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152: A School Shooting in a Small Amish Community - October 2 2019 - Today in True Crime

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com We live in a world where school shootings have become commonplace in our news. It’s become a horrifying reality for this generation of children. On October 2nd 2006 a shooting took place in an unlikely schoolhouse that ended the lives of 5 young girls. Amish School Shooting (2006) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement.

0:03.8

We have a weird.

0:05.7

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

We live in a world where school shootings have become commonplace in our news.

0:16.3

It's become a horrifying reality for this generation of children.

0:20.4

On October 2nd, 2006, a shooting took place in an unlikely schoolhouse that ended in the lives of five young girls.

0:29.6

So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning

0:34.8

cup of murder.

0:38.4

On the morning of October 2, 2006, a group of children sat safely in their small Amish

0:45.1

schoolhouse in Nickelmines, Pennsylvania, ready to learn after finishing recess.

0:50.9

At about 10.25 a.m., a man named Charles Carl Roberts IV backed up his pickup truck to the front of the school.

0:59.7

He entered the building and asked the teacher Emma May Zook and the students if they had seen his missing cleavis pin, a piece used for a wagon or a truck.

1:10.3

After answering the man, he left and headed towards his truck.

1:14.1

He returned, this time with a 9mm handgun and ordered the boys to help him carry items from his truck into the school.

1:22.9

With him, he brought lumber, a shotgun, stun gun, wires, chains, nails, tools, a small bag,

1:32.2

and a wooden board with sets of metal eye hooks.

1:35.9

In the bag was a change of clothes, toilet paper, candles, sexual lubricant, and plastic ties.

1:42.9

Emma Zook and her mother, who had been visiting her daughter at work,

1:46.3

took a chance and fled to a nearby farm and called 911. When Roberts noticed their absence,

1:52.8

he ordered the boys to stop them and threatened to shoot everyone if they got away. Luckily,

1:58.5

the women were able to escape and arrived at the farm of Amos Smoker,

2:02.7

who called 911. Around this time, Roberts allowed a pregnant woman, three parents with infants,

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