9 chats with top true-crime authors

In 2012, writers pondered murder and mayhem across the globe and across centuries.

8. Arnie Bernstein on America's worst school violence – in 1927

"One lesson is that you cannot stop someone who's determined to do something like this, who doesn't have that switch in their head that says to not do it. You cannot stop them any more than you can stop an iceberg.

"But out of that horror, out of the one or two people who commit these kinds of crimes, comes the good, the tremendous good that you see in the wake of these things. Our humanity comes through in the face of evil and the inexplicable.

"The survivors and their children are some of the most decent people I've ever known in my life, and they grew out of this."

 –Arnie Bernstein, author of "Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing."

(Check out the full interview here.)

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