Episode 246: The Heath High School shooting

Sometimes it feels as though Columbine was our first experience with school shootings. But it very much wasn't, as the town of West Paducah, Kentucky, can attest.

Videos:

• Very Bad Men: Michael Carneal

Articles and books:

• Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings, by Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David J. Harding, Jal Metha, and Wendy Roth

• 1997 Kentucky school shooter denied parole

• COMMONWEALTH v. CARNEAL (2008)

• When Grief Wanted a Hero, Truth Didn't Get in the Way

• Carneal Recalls 1997 High School Shooting Rampage

• WHEN THE SILENCE FELL