Springfield

Could Brenda Spencer have helped establish a model for future school shooters? In the decades that followed, America would experience a series of increasingly devastating attacks on schools.

In 1998, 15-year-old Kip Kinkle killed his parents before opening fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two students and wounding many others.

In 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado.

Columbine would become a defining event in the history of American school shootings.

I'm the rusty nut of podcasting, Ike Goss.

I own and operate Pangolin 4x4 in Springfield, Oregon, where we live and breathe Land Rovers.

Check us out online on Facebook, Instagram, at Pangolin 4x4.

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Anyway, up here in Oregon, we also celebrated Halloween.

Maddie really goes the extra mile every year and turns the local...

Springfield History Museum into a haunted house.

And this year's theme was like the haunted hospital or something like that.

This next one, I'm telling you...

Some people, this next caller, Dana from Springfield, put a ton, I assume a ton of time into this because she rhymes through the whole thing.

It's about three minutes long, and it is fantastic.

Roll it, Nate.

Oh, thank you for putting that together.

Oh, man, that was fantastic.

That was Dana in Springfield.

I think Springfield, Oregon.

In fact, I believe he died yesterday morning.

He should have been put to death, but sadly, back when he committed his crime, when he'd already been found guilty of one murder in Texas, and then murdered and raped and kidnapped a nine-year-old girl in Springfield, Oregon.

I happened to be living and working as a reporter in the community at the time.

And I remember the case very, very well.

Benny Lee Chafin.

And the reason I remember this one so well, I was a reporter down in Eugene in 1984.

So in December of 84, the scumbag parents of this little girl who got raped, do you know what they did? They lived in Springfield, and they were drinking and eating chips and salsa, and they ran out of chips and salsa.

Now, do you know how dark it is outside in the Northwest in December at about 8 o'clock at night? It's pretty dark.

I didn't know what to do.

So I just sort of... decided to join a support group at Riverbend in Springfield, Oregon.

I had a lot of questions around the stroke also, so one of the meetings, the director, the lead doctor for the stroke unit at Riverbend came to our meeting and talked to us and stuff.

She stuck around, you know, we sort of sit around and talk.

Thank you to everyone joining us today.

I own and operate Pangolin 4x4 in Springfield, Oregon, where we live and breathe Land Rovers.

Check us out online on Facebook, Instagram at Pangolin 4x4.

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We've got a listener in Minneapolis.

We have a listener in Springfield, Oregon.

Up in Anchorage, Alaska.

A couple in Europe.

And Boggs, before we move on here, we didn't talk about the Oregon Ducks, but we do have a developing story.

After their, you know, very narrow win against Nebraska, we had Oregon wide receiver Evan Stewart arrested on a DUI charge in Springfield, Oregon on Sunday morning.

That is per Haley DeVore bogs.

I don't want to speculate too much on, you know, the character of Evan Stewart.