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The Killer at Thurston High
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The Killer at Thurston High

Jan 18, 2000
0h 56m
★ 0.0

Overview

In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two fellow students and wounding 25 others. In this first in-depth television examination of a school shooter, FRONTLINE reveals the intimate inside story of how the “shy and likeable” Kip Kinkel from a solid middle-class family became the boy police call “a cold-hearted killer.”

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Cast

Peter J. Boyer

Self - Correspondent

Peter J. Boyer

Kip Kinkel

Self

Kip Kinkel