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Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 6:01 a.m.

United States President William McKinley was on top of the world. For the most part, the American people loved him \u2014 and he loved them. In fact, shaking hands and meeting new people was one of his favorite parts of the job. But it was also one of the most dangerous.\xa0
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\nDespite the fact that two previous U.S. Presidents had been assassinated, presidential security was still grossly insufficient. It was the ideal environment for anarchist Leon Czolgosz to enact his revenge.\xa0
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\nThen, Brandi tells us an unsettling story about a deeply disturbed teenage boy. When Zachary Davis was just nine years old, his father died from ALS. His father\u2019s death was understandably difficult on the young boy. He withdrew. He became quieter than ever before. Eventually, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and depressive disorder. Years later, as a teenager, Zachary brutally murdered his mother, Melanie Davis, then attempted to light the house of fire. The prosecution would argue that Zachary was cold-blooded. But the defense made a case for leniency. They said he was a disturbed young man who desperately needed mental health treatment.
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cCzolgosz is to die,\u201d The Fairmont News
\n\u201cLeon Czolgosz\u201d entry for Wikipedia
\n\u201cJames Benjamin Parker\u201d entry for Wikipedia
\n\u201cAssassination of William McKinley\u201d entry for Wikipedia
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cThe Sledgehammer Killer -Zachary Davis\u201d by Emily Thompson, morbidology.com
\n\u201cZachary Davis: The Disturbing Story Of The 15-Year-Old Who Bludgeoned His Mother And Tried To Burn His Brother Alive\u201d by\xa0William DeLong, All Things Interesting
\n\u201cDavis trial Day 3: Zachary Davis tells jurors \u2018I didn\u2019t do it\u2019\u201d by Tena Lee, Tennessean
\n\u201cZachary Davis gets 20 more years in bludgeoning death of mother\u201d by Tena Lee, Tennessean
\n\u201cMentally Ill or Monster?\u201d episode Dr. Phil

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