By David Propper – Published April 27, 2023 – New York Post

The manifesto from Covenant school shooter Audrey Hale will be released after authorities prepare it for public consumption, Nashville police said Thursday.

Hale’s writings have been the subject of much speculation in the aftermath of the twisted mass shooting inside The Covenant School where three young students and three staffers were fatally shot.

A trove of writings was seized from Hale’s home, though it’s unclear what will exactly be shown to the public.

“The investigation has advanced to the point that writings from the Covenant shooter are now being reviewed for public release and that process is underway and will take a little time,” a Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson told The Post.

Police on Thursday could not give a firm date when the writings would be released and would not confirm if everything would be shown to the public.

Hale, who identified as transgender, was killed by cops who quickly responded to the private Christian school minutes after the killer began the depraved March 27 shooting spree.

Authorities believe Hale targeted the school and its affiliated church, but have not elaborated on that.

Twenty journals, five laptops, a suicide note and other written notes by Hale were seized from the house the 28-year-old shared with her parents, according to a search warrant. Two memoirs, five Covenant School yearbooks and seven cell phones were also recovered.

Nashville’s police statement Thursday comes a week after local pols told The Post Hale’s manifesto was a “blueprint on total destruction” and blamed the FBI for stalling its release.

Rep. Tim Burchett, (R-Tenn.) said he knew the FBI was behind the delay as he called for the documents to be given to the victims’ families and members of Congress.

He said the manifesto “could maybe tell us a little bit about what’s going on inside of her head.”

Metro Nashville Council Member Courtney Johnston said she was told Hale’s manifesto was a “blue print on total destruction” and that one high-ranking Metro Nashville Police Department official told her “it keeps him up at night.”

Metro Nashville Council Member Robert Swope previously said last month the manifesto would be released after the FBI analyzes its contents.

Nashville police said in a news release earlier this month that Hale’s writings “remain under careful review” by its department and the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit.

Authorities previously said Hale was undergoing doctor’s care for an emotional disorder.

Hale shot and killed nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney as well as school janitor Mike Hill, substitute teacher Cynthia Peak and headmistress Katherine Koonce.

Nashville police previously told The Associated Press last month Hale was “assigned female at birth. Hale did use male pronouns on a social media profile” after the police chief said at a news conference Hale was transgender.

Authorities have not detailed a clear motive for the shooting.

Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale wrote she hoped to make Columbine shooters proud in journal entry: report

By Caitlin McCormack and Allie Griffin – Published Sep. 4, 2024, – New York Post

Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale wrote in a journal entry that she hoped to make the Columbine shooters proud when she opened fire on her former Christian elementary school, killing six people.

“I want my massacre to end in a way that Eric [Harris] & Dylan [Klebold] would be proud of,” Hale wrote in scribbled print at the bottom of a ruled page in her journal, according to evidence photos of the book obtained and published by the Tennessee Star.

“April of ’99 – the year Columbine/NBK was born… (4/20/1999). The year Aiden was born… (3/27/23!)” Hale wrote in another entry, referring to the male name, Aiden, she chose for herself.

Hale, a 28-year-old trans artist, stormed into the Covenant School on March 27, 2023 and gunned down three 9-year-old children and three adult staffers before she was killed by police officers.

She planned the “massacre” months ahead of time and described her suicidal thoughts in the journal entries — which have been at the center of a highly contentious legal battle between the Tennessee Star publisher and the families of the victims.

“Idc [I don’t care] if people die as I am the shooter, because I’m going 2 die, too,” Hale scrawled on another page. “I’d kill 2 die… My only true motivation = mass suicide plus death (infinite).”

The journal is full of largely incoherent ramblings, doodles and descriptions of self-loathing as well as plans to shoot up the private school.

Hale’s final entry on the day of the mass shooting is labeled “Death Day” next to a drawing of a gun.

“Today is the day. The day has finally come! I can’t believe it’s here. Don’t know how I was able to get this far, but here I am,” she wrote.

“I’m a little nervous, but excited too, been excited for the past 2 weeks,” she continued. “There were several times I could have been caught especially back in the summer of 2021. None of that matters now. I’m almost an hour & 7 miles away.

“Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready. I hope my victims aren’t,” Hale callously scribbled.

The entries were among 90 pages of writings from Hale’s notebook released by The Star on Tuesday.

The local newspaper obtained the journal entries from a source familiar with the investigation into Hale in June 2024 and has argued it has a First Amendment right to publish its findings.

But the parents of the three children killed by Hale — William Kinney, Evelyn Dieckhaus and Hallie Scruggs — have begged a judge to bar outlets from publishing the killer’s writings.

“I will not stand by to allow these shooter’s writings be published in any way. This mass murderer doesn’t get to speak from the grave,” Erin Kinney, the mother of William, wrote in an affidavit.

The families’ lawyers have argued that they own the copyright to the writings since Hale’s parents turned over the estate to the victims’ families after the shooting.

Free speech advocates and media outlets like The Star have also sued law enforcement agencies to release all of Hale’s writings — arguing that the public has a right to know what motivated the senseless killings.

The entries published Tuesday were from just one of 20 journals Hale kept along with a suicide note and an unpublished memoir.

Trans school shooter Audrey Hale who killed 6 — including 3 kids — wrote about ‘imaginary penis’ in screed

By Olivia Land – Published June 7, 2024 – New York Post

Audrey Hale, the transgender shooter who killed three adults and three children at a Christian school in Tennessee last spring, detailed her “imaginary penis” in a newly-revealed screed.

“My penis exists in my head. I swear to god I’m a male,” Hale, who had started to go by Aiden at the time of the shooting, wrote on one page in their diary, four dozen pages of which were obtained by the Tennessee Star.

The entry also described Hales’ agonizing experience as a trans man and included at least one drawing, referencing Hale’s desire to have sex with women.

Hale described being raised as a girl as “torture,” adding she feared being “being called a dyke or a f—-t” during high school, the outlet reported.

Hale learned more about trans people during college, and felt like she finally found the solution to her discontent.

“I finally found the answer – that changing one’s gender is possible,” Hale explained in one entry.

Hale’s mother, however, seemed opposed to the idea.

“What she believes, how she grew up, conservatively, and that LGBTQ — especially transgender — was an enigma, nearly non-existent,” Hale wrote.

“I hate parental views; how my mom sees me as a daughter — and she’d not bear to want to lose that daughter because a son would be the death of Audrey,” she added.

She continued to express her frustration at their parents’ refusal to support their transition, and wrote about wishing she had access to puberty blockers.

“I’d kill to have those resources; 2007 was the birth of puberty blockers and a newfound discovery for treatment of non-conforming transgender children,” Hale lamented. “I was in the 6th grade, puberty already hit me.”

“I should not be in this body!” another entry read. “Nothing on earth can save me… never ending pain. Religion won’t save.”

“If God won’t give me a boy body in heaven, then Jesus is a f****t,” the rant continued.

On another page, Hale detailed how she played out her fantasies about having sex as a man using stuffed toys.

“I can pretend to be them [and] do the things boys do [and] experience my boy self as Tony,” she wrote, referring to a “stuffed boy doll” that “is like the boy I am in another form.”

At one point, Hale described becoming so enthralled in their fantasies that she lost track of time and missed a gym session.

“God, I am such a pervert.” Hale wrote. “I waste too much time in my fantasies.”

Hale, 28, wrote the self-hating entry just 16 days before March 27, 2023, when she shot through the front doors of the Convent School and killed three 9-year-olds and three adults.

In the wake of the tragedy, authorities found indications that Hale had become increasingly depressed and even planned on targeting the school one month earlier.

In an entry dated Feb. 28, 2023, Hale wrote, “Convent was closed yesterday. I guess it was [because] of the weather.”

Her entries in the weeks before the shooting had also belied a growing frustration with the politics around gun ownership and LGBTQ+ issues.

“So now in America, it makes one a criminal to have a gun or, be transgender, or non-binary. God I hate those sh–head politicians,” Hale wrote on Feb. 20.

“So now [because] of you, I wish death on myself cause of the pure hatred of my female gender,” she added, stipulating that “with no rights, anyone’s country is a s***** dictatorship.”

In the years before the shooting, Hale ––who attended art school – had been prescribed multiple medications, including the antidepressant Lexapro and the anti-anxiety drug Buspirone, a search warrant revealed. 

She also had thoughts of killing her father and committing school shooting, the warrant said.

Hale also reportedly used funds from a federal Pell Grant to buy guns, according to 99.7 WTN radio host Brian Wilson.

In her final entry dated the day of the shooting, Hale referred to “Death Day” and admitted to being nervous and excited about the pending rampage.

“The day has finally come. I can’t believe it’s here. Don’t know how I was able to get this far, but here I am,” she wrote.

“There were several times I could have been caught, especially back in the summer of 2021,” she added.

A few hours later, Hale’s brief reign of terror ended in a hail of bullets as she was gunned down by Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers for refusing to drop her weapon and surrender.

The rampage ended in a hail of bullets, with Hale gunned down by Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers as they shot out of a window at the school.

In the year since the shooting, the families of the victims have pleaded with the courts not to release Hale’s trove of writings, which included a suicide note and at least 20 journals.

“I will not stand by to allow these shooter’s writings be published in any way. This mass murderer doesn’t get to speak from the grave,” Erin Kinney, whose 9-year-old son William was killed in the shooting, wrote last month.