Daryl McReynolds
We have all heard the phrase "Going Postal." It refers to when someone goes into their work place (or former work place) and begins killing people. It can happen anywhere but many of the most notable have occurred from people working in the Postal Service. I read a book about many of these types of cases and while every story is unique the one thing that most had in common seemed to be that life had become a pressure cooker from often many things and it seemed to boil over. More often than not the perpetrator (usually a shooter) dies at the scene of their crime either by their own hands or by the hands of authorities. On July 29, 1981, thirty-one year old Daryl McReynolds walked went to his former place of work, Crescent Plastics in Evansville Indiana and opened fire. When he was done he had killed two people and injured three, including a police officer. McReynolds himself was shot a dozen times by other officers. The murder victims wer...