Hirschi’s social bonding theory is most applicable to the case study of Kip Kinkel. Through Kinkel’s own admission, factors like his isolation, the humiliation that he and his family felt on account of his conduct, and being bullied all heavily contributed to …
Kip Kinkel. On May 20, 1998, Kip Kinkel, a 15-year-old high school student, murdered his parents, Bill and Faith Kinkel, in their house. Then, the next day, he killed two students and injured 25 others in a school shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. The murdered students were Ben Walker, age 16, and Mikael Nickolauson, age 17.
Killer Kip Kinkel's attorney: 'He's completely harmless' The Oregon court of appeals has denied a motion to shorten the sentence for Thurston High School shooter Kipland P. Kinkel.
Jun 14, 2021 · Kip Kinkel, now 38, spoke exclusively with the Huffington Post over the course of 10 months via phone from Oregon State Correctional Institution, telling the outlet he feels “tremendous, tremendous shame and guilt.”. He is serving a de facto life sentence at the medium-security prison for the murder of his parents and two classmates.
Kipland (Kip) Philip Kinkel was the second child born to Faith Zuranski and Bill Kinkel. His sister, Kristen, was nearly six years old when Kip was born in 1982. Both Bill and Faith were educators and took their children camping, hiking, and skiing almost every weekend. The Kinkel family moved to Spain for a year in 1986 and Kip entered his first year of formal schooling. His teacher did not speak English and it proved a difficult year for Kip.
Less than twenty-four hours after his initial arrest, Kip Kinkel was back in the custody of the Springfield Police Department. Secured in an interview room and locked in handcuffs, Kip managed to retrieve a hunting knife he had taped to his leg and attacked the returning detective. He was quickly subdued. During the ensuing interview, Kip confessed to killing his parents. The recovery of their bodies was delayed while officials disarmed a series of bombs in the Kinkel home, including one placed under his mother's body.
Kip Kinkel confessed to killing his parents on May 20, 1998, and then opening fire the following day at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, killing two and wounding twenty-five. The following year he was sentenced to 111 years in prison. His case focused national attention on the continuing tragedy of school violence that plagued America in the late 1990s.
Kip Kinkel, who is serving life for a 1998 mass murder he committed when he was 15, says he feels an obligation to speak out because of how his case affects other young people who committed crimes as minors.
The shooting came a year prior to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, an incident Kinkel fears he inspired. Kinkel told the outlet that he sobbed after that shooting and that the voices in his head told him Columbine was his fault.
He is serving a de facto life sentence at the medium-security prison for the murder of his parents and two classmates. He was 15 when, on May 20, 1998, he shot and killed his parents one day prior to opening fire at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon.
They argue that his guilty plea was not voluntary and that he wasn’t in the right state of mind at the time. Betina Lynn, who was shot in the foot by Kinkel and has permanent nerve damage as a result, told the Huffington Post the idea of him ever getting out is “literally terrifying.”.
Springfield, Ore. police have made public tapes of Kinkel recorded after his shooting rampage on May 21, 1998. Kinkel, now 17, is serving a 112-year sentence after pleading guilty to murdering his parents and two students at Thurston High School.
The psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Hicks, said Kinkel told him that his mother saw him as a good kid with bad habits while his father saw him as a bad kid with bad habits. "He became tearful when he discussed his relationship with his father," Hicks wrote, adding Kinkel told him making explosives helped reduce his anger.
The teen wrote that there were people he wanted to kill, but would not because he still had hope. "As soon s my hope is gone, people die," he continued. Kinkel eventually was caught with a loaded stolen pistol in his high school locker. Facing expulsion, he then went on his shooting rampage.
The audio and video tapes aired on Portland TV stations Thursday night. They were broadcast earlier this week on the PBS documentary program Frontline.#N#In the documentary, a psychologist who treated the killer before the shooting spree said he warned that the teen should never be given any guns. The psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Hicks, said Kinkel told him that his mother saw him as a good kid with bad habits while his father saw him as a bad kid with bad habits.
Kinkel is asked by police. "No, I was just waving it (his gun) around," answered the teen. In an audio confession, Kinkel tearfully described to police how he almost ended his life with a pistol after killing his parents at the family home the night before.
The Oregon Supreme Court held that Kinkel’s sentence didn’t violate the Eighth Amendment because his crimes reflected “not the transient immaturity of youth” but an “irretrievably depraved character,” arising from a deep-seated psychological problem “that will not diminish as petitioner matures.”.
He and his lawyers also continue to argue that the lengthy sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment because it affords a juvenile offender no possibility of release “where no finding was made by the sentencing court that Mr. Kinkel’s crimes reflected irreparable corruption.”.
As previously reported, Kinkel completed his college degree in custody and is working as an electrician. He said his sister Kristin has been his strongest advocate yet he’s also had support behind bars from other juvenile offenders serving life sentences, such as Conrad Engweiler, who was 15 when he raped and killed a 16-year-old girl.
A subsequent provision clarified that it was not intended to apply retroactively to juveniles currently serving Measure 11 sentences such as Kinkel. Kinkel told The Huffington Post he was dismayed that “they were going to use me” as a reason the reform bill shouldn’t impact youth already in the system.