Day: April 2, 2025

Covenant School Killer Shared ‘Homicidal Fantasies’ During 2019 Psychological Assessment, Police Report Reveals

Tom Pappert
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Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the biological female who identified as a transgender man when she killed six on March 27, 2023, shared that experienced both “suicidal ideation and homicidal fantasies,” which involved thoughts of killing her own father, when speaking with a therapist in 2019. According to the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) report released on Wednesday, following the department’s conclusion of its Covenant investigation, Hale expressed suicidal and homicidal thoughts in journal entries beginning in 2018, and ultimately divulged this information to a therapist in 2019. “During therapy sessions in the spring and summer of 2019, Hale’s therapist noticed this anger with greater frequency,” MNPD homicide detectives wrote in the report. “Eventually, Hale let slip she had suicidal ideations and homicidal fantasies, though she was quick to explain she didn’t have a plan for either.” This apparently prompted the therapist to urge Hale to undergo a psychological assessment at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in June 2019, where The Tennessee Star previously learned that Hale was twice evaluated for commitment. During this assessment, MNPD noted VUMC mental health professionals “made no mention of psychosis and noted Hale denied having any plans to harm herself or others, nor…

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Police Report: Transgender Covenant School Killer Left 1,299 Pages of Writings in Notebooks Originally Called ‘Manifesto’

Tom Pappert

The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) report published following the conclusion of its investigation into the Covenant School killings by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who identified as a transgender man prior to the March 27, 2023 attack, revealed the killer left behind 1,299 pages of written materials spread across more than a dozen notebooks, in addition to videos and drawings.

When The Tennessee Star obtained the killer’s 2023 journal from a source familiar with the investigation last June and published it in its entirety four months later, it learned that Hale produced as many as 1,000 pages in other journals over the course of years.

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MNPD’s 48-Page Report on Covenant School Attack ‘Political,’ ‘Missed the Mark,’ Reporter Says

Kaitlin Housler
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Metro Nashville Police Department’s (MNPD) 48-page report into the Covenant School attack committed on March 27, 2023 by 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale appears to be “political” and “missed the mark” as it comes to its conclusion that the killer carried out the attack entirely for “notoriety.”

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Michael Patrick Leahy Calls Out MNPD’s Whitewash Omitting the Word ‘Transgender’ in 48-Page Report of Covenant School Killer

Kaitlin Housler
Audrey Elizabeth Hale

Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said the Metro Nashville Police Department’s (MNPD) 48-page report, which concluded that the Covenant School attack committed on March 27, 2023, by 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, was fueled by the killer’s desire for notoriety appears to be “whitewashed.”

On Wednesday, MNPD announced the conclusion of its more than two-year investigation into the attack by releasing the report, which ultimately concluded that Hale, despite identifying as a transgender man before killing six at the Christian school she once attended, carried out the pre-planned attack based on her desire for “notoriety.”

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Amazon, OnlyFans Founder Among Those Making Last-Minute Bid to Buy TikTok

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Montana TikTok Ruling

Amazon, AppLovin and the founders of OnlyFans are among those reportedly making a last-minute attempt to purchase TikTok ahead of the Saturday deadline for the China-based app to either be sold or banned in the U.S.

The Amazon bid was reported Wednesday by The New York Times based on sources who said the parties involved in the conversations are not taking Amazon’s bid seriously.

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Trump Administration Deports More than 100,000 Illegal Migrants in First 70 Days of Second Term

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Illegal immigrants

President Donald Trump’s new administration has deported over 100,000 illegal migrants since taking office on January 20, and arrested more than 110,000.

The numbers are a combination of arrests and deportations by both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an ICE official told Just The News on Tuesday. 

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Naval Academy Removes Hundreds of Books That Push DEI

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US Naval Academy

The U.S. Naval Academy on Monday began removing nearly 400 books that allegedly promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

The actions were taken after a directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office following President Donald Trump’s orders to remove DEI content from all federal agencies and federally contracted companies, according to the Associated Press. A list of the removed books has not yet been released.

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Judge Dismisses Eric Adams Indictment with Prejudice

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Eric Adams

U.S. District Judge Dale E. Ho dismissed the federal indictment against Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams “with prejudice” in a Wednesday ruling.

Federal prosecutors charged Adams in September on five federal charges relating to allegations that he “sought and accepted improper valuable benefits” from wealthy foreign businesspeople and at least one Turkish government official for nearly a decade. The judge granted the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) directive ordering the Southern District of New York, which brought the case against Adams, to drop the case in mid-February.

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Metro Nashville Police Concludes Investigation on Covenant School Killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale, Releases 48-Page Report

Tom Pappert

The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) on Wednesday concluded its investigation into the Covenant School attack committed on March 27, 2023 by 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, who identified as a transgender man prior to killing six at the Christian school she once attended, sharing key findings about the investigation in a 48-page report.

Despite needing more than two years to complete its investigation, MNPD confirmed that “Hale acted alone during the attack itself,” and no one around the killer had knowledge she was planning the attack. 

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Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon

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Politico   President Donald Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role as governing partner, ubiquitous cheerleader and Washington hatchet man. The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship. Musk’s looming retreat comes as some Trump administration insiders and many outside allies have become frustrated with his unpredictability and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points. READ THE FULL STORY               

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Liberal Judge Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat in High-Stakes Election as Voter ID Passes Overwhelmingly

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Judge Susan Crawford

Liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeated Conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel on Tuesday, notching a coveted seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court.

The Associated Press called the race at 10:16 p.m. on Tuesday, with Crawford at 55.8 percent of the vote and Schimel at 44.3 percent. The race for the key battleground state’s Supreme Court seat drew national attention, with many viewing the election results as a bellwether for voters’ attitudes toward President Donald Trump after his first few months in office.

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