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Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents before going on a shooting rampage at his Oregon high school in 1998, killing two classmates and injuring 25 more, has given his first news interview, telling HuffPost he feels "tremendous, tremendous shame and guilt." Kinkel, now 38, is serving a de facto life sentence at the Oregon State Correctional Institution. He spoke with the news site by phone for about 20 hours over 10 months. He said he felt guilty not just for what he did as a 15-year-old suffering from then-undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, but the effect his crime has had on other...

THE KILLER AT THURSTON HIGH Thursday, May 13, 60 minutes FRONTLINE [Repeat] 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings) In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, fifteen-year-old Kip Kinkel shot his father in the head and waited in the garage for his mother to come home. He told her he loved her before shooting her six times. He then went into his bedroom, listened to his favorite music, and strapped ammunition to his body. The next morning, Kip drove the family car to Thurston High and opened fire in the school cafeteria. In the end, two...