Covenant Killer Audrey Hale Told Unknown Physician She 'Felt Close' to Columbine Massacre, Nashville Police Revealed in 2023 Recording | 4 July 2024 | Police investigators told the parents of Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale their daughter "felt close" to those who perpetrated the Columbine High School attack in 1999 and created her own version of the Columbine Tapes. The investigators told the killer's parents, Ronald Hale and Norma Hale, that their daughter divulged the information to an unknown physician, according to the transcript of a July 12, 2023, interview The Tennessee Star obtained last month. After questioning Ronald Hale and Norma Hale about their daughter’s history of suicidal ideation and confirming she experienced suicidal thoughts at least three times and was twice evaluated for commitment because of such ideation, the investigators revealed Audrey Hale was interested in the Columbine attack.