The killer at Thurston High

'Frontline' takes measure of the national crisis of school shootings through a journey into the life of one high school shooter, Kip Kinkel, who murdered his parents and then went to school and opened fire on his fellow students, killing two and injuring twenty-five. The fifteen-year-old was sentenced to 111 years in prison for his crimes. He will spend the rest of his life in an Oregon prison. 'Frontline' producers spent more than twelve months getting to know Kip Kinkel through his friends and his sister. What they found was very disturbing. By all accounts Kip Kinkel was part of an ideal American family, a nurturing home, a comforting community. His parents were well-respected teachers who seemed to be loving parents. He did not come from a home plagued by domestic violence or substance abuse. No one would have predicted that he was capable of such a horrific act. The programme unwraps a complicated story of a boy and his parents who lost their way. It examines a lifetime of small wounds that built up to emotional disturbance and quiet terror, and when fueled by adolescent logic, resulted in a bizzare and completely unforeseen tragedy.