife, Nelly was a very kind woman. So everyone set out to go there and help them. Unfortunately, things weren' t what they looked like. Eighty- five in the morning, Andrew ke How is seen passing in front of the school. It' s not uncommon for him to work there. For those of you who didn' t know

17:14 about the fire, it would seem ordinary for Andrew to get to school. The guy' s parked around, his truck looks like he gets there, walks around and then comes out. It remains for a few moments and then a brutal explosion is heard. Brutal is eight forty- five in the morning and the school of this small town has just been destroyed by a brutal explosion.

18:06 Destroyed the right term all of a sudden that morning, before nine o ' clock, it couldn' t have been more. All the children had already entered. Suddenly the school explodes by jumping through the air, whole fragments of the building, jumping through the air, floors, walls, ceilings, thousands of fragments are shot out in all directions. Besides, they' re not anything. Many of the fragments are metal pieces deliberately placed there for some reason, which have been fired in all directions. The explosion, moreover, is heard throughout the area. Even those who were at Andrew' s farm trying to do something have heard the explosion, felt the vibration as if it were some kind of earthquake and have seen a column of smoke that boils in the air. The panic immediately surrounds the entire area. It' s simple.

19:21 Many of those men and women had taken their children early to that building from which a thick column of smoke is now rising. Some who were walking or running to the andro farm to see if they could help. Now they come running back stumbling at all the speed they can because they' ve heard the explosion and they know where it' s been. The city of Bath, Michigan, in a thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven doesn' t have many schools or many buildings. The vast majority. These are small buildings and one of those schools, one of those structures, has just been completely destroyed. When I ogé people get there, the situation is serious. The school is on fire, there are fragments watered everywhere and something else. There are injured people on the street. Some of them are parents who were just leaving the children. Others are people who were passing by. Others simply had the bad luck of being in the wrong place. At the wrong time,

20:55 the explosions that took place inside the building have still demolished to the north. When the smoke dissipates and the dust settles, the image is frightening in a matter of moments. There are at least a hundred people scattered. That' s where he starts immediately coming in. The people who were on the farm abandon that and come running, which, by the way, is a good fortune, because instants later, when the fire arrives towards the basement area, there is a next explosion that completely sweeps away the property. Evidently, that was no coincidence. It had been placed there to explode when the rescuers were inside and cause as much damage as possible. The result, however, had not been as expected. The rescuers who were at the Andru Farm have returned to the village running and the explosion has not hurt anyone else. But at school, at school, that looks like a war zone. People who lived the war episodes of World War I. Seeing this, they move into the war scenarios. The school is destroyed. There are pieces everywhere. Rescue work

22:26 begins. When they begin to get there, they become aware of the dimension of the tragedy. There are dead children, yes, some of them horribly mutilated. The bodies are fragmented. The violence of the explosion reveals the harm and cruelty with which that was done. The attack has killed thirty- eight children, a couple of teachers and some people on the street, but there are more than a hundred injured. Of them sixty- one are very serious.

23:10 Several will die in the following days. Others, while not dying, will be disabled with the loss of some limb, blind injured in such a way that their life will never again be the same. The descriptions that witnesses begin to give are frightening. Everything was calm and suddenly bom an explosion goes up, a cloud of elm, a second explosion falls pieces everywhere and the destruction is total. What they find there are scattered human remains and a smell of death. This was described at the time, at the time, by the people of press society who covered the report of that incident of nine hundred and twenty- seven pointed to the horrifying vision of fragmented bodies, of heads that did not have a body and similar roofs, of neighboring houses in which there were corpses of children. The scene causes more than one fainting. Then comes the question what the hell happened here, what happened to the school, what happened to the kids, who did this. The instant generates a huge

24:41 disturbance in those people. No one' s reacting at the moment. There ' s the dimension of damage. Nobody reacts. They don' t know what to say, they don' t know what to think. However, another incident still occurs. The day was not yet over and there would still be much more to regret. The situation in the village of Bath has become a real nightmare around nine o' clock in the morning. The school, the novel school of this small community in Michigan, in the United States, has blown up. The children who were inside. Many of them have died, have been fired by the heavens, have fallen on the neighboring roofs.

25:36 Others have been shattered by the power of the explosion. People don' t understand what' s happened. They' re not sure where the clear topic is. Those who are returning from Andrew Keyhole' s farm, an incident where a farm has begun to burn, know that something is not right, since during the intention to put out the fire on the Keyhow farm they have discovered a box with dynamite and suddenly the school jumps in the air. You didn' t have to be too smart to deduce that something had to do with Andrew keyhow This guy had always opposed school. He was a very renegade guy. I hated the mayor, I hated the head of the school' s own bureau, that is, the Family Parents Committee. If you want to see it, like this, I hated everyone. The relationship is simple.

26:33 The guy' s got dynamite in his house. There is a burning explosion in the house, then they find the wife dead and now the school explodes. They' re in on this. There are several people there who are talking about this, although of course most are trying to get their children back more than one. It' s a dantesque sight to see a mother holding her dead little son in her arms, but on her right side she has her daughter' s body and on her left side, the body of her other daughter. It' s a terrible scene. In the middle of this terrible scene, down the main avenue. About half an hour after that explosion, a dusty Ford truck from the 1920s is coming, a late vehicle bouncing off a dirt road, passing in front of the destroyed school and stopping a few meters from its low interior. Andrew, what a ho the owner of the farm that' s been set on fire. The one where there was an explosion, the one where they found the dynamite. He just got to school through the president. Let' s call him that or head of

28:08 the school and in general, the population is watching him and is quickly approaching to see what happens. In fact, Andrew Keyhowe called him in. This is the Superintendent Hoyk A man Andrew keyhow had always had a very bad relationship with. The fact is, when Hoyk gets to the truck, Andrew Keho pulls out a gun, a shotgun that threatens him. Hoyke comes forward and holds it. Hold it tight. Nelson Matfarren, an older man who has been watching the whole scene and who is trying to collaborate, is approaching.

28:56 Cleo Clayton, a child who survived the explosion and who is standing next to the superintendent trembling with fear, is also there. When he sees the Superintendent approaching the van, the boy goes after the superintendent to see what it is about. It was the last moment of all of them' s life, at the moment when they are suddenly struggling Androw Kijo releases the gun that he had in his hands approaches the truck and before Hoyk can act on the gun and kill him, Ki How detonates an explosive charge that he carries in the truck' s box. In addition to the explosives, the truck box is full of pieces of metal, pieces of wood, pieces of trunk designed to become a real bomb. Thousands of fragments are fired in all directions. Of course, androw ke how Hur dies on the spot. The explosion does not tear Hoyk apart, Superintendent Hoyt dies at the very moment. Nelson Mcfarren, who had approached to help, also dies at the time. Little Cliyohclayton, who had approached to see, also dies. Inside the seriously injured is Mr Smith Glen Smith, who would also die a little later. That same day,

30:30 several other people who were there lamenting the loss of a child, lamenting the destruction, died. The entire area is devastated by the explosion. The van was loaded with explosives as far as it could no longer fit and hundreds of fragments of all kinds of metal from spoon to slave. Tool pieces were there. The explosion has caused a terrible second damage. People who were on the site can' t understand what the hell this is in a matter of minutes. People from all over the area, people who have come from other communities, even from other states, come to try to help doctors. The few doctors in the colony. In that place, in Bath Michigan, they rush to help those who can, but there is not much to do.

31:30 Many of these people are already dead. But in addition, the first of the federal agents to arrive at the site gives the sound of alarm and if something didn' t explode, everyone is stuck in the school' s remains trying to rescue corpses And if there' s more explosives, the school' s remains have to stay there. Someone has to come and check if there are no more explosives those serious people who have arrived have to wait for someone who knows about this to come in and check if it is safe. One of the former soldiers of the First World War, a man who served in the American army during the First War, is the first to sound this alarm and assures us that the bombs do not always explode or that they may have exploded either side. No wonder he decided to just attack the North Wing and not the whole school. As this happens, hundreds of people continue to arrive at the end of the day. No one cares and they' re going to check what' s in there, see if there' s any people alive, see if they find any wounded children. The school remains allow it and finally manage to rescue numerous people who were injured. Yeah, people who

33:07 had gotten there to do something. Children who did not die in the explosion were taken to nearby hospitals, but what had really happened. The surprise was still there. That old soldier was absolutely right. During the search it was discovered that, in fact, there were at least two hundred and fifty kilos of dynamite that had not exploded in the Alazur. The police again remove all the rescuers, stop that completely and an army group arrives to recover the explosives.

33:51 When they review that, they realize the degree of perversity there was. Kiho had prepared enough explosives to completely demolish the school to kill everyone. The devices were simple to charge explosives, a device known as piro col or, a device known as pirocol used in mining and an alarm clock. Yeah, a watch. When the alarm clock dialed at eight forty- five the explosion would occur, but due to an error in connecting the wires when giving the eight- fifty forty- five, a small short circuit prevented the bomb from bursting. Otherwise, it wouldn' t have been thirty- eight children killed.

34:52 It would have been two hundred and fifty the entire population of the school. After the search for explosives was completed, the recovery of corpses continued. Witnesses had now been informed of what had happened at the Farm. The authorities would go there to investigate. Andrew Keyhole for a little over a year had been buying explosives, dynamite, pyro col all of this periodically. It was no wonder that explosives, including military explosives, could be purchased in those years after World War I, the United States had put on sale numerous elements that had belonged to the army. The explosive was often used in construction works, in mining works. It would not be unusual for someone to buy a few cartridges, even under the pretext of ending a plague of tuas and similar things, to have had the patience to buy something more than a ton of explosives one after another. The days were quietly accumulating it a couple of days before the attack. The situation would have reached its peak when he murdered his wife and then made the decision to dynamite the school. But don' t get

36:29 confused. He had already prepared everything. The explosion occurs in May. However, Andrew Kihow had been seen entering school throughout the December vacation period, at which point he should not have been. The school was closed, but Kihow had the key thanks to his work as a school employee, which tells us that this guy had planned everything with his mantis. He had had the time to go and place explosive charges gradually in the cellars knowing that those areas were only visited by him. He had chosen the right places and had stacked enough explosives to demolish the entire school. Then the rest is history. Kiho had taken about a year to prepare everything. About a year systematically, this man went to a school where he heard the laughter of the children, where he saw them play, where he heard teachers, saw teachers, talked to them and at the end of the day he killed them a little more than a year. You' d like to imagine the kind of guy who' s able to get out of work, say goodbye to the kids saying goodbye to

38:04 the teachers, maybe even share one of those basket sandwiches that Americans always carry with them, then get in their vehicle and move to neighboring county to buy explosives with which they' re going to kill all these people. During the following investigations, it was determined that Anelly kihow La had killed her with a blunt blow to the head. It was determined that this would have happened at some point the previous afternoon and that he had everything prepared to kill as soon as rescuers arrived again and for the good fortune of the rescuers, the fire did not stop enough force to penetrate the basement and unleash the hell Andrew Keyhole expected to happen. But that' s not yet. Kie How had the nerve to go and still top off his archenemy, Emory Hoyke, for whom he professed a deep hatred, even though Hoyk had, of course, hired him as a school employee. What happened to this man, who this guy was, where he had come from, what the hell had happened? You ' ll immediately imagine he was a former fighter. No, Andrew Quijo was a fifty- five- year- old man at the time of the attack

39:37 had been born in one thousand eight hundred seventy- two. So by the time of the war, he was over forty. This guy wasn' t the war. He was born in New York. He was the 13th child of a family Yes, he had certainly had very hard times, Although when his mother dies and his father remarries, he has a very bad time. There wasn' t really much to say. It was the time. Many families lived on this kind of thing. The mother died, the children she gave to the father or vice versa. He had gone to a school, even where he was born he had stayed for a little while. Later he had gone to a place known as Tecumse, another small town in Michigan, was no real character. When the war began in nineteen hundred and fourteen he was considered unfit for service, first, because of age and, secondly, because three years ago he had suffered an accident where he had received a very severe blow to the head. You can' t tell if that had anything to do with it, but from that moment on, even Nelly declared that she had completely changed and that her behavior had become erratic behavior. Some believe

41:14 that the blow to the head would have led to all this wear and tear. It' s hard to tell anyway. The subject was not particularly dear, but he was a working person. No one would imagine this many years away psychiatrists, psychologists, profilers of f see analysts wondering what the hell happened. He was the 13th son of a family. All right, other families could have even more children and this wasn' t happening. This attack, though, was not the first. There had already been another bombing of a church in the United States. Imagine, you' re talking about a thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven, but you' re the first against a school. Michigan' s attack would be, or is considered, the first mass attack, the first violent attack with explosives specifically against a school. There was no racial pretext. Bath Michigan School was a school where both colored and white students attended. It was not a racial or religious matter. The school belonged to the county and did not belong to any particular church, the attack

42:51 was simply out of hatred those people the attack takes place that day. The attacker, in this case, Andrew Keyhole, dies in the attack, which is also common in these incidents and many studies and analyses would come to find out what the hell had happened there. It was the first time this had happened, but, obviously, studies in the matter of mass attacks and more merders were not something there was. There was no profiler like such a person who devoted himself to this. So the case of the Bath Michigan attack would be a subject of study for many years to come to tremendous conclusions. See one of the theories was the theory of the blow to the head. In nineteen hundred and eleven, this guy had had a terrible blow to his head, which had left him hospitalized for a good time, and there were those who claimed that after that incident, Andrew key How had never been the same again. But other things day. When the school is built in the early 1920s, the population of Bath, Michigan establishes a special tax. Everyone has to contribute extra money to build the school. Androw Kiho always opposed this on the premise that he had no children to send to school. From there,

44:27 he argued that having paid those excise duties had left him bankrupt. But that wasn' t all. Nelly Nelliky How, his wife, who had worked her whole life. She would also have a peculiar illness, a tuberculosis- like illness, which would incapacitate her and end up being discharged from her job, which would add up to a lot of debts. The treatment, having to leave the farm to take her to the doctor constantly, the inability to attend the field would lead to Andrew Quijo being in a very forced, very committed economic situation. It is known that during the last few months, Andrew had not paid the mortgage he had taken out on his property. In addition, the land had been virtually abandoned. There are two factors involved. It is not known whether the economic pressure for the losses and all of this would have led him to attack the School, oh if they would have happened because of the idea of the end to the next, that is, because of the proximity that the attack that would cost him his life as it was, it is very likely that Kiho would have used as his own pretext for the attack the fact that the school would have brought him to ruin, which, by the way, was false. The tax was a lower tax, it would not have affected anyone' s economy. During the investigation it was final

46:00 that was given on the old house and on the destroyed property of the Kiho was found a very peculiar plaque, a wooden engraved plate that said the murderers are not born, they are made. The badge was next to Nelly Kihow ' s body, which gave an idea that this guy had thought of it that way and that the reason for the escape of that anger was the school. This would be one of the most violent attacks, but of course it would not be the only one. From there, there would be similar attacks over the years, in the forties, in the fifties, in the sixties, in each of these décodes similar incidents occurred. In one thousand nine hundred and sixty- six, an attack on a school in an African- American colony would leave about twenty children dead. Other similar attacks have been taking place over the years. They' re not always lonely shooters. Sometimes the attacks are perpetrated by macabre characters like Kee Howe, with enough patience to put together an intricate process of destruction. On other occasions, they are subjects who are lonelyly deranged and begin to act by feeling the power to have a weapon in their hand. Others plan for very long periods of time and do so even

47:34 when they do not use explosives. We have examples such as Columbine, as hwhite Knife and so many others where tragically similar events took place. So it ' s not something new. It' s not that these new generations are worse. The incident that I told you tonight comes from a thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven and prior to this there had already been attacks. The big question I think we' re all doing that to each other, why it' s clear there' s been attacks elsewhere, too. There have been attacks even in Sweden, it seems to me, or in similar places where enormous social tranquility is presumed, but they are very sporadic. On the other hand, in the United States, for some reason, one of these tragedies occurs from time to time. What' s going on in these people ' s minds. They are supposed to have a better standard of living, living in a much more favorable condition. And yet, suddenly, someone would go wild and see what causes surprising. I don' t think there are many other cases to talk about. There will be an opportunity, of course, if you accompany us again to discuss these issues, to return to them.

49:01 It is overwhelming, and even if it is not a program that describes human remains floating in the air, far from it, the idea itself is terrifying and good weather. Time will always run out and it' s time to say goodbye to all of you, thanking you, of course, for your company' s favor tonight. Good evening, follow us on our YouTube channel, too, stories from the dark side.