Brenda Ann Spencer
{{Infobox Criminal| subject_name = Brenda Ann Spencer| image_size =| image_caption =| date_of_birth = April 3, 1962| place_of_birth = San Diego, California, USA| date_of_death =| place_of_death =| charge = murder (two counts), assault with a deadly weapon| penalty = 25 years to life imprisonment| status = currently imprisoned at California Institution for Women, [1979, Brenda Ann Spencer wounded eight children and one police officer and killed principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, California, United States.
The school was across the street from her house. She used the rifle she had recently been given for Christmas by her father. When the six-hour incident ended and the sixteen-year-old was asked why she had committed the crime, she shrugged and replied, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." She also said: "I had no reason for it, and it was just a lot of fun." "It was just like shooting ducks in a pond." and " children looked like a herd of cows standing around, it was really easy pickings."
She pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to prison for 25 years to life imprisonment, currently being served at The California Institution for Women in Corona, California. She has been eligible for parole four times and has been turned down each time, most recently in 2005. She will be eligible for parole again in 2009.
In 2005, she claimed that she was drunk and under the influence of Phencyclidine, and that her father, Wallace Spencer, had sexually abused her as a child (a claim she did not make during the earlier years of her incarceration) and that the state and her attorney conspired to hide her drug test results.
On January 23, 2006, the British television Channel 4 broadcast a documentary titled I Don't Like Mondays. In it members of the Spencer family, including Brenda's father who had never before spoken publicly about the events of twenty-seven years earlier. He denied being responsible for the shooting and said that he had absolutely no knowledge of the accusations his daughter made against him in 2005. He continues to visit her every Saturday afternoon, when possible.
Spencer's crime, lack of remorse, and inability to provide a serious explanation for her actions when captured inspired the song "I Don't Like Mondays (song)" by The Boomtown Rats, written by musician Bob Geldof. Her quote "I don't like Mondays." also appears written on a wall in the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club.
External links
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The school was across the street from her house. She used the rifle she had recently been given for Christmas by her father. When the six-hour incident ended and the sixteen-year-old was asked why she had committed the crime, she shrugged and replied, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." She also said: "I had no reason for it, and it was just a lot of fun." "It was just like shooting ducks in a pond." and " children looked like a herd of cows standing around, it was really easy pickings."
She pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to prison for 25 years to life imprisonment, currently being served at The California Institution for Women in Corona, California. She has been eligible for parole four times and has been turned down each time, most recently in 2005. She will be eligible for parole again in 2009.
In 2005, she claimed that she was drunk and under the influence of Phencyclidine, and that her father, Wallace Spencer, had sexually abused her as a child (a claim she did not make during the earlier years of her incarceration) and that the state and her attorney conspired to hide her drug test results.
On January 23, 2006, the British television Channel 4 broadcast a documentary titled I Don't Like Mondays. In it members of the Spencer family, including Brenda's father who had never before spoken publicly about the events of twenty-seven years earlier. He denied being responsible for the shooting and said that he had absolutely no knowledge of the accusations his daughter made against him in 2005. He continues to visit her every Saturday afternoon, when possible.
Spencer's crime, lack of remorse, and inability to provide a serious explanation for her actions when captured inspired the song "I Don't Like Mondays (song)" by The Boomtown Rats, written by musician Bob Geldof. Her quote "I don't like Mondays." also appears written on a wall in the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club.
External links
- several articles from San Diego Union Tribune
- Urban Legends Reference Pages Writeup
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