"Criminals are made, not born“ –Andrew kehoe

Background information: Born in Tecumseh, Michigan on February 1st, 1872. Younger of 13 children in his family Mom died when he was young and his father remarried Stepmother caught on fire after an oil stove exploded and Andrew threw water on her which only made it worse and she died He studied electrical engineering at Michigan State College in East Lansing. After that, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked as an electrician. After several years in Missouri, Kehoe returned to Michigan. At the age of 40, he married Ellen "Nellie" Price in 1912. Seven years later they moved to a farm they bought outside the village of Bath.

Kehoe’s mass murder beginning in 1926 his fortunes seemed to be in decline. He lost the nomination for the clerkship and was having trouble with school board. His wife was also ill. And, to top it all off, Kehoe was grappling with financial problems. These were caused in part by a special tax to build a new school; a tax he had fought against. Kehoe was facing the possibility of losing his 80-acre farm.

The bombing: *mass murder: is the act of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time.[1] The FBI defines mass murder as murdering four or more persons during an event with no "cooling-off period" between the murders Between May 16, when his wife returned home from a hospital stay, and the morning of May 18, Kehoe killed his wife. He moved her body to a farm building before setting off incendiary explosions in their house and farm buildings. About the same time, he had arranged timed explosions in the new school building. The materials in the north wing exploded as planned, killing many students and some adults inside. had set a timed detonator to ignite dynamite and hundreds of pounds of pyrotol at the school, which he had secretly bought and planted in the basement of both wings over the course of many months. The second 500 pounds of explosives in the south wing, did not detonate, so that part of the school was not destroyed

Crimes accused of: Crime Date Victims Punishmnent Murder May 18th, 1927 Wife, 38 children, 5 adults, and injured 58 people He commited suicide

Sentence: Andrew kehoe had not had any sentence due to killing himself right after he committed the mass murder. As rescuers started gathering at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and in a struggle with the school superintendent, detonated dynamite inside his truck, killing himself and Superintendent Huyck During the rescue efforts, searchers discovered the additional 500 pounds of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol planted throughout the basement of the school's south wing. These explosives, connected to an alarm clock that was supposed to act as the detonator, had been set for the same time as the other explosion Pyrotol: was an explosive available for a time after World War

Evidence: His neighbor Ellsworth thought Kehoe started planning his "murderous revenge" against the community at that time. His neighbor, A. McMullen, noticed that Kehoe stopped working altogether on his farm in his last year, and thought he might be planning suicide.[

Labeling theory: Andrew kehoe represents the labeling theory because he has the authority to impose their standards on society. He was a school teacher and township clerk of bath michigan. He refused and argued the tax that was being implemented to build a new school. Kehoe’s personality was described to be very particular and meticulous. He was an intelligent man . As being a treasurer for the school board he always seeemed to be voting against them and calling for adjournment when he didn't get his way. He repeatedly accused superintendent Emory Huyck of financial mismanagement.