Tag: Audrey Hale

Mass Shooter Parents at the Mercy of Selective Prosecution

Written by Sheila Matthews on May 18, 2025. Posted in Articles.

May 18 2025

Another parent of a school shooter was hauled into court and charged with murderous violence caused by his 15-year-old daughter, Natalie Rupnow. The question that nobody seems to want to ask is why school shooter cases are becoming selective prosecution, especially in light of law enforcement’s refusal to consider the shooter’s “treatment” and psychiatric medications.

Jeffrey Rupnow is charged with giving a dangerous weapon to a person under 18 causing death. Rupnow’s daughter, Natalie, killed a student and teacher at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin in December of 2024 before taking her own life.

Natalie was the child of divorce, was not handling the separation well, began cutting herself and threatening to kill herself. Natalie was subsequently enrolled in therapy in July of 2022. In an effort do an activity together just months prior to the shooting, Jeffrey Rupnow and his daughter joined a gun club with Natalie posting she “loved every second of it.” Apparently because of Natalie’s positive interest in shooting, Jeffrey provided his daughter with the combination to his gun safe where Natalie’s firearms were kept.

While law enforcement in Madison seemed filled with delight at bringing these charges against Rupnow, one can only wonder if anyone is curious about what role Natalie’s “therapy” may have played. For instance, who was Natalie’s therapist and why hasn’t the public heard about Natalie’s “treatment” plan? Had Natalie been prescribed prescription psychiatric drugs? And, if so, what were they? Had Natalie been on a cocktail of drugs and for how long? Did the teenager experience any adverse effects from the drugs?

Tennessee Sets National Precedent with Passage of AbleChild Bill Requiring Psychotropic Drug Testing in Mass Shooter Cases

Written by Sheila Matthews on April 30, 2025. Posted in Articles.

Landmark Law in TN for Psychotropic Drug Testing for Mass Shooters

April 30, 2025

Nashville, TN – April 30, 2025 – In a decisive move to advance public safety and accountability, Tennessee has enacted HB 1349/SB 1146, a landmark law mandating toxicology testing for psychotropic drugs in deceased mass shooters. This legislation, championed by AbleChild -a national nonprofit advocating for informed consent in mental health and co-drafted with Amy Miller, former director of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Reform Pharma initiative, positions Tennessee at the forefront of a national reckoning at the intersection of mental health, pharmaceutical practices and mass violence.

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Psychiatric Abuse & Experimentation with Cocktail of Psych Drugs Fueled TN Covenant School Massacre

Written by Sheila Matthews on April 6, 2025. Posted in Articles.

Photo Credit Kevin Wurm/Reuters

April 6, 2025

Just believe us. Nobody but the shooter is responsible. Informed consent means nothing in Tennessee and the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department (NMPD) takes its orders from the parents of the shooter. That is what the public is left with from the final report on the March 27, 2023, Covenant Presbyterian Church and School shooting. Frankly, the two years in the making NMPD report appears to be a pathetic and insulting attempt to cover up the true reason behind the deadly attack.After reading the 48-page report on Audrey Hale’s murderous assault on the school it is impossible to believe that the NMPD was unable to obtain mental health evidence because “Hale’s parents no longer had confidence in the ability of the NMPD to safeguard this information.” Apparently, Hale’s parents only gave up the mental health records to the NMDP on the strict condition that the NMDP keep the records confidential and never make them public. Really? Six innocent people are dead, and the parents of the killer are dictating to law enforcement what evidence will and will not be made available? How does that work? Seriously. When did the parents of killers become the arbiters of evidence?

Billions in Funding at Risk If Audrey Hale’s Mental Health Records Are Released to Public

Written by Sheila Matthews on September 3, 2024. Posted in Articles.

September 3, 2024

Tennessee Star Reports on Inventory collected by investigators “Psych Folder” #46 Audrey Hale

The Tennessee Star released today a 2023 journal written by Covenant School shooter, Audrey Hale. The release of the journal provides very little new information about the shooter’s motives but raises interesting questions about the public’s right to review all the investigative material, including, and especially, mental health records.

Unfortunately, the 2023 journal entries are a rambling diatribe by Hale lamenting having been born a female and whining about how misunderstood she is by her parents and particularly her father. She alleges that she is a victim of having been born the wrong sex and having a broken brain, most of the pages in the journal are about Hale’s desire to die and only then will Hale be happy. Clearly there are many mental health issues involved with Hale leading up to the shooting. The question, though, is what caused Hale’s decent into suicidal and homicidal ideation?

School Shooters’ Nikolas Cruz & Audrey Hale Were Recipients of Drug Cocktails. It’s Time to Make Providers Accountable.

Written by Sheila Matthews on July 9, 2024. Posted in Articles.

July 9, 2024

Finally, journalists are asking the necessary questions relating to mass shootings, how they are investigated, prosecuted and where the responsibility lies. The Tennessee Star has nailed the questions that have escaped the smartest guys in the room – the behavioral health unit of the FBI, lawmakers, and the entire justice system. Who is responsible and how did the mental health treatments & psychiatric cocktails contribute to the motivations and actions of so many of today’s mass killers.

The Tennessee Star’s powerful series of leaked documents relating to Audrey Hale’s 22-years of psychiatric treatment by Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is shocking but, remarkably, not unlike the decades of treatment that the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter in Parkland, Fl., Nikolas Cruz, received at the hands of the Florida Henderson Behavioral Health, Inc.

Henderson is a behavioral health vendor that is funded by the State of Florida and had many opportunities during his “treatment” sessions to determine Cruz’s mental health status. What did Henderson’s mental health wizards conclude about Cruz? That’s right, Cruz was “not a harm to himself or anyone else” prior to his killing spree. Ironically, like Hale, Cruz lived a life of one psychiatric drug cocktail to the next.

Who is the Judge Protecting? Covenant School Shooter’s Writings Won’t See the Light of Day.

Written by Sheila Matthews on July 5, 2024. Posted in Articles.

Chancellor Judge I’Ashea L. Myles Photo Credit Instagram

July 5, 2024

Tennessee Judge I’Ashea L. Myles has ruled that not one page of the writings by the Covenant school shooter, Audrey Hale, will be released for public review. Why? Sounds like a cover up. Who is being protected?

The ruling is an insult that helps no one. The cat is already out of the bag. Audrey Hale was a mental patient from the age of six when in 2001 Hale’s parents turned her over to the mental health “experts” at Vanderbilt University Hospital. And had it not been for the leaked information from a law enforcement source to the Tennessee Star reporters, we’d have no idea the amount of psychiatric drugging that was being conducted on Hale.

But first we must take a step back and wonder why Hale’s parents found it helpful or necessary to turn over their daughter’s writings to the Covenant School and the parents of the victims. Why? Mom and Dad Hale knew their daughter was a mental health mess for many years. Mom and Dad Hale knew about the psychiatric drug experimenting that was done on their daughter. In fact, Norma Hale is reported to have told investigators that Audrey had to “go through a series of medications to find one that was appropriate for her.” Really?

Judge in Nashville to Decide if Evidence in a Mass Shooting is Copyrighted to Avoid Public Oversight

Written by Sheila Matthews on April 20, 2024. Posted in Articles.

2024/04/20

The parents of the victims of the Covenant School in Nashville, TN, have begged Davidson County Chancery Court to withhold from the public Audrey Hale’s manifesto and all documents belonging to the shooter, which were legally gifted to the parents of the victims by the shooter’s parents.

Gifting the documents to the parents of the victims is odd. But for the parents of the victims to then assert that they hold some kind of “copyright” on those documents is twisted on its face and one cannot help but wonder what really is behind this enormous effort to withhold information about Audrey Hale.

Let’s think about it for a minute. What we know is that Audrey Hale went to elementary school at Covenant, transferred out to Isaiah T. Creswell Middle School and Nashville School of Arts then on to Nossi College of Arts. Everything was seemingly okay.

At 28 years old, the now transitioning female, was identifying as the male, Aiden and, while living at home with mom and dad, began purchasing seven firearms, including shotguns, rifles, and handguns. It was also at this time that we find Hale being “treated” for an emotional disorder.

TN Representative Littleton Kills Mass Shooting Accountability Bill. Why?

Written by Sheila Matthews on April 1, 2024. Posted in Articles, Lawmaking, Violence.

Representative Mary Littleton,
District 78, Humphreys County, TN

2024/04/01

Tennessee House bill 2937, sponsored by Representative Mary Littleton, with a companion bill in the Senate sponsored by Senator Rusty Crowe, was attempting to reform the way in which mass shooting investigations are conducted. This twofold accountability bill would ensure toxicology testing for prescription psychotropic drugs used by the alleged shooters and would also allow mental health treatment records to be disclosed to law enforcement and the public. This may have been helpful in having Audrey Hale’s Manifesto released earlier along with obtaining mental health folder #46.