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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: A Sniper In The TowerâThe First School ShootingâWhy Did He Do It?
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Before Columbine. Before Sandy Hook. Before Virginia Tech. There was the Sniper in the Tower at the University of Texas.
Americaâs first mass murder and school shooting unfolded on live television in Austin, Texas, more than a half-century ago.
Since then, the question has lingered, âWhy did he do it?â
Gary Lavergne, the author of A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders, addresses the whys and the myths about the why.
In this True Crime Reporterâ˘, Confidential investigative reporter Robert Riggs and former U.S. prosecutor Bill Johnston take list...