Editing Andrew Kehoe (section)

==Biography==
===Early life===
Kehoe was born in Tecumseh, Michigan, among the younger of a family of 13 children. His parents were Philip Kehoe (1833–1915) and Mary (McGovern) Kehoe (1835–1890). He attended Tecumseh High School and Michigan State College (later Michigan State University), where he studied electrical engineering. There, he first met his future wife, Ellen "Nellie" Price, the daughter of a wealthy Lansing family.

After college, Kehoe went southwest, apparently working for several years as an electrician in St. Louis, Missouri. During this period, in 1911, he suffered a severe head injury in a fall which resulted in his being in a coma for two weeks.

Kehoe then moved back in with his father after the injury. During Kehoe's time away his mother had died and his father had married Frances Wilder, whom Kehoe did not like. 
===Personality===
Kehoe was regarded by his neighbors as a highly intelligent man who grew impatient and angry with those who disagreed with him. Neighbors recalled that Kehoe was always neat, dressed meticulously, and was known to change his shirt at midday or whenever it became even slightly dirty. Neighbors also recounted how Kehoe was cruel to his farm animals, having once beaten a horse to death. The Kehoes initially attended services at the Catholic church in Bath, but he refused to pay the church's parish assessment of members and prevented his wife from attending.

Recent analysis labels him a dangerous "injustice collector", a person who remembers slights and holds a grudge for a long time. While many people may hold grudges, it becomes dangerous when a person begins to feel like a victim and acts on it.
===The bombings===
On the morning of May 18, Kehoe beat his wife to death, probably with his Winchester rifle. Then set his farm buildings on fire. As fire fighters arrived at the farm, Kehoe drove up in his truck, telling them "Boys, you're my friends. You better get out of here. You better head down to the school" and drove off. An explosion devastated the north wing of the school building, killing many of the people inside. Kehoe used a detonator to ignite [[wikipedia:dynamite|dynamite]] and hundreds of pounds of [[wikipedia:pyrotol|pyrotol]] which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers started gathering at the school, Kehoe drove up and stopped. He beckoned over the superintendent, who he did not like. Kehoe revealed his involvement in the bombing. He pulled out a Winchester rifle and fired into the back of his dynamite and shrapnel-filled vehicle. The truck bomb detonated, killing himself and the school superintendent, as well as killing and injuring several others. During the rescue efforts, searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol planted throughout the basement of the school's south wing. If Kehoe's scheme had gone exactly according to plan, the whole school would've been destroyed and the casualties would've been doubled.

After the bombings investigators found a wooden sign wired to the farm's fence with Kehoe's last message, "CRIMINALS ARE MADE, NOT BORN," written on it. His wife's body was found, burnt beyond recognition.