Journalist Megyn Kelly revealed on Monday that she had obtained over 1,000 pages of writings left behind by Nashville Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale, with the never-before-published pages providing “clear insight into the depraved mind of a killer.”
On her morning show, Kelly read out portions of the writing, including a passage written in the one of the final pages before the attack that stated, “I have to kill so I can be remembered in the most horrific way possible that no one will ever forget,” with Hale signing off under the name Aiden, Hale’s preferred male name.
Kelly said the pages, which her team reviewed over the weekend, “detail a deeply disturbed individual planning meticulously over years to carry out a mass shooting and then kill herself. The killer discusses her autism diagnosis, race, and her desire for ‘black love’ and acceptance, as well as her hatred of her own whiteness.”
Many pages had content that was “sexual in nature,” including “frustration with her virginity,” and also included information about Hale’s guns and training with firearms, as well as references to other school shootings.
Kelly said that Hale referred to the Columbine school shooters as “gods,” and the words “dark abyss” frequently pop up in the writings, either directly in the writings or in the margins, alongside “an image resembling a radioactive symbol, the logo created by the killer to represent her all-consuming depression and commitment to gaining notoriety via a mass shooting.”
In one entry dated April 12, 2022, titled “let kids choose their sex,” Hale wrote, “I only wore some nice girl clothes as a cover-up from the truth, which I denied myself all these years. And I hated all of it. It was miserable being raised a girl because I had no choice. There was lack of education, research, and medicine to help society or parents better understand transgender.”
The entry continued, “I didn’t know trans existed. I thought you could only be gay or bi and that’s the fate you had. But transgender is transcending way deeper to the core. There is still medicine to be approved by the FDA, and so little research has been done. If I had puberty blockers back then, I would have transitioned a long time ago, but I didn’t know you could possibly change your sex.”
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