Highly-Reported Multiple-Victim School Shootings (Columbine, Virginia Tech, etc.)

[JohnnyL]

... are all government operations, with one of its main purposes being to pass anti-gun legislation.

Until we understand this, it's all "much ado about nothing".

Columbine, Santana, Chantilly, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Sandy Hook, etc., and even ones like DC Navy Yard.

Take a look at these two lines first: https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1350.cfm

I'm just going to start with Columbine here. It was the first big one, and not many people knew where to go to find non-MSM info back then. There is plenty more than what I've posted, but what I've posted is overkill for most people.

Many of these articles aren't on the web anymore, so I will copy and paste, and you might use archive.org to go back a ways and find the originals:

COLUMBINE

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From the Denver Post:
Breaking: Columbine Victim Killed by Sheriff Dept. Bullet-Says Lawsuit! Did Government Have a Hand ?
Source: CNN & Columbine Research Task Force & Denver Post
Lawsuit alleges Columbine victim killed by sheriff's department bullet
Rohrbough was shot as he held an exit door open for other students; He died on the sidewalk, a few steps from safety



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Anatomy of a School Shooting

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/littleton.htm

Dave McGowan
May 2000
(The following article appears in the book You Are Being Lied To)
On May 15, 2000, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office released the official report on the shooting deaths of fifteen people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Not surprisingly, the report confirmed the version of events that has been reported ad naseum for the last year by the U.S. press.
        The official story (for those who are just emerging from a coma or for some other reason inexplicably missed the saturation coverage of this event) goes something like this: two disaffected teenagers named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, acting alone with no assistance in the planning or execution of this crime, entered Columbine High on the morning of April 20, 1999, armed to the teeth, and promptly began shooting up the place, leaving twelve fellow students and one teacher dead before turning their guns on themselves.
        As with all the 'big stories' flogged by the American media, the various avenues of the U.S. press quickly fell in line behind this story, deftly avoiding any evidence that would tend to cast doubt on the official version of events. So while there has been some minor quibbling over insignificant details of the story (i.e. did the gunmen target athletes, blacks and/or Christians?), few serious journalists have questioned the central thesis that the carnage at Columbine High that day was the work of Harris and Klebold acting alone.
        Yet strangely enough, the press representatives closest to the scene, both socially and geographically, have reported facts about the case that don't appear to fit into the official scenario. Both the Denver Post and the Denver Rocky Mountain News, the newspapers serving the greater Denver area (of which Littleton is a part), have provided coverage which has been consistently ignored by the media in general.
        For the benefit of those living outside the Denver area, presented here you will find a few facts about the tragedy at Columbine of which you may be unaware and which tend to be at odds with the official report. Take, for example, the issue of how long the rampage lasted. One reporter on the scene wrote that:
        "The bloody rampage spanned four hours ... By 3:45 p.m., shots still rang out inside the school (as) more than 200 law enforcement officers and four SWAT teams tried to stop the gunmen and evacuate wounded high school students…." (Denver Post, April 21, 1999). Another quoted Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone, one of the first officials on the scene, as saying: "We had initial people there right away, but we couldn't get in. We were way outgunned" (Associated Press,  April 20, 1999).
        Echoing this sentiment was Terry Manwaring, commander of the Jefferson County SWAT team, who claimed: "I just knew the killers were armed and were better equipped than we were." The SWAT teams, therefore, made no effort to confront the killers (Playboy, March 2000).
        The official report, meanwhile, contends that the "lunchtime rampage ... ended after 45 minutes" and that "Sometime after noon the killers stood near the library windows and turned their guns on themselves" (Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2000). Strange then that there would be shots ringing out some three-and-a-half hours later.
        Stranger still is the notion that two teenagers with limited firearms training and armed only with shotguns and 9mm handguns would be able to outgun a veritable army of law enforcement officers, many with advanced paramilitary training and weapons. And you would think that the fact that the two were already dead would at least have slowed them down a bit.
        Then there is the issue of the bombs strategically placed throughout the school prior to the shootings. Some of those involved in the investigation of the case were openly skeptical of the notion that the two boys could have transported and placed all the explosive devices that were found. One report noted that:
         "The 20-pound bomb found inside the Columbine High School kitchen suggests the two teenage suspects were aided by others in their plot to blow up the school, police said Thursday. Packed inside a duffle bag with a wired gasoline can - and surrounded with nails and BBs for maximum killing power - the propane barbecue tank-bomb points to a wider conspiracy, police said." (Denver Post, April 23, 1999).
        Likewise, Jefferson County District Attorney Dave Thomas was quoted as saying: "It is obvious to me that they couldn't have carried them all in at the same time, plus the four weapons" (Denver Post, May 5, 1999). And sheriff department spokesman Steve Davis added that: "From day one we've always felt like there was a very good possibility that more people were involved" (Associated Press, May 14, 1999).
        Ultimately recovered, according to the final report, were "95 homemade explosive devices," including two bombs fashioned from propane cylinders (Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2000). Picture, if you will, two teenagers strolling unnoticed into a high school, each carrying two firearms, a propane tank bomb and some fifty other explosive devices, as well as an abundant supply of ammunition.
        Picture them then proceeding to carefully place each of these 95 bombs throughout the school, still unnoticed and undisturbed by faculty or other students. Nothing unusual about that. Just an average day at an American high school. Yet the possibility is clearly there that there may have been more people involved. Many of the witnesses, at any rate, clearly think so.
        "Jefferson County Sheriff John P. Stone raised the specter of a third Columbine High gunman anew Tuesday, saying some students have named another suspect. ‘There was quite possibly one other person shooting,’ Stone said. ‘We do have witness statements.’ The statements came from ‘students who were witnesses at the scene when this was going down,’ and they agreed on the third person's identity, he said" (Denver Post, May 5, 1999).
        In fact, one initial report from Littleton began: "Three young men in fatigues and black trench coats opened fire at a suburban Denver high school Tuesday...," and also noted that a "third young man was led away from the school in handcuffs more than four hours after the attack, and student Chris Wisher said: 'He's one of the ones who shot at us'" (Associated Press, April 20, 1999). This third suspect has, oddly enough, never been identified or even mentioned again by the press.
        In a televised interview, the mother of a student who had escaped the attack quoted her daughter as saying that she "looked up and saw a gunman in a black trench coat with a very huge gun ... He had dark brown hair, thick bushy eyebrows and was very ugly," a description that clearly did not fit either Harris or Klebold. When asked if the gunman was a student, the mother replied that: "She didn't recognize him as a student. No. Not as a student" (KUSA-TV, April 20, 1999; transcript posted on The Konformist)
        Even more disturbing is a report that: "Dozens of witnesses interviewed by police after the crime claimed that from five to eight individuals participated in the shooting that left 15 people dead, including the killers, and more than 20 injured" (Denver Rocky Mountain News, July 29, 1999). Five to eight individuals? Dozens of witnesses? Something definitely seems to be a bit peculiar here.
        It is certainly understandable that some witnesses could have trouble recalling some of the details of the attack. In a situation of this nature, extreme levels of fear and confusion can cloud one's recollection. In the ensuing chaos, some witnesses could easily be confused about the number of shooters.
        Nevertheless, there is a considerable difference between two gunmen and eight gunmen - the latter being pretty much a small army. Is it really possible for dozens of eyewitnesses to be mistaken about the additional three to six gunmen? This issue could possibly be cleared up by examining the autopsy reports of the various victims. Unfortunately, that isn't likely to happen. It seems that:
        "The autopsy reports on the Columbine High School victims will not be released to the public, a Jefferson County judge ruled Friday ... Chief District Judge Henry E. Nieto rejected arguments by 18 news organizations ... The coroner's office, district attorney and the family of killer Dylan Klebold joined the 12 families in getting the documents sealed" (Denver Post, May 29, 1999).
        Another question that could be cleared up by the release of the autopsy reports is the alleged suicides of the two shooters, seeing as how "Klebold was shot once in the left side of the head, apparently by one of two 9 mm weapons ... the wound's location puzzles some investigators. They believe that if the right-handed Klebold had shot himself, the wound should have been on the other side" (Denver Rocky Mountain News, June 13, 1999).
        Very clever, those investigators. Clever enough, in fact, to come up with an explanation for this anomaly. Some authorities now believe (or claim to anyway) that Harris shot Klebold before shooting himself. It seems just as likely, however, that a third party shot Klebold, and perhaps Harris as well.
        Moving on to what is perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the case, we come now to the infamous videotape. You know, the one that was made in 1997, two years before the actual assault, and which "depicts gun-toting, trench coat-wearing students moving through Columbine's halls and ends with a special-effects explosion of the school."  The one that was co-produced by "the son of the FBI's lead agent in the investigation" (Associated Press, May 8, 1999).
        There's certainly nothing unusual about that. It's actually standard FBI procedure to have your son shoot a training film for a high school slaughter a couple of years beforehand. It's also standard procedure to have your other son on hand to eyewitness the crime. Which is why "(Dwayne Fuselier's) youngest son, Brian, was in the school cafeteria at the time and managed to escape after seeing one of the bombs explode" (Denver Post, May 13, 1999).
        It should also be noted that another "student who helped in the production of the film (was) Brooks Brown…" (Associated Press, May 8, 1999). For those not fortunate enough to be home on the day of the shooting watching the live cable coverage, Brooks Brown was the student enthusiastically granting interviews to anyone who would stick a microphone in his face.
        He claimed to have encountered Harris and Klebold as they were approaching the school, and to have been warned away by the pair from entering the campus that day. According to his story, he heeded the warning and was therefore not present during the shooting spree. Fair enough, but let's try to put these additional pieces of the puzzle together.
        First, we have the son of the lead investigator, who was obviously a member of the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia, involved in the filming of a pre-enactment of the crime. Then we have a second son of the lead investigator being at ground zero of the rampage. And finally we have a close associate of both the Fuselier brothers and of Harris and Klebold (and a co-filmmaker) being in the company of the shooters immediately before they entered the school, this by his own admission.
        And yet, strangely enough, none of them was connected in any way to the commission of this crime, according to official reports. Not even Brooks Brown, who should have, if nothing else, noticed that the pair had some unusually large bulges under their trench coats on this particular day. At the very least, one would think that there might be just a little bit of a conflict of interest for the FBI's lead investigator.
        This does not appear to be the case, however, as "FBI spokesman Gary Gomez said there was ‘absolutely no discussion’ of reassigning Fuselier, 51, a psychologist, in the wake of the disclosures in Friday's Denver Rocky Mountain News. ‘There is no conflict of interest,’ Gomez said" (Denver Rocky Mountain News, May 8, 1999). And as no less an authority than Attorney General Janet Reno has stated:  "It has been a textbook case of how to conduct an investigation, of how to do it the right way" (Denver Post, April 23, 1999).
        So there you have it. There was no conspiracy, there were no accomplices. It was, as always, the work of a lone gunman (OK, two lone gunmen in this case). But if there were a wider conspiracy, you may wonder, what would motivate such an act? What reason could there be for sacrificing fourteen young lives?
        Many right-wingers would have you believe that such acts are orchestrated - or at the very least rather cynically exploited - as a pretext for passing further gun-control legislation. The government wants to scare the people into giving up their right to bear arms, or so the thinking goes. And there is reason to believe that this could well be a goal.
        It is not, however, the only - or even the primary - goal, but rather a secondary one at best. The true goal is to further traumatize and brutalize the American people. This has in fact been a primary goal of the state for quite some time, dating back at least to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on that fateful day in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
        The strategy is now (as it was then) to inflict blunt force trauma on all of American society, and by doing so to destroy any remaining sense of community and instill in the people deep feelings of fear and distrust, of hopelessness and despair, of isolation and powerlessness. And the results have been, it should be stated, rather spectacular.
        With each school shooting, and each act of 'domestic terrorism,' the social fabric of the country is ripped further asunder. The social contracts that bound us together as a people with common goals, common dreams, and common aspirations have been shattered. We have been reduced to a nation of frightened and disempowered individuals, each existing in our own little sphere of isolation and fear.
        And at the same time, we have been desensitized to ever rising levels of violence in society. This is true of both interpersonal violence as well as violence by the state, in the form of judicial executions, spiraling levels of police violence, and the increased militarization of foreign policy and of America's borders.
        We have become, in the words of the late George Orwell, a society in which "the prevailing mental condition [is] controlled insanity." And under these conditions, it becomes increasingly difficult for the American people to fight back against the supreme injustice of 21st century Western society. Which is, of course, precisely the point.
        For a fractured and disillusioned people, unable to find common cause, do not represent a threat to the rapidly encroaching system of global fascism. And a population blinded by fear will ultimately turn to 'Big Brother' to protect them from nonexistent and/or wholly manufactured threats.
        As General McArthur stated back in 1957: "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ... with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it...."
        Perhaps this is all just groundless conspiracy theorizing. The possibility does exist that the carnage at Columbine High School unfolded exactly as the official report tells us that it did. And even if that proves not to be the case, there really is no need to worry. It is all just a grand illusion, a choreographed reality. Only the death and suffering are real.
Postscript:  As the dust settled over Columbine High, other high-profile shootings would rock the nation: at schools, in the workplace, in a church, and - in Southern California's San Fernando Valley - at a Jewish community center where a gunman quickly identified as Buford Furrow opened fire on August 10, 1999. The man, who later would claim that his intent was to kill as many people as possible, had received extensive firearms and paramilitary training, both from the U.S. military and from militia groups.
        Shooting in an enclosed area that was fairly heavily populated, Furrow fired a reported seventy rounds from his assault rifle. By design or act of God, no one was killed and only a handful of people were injured, including three children and a teenager. None of the injuries were life-threatening and all the victims have fully recovered.
        With a massive police dragnet descending on the city, Furrow fled, abandoning his rolling arsenal of a vehicle. Not far from the crime scene, he stopped to catch up on some shopping and get a haircut. Along the way, his aim having improved considerably, Furrow killed a postal worker in a hail of gunfire, for no better reason than because he was Asian and therefore "non-white."
        At about this same time, Furrow car-jacked a vehicle from an Asian woman. Though this woman - besides being obviously non-white - was now a key witness who could place Furrow at the scene and identify the vehicle he had fled in, she was left shaken but very much alive. Having taken great risks to obtain her vehicle, Furrow promptly abandoned it, choosing instead to take a taxi.
        In an unlikely turn of events, this taxi would safely transport Furrow all the way to Las Vegas, Nevada. Having successfully eluded one of the most massive police dragnets in the city's history (which had the appearance of a very well-planned training exercise), and having made it across state lines to relative safety, Furrow proceeded directly to the local FBI office to turn himself in. No word yet as to whether Dwayne Fuselier was flown in to head up the investigation.
        Meanwhile, in Littleton, Colorado, the death toll continued to mount. On May 6, 2000, the Los Angeles Times reported that a Columbine High student had been found hanged. His death was ruled a suicide, though "Friends were mystified, saying there were no signs of turmoil in the teenager's life." One noted that he had "talked to him the night before, and it didn't seem like anything was wrong."
        The young man had been a witness to the shooting death of teacher Dave Sanders. His was the fourth violent death surrounding Columbine High in just over a year since the shootings, bringing the body count to nineteen. Very little information was released concerning this most recent death, with the Coroner noting only that: "Some things should remain confidential to the family." (Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2000)
        On February 14, 2000, two fellow Columbine students were shot to death in a sandwich shop just a few blocks from the school. The shootings, which lacked any clear motive, have yet to be explained. In yet another incident, the mother of a student who was shot and survived "walked into a pawnshop in October, asked to see a gun, loaded it and shot herself to death." (Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2000)
        Unexplained was why the shopkeeper would have supplied her with the ammunition for the gun. Perhaps she brought her own, though if she had access to ammunition, chances are that she would also have had access to a gun. Such are the mysteries surrounding the still rising death toll in Littleton, Colorado.


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Still online:

https://www.members.tripod.com/~Vanessa ... intro.html (and it continues, with lots of photos)

https://www.members.tripod.com/~Vanessa ... ine-4.html


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The Columbine Scam: Government Knew BEFORE IT HAPPENED

apfn.org/apfn/columbine.htm, apfn.org/apfn/columbine2.htm

The Columbine Scam--Confirmed by Station Management
I just confirmed with the station manager -- this report  isn't crap.  They have hardcopies of the government phonecalls. I suggest you do like we did: call station management 1-800-205-6245 Broadcasts are available at  http://www.americanewsnet.com   or via C-band satellite S4, transponder  19.

    --- For those of you who missed my earlier post ---

The Columbine Scam: Government Knew BEFORE IT HAPPENED

DENVER, COLORADO (September 22) -- On the talk show Freedom  Forum on the American Freedom Network an investigator reporter  William Zabel tells how he has the records of a government agent  calling into St. Luke Presbyterian emergency room on the
government emergency phone line.

The agent called one hour and thirty-five minutes BEFORE the shooting  started at the Columbine High School warning the emergency room to  prepare for bodies coming because a bomb would be: going off and shooting would take place at Columbine high school.:
http://www.americanewsnet.com/news.htm
               yours in Liberty,
               Melissa
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Government Agents could have prevented Columbine tragedy
http://www.AmericaNewsNet.com
(for more information call 1800 205 6245)
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Columbine bullying no myth, panel told
Before two teens launched their deadly attack on Columbine High, bullying was rampant, the Trench Coat Mafia was menacing and the killers gave off repeated warning signs of their intentions, victims' parents and a former staff member charged Monday.
Click for full story:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/shotmain.htm
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The following listing will allow the reader to navigate through the report
and obtain details for activities that occurred around the Columbine High School incident. http://www.insidedenver.com/shooting/re ... es/toc.htm
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PRIMARY TIME line FOR APRIL 20, 1999
http://www.insidedenver.com/shooting/re ... ne_toc.htm
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By Dave Navarro, Sr. - [email protected]
Welcome to my web site dealing with the recent tragedy at Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado
http://www.gohernando.com/columbine/
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A Tribute to those Slain in Littleton, Colorado Columbine High School
http://www.propheticroundtable.org/trib ... umbine.htm

This isn't veteran info, but it is HOT!!!!
This kinda explains how that 2 star general was on the scene with in the first 15 minutes, confirmed on the film shown on CNN , many times.
later, Dave
http://VeteransForum.com
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Sam Connerley
A victim of the Columbine High School shootings
Sat Aug 4 21:42:14 2001

DARRELL SCOTT TESTIMONY

I guess our national leaders didn't expect this, hmm?
On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful. They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert!

These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness. The following is a portion of the transcript:
"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other
eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers."

"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in
Cain's heart."

"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent."

"I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy-it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers
themselves."

"I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best. This was written way before I knew I would be speaking here today:

Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!

"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, soul, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and reek havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact.

What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs-politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws."

"Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts. Political posturing and restrictive legislation are not the answers. The young people of our nation hold the key. There is a spiritual awakening taking place that will not be squelched! We do not need more religion. We do not need more gaudy television evangelists spewing out verbal religious garbage. We do not need more million dollar church buildings built while people with basic needs are being ignored. We do need a change of heart and a humble acknowledgment that this nation was founded on the principle of simple trust in God!"

"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes-He did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America, and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA - I give to you a sincere challenge. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!

My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"

Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech.
Please send this out to everyone you can!


The REAL Columbine

The Story

A Complete Chronological Report
By the C.R.T.F. Webmaster

Written June 11th, 1999
Updated July 14th, 2000
At 11:21 a.m. Mountain Time on April 20th, 1999, a total of five calls were first received by the Jefferson County Communications Center of the Sheriffs Office. Loud noises were reported by local residents living near Columbine High School, located within Jefferson County, Colorado. It is at this time, as reported by eye witnesses and the press, that at least two armed people entered the southeast Columbine High School parking lot. They reportedly threw a few devices that exploded in the parking lot, and shot at the school. A student named Brooks Brown was allegedly warned by the assailants to leave the area. Brown said one of the shooters was unloading duffel bags from his car, which likely contained bombs and ammo.
"Students tell [Channel] 9 News two people came into the school wearing long, black trench coats and face masks. They were carrying shotguns, grenades and pipe bombs."
"I saw the two students take their guns out of black duffel bags, nod to each other, and then the shooting began outside the school next to the library," said Kim Blair. 
"They proceed[ed] inside, to the school cafeteria, shooting as they walk, then upstairs to the library, still shooting", reported the Associated Press. Other students, such as Rachel Scott, were shot outside the cafeteria by a gunman located on the "upper stairs". "Two gunmen were on top of the stairs at the entrance of the school," when they began shooting said The Denver Post.
Some have said the gunmen began their shooting in the southeast school parking lot next to the cafeteria. There it is said they unloaded their duffel bags full of weaponry from a nearby vehicle. However, others say they arose from a hill nearby and began shooting at the cafeteria. "By 11 a.m., [the gunmen]...came over the small hill toward Columbine's cafeteria. Denny Rowe, a 15-year-old sophomore, was among the first to see them coming. Sitting on a knoll not far from the cafeteria entrance, he watched as one of the two took off his coat to reveal what looked like grenades."
A mass exodus of at least 1,500 students fled the school as soon as the shooting began, while others hid in classrooms within the school for hours. The assailants stalked the halls early on in the shooting, blasting away innocent people. One student was killed in cold blood on a sidewalk near the back entrance to the cafeteria. In upwards of thirty students were terrorized by the shooters in the large library of the school, with nearly a dozen killed in cold blood. "I heard maybe 50, 60 shots in the library and they chucked four-five pipe bombs in the room," said student Evan Todd.
Lindsay Elmore, a 17-year-old junior at Columbine, was one of the survivors of the killing zone in the school library. At one point, the gunmen apparently ran out of ammunition. "They started yelling that they needed new clips," Elmore said. "I think they had their stuff outside or something because they started yelling about it and then they left."
Conflicting reports suggest the shooting ended at 11:46 a.m., 12:00 noon, 12:05 p.m., 12:15 p.m., 12:30 p.m., slightly after 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m. or 3:45 p.m Mountain Standard Time.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office now claims that the gunmen were dead at 12:05 p.m. or 12:08 p.m. "[Police officer] Smoker said shooting from inside the school ended after police fired en masse on the second floor of the library, where the killers had taken shots at rescue workers and police. Police accounts put that shootout sometime before noon."  It is true that a shootout took place, and it is possible the gunmen were killed in this shootout. However, eye witness accounts place gunmen inside the school well after 12 noon.
Two of the shooters, who were seniors at the school, were found dead in the library later that day, and identified as the now infamous Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. "When he looked at me, the guy's eyes were just dead", said student Nick Foss of one the shooters.
Fourteen students, including the shooters themselves, and one teacher, died during the attack. A total of 15 deaths. About 25 students and faculty were seriously injured.
The shooters reportedly used one 10-shot Hi-Point model 995 carbine rifle, one Intratec AB-10 (TEC-9) pistol, and two thirty year-old Savage 12-gauge shotguns. These low-quality weapons, as a whole, would be considered an unsophisticated arsenal. The sheriffs office claims that at one point, Eric Harris's gun "jammed" as he ran back inside the school after exchanging fire with an officer. Pipe bombs and at least two 20 lb propane bombs were also used by Harris and Klebold. Click here for quotes from students indicating that "hand grenades" were also used.

Were other shooters involved?
Rumors, eye-witness testimony, official statements, and some evidence suggests other gunmen were involved. However, since ballistics reports from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation find no evidence of other shooters, the issue has become a moot point for the sheriff's office and the news media.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says that 853 "pieces" of ballistic evidence was recovered during the investigation. If 853 actual shots were fired, such might indicate the presence of other gunmen. CRTF has also received reports that 1100 rounds of ammunition were fired, but this remains unconfirmed. Officials currently say Harris and Klebold fired about 200 rounds.
TIME Magazine reported on May 3rd, "...the killers fired off an estimated 900 rounds, using two sawed-off shotguns, a 9-mm semiautomatic carbine and a TEC-DC 9 semiautomatic handgun." The higher the number of rounds fired, the more likely other gunmen were involved.
CRTF has credible reports that .223 casings (or casings of similar size) were found in the school, along with different weapons, including an MT 64 50 assault rifle. Witnesses reported hearing the fire of fully automatic weapons throughout the day within the school. Some witnesses reported seeing "machine guns" in the hands of the gunmen. Click here to listen to a Real Audio file of police and dispatchers mention "large caliber" shots fired near the school. There were shell casings from a high caliber weapon found on the roof of the school where a "sniper" or gunman was seen early on.
Investigators would argue that the above could be explained away due to SWAT team "cover fire". It seems odd to us, however, that a SWAT member would be on the roof of the school firing -- or inside of the school firing off bursts of fully automatic fire around numerous students who remained inside. In fact, we can find no plausible explanation as to why any SWAT team member would fire any rounds inside the school, especially if the gunmen were dead by 12:05 p.m. Yet, shots were heard throughout the day.
CRTF can report with great confidence that dozens of witnesses saw three or more gunmen. We have gathered these reports from sources in the Denver area, through news articles and from statements from officials. Below are the reports that can be fully verified at this point in time.
"Many mysteries surround the most lethal school shooting in history. Just how many members of the Trenchcoat Mafia might have been involved? Several eyewitnesses told police and NEWSWEEK that they had seen a third gunman."
Obtained from an ABC News interview (likely from Nightline, April 20th), one of the students pictured here stated the following, "Then we looked up, then one of the gunmen turned towards us and started shooting, so we just fell down to the ground and we just sat there for a while and we turned our heads and once we knew they were done shooting we stood back up and saw the kid in the white on the side of the school start throwing some kind of bomb on the top of the school. It was a grenade or some kind of bomb."
Found in a CNN article published April 20th is confirmation of the above quote, as well as further confirmation that a third accomplice was spotted, "Another male student who said he was about 100 yards away from the shooters said there were three of them, including one fellow student he recognized and another boy dressed in white 'throwing the bombs on top of the school -- some kind of grenade or something.' That account was supported by another student interviewed on local TV."
"Beyond the two dead gunmen, students described seeing another youth dressed in a white shirt throwing bombs that looked like soda cans. A youth matching that description later was seen being led away by police," reported USA Today. 
"We were in the crossfire between the Science Hall and the Choir Room," said student Adam Foss (left photo) on CNN on the day of the shooting. The conversation continued with the journalist:
"And you saw the guns opening fire, and did you get a quick glimpse of at least how many...?"
"I, ah, how many guns?"
"No, how many guys."
"I think three, three guys, and maybe twelve gauges, I think. I don't know, maybe smaller guns."
Click here for the Real Video clip of this above exchange. We can also email you this clip. Foss later confirmed, face to face, with an investigator in Denver that he did in fact see three gunmen. Due to the smoke inside the school, he could not see their faces or recall whether or not any of them looked like Harris or Klebold.
Special thanks to a fellow investigator in Denver for providing the following audio file. The file contains the eye witness testimony of three girls ("Heather, Amber, and Shelly") who were present in the cafeteria, or "commons" area, as the shooting began. They related their story to Mark Koebrech of Channel 9 News TV on April 20th. Click here for the full Real Audio file. (We can also email you this file). When Koebrech asks if anyone saw the shooters, a girl responds, "We saw three guys with guns...*pause*...and then we saw a really tall guy in a black trench coat." In the audio file the girl seems to indicate that a fourth assailant (the "black trench coat") was present. The other girls present seemed to agree with the statement and made no objections. The investigator who provided us this file also went to the school and talked personally with the girls. They confirmed that four gunmen were seen, but expressed little interest in pursuing the matter further.
"At first we thought it was fireworks, then we saw them shooting. He saw us and then he started shooting at us. Then a guy in a white T-shirt threw two hand grenades on the roof. ...", said Jake Apoeaca, 16, according to an AP article written by Robert Weller, dateline 4/20/99; 7:39 p.m. EDT.
The AP article continues:
"Three young men in fatigues and black trench coats opened fire at a suburban Denver high school Tuesday...A third young man was led away from the school in handcuffs more than four hours after the attack, and student Chris Wisher said: 'He's one of the ones who shot at us.'" (Chris Wisher has repeatedly told investigator John Quinn in phone interviews that he personally saw a third shooter on the scene and that friends of his saw a half-dozen trench-coated assailants with weapons -- see "John Quinn" section for more info).
"Police escorted one handcuffed young man away from the school. It was unknown why he was detained," said CNN. "We had three names, we've got two bodies that belong to two of those names up there, and the third name -- that person was not in the school," said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone of the assailants.

"A young man identified by officials as an associate of two alleged gunmen," according to APB News, is pictured above in two high-resolution photos recovered by CRTF. The photos were found in the APB News archive on the Columbine shooting. We have received a report that this young man was video taped later in the day on April 20th exiting a white van at the Harris home in the company of Eric Harris's father, Wayne Harris.
An article from The Denver Rocky Mountain News on June 28th lends a clue as to the identity of the above pictured person. The article focuses on the parents of Nate Dykeman, who was a friend of Klebold and Harris. Dykeman's step-father, Victor Good, complained of the tragic events of April 20th, and is quoted as saying, "We had already watched on television as police led Chris Morris away in handcuffs." Chris Morris worked at Blackjack Pizza with Klebold and Harris and was a direct member of the Trench Coat Mafia. He was later cleared of any wrongdoing by officials.
A Denver Post report says assailant Eric Harris removed his trench coat later on in the shooting thus revealing a white T-shirt he was wearing.   The newspaper said, "Harris had taken off his trench coat sometime earlier, and was wearing a white T-shirt. Klebold, who wore a vest and ammo belt over his dark T-shirt, had dropped his trench coat onto the library floor." The white T-shirt does not explain away the numerous reports of a third-gunman, however.
The Rocky Mountain News reported, "Adam Thomas, 16, a freshman, said he was outside the lunchroom area when two people in trench coats started shooting. 'They dropped their trench coats and pulled out what I thought were AKs. He shot my friend, Michael Johnson, in the leg,' Thomas said."  AK-47s do not look similar in any way to a Hi Point 9mm or TEC-9.
The Rocky Mountain News also reports in another story, "Sophomore Amanda Stair was in the library when she heard a commotion in the hall. 'We hid under different tables,' Stair said. 'Two guys in black trench coats walked in. They said get up or they would shoot us. I heard a lot of shots and one guy put his gun down on the desk I was under.'"
The above indicates: 1) the two shooters were outside near cafeteria first (as has been reported), removed their trench coats and shot for a while, then put their trench coats back on and went upstairs to the library; 2) that there were two sets of shooters, or a number of shooters, some with trench coats on, the others without.
Kim Sander is a mother of a student who had escaped early in the attack. During the massacre, at 12:10 p.m., Kim was interviewed on KUSA-TV, carried by MSNBC. During that interview Kim described what her daughter had just told her she had seen:
Kim Sander: "She looked up and saw a gunman in a black trench coat with a very huge gun in front of him.... He had dark brown hair, thick, bushy eyebrows and was very ugly. She said he was a white male. ..."
News Anchor: "Kim, did your daughter say if the gunman that she saw was a student at the school?"
Kim Sander: "She didn't recognize him as a student. No. Not as a student."
Both Harris and Klebold had light brownish-blond hair and did not have "thick, bushy eyebrows". This report suggests this gunman may have been someone else.
A source reported to us by way of email his observation from viewing the shooting on television, "I remember many students saying they didn't know who was responsible for the shooting, 'because the men were wearing masks.'" (Source name on file)
The following is a revealing quote from Newsweek explaining teacher Dave Sanders' heroics and ultimate demise. It appears Sanders, after seeing a gunman outside the cafeteria, run upstairs only to be confronted by Harris and Klebold. Who was outside shooting?
"More would surely have died had it not been for Dave Sanders, a popular business teacher and basketball coach. He was standing near the cafeteria doors when the first students went down. Sanders went running into the cafeteria shouting loudly: 'He's got a gun! Get down!' The urgency in his voice broke through the lunchtime din, and hundreds of students fell to the floor. There was a hail of gunfire, and Sanders and other teachers shouted at the kids to keep moving.
Instead of seeking safety, the 47-year-old Sanders ran upstairs toward the library and science rooms to warn other students. It proved fatal: he found himself face to face with Harris and Klebold. They shot him in the chest."
All of above material indicates clearly that other gunmen may have been involved. The sheriffs office subsequently confirmed those reports during the weeks and months after the shooting (see below timeline). However, since July of 1999, the office has dropped the "third gunman theory" and claims unequivocally that only two gunmen were present during the shooting due to CBI ballistics evidence.
Most of the students were unclear as to how many shooters there were or who the shooters were (they usually didn't say how many there were). Most reported seeing black trench coats, many reported gunmen wearing masks, others reported seeing Klebold and Harris.
According to a CNN report, a "school district official said school Principal Frank DeAngelis 'actually saw one of the gunmen and was able to push some students into a location to protect those students.' Jonathan Ladd, another student, said he heard a loud noise like an explosion and then gunshots. He said the shots were coming from the back of the school toward the school office." (Ed. note: The school's office is clear on the other side of the school in relation to the cafeteria and library area where the shooters' rampage was reportedly concentrated -- it has been confirmed that the school office received enormous damage and a window was shot out near the front of the school early on the shooting. This clearly incidates there may have been someone shooting near the front of the school).

Numerous people from around the country have reported to Mr. John Quinn and the CRTF webmaster that they saw a large, blue "NATO" truck located on the Columbine High School grounds at about 11:30 a.m. It was shown from a helicopter. The cameraman zoomed in and immediately the video feed was cut. One source told CRTF, "I remember seeing a large vehicle -- blue, black -- I remember it being dark in color, as for blue or black I am not positive regarding the color. However I do remember seeing 'NATO' on the truck and I remember the shield on the vehicle." The words "NATO" were possibly imprinted on a shield on the front of the vehicle.
Others reported seeing "NATO" SWAT personnel. A news video tape was sent by a source to Mr. Quinn which showed these men with "NATO" inscriptions in white on their uniforms/body shields. Quinn says the uniforms/shields do in fact appear to say "NATO", although the video is of poor quality.
As bizarre as the NATO reports are, we feel they are completely credible since dozens of people initially reported to John Quinn the same facts independently, and some facts that had not yet been released by Quinn were corroborated independently by various people. Whether the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was present seems very unlikely and remains unconfirmed.
Sgt. Mark Lewis of the Denver Police Department offered us this explanation, "...could it have been NTOA, which stands for National Tactical Officers Association?" The following web site offers an explanation per the NATO shields. A credible source also tells us that when viewing a Denver SWAT operation on TV in late 1999, completely unrelated to Columbine, he saw a large, blue truck with the letters "NATO" imprinted on the side. The truck was part of the SWAT operation.
According to ABC News, SWAT teams, at 12:00 noon, found "several explosive devices around the school". By 12:30 SWAT Teams were allegedly making sweeps of the school. Parents gathered around nearby Leawood Elementary School. Some parents later complained that SWAT teams didn't enter the school quickly enough.
"'It was not two hours before a SWAT team went in,' [Sheriff's spokesman Steve] Davis said," in response to questions about the slow response times of SWAT members. "Several other officers responded within three minutes, and the first SWAT team was in the building in about 20 minutes, Davis said. Efforts were slowed down by uncertainties about what was happening. A full-scale SWAT entry didn't occur until about 1 p.m., about a half hour after the shooting stopped." It is generally accepted that SWAT teams simply did not enter the school until 12:30 p.m. or thereafter. If they did enter "20 minutes" after the shooting began no lives were saved and no one reported a SWAT team's presence at that time.
"We had initial people there right away, but we couldn't get in. We were way out-gunned", said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone.  "Out-gunned" by two kids who couldn't aim? There are indications that officers were receiving return fire from each entrance of the school during the first hour of the shooting.
"Shortly before 1 p.m., a second volley of shots rang out. Officers explained they were shooting to keep the gunmen down as deputies made their way into the building."  If the gunmen were dead by 12:05 p.m., who were the officers shooting at?
It must be noted that a bomb was detonated a few miles from the school earlier in the day before the shooting began. "The explosion of two backpacks a mile from the school 40 minutes before the shooting may have been linked to the tragedy."  The Sheriff's Office later said that the bomb went off "three minutes" before the shooting began. The bomb went off a few miles away from the school and black marks remain on the sidewalk today.
Throughout the day it was reported by officials that 25 people were probably dead. That total turned out to be 15. A Denver Post article on April 21 stated, "'I've heard numbers as high as 25' deaths, said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone, adding that 17 were confirmed." (17 were confirmed?) The article went on to say, "By 3:45 p.m., shots still rang out inside the school." "One male student said he and three friends grabbed 'all the kids we could' and hid in a very small room -- as many as 60 of them in all. 'Then, after that, we just had to walk out over all the dead bodies,'" said a CNN report.  It must be noted that there were no official reports of deaths in the halls of the school. The only deaths occurred in the library, outside the school, and one in a science room. Therefore, how is it possible that those hiding in the "very small room" made their way out into the halls and had to "walk out over all the dead bodies"? It is possible if more than 15 people actually died. "Jonathan Vandermark, 16, a sophomore, said he passed three bodies in a stairwell as he and other students were rescued from the biology lab by a SWAT team," said The Denver Post on April 20th, indicating further that unknown bodies were seen inside the school. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported, "Inside the school, Jonathan Vandemark's biology class turned over tables for protection. The 16-year-old saw the shooters set off flares inside the school, and smoke filled the halls. He and his classmates watched the television inside their classroom, and stayed there until a SWAT team ordered them out. They walked downstairs, past three bodies, bodies of students. Vandermark was sure of that: 'They still had their backpacks on,' he said...There were dozens dead in the halls of Columbine High School." Salon.com writer and Denver resident David Cullen reported on the 21st, "Colorado authorities lowered the death count from 25 to 16 Wednesday." CRTF would like to note that a witness told a Denver investigator that as he made his way through the halls of the school he passed bodies dressed in black "ninja" clothing.
The school was said to be "cleared" by SWAT teams by 4:30 p.m. A bomb was found later that night in a car and removed by SWAT teams. "Explosive devices were found in two or three cars near the school. Investigators are working to identify the owners of the cars and what their role was, if any, in the attack," said CNN.
"Investigators said they need at least two more days inside the school to collect crime evidence. All bodies finally were removed by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The grim task was delayed in part because the killers spread live bombs around bodies", said The Denver Post.
On the same day of the shooting a gas line leak was reported at 8276 S. Reed St., the home of shooter Eric Harris. The Littleton Fire Department responded at 2:24 p.m. that day. "Live bombs with live triggers and lots of gas found, they will be standing by for the bomb squad to clear the home, hand lines laid out and have connected to a hydrant," the department reported. Spilled gas was found on the garage floor. A local neighbor reports sounds of "breaking glass" coming from the garage days before the shootings.  The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported on the 21st that student Matthew Good, a neighbor, "...heard a lot of noise coming from the Harris garage over the weekend. 'It sounded like power tools and breaking glass,' Good said."
Newsweek reported further on May 3rd, "Matt Good, a 16-year-old neighbor of Harris's, says that in recent weeks the boys were always in Harris's garage, and last weekend they were loudly smashing glass; cops now say that was for the shrapnel in their bombs." Newsweek also said, "Police searching Harris's room last week found a sawed-off shotgun and pipe-bomb ingredients in plain view." Apparently, the Harris parents were unaware of this.
A lot of stuff was clearly visible and the parents should have known,” Jefferson Country Sheriff John Stone said on April 24th. “I think the parents should be accountable for their kid’s actions.”
As for the two known shooters themselves, it appears Eric Harris, who kept a diary detailing plans for the massacre, had strong opinions and heavily influenced Dylan Klebold, who was considered quiet, unassuming and nice, though prone to temper tantrums. The shooting itself had been planned at least a year in advance. Both Columbine students "were ordered to perform community service work and attend an anger-management seminar" after stealing $400 of electronic equipment from a van in January 1998. The crime was considered a "prank" and both killers passed the community service and anger diversion program with flying colors.
The students both worked at Blackjack Pizza near the school and spent time bowling. (In the early morning hours of April 20th, Harris and Klebold attended their bowling class, appeared dressed in normal clothing, and exhibited no signs of agression, according to news reports). Both were heavily involved in anarchist or violent material, as well as hard-core industrial rock music. Klebold was a baseball fanatic ("His hero was Roger Clemens," said friend Chris Hooker), and Harris played soccer and baseball. It was also reported that they hated "jocks" and athletes involved in sports, even though they were also involved in sports. They were both said to be racists, yet on Harris's web site, he explicitly states he is against racism and expresses his patriotic "love of country" and desire to serve in the military.
Many people report that the two students were very vocal about their desire to unleash a rampage upon the school. Students report that they were aware that something could happen on April 20th.
It is said that Harris improved his attitude during this last semester of school, and Klebold, just weeks before the shooting, had attended the University of Arizona with his father, and his father had placed a deposit for a dorm room; Klebold was expected to attended later this year. Many consider Klebold's parents to be excellent parents, while Harris's parent's background in parenting is less clear. Harris's father, Wayne, has an extensive military background. The Harris family has left Littleton.
"That's the scary part. He was talking about the future," said Nate Dykeman, friend of Harris, commenting on a conversation he had with him during prom night three days before the shooting. The USA Today article further explores indications that Klebold and Harris were acting in a normal, capacitated manner days and weeks before the shooting. Click here to read this article.
The Trench Coat Mafia was a clique of students that had formed at least two years before Harris and Klebold "joined" it. It was formed by a young man named Joe Stair. This 1998 yearbook image proportedly shows Chris Morris and Joe Stair.
Reports that prior warnings of the shooting were posted on AOL were circulated a few days after the shooting by the press and by journalist Matt Drudge. Click here for an excellent ABC News web page that features a full story and the AOL Profiles posted by suspected Trenchcoat Mafia members.
Johnathan Vandermark made revealing comments to NBC's Katie Couric later on that night about the "Trench Coat Mafia". He said, "They like to say they are bi-sexual, and are proud of it. They practice Satanic rituals, I believe, and walk around the school in black clothing, usually in a trench coat. They're clearly a gang. They don't move for people in the hall. They're not courteous to anybody. They'll bump you in the shoulder or something like that...they'll turn around and just give you a stare like they don't care, and what can you do to them? Kind of like they're above everybody."
Vandermark made other comments, this reported by USA Today, "[School officials] act as if they never knew that these people were around the school. They were obviously a gang and thought that they could change the world in the way that, I guess, they thought Hitler couldn't finish."
Before the shooting itself began on April 20th, school announcements were broadcast through video to every school classroom before lunchtime began. At the end of the announcement a cryptic message was relayed, "I bet you wish you weren't here today -- 4-20 -- 4-20 -- 4-20."
"They obviously were very prepared", said Patrick Simington in reference to the cryptic message. Read the full story here.
Another student, Evan Todd, also said that a message showed up on the TV monitors earlier before the shooting that said, "Today is not going to be a good day." Who posted the message and was it in direct reference to the shooting?
On April 22, Jefferson County district attorney Dave Thomas said, "I think there is some evidence to suggest that other people were at least aware of what was going on and, as the sheriff (John Stone) indicated earlier, there are an awful lot of devices and this took a lot of time," reported the Denver Rocky Mountain News in a story titled "The nagging questions: Did others help?"
The report went on to quote U.S. Attorney Tom Strickland as stating, "I think we have to pursue vigorously, at least for the time being, the idea that there may have been other people involved at least in the planning and knowledge that this might occur. There were other people who are knowledgeable or seemed to be associated with this group of people. What we are a little bit unclear about is how all these devices got here and whether other people assisted them."
On April 23rd, according to a news report that day by Channel 9 News, Colorado governor Bill Owens toured Columbine High School and "emerged saying investigators were all but certain that the two gunmen had help from others. Police said security cameras may provide crucial evidence of a conspiracy. 'There are backpacks with bombs in there everywhere,' Gov. Bill Owens said. 'The officers in there are convinced there had to be more people involved. There's just too much stuff in there.'"
The report continues, "Officials returned to campus today to continue scouring for hidden explosives a day after the discovery of a powerful bomb made from a 20-pound propane tank heightened suspicions that Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, intended to destroy the school, and could have had help in assembling their arsenal. 'They may have had confederates,' said sheriff's Sgt. Jim Parr.
"Explosives expert Sid Woodcock said propane explosives of the type found are 'fairly sophisticated.' Just one bomb 'probably would have destroyed a good part of the school,' he said. 'These subjects were not only on a killing rampage,' said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone, 'They were going to burn the school up.'
"Larry Bettendorf of the ATF says the propane tank was rigged with a can of gasoline and an egg timer. He says the bomb was poorly designed and that may be why it never exploded. Or he said gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold may not have had time to set the timer. Bettendorf says the big question for now is how the gunmen got such a big bomb into the school." (source for all above material)
An ABC News report from April 23rd outlines clearly that the propane kitchen bomb was a real bomb. The sheriffs office now claims bombs were never found in the kitchen. "The large bomb that authorities found in the school cafeteria kitchen Thursday was a 20-lb. device attached to a propane tank that had shrapnel, including nails, attached to it. The bomb was set with an egg timer, matches and a model rocket fuse, said Lawrence Bettendorf, an ATF agent. When the timer went off, it would trigger the match, which would light the fuse and ignite a gas can next to the propane tank. The bomb would have been enough to seriously damage the school building, but not level it, authorities said. A bomb squad removed and safely defused the device Thursday."
(By May 7, the final word was that 60 bombs were found in and around the building. A total of 67 bombs has also been reported. As of June 2000, the number is over 90).
A student named Makai Hall refused to discuss with reporters some of the things he saw during the shooting rampage. Hall was injured in the library by shotgun fragments during the shooting. "The teenager explained why he was not willing to describe everything he saw and heard during the shooting rampage. 'People have asked me not to discuss some things. And some things I don't feel people should know,'" said Hall cryptically.
Commenting on a 20 pound propane bomb found inside the school kitchen, District Attorney Dave Thomas said, ''No one saw them carry it into the school and people did see them enter. So we have to explore how that device got into the school.''
Also on April 23rd, Sheriff's spokesman Steve Davis said, "We feel like there's an extremely good chance that there are more than two people involved." He also said, "It's a feeling from our investigators that the chances are very, very good that we have more than two people involved."
April 23rd Jefferson County Deputy District Attorney Mark Pautler appeared on CNN's "Burden of Proof" (12:45 pm ET) and was asked if any witnesses had said they had seen more than two gunman, he answered: "I'm not at liberty to answer that question."
Also on the 23rd The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported the following:
One Columbine High School student and the parent of another said they had been questioned by police about a teenager suspected of lugging duffel bags of bombs into the school and fleeing before the assault that left 15 people dead and 23 wounded. The teen-ager disappeared, according to his friends, who are cooperating with investigators.
The Columbine student and the parent said investigators told them not to mention the third suspect or reveal his name.
"We cannot tell anyone who it is," the student said. "They don't know where he is."
She said detectives have interviewed the boy's family twice.
She said he was not present when Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fired on teachers and students.
"He left before it even happened," she said.
A bomb was also found "tucked away in the school kitchen late Thursday morning...fashioned from two 20-gallon propane tanks." (It must be noted that Jeffco spokesman Steve Davis, in a personal phone conversation with CRTF recently, denied that bombs had been found in the kitchen).
A construction worker said that about 10:40 a.m. Tuesday -- 40 minutes before the gunfire erupted -- he saw an older-model black BMW carrying four teen-agers about a block from the school.
The driver made a U-turn and drove off, followed closely by a tan sedan carrying two more teen-agers.
"It's unusual to see four young kids in a BMW," construction worker Roger Anderson said.
Anderson later said that he knew it was Klebold's car since he saw the BMW sitting in the school parking lot on television as the shooting unfolded. The Rocky Mountain News article continues:
One student insisted that a third teen was part of the attack.
The student, whose mother asked that he not be identified, said he was in the parking lot and saw two people wearing trench coats -- Harris and Klebold -- and a third teen-ager in a white T-shirt.
"The kid in the white T-shirt, he threw what looked like a grenade on top of the school, and then he turned and kind of smiled at the other two guys," the student said. (source for above material)
"It's kind of hard to go blazing into a school when you've got more than you can carry. It could be a third, it could be four, five, it could be six, it could be numerous", said Sheriff Stone of possible gunmen on the 25th. Also on the 25th The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported, "Officers were told there could be as many as six killers."
On April 26th, Sunday, Vice President Al Gore, wearing a black trench coat (click here for the picture), Governor Bill Owens, singer Amy Grant, Gen. Colin Powell, among others, attended with at least 70,000 citizens the memorial service in Clement Park next to the high school. (The Columbine Memorial Service Videotape can be ordered by calling Bayaud Industries at 303-830-0478. Cost is $37 and it runs 2 1/2 hours.)
Three teenagers dressed in fatigues were found near the school and quickly arrested on the day of the shooting. In a report released by CNN on April 28, "The three, according to [Sheriff John] Stone, said they had heard reports of the
shooting on the radio. Stone said those comments were made before the radio report had aired. 'From my understanding from talking to the officers right at the scene, that is the alibi, or the statement that they had used: that they heard about this on the radio. And that was very early on into the investigation, which sparked my suspicion of these individuals. I have not been one to follow up with the investigations with these individuals to find out what had transpired since then.
"He said if investigators were 'satisfied these people just happened to be three innocent people in fatigues walking by a siege of the school, stranger things may have happened.' Stone also said the three teens named the gunmen before the names of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had been released. Stone also said a video tape from a surveillance camera in the school cafeteria was being examined. 'From what I understood from our investigators,' Stone told reporters, 'there is graphic information on there, and it was being sent to Washington, D.C. to the FBI lab to have this tape enhanced.'"
More of Stone's comments were revealed in an Associated Press article, dated the 28th. "They were in combat fatigues. They said they heard it on the radio. Well, it wasn't on the radio at that time. They are subjects of our investigation. We'll be going back to talk to these kids." Stone had felt the students were involved. He said, "There's too much stuff in there. You can't walk in there blazing with more stuff than you can carry." The AP article continued, "The three young men, who Stone said knew the gunmen and had previously been associated with their 'Trench Coat Mafia,' have maintained their innocence. Investigators tested them for gun residue after the shootings and found no evidence that they had fired guns. The Denver Rocky Mountain News identified the three as Matthew Christianson, Matt Akard and Jim Branetti. All three claimed to have heard of the slayings on the radio - and were able to name the gunmen - before the names had been released, Stone said. He said one had been expelled from Columbine High."
Stone also said, "[The gunmen] shot the hell out of the administration office, but apparently there was no one in there." The current "official story" does not account for Harris or Klebold making their way across the massive school to the administration office.
The AP article continues, "The sheriff also said the two gunmen initially tried to escape through three separate exits, and killed themselves only after being turned back by deputies' gunfire each time. Stone said a diary seized at the home of one of the killers indicated the gunmen planned to fly to Mexico or another country if they could escape, and kill themselves if they couldn't get out. 'They wanted to go to Mexico, or find an island, some place to get away from America, or maybe come out and hijack and crash an airplane in New York City,' he said, giving details from a diary that investigators have characterized as a sheaf of papers.
"Gary Sowell, 50, an employee at a Hugh M. Woods store in Littleton, told investigators he saw Harris and Klebold buy propane tanks, wire, screws, nails and duct tape - material believed used in the bombs. He also said he copied keys marked 'Do Not Duplicate' for the teens. Police have said they are searching for a missing set of keys to the school, which authorities speculate may have allowed the killers to carry bombs inside before the attack. 'I duplicated some keys for them, two sets of keys. On the keys it said 'Do Not Duplicate,'' Sowell told the Post. 'They brought in a set of five keys.'" (source for all of the above) (Sowell was then oddly arrested a few days later for "making a false report to authorities" and falsely claiming that he had seen the two gunmen. Authorities said inventory records showed he was lying and he was booked with $1,000 bond. John Stone commented, “Maybe this will slow down some of these crackpot calls that we’re getting. " [source] [source 2])
It is possible that the shooters gained access to the school the night before the shooting or on prom night over the weekend. A parent of two Columbine students told CRTF that a suspicious student -- not Harris or Klebold -- was seen outside the school the night before the shooting. At the time, the parent was unable to recall the name of this particular student.

[JohnnyL]

On the night of the 28th, a hasty news conference was held by Sheriff Stone in an effort to "clear things up". Apparently, Stone was "dragged out of bed" by an official and driven to the news conference. It was then reported that the three above young men found near the school were no longer suspects. Officials said that Stone had been ill-informed when he made his comments on the three young men earlier that day. An updated AP article went on to say, "Initial reports that 25 were killed were eventually revised to 15. Investigators first said three gunmen were in the school, then changed that to two. Investigators said a girlfriend of one of the gunmen bought a handgun and a rifle used in the crime - and then on Wednesday said she actually bought two shotguns and a rifle."
Meanwhile, it emerged on April 29, in a report by CNN, among others, that Eric Harris was rejected by Marine Corps recruiters just five days before the massacre because he was on an anti-depressant medication known as Luvox. The drug, said the report, is most commonly prescribed to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.
On April 29, in an article titled "Striker patches for igniting bombs suggest rampage carefully planned", the Denver Rocky Mountain News reported, "[The shooters] preparations even went down to wearing abrasive striker patches so they could ignite match head fuses on their pipe bombs with a stroke of the arm. More than 50 homemade bombs, some powerful and sophisticated, others crude and simple, exploded or were recovered in the investigation. Capt. Phil Spence of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Department said the bombs were made of carbon dioxide canisters, galvanized pipe or metal propane bottles. Some of the bombs were more sophisticated, equipped with timing devices, such as one in a backpack that exploded near South Wadsworth Boulevard and Ken Caryl Avenue as a diversion minutes before the rampage. 'They may have been crude in some ways, but I saw one that blew a hole clear through a wall in the library,' Spence said."

On April 30th it was revealed that the Klebold family had been receiving "threats" after the shooting.
By May 1, the parents of Eric Harris, Wayne and Kathy Harris, refused to talk with investigators without immunity from criminal prosecution. Meanwhile, that same day, 8,000 people protested the National Rifle Association convention in Denver.
Also on May 1, the Sheriff's Department indicated that, "the two students blamed for the Columbine High School massacre apparently acted alone and it is not likely others will be charged in the attack", said a CNN report.
On May 3 students of Columbine began classes at Chatfield High School. Ten friends of Harris and Klebold were asked not to return to school for the remainder of the year. (source 2)

This same day, Mark Edward Manes is arrested for providing either Klebold or Harris with a 9mm pistol. Manes is said to have shown integrity throughout the shooting ordeal and had no prior knowledge the shooting would take place.
On May 5, "Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone reiterated his belief that Harris and Klebold may have had help in carrying out the attack", reported the Denver Rocky Mountain News. The Denver Post quoted Stone as saying, "There was quite possibly one other person shooting. We do have witness statements.'' (source2)
Stone came under attack for comments made about student Brooks Brown, who was told by Harris as he unloaded duffel bags before the shooting to leave the scene. "I believe Mr. Brown knows a lot more than he has been willing to share with us," said Stone. The Brown family blasted back, noting that they were originally responsible for reporting to the sheriffs office that Harris had a web site with death threats toward their son.
On May 6th spokesman Steve Davis said, "We have had a lot of witnesses tell us there was a third suspect and we've said that from day one. But, from day one, we've said we hadn't had any concrete evidence to show that."
On May 8th the Denver Rocky Mountain News released an article raising concerns over Dwayne Fuselier, the FBI official in charge of the Columbine investigation. Fuselier's son attended Columbine in 1997 and during that time produced a school film depicting trench-coated teenagers shooting up the school and eventually blowing it up.
"Witnesses have also indicated the possibility of a third gunman,'' said Lt. John Kiekbusch during a news briefing on May 12.
On May 13, The Denver Post released an article also detailing Dwayne Fuselier's son's video creation. This article sheds a more flattering light on the Fuseliers (the son's name is Scott) then the Rocky Mountain News article. "I've searched my heart and my soul for anything that was wrong here - that the kids (who made the video) should not have done. There certainly was no evil intent...It is a terrible irony, and they would never make that video again," said Fuselier, who's younger son, Brian, attends Columbine currently. The Post reports, however, that the video depicts laser battles "over Colorado", and Columbine is indeed destroyed at the end, but by a laser instead of bombs, which turns the building into a ball of fire. Scott Fuselier is also quoted defending the video.
The Associated Press also released an article on the matter (May 8). The article reveals that, "[Dwayne] Fuselier is best known as one of the top negotiators in the 'Freeman' standoff in Montana. He is a former member of an elite FBI squad known as the Crisis Management Unit."  (Much controversy surrounded the Freemen standoff. Reports of unfair if not brutal treatment and abuse of imprisoned Freemen followed the incident. For more Freemen info click 1 or 2).
The article also stated, "In a call to the agent's home, a woman who answered the phone said, 'Scott and the boys that are with that movie don't want to talk about it.' In a later call, Dwayne Fuselier refused to comment. 'You can stop right there - nothing, goodbye,' he said Thursday evening when a reporter began asking about his son's connection to the video."
"They purportedly have some level of involvement, ranging from advance knowledge to being present during the incident,'' said Lt. John Kiekbusch on May 14 in reference to a few friends of both Harris and Klebold. Considered a "straw buyer" at first, friend of Harris and Klebold, Robyn Anderson, 18, had bought the two gunmen the rifle and two shotguns used in the attack.
Authorities are said to be questioning a few friends of Harris and Klebold, says a Denver Post article, dated May 15, which details the involvement of the possible accomplices. 
On May 14th, in an Associated Press article, Sheriff's spokesman Steve Davis is quoted as saying, "[Some students] are very adamant about the fact that there was a third gunman. All along we've been trying to prove or disprove that theory...From day one we've always felt like there was a very good possibility that that more people were involved. It may not mean that there were people actually in the school that day, but there's a good possibility that people were involved in ways such as supplying weapons or maybe building explosive devices."
On May 20, student Thomas J. Solomon, Jr. opened fire with a .22 caliber pistol at Heritage High School, near Conyers, Ga., a town east of Atlanta. There were no life-threatening injuries but six schoolmates were injured. The student, upset over a break-up with his girlfriend, was quickly taken into custody after being "talked-out" of committing suicide by the vice-principal, Cecil Brinkley, after placing the gun inside his mouth. The student was taking Ritalin and possibly anti-depressants. Congress quickly passed gun control measures after the shooting. Future reports would later prove that Solomon was in some way connected with the Trench Coat Mafia.
The same day, Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Steve Davis states, "We're leaning toward Harris and Klebold being the only ones in there, but we've had several witnesses tell us they felt there was a third gunman or that they saw a third gunman."
The next day, May 21, the Denver Rocky Mountain News released an article indicating the Sheriff's Department's doubt that other accomplices were involved in the shooting, in part because "except for a large bomb in the school cafeteria, all of the explosives could have been carried in a large gym bag." (60+ explosives could be carried in a "large gym bag"? By whom and when was the bag carried inside?)
The Clintons also arrived in Littleton to meet with parents and victims. President Clinton reportedly said that Hillary has cried every day since the Columbine attack. During the visit anti-Clinton protesters gathered around the Catholic church Clinton was due to visit holding signs stating "Ban Government Schools, Not Guns,'' and "Clinton: Rapist.''
On May 27 the parents of Klebold and Harris are sued by victim Isaiah Shoels' parents, Michael and Vonda Shoels for $250 million dollars. Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, the attorney for Jack Kavorkian and former Michigan candidate for governor, filed the lawsuit.
Isaiah Shoels was supposedly shot in the head in the library during the attack. Witness and student Evan Todd said, "Once when they [the shooters] shot a black kid, one of them said, 'Oh my God, look at this black kid's brain! Awesome, man!'" CNN reported, "...he [Shoels] was shot in the head execution-style in the school library, specifically because of his race and athletic interests, witnesses said. His father says he believes that account."  Student Aaron Cohn, who was in the library, said, "...one killer put a pistol to his head but did not shoot him. Instead, he said, the shooter turned his attention to a black student, saying, 'I hate niggers.' Cohn heard three shots but couldn't see what happened." The Rocky Mountain News also reported, "'He said, 'We are going to shoot black people,' one girl quoted a gunman as saying as she begged him not to kill her. 'Then he shot a black guy sitting next to me. He shot the black kid in the head.'" Numerous other reports circulated in the news media indicate Shoels was shot in the head at least once. However, it has been confirmed that Shoels's autopsy report reveals that he was shot once in the chest with a shotgun. CRTF has obtained the entire autopsy report, which was eventually released in July at the appeal of the Shoels family (see below timeline). The projectile entered his left side and exited his right side, inflicting both arms and the torso, in a slightly downward fashion. The autopsy report makes clear Shoels' scalp, face and cranium region is unaffected by a gunshot.
Newsweek also confirmed shots to the head, "Shoels's father says he had complained to school authorities about the boys. He thought they were dangerous racists. 'Hey, I think we got a n----- here,' one of the killers said now, spotting Shoels. They shot him in the head, and when he crumpled to the floor, they added two more bullets in the face. 'Hey, I always wondered what n----- brains looked like,' one of the boys is said to have laughed." Is the autopsy report a fraud? Or were the witnesses told to lie about what they saw?
On Friday, May 28th, Jefferson County District Court Judge Henry Nieto refused to release autopsy reports of the shooting victims. Family members wept as Nieto announced his decision. (source [ap article may expire soon]) (another source)
It was reported on May 27 that Jefferson Co. officials and families of the victims were asking for the autopsies to be "restricted". Why?!
Reported on May 28, Nate Dykeman, a friend of Eric Harris, said in a "Good Morning America" interview that week that Wayne and Katherine Harris found a pipe bomb made by their son "months" before the shooting. They destroyed the bomb and failed to report it (Dykeman later retracts the statement reported by the National Enquirer that Wayne Harris helped explode the bomb with his son, while the Enquirer says the quote is accurate [source]). As reported by The Denver Post, the Harris family, as of the 28th, apparently still refuse to talk with investigators.
The Denver Post released a lengthy article on May 30 detailing the slow response times of SWAT teams who failed to save the life of teacher Dave Sanders, who bled for four hours inside a school science room even though police were constantly told of his location by a student and a teacher with a cell phone. The SWAT teams, who were on the scene by 12 noon, were slow and methodical in their "sweeps"; and now the SWAT members refuse to talk to reporters about what happened.
The article also states, shockingly, "Other reports merely heightened the confusion. There were reports of anywhere from two to six gunmen, on the roof, in the cafeteria, the main hallway, hiding above a room where ceiling tiles had been removed. SWAT officers were told the shooters may be changing clothes and mingling with other students, a report that forced them to treat every student as a suspect. For hours, the gunmen were thought to be holding hostages somewhere inside the school."
Biology teacher Bev Williams said it was about 12:15 p.m. when she heard a chilling bravado declaration from one of the gunmen in the library: "'Today I am going to die!' It was like he was screaming to nobody,'' she said. (the Denver Post article)
There have been some reports, such as the above, noting a gunman was seen on the roof of the school. According to The Houston Chronicle, "[Spokesman Steve] Davis said three deputies exchanged gunfire with the suspects, including deputy Neil Gardner, assigned as security at the school, who remained inside during the ordeal. The other two deputies, Deputy Paul Smoker and Lt. Terry Manwaring, exchanged gunfire with one of the suspects when he appeared on the roof of the school." Officials now say Deputy Gardner never entered the school, and that no one was on the roof, let alone fired upon.
Between June 1 and June 11 events included students' return to Columbine to retrieve bags and books; task force probing the Columbine High School tragedy is scaled back from 80 investigators to 30; Colorado Bureau of Investigation is active in analyzing ballistics; repairs at school begin.
"The Dylan of late sounded not like the Dylan of old time," said Lyle Welsh, whose two sons survived the assault. Witnesses claim Klebold was loud and brutal during the shooting, unlike his portrayal as a quiet follower of Harris.
Over $5 million dollars is reportedly the tally of contributions to The Healing Fund of the United Way for Columbine victim's families. "The $4.7 million far surpasses the $400,000 raised after the Jonesboro, Ark., shooting and the $450,000 generated after the Springfield, Ore., attack." The fund has been called "hush money" used to keep locals "quiet" about what happened during the shooting.

On June 12 Columbine teacher Patti Nielson aired her story of the events she witnessed to The Denver Post.
Between approximately 11:20 and 11:22 a.m., Patti Nielson, a young-looking 35-year old art teacher, and student Brian Anderson, after hearing gunshots outside, were shot at as they walked down Columbine High School's "north hall" and "got to the second set of doors." The gunman "turned around and looked straight at us. He did not have a mask over his face, but he was wearing some kind of black hat. I thought he was small, but I found out later he was pretty tall. But he was thin and kind of lean. He smiled at me and pointed the gun," said Nielson.
Apparently, two or three shots were fired. Anderson was spared, while Nielson was grazed in the back. Nielson "pushed the student back inside", suggesting that both her and Anderson were between the double doors when shot. "They sprinted around a corner into the library", which is on the upper level above the cafeteria.
"The library was full of kids. 'I screamed there was a man with a gun, and the kids were looking at me shocked.'" Nielson rushed over to the librarian's desk (the librarian was at lunch at the time). She grabbed the phone and called 911. She could hear yelling outside of the library doors, which were open at the time. At this point, she felt there was more than one shooter involved. "I have said that it felt like there were more than two, but I cannot account for that...", says Nielson. Approximately three-to-five minutes after she entered the library, and just after 911 had been contacted, Nielson says the gunmen entered the room. "They're in here. They're killing kids. I need to go now.'' She left the phone off the hook and crawled beneath the desk. The phone remained off the hook for 26 minutes until the connection was broken, but not by Nielson. Those 26 minutes were recorded by the 911 operator and never released to the public.
The Rocky Mountain News reports, "At 11:26 a.m. -- five minutes after the first shots were fired from outside the school -- she [Nielson] called 911 from a phone at a desk...Investigators now believe that Harris' and Klebold's killing spree was over within 20 minutes."
"I thought they were on illegal drugs, but I guess the autopsies show they were not, which is also kind of bizarre, because you can't believe anyone in their right minds would do this," said Nielson. The gunmen spent about 10 minutes in the library before, in their own words, departing for the "commons" or the cafeteria (ed. note: Had they not been there yet?). During that time they shot and killed a number of students. "...Most of the students who were unharmed or injured ran out of the room and downstairs to an exit." If they ran downstairs, it would mean they ran into the cafeteria. Harris and Klebold must have ventured into other parts of the school at that point in time. Nielson never saw the shooters during this time. However, after the killing was over and 10 students were dead, the shooters approached the desk Nielson was hiding under, yet left before they found her.
While it appears that both shooters left the library at around 11:40 a.m., The Denver Post reported the following, "11:41 a.m. - One suspect in cafeteria, another in the library firing shots. Bombs continue to explode." This indicates that bombs were exploding downstairs, and that two assailants were in two different areas simultaneously.  Jefferson County also reports that Deputy Niel Gardner was involved in a "shootout" with an assailant at exactly 11:30 a.m. outside the school, a time in which the shooters were said to be inside the library.
Nielson crawled out from under the desk a few minutes later after the gunmen left. "Inside the library area are several smaller rooms. Nielson crawled around corners and spotted a cupboard under a kitchen sink. She sat on a paint tray, twisted her body into a fetal position and shut the cupboard door as much as she could." She looked at her watch and it said 11:45 a.m. About twenty-five minutes had passed since she had been shot.
"I wondered why the SWAT teams weren't there yet. I thought at any time someone would come in and say 'It's all right to come out.' It didn't take that long to get to the school." Sometime after 1:00 p.m. Nielson says she heard someone return to the library and she heard more shots. "I didn't hear any conversation, any yelling, just rat-tat-tat.'' Nielson even checked her watched for the exact time.
CNN confirmed Nielson's statement, "One student identified as James, who called a television station on his cell phone from inside the school, said he had heard more shooting around 1 p.m., about two hours after the incident began."
"I knew there was no way that was possible,'' Nielson said in reference to the belief that the gunmen killed themselves at around 12 noon. "When I looked at my watch and saw 1 o'clock, they hadn't come back to the library.'' By 4 p.m. she was finally found by a SWAT team and escorted out. She did not look at the bodies laying in the library as she left."I could see hundreds of backpacks scattered everywhere, and at the door there was this backpack we were told to be careful of.''
An April 20th CNN report confirms part of Nielson's account with the following account from witness Cathy Clark who was in the library, "This girl [Nielson] came up screaming ... like, 'Someone's got a gun.' She said get under the table. So everyone got under the table. These two guys came up and they were shooting randomly -- there was bombing, I guess, downstairs and people were screaming." (Were bombs going off downstairs synchronously while the gunmen were in the library?)
Patti Nielson's account contradicts the notion that the gunmen were dead by 12 noon or slightly thereafter. It also contradicts teacher Bev Williams account that the gunmen were in the library at around 12:15 p.m. and may have killed themselves then. Williams may have heard the gunmen while they were outside the library.
Timelines of the event, contradictory to that of Nielson's, appeared in print and on television on April 20th indicating an hour-by-hour synopsis of the shooting. The timelines suggested the following, "...They (the gunmen) proceed inside, to the school cafeteria, shooting as they walk, then upstairs to the library, still shooting." The question remains, Who shot Nielson if Harris and Klebold were in the cafeteria as reported? Nielson has never stated that she saw Eric Harris, though witness Brian Anderson has said he did see Harris.
An AP article claims that at "11:35 a.m. Harris and Klebold enter the school through the back cafeteria door...11:40 a.m. Harris and Klebold go upstairs to the library, still shooting."  The shooters are said to have entered the school at around 11:20 a.m., not 11:35 a.m. Nielson was shot at around 11:20 a.m on the other side of the cafeteria. The shooters entered the library at around or before 11:30 a.m., not 11:40 a.m. These conflicting timeline reports only indicate further that more than two gunmen may have been involved. There has never been a clear indication of whether or not the gunmen actually went inside the cafeteria at first.
"Shots are heard until almost 12:30. About that time, in the library, Klebold and Harris turn their guns on themselves, though no one will be sure of this for hours. As 12:30 passes, after no shots echo for several minutes, SWAT teams begin sweeping the building room by room", said the Boulder News, contrary to other reports.
Where was Nielson shot?

Please refer to John Quinn's report in the "John Quinn" section for more analysis of Nielson's comments. CRTF has attempted to contact Ms. Nielson to no avail. Nielson, however, did talk personally with a fellow CRTF investigator in Denver. She said the gunman who shot her seemed old, like a "man" as she has stated, and did not look like Harris or Klebold. He was wearing a black "beret". She said she felt others were involved.
The sheriffs office on June 13 questions whether Klebold committed suicide or was murdered due to the location and trajectory of the bullet that entered his left temple. Klebold's autopsy report may be released in July.
The Denver Post reports on June 17th in an article titled, "Video shows no 3rd gunman", that the Columbine High School video surveillance tape, which was hurriedly transported to the FBI in Quantico, Virginia to be "enhanced" immediately after the shooting, has now been reviewed by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Spokesman Steve Davis states, "There's nothing (on the tape) to substantiate the theory of a third gunman at all." The tape, apparently, only shows a brief view of Dylan Klebold walking around a corner. The Sheriff's Department received the tape back from the FBI about three weeks ago.
It's interesting that the tape was quickly shuttled off to FBI headquarters immediately after the shooting. While they claim "enhancements" were done, we can only speculate that various video shots of a third gunman were removed from the tape before Jeffco investigators viewed it. The Denver Post article reveals very little, unfortunately. Did the library have a camera? How is it possible that only one shot of Klebold was recorded when it appears both gunmen were traversing about the school for well over an hour?
"We already had some cameras in the cafeteria and parking lot areas. As long as they aren't in classrooms,'' said Columbine student body president Mike Sheehan on June 16.
According to Denver's KMGH-TV, "7 News has reported that on April 20th there was a surveillance camera working, inside the cafeteria at Columbine. Sources say the tape shows the two gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shooting randomly and shooting at the bombs, apparently trying to set them off."  What happened to this scene on the tapes?
On June 18 "Philip Joseph Duran, 22, [who] worked with the gunmen at a Blackjack Pizza store and introduced them to friend Mark Manes, who sold them the TEC-DC 9 in late January...was charged with unlawfully providing a handgun to minors and possessing a dangerous or illegal weapon."
"The sheriff's department doesn't anticipate any additional arrests in the near future,'' said Division Chief John Kiekbusch.
Brian Rohrbough, father of shooting victim Daniel, blasts Jefferson County school superintendent Jane Hammond, calling for her termination, in an article in the Denver Rocky Mountain News on June 19.  Jane Hammond has said it could cost $50 million to repair damage to Columbine High School. The repair ended up costing $1.2 million.
"I've said all along there were more people involved and nothing has changed my thinking," said Sheriff John Stone in an interview on June 19 with APB News. Stone apparently talked with APB News during a recent Colorado Rockies baseball game he attended with his 11 year old daughter, Lori. The full interview can be found here.
On June 25th Harris's autopsy report is released, while Judge Nieto says, "I believe I exceeded my jurisdiction" in making the ruling to seal all of the autopsy reports (yet the reports, with exception to Harris and Shoels, remain sealed). "When he died (due to a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head through the mouth), Harris was wearing a white T-shirt with the inscription 'Natural Selection' on its front. He also wore black combat boots and a black glove on his right hand with the fingers cut out," said the Denver Rocky Mountain News. The report, however, did not note the time of death, and, "...the report also does not explain what happened to the pants, ammunition vest and trench coat Harris was wearing on April 20. Did investigators take them as evidence before the autopsy was performed on April 22? Investigators would not comment."  What happened to the masks as well?
An interesting excerpt from a Post report:
On April 20, the boy with the usual light-brown hair and military-style cut had black hair. That day his usual clean-shaven face was stubbled.
"The scalp is covered by short, bloodstained, black hair ... the eyebrows are brown,'' the report said.
Judy Brown, whose son Brooks had known Harris, said she had never seen him with dyed hair.
"He never dyed his hair,'' Brown said. "It was kind of a lightish brown; it certainly wasn't black.''
Did Harris dye his hair days before the shooting? Surveillance video later revealed a Harris with light-colored brown hair. It appears the autopsy report merely reflects the probable fact that Harris's hair was blackened from his own blood.
June 30, a resident of the Denver area informed us of an email exchange that took place between himself and a student of Columbine High School. For the sake of privacy, names, email addresses and some of the content of the email has been removed from the following:
Hi,
My name is (deleted), I am researching what happened at Columbine on April 20th. I was hoping that you could elaborate on what you saw that day, and if you could verify some of the eyewitness accounts that there was a third shooter? I know that this may seem a bit forward but from the evidence I've seen it looks as though there could be more than two people involved. If you decide to talk to me I won't use your name if you wish to remain anonymous. I can be reached at (deleted) and I can be reached by phone at (deleted). Thanks, and I hope that you are doing better now after your ordeal.
(Signed)
The author of the above email has been in contact with us for the past few weeks. He is actively researching the shooting. He sent the above email to a student of the school. The below text is of this student's response to the above unnamed researcher:
You do raise a good argument and if you speak the truth of your experiences with such cases then I cannot argue with you in a structured or competitive manner. I can say that your experience in other cases have caused you to be a dainty, truth seeking individual. I will tell you that us students haven't shared a lot of things. Things we intend on keeping to ourselves. Things we don't want the entire population to know. Want to know why? Because we don't care what the "outsiders" in the community think. If you don't go to CHS as a student or teacher, you may contemplate and assume all you want without worrying about getting a negative smirk from me. Thank you for the invitation to your gathering, but I have already given out enough information about the victims, details about the tragedy, Dylan and Eric, and all sorts of other things. I also do not wish to hear what a bunch of retired police officers and army personnel think about the shooting. Unless, of course, they went to CHESS.
The above can be interpreted in a many number of ways. However, the prevailing notion is the incredible yet inexplicable bitterness expressed by this student toward a sincere local individual seemingly simply trying to find the "truth". "Things we intend on keeping to ourselves...things we don't want the entire population to know", says the student. What "things"? His comments are similar to those of student Makai Hall.
During the month of July the mother of Isaiah Shoels, Rhonda, said, "How can you go around making pipe bombs and killing people...and not think I was going to ask questions? I want justice.'' She also inflamed locals during an appearance on a local radio show when she questioned how Patti Nielson managed to survive the library attack and not save the lives of other students.
On July 3rd The Denver Post released an article which conveniently explains that the Columbine school surveillance video now shows Klebold and Harris in full view holding a TEC-DC9 handgun, two shotguns and a carbine rifle. It was previously reported by Jeffco that the video only showed Klebold briefly walking around a corner. In April, before the FBI confiscated the video, indications were given that the video showed "graphic information" and scenes of both shooters firing at propane tanks in the cafeteria. The story changes once again.
The Denver Post article also says that the Colorado Bureau of Investigation has concluded through ballistics tests that there is no evidence of a third gunman. (It must be noted that physical evidence would not necessarily be required to prove or disprove the presence of a third gunman in the school.)
"Officials said Harris and Klebold marched through the cafeteria at the start of their rampage, then returned there after killing 10 students in the library. They set a fire in the cafeteria, and, as soon as it began to spread, they went back to the library, where they killed themselves."
The above "official" statement is at odds with a good deal of information since revealed by this web site and Mr. John Quinn.
"There was a lot of useful information for our investigators but nothing to support the theory of a third gunman,'' said Jefferson County Sheriff's Office spokesman Steve Davis, implying that eye witness testimony of other gunmen was considered irrelevant. Jefferson County prosecutor Mark Pautler, however, indicated that more interviews needed to be conducted before the third gunman theory could be ruled-out.
Angela Sanders, the daughter of slain teacher Dave Sanders, threatened a law suit in July not for monetary gain, but to incite "...people to wake up, to realize it could've been prevented, to pay attention," she says. Angela was originally angered by the slow response times of the SWAT members, but since her initial comments made days after the shooting she has recanted her position, saying her comments were made out of "anger" at the time.
The sheriffs office, by July 14th, continued to possess letters written by Kathy Harris to various families of the slain victims. The office says it has had a great deal of trouble contacting the Harris family and wants the Harrises to deliver the letters themselves. "We can't get (the letters) to the Harrises' attorney,'' said Sgt. Randy West. "They're busy, we're busy and we can't seem to connect with them...it's really not our job [to distribute the letters]." Later in the month the Harrises finally sent letters out to the victims, but the original letters first sent to the office were "lost" -- "The district is concerned about the missing package of letters and has sent a message to all schools and departments, asking them to check their summer mail and make sure the package of Mrs. Harris' letters was not inadvertently sent to the wrong location,'' spokesman Rick Kaufman said. Why can't the sheriffs office get in contact with the parents of one of the known killers, let alone interview them?
"There's no physical evidence that was discovered that supports the direct involvement of another individual,'' said John Kiekbusch, a division chief with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, on July 29th.
A massive body of evidence along with ballistics reports from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was forwarded to the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office on July 29th. The information, as reported at the beginning of the month, does not indicate the presence of a third gunman on the scene of the Columbine shooting.
However, an Associated Press article released on July 29th at 6:49 p.m. Eastern time quoted Sheriff John Stone while vacationing in Florida, "I've never thought it was just two [suspects] because of the amount of stuff that was brought in. But we don't have enough to charge anyone.''
The article also quoted Spokesman Steve Davis, "From day one, the question has obviously been if there was a third gunman. We know every weapon that was fired. If we find any bullet that doesn't match a weapon, we'll have to go back.''
(Stone, in December, once again reiterated his belief that others were involved. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reported, "Stone also faced public criticism for some of his statements, including his speculation the first afternoon that the death toll could reach 25 and that Harris and Klebold probably had accomplices. Today, Stone defends himself, saying he was merely giving out the best information available at the time. That first afternoon, he notes, a teacher told investigators there was a 'whole bunch' of kids shooting up the school. It angers him that he was criticized by the same people who clamored for information -- reporters. Months later, after assuming a lower profile, Stone said he didn't regret his blunt comments early on. 'I think the public's got a right to know,' he says.")
The Rocky Mountain News stated conspicuously in an article also released on the 29th, "Dozens of witnesses interviewed by police after the crime claimed that from five to eight individuals participated in the shooting that left 15 people dead, including the killers, and more than 20 injured."
Did the Colorado Bureau of Investigation carefully misconstrue and distort the ballistics evidence given to the Sheriff's Department?
The Columbine Task Force, a group of community leaders, parents and school officials, proposed Orwellian-like security measures in July to be implemented in local schools in light of the Columbine shooting. A final decision on the measures will be made on August 9th, and formal action taken by the school board on August 19th. Some of the measures include, "Requiring students and visitors to wear IDs at all times", "Studying whether adding another armed guard at each high school would be effective", "Having one armed resource officer at each of the district's middle schools", "Studying whether cameras recently installed at Columbine are effective for districtwide use."
Most recently, on August 6th, the Columbine Task Force indicated that it's proposal will include, "...provisions increasing the number of security guards districtwide, restricting access to schools and installing security cameras on a trial basis...the use of drug- and bomb-sniffing dogs and the installation of panic buttons in school offices."

On August 10th the finalized security measures for Columbine High were presented by the Columbine Task Force. These measures will be voted on August 19th by the school board, but teachers and school officials will likely begin implementing them before then. Students will be required to wear IDs at all times during school. "What happens to those who don't wear their IDs? Will they be sent home? Denied an education? Denied lunch? Some students feel we are being punished for what Eric and Dylan did, " said student Sergio Gonzales. Overall security will be increased at the school and visitors will only be allowed to enter the school through one entrance.
CNN reports that "16 color video cameras that will watch over the school inside and out" and a "third uniformed guard to join a roving patrol, which includes an armed sheriff's deputy" are new added security measures.
More information was revealed on August 10th about the Conyers, Georgia shooting at Heritage High School on May, 20th. A note by the 15 year old assailant, Thomas Solomon, was found in his room and read to the press by a Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer that said, "One big question I leave behind for you to find is why. But for the sake of my brothers and sisters related to the Trench Coat Mafia, those answers will have to remain out of the public eye." This is the first time that the shooting appears to be related to the Columbine shooting. "I have been planning to do this for years, but I finally got pissed off enough to do it. This has nothing to do with Hitler, and it is not because I was picked on," the note continued. Solomon may face up to 351 years in prison if convicted. The defense argues that Solomon is mentally ill.
"As far as I know he was a normal student. No one picked on him," said senior William Britt of Solomon.
"He heard voices telling him to do strange things, but they were robotic voices, not human voices," said Dr. Eddy Regnier, who teaches psychiatry at Harvard University and who was hired by defense attorneys to examine Solomon.
(We would like to note that 16-year old Kip Kinkel, who in Springfield, Oregon in May of 1998 opened fire in a high school and also killed his parents, was taking Prozac and heard loud voices in his head who commanded him to kill ).
The Shoels family is living in fear and has left Littleton, according to the New York Post on August 13th. The family has received threats since the shooting. One caller to their home said, "If you don't keep quiet, something drastic is going to happen to you." In an interesting revelation the article states, "[Michael] Shoels' fears began to materialize two days before his son's burial when two white youths wearing the same black trenchcoats sported by Harris and Klebold stood outside his home in a threatening manner." The article mentions that Michael Shoels, the father of 18 year old shooting victim Isaiah, is very upset "...that Isaiah was called a 'nigger' before he was gunned down by the two Nazi-loving Internet users." Shoels reportedly will not sleep "in the same bed twice" in fear for his life.
A credible woman living in Highlands Ranch, who has provided us with information in the past, told us the following on August 12th:
"I have received new info regarding Columbine. This comes from a source I know; I also know many of his co-workers. This man wishes to remain anonymous. He was a member of the very first rescue squad to arrive at Columbine, about one hour after the shooting started. His job was to go into the school with the SWAT teams to help the injured and to help escort out students. Every student he saw -- he saw a lot -- were screaming that there were three shooters in the building! These kids were all coming from different parts of the building so there was no way they could have all gotten together to make this up!
"He said the military was not there when he arrived, but they were there soon after, as was a tank. He did not notice any NATO or U.N. My source knows we are being lied to about the number of shooters because he believes the students and saw their terror. He had no other info."
Other information was revealed by this woman that indicated understandable reasons as to why the rescue workers -- there were at least two who made claims to this effect -- wish to remain anonymous. The information was related to the woman's husband, a former firefighter of over 20 years, by the rescue workers. CRTF has met personally with both of these people and the story has been re-confirmed. The two rescue workers will simply not come forward and share little interest in pursuing the matter.
On August 12th the Associated Press, among other news agencies, reported on a list of "about" 15 people Eric Harris had written. It was considered a "hit list", however, "...none of the students on the list was injured or killed in the April 20 shooting attack."
"There's been a lot of speculation that it included all athletes or minorities. It doesn't. There's quite a spectrum there", said spokesman Steve Davis about the list. "Sheriff's Division Chief John Kiekbusch said a lot of evidence they gathered on Harris and Klebold 'didn't make a lot of sense'", mentioned the article.
Columbine High School re-opened Monday, August 16th, for the '99-'00 school year in a flurry of fanfare and celebration. Ribbons were cut. Flags were raised. Triumphant jubilations of pride were gushed by school officials and students. A chain of parents and friends blockaded the news media as students funneled into the school. The songs of rock bands "Pearl Jam", "Everclear", "Big Head Todd" and the "Monsters" were blared through loudspeakers. Most students were wearing school-commissioned T-shirts that said, "We Are...Columbine".
No mention was made of the victims of the April 20th, 1999 attack.
"This is really cool. It's like a homecoming,'' said Julie Lesback, a parent of two Columbine students. "I was so excited, I felt like I was on a sugar high," said student Kayla Harrison.
On ABC World News Tonight the scene was called "festive", and film of the event showed a huge stage with speakers that had been erected on school grounds, surrounded by hundreds of students where Principal Frank DeAngelis exclaimed, "I have waited for months to say this, and I say it with great pride. Columbine, we are back!'' Students cheered and waved pompoms, others ignored him.
Also on stage was student body president Mike Sheehan, who aroused the crowd when he said, "Although we were surrounded by terror and destruction, we still stood strong. We have prevailed. We have overcome. Welcome home Rebels!''
Dissent was voiced by some students and parents who felt the "human chain" formed by parents was needless, others felt the entire event was overdone. "They left out all the victims. They left out all the injured kids. They were thrown under the carpet. That's how they're treating it. I would not allow [my son] to go back into that school,'' said Brian Rohrbough, whose son Daniel was killed at Columbine. "This is all really dumb. I think a lot of this is show for the media. The human circle is just adding to the circus,'' said student Matt Koch. "It was rah rah. Let's forget about the kids that died...let's forget what happened. I think that's wrong,'' said Rick Petrone, the step-father of Daniel Rohrbough.
Four freshly "etched" swastikas were found on Columbine school grounds on August 16th. Two were found in the recently repainted girl's bathroom, one in the boy's bathroom, and one outside the school on a wall. The swastikas were small in size. "It's like they are laughing in our faces, 'Ha, ha, school's back in session and so are we,' " said parent Tammy Theus.
Division Chief of the Sheriffs Office, John Kiekbusch, said on CNN's "Early Edition" program on the 16th, "Well, we have witnesses who are identifying additional gunmen. We're comparing that information against the results of the forensic testing. And, as I indicated, there's no physical evidence to support the involvement in the attack of another gunman."
On August 27th, four Jefferson County high schools received "anonymous letters that appear to threaten more violence. Authorities are investigating the letters, which were sent to Dakota Ridge, Standley Lake, Pomona and Bear Creek high schools, said Jefferson County Undersheriff John Dunaway. The letters were sent via U.S. mail..." While the letters were not released to the public, Dunaway said the basic intent of the letters was, "essentially that if you think your schools are safe, you're mistaken.''
"The threatening letters were typed and contained no specific threats of action, just general statements that the Columbine High massacre was the start of more school violence, district spokeswoman Marilyn Saltzman said."
This same day school ID requirments -- specifically mandates which require students to wear IDs during the school day -- were reconsidered by community leaders and school officials due to public dissent. "I have no problem with people knowing who I am. But I do have a problem with being numbered and categorized and catalogued. It's like living in communist China or Nazi Germany. It makes you feel like less of a person," said local student Rick Hammack.
August 29th a representative for a major Denver newspaper, which will remain unnamed at this time, responded to questions posed by CRTF about multiple/numerous assailants -- including "five to eight" shooters seen by "dozens of witnesses" and reports of a third gunman -- at Columbine High on April 20th, 1999. The actual theme of our letter and the questions posed were as to why the witnesses of these multiple shooters have yet to be interviewed by the news media. The representative's entire response is below:
"Sir, after four-plus months of exhaustive investigations by local authorities, national media and local media, do you really think the possibility of eight shooters actually exists[?] Come on, get real."
The above response fails to answer our questions as to why witnesses of multiple gunmen have yet to be interviewed by the news media. We shall assume the above quote is the official position of this newspaper concerning the "third gunman" reports. We would remind our readers that no newspaper or official arm of the news media has made any coherent, credible inquiry into the multiple gunmen reports. Witnesses were never interviewed and questions rarely asked. Unfortunately and predictably, the newspaper in question has already made its conclusion on the validity of those reports without, apparently, ever doing any research into the matter.
This is but another example of unprofessionalism and arrogance in the press.
On September 2nd further eye-witness testimony is revealed that more than two gunmen were present during the shooting. See the "John Quinn" section in the sidebar to the right for the story. (CRTF has subsequently confirmed this testimony with the mother of the witness).
September 3rd: The Jefferson County Sheriff's investigation into the Columbine High School shooting is "winding down", with 15 remaining investigators still pursuing the case, down from the original 80.
Jefferson County Administrator Ron Holliday reiterated that "there is no physical evidence'' of more than two assailants during the shooting. He also said, "The investigation is truly winding down.''  With many questions still unanswered, we might add.
In other news, a panel of 20 individuals appointed by Governor Bill Owens released a report stating that funding is needed to aid in the "counseling" of 373,847 people related in some way to the Columbine shooting. These people would include a range of "high", "moderate" and "low" risk individuals from the victim's families to "persons who witnessed the incident through the media and the entire state of Colorado.'' The funding for such a program would reach into the millions of dollars. Governor Owens blasted the report, stating, "The primary persons at 'highrisk' in this report are the taxpayers...I think the mental health professionals who drafted these recommendations need to have their heads examined."
A second set of threats were mailed to local south Denver schools. The first threats were sent one week ago. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department has given little indication of what the threats actually say. Officials say they believe the threats were likely crafted by teenagers.
"They don't tell us anything. They just say, 'We got a letter, we're taking care of it.' I want to know what it said. I think it's probably just someone goofing around," said Bear Creek High School student Matt Mansell of the sherrifs office.
The Denver Post reports on September 14th that the Harris family has yet to be interviewed by investigators. Benjamin Colkitt, attorney for the family, remains aloof.
"We're calling on this nation to immediately stop giving money to the United Way until we have a complete accounting of what I refer to as the charity industry ripoff in Colorado,'' said Sam Riddle, spokesman for the Shoels family. The family is furious over how the millions in donations have been handled by the United Way. "The Shoelses have moved out of their Littleton home, saying they didn't feel safe, and are trying to relocate to Denver. They spend each night in motels, and their children are staying with relatives, " said The Denver Post.
In an article about evidence to be released to the public by the sheriffs office, The Denver Post stated on September 18th, "School officials and parents had been worried that photos of the library and a surveillance video of the gunmen in the cafeteria might be released as part of the public report." It was previously reported by the Sheriff's Department that the video did not show the gunmen in the cafeteria. The evidence itself -- 10,000 photos included -- may or may not be included in a final report by the office this November.
On the 18th the Department announces that of the 10,000 crime scene photos of Columbine High, only a few will be released in the sheriff's final report in November. The final report "is expected to detail how Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold acted alone, both in carrying out the April 20 shootings and hauling in the dozens of pipe bombs they planted in and around the school", said The Denver Post.
On September 23rd internet magazine Salon.com published a report detailing the entire shooting incident. (source1) (source2)
"...the biggest myth remains that the building was still under siege... Many Columbine students are still unaware that the killers lay dead hours before they fled the building with their hands on their heads. The entire episode lasted less than a half hour." Such is the conclusion of a lengthy Salon Magazine report by Denver writer David Cullen, dated September 23rd, 1999. The article, in our view, is a mix of fact, important revelations, rehashed material and distortion. CRTF readers will recognize immediately the questionable statement from the above quote. If the shooting "lasted less than a half hour", who was firing shots after 1 p.m.? Why, then, if the shooters lay dead for so long, did SWAT teams fail to enter the school in a timely fashion and save the lives of those who remained inside? 
Another portion of the article states, "Harris and Klebold planted the two main propane bombs in the center of the room just after 11 a.m., then returned to their car to gear up." The placement of these large bombs was in question for many months -- apparently, it has been cleared up. Apparently, the two shooters managed to place two huge propane bombs in the cafeteria -- in the "center of the room" -- in the presence of students and faculty without anyone noticing. The truth is, no one knows when or how those bombs were placed there. Another fact overlooked by the article is the report that the two shooters were seen on school surveillance video tape shooting at the propane tanks.
We highly recommend that readers visit the Salon web site and make their own conclusions. Those who are learned in the facts of case will immediately recognize some of the oversights, errors, and lurid peculiarities left behind in the article.
Howard Cornell, the manager of security for Jefferson County Public Schools, "abruptly" quit his position also on the 23rd. "Cornell has long envisioned an armed, uniformed security force run from district headquarters." The community and officials, however, did not agree with his position completely and he decided to quit.
The lawyers for Eric Harris's parents attempted to remove lawyer Geoffery Fieger from the Sholes's lawsuit, citing that, "...based upon Mr. Fieger's record and his recent conduct and comments made with respect to this case, Mr. and Mrs. Shoels' motion to have Mr. Fieger specially admitted should be denied."  Fieger later blasted back, and criticized the lawyers.  A motion was also made to move the proceedings of the lawsuit from Denver to Jefferson County.
The Denver Post published an interesting story on the 26th examining the Sholes family.
Jefferson County School officials, on the 30th, attempted to block the release of a video made by the Littleton Fire Department showing the inside of Columbine High after the shooting and before repairs and renovations were made.
The Post reports on October 3rd that the Harris family will soon meet with investigators after a five-month holdout.  (The meeting, as of mid-October, has yet to take place).
On the 5th it was reported that a lawsuit has been filed against the Jefferson Co. school district after hand-made tiles commemorating slain students were removed by officials from the Columbine High grounds -- the tiles contained religious symbols and wording. Officials later responded.
Geoffery Fieger announced on the 10th that a litany of new defendants, including gun manufacturers, would be added to the Sholes's lawsuit.
On October 13th CRTF posts the following report...
An approximately 60 to 90 second edited video tape of at least 20 minutes of raw surveillance tape footage shot within Columbine High School was circulated within law enforcement circles around the country after the shooting in April. This edited version recently found its way to Albuquerque at a school safety seminar for law enforcement officials, which was attended by CBS Affiliate KRQE-TV. The news affiliate videotaped the footage off of the projector where the tape was being shown. The story was then presented on the CBS Evening News. Officials with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office were quietly outraged -- some even suggested legal action be taken against those who had circulated the tape into the hands of people unauthorized to view it (read: the public).
The tape contains two scenes of assailants at Columbine High -- both scenes originated in the cafeteria. One of the shots shows what appears to be a man, though quite possibly Eric Harris, in a white T-shirt bending down in an assault-position and firing into the cafeteria (the other shot is brief, showing a gunman diving as a bomb detonates nearby). The person appears at first glance to have a pony tail and dark hair. He is not wearing a trench coat. The gun he is using appears to have a sling. In the tape, he appears to be calm, collected and capable. He may also be wearing a helmet or mask. One newspaper, however, conveniently identified both gunmen in the blurry tape, "The tape also captures Eric Harris entering the cafeteria and firing a 9mm carbine across the chair- and table-strewn room...the tape shows Klebold diving for cover moments before a bomb explodes." (As for Klebold diving from an explosion, one very credible reader wrote to us and noted, "The gentleman in the video diving before the bomb went off was a teacher - check out the dress pants and the dress shoes").

We would remind our readers that witnesses reported a wide range of sightings, from men in masks to the popularized theme of two trench-coated figures. There was a report of an "ugly" man with dark hair and bushy eyebrows in a trench coat. A "kid in a white T-shirt" was seen accompanying two trench-coated assailants (though these reports were buried by the newsmedia).
Please note the following comments made by a Denver researcher, "This is my professional opinion -- having worked in film and video for years -- that the video has been fooled around with. If you look at the stills, they are in blue. But the CCTV camera in the cafeteria is black and white. Now, for the reason you use a blue haze on a black and white film or still [is] simple, a blue haze put over a black and white frame will cast shadows on the subjects in the frame, thereby clouding the clarity of the video frame. Now, why would you do that? Simple; so that you can't see clearly the faces of the people in the frame. I should know, I do this on feature films when I'm doing lighting to cast shadows on the actors faces to make them seem mysterious."
While the above photo is in black and white, the video on the CBS News web site has a blue tint to it and is very unclear.
Special thanks to a reader for the following graphic:

The 9mm rifle in the surveillance photo seems to be about 5 inches shorter than the actual rifle. Nevertheless, both rifles appear to be the same. The rifle in the picture may be shorter due to the lack of a suppressor or muzzle break.
Please read the following articles:
John Quinn's report
CBS story 1 & 2 (w/ full video clip) ( * Removed by CBS. Only works with Internet Explorer)
The Denver Post - "Aired video irks sheriff"; "CBS airs cafeteria tape"; "Decision not to air is suspect"
The Denver Rocky Mountain News - "Station airs video from Columbine"; "Police say Columbine tape..."; "Police want video copier...prosecuted"
* The video clip on the CBS web site has been removed. The original clip could not be saved to a hard drive, and efforts to capture images from it were futile. If you can provide a location where the clip can now be found please email us.
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On the 15th Columbine High School teacher Patti Nielson has announced her leave of absence from the school to deal with the emotional pain involved in being a witness to the tragedy of April 20th.
On October 20th a 17-year old Columbine High student, Eric Veik, was arrested and jailed (with bond set at an astronomical $500,000) on the night of October 19th on charges of "inciting destruction of life or property, and theft for allegedly stealing a school microphone". Officials were given word of the student's plans, which included a diagram of the school and other writings, by a fellow student who had heard him say he would "finish the job" in the wake of the April 20th tragedy by initiating another shooting.
The Denver Rocky Mountain News has reported the most complete story so far.
The Denver Post also released a story which reveals a great deal of information. The Denver Post (on November 11th) submitted a request to open the proceedings in the sentencing of the student. The proceedings have been closed from the public by Judge DeVita.
On October 22nd, the mother of a Columbine High victim killed herself with a gun in a Denver-area pawn shop. The following is a sad, shocking and inexplicable story that should put into perspective what a great tragedy the shooting was. Friday's AP article is reprinted here.
November 11th: In a phone conversation with a young woman, who intimately knew both Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, further information was revealed on the recently released surveillance tape, Eric Harris's autopsy report, and the confusion over the identity of a student arrested at Columbine High on April 20th.
The young woman tape recorded the footage of the surveillance tape (see story below) when it first aired on television. She relayed to CRTF that the tape shows a "gunman" bending down and firing a gun. As we indicated below, the "gunman" seems to have a pony tail. The young woman noticed this immediately upon viewing the tape, and says that during most of the scene the pony tail is visible (she also said that he was not wearing a helmet). Eric Harris did not have long hair and did not have a pony tail.
She says that in the tape, when the gunman stands up and walks off, his face is noticeably "blurred", while the rest of his body appears clear and at normal resolution. She felt the tape had been altered to hide the gunman's face, which is unrecognizable on the tape. She also said that the gunman was wearing a relatively small vest on his chest, seen when he approached the camera. A strap holding the vest was wrapped around the gunman's neck. Asked if the strap could account for the pony tail, the young woman felt otherwise and said the strap was thick and large.
In another scene on the tape, the young woman says that the person diving from an ignited bomb is not Dylan Klebold, as reported by the newsmedia. She says that he is wearing fully black attire in the tape.
Eric Harris had short dirty blonde hair was not known to have dyed his hair. However, his autopsy report indicated that his hair was dark brown or black. It was either dyed or bloodstained. The young woman, who personally knows Brooks Brown, said that Brown had told her that when he saw Harris unloading gym bags from his car before the shooting began on April 20th Harris's hair was not dyed. She also said that Brown has expressed dismay to her as to why the sheriffs office has remained suspicious of him.
The young woman expressed that she never would have believed that Harris and Klebold were capable of carrying out such a shooting. She also feels that other shooters were likely involved. She told CRTF that she remembers seeing television footage taken from a helicopter on the day of the shooting. The footage showed a view of the busted windows around the library portion of the school. As the helicopter filmed the scene, two young men approached the windows from the inside. One of them was Dylan Klebold. The other was not Eric Harris, according to the young woman. CRTF also recalls seeing this specific footage broadcast the day of the shooting.
In other news, an Associated Press article from April 22nd says that two 35-pound bombs were found in the school cafeteria by investigators. Since late April the newsmedia has maintained that only one large propane bomb was found in the cafeteria. The article also emphasizes the concern officials expressed at the possibility that more accomplices may have been involved in the shooting. Since May, that concern has all but vanished. See article locations 1 and 2.
In an unprecedented move, a committee formed by a group of Colorado state legislators, chaired by Rep. Penn Pfiffner (R-Lakewood), has blasted psychotropic "mind-altering" drugs being inflicted upon the nation's young people. The committee is asking the Colorado state Board of Education to ban the use of the government-mandated drug Ritalin in Colorado schools.
The committee, connected with the Church of Scientology and comprised of a number of state legislators, paraded a group of qualified experts before cameras and journalists Tuesday. The group blasted so-called "Attention Deficit Disorder", saying the ADD diagnosis is unproved. The committee blamed the CIA, military-industrial complex and pharmaceutical companies for forcing upon America's children an epidemic of mind-altering drugs that only do more harm than good. They cited recent cases of school shootings, and noted that most of the assailants involved in the shootings were on ADD-prescribed drugs. Eric Harris's use of Luvox was given as an example.
Sen. Jim Congrove (R-Arvada), when confronted with the notion that Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold was not on any drug, mused, "You don't know that he wasn't."
Dr. Peter Breggin, an M.D. and psychiatrist, testified that there is "no evidence that Ritalin improves long-term behavior.'' He also said that Luvox has a "cocaine-like effect'' and that "scientific evidence is irrefutable'' that Luvox causes "psychotic mania'' in about 4 percent of the young people who take it.
Pro-drug groups in Colorado blasted the efforts to ban the use of psychotropic drugs in schools -- some said they were "outraged" and expressed "strong opposition" to any measure to ban the use of the drugs by schools. The Denver Post made its position clear: the efforts to ban these drugs are being conducted by a group of "clowns" and "whackos" in a "circus" of "paranoia". The paper also warns that likely not enough of the nation's children are diagnosed with ADD --- See articles provided below.

[JohnnyL]

A reader from Denver, Mr. James D. Schindler, wrote to us and said, "[Chuck Green's] report was totally inaccurate and bordered on character assassination [ed. note: see Green article below]. I was at the hearings, both the State School Board hearings regarding their resolution (it passed 6-1), and the Legislative hearings at the Statehouse. For your information, the School Board had already started moving through the passage of their resolution prior to Rep. Pfiffner setting up the Statehouse hearings.
"I went into the hearings carrying my own knowledge related to personal experience with kids and drugs, legal and illegal. I was objective in my approach when listening to testimony on both sides of the issue. I did not understand why those of the APA (American Psychiatric Assn.) would be so 'up in arms' over a resolution which advocates that school personnel not become involved in medical decisions, but rather rely on those in the medical profession for those decisions.
"Why would they (APA) resist being placed in a position of sole authority when it comes to medical decisions? It became much more clear to me when I watched a video of the APA's Consensus Hearings on ADD/ADHD, held recently. They were having a very difficult time coming up with a statement for the public regarding the diagnostic criteria of these disorders/diseases. When asked by one of the hearings attendees what they looked for as classic symptoms demonstrated by a child who would be diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, no one could provide any definitive answer. It was simply that 'you know it when you see it', and, 'if a parent and the child's teacher come to you stating that they believe the child has some problem...' What that tells me is that the diagnoses is not made by the physician, but rather by a consensus that 'something seems wrong', as observed by the parent and teacher! When the teacher is being asked by the school board not to become involved in something that is out of their area of expertise (via the resolution), the end result is the removal of fifty percent of the diagnostic criteria currently being used by the APA to validate putting children on prescription drugs. This raises very serious questions in my mind, as I feel it should in the minds of others.
"One last thing, for this time anyway, relates to the total lack of information being passed on to parents of ADD/ADHD children regarding potential side effects and negative reactions of the prescribed medications. As the information gradually gets out, many parents are horrified with the realization that these substances have the potential to produce such negative results, which are directly opposite of the desired results."
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"Drugs for unruly kids attacked"
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"Hearing more like a circus" - by Chuck Green
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"Board to soften drug resolution"
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"Ritalin can be right Rx" - by Diane Carmen
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On December 13th, TIME Magazine released an article "detailing" 5-plus hours of home video created in March and April of 1999 by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. CRTF considers the article to be puerile reporting at best, laced with filler, philosophical musings and inaccuracies.
The Sheriff's Office of Jefferson County claims it never intended for the tapes (or transcripts thereof) to be released to the public. Parents have confirmed that the office had promised them such after the shooting. In fact, no parents were ever allowed to even view the videos. Sheriff John Stone explained, "I got 'scoundreled' by a national publication. I made a mistake by trusting a journalist that I thought was trustworthy." Stone said that there was an agreement between the journalist and himself not to report on it when the tapes were shown.
Nevertheless, TIME reporter Tim Roche was given full access. While no copies of the tapes were made, Roche was able to transcribe all of the tapes. He and TIME refute the Office's claim that the content of the tapes were to remain sealed. Yet, the original intent of Roche's "six-week investigation" was to follow up on the slow response times of SWAT teams while the shooting was taking place. It is clear that the original intent of the article was bulldozed by TIME when the sensational tapes were viewed and transcribed.
The tapes themselves, in our opinion, provide an interesting yet unsurprising view into the world of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Unfortunately, TIME, with transcript in hand, decided to give the reader only a tease of information on the tapes. A few events and quotes were revealed, but with five hours of tape it is obvious a great deal of information was withheld with no apparent reason except to save page space.
The tapes make perfectly clear, in the words of the two killers, that their parents and friends were not involved in the planning of the shooting. This is predictable since the shooters likely would not incriminate their friends or family in the first place, especially on a tape they expected to be shown around the world after it was discovered. We also know through private eye-witness reports given to CRTF that a friend of Eric Harris, who spent time at his home, saw a shotgun laying near Wayne Harris as he watched TV. The friend also says that once Wayne Harris entered Eric's room and a box of shotgun shells were sitting nearby. The TIME article -- and 5-hour tapes -- imply that the parents were not aware of the weapons whatsoever.
Also in the article, TIME tries to make sense of SWAT-team response peculiarities -- specifically, why no one bothered to enter the school and attempt to save the lives of the dozens left inside. The article quotes one student, Evan Todd, "I described it all to them, the guns they were using, the ammo. I told them they could save lives. They told me to calm down and take my frustrations elsewhere."
"When five hundred officers go to a battle zone and not one comes away with a scratch, then something's wrong. I expected dead officers, crippled officers, disfigured officers -- not just children and teachers," said Dale Todd, Evan's father.
TIME attempts to reconcile this dichotomy, and officials try to put things into "perspective". Yet no argument can be made to soften these questions, or rationalize them away.
"Just before 11 a.m. [the gunmen] hauled two duffel bags containing propane-tank bombs into the cafeteria..." The bombs were apparently set to explode at 11:17 a.m. "But the bombs didn't go off. After two minutes, they walked toward the school and opened fire...then they headed into the building." Apparently, the kitchen propane bomb has vanished from the "official story".
"They were dead by 12:05 p.m...", says TIME, flatly. This is speculation and completely out of line with eye witness reports. On Eric Harris's autopsy report a time of death isn't even noted. TIME says the shooting lasted 46 minutes before Klebold and Harris shot themselves. This, of course, is mere speculation, yet reported as fact by TIME.
TIME made the following indirect remarks concerning other gunmen, "Through most of the 46 minutes that Harris and Klebold were shooting up the school, police say they couldn't tell where the gunmen were, or how many of them there were. Students and teachers trapped in various parts of the school were flooding 911 dispatchers with calls reporting that the shooters were, simultaneously, inside the cafeteria, the library and the front office."
Another concern is that TIME decided to place a glaring surveillance camera photo showing both shooters (see above) on the front cover of the magazine. We feel this was out of line and disrespectful, yet it is exactly in line with what Harris and Klebold wanted.
Click here to read the full TIME article on-line.
APB News article on controversy over release of tapes.
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On Monday, January 31st, the CRTF webmaster was a guest on the nationally broadcast radio show "Sightings with Jeff Rense." His appearance lasts an hour and one half. Click here to listen with Real Audio.
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February 14th, at approximately 12:45 a.m. Monday night, two Columbine High School students -- Nicholas Kunselman, 15, and Stephanie Hart, 16 -- were found dead inside a Subway sandwich store located less than a mile from the school. Both suffered fatal gunshot wounds. Hart, at the time, was believed to have been visiting Kunselman, a Subway employee. The suspect is described as being "a white male in his teens or early 20s who was wearing a red jacket and flared pants." He was seen near the shopping center about the time the bodies were discovered. Strangely enough, Salon.com reported that Nathan Grill, a friend of Kunselman and present in the store that night, "...was wearing both a red jacket and flared pants Sunday night, but [said] 'I know I'm innocent. I'm not worried.'" A surveillance camera was present inside the shop, though appears to have been turned off. Click for The Washington Post and The Denver Post stories.
On Tuesday, The Denver Rocky Mountain News reports that cash was left in the register inside the store. The store was noted as an unlikely target for a robbery since large currency is placed in a locked safe throughout the day. "It's not worth robbing, 50 bucks, maybe," said employee J.J. Hodack. The shooting appears to have taken place sometime between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. A witness, present in the store at 9:55 p.m., reports that all was normal when the store closed, though a customer was present when he left. An employee, driving by the shop at around 1 a.m., noticed the lights were unusually on inside. The bodies were then found behind the counter inside the shop.
A source in Denver visited the Subway recently and confirmed to us that the shop's three entrances appear to be fully intact and no damage is visible. There does not appear to be a forced entry. This suggests that a late night customer is responsible for the crime, or a "friend" of Kunselman, Hart, or both, possibly enticed them to open and unlock the door later that night. A robbery seems most unlikely. Another source says just after the shooting the windows were shot out and taped up. Were the windows quickly replaced?
Investigators were seen searching trash bins behind the shop, as well as searching the top of the roof of a building across the street from the Subway (a Denver source told CRTF, "I don't believe that the shooter or shooters ever entered the store because I saw bullet holes in the windows on the news...we might be dealing with some type of professional shooter here"). No weapon has been found. No motive has been determined, though a "murder-suicide" was quickly ruled-out. Both young students were a two-year couple and, according to a family friend, Kunselman's father said, "...he's never seen two young people as in love as they were."
The Subway store located at 6768 W. Coal Mine Avenue is just two blocks south of Columbine High School. Slain student Rachel Scott once worked at the Subway. The shop is also near Blackjack Pizza, the former employer of Harris and Klebold.
A series of tragedies have preceded Monday's shooting. Two weeks ago, the body of 11-year-old Antonio Davalos was found stuffed in a trash bin within a mile of Columbine High School. There have been no arrests. Antonio was a fifth-grader at Centennial Elementary School.
Composite drawings based on two eye witness sightings show the current suspect. He was wearing a black baseball cap with the bill turned forward, a black coat with a red lining on the inside, and black or blue jeans with white shoes.
See the links for The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News in the right sidebar for the latest.
In other news, The Denver Post released an article on the 14th detailing the bomb arsenal used by Harris and Klebold. It is now revealed that they used in upward of 95 bombs in their attack. The article quotes an official who claims Klebold and Harris brought the bombs into the school about fifteen minutes before they began shooting. Apparently, no one noticed they were carrying four 20-lb propane bombs and no one noticed them place them in the kitchen and cafeteria. The article does not mention the presence of the kitchen bombs. There appears to be a discontinuity in the official story in that there are conflicting reports on whether or not propane bombs were found in the kitchen. It was first reported that at least one propane bomb was found in the kitchen in a well placed, hidden location.
Also, the recall of Sheriff John Stone has picked up steam and a force of locals are preparing to gather the 41,991 signatures needed to place the recall on the ballot.
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In a smattering of articles in The Denver Post on Sunday, March 12th, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office reveals further information on the progress of the "final report" being produced concerning the Columbine High School shooting.
Five articles attempt to dispel "rumors" and explain the delay in the release of the final report. Mention is made of "third-gunman" reports; the Sheriffs Department says witnesses were simply confused, and due to the sound of gunfire and bombs "mistakenly" believed more than two were involved. As for the report's six month delay, parent Rich Petrone muses, "Maybe they're trying to hide stuff."
"'There were conflicting descriptions of the subjects. Reports of people on the roof. All kinds of unsubstantiated reports' about as many as four gunmen'," said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Ron Knight, who dismissed those reports.
One article dispels the so-called "myths" -- There was not a proverbial "third-gunman"; Harris and Klebold did not use "walkie-talkies" or communication devices; they did not have keys to the school; they had no help whatsoever in planning the shooting; no one knew beforehand the shooting would occur; bombs were not brought into the school days before the shooting; the shooters were not members of the "Trench coat mafia"; they did not target blacks, Christians and jocks during the shooting; they did not plan on escaping the school.
The above "official line" on these various issues will likely surface throughout the final report. Whether this information is true or not remains to be seen.
Soon, with the release of the final report, we will be able to determine whether or not our law enforcement personnel have carried out their civic duties properly -- their conclusions will either bring closure or ignite further controversy . Below are the five individual articles.
No second-guessing SWAT during 'mayhem'
http://web.archive.org/web/200008231628 ... t0312e.htm
Facts clarify but can't justify killers' acts
http://web.archive.org/web/200008231628 ... t0312c.htm
Author wants report to be 'absolutely correct'
http://web.archive.org/web/200008231628 ... t0312b.htm
Lessons a balm to personnel
http://web.archive.org/web/200008231628 ... t0312f.htm
Detailed report nears completion
http://web.archive.org/web/200008231628 ... t0312a.htm
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On Monday, March 27th, 2000, Jefferson County Undersheriff John Dunaway spoke at the Columbine Review Commission, a panel appointed by Gov. Bill Owens. During his speech he made reference to the apparent fact that the "final report" on the Columbine incident will not contain all of the facts of the case. According to The Denver Post, he said one will be an "investigative report" that has been completed but will not be released, and the other a "public report".
Later, Jeffco denied there will be "two reports". Spokesman Steve Davis said there was "some confusion" between the actual "investigative files", to remain sealed, and the final, public report. Nevertheless, they confirmed some information will be withheld.
Parent Rich Petrone complained, "I'm so sick of that sheriff's department... They're so incompetent that it's taken them a year to make a report on an incident where they have the only two killers supposedly there, yet they say it's an 'ongoing investigation.' We're not very happy about it. To me, it's just a cover-up."
Petrone voiced further displeasure, "We don't even know yet how Danny [Rohrbough] died. The stories they've told us don't even line up. We don't know what happened with Danny, and nobody else knows what happened to their children."
Sue Petrone asked, "What do they have to hide? It's like having two sets of books for the IRS -- one to hide what you got, the other whatever you make up. I think it's cruel. This is my only son. I should know blow by blow, shot by shot, how he died."
However, anti-gun crusader and parent Tom Mauser noted, "I want it to be withheld, but I don't want to comment more than that."
"I want the full version," said Angela Sanders, daughter of slain teacher, Dave Sanders. "I don't want any edited crap."
"I've believed all along that they're hiding things, and that's why this report has taken so long and has not come out publicly. The sheriff's department will never return my calls," said Judy Brown, parent of Brooks Brown.
In an editorial titled, "Edited report a crime", The Denver Post said, "Several survivors have expressed outrage at the sheriff's department for offering them only the 'edited' report, and we share their disappointment...Very few people will be motivated to pore over 200 volumes of police work. But for those who do have a compelling interest in this case, the investigation should be an open book."
On March 29th, Jefferson County said that they will now make efforts to answer any questions parents of the slain or injured have about the case.
Brian Rohrbough, whose son, Daniel, was slain outside the school April 20th, responded, "It's just what I have to assume is one more lie, trying to ease public pressure, once again saying they're going to do something that they won't do." Rohrbough said that he has contacted Jeffco numerous times to arrange a meeting to no avail.
Regarding the delay in the release of the report, Bob Miller, a former U.S. attorney for Colorado, told Dunaway, "I have never seen a report that's almost a year in the making." Miller said such a delay would have made a prosecution in the case "impossible." Dunaway has said that some information is being withheld in case other suspects in the crime are to be pursued in the future. (sources: 1, 2, 3, 4)
On the 30th, Sue Petrone said, "If they can show the guns to Time magazine, they can show me my son's clothing." The Denver Post released an article where the parents of Daniel Rohrbough complained that their son's clothing has yet to be returned to them by Jefferson County. The sheriff's department rebuts that the case is not closed and if another suspect is to surface they need the clothing as evidence. Others disagree, citing that the department continues to claim only two people participated in the crime and assails any notion there were other gunmen involved.
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On Wednesday, April 26th, at 3:00 p.m., Jefferson County made KCNC News 4 and KUSA News 9 helicopter footage, a Littleton Fire Department "training" video, and some surveillance footage available to the public in VHS video format. Judge Brooke Jackson, on Monday, said the footage could be released to the families without restriction (before, it was to only be viewed by the families at the Jefferson County building). County Attorney Frank Huftless then unexpectedly ordered both tapes released to the public, outraging parents and victims.
"The families are shocked and outraged. It shows a complete lack of sensitivity to the victims' families. It's outrageous," said attorney Jim Rouse.
The "training" footage is about 25 minutes long, and shows graphic footage of the library after the bodies were removed. The entire video contains "background music", including one fringe anti-gun song. It was so offensive to the Fleming and Rohrbough families they turned the sound off the television they were viewing the video on at Jeffco last week. "The families were so offended that we simply turned down the sound so no one could hear it," said Rouse.
One of the pirated songs contained on the video is Sarah McLachlan's, "I Will Remember You". The singer reacted to the release of the tape, stating, "The thought of adding music, any music, to these images for whatever reason is sick, and the idea of profiting from selling someone else's tragedy is pitiful and cruel." Jeffco says it will not edit the music out of the tape, saying such would violate the judge's order not to edit the tapes. A lawyer for Sony Music said the county may be asked to cease release of the tapes and track down already released copies.
According to Randy Brown, father of Brooks Brown, the tape proves the police response was inadequate. "If you want to know how bad the police response was, go rent 'Gone With the Wind,' and watch the entire thing. It took the police longer than that movie to get [teacher Dave Sanders], who was bleeding to death, out of that classroom. That's too long and unacceptable."
Why were the apparently incriminating tapes released to the public? It appears the release was spurned by a mere legal snafu and nothing more -- the county had no other option but to release the tapes. A Denver lawyer, Scott Robinson, said when the training video was presented at over eighty law enforcement venues over the past year, such action immediately rendered the tapes public property. In our opinion, if Jefferson County had previously been open and forthcoming with the parents and families last year, all of this could have been avoided.
In the interest of examining the footage from an investigative standpoint, CRTF will attempt to obtain the video as soon as possible. Of special interest to us will be the helicopter footage -- when the footage begins (it lasts "two to three hours") and whether or not it has been edited.
If you are interested in obtaining the video yourself, click here.
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Michael Ian Campbell, 18, was sentenced Friday, the 29th, to four months in federal prison, three years' supervised release after the prison term, ordered stay off the internet and to get mental-health treatment for sending a thinly-veiled threat to a Columbine student last December. The threat was sent through AOL's "instant messenger" service over the internet. The threat was but a mere few sentences that implied he would "finish what began" on April 20th. He warned Erin Walton, the student, to stay home from school the next day so he wouldn't have "her blood on his hands." Campbell, a resident of Florida, has expressed regret and remorse for the incident, and maintains it was a mere "joke" or prank. His person is hardly indicative of a dangerous threat to society.
Campbell was whisked away by federal marshals after his sentence by U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham at a Denver court. He will immediately begin his term in a Florida prison.
Jackie Walton, Erin's mother, said, "Erin will never recover to be the same. It may have been a stupid prank, but that prank stole away the innocence of my daughter." Erin also said she could not forgive Campbell for what he did. Meanwhile, Campbell himself has suffered from anorexia and panic attacks since the ordeal, and has attempted suicide. His mother, Pamela, cried out in the courtroom after the verdict, "You killed him! He's never going to last. He won't make it...I'll never see him again." The Walton family asked the judge for a prison sentence.
Is this justice? Hardly. Rather, it is another example of the mentality of a cadre of Columbine parents and students governed by emotion, naiveté and fear. The "crime" committed was deserving of a punishment in the vein of community service or a small fine, not federal prison. The Waltons are pursuing a zealous crusade of vindictiveness -- of which the "justice" system is more than obliged to procure -- toward those who might infringe upon their upper-middle-class fantasy world amid the strolling bike paths, SUVs and Starbucks cafes of Jefferson County.
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Without explanation, Columbine's top basketball player hanged himself Thursday, May 4th, in his Jefferson County home. Greg Barnes, a 17 year old junior, was considered one of Colorado's best high school basketball players. Those who knew him report he was one of the nicest, most likable students at the school, and never displayed any suicidal signs.
He was a witness to the April 20th shooting last year. Through a science room window he witnessed teacher Dave Sanders get shot. One of his best friends, Matt Ketcher, was also killed in the library that day. No sign of depression was evident after the shooting. While Barnes had struggled at times, friends report he was willing to talk about it and seemed to have moved on. Basketball was his passion, and just days ago he was talking of the exciting upcoming season. The community, parents and friends were without words in explaining this death.
Please read the following articles from The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News for a full grasp of this bizarre tragedy:
"Hoops star's death stuns Columbine"
"He was just a great kid"
"Much about Barnes was so easy to like"
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Read the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office surprisingly extensive final report here. It was released on May 15th.
Jefferson County District Judge Brooke Jackson also ordered the release of 33 hours of 911 tapes to victim's families under the Open Records Act. This information may soon become public. However, some of the lengthy 911 audio recorded in the library will be edited to protect names and identities -- something family attorney Jim Rouse disagreed with, "We feel we should have full information." County officials said they were pleased Jackson's order calls for editing the tapes. Jackson ordered that the names of "other suspects and identification of callers who gave information about other possible suspects who later were cleared" be removed from the tapes as well.
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Aftermath -- Other stories, comments and notes.
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April 28th, 2000
By CRTF Webmaster
When fifteen families and parents of slain and injured Columbine students filed lawsuits against Jefferson County this week, their motives for doing so lay in a undivided desire for the truth -- not for monetary gain, "greed", or to make a political statement.
During my visit to Denver, I met for two hours with the parent of a slain Columbine student who filed a lawsuit. I saw first-hand a family that has been stonewalled by the sheriff's office and given few definitive answers on their child's death. What is more, it was revealed to me that the questions posed by this web site are being addressed and discussed by the parents themselves -- questions of other accomplices in the attack, the inadequate response by authorities to save lives, and why the murdered lay lifeless in the school 36 hours after the attack ended. These are not "theories", but serious questions being posed by serious people.
Another parent, whose son attends Columbine High, told me the "jock" mentality reigns supreme, despite claims by the school's mouthpieces that "unity" and "understanding" have taken the place of pride and elitism. Crime in the area has skyrocketed as students turn to drugs, alcohol and violent behavior to deal with their experiences. The parent said questions of whether or not other accomplices participated in the attack have always been a topic of discussion among locals. The parent also provided two names of accomplices other than Harris or Klebold who were present at the school on April 20th.
When authorities were responding to the scene they were told "seven or eight" gunmen were present. When students were corralled near the gym area in the early afternoon hours -- after being frisked -- they were coldly "debriefed" by officials, told not to talk to the press, and that what they "saw inside the school" would be discussed privately with officials at a later date. The homes within the vicinity of the school were evacuated and their residents not allowed to return until later that evening on April 20th. The area was "cordoned-off" or "contained", if you will, from the public eye.
Despite repeated claims by officials to the contrary, the lack of a "dynamic entry" by SWAT teams was inexcusable. Throughout the day officials knew exactly where Harris and Klebold were located within the school. Assuming only two gunmen were involved (and seen by witnesses), why were Harris and Klebold allowed to kill and maim inside the library without a response from officials? I saw first hand, by walking around the school on two different occasions, how two gunmen, located in the library, would pose only a negligible threat to a SWAT team if it entered the school and engaged them. While officials claim SWAT teams had to meticulously "clear" dozens of rooms and halls in the school, the library itself can be reached easily and quickly through a number of entrances. It took SWAT teams four hours until they "reached" the library.
At around 4 p.m. on April 20th, a SWAT team recovered a highly advanced military bomb with a mercury switch within the school. This was related to me by two individuals who talked with the policeman who recovered the bomb. I now firmly believe this bomb was found and its existence subsequently covered-up by the FBI. Incidentally, the officer who reported this has vanished and his existence denied by the Littleton Police Department even though his name appears in news reports. The bomb's presence was also reported in the press briefly on April 20th and never discussed again.
According to a local resident, the reports of a "third-gunman" in a white T-shirt originated from the sidewalk on Pierce St. next to the school, not in the "commons" area as originally reported. Despite reports from the press, the school does not have a "smoking area". No smoking is allowed on campus. When some students, such as Jake Apoeaca, saw the third-gunman, they were standing near the southeast face of the school -- at least one hundred and fifty feet from where Harris and Klebold were said to have begun their attack. Some were smoking on the public sidewalk, the only place they could do so. These gunmen were seen in an area the "official story" does not account for. Witnesses also saw at least one shooter wearing a black "beret" with sunglasses -- not a black hat.
I now believe that between three and eight shooters participated in this crime. I believe witnesses and families have been pressured by the authorities to change their stories and not to talk to the press. I believe some witnesses on April 20th were pressured that day to relate entirely false stories to the press about what they saw. I believe sincere rescue workers and policemen were commanded by their superiors to "stand down" and allow the massacre to occur. I believe Jefferson County's "official story" of what happened is a carefully concocted pack of lies.
I'm not the only person who entertains these opinions.
According to the lawsuits filed this week, authorities engaged in a number of inexplicable actions during and prior to the shooting. Below is a short tally of shocking allegations made in the lawsuits:
• That someone unnamed in the sheriff's office, a friend of Harris' father, Wayne Harris, terminated other officers' work on a search warrant for the Harris home. This was some 14 months before the Columbine shootings, when Wayne Harris allegedly found a pipe bomb made by his son and had exploded it in a field.
• That sheriff's investigators failed to follow up on numerous complaints by the family of student Brooks Brown that Harris was dangerous. The Browns gave sheriff's officers a hard copy of violent threats made on Harris' Web site.
• That sheriff's commanders ordered officers who had gone into the school to evacuate and forced hundreds of other officers and paramedics to remain outside for hours.
• That people trapped inside the school were ordered — some of them repeatedly, for hours — to stay where they were because help was on its way and would arrive within minutes, which wasn't true.
• That, although students and teachers in a science classroom with Dave Sanders hung a sign in the window saying "1 BLEEDING TO DEATH" and repeatedly spoke by telephone with officials, their pleas for help were disregarded for hours.
• That Sanders easily could have been rescued through windows on two sides of the classroom.
• That, although officials knew for hours of Sanders' location and condition, he was the last person in the school reached by medical help.
• That a sharpshooter on the roof of a nearby house told officials at noon that he had a clear shot at Klebold through a library window, but was ordered not to fire.
• That authorities issued orders against the use of battering rams, sledgehammers and rappelling gear that might have gained police entry into the school. (source 1, source 2)
These explosive allegations, based on eye-witnesses who have come forward, blow away the "official story" of what happened. They support the theory that there was a concerted effort by commanders overseeing the scene to ensure the shooting occurred without interference from SWAT teams or policemen. In other words, the shooting was planned in concert with the government.

Families have demanded viewing a draft of the sheriff's final report, helicopter footage, and other hard evidence that has remained sealed. These families want the truth on what happened that day. The sheriff's office aggressively opposed any judgment to allow the families to view the evidence. A judge, however, ordered that the families be allowed to view the information, but only within the confines of the Jefferson County building. There, on April 19th, they were treated to long delays and a noisy room where the evidence was viewed.

Allegations entirely separate from the lawsuits support further the claim that rescue workers were prevented from saving lives and that other gunmen were involved. Below are the shocking statements from local Denver physician William Deagle. He has worked for Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Littleton's Swedish Medical Center, among other respected entities. He currently serves as a physician for the Englewood Fire Department and was present at Columbine on April 20th.

Below are excerpts from Dr. Deagle's February 20th, 2000, video-taped testimony, obtained by CRTF:
"I could talk to you about the details behind the fact that the Jefferson County sheriffs threatened my firefighters -- I'm a doctor for the Englewood Fire Department -- [they threatened] the battalion chief and ladder man with deadly violence if they tried to rescue Mr. [Dave] Sanders. They were told if they tried to enter the building they would be shot.

"One of the janitors that actually rammed a tractor into the building and pulled out some students was threatened with deadly force if he went back again by Jefferson County sheriffs.

"Did you know there were twenty-six federal and state agencies at Columbine? There were BATF in the building. I have three children's accounts -- three -- that were shot, that I personally interviewed, that said [the BATF] were shooting children. There were Denver SWAT teams inside the building at the time of the shooting that didn't engage them.

"I had firefighters crying in my office telling me how they arrived in eight minutes and were willing to go in without a kevlar flak jacket and helmet and were told, 'If you go in, we'll shoot you.'"

I talked with Dr. Deagle by phone and he confirmed all of his above statements.
The press is catching on. Salon magazine ("Columbine Coverup") and Denver's Westword ("Stonewalled: The Story They Don't Want to Tell" and "None Dare Call It Travesty") have both run negative stories, and The Denver Post's Chuck Green, in a recent column, calls Sheriff John Stone, "Sheriff Stonewall". When families of victims rise up in such numbers, the news media can no longer ignore the reality that Columbine is an unresolved case. (We suggest that you visit the Denver Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post web sites and read the latest stories for a full grasp of what is going on -- some of the information revealed in the lawsuits is outright jaw-dropping.)

It is clear the sheriff's office has engaged in a pattern of deception and lies unprecedented in any similar case in recent history. It is my commitment to pursue, to the best of my ability, the full extent of this story. Justice will prevail.

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The following is our analysis of the Cable News Network (CNN) television coverage of the Columbine High School shooting on April 20th, 1999.
CNN begins coverage of the shooting at 11:54 a.m. The five hour set of tapes consist of approximately 60% KUSA coverage, 20% KMGH coverage, and 10% coverage by both KCNC and CNN, respectively. There remains a great deal more coverage to be obtained and analyzed from the respective affiliates.
The majority of the time during the coverage reporters are repeating the same information over and over, in a loop, until new information comes in. The eye witness interviews, though sparse, proved to be the most revealing and interesting. It is a shame that the coverage did not reveal the experiences of students in greater detail.

While the word "semi-automatic" was mentioned twice in describing the guns used, "automatic" or "automatic weapon(s)" was spoken during the five hours of coverage by reporters and witnesses approximately nine or ten times.

The word "hostage" or "hostages" is spoken at least fifteen times throughout the day by various reporters. The word "grenade" or "grenades" is mentioned at least eight times by various reporters and witnesses. The word, or phrase, "masks" and "ski masks" is mentioned by witnesses and reporters at least eighteen times. These are conservative estimates.

While it appears there were news helicopters on the scene within minutes, their coverage was only shown in length on CNN until after 1:30 p.m., approximately.
Early on, there is no indication that SWAT teams were ever inside the school. Only after approximately 2 p.m. is the impression of a large SWAT presence near the school conveyed. By 3 p.m. there are authorities walking calmly around the walls of the school. By this time it was clear the gunmen were probably dead or no longer posed a threat to the officers.

On the tapes, there are reports of "at least two gunmen" throughout the day. There are also reports by 1 p.m. that the Trench Coat Mafia is involved. There are reports that two gunmen entered the parking lot, proceeded to the cafeteria and then made their way to the library -- reports which do validate the "official" story.

The information below -- 99.9% accurate as transcribed from the tapes -- attempts to reveal the true nature of the events which took place.
At 11:54 a.m. Jefferson County Public Information Officer Steve Davis spoke over the phone with KUSA, en route to the school, and reported that there were shots fired and bombs detonated.

Jonathan Ladd, a student, was on the phone moments later. KUSA anchors questioned Ladd about a "bomb scare" at the school earlier in the day, of which he knew nothing about. KUSA anchorwoman Kyle Dyer then asked Ladd about grenades. "One of the really disturbing things with this, obviously, is that there may be a grenade, or grenades involved..." Ladd could not tell what kind of device was used in the detonations. Ladd did not see the gunmen and ran off the campus almost immediately after the shooting began.

The coverage then switched to KCNC where a discussion ensued about a possible gunman "on the loose" as well as two gunmen in the school.
"Eventually we all ran outside...as I was laying outside I heard rapid fire, like blackcats were going off and it was inside the school," said Braden Pasusich on KUSA at 12:02.

At KCNC a student named Janine called and indicated that gunmen in trench coats stormed the school and she said repeatedly that they were throwing grenades. She then said to the news anchors, "How did you get my phone number?" and the news anchors replied that they were told she had contacted them. She did not respond.

At KUSA a few minutes later, Greg Moss is on scene at Bowles Ave. and Pierce St. Numerous agencies were converging on the scene. Moss said, "They've also had some reports of some people hanging out on the roof top of the school..."
Kim Sander phoned KUSA at 12:10 and reported what her daughter had told her. Her daughter was in the parking lot next to her car when she and a friend heard some "pops" that "got louder" and she "saw a gunman, in a black trench coat, with a very huge gun in front of him...she said he had dark brown hair, with thick, bushy eye brows, was very, very ugly....this gunman was out of the school, he was up on top of this ledge thing where the student smoking area is and he was shooting down at these students...She did not recognize him as a student, no, not as a student. " Kim then emphasized that she told her daughter to remember what she had seen so to inform police properly, and she felt her daughter's description of the gunman was very accurate.

At 12:12, back with Greg Moss, the camera is zoomed in on the staging area where Steve Davis is shown walking nearby. He is wearing a white bulletproof vest and holding a hand-held radio.

At 12:16 student Bob Saban (sic) describes over the phone to KUSA his dramatic experience. He ran out of the "back of the school" after he heard shots, then turned around and "saw the men...stalking around looking for people to kill". He said he did not recognize them because "they were wearing black masks...they were all in black with some machine guns." Saban indicated that he saw them through the back entrance (where teacher Patti Nielson was shot). He also said there were two explosions "minutes ago" inside the school, which would have been sometime after 12 noon.

Minutes later video from Bowles and Pierce show students running from Columbine to safety through the trees. In the foreground, Principal Frank DeAngelis is shown wandering about a grassy knoll.

Moss reports that by 12:23 "four SWAT team districts are on scene". Video is fed from the staging area during most of the hour, showing dozens of officials walking and meandering around in a casual fashion, with some running or jogging by. The staging area is located a few hundred yards north of the high school.

"It's been about twenty minutes since the last report of an explosion," says KUSA anchor Gary Shapiro at 12:28. Moss reports at 12:30 that "at least two suspects are inside. They may have found where they are, or at least have a pretty good idea of where they are...again, automatic weapons are involved."
KUSA's Kyle Dyer minutes later emphatically states, "It seems we've heard so many eye witness accounts that so many students saw these men...they must have been all over the school!" The camera man focuses on a number of officials in the staging area, from a SWAT guy dredging around a body shield that says "NATO-3" in white letters on its front, to a man wearing sunglasses and a black suit -- possibly the FBI's Dwayne Fuselier. Moss then reports, "At one point, police officers thought they (the gunmen) were on the roof..."

Jeff Goodman with the Colorado State Patrol at 12:33 phones KUSA and says, "Since I got here, maybe a half hour ago, I have heard shots...and it sounded like heavy, heavy shots as in long rifle or some kind of an automatic weapon."

Tony LaMonica in the KUSA helicopter reports in at 12:39. Blurry, unclear and distant scenes of the school are shown for the first time. The cameraman then directs the camera over to the staging area. LaMonica says, "At one point just a few minutes ago they thought they might have somebody up on the roof... apparently there was some concern that someone might be up on the roof." LaMonica says from his vantage point he did not see anyone on the roof at that time. KUSA decides to cut the helicopter feed while LaMonica is describing what he is seeing. Instead, a ground shot of the staging area is shown. The school is not shown again until much later on in the broadcast and LaMonica is not heard from for over an hour.

Moss continues reporting from the staging area, and a SWAT member is shown holding a battering ram, among the many law enforcement officials.

Bob Saban returns by phone and reports back at 12:46. He says he was in Mr. Condon's math class, ran to the door upon hearing gun shots, and fled. Later he hid "in the bushes" and "saw the men" and subsequently left the area in fear they might see him.

At 12:52 a student calls the KUSA newsroom and says he knows the identity of the gunmen, yet hangs up before he is placed on the air. A few minutes later a reporter says that the gunmen may be students, and that "they believe they have taken hostages inside the school."

A student named Evan phones KUSA at 1:00 and says he saw "two kids" in all black clothing. "They both had two shotguns and one of them had a pistol type uzi, a small uzi." The description fits both Klebold and Harris. He continued,"...they were a part of a trench coat mafia, homosexual group."
Minutes later Ed Gawkowski of the State Patrol was asked by KUSA anchorwoman Dyer how many were involved and said, "...it's up to two to three, possibly, yes." The anchorwoman was befuddled that only two men could create that kind of havoc.

At 1:04 a student named James phones KUSA. He is located in a classroom by himself, apparently using cell phone to call in.
GARY SHAPIRO: James, we understand you are inside the school?
JAMES: Yes, I am.
SHAPIRO: You're in a secure area, I imagine.
JAMES: Yeah, I'm in a classroom with locked doors.
SHAPIRO: What's going on there now?
JAMES: It's just really noisy outside. I hear a lot of screaming.
SHAPIRO: Now you say you hear screaming, is that recent?
JAMES: Just as it is right now.
KYLE DYER: Have you heard any gunshots?
JAMES: No gunshots, just threats. A bunch of threats; the guys are yelling out there.
DYER: Do you recognize the voices?
JAMES: I don't recognize any of the voices.
James is then asked to call 911.

At 1:07 a cheerful Emily Kooch is interviewed by Ginger Delgado on the west side of Clement Park. Emily said the gunmen, "...just kept going back and forth between [the library] and the cafeteria, and all over." They eventually left the library long enough for Emily to flee.

James calls back at 1:09. He says he heard more gunshots.
SHAPIRO: What are you hearing right now?
JAMES: Hearing a couple of gunshots. People were running up and down the hall a little bit. I don't know what happened outside. I just heard them yelling, telling them to get down. They're inside the cafeteria, I hear stuff being thrown around. ...I don't know if they know I'm up here, I just glad they don't.
SHAPIRO: ...does it seem to you like there are a lot of students still in there, can you hear a lot of kids?
JAMES: Yeah, there's still a few kids in here.
SHAPIRO: Has it quieted down now?
DYER: It seems quiet.
JAMES: No, not really.
DYER: No?
JAMES: There are a bunch of people crying outside...Wow.
DYER: What was that?
JAMES: I don't know.
James is then put through to the police.

Seconds later reporter Hiedi Hammet is on the phone and says, "...we have just been told as recently as twenty minutes ago there were some more shots fired inside the school. The police officer tells me they aren't sure if there are any more injuries because they really don't know what is going on inside the school. They do know there were more shots fired, a lot of people heard them...they do believe there are hostages inside."

At 1:25 KUSA's Gary Shapiro reports, "We have some information we would like to relay. It's kind of a strange situation. James called us back...James has apparently caught another view of the gunmen. He is describing them to us...James can't get through to the police department because the phone lines are jammed up...James saw the gunmen a few minutes ago. He is describing them as wearing hats, black trench coats, black masks, and one of them has long hair that is coming out the back of his hat. That is the description we have. They apparently are still holding hostages in the cafeteria..."

At 1:28 Greg Moss talks with Steve Davis who says, "...we really don't know how many suspects...certainly more than one, possibly two or three, the exact number is unknown." He also said he had no reason to believe that any of the suspects had been shot, or that any of the authorities had been shot.

A minute later Tony LaMonica reports back from the helicopter. Dozens of students are shown running out of the school. They climbed out of a bottom floor window near the cafeteria.

Later on, CNN switches to KCNC where a news anchor says, "...some of the witnesses...believe these two young men were...targeting minorities, people of color, and people who played sports, strangely enough." KCNC also reports that "two to three" gunmen are possibly present in the school.

At 1:42 three young men are arrested at gun point in the west corner of Clement Park in a field. They are wearing hats, black jackets, and camo pants. During the course of the next few hours it becomes more and more clear that these young men had prior knowledge that the shooting was going to take place.

Ginger Delgado reports from Clement Park at 1:52, "Mark Wilson [of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation] says to us that he believes the suspects may have changed clothes. We're getting conflicting reports now because we did talk to one person who was in the school who saw the suspects still wearing the trench coats at this hour." In an interview with CRTF, Ms. Delgado was asked to confirm this incident and whether or not students had told her after 12:05 p.m. that the gunmen were still alive inside the school. Delgado could not recall specifically whether students were saying the gunmen were still alive after 12:05 p.m., though she considered it a possibility and said many students were describing the gunmen throughout the day.

At 2:06 John Furrugia of KMGH said, "...as we were standing here a person in handcuffs was just put in a car who was wearing a black jacket....we don't know if that was a suspect...police aren't saying."

CNN's Tony Clark reports from the scene by phone minutes later and says, "...some young people were brought out...they were put in handcuffs, currently they are being questioned right now. We are told they are friends of the alleged gunmen. They are being questioned over at a car not too far from our location."

At 2:38 the "bloody student in the window" in the library, Patrick Ireland, is rescued by a SWAT team who pulled him to safety using a Lomis Fargo armored vehicle. This event suggests, that at this point, SWAT teams had yet to make their way into the library.

At 2:47 a view from a helicopter shows more students being freed as they come out of a door next to the cafeteria. They are corralled next to the gym, where they are asked to put their hands in the air and are frisked. Officers on the scene below seem tense, and SWAT members guard the perimeter.

At 2:51 a reporter for KMGH on the scene says, "A little after 11:25 this morning...we understand that three younger, armed men came in with, ahh, a couple of them had long black coats on...started shooting, they started in the lower parking lot...moved on through the cafeteria area and moved on through the school."

While CNN did not carry his actual comments, KMGH reporters later on at 3:18 spoke of comments made by student Jonathan Vandermark who said he saw dead bodies in the hallways as he ran out of the school.

Seconds later, on KUSA, Tony LaMonica from the helicopter reports, "Apparently, somebody has just been arrested at gun point...it appears this person is definitely in custody and wanted for questioning." The young man located near the east entrance of the school is led away. He is wearing a black shirt and blue jeans.

At around 3:25 an armored personnel carrier, presumably from Buckley Air National Guard Base, is on the scene. Other National Guard vehicles are also shown. A few minutes later, KUSA news anchors and Tony LaMonica report that some officers "just took cover" behind vehicles -- no explanation was given.
At 3:38 a neighbor near Columbine High talks with anchors at KMGH. She said when the shooting began she heard "seven loud, terrifying blasts". She saw windows burst out and glass fall all over the ground. "..Shortly after that there was a lot of rapid fire."

At 3:48 Trench Coat Mafia member Chris Morris is led off in handcuffs by a Sheriff's Deputy. He is placed in a black sedan which subsequently speeds off the scene. He is wearing black cargo pants and a black "South Park" T-shirt.
Just seconds later, KMGH reporter Anne Trujillo at Swedish Medical Center reports, "We've just had a very interesting twist...police just came out and told us that a car-load of people left Columbine High School and was followed by a car-load of people that apparently, possibly, had weapons. Excuse me, an ambulance left Columbine High School and it was followed by a car-load of people...that possibly had some weapons." An officer with a large shotgun is stationed outside the Emergency Room of the hospital. Other hospitals are also on alert.

A minute later, a reporter on the scene of the school for KMGH says, "We had Seven News reporter Paul Ryerson (sic) mention a moment ago that he had heard the reports that there were shots being fired in the school. We did talk to someone with police and that is correct, there were some just a few moments ago." A KMGH anchor later said, "...those shots may have been coming from the gymnasium area."

At least three fairly large explosive abrasions can be seen from helicopter footage on the roof of the school. The abrasions are above the library where bombs or grenades were likely thrown.

At 3:56 KUSA's Phil Keating interviews a student and her mother. The student was inside the Science Room. She was asked the last time she heard shots fired. "Probably around one [p.m.]...before my lunch hour, and then it stopped, soon after that."

At 4:04 Steve Davis and Sheriff John Stone hold a makeshift press conference.
A reporter says she has heard the suspects had "live hand grenades". The Sheriff did not respond directly to the question.

The Sheriff says there are possibly 25 fatalities and gives the impression he gained this information from SWAT teams reporting back from inside the school. Stone also gives the impression that only within the hour had SWAT teams finally begun to make sweeps of the school. He says things will be "wrapped up" within an hour. What took them so long?

"Do you think there were automatic weapons involved?," says one reporter. Stone did not respond.

Stone said the gunmen (Klebold and Harris) were found "within the last hour".
A reporter said, "I was told by one young man out here that there were three people that went in. There were two in trench coats and one in a white T-shirt." Stone responded, "We had three names, we've got two bodies that belong to two of those names up there, and the third name, the person was not in the school."
"We found a device in one of the [suspect's] houses...a bomb," said Stone. "The fact that you have kids with automatic weapons is really a concern. What are these parents doing letting their kids have automatic weapons?"

Tony Clark with CNN said, "One of the students earlier today told me he was coming down the stairs and saw three bodies there, people he thought had been killed." Clark also talked to witness Sean Kelly, "...as I was trying to get out through the auditorium, I heard around 10 or 11 rounds shot from an automatic weapon at that time...I like to consider myself lucky, I got out in one of the safer areas; however, the plate glass window in the front of the school was broken out, I do not know what that was from."

Clark also said, "There was some talk by some of the students of three individuals, two in trench coats and one in a white T-shirt...the authorities have said all along that they knew there were at least two..."

Concerned that a third suspect in the school might be watching TV, CNN decided to "filter" its coverage of the shooting event, according to CNN's Bernard Shaw.
On KCNC a traumatized student from the library said, "...I looked out the window and there was this guy throwing a pipe bomb at all the cars...they were shooting anyone of color, wearing a white hat, or playing a sport...I pleaded with him for ten minutes not to shoot me."

A student named Josh talked to KUSA about the Trench Coat Mafia and said they had "found God in themselves", that they were outcasts, and that they never took part in school activities.

Earlier in the day, Adam Foss, a senior at the school, spoke with a reporter with KCNC. "We were in the crossfire between the Science Hall and the Choir Room...I think three guys (gunmen) and a bunch of twelve gauges, maybe smaller guns." Foss described seeing "guns blazing", a few kids get shot, and his heroic corraling of 60 students into an "eight by eight" room for safety.

On KUSA a student said, "One of the guys came in with the guns into the auditorium...I'm hoping all of my friends are okay."

At 4:58 Gary Shapiro says that KUSA has been covering the incident since 11:15 or 11:25, when it first began.

"Earlier today our affiliates showed one of the people inside the building, a man, standing..." said Bernard Shaw on CNN. At this point the tape is cut.

Unfortunately, the scene of at least one of the gunman standing in the library shot by a KMGH helicopter does not appear on the tapes we received. However, CNN, moments later, did in fact air the scene. The scene might prove that the gunmen were still alive well past 12:05 a.m.

Considering the above, we would like to remind readers that the "official" story alleges that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold -- working alone -- walked into the cafeteria, then up to the library. There they spent about fifteen minutes terrorizing and killing students. After that they proceeded back to the cafeteria, and then returned once again to the library where they killed themselves at 12:05 p.m. Authorities even claim Harris and Klebold fired their final shots, beside the ones that killed them, sometime around 11:50 a.m.

The fact remains that shots were heard coming from inside the school up until about 3:45 p.m. If the gunmen were dead by 12:05 p.m., what, or who, were SWAT teams finding reason to fire at in a school filled with dozens of students?
According to officials, a school repair man was on the roof and mistaken by witnesses to be a sniper with a gun who was firing atop the library down at students. Apparently, the repair man also decided to leave some high caliber rifle shells on the roof.

Officials imply that fully automatic machine guns were never used by the gunmen.

Officials have made no statements to the effect that Harris and Klebold were ever wearing face masks.

Officials claim that SWAT teams entered the school twenty minutes after the shooting began at 11:17 a.m.

The "official story" sounds more like a "cover story" to us.

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CRTF has received information from a man named Phillip Tkacz who is a fireman for the Versailles Fire Department in Kentucky. In "mid July" he took a class in Lexington on firefighter safety in police situations. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) participated in the class. The agent who gave the class, William Donovan, is based in Washington D.C., semi-retired and is only involved in "large cases". He was present at Columbine High School three days after the shootings. He presented a number of forensic pictures from Columbine to the class. One pictured showed shell casings on the roof of the school. Tkacz says the casings were large, and likely .223 caliber. They were not 9mm or shotgun shell casings, as used by Harris and Klebold. The BATF instructor would not comment on who fired from the roof. Tkacz says that during the shooting, on television coverage, he remembers hearing reports of someone firing from the roof. Those reports have since vanished. (A researcher in Denver recently wrote to us that "...students have said, in a quiet manner I might add, that as they were coming out of the cafeteria, someone started shooting at them from the roof.")
One picture showed the body of Eric Harris as he lay in the library. His skull was fractured from the gunshot wound. Harris's pants were missing, and Tkacz says that the BATF instructor, "...wouldn't tell us why he wasn't wearing pants. I found that very unusual." Other pictures were shown of exploded pipe bombs, damage throughout the school, etc. The instructor said that the night before the shooting Harris and Klebold used the Harris home garage to break glass which was placed in the pipe bombs. Someone in the class asked whether or not Wayne Harris was involved in some way, and the instructor said he felt otherwise. He also said that backpacks were found with explosives in them, but he would not elaborate on whom they belonged to. The instructor said that the three students arrested the day of the shooting outside of the school were not directly involved with the shooting, though they were close friends of Harris.

Some class participants asked the instructor if there were more than two people involved in the shooting and he replied to the class that it was "feasible" that more were involved. Tkacz felt he was implying that more gunmen could have been involved. Tkacz later approached the instructor and asked him if he could have copies of the pictures, and he refused. He also asked about the possibility of more than two gunmen. Tkacz says that the instructor responded by saying that "off the record" he knew for a fact that there were more people involved.
Tkacz recounts the incident, "From what we saw in the pictures we all agreed that there had to be more than two [gunmen]. I asked the instructor if he believed only two kids did this [and] he finally answered me and said off the record he knows that there were more involved."

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CRTF has talked with Mr. Phillip Tkacz over the phone and he has reaffirmed his story first related to us through an email. Furthermore, one of Mr. Tkacz's associates who was present during the class has emailed us and confirmed Tkacz's story. He told us, "I don't remember a whole lot to be honest...The guy showed us slides from Columbine. Most of them from [were] where bombs had gone off...spent shell casings on the roof...Phil asked him if he thought that only two of them did this. I don't recall the exact answer but he said that it was very possible...[Phil] told us that he (the instructor) finally said that he knew for a fact that there were more involved."

The following is a copy of one of Mr. Tkacz's emails:
In mid-July of this year I attended a class for Fire Departments in my area addressing firefighter safety at police situations. The last speaker was a man who works for the ATF. He is an explosives expert and was telling us about booby traps and the sort. He brought along several slides from the shooting at Columbine. He said he was there by the third day to help with identifying some of the devices. Most of the pictures were of bombs that had already exploded and a few that had not. The one thing that I remember was a picture on the roof. It was of, what he said, where one of the pipe bombs had gone off. In the picture you could clearly see at least 6 to 10 shell casings as well. Someone did ask about that but he never really gave an answer. The casings looked to big to be from a 9 mm like the ones that were used. Also was a picture of Eric Harris's body. Someone asked where his pants were, again no straight answer.
At the end of the class we asked him if he thought there were more than 2 were involved. In front of the whole class he said "it is quite feasible". I talked to him alone before we all left and asked him again. He said "off the record I know that there were more directly involved". He didn't specifically say if he meant a 3rd gunman or if they had help making the bombs that numbered over 60. He also did state that he doubted that Eric's father helped them with the incident. I found him to be very sincere. At the time I didn't realize how important his statements really were.

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A teenage girl by the name of Lindsay Waters who knew Eric Harris for two years has spoken with CRTF and given detailed accounts of the many exchanges that took place between Harris and herself. (We have confirmed the girl's identity and location).

Harris and the girl played the popular action computer game "Doom" over the internet with each other, chatted on the WBS and AOL chat internet servers, and even exchanged phone calls at one time. They never met physically.

"The last time I talked to him was on April 19th, my birthday. He wished me happy birthday and we played Doom against one another on a server. [He] said he loved talking to me and may not be on [the internet] tomorrow due to circumstances," said Waters. The next day the shooting occurred.

Waters says that Eric Harris "never said racist slurs to me and he never said he hated Christians...Everyday [he said], and I quote him on this, 'school is fuckin' hell for me!' He was randomly pushed up against lockers and walls, called names and just a victim of torment...He said teachers would pay it no attention." Waters says Harris was "pissed off" when he was rejected by the Marine Corps. She said that Harris felt that he had failed his father, Wayne Harris, who has a long history of military service.

She stated, "Harris always complained how he hated his mom [being] home all the time since she was unemployed and it got on his nerves. He said it delayed his work process -- I didn't know what kind of 'work' he meant at the time...He never really said much else about [his parents]. All I know is he kept saying how he had failed them and so on."

The girl talked over the phone with Dylan Klebold as well. She said that he was "a nice guy too; [but] he acted nothing in the manner Harris did." Waters noted Harris's sometimes hateful feelings toward society, but she never felt that Harris would act out on them.

"Eric was not a racist; he says so on his [web] site and [he] is totally against it...People claimed when the killers went in the library they were screaming racial slurs; if Eric wasn't racist it wasn't him...Dylan Klebold loved Rachel Scott, why would they kill her?" said Waters. (It can be postulated that Scott was killed by the same person who fired at teacher Patti Nielson).

Waters also expressed concern as to why Brooks Brown was told to "go home" by Harris. She states, "Why would Eric say 'Brooks go home!' if he wasn't involved in anything?" She was perplexed as to why Ben Mauser was killed since Mauser and Brooks were friends. Why would Harris or Klebold kill the friend of the person who's life they had just spared? Waters also related to us that she has had trouble believing that Harris and Klebold would have actually killed anyone.
Visit this web site for an alleged transcription of Eric Harris's web site (which was quickly removed from the internet by the FBI). Here you will find the revealing, disturbing, hateful, and sometimes humorous writings of Eric Harris. He does proclaim on the web site his position against racism.

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The Denver area is considered to be a model city for highly socialistic, liberal government programs. Hence the following:
An Outcomes Based Education (OBE) expert has made comments about the Columbine and Denver area educational system. This source (name not to be revealed at this time) spoke at the Arapaho Auditorium in Littleton in 1994. The source indicates her displeasure in the OBE and Goals 2000 programs. She says, "I have the entire Colorado outcomes in which every subject area was laced with psychological components like; physical, emotional and mental health; aesthetic development; human relations and responsibility, multicultural understanding reasoning and higher order thinking skills." 

She continues, "I used an example of how dangerous this transfers to real life, right there on stage at Littleton were I spoke. The eighth grade had a reading section on the 'Real Story of The Three Little Pigs'. The kids had to role-play being the wolf. This was used for multicultural education. In a wolf's culture it was 'OK' to kill pigs. The wolf was now the victim because in the wolf's culture, wolves kill pigs. Transfer this to a real life situation..."

"This society has let the education bureaucrats allow this psycho-babble into our classrooms. Probably 50% of the school day is used to implement 'mental health' programs."

The above relates to the early reports that a "death education" class was taught at Columbine High a few years ago. The above source mentions "death education" as a form of OBE/Goals 2000 programs.

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Further vital information was revealed by Denver resident James D. Shindler. Please read the following comments he sent to us by way of email on Dec. 2nd:
"Do you recall that in 1990, the TV program '20/20' did a special on 'Death Education Curriculum', focusing on Jefferson County Schools, and specifically Columbine?

"At that time, the teen suicide rate in Jefferson County was the highest in the nation. They interviewed a former Columbine student named Tara Becker, who elaborated on the seemingly unusual focus on death, dying and suicide in the classroom studies. She claimed that the intense focus on this subject eventually led her and other classmates to make attempts to take their own lives. Some were successful. She talked of field trips to cemeteries, mortuaries, crematoriums and of writing their own obituaries and eulogies, and designing their own headstones, etc., to include classroom activities focusing on how you would 'do it' if you killed yourself.

"There was complete denial by school administrators that any such curriculum existed. However, proof exists that this type of curriculum was being taught, and is more widespread today throughout the schools, public and private alike. When Tara Becker was contacted in regards to her feelings about the Columbine shootings, her comment was, 'Did you think it would go away, when they continue to focus on the subject of death? It's worse today than when I was in school, because now they want to take others out with them when they kill themselves. I'm not surprised at all'.

"I see an equation playing out! So much focus on negative subjects could well lead a student into depression.. Severe depression leads to a diagnosis requiring treatment with anti-depressants, which do, in some cases, lead to thoughts of suicide and homicide. (Tara Becker was never medicated, but had these thoughts anyway) If you look at Harris and Klebold's gradual decline into an obvious sociopathic mindset, i.e. the Nazi salute when they would bowl a strike during bowling class, the time spent playing violent video games, the making of a film for their school video class which portrayed (at least in part) the event which they eventually carried out, and Harris' website which addressed many terrible things, it seems that it would give reason to look inward for the possible cause of such a tragedy."

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In our reporting of the Columbine High School shooting we feel it is important that the current social and political climate in the Denver area is also examined. The shooting itself and local social matters go hand in hand. The following is an important reminder of why answers about the shooting are not likely to come forward anytime soon from those in positions of power.

Mayor of Denver, Wellington Webb, is said to have connections with the Queen of England. It is a fact that Webb has physically traveled to England in the past to discuss "trade agreements" with the British. (When was the last time the mayor of your city went to England to discuss "trade agreements"?) The state of Colorado and city of Denver formed The London Trade Office in 1994, an arm of The Colorado International Trade Office, in Denver. British Royalty own a "large amount" of land near Denver through corporations such as Olympia & York and Trizec. Much of the shady business transactions are said to take place through The Mayor's Office of Economic Development, a.k.a. The Colorado International Trade Office.

Rodney Stich, author of "Defrauding of America", claims to have a copy of an audio tape of a CIA agent paying off Webb with $1.5 million dollars to allow the construction of Denver International Airport to continue without opposition. Webb played a key role in bulldozing public opposition to the $6 billion-dollar airport.
When you look at Webb's past, and the political transformation he has gone through, reading "inbetween-the-lines" is made a great deal easier. Thus, the following story caught our attention...

Wellington Webb is in Washington D.C. beginning Wednesday, the 8th. His intentions are "to lobby for tougher gun laws" to Congress. In fact, "...if it were up to him...he would support even stronger gun legislation than is pending in Congress." During his stay, Webb will spend a night in the White House as a guest of President Clinton, and appear on ABC's "Good Morning America".
"Webb...and dozens of mayors, police chiefs and church leaders from around the country came to Washington to lobby for stricter gun controls in the wake of the Columbine High tragedy," said the Denver Rocky Mountain News.

"Unfortunately, hypocrisy is all too common in political circles these days, but Mayor Webb's actions take hypocrisy to new heights,'' said Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The group said major pro-gun groups supported Webb during his mayoral campaign eight years ago. They are now complaining of his "political flip-flop" on the gun issue. The Law Enforcement Alliance of America "attacked" Webb and the gathering of law enforcement officials in Washington D.C. for their involvement in the anti-gun rallies held at the White House and in Congress. The group said that the law enforcement officials present during the rallies -- which included Denver Police Chief Tom Sanchez -- did not represent "rank and file" officials from around the country.

Webb, in a bald-faced lie, said of private ownership of firearms, "The more guns you have, the more people die. That's the cold facts."

"If we don't talk to them, we can't change any minds,'' Webb said of Congress.
It's apparent that Denver is quickly becoming a nexus of global interest and policy. (source1) (source2)

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David G. Penland, resident of Littleton and certified private investigator with Colorado Property Bureau Investigation, contacted CRTF in November. Mr. Penland handles security for local neighborhoods and homeowner associations. He related to us that on April 21st, 1999, one day after the Columbine High School shooting, he received a call from a frantic Aurora resident. The resident said that at a home adjacent to his a loud party was taking place in which participants were celebrating the Columbine shooting and Hitler's birthday. The party was taking place inside the home, yet loud enough to cause a disruption.
"The night after Columbine I had a call from frantic resident who said there were youths celebrating the 'victory' of Columbine. We know this individual (one of the teenagers involved) to be a Neo-Nazi type, who follows the pack. I responded to this call and contacted the teens, who of course denied their celebration." Penland confirmed to us that the young man who is a resident of the home has been arrested on drug charges before.

Mr. Penland recently provided the following write-up on the incident:
While on patrol in area of a local homeowner association, I received an emergency call from a resident of another homeowner association. The resident said that he was afraid of what was going on next door in a town-house next to him. He said there were several teens next door having a party and celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday and the 'victory' of Klebold and Harris in the Columbine massacre of students. They were yelling and screaming "Hail Hitler" over and over, and playing a game of some type. I was the first to respond to this call and I met with the frantic resident. I got him quieted down and waited for the teens who had left. I waited in my patrol car for them to return, and otherwise it was quiet in the neighborhood. Soon they returned and I confronted them about the noise complaint. They denied it, and said they were not home at all. I filed a report with my security office and contacted an Aurora police officer on patrol and spoke to him about the incident. He followed up the next day and contacted the youth and his father. The officer contacted me and shared the results of his investigation. He said the father jumped all over him and the kid went ballistic. We know as a security firm that we have past reports on this youth being involved in Neo-Nazi activities. This he does not deny and he is proud of being part of this large group. He also has been arrested for other disturbances, and for selling and using drugs often.

Penland could not say whether or not the teenagers involved in the incident had any direct relation to the Columbine shooting. He noted that he has seen "trench coated figures" in the Aurora area before. Penland also related to us a number of crimes in the Denver area which indicate a Satanist or Neo-Nazi faction the responsible party.

This incident further confirms our suspicion that the Denver area is home to a large cult underground comprised of a wide range of criminals. That the Columbine shooting was completely unrelated to this underground network seems improbable if not impossible.

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Conclusion
Something I personally observed, as well as a friend of mine I spoke with over the phone that day, was the unusual, sedate manner in which students recounted their experiences to news cameras on the scene. Most of the students, with the exception of a few, showed very little emotion when describing the graphic events. They were disturbingly manner-of-fact about what happened. To my recall, one girl described with utter monotony how a girl next to her had her brains blown out. The girl hinted in her voice the slight displeasure and annoyance she experience in having the other girl's blood sprayed all over her. This account, witnessed also by my friend, disturbed us both greatly. This is likely a reflection of the school's culture. Were students in shock? Or has society already numbed us to these events?

During the past year the shooting has caused the U.S. Congress to vote on and pass various gun control legislation. Issues ranging from gun safety locks, to age requirements, and gun show restrictions are being discussed. A national debate on school safety has ensued and the National Rifle Association, gun owners, and gun makers have been criticized by the body politic.

In Denver, before the shooting, a new concealed carry weapon law ready for a vote by the legislature would have allowed anyone to obtain a CCW permit in any county in the state of Colorado. Anti-gun groups were quietly worried about the legislation. Even though the vote was put on hold due to the shooting, it has popped up again, with newfound opposition by Governor Owens. Currently, a swath of new anti-gun bills wait for approval in the House and Senate of the state legislature.

The Jefferson Co. Sheriff's Office. has been fairly inconsistent in its evaluation of how many shooters there were and how many people took part in the crime (See Main page for recent updates). Sheriff John Stone has been consistent. However, he has recently shied away from the spotlight and is likely no longer involved in the investigation.

What we are seeing now in the newsmedia is not careful analysis of what happened and what the investigation has recovered so far. We're seeing more of a peripheral grasp of the event -- the shooting is used as a catapult to propel other stories deployed by the media; for instance, stories involving gun regulation, or video game violence. The actual shooting becomes a secondary element, and not the main focus.
The questions remain. How did so many bombs get placed in the building without anyone noticing? Who were the three teenagers found on the site who appear to have had a great deal of knowledge about the shooting? Why haven't the school video tapes been released at least to reporters? Why haven't the "third-gunman" reports received more attention? Why does the top investigator with the FBI have disturbing ties to Columbine and the shootings? Will the autopsy reports ever be released? Did Klebold and Harris wear masks, or were other assailants wearing masks? What is to be made of the numerous timeline discrepancies? There are even more questions...

The most important question is this: Were there other shooters or accomplices at the high school during the rampage?

The many unanswered questions remain unanswered; that a cover-up could be taking place, with the sheriffs office as the unwitting dupe, seems more than possible.

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Notes: 
Special thanks to Ian Goddard.
Columbine High School has a "student smoking area."  This report has proved untrue. The school bans smoking.
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The Columbine Scam: Government Knew BEFORE IT HAPPENED
http://web.archive.org/web/200008231628 ... umbine.htm

SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
Santana High School Shooting
http://web.archive.org/web/200008231628 ... school.htm

Electronic Mind Control
http://web.archive.org/web/200008231628 ... tronic.htm


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Breaking: Columbine Victim Killed by Sheriff Dept. Bullet-Says Lawsuit! Did Government Have a Hand ?

Crime/Corruption Breaking News News Keywords: SO MANY THINGS ABOUT COLUMBINE THAT DON'T MAKE SENSE.....ANNIVERSARY
Source: CNN & Columbine Research Task Force & Denver Post
Published: April 20, 2000 Author: CNN Staff AAPATRIOT
Posted on 04/20/2000 05:30:36 PDT by AAPATRIOT
Lawsuit alleges Columbine victim killed by sheriff's department bullet
Rohrbough was shot as he held an exit door open for other students; He died on the sidewalk, a few steps from safety
April 20, 2000 Web posted at: 6:32 a.m. EDT (1032 GMT)

LITTLETON, Colorado (CNN) -- On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School, the parents of one of the victims has filed a lawsuit against the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department over the death of their son.
Brian Rohrbough and Susan Petrone, whose son Daniel was one of the 13 students and teachers killed in the shooting spree, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court Wednesday. Defendants in the suit include the Jefferson County sheriff and his deputies.
According to the lawsuit, Rohrbough and Petrone allege that their son was not killed when he was initially shot in the leg by Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold. Instead, they allege "that based upon reports from a police officer who was at the scene and a teacher at the scene, the initial position of their son's body, and trajectory of the fatal bullet ... that one of the defendants fired the bullet that killed Daniel Rohrbough."
Jefferson County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Davis refuted the charge. "There is absolutely no information to support that lawsuit," he told CNN. ,P> But Davis did say Rohrbough is so far the only parent to have viewed the entire confidential sheriff's department report on the shooting. Rohrbough saw the report Tuesday, Davis said.
Rohrbough was one of several parents who obtained a court order this week to see the investigative records of the shooting from the sheriff's department.
By Peter G. Chronis
Denver Post Staff Writer
April 11 - The families of slain Columbine High School students Kelly Fleming and Daniel Rohrbough on Monday demanded release of the Jefferson County sheriff department's investigative report on the shooting and other related materials.
James A. Rouse, an attorney for the families who wrote the demand letter under Colorado's open-records law, said his clients have been unable to get adequate answers to questions about how their children died.
"My clients have, from time to time, talked with the sheriff's department, requesting information," Rouse said. "To date, they have not received full disclosure and complete information." Rouse declined to say whether the families will file suit if the records request isn't granted within three days, as specified in his letter. But he noted that a one-year deadline to file lawsuits expires on April 20. "That's what's precipitating the request," Rouse said.
Assistant Jefferson County Attorney Lily Oeffler said that "it's been the position of the sheriff's office that the Columbine case is still ongoing" and that the materials demanded by the families won't be released while the case remains active.
The families are seeking release of:
- The entire "unedited report on the Columbine shooting," whether in final or draft form.
After months of delays, sheriff's officials have said the final report should be released in May.
- An unedited training video made by the Littleton Fire Department after the Columbine tragedy.
- "All unedited 911 tapes relating to the Columbine shooting" so that the families can make their own digital copies.
- Copies of all radio transmissions, "car-to-car communications and command post communications" related to the shooting.
- "All ballistics reports" on the guns of the perpetrators and the police.
- Surveillance videotapes made in the Columbine commons and cafeteria areas from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 20.
- Videotapes shot from helicopters during the Columbine incident.
Additionally, Rouse asked for the return of the clothing the families' two teens were wearing at the time of their deaths.
"It is my understanding that return of the clothing already has been promised but that the clothing has not been returned," Rouse wrote.
"The questions we've asked, they've answered," Kelly Fleming's father, Donald, said Monday. "But we're still not getting the full information. When April 20 comes around, there's a statute of limitations on lawsuits, and without having the information, we don't know what to do. Were things done right or things done wrong? So we need to find out the information. I want to see what's in the report." Fleming added that he is getting impatient, and although the sheriff "has cooperated with us," the final report has yet to be released. And, he said, the families "want all the information - not just some condensed report." But Oeffler said the case of Philip Duran, who faces charges of allegedly helping gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold obtain a handgun, is pending. Therefore, some of the materials requested by the families can't be released.
"Some of the materials requested are the subject of other court proceedings," Oeffler said. "For example, the tapes made by Klebold and Harris and the surveillance tape at the school are before courts at this time."
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VIRGINIA TECH:

Seung-Hui Cho Was a Mind Controlled Assassin

Deadly accuracy, disturbing revelations suggest outside involvement in VA Massacre, cocktail of brainwashing from prozac, violent video games contributed to carnage

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Seung-Hui Cho was a mind-controlled assassin, whether you believe he was under the influence of outside parties or not, the fact is that the cultural brainwashing of violent video games and psychotropic drugs directly contributed, as it does in all these cases, to the carnage at Virginia Tech on Monday morning.

Gun grabbers are already exploiting the tragedy to disarm future students from the opportunity of being able to defend themselves against deranged killers, but the media circus is completely silent when it comes to the laying blame at the feet of a deadly cocktail of mind-warping drugs and bloodthirsty shoot-em-ups.

Outside of the obvious culpability of the factors we see in every mass shooting - video games and "antidepressant" drugs, numerous red flags concerning Monday events are beginning to suggest that Cho was more than a heartbroken nutcase with an axe to grind.

Charles Mesloh, Professor of Criminology at Florida Gulf Coast University, told NBC 2 News that he was shocked Cho could have killed 32 people with two handguns absent expert training. Mesloh immediately assumed that Cho must have used a shotgun or an assault rifle.

"I'm dumbfounded by the number of people he managed to kill with these weapons," said Mesloh, "The only thing I can figure is that he got close to them and he simply executed them."

Mesloh said the killer performed like a trained professional, "He had a 60% fatality rate with handguns - that's unheard of given 9 millimeters don't kill people instantly," said Mesloh, stating that the handguns Cho used were designed for "plinking at cans," not executing human beings.

Cho was certainly no slouch, in the two hour gap between the first reported shootings and the wider rampage that would occur later in the morning, during which time the University completely failed to warn the students despite having loudspeakers stationed throughout the campus, Cho had time to film a confession video, transfer it to his computer, burn it onto a DVD, package it up, travel to the post office, post the package, and travel back to his dorm room to retrieve his guns and then travel back to the opposite end of the campus to resume the killing spree. The almost inconceivable speed of Cho's actions become more suspicious when we recall initial reports that there were two shooters.

Even if we rule out the fact that Cho had received expert firearms training, the cultural mind control of violent video games and mind-altering psychotropic drugs were themselves a cocktail of brainwashing that directly contributed to the carnage, as they do in nearly all these cases.

From the very first reports of the shootings we predicted the killer would be on prozac, would have recently been in psychiatric care and would have regularly played violent video games and that has precisely turned out to be accurate in all three instances.

"Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly a game called "Counterstrike," a hugely popular online game in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns," reports Newsmax citing the Washington Post.

"In December 2005 -- more than a year before Monday's mass shootings -- a district court in Montgomery County, Va., ruled that Cho presented "an imminent danger to self or others." That was the necessary criterion for a detention order, so that Cho, who had been accused of stalking by two female schoolmates, could be evaluated by a state doctor and ordered to undergo outpatient care," reports ABC News, " but despite the court identifying the future killer as a risk, they let him go.

Investigators believe that Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech murderer, had been taking anti-depressant medication at some point before the shootings, according to The Chicago Tribune.

Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, the Oregon killer who gunned down his parents and classmates, were all on psychotropic drugs. Scientific studies proving that prozac encourages suicidal tendencies in young people are voluminous and span back nearly a decade.

Jeff Weise, the Red Lake High School killer was on prozac, "Unabomber" Ted Kaczinski, Michael McDermott, John Hinckley, Jr., Byran Uyesugi, Mark David Chapman and Charles Carl Roberts IV, the Amish school killer, were all on SSRI psychotropic drugs.

Since these deadly drugs are prevalent in almost all mass shooting incidents, where is the call to ban prozac? Why is the knee-jerk reaction always to attack the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans to self-defense, a right that was exercised in January 2002 when students subdued a shooter at another Virginia university before he could kill more than three people because they were allowed guns on campus?

Why are the deeper reasons behind what motivates young men to kill pushed aside while control freaks demand that law-abiding citizens be disarmed of the only thing that can protect them from such madmen?

Questions about the sequence of events on Monday, VA Tech, as well as the profile of the killer are arousing increased suspicion.

We have been receiving numerous calls and e mails alerting us to the fact that VA Tech is pulling links from its website concerning their relationship with the CIA. Reports from November 2005 confirm that the CIA was active in operating recruitment programs based out of VA Tech. Several professors from VA Tech are involved in government programs linked with NASA and other agencies.

Wikipedia also pulled a bizarre recently taken photograph of Cho wearing a U.S. Marines uniform.

Such details only fan the flames of accusations that Cho could have been a Manchurian Candidate, a mind-controlled assassin.

The CIA's program to create mind-controlled assassins that could be triggered by code words, MK ULTRA, is not a conspiracy theory, it's a historical fact documented by declassified government files and Senate hearings. President Bill Clinton himself had to apologize for the program before he left office.

On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said, "The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign."

One such victim of these experiments was Cathy O'Brien, who immediately after the shootings re-iterated the revelations in her latest book, that Blacksburg Virginia is a central location for mind control programs that are still ongoing today.

CIA mind control programs can be tracked back to the 1950's and Project BLUEBIRD, later renamed ARTICHOKE. From blogger Kurt Nimmo;

“BLUEBIRD was approved by the CIA director on April 20, 1950. In August 1951, the Project was renamed ARTICHOKE. BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE included a great deal of work on the creation of amnesia, hypnotic couriers, and the Manchurian Candidate,” writes Colin A. Ross, MD. “ARTICHOKE documents prove that hypnotic couriers functioned effectively in real-life simulations conducted by the CIA in the early 1950’s. The degree to which such individuals were used in actual operations is still classified…. BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE were administered in a compartmented fashion. The details of the programs were kept secret even form other personnel within the CIA…. The BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE materials establish conclusively that full Manchurian Candidates were created and tested successfully by physicians with TOP SECRET clearance from the CIA…. As well as being potential couriers and infiltration agents, the subjects could function in effect as hypnotically controlled cameras. They could enter a room or building, memorize materials quickly, leave the building, and then be amnesic for the entire episode. The memorized material could then be retrieved by a handler using a previously implanted code or signal, without the amnesia being disturbed. Hypnosis was not the mind control doctors’ only method for creation of controlled amnesia, however. Drugs, magnetic fields, sound waves, sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, and many other methods were studied under BLUEBIRD and ARTHICHOKE.”
Researchers into supposed "lone nut" assassinations time and time again run across evidence pointing to CIA mind control experimentation. The best example is Sirhan Sirhan, Bobby Kennedy's assassin. Sirhan was found to be in a completely trance-like state after pulling the trigger and couldn't even remember shooting Kennedy when asked about the incident days later. Sirhan's lawyer, Lawrence Teeter, has presented convincing evidence that Sirhan was under mind control.

Either way you cut it, Seung-Hui Cho was a victim of brainwashing and mind control. The right questions are not being asked and the finger of blame is being pointed in the wrong direction, ensuring that another tragedy like the VA Tech Massacre is almost guaranteed.


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Cho Seung-hui and the Not So Secret School
April 19th, 2007 at 5:14 pm (Uncategorized)

Chold Boy

Cho Seung-hui lost his mind. I think the public deserves to know who stole it from him.

Cho gave us lots of hints, and probably a lot MORE hints remain among the pages not yet published by NBC. And he also left us those photos that have run incessantly behind the talking heads of the news networks. I was watching CNN last night and most of the interviews were done split screen with the images of Cho dwarfing the images of whoever was being interviewed. That gun kept pointing right in my face over and over again. I simply had to stop watching.

And I hate to reprint one of those images here except that someone at Something Awful, a discussion board I know nothing about, noticed the similarity between one of Cho’s images and the poster for OldBoy. Here’s the original:

"Oldboy"

Alone that doesn’t tell us too much. It’s not that strange that a violence-haunted young South Korean would be attracted to a violent South Korean film. However, I think it’s worth noting that the film is not just about violence and revenge, it is also about mind control and manipulation. The hero of the film is kidnapped by an enemy (not the government) and held in a prison for fifteen years while repeatedly drugged and hypnotized to forget aspects of his life and to be “programmed” to carry out a variety of tasks under the illusion that they are of his own free will.

One can be “programmed” in this way by life itself. Given enough trauma in childhood, whole separate selves can split off and carry out lives that the primary personality isn’t even aware of. I don’t know that Cho had multiple personalities. He could simply have been suffering from schizophrenia. However, I do think it is quite reasonable to assume that Cho had experienced some fairly serious abuse. His writings and statements, disjointed as they are, focus very much on this abuse. For some reason, no one is asking many questions about that. Nor does anyone seem to be asking questions about why Cho’s high school has produced TWO psychotic young adults who went on gun rampages within one year of each other. Last May, Michael Kennedy, a student at Westfield High School in Chantilly, Virginia, went on a shooting rampage at a police station, killing two police officers before being fatally shot himself. Authorities consider this just a “horrible coincidence”. Adding to the coincidence is that Michael’s father, Brian Kennedy, was just recently released from jail in charges related to that killing. In fact, he was due in court the day after the Cho killings.

Kennedy was another troubled loner. He suffered, say news accounts, from delusions and grandiose paranoia. Said one friend:

“He thought he was Jesus. He talked about aliens,” said Brandon Baker, a friend of Kennedy’s since sixth grade. Baker said Kennedy told him he sometimes took medication. “He was talking about how he was superhuman.”

Kennedy had also recently changed his MySpace profile name from Kennedy to “Herr Azriel,” in reference to an angel of destruction.

Just before his killing spree, Kennedy text messaged a friend to say that therapy and medication had not worked for him. The only thing he could think of was an “exorcism.”

What didn’t help things much is that Kennedy’s parents, who knew Michael was mentally ill, kept weapons around the house. A LOT of weapons:

The indictment states that Brian Kennedy illegally possessed 20 firearms, including an AK-47 and several bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. He also owned a large variety of handguns — among them a .38 Special Taurus and a 9 mm Luger Commander semi-automatic pistol.
Weapons were everywhere in the Kennedy home; the inventory list of items seized is 10 pages long. Under the mattress in the master bedroom were a Colt 9 mm handgun with one round in the chamber and a leather sheath containing a 9-inch knife. On the nightstand were a bayonet plus high-velocity ammunition for a Remington, semi-automatic shotgun.
A Smith & Wesson knife was under the left, loveseat cushion in the living room, and both a 12-gauge shotgun and a 22-caliber long rifle stood in the corner of the hallway to the basement. An M80 explosive was tucked inside a kitchen cabinet to the right of the stove, and an Atlanta Sharptec knife was stored in the ceiling above the utility-room door.

And his mom did what any concerned mother might do…she took him to a firing range to practice with his new AK.

Strangely, news accounts calling the two shooter’s connection via Westfield High a “coincidence” suggest that they were not at the school at the same time:

Cho and Kennedy lived in Centreville and graduated from Westfield High School, said Officer Courtney Thibault of the Fairfax County Police Department. She said Cho graduated four years ahead of Kennedy.

I’ve only had one cup of coffee this morning, but help me with this math. Michael Kennedy graduated in 2005 and Cho Seung-hui graduated in 2003. The former principle repeats this odd math.

“The killer’s been out of school for five years. Michael Kennedy had been out of school a year. There’s no correlation,” (former principal Campbell) said.

Hang on…let me try this out. 2005 - 2003 = 2. That’s a two year gap in graduation years. High school usually lasts 4 years. Or, let’s try his assertion that Cho had been “out of school for five years.” 2007 - 2003 = 4. And as to Kennedy having been out “one year”: 2007-2005 = 2. In other words, every single factual assertion in that statement is wrong.

I’ve seen no evidence that these two knew each other. But I also haven’t seen much evidence that anyone has bothered to check it out, much less bothered with the arithmetic.

It gets worse, of course, as these things always do. First, have a look at Cho’s literary efforts. Two very short plays that were so horribly written it does make one wonder how he made it to his senior year at Va Tech. One is called “Mr. Brownstone“. In that play, three young people at a casino complain that they can’t find anywhere safe from “Mr. Brownstone.” That name is used by band Guns-n-Roses to mean heroin, but in this case it is a math teacher who has “@#$-raped probably half the kids in the school.” That, after all, says one character, is “what high school teachers do.”

When Brownstone does show up, one character asks: “I feel a satanic presence around me. Do you guys feel it?” They then sing much of the Guns -’n-Roses song. Then the main character John wins at the slot machine only to have his winnings taken by Brownstone.

In Richard McBeef, the abuser is this time “John’s” stepfather. In this play, John is only 13. While having a talk with John, Richard puts his hand on the boy’s lap and John explodes, calling him a pedophile and a “Catholic priest.” He then claims that this step-father had murdered his real father and covered it up like “the government has done to John Lennon and Marilyn Monroe.”

Really all I have done here is show that two troubled young adults came out of the same school. But what a school. Westfield High School happens to be in the second richest county in the country. In fact, the median income is over $94,000 per year. And a lot of that cash is coming from defense contractors…with a large subset of THAT being from companies who outsource for the CIA and other intelligence agencies. You may be familiar with “Booz Allen Hamilton” who is called in this article a “huge supplier of intelligence contracting.” They were a primary contractor for the officially defunct “Total Information Awareness Program” as well. Another contractor of interest to readers of this blog who is a big employer in Fairfax is Science Applications International Corporation. These are the folks who took over the remote viewing program, with help from our old friend Jolly West (from Jim Schnabel’s Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies. For more on West, you can check out this previous post.

Now, West died in 1999 and I have no idea if he ever even visited the Virginia branch of SAIC. I am merely giving you a sense of the flavor of the dark world of intel and defense contractors in which both Cho and Kennedy, were raised.

A final intelligence contractor of interest here is Northrup Grumman’s Intelligence Group. Not only does Northrup Grumman have a presence in Fairfax, they in fact have a “business partnership” with Cho’s alma mater, Westfield High. As you can see from that last wiki link, the school has a very high level of academic achievement, including even an Aerospace Science program. So it makes sense that a military and intelligence contractor would “partner” with them in order to help steer students into helpful directions and perhaps engage in outright recruitment. Perhaps this is how Cho’s sister ended up working for McNeil Technologies, another contractor who also has an intelligence division which provides services for clients including Northrup Grumman. She now is working on the “reconstruction” of Iraq in some unnamed capacity.

This is the world Cho grew up in. None of this proves anything about why, ultimately, Cho did what he did. He and Kennedy were both outsiders, as far as I can tell, even though Cho’s sister made it to Princeton and into a defense contractor herself. But here, with overt ties to an intelligence contractor and in the very heart of the military industrial complex, we have a not-so-secret school which has now produced two young men haunted by demons that only mass murder will quiet. With rumors of Satanism (Kennedy) and sexual abuse of children (Cho) and the uncomfortable recognition of both of these themes within that same military/intel complex, it’s time to have a longer look at these latest lone gunmen.

(Note, this is a draft. I do not have time to revise or edit until later but I wanted to put this up now. Comments on typos or inaccuracies are welcome.)

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[dreamtheater76]

I really like Joel Skousens analysis of Columbine on the World Affairs Brief website. The details, timelines, and events that happened are impossible without help from a number of people and just don't seem logical without deep state intervention. This is what I keep seeing in these events. Claims of multiple shooters are also common. None of these Mainstream Media reports ever add up or make a lick of sense. This last big school shooting has more problems with it than you can shake a stick at. People who watch and believe what they hear on the news just don't seem to have any signs of intelligence or common sense. They don't look for facts, do any research, or ask questions. They just act stupid and I have little hope for humanity because of them. The deep state won't stop this madness as long as too many people buy it. Joe Bidens memorial day speech is the most embarrassing and disgraceful speech that could ever come out of a USA presidents mouth. Not that he is a real president. Just a PO!

[JohnnyL]

I really like Joel Skousens analysis of Columbine on the World Affairs Brief website. The details, timelines, and events that happened are impossible without help from a number of people and just don't seem logical without deep state intervention. This is what I keep seeing in these events. Claims of multiple shooters are also common. None of these Mainstream Media reports ever add up or make a lick of sense. This last big school shooting has more problems with it than you can shake a stick at. People who watch and believe what they hear on the news just don't seem to have any signs of intelligence or common sense. They don't look for facts, do any research, or ask questions. They just act stupid and I have little hope for humanity because of them. The deep state won't stop this madness as long as too many people buy it. Joe Bidens memorial day speech is the most embarrassing and disgraceful speech that could ever come out of a USA presidents mouth. Not that he is a real president. Just a PO!

Yeah, the direct links near the beginning go through the Columbine timeline--completely messed up.
No way it could have been done with the alleged shooters, definitely "extra" shooters at most shooting events. (In one of them, a girl was talking to the supposed shooter when the shooting started happening a ways away, lol.)
As with Texas, police were ordered to not go in, and ordered to arrest/ threaten to shoot anyone who tried to go in to help.
No one wants to see the evil, so they do everything they can to "see the good".

Check this out: https://ifers.123.st/t82-fake-shootings ... alse-flags

[JohnnyL]

PORT ARTHUR (AUSTRALIA)

Australia's Port Arthur Massacre
Government and Media Lies Exposed

On Sunday April 28th, 1996, at the tourist site of Port Arthur in Tasmania, 35 people were killed and more wounded by a rampaging gunman, in what has become known as the Port Arthur massacre.

Joe Vialls, the author of this report, is an independent investigator with thirty years direct experience of international military and oilfield operations.  The full detail of Joe's report is included on these pages, but to start with here is a precis of his findings:
Was the massacre in Port Arthur a completely spontaneous act carried out by a single nutcase with unbelievable efficiency?

Or was it deliberately designed to distort public perception and direct maximum hatred against a particular group of people?

All of the available hard evidence suggests that it was.

Martin Bryant, now in gaol having been officially convicted of the shootings, could not under any circumstances have acted alone, and may possibly not have acted at all, other than in an orchestrated ‘patsy’ role.

Martin Bryant, an intellectually impaired registered invalid with no training in the use of high powered assault weapons, could not under any circumstances have achieved or maintained the incredibly high and consistent killed-to-injured ratio and kill-rate which were bench marks of the Port Arthur massacre.  Whoever was on the trigger that fateful day demonstrated professional skills equal to some of the best special forces shooters in the world.  His critical error lay in killing too many people too quickly while injuring far too few, thereby exposing himself for what he was: a highly trained combat shooter probably ranked among the top twenty such specialists in the western world.

There were no eyewitnesses who could positively identify Martin Bryant at Port Arthur because an Australian newspaper circulated his photograph nationwide, thereby totally corrupting any and all police line-ups, photo boards, or controlled shopping mall parades.  All the eyewitnesses could legally claim seeing was a “tall man with long blonde hair”, which was no impediment to the media who tried and convicted Martin Bryant in less than two days, in one of the most blatant and disgusting displays of media abuse ever seen.

As an investigator I insist on dealing only with hard facts because it is the only way to avoid being swept along by the avalanche of misinformation put out by the media on a daily basis.

Hard scientific facts were deliberately excluded by the frenzied media pack and not one attempt was made to establish the real identity of the shooter.  Long blonde hair did not prove that the shooter was Martin Bryant, and the media somehow forgot to remind the Australian public that long wigs are the most common form of basic disguise ever used.
American video evidence submitted to the Supreme Court has already been scientifically proven a forgery.

Without a single shred of credible evidence, someone somewhere decided that gun dealer Terry Hill would be the "fall guy" who provided "murderer" Martin Bryant with the weapons he allegedly used at Port Arthur.

The Tasmanian Government and Police Service went to great lengths to "fit up" gun dealer Terry Hill as the man who provided Martin Bryant with the weapons alleged to have been used in the massacre.  This draconian activity culminated in a civil court case against Hill, seemingly launched by survivor Quin for damages and breach of statutory duty.  Active in the case was Roland Brown, solicitor for the Legal Aid Commission and Chairman of the Coalition for Gun Control.  On 5th March 1998 the case against Terry Hill was suddenly discontinued.

Despite the fact that he has never been charged with any offence relating to Port Arthur, the police refuse to restore his gun dealer licence on the grounds that he, and his wife Dorothy, are not suitable people to handle firearms.  This is rubbish, easily proved by the fact that shortly after the gun dealer licences were revoked, the Tasmanian police renewed both of their personal firearms licences without question.

In the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, government went to great lengths to ignore or suppress all evidence suggesting that the official story of the day was unsubstantiated rubbish.

Are we to believe that a bunch of planners sat round a table and arranged the premeditated murders of 35 Australians?

Unfortunately the answer is yes.

All of the hard evidence at Port Arthur bears the distinctive trademark of a planned “psyop”, meaning an operation designed to psychologically manipulate the belief mechanisms of a group of people or a nation for geopolitical or military reasons.
In the immediate aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, politicians developed collective verbal diarrhoea in the House of Representatives as they joined the feeding frenzy designed to undermine Australian national security by removing defensive weapons from the hands of the public.

There is now also convincing hard evidence that the gun control proposals accepted by Police Ministers in May1996 were prepared before the massacre, by an ideological senior bureaucrat with United Nations connections.

Since the psyop at Port Arthur more than 400,000 reserve firearms have been pulped instead of stored by the Federal Government, leaving our nation and people terribly exposed to just about anyone interested in taking over the natural resources jewel in the southern hemisphere crown.

The only visible cause and effect that can be laid at the door of the Port Arthur massacre is that the effect of the obscene action caused public hatred to be directed against Australian sporting shooters, who were innocent of any crime at all.  Directly linked to this was a massive funded campaign to disarm the Australian people in spite of significant external threats to our national security.

Joe Vialls' report is brought to you here, in full, by Tony Pitt in the National Interest.  Please read the complete series, explaining why there is a 30 year embargo on evidence and no coroner's inquest.

Vialls’ book, Deadly Deception at Port Arthur, was published in 1999, based on his writings in The Strategy.



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Australia's Port Arthur Massacre
Government and Media Lies Exposed
The proof you have been waiting for...Part 1

Was Port Arthur No Accident?
WAS MARTIN BRYANT REALLY A LONE NUT ASSASSIN?
In early 1984 policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was murdered while on duty outside the Libyan Embassy in London. From the moment she was shot the media misled the British public into believing that Fletcher had been shot by the Libyans, who were subsequently expelled from the country in a fanfare of negative publicity. It was not until 1995 that this author managed to prove entirely scientifically that WPC Fletcher could not have been shot from the Libyan Embassy at all, but was shot from the top floor of a nearby building staffed by American multinational personnel.

Was the massacre in Port Arthur a completely spontaneous act carried out by a single nutcase with unbelievable efficiency, or was it a repeat of Yvonne Fletcher’s callous murder, deliberately designed to distort public perception and direct maximum hatred against a particular group of people? All of the available hard evidence suggests that it was.

When investigating cases like Yvonne Fletcher’s murder or the massacre at Port Arthur, it is critically important to adhere to scientific proof and avoid eyewitness accounts and media hype like the Black Plague. Eyewitnesses do not lie intentionally, but as any honest psychologist will tell you the accuracy of their testimony is limited by many factors including stress, suggestive police interrogators, and peer pressure.

The more controversial the case the higher the need for absolute scientific proof, because if the investigation reaches a conclusion which conflicts with the officially accepted story, the media will attempt to trash the credibility of the investigator himself, who in these two cases happens to be me. For four years while investigating the murder of Yvonne Fletcher I was gently harassed, visited by members of British Intelligence from London, cordially invited to sign the Official Secrets Act, then subtly threatened when I refused to comply.
Some readers might wonder why I am including so much detail about a murder in London when this story is supposed to be about Port Arthur. Well it is about Port Arthur, but there are a number of disturbing similarities between the two cases, especially in terms of media behaviour at the time of each atrocity, and the use of faked video footage to reinforce the official story of the day. So please bear with me for a few paragraphs.

In 1992 when I first decided to investigate WPC Fletcher’s murder the most serious obstacle I encountered was the British media, who for nearly a decade had knowingly nurtured a lie so horrific that it almost defeats the imagination. Yvonne Fletcher, they claimed, was murdered by a low velocity bullet fired from the Libyan Embassy located behind her on her left-hand side, with the gunman firing downwards from a first floor window at an angle of fifteen degrees.

As any amateur can confirm, that means the bullet entered the left side of WPC Fletcher’s back at a shallow angle of fifteen degrees and then continued through her body tissue towards the right-hand side of her body. Right? Wrong... The bullet entered WPC Fletcher’s upper right back at sixty degrees then sliced down through her rib cage, turning her vital organs into a bloody pulp before exiting her body below the bottom left rib.

With Yvonne Fletcher’s exact position recorded by a television camera when the shots were fired there was no room for doubt. It was an absolute scientific impossibility for that shot to have been fired from the Libyan Embassy, and the steep angle of entry of the bullet limited the firing point to one floor of only one building: the top floor of Enserch House, an American multinational building staffed by personnel with documented links to the American CIA. Without the critical video footage from the television camera I would never have been able to prove how she was killed or by who, but fortunately for me the footage still existed in 1992, and television cameras are inanimate objects incapable of lying. If proof appears to exist on video there are only two possibilities: the scientific truth, or deliberately faked video footage shown to the public for special effects or in an attempt to pervert the course of justice.

Interestingly and with profound implications for Port Arthur, fake video footage was put to air by the BBC “for the first time ever” many months after Yvonne Fletcher’s murder, in what appeared to be an attempt to cement the lies and calculated deceptions about her death forever in the minds of the British public.

The public failed to ask why this apparently critical footage had not been presented at the coronial inquest into Yvonne Fletcher’s death (which it was not), but fell hook, line and sinker for the blurred images and sound track, which apparently recorded eleven sub-machine gun shots being fired from the Libyan Embassy. The amateur footage run by the BBC in 1985 was given to one of its reporters by a member of the Metropolitan police force.

During 1995 I used the immutable laws of astronomy and physics to prove the amateur footage a total fake. Analysis of the angle and position of the sun’s shadow falling across the front of the Libyan Embassy was checked using astro-navigation techniques and direct reference to the Greenwich Observatory, Britain’s foremost authority on times and dates derived from the sun-line, a technique used for centuries to tell the time with great accuracy using garden sundials.

Unfortunately for the BBC who broadcast the amateur footage “for the first time ever”, absolute science proved the sun-line on the amateur footage totally incorrect for 10.19 am on the 17th April 1984, the time and date on which Yvonne Fletcher was murdered. Indeed, the scientific evaluation proved the amateur footage was not even filmed on the same day Yvonne Fletcher was shot. Those who created that fake footage and then broadcast it were not engaged in a mere media reinterpretation of events, but were accessories after the fact to the murder of an unarmed English policewoman doing her duty on a London street.

After four long years of research and investigation designed to expose the real truth of what happened that day, and after one year as consultant to the responsible filmmaker, Britain’s Channel Four aired part of my scientific proof in a special edition of “Dispatches”, its flagship current affairs programme, on the 10th April 1996. Unfortunately, three months earlier the filmmaker became incredibly agitated about my absolute scientific proof from Greenwich that the amateur footage was faked, removed me from the production process of a film based on my own copyright story, barred me from the film credits and then incorporated the fake footage as a legitimate part of the film, minus the incriminating sun-line, which proved in absolute scientific terms that what British television was putting to air for a second time since 1985 was totally false and deliberately misleading!

It became swiftly apparent that although the media was prepared to throw tiny scraps of truth to the public, gross deceptions, especially those generated by erstwhile colleagues in the form of fake video footage designed to manipulate public opinion, were strictly off limits. So it is on the subject of fake video footage and its potential for incredible impact on the viewing public that we finally turn to Port Arthur. Some readers may by now be shifting uneasily in their seats, racking their brains and wondering exactly when and where it was that they were also suddenly shown amateur footage “for the first time ever” on television in Australia. It was on a Wednesday in November 1996, the night before Martin Bryant was due to be sentenced for his alleged role in the Port Arthur massacre.

Many months after the massacre took place, but only hours before the Tasmanian judge was due to make a decision that would effect Martin Bryant for the rest of his life, an Australian TV network suddenly presented the public (and of course the judge) with dramatic amateur video footage shown “for the first time ever”. The reporter told us the man on the video was Martin Bryant on the day of the massacre, going about his business of slaughtering the good people of Tasmania, caught on camera by interested amateur photographers who seemed unmoved by the dangers of high-velocity bullets.

Unlike most of the other survivors these folk did not run away, but bunkered down like battle-hardened war correspondents covering the end of World War II from an unprotected thoroughfare in the middle of Berlin. They were also very discreet the day after the massacre, when the world’s tabloid media descended on Port Arthur like a pack of ravenous dogs, snapping and growling for any picture they could get hold of in order to meet their respective deadlines in London and New York.

At that point in time the “amateur footage” was worth half a million bucks no questions asked, for this was a world media event and no-one had any pictures. Perhaps the amateur photographers had no need for huge amounts of cash, or perhaps at that early stage their footage had not yet been fully prepared, which was certainly the case after Yvonne Fletcher’s murder in London. The amateur footage run by the Australian network in October 1996 was given to one of its reporters by a member of the Tasmanian police force.

There are so many irregularities on this supposedly genuine video footage, which was accepted as evidence against Martin Bryant in the Tasmanian court, that only a few of the more obvious will be included in this story to help drive the message home. The rest have been carefully collated, and it will give me considerable pleasure to detail each and every one of them personally before a properly convened Royal Commission. If a Royal Commission is not called to fully investigate the methodology used in the massacre, and if Martin Bryant is not called to give evidence, then the people of Australia had best get used to the fact that what little remains of our representative democracy died with the thirty five innocent civilians who were ruthlessly and needlessly murdered at Port Arthur on 28 April 1996.

Most readers will remember that at the time of the massacre there were a few clouds in the sky but the sun was shining and casting shadows on the buildings, as shown by footage from some of the genuine video cameras recording at the correct time, indicated by timing clocks displayed in the corner of the video footage itself. One or two of these genuine amateur video cameras recorded the sounds of several shots, complete with multiple echoes, proving that the shots in question were being fired outside rather than in an enclosed space such as the Broad Arrow Cafe. But the video footage allegedly showing Martin Bryant running down the road was filmed under an overcast sky, which was the first indicator that something was terribly wrong with this so-called evidence. Who the hell changed the weather at point-blank notice?

One of the most damning sequences shows what appears to be Martin Bryant (well, a tall man with long blonde hair anyway) running down the road away from the Broad Arrow Cafe towards a coach park by the waterside. Because he is running directly away from the Broad Arrow Cafe with a bulky package under his arm the assumption is that the package contains a Colt AR15, the weapon known to have killed 20 victims in the cafe at a rate of one every five seconds. Problem! Scaled against the man’s height and surrounding objects the package he is carrying is a maximum of 22 inches long, a full ten inches too short for the Colt AR15 which measures 32 inches with its butt fully retracted, and more than ten inches too short for either of the other two weapons he is alleged to have owned: a Belgian FN FAL 7.62-mm and a 12 gauge combat shotgun. So who is this man running down the road, and why is he not carrying any of the weapons allegedly used in the massacre?

At this stage it would be nice to be able to determine whether or not the man really is Bryant, by comparing an accurate right-hand profile of Bryant with the video itself. Unfortunately Bryant is the least photographed man in the world today and all attempts to get hold of a photograph of him have failed. For a while I toyed with the idea of asking Martin Bryant’s lawyer to get one for me, but then he too had his camera and film confiscated by prison officials. One wonders why the Australian authorities are so anxious that no pictures of Bryant be allowed outside (or even in) the prison. They would do no obvious harm.

Whether the man is Bryant or not, a few frames in this sequence make a mockery of any suggestion the prized footage presented to the Tasmanian court was meaningful evidence against Martin Bryant. What they show is a blonde man still running down the road towards the coach park clutching his package, while in the upper left corner of the same frames three men can be clearly seen standing directly outside the entrance of the Broad Arrow Cafe, out of which the blonde man has just run after murdering 20 citizens. One man is standing to the left of the entrance casually leaning on the balustrade with one hand; the second is standing casually on the right smoking a cigarette, and the third is standing directly in front of the door filming the running blonde man with a video camera. To suggest this in any way incriminates Bryant is not only ridiculous, but also quite impossible with the blonde man allegedly in the middle of a massive killing spree.

Just these points alone prove in scientific terms one of two entirely critical scenarios. If the blonde man is Martin Bryant but unarmed, what is he doing role-playing with three men directly in front of the Broad Arrow Cafe? It is scientifically impossible for the three men not to be involved, so this option proves beyond doubt that Martin Bryant did not act alone, but was manipulated or directed at the crime scene by others whose identities are not yet known. If the blonde man is not Martin Bryant then the only alternative is that a team of unknown men carried out the massacre and then set up a reconstruction on film using a blonde look alike, to ensure that Martin Bryant would later be convicted. In absolute scientific terms there are no other explanations at all, no matter how much the media might wriggle and squirm in its attempts to ensure the pathetic “Lone Nut” legend remains intact.

If sufficiently panicked the police might claim that Martin Bryant was merely helping them with a reconstruction to assist with their future inquiries, which was filmed and then accidentally released to the Australian television network. But he couldn’t have, could he? Martin Bryant was badly burned at Seascape and spent weeks afterwards heavily sedated in Hobart Hospital under armed guard. Of course he may have been induced to help with a reconstruction before the massacre started, but it seems unlikely the police would be prepared to discuss such a blood curdling possibility.

Science can be frighteningly efficient at times because, believe it or believe it not, science has just proved in absolute terms right in front of your startled eyes using court evidence that Martin Bryant could not under any circumstances have acted alone, and may possibly not have acted at all, other than in an orchestrated ‘patsy’ role. Which one is true depends on which of the two alternative scenarios detailed above are correct, but there are absolutely no other scientific life rafts for the sinking media to grab hold of. Remember this is not unsubstantiated hear- say evidence from frightened eyewitnesses used by the media to hype up its mythical version of events. It is absolute scientific proof which cannot be questioned or refuted.

Most readers like a story to have a beginning, a middle, and a coherent end. Science can and has provided an accurate outline of the first two but it cannot provide the third. As an investigator I insist on dealing only with hard facts because it is the only way to avoid being swept along by the avalanche of misinformation put out by the media on a daily basis, and there are no hard facts available to answer the question “For God’s sake why?”
In any criminal investigation it is acknowledged that three main criteria have to be satisfied i.e. opportunity, motive and method. Just about anyone had the opportunity to attack those civilians in a remote spot like Port Arthur on a Sunday without fear of being caught or punished in any way. Where method is concerned any expert combat shooter could have killed 20 unarmed civilians at five second spacings and wrought havoc in the general area, although the words “expert combat shooter” should be noted with care. Though Australia has tens of thousands of skilled sporting shooters it has very few combat veterans, and even fewer special forces personnel trained to kill large numbers of people quickly in an enclosed space like the Broad Arrow Cafe, which is roughly the same size as mock-up rooms used for practising the rescue of hostages being held in confined spaces by armed terrorists.

It is hard to kill quickly under such circumstances for a number of unpleasant practical reasons, including the fact that shot people tend to fall against other people, shielding the latter from subsequent bullets. Targets therefore have to be shot in a careful sequence with split-second timing to maximize kill rates. Whoever was on the trigger in Tasmania managed a kill rate well above that required of a fully trained soldier, an impossible task for a man with Martin Bryant’s mid-sixties IQ and his total lack of military training, which is an interesting but largely unimportant observation because we have already proved in absolute scientific terms that Bryant could not have acted alone.
That leaves us looking for the motive, which is impossible to determine with any certainty, though it is reasonable to cross link this to Yvonne Fletcher’s premeditated murder in London purely in terms of cause and effect. The effect of Yvonne Fletcher’s savage and very public murder caused public hatred to be directed against the Libyans, who were subsequently deported en-masse from Britain despite the fact they were in no way responsible for her death.

The only visible cause and effect that can be laid at the door of the Port Arthur massacre is that the effect of the obscene action caused public hatred to be directed against Australian sporting shooters, who like the Libyans were innocent of any crime at all. Directly linked to this was a massive funded campaign to disarm the Australian people in spite of significant external threats to our national security. If this was indeed the motive, Australia and its people have been violated in the worst possible way by sworn enemies of our great nation, with likely long term consequences too awesome to contemplate.
It is just not right to simply accept the status quo as it exists today in Port Arthur, because to do so implies that Australians have thrown in the towel and admitted defeat on the strength of a single savage action in our smallest State. The only way to avenge our dead in Port Arthur is to force a Royal Commission on the matter and drag witnesses kicking and screaming into the dock, including certain members of the Tasmanian police force. Failing that, funding should be sought for an independent investigation leading in turn to a book providing the real facts about the chain of events at Port Arthur, a copy of which should be provided for every home across the land. All Australians must be made aware of the real and shocking circumstances in which their fellow citizens died, because knowledge is the only weapon we can use to guard against future lethal charades on Australian territory.

Realistically it would probably take years to find the massive sum needed for such a wide-ranging initiative but there is a positive need for action now, if only to put the Prime Minister on the back foot and convince him there is no longer any need to wear boron carbide body armour when attending public meetings.



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Liberty Exposure
Timeline pertaining to Port Arthur.

1975 In the aftermath of the Hilton Hotel bombing in Sydney in 1975, Canberra and the States established the Standing Advisory Committee on Commonwealth State Co-operation for Protection against Violence (SAC-PAV). Involvement in these national and local exercises was to prove invaluable as Tasmania Police set about managing the Port Arthur Massacre. The responses were to work so well that there were times when it all seemed like an exercise, despite the enormity of all that had happened. (Suddenly One Sunday, page 99).

1979 December 18 The Australian Government enacts the Convention on Discrimination against Women into Australian Law. Buried within this innocuous seeming document is the call for general and complete disarmament!

1987 August 9 On the evening of the 9th August 1987 19 year-old Julian Knight hid in a small park in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill and then started shooting at the passing traffic. Knight had enlisted in the Australian Army, and had received training in the use of firearms. At Hoddle Street, he shot dead 7 people, and wounded another seventeen.

1987 December 8 On the afternoon of the 8th December 1987, Frank Vitkovic shot 8 people dead and wounded a further 5 people.
He then went through a window on the 12th floor and plunged to his death.
Amazingly, Victorian Police Minister Race Mathews, and Attorney General Jim Kennan were able to witness the event from a building diagonally opposite shortly before the event commenced at 4.20 PM. Mr Mathews stated "I arrived to see Jim about 4 minutes before the shooting started and we were in conference on the 21st floor".
How incredible that the two most pertinent Ministers just happened to be together and in the right spot and at the right time!

1987 December In December 1987, after a specially called Premier’s meeting in Hobart, the New South Wales Labour Premier, Mr. Barry Unsworth stated, "There will never be uniform gun laws in Australia until there is a massacre in Tasmania." This quote is extremely prophetic, as it was only after the Tasmanian massacre in April, 1996 that the Federal government forced the States into adopting laws prepared by bureaucrats from within the Federal Attorney General’s office.

1991 Strathfield Shopping Plaza, Sydney, 7 killed.

1993 Suicide of Maurice Bryant: Life has been hard for Carleen, probably hardest of all when she realised that her son Martin needed speech therapy as a child, and other remedial help later which led to an invalid pension.

As a mother she handled difficult situations well enough but her husband Maurice found it much harder, he was a devoted husband and father and a highly organised man, but Carleen says "It was more difficult for him, Martin was his son and fathers expect their sons to be normal."

Hard though Maurice tried over the years he slowly but surely became depressed and "mentioned" suicide on a number of occasions.

Then without warning in 1993 Maurice took his own life at the family farm at Copping, but long before his death had already taken steps to minimise its impact on Carleen and their children.

Carleen was dreading all of the paperwork after his death "because Maurice always looked after that', but was astonished to find all of the documents she needed placed in a single neat pile where she could easily find them.

Even more astonishing, months earlier Maurice had transferred the Hydro account from their joint names to Carleen alone, ensuring things would run automatically after he died.
1994 July 1 The Southern Tasmanian Mortuary Ambulance first came to pass on 1 July 1994 when the Justice Dept decided it needed a private contractor to remove bodies from crime scenes.
The EMA Report explains about the Mortuary Vehicles...
His usual mortuary ambulance is an ex-Tasmanian Ambulance Service Ford F-100 capable of carrying four bodies.
Also present was a Chevrolet truck to the chassis of which Mr Charlton had attached a refrigerated covered compartment capable of storing sixteen bodies.
This vehicle had, in the past, been regarded as an expensive aberration that would never have a use.[EMA]

1995 November Roland Browne was the spokesman for the Tasmanian branch of "The Coalition for Gun Control". In November 1995, Browne warned not only Tasmanians, but all Australians that if Tasmania did not enact tougher firearm laws then there would be a massacre in Tasmania of massive proportions.

1996
After the Dunblane massacre, Roland Browne appeared on "A Current Affairs", and again all Australians were warned that if the Tasmanian Government didn’t implement proper firearm laws, then a massacre of monumental proportions would occur.

1996 May 5 The Sun Herald reported May 5 1996 that ex-Premier of NSW, Barry Unsworth made this prediction in 1987 - Before Uniform Gun Laws become possible in all States there will have to be a massacre in Tasmania.

1996 April 22-23 On 22 and 23 April 1996, five days prior to the tragedy, an Aviation Seminar was held at the Police Academy. The seminar considered Tasmania’s resource capability to cope with a domestic aircraft accident and identified the support available from other states.
Other exercises were held to test anti terrorist arrangements. ...and managing an event with multiple deaths and casualties.[EMA]

1996 April 26 The final version of "Code Brown" was ready at Royal Hobart Hospital
1996 April 28 0600H Martin Bryant had his alarm set for 6AM
1996 April 28 0800H Petra leaves Martin's house at 8AM.

1996 April 28 The Director of surgery, Dr Stephen Wilkinson, had been in the nearby Repatriation Hospital that morning, conducting an Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) course for twenty-five doctors from all over Australia. The course, presented by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in conjunction with hospital specialists, aims at improving capacity to respond to major emergencies, and one of the scenarios that morning had been a multiple shooting. (Suddenly one Sunday pages 93, 94, 95) What would have been the result had the shooting at Port Arthur occurred half an hour later. The possibility that most of the specialist doctors would have left Hobart by plane, and would not have been available for the coming emergency.
1996 April 28 0947H The alarm at Bryant's house is activated indicating he had left.
1996 April 28 The Bryant's Volvo passes through Cambridge....
1996 April 28 Craig Coombs CEO Port Arthur. "It just so happened that 10 of my most senior staff were heading away for a 2 day training seminar to Swansea, a seaside resort on the State's east coast, about 2 hours from the site". [EMA]
1996 April 28 The local police were at the Saltwater River area which is approximately 25 minutes travelling time from the site of the carnage and they were immediately despatched. [EMA]

1996 April 28 1100H There were two interesting observations made late in the morning and at about midday by two people who reside in the area, one Mr Simmons, heard at about 11 a.m. two shots. What Mr. Bugg failed to tell the court was that Mr Andrew Simmons was in fact a close neighbour of the Martins, he also fails to tell the court that Mr Simmons was a supervisor at the Port Arthur Historical Site, and that on this particular morning he was required to attend a management meeting at Swansea with the ten most senior staff of the management of the Port Arthur Historical Site.
The other little detail that Mr. Bugg QC failed to inform the court was that Mr Simmons was expecting his ride to arrive at 11.15 a.m. on that Sunday morning and so would have been alert to any sound that might have indicated that his ride was approaching, or the fact that Mr. Simmons may have been outside his home when he heard the two shots.

1996 April 28 1200HFurther down towards Port Arthur and near the boat ramp a Mr Doug McCutcheon heard a series of rapidly fired shots and his best estimate of the time of that was about twelve o’clock to twelve thirty. He estimated that the calibre of the rifle used was larger than .22!
The final item Mr. Bugg failed to inform the court was that Martin Bryant was somewhere between Forcett and Eaglehawk Neck at the time of these two shots being fired.

1996 April 28 1145H At about 11.45 a.m. a Peninsula resident, Mr Copping, drove past "Seascape" on the Arthur Highway. He had known the Martins for a number of years, and when he looked towards "The Seascape" building he observed a yellow Volvo sedan backed up into the front door of the main home with the driver’s door open.
There was a surfboard on the rack and he took particular notice of this because being a person who had surfed in the area some many years before he knew that the weather was not good for surfing and he recalled that when he spoke to the police because he said he thought to himself at the time that a lot of surfers had improved somewhat since his day of surfing if they could afford to stay overnight when the weather was like that.
He drove through past Port Arthur township and then returned at about 12.40 p.m., in other words he was driving back towards "The Seascape", and as he did so he noticed the yellow Volvo being driven towards Port Arthur about two hundred metres south of the general store at Port Arthur itself.

1996 April 28 1230H An elderly couple call in to Seascape as they leave Port Arthur. An agitated young man with long hair discourages from from remaining.

1996 April 28 1300H Roger Larner speaks to the driver of the Volvo and asks "Who is it?" They speak for 10 minutes, despite knowing Martin for 18 years, Mr Larner failed to recognise him!

1996 April 28 1310H At about 1310 he entered the historic site of port Arthur, paid his entrance fee at the toll booth and drove to the car park where, despite directions to the contrary, he parked nearby to the Broad Arrow Cafe adjacent to the water.[EMA]
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If the Volvo passed the toll booth at 1310, why would it take 15 minutes to park the car 100 metres away as inferred in the next time frame?

1996 April 28 1325H At about 1.25 p.m. the security manager at the site, Mr. Ian Kingston, was directing people in the carpark when he saw "Bryant", who indicated that he wanted to park his vehicle near the water’s edge. Mr Kingston directed him away from that area because it is normally reserved for campervans and the carpark area was quite busy o that day.
"Bryant" became argumentative but drove off in his car and parked it near the information centre. Mr Kingston attended other matters and then later noticed that "Bryant" had moved his car back to the water’s edge. He saw "Bryant" alight from the car carrying a bag, a sport’s type bag, a video camera, and he then walked towards the Broad arrow café.
"Bryant" then walked in to the dining area of the café and placed his bag on a table in the north-western corner of the café. That’s being indicated on the plan now, so he’s walked through a good two thirds of the café area towards the north-western corner. The table that he placed the sports bag on was not occupied and he immediately took out the AR15 rifle which was fitted with a thirty shot magazine, although the Crown case is that there were approximately twenty six live rounds of ammunition in the magazine at that time.

1996 April 28 1327H Nobody inside the Broad Arrow Café was taking any particular notice of the time. However the Tour Guides were. There were three of them, and they were due to take a new tour out at precisely 1.30 p.m. One of the Tour guides was talking on the telephone to a friend, when the shooting started. The exact time was 1.27 p.m.
Another Tour Guide was just looking out to check upon how many visitors were gathered at the start off point, and the Tour Guide Manager was not yet getting ready to start the tour rolling. All three of these persons were clock-watchers. It is part of their profession, and they are very aware of the time. If they stated that the shooting started at 1.27 p.m., then that point should be accepted as fact... it was ignored.

1996 April 28 Zero Hour-4minThe police report the arrival at the decoy site of Saltwater River
1996 April 28 Zero Hour- Gunman eats lunch

1996 April 28 Zero Hour-30 seconds The gunman puts the Prince sportsbag on a table, Mick Sargent watched and they made eye contact for 15 seconds, when he looked next the man was looking towards an Asian couple while he inzipped the bag.

1996 April 28 13.27 The first two shots rang out immediately killing Mr Yee Ng with a shot to the upper neck, and Miss Sou Chung with a shot to the head.
Swivelling on the spot and firing from the right hip, the gunman fired at Mr Michael Sargent who was wounded in the head as he dived for the floor.
He then killed Miss Kate Scott with a shot to the head.
The gunman continues through the Broad Arrow, next killing Mr. Anthony Nightingale, who was seated by himself facing towards Bryant, so in other words he was looking in a northerly direction.
From the evidence of one of the witnesses in the café who survived, Mr. Nightingale stood up when the shooting started and called out "No, no, not here", he was then shot, a single shot to the neck area causing fatal injuries.
Next was Mr Walter Bennet with a shot to the upper neck, with the latter bullet passing straight through and hitting Mr Raymond Sharpe in the head with fatal results.
Then Mr Kevin Sharpe was killed by a shot to the head and was also hit in the arm, with shrapnel and bone fragments from the second intermediate strike on Mr Kevin Sharpe then apparently wounding Mr Gary Broome, and possibly John and Gaye Fidler.
Still firing from the hip the gunman swivelled and killed Mr Andrew Mills and Mr Tony Kistan with single shots to the head, with shrapnel and skull fragments from those shots apparently wounding Mrs Thelma Walker, Mrs Pamela Law and Mrs Patricia Baker.
Again the gunman turned, shooting and wounding Mr Graham Colyer in the neck, before swiveling and killing Mr Mervyn Howard with a shot to the head, next he shot Mary Howard in the neck with non fatal effect and then despatched Mrs Mary Elizabeth Howard at point blank range.
The gunman turned back, killing Miss Sarah Loughton with a head shot.
Moving towards the rear of the building the gunman shot Mr Robert Elliot in the head, causing serious injuries and an additional round hit his left upper arm.
ELAPSED TIME 15 SECONDS......... Next the very professional gunman moved towards the area of the souvenir shop and killed Nicole Burgess with a shot to the head.
Then Mrs Elizabeth Howard through the chest and arm with fatal consequences.
Swiveling around, the gunman killed Mr Leslie Lever with a shot to the head, and killed Mrs Gwenda Neader with another shot to the head.
Temporarily distracted, he fired back into the cafe area and wounded Mr Peter Crosswell, turning again he shot Mr Jason Winter twice, killing him with a shot to the head.
On his way back to the souvenir area the gunman wounded Mr Dennis Olson, then proceeded to the kill-zone near the locked door where he killed Mr Ronald Jary, Pauline Masters, and Mr Peter Nash, all of them with single shots to the head.
At this stage the gunman had killed twenty and wounded another twelve with 29 rounds,he then stopped firing and changed magazines in a most professional way.
The magazine fitted to the AR15 held 30 rounds total, so by changing magazines after firing only 29 shots the gunman ensured that he still had a live round in the breech in case anyone moved, enabling him to kill that person instantly if caught unawares.

1996 April 28 1332H Wendy's call to the police was logged later at 1.32 pm. then she went outside to look for cover in the bush behind the buildings,
This took at least another minute, giving a minimum total elapsed time of four minutes and more likely five.
As several other colleagues present on the day also attest, the elapsed time was much longer than the "official" 90 seconds

1996 April 28 1335H At 1.35 p.m. Ian Kingston the Security Officer at Port Arthur rang in and reported that 7 people had been shot dead. (Suddenly one Sunday page 97)

1996 April 28 after Cafe Upon leaving the Cafe the gunman fired 4 more shots in different directions to assist his safe departure.
Shots 34-83 to follow.......

1996 April 28 1357H The burning car is reported in the grounds of Seascape
1996 April 28 1400H Code Brown is activated ar Royal Hobart Hospital

1996 April 28 1719H At 1719 hours, the Tasmania Police contacted the National Crisis Centre. That is the only information listed in the Chronology of Police communications. The apparent response comes at 2215 hours, the last item listed in communications on the 28th April. It reads simply, "2215 ASIO Tech Support despatched". What technical support did the Tasmania Police require from ASIO that would have been despatched at such a late hour?

1996 April 28 1830H An anonymous phone call to police suggests that Martin Bryant could be the person holed up in Seascape.
1996 April 28 2215H ASIO Tech Support dispatched.[EMA]

1996 April 29 0747H At 0747 smoke and fire were noticed coming from the top storey. The fire quickly took hold. [EMA]
1996 April 29 0821H A male person believed to be the offender emerged from the building appearing to fire indiscriminately from a hand gun and his clothing appeared to be on fire. He disappeared from view for several seconds and then reappeared naked. [EMA]

1996 May In May 1996, the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and the leader of the national Party, Tim Fischer had a meeting with firearm owners in Central Australia, where he said to them, "If we don’t get it right this time, then next time there is a massacre and there will be, then they’ll take all our guns off us."

1996 June 23 On the 23rd of June 1996 the Sunday Telegraph published a story about a gun collector in Victoria who identified the AR15 rifle used for the Port Arthur killings as one that he had handed in to police during an amnesty in February 1993.

1996 September 30 Bryant kept to his story in the face of tremendous pressure from police interrogators and psychiatrists to admit the enormity of his alleged crimes. He continued to refuse to do so and at the formal hearing on 30th September 1996 pleaded not guilty to all seventy two charges.

1996 October Amazingly, the day before Martin Bryant was due to be sentenced a never before seen amateur video of "Bryant" leaving the cafe was shown on television.

1996 November 22 Mr Justice Cox when passing sentence "Though he has ultimately pleaded guilty.[EMA]

1998 March 5 September On 5th March 1998 the case against Terry Hill was suddenly discontinued.

1999 June 9 Damian Bugg QC is to be promoted with an appointmenr to Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions from the 2cd of August 1999.

1999 July 23 Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer announced a policy framework to "arrest the proliferation of small arms" on National, Regional, and International levels.
This launch clearly outlines the International push for gun control that clearly precipitated the Port Arthur disarmament legislation!

1999 September Displayed on the website for the Southern Tasmanian Mortuary Service. Vehicle for Sale. Yellow Chevrolet 350 V8 truck with refrigerated body, hold 22, this vehicle was primarily used as the disaster vehicle in the Port Arthur Massacre.

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Australian Officials Recklessly Endanger Martin Bryant’s Life

Copyright Joe Vialls, 11 July 2003

The "Real" Martin Bryant
           During 1996, Martin Bryant was sentenced to life imprisonment for the alleged murder of 35 people at Port Arthur in Tasmania. According to Attorney General Ray Groom, Bryant was the “most dangerous man in Australia”, who would be detained inside a custom-built Risdon Prison hospital cell “for the rest of his natural life”.
            During the same time frame, television networks and newspapers alike ensured that Martin Bryant also became the most hated man in Australia. Much emphasis was placed on Bryant allegedly shooting a child hiding behind her mother’s skirt’s, then shooting another helpless child cowering behind a tree.  According to the hysterical media, here we had the very worst kind of prisoner: Not only a mass murderer, but a ruthless child killer as well.
            Australians nationwide were and are still taught to hate Bryant with a passion, to the point where dozens spray foul graffiti over the Tasmanian hospital walls, and tens of thousands mutter how they will kill Martin with their bare hands if they ever get the chance.  Impossible of course, but is it? Quite suddenly since 21 June 2003, and apparently due to an inexplicable policy reversal, the public have already been given two chances to kill Martin Bryant, and will be generously provided with more chances in the future.
            On Saturday 21 June 2003, another prisoner hit Martin in the face. In the words of Prison director Graeme Barber, it was “Just an incident between himself and another inmate who have lived in that environment together for the past few years." Prison inmates concur with this statement, but then suddenly, Martin Bryant, most dangerous and hated prisoner in Australia, was bundled into a prison bus and driven to the Royal Hobart Hospital for a “check up”.  Typically this journey takes between 15 and 20 minutes each way. One day later, the Australian media openly reported the details.
            Exactly two weeks later, on Saturday 5 July 2003, another prisoner threw cleaning fluid in Martin’s face. Normal eye irrigation was initiated, as it would be in any other industrial situation. But then instead of following the normal procedures [any antidote for the known chemical followed much later by a vision test], Martin Bryant, most dangerous and hated prisoner in Australia, was bundled into a prison bus and driven to the Royal Hobart Hospital for a “check up”.  As with the first incident, the Australian media openly reported the details one-day later.
            Compare these two startling breaches of security with far more serious injuries that “happened” in December 2000. On that occasion Martin Bryant was suddenly frog-marched to the distant remand wing of Risdon Prison, where he was found some time later with serious stab wounds. One particular wound in his thigh had cut down almost as far as the femoral artery, and required ten stitches. Martin Bryant, most dangerous and hated prisoner in Australia, was NOT bundled down to the Royal Hobart Hospital for a “check up”. A doctor was called to the hospital and repaired Martin on the spot. This is proper procedure for a high-risk prisoner.
            To summarize, Martin Bryant has been incarcerated inside Risdon Prison without a break since early 1996, a period of  more than seven years. In all that time he has been subject to incredibly high security, and never been allowed outside the walls. Then all of a sudden, starting on 21 June 2003, security is removed to the point where he is driven in a bus to the Royal Hobart Hospital along an insecure route, not once but twice in two weeks, for trivial injures inflicted by two different men. The media widely report both incidents. Why?
            The most likely answer to anyone with ant-terrorist experience, is a genuinely chilling scenario that should be of concern not only Martin Bryant, but also to the prison officers who escort him, and to their wives and families. Bryant is the only man alive who can tell the Australian people in open court exactly what happened to him in the days and hours leading up to his arrival at Seascape Cottages, and who was involved in luring him there. Hard forensic evidence has already cleared him of any presence at Port Arthur. As pressure grows for Martin Bryant to be given his day in court, he becomes a greater and greater risk to the professional killers who were really behind the horrific mass murder at Port Arthur. They would sleep a lot easier if he were dead.
            Killing Martin Bryant inside the prison has so far proved impossible, though it must be said that at least one attempt has already been made. Such a killing would also result in an undesirable inquiry which might or might not implicate one or more members of the staff. Best to do the job outside then, thereby severing all possible links to officialdom, and to any “fellow travellers” in the Tasmanian political establishment. So how can it be arranged?
            This is bog-standard stuff for professionals, and considerably easier than robbing an armored car loaded with cash or bullion. First establish a  pattern, which in this case means inflicting minor injuries on Bryant, thus enabling him to be sent to the Royal Hobart Hospital several times for “check ups”. This procedure also sets precedents, making it seem perfectly normal for Martin Bryant to be shuttled backwards and forwards in a prison bus, despite the fact this only started a few weeks ago in June 2003. Make sure the newspapers relay this revised Orwellian “normality” to the Australian public.
           Study the behavior of Bryant’s escorts when they make the first trip to the Royal Hobart Hospital. They will be jumpy of course, because this is the first time the most dangerous and hated prisoner in Australia has been allowed outside the prison walls in seven years. Discreetly study the speed of the bus, traffic lights, and road intersections. Check intercept points, monitor police and any other relevant radio frequencies.
            During the second [and possibly third] dummy runs to the Royal Hobart Hospital, run another check on the escorts. Getting used to it, more normal now. Escorts relaxed and cracking jokes, no longer paying attention to their surroundings or possible risks. Fine-tune operation for next, final, trip from Risdon Prison.
            Exactly which methods and means will be used on the day is a matter of speculation, though it seems certain that under the circumstances “saturation” will be ordered, i.e. a terminal job for all on the bus, leaving no witnesses and ensuring swift efficient exfiltration. Remember that the people who organized and carried out the ruthless murder of 35 people at Port Arthur in April 1996, will not be worried about killing a mere handful of completely insignificant prison officers in order to silence Martin Bryant. Nor will they lose any sleep over grieving wives and children.
            The Orwellian media will tell you that “vengeful” members of the public launched a “completely unexpected” attack on ‘hated’ Martin Bryant as he left the Royal Hobart Hospital to return to Risdon Prison. There will then be a massive police search, but no offenders will ever be caught.  The widows and children will try to get on with their lives, though severely hampered by hopelessly inadequate compensation. You will go back to sleep, reassured that “the killer” is dead.
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[JohnnyL]

GERMAN HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING


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Massacre in German School a Chilling Port Arthur Lookalike
Shooter scores higher killed-to-injured ratio than counter-terrorist experts

Joe Vialls,  28 April 2002

German High School Shooting

On Friday in a mass murder more reminiscent of Port Arthur than Dunblane or Columbine, a highly trained combat shooter killed 17 and wounded 7 at the Gutenburg Gymnasium high school, at Erfurt in Germany. The shooting coincided with a debate that very same day in the German Parliament on tightening gun control legislation, an initiative forced by SDP [Labor] and Green party politicians in an ongoing attempt to further disarm law abiding German citizens.
Germany already has strict laws governing the right to own a gun but the SDP said the country is awash with illegal weapons smuggled into the country from eastern Europe and the Balkans, a claim rebuffed by conservatives as “rubbish”. The conservatives also gave notice that they would put up stiff resistance to any further tightening of the gun laws. But the fight went out of the conservatives when blood-soaked corpses were brought out of Gutenburg high school in the full glare of media floodlights.
Unsurprisingly perhaps, a mere two hours after the attack came to an end, Germany's Parliament approved a government proposal to tighten weapons laws. The proposal, which must go to the upper house, requires a license to carry gas-powered and blank pistols, bans several kinds of knives completely, and mandates separate storage of guns and ammunition. The similarities between the Gutenburg high school massacre and the mass murder at Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, on 28 April 1996, are simply stunning.
As many readers will remember, the unknown combat shooter at Port Arthur was anything but random, killing 35 and wounding 22, a staggering inverted killed-to-injured ratio of 1.60 to 1. The shooter at Gutenburg high school in Erfurt killed 18 and wounded 7, an even more staggering inverted killed-to-injured ratio of 2.57 to 1. And you the great unwashed public out there, are expected to believe that this was the work of a disenchanted 19 year-old who had a grudge against the school! Oh, sure…
For those readers unaware of the importance of killed-to-injured ratios, I am editing in here a few paragraphs from chapter two of Deadly Deception at Port Arthur, an illustrated book I wrote about the glaring inaccuracies regarding the so-called “evidence” at Port Arthur.
“Scientific terms such as killed-to-injured ratio and kill-rate are enough to bore most readers to death, but in order to fully comprehend the enormity of the media lies about the massacre, and expose the planned nature of the operation it is essential information. The killed-to-injured ratio is used to calculate reliably how many injured survivors should be expected for every person killed, for a given number of rounds fired.
“Even assault rounds as powerful as those fired by the Colt AR15 can only ensure a one-shot kill if the target is hit in the head, a six by six-inch target; or in the heart, a ten by ten inch target. Together these areas form between one fifth and one seventh of the overall body target area, so for every person killed there will be between five and seven injured, expressed as "1 to 5" and "1 to 7".
“The records show that a total of 32 people were shot in the Broad Arrow Cafe, so at best we would expect 4 dead and 28 injured, or at worst 6 dead and 26 injured. These are very reliable military figures based on hard science, but the actual figures in the Broad Arrow Cafe were 20 dead and 12 injured - an incredible inverted ratio of 1.66 to 1, or nearly two dead for every one injured.
“Special Forces train continuously for months on end to achieve a ratio as high as this, which lies far beyond the abilities of regular soldiers, and is an absolute scientific impossibility for an intellectually impaired registered invalid.
“Media apologists desperately trying to protect their obscene "lone nut" legend will scream foul at this point and claim that flukes happen, like winning the Lottery.
"No they do not, at least not with guns. About seven months ago a trained Israeli soldier went berserk in Hebron and fired a complete thirty-shot magazine of ammunition from an identical Colt AR15 into a crowd of Palestinians at the same range. His thirty high velocity bullets injured nine and killed no one at all. This Israeli example helps to drive home the absolute lunacy of crafted media insinuations that Martin Bryant. a registered invalid, suddenly metamorphasized into the lethal equivalent of a fully trained and highly disciplined US Navy SEAL.
“Martin Bryant, an intellectually impaired registered invalid with no training in the use of high powered assault weapons, could not under any circumstances have achieved or maintained the incredibly high and consistent killed-to-injured ratio and kill-rate which were benchmarks of the Port Arthur massacre. Whoever was on the trigger that fateful day demonstrated skills equal to some of the best Special Forces shooters in the world.
“His critical error lay in killing too many people too quickly while injuring far too few, thereby exposing himself for what he was: a highly trained combat shooter probably ranked among the top twenty such specialists in the western world. Over the years television viewers have been subjected to such a barrage of Rambo-style television programs that most now believe every time Sylvester Stallone points a gun and pulls the trigger, twenty bad guys immediately fall down dead from lethal shots to the head or heart.
“Unfortunately this Hollywood media rubbish is hopelessly misleading and in no way reflects the difficulties involved in killing large numbers of people quickly, regardless of whether those people are armed or not, and regardless of the ranges involved.” EQ
Without boring you too much, we can easily apply the same rules to the mass murder at Gutenburg Gymnasium high school on Friday. If the shooter had been an average soldier, then for the 17 dead we should reasonably expect between five and seven times that number of injured survivors, i.e. between 85 and 119. What we actually got were a mere 7 injured, convincing enough for any military expert to prove that the media “reports” about Gutenburg high school were, and still are, carefully contrived and manufactured lies.
Before they were muzzled by local authorities, police in Erfurt confirmed they were entering the building in search of “two gunmen”, though they apparently did not meet with a great deal of success. Their suspicions about two different gunmen appears justified, in that two different groups of schoolchildren described two different men, both dressed in black but one as a “Ninja with a full face mask” and the other with a “black hat”.
Police originally said they had recovered one pistol and one semi-automatic full bore rifle, but later the media changed “rifle” to “shotgun”, an altogether different and less accurate weapon. Proving this was a media change and not one of their own, police then declared they had found “About 500 rounds of live ammunition near the killer's body”, or what at that early stage they were erroneously assuming was the killer’s body. To be credible to police, the type of ammo found must at least have appeared as if one man could have carried it into the school.
Let us look at this again. A lightweight 19 year-old boy has already killed 17 and wounded 7 more, yet he still has 500 rounds of live ammo next to him? Why would he and where did it come from? Once again this is reminiscent of Port Arthur, where Tasmanian police found nearly 400 rounds of live 7.62-mm in the boot of Martin Bryant’s Volvo car. Just like the ammo found in Gutenburg Gymnasium, this ammo was not loaded for ready-use in magazines, but simply lying there as a mass of loose rounds in a large transparent plastic bag.
Beyond any reasonable doubt and just like Port Arthur, the loose ammunition found in Gutenburg Gymnasium was deliberately planted next to the corpse as “circumstantial evidence,” designed to later incriminate him [the dead victim]. If this is not enough to convince you, visit your local gun store and ask if you can try picking up 500 rounds of 5.56-mm rifle ammunition from the floor. Heavy, isn’t it? Well take it from me, 500 rounds of 7.62-mm is a good deal heavier, and 500 rounds of 2 3/4 inch 12 gauge shotgun shells will almost break your back.
The trickiest part of the operation lies in working out how the shooter or shooters “vanished” when the Gutenburg job was finished. After all, the media assures us that police has the entire school building surrounded, and thus there was no way the shooter(s) could escape. This could have been done by trickery of course [fake teachers or cleaners etc in the ensuing panic, but hardened professionals would be unlikely to take the risk.
There is another way. Erfurt is one of the oldest cities in Germany with many buildings of historical significance, and many underground “secret passageways". Though not as well known as the secret passageways at the nearby Petersberg Citadel, Gutenburg high school apparently has two of its own, leading well clear of the school grounds: The perfect extraction route for a couple of expensive mercenaries on their way to the Bahamas.
As with Port Arthur we are stuck for a provable motive, but gun control seems by far the most likely candidate. The only visible effect of the mass murder at Port Arthur was the sudden introduction of Draconian “gun controls laws” 10 days later, passed unanimously without a whimper by all Australian State Police Ministers. It is perhaps more than simple coincidence that those 1996 Australian gun control laws bear an uncanny resemblance to the measures approved by the German Parliament on Friday.
The “why” or “why now?” is probably easier to work out. The global elitists are having a very hard time of it at the moment. The paranoid lobbies in Germany have been complaining about the “ugly spectre” of the old Nazis appearing to be on the rise. That the “old Nazis” are really everyday German patriots wishing to exclude Germany from the global elite, makes no difference at all to the lunatic left. Added impetus for this particular massacre might also have been generated because of the perceived rise in “anti-Semitism” after Israel’s barbaric activities in Palestine. Either way, it is very bad news for all Germans citizens wishing to hang on to their national sovereignty, and what little remains of their “free speech”.



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German School Mass Killer Said Fascinated With Columbine
5-4-2

The teenage gunman whose rampage at a German high school left 17 dead last month had a large collection of documents on a similar shooting at a school in the US state of Colorado, according to a report to be published Monday in the German weekly Focus.

The computer hard drive of Robert Steinhaeuser, the Erfurt gunman, contained numerous documents on the April 20, 1999 massacre of 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton by two students, who then committed suicide, the magazine reported.

A resident of a town in the southern German region of Bavaria has also said that he chatted online in the early morning hours of April 20 with an Erfurt youth who seemed "very nice" and who said he was preparing to kill a teacher who had expelled him from school, according to Focus.

The magazine added that police are currently trying to confirm that the Internet user was same person as the Erfurt gunman, who committed suicide after the rampage at Gutenberg high school.

Meanwhile Steinhaeuser's parents, interviewed for the first time since the killing, have told Der Spiegel magazine that their son was obsessed with violence.

"It was always firearms, violence," his father told the German weekly in an article to appear Monday.

The parents were not aware that their son had been expelled from high school in February, saying "he got up every morning and made us believe he was heading to high school."

The parents told the magazine they had tried for years to convince Steinhaeuser to spend less time in front of the computer and television.

"He was always stuck to the computer. It was like a drug," his mother told Der Spiegel.

In a police search of the apartment Steinhaeuser shared with his mother in the east German town, police seized violent computer games and video cassettes.

The 19-year-old ex-student, who was expelled last February, was a member of two gun clubs.

Steinhaeuser was also an apparent fan of the heavy metal group Slipknot, who have written songs defending the killing of teachers by students.

The Erfurt attack, which left 13 teachers -- a quarter of the teaching staff -- dead, marked the most violent outburst in the country's postwar history.

The autopsy of the killer revealed no trace of alcohol, drugs, or medication, according to a medical expert cited by Focus.

On Friday, German leaders including Schroeder joined some 100,000 mourners in Erfurt in a memorial ceremony for the victims of the bloodbath.


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German School Killer Was
Fascinated With Satanism
The Telegraph - London
5-2-2
 
The teenager who shot dead 17 people, including himself, in one of the world's worst school massacres was a loner with a fascination for Satanism and the occult.
 
Nineteen-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser, recently expelled from the Gutenberg school in the eastern German city of Erfurt, returned on Friday to seek bloody revenge.
 
"I saw him in the corridor, and all I could see were burning eyes, bulging eyes, aflame with hatred," student Kerstin Guebler, 17, said yesterday.
 
Dressed in all-black ninja gear and armed with a pump-action shotgun and a handgun, Steinhaeuser coolly targeted teachers and anyone who stood in his way.
 
Police were alerted to the massacre, on Friday night, Sydney time, by a caretaker and a 13-year-old girl who text-messaged her mother on her mobile phone: "Gunman shoots here many dead me safe call cops".
 
Students who knew the gunman said Steinhaeuser, who had been expelled for misbehaviour and conflicts with teachers, craved attention and boasted of attending Satanic rituals.
 
"I remember him saying: 'One day, I want everyone to know my name and I want to be famous'," former schoolmate Isabell Hartung said.
 
Another student told of how Steinhaeuser stood just 3m from him, firing his shotgun.
 
"We saw a teacher fall to the ground, and we turned and ran," he said. "He was opening classroom doors and aiming at the teachers."
 
Klara Uhse, 14, who hid under a desk as Steinhaeuser fired into her room, said: "It was a nightmare: first the shots, then the moans of people being hit."
 
 
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"A Step Too Far" On the road to global disarmament
Part One

Copyright Joe Vialls, 7 May 2002

Hamilton, Dunblane
During the morning of 26 April 2002 an alert went out to all police in Erfurt, Germany, that shots had been fired inside the local Gutenburg Gymnasium high school. Aware of the danger, the first pair of police officers attending wore bulletproof vests and approached the school with caution. As 42 year-old police officer Andreas Gorski alighted from the car and turned carefully to face the school building more than 100 feet away, a single shot rang out from inside. Officer Andreas Gorski, shot once very accurately through the head, died instantly.
Though Gorski’s partner did not have time to identify or even see the mystery shooter fire from inside the school, the prestigious “Time” magazine mistakenly believes he did. On page twenty-eight of its European edition dated May 6, 2002, the magazine claims, “At 11:12 a.m., the first police car arrived at the school. As the policemen, wearing bulletproof vests, approached, Steinhäuser leaned out of the window and shot one policeman in the head.”
By ruthlessly using one of the oldest techniques in the media arsenal, preferred media and political patsy Robert Steinhäuser, 19 year-old school student and member of a local IPSC gun club, was neatly slipped into the frame without a trace of supporting evidence. Because the media version of events is blatantly wrong, and because the sudden death of Officer Gorski understandably slowed the police response to the emergency considerably, we’d better return to the scene of this particular crime and evaluate what really happened.
The official police records show all victims inside the school building were killed by a Glock Model 17 semi-automatic pistol, one of the most reliable defensive handguns in the world, and a favorite with IPSC pistol club members. The Glock 17 has a 4.5’ barrel and holds a maximum of seventeen 9x19-mm rounds in its magazine. Normally, club rounds are loaded to fire a 125-grain bullet, which exits the muzzle of the barrel at about 1050 feet per second. Although very effective for close range defense when fired in the standard IPSC “double tap” way [two rapid shots per static target at about seventy-five feet range], the Glock 17 is a most unlikely weapon for the amazing single-shot kill of Police Officer Andreas Gorski, a known moving target positioned more than 100 feet away from the Gutenburg school building.
If 19 year-old Robert Steinhäuser had been involved at all, he would certainly have followed his rigid German IPSC club training and fired two rapid shots at Officer Gorski’s body cavity, i.e. the standard heart and lung target area, rather than try for an “Annie Oakley” single shot to the head, a much smaller dynamic target. Certain organizations are trained specifically to aim directly at the head in order to avoid body armor and ensure a clean kill, but this requires enormous skill and is normally restricted to specialist anti-terrorist groups, for example German GSG9 and the Israeli Mistaravim.

Bryant, Port Arthur
Steinhauser, Erfurt
Think about it people, think about it! If “superhuman” Robert Steinhäuser was waiting patiently at the front of the school to shoot the first policeman to arrive at the crime scene, then who was running around the rest of the large school building terrorizing the students at the same time? For large numbers of named students this is not a mystery at all. As will be explained in detail later in this three-part extended report, these credible young adults claim two shooters were seen entering the rear entrance of the school, one of whom later escaped under the cover of students and teachers evacuating the building. Most importantly perhaps, no student at the school positively identified Robert Steinhäuser as one of these two shooters.
Despite the fact that both shooters went about their grisly business in absolute silence wearing full face masks, a 60 year-old history teacher by the name of Heise claimed to have recognized Robert Steinhäuser, convinced him to stop the killing and then locked him in a classroom. As you may expect the media had a field day with “witness” Herr Heise, claiming, “Confronted in a hallway by history teacher Rainer Heise, Steinhäuser took off his mask and said, ‘That's enough for today.’ Heise shoved him into a classroom, where he took his own life.” Despite the fact that police have already quietly debunked Heise’s ridiculous claims, political identities seem determined to perpetuate the Steinhäuser myth by awarding Heise the German equivalent of the Victoria Cross, for “courage above and beyond the call of duty”.
Erfurt is the third pre-planned mass murder since 1996 that can be linked together with precision in terms of modus operandi and underlying motive. The first mass murder took place at Dunblane in Scotland during March 1996, where an unknown shooter killed 17 and injured 13 at the local school. This shocking crime resulted in the “activation” of Draconian gun control laws already prepared at the Westminster Parliament. Next was Port Arthur, Australia, in late April 1996, when an unknown shooter killed 35 and injured 22. Once again Draconian gun control laws already waiting in Canberra were promptly activated, using Port Arthur to effectively stifle dissent. In Germany, already-prepared Draconian gun laws were actually debated within a few hours of the Erfurt massacre where 17 were killed and 7 injured, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder recently stated he intends to ram these new laws through the German Federal Parliament in Berlin during the next two weeks.
Though it is difficult for most people to comprehend mass murders being deliberately planned and executed in order to drive a geopolitical initiative, nowadays it is far more difficult to ignore the comprehensive evidence that proves this claim to be true. Those few people who are fully aware of the nature of some of these events, invariably point the finger firmly at the United Nations as the perpetrator. This from American Congressman Ron Paul, M.D:.
“The simple truth is that the UN is not concerned with our Constitution or our system of government. It is concerned only with expanding its power. It's hardly surprising that global government planners seek to impose global gun control, because disarmed nations will be that much easier to rule. Remember, the UN has much more power today than anyone could have imagined 50 years ago.
“So while it may seem far-fetched today that the UN could force every U.S. citizens to turn over their arms, the current gun control conference [July 2001] could be planting the seed for such tyranny in decades to come. UN supporters like to ridicule the notion that the UN represents the beginning of one-world government, but what other label can be applied to an organization that seeks global laws, global courts, centralized legislative power, and a worldwide army?”
Though much of what he writes is true, Congressman Paul has apparently missed the obvious: The United Nations is a toothless tiger, basically a talkfest for megalomaniac global lobbyists who can actually achieve nothing at all without funding from an external source. Thus whoever controls the flow of funds controls the lobbyists, and in turn directly controls the United Nations.
At the end of this extended report I will lead you the reader by the hand to a specific street corner in a specific city. As you stand there looking around with interest, you will be less than one hundred yards away from the office of those who deliberately planned and funded the mass murders at Dunblane, Port Arthur and Erfurt for the “greater good”. Whether or not you as an individual then try to locate the actual office is a matter of personal choice, but be warned that, if you do, the result will be far more harmful to your health than smoking a cigarette.
Though most normal people would justifiably regard these organizers as criminally insane, history is unfortunately on their side when it comes to proving that reducing or banning gun ownership in the civilian population greatly aids those in authority. Once a civilian population has been comprehensively disarmed, the “authorities” are free to impose whatever punishment they choose to inflict, including death, without fear of retribution. The most recent example is the vicious mob of [heavily armed] Jews slaughtering hundreds of unarmed Moslems in Jenin Refugee Camp and elsewhere, but historically there are many more, as shown in this succinct report by an unknown author, printed by the Sierra Times:
“Consider the history of gun control: 1) In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 2) In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917,1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 3) Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 4) China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
“Guatemala (5) established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 6) Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. 7) Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. This places the total victims who lost their lives because of gun control at approximately 56 million in the last century.”
Before going on in parts two and three of this report in order to conduct detailed comparisons between Dunblane, Port Arthur and Erfurt, it seems prudent to provide an example here of the methods used to isolate these three mass murders from other seemingly similar events at Columbine High School in Colorado, and elsewhere. Though Columbine in particular represents a tragic loss of life, it has few if any direct parallels with the three premeditated mass murders in Scotland, Australia and Germany.
One of the most important pointers in events such as these is the accuracy of the shooter or shooters, which by direct comparison with premeditated mass murders is normally very poor in “random” events induced by drugs or other causes. Within the overall term “accuracy” lies the killed-to-injured ratio [KTIR], used to determine how many targets are killed relative to those injured. Generally speaking, a victim is normally only killed outright if he or she is hit in the head, a six by six-inch target; or in the heart, a ten by ten-inch target. Together these areas form between one fifth and one seventh of the overall available body target area, so for every person killed, a military ballistics analyst would expect to find another five to seven injured victims, expressed as "1 to 5" and "1 to 7".
When a “random” shooting takes place this ratio becomes self-evident, as in the case of the Thurston School Café shooting in Springfield, USA, during 1998. Kip Kinkel, whose parents allegedly said, “they were coping with his bouts of anger by giving him Prozac", opened fire on his fellow students with a semi-automatic weapon. Kinkel fired a total of 51 rounds that day, killing two and injuring twenty, resulting in a normal predictable killed-to-injured ratio of 1 to 10.
It is important to note here that just like “chosen” media and political patsy Robert Steinhäuser at Erfurt, Kip Kinkel was also an experienced range shooter. There is no significant difference between these two students in terms of age and shooting experience, and by now most readers will hopefully have realized that Robert Steinhäuser could not, under any circumstances, have been responsible for the thoroughly professional carnage at Gutenburg Gymnasium school.
Outside of highly trained anti-terrorist professionals, there are very few if any shooters who could have produced the devastating figures at Dunblane, Port Arthur and Erfurt. At Dunblane the shooter killed 17 and injured 13, scoring an inverted killed-to-injured ratio of 1.30 to 1. At Port Arthur the shooter killed 35 and injured 22, scoring an inverted killed-to-injured ratio of 1.59 to 1. At Erfurt the shooter killed 17 and injured 7, scoring an inverted killed-to-injured ratio of 2.43 to 1.
In the view of this author the same team of mercenaries was used for all three mass murders, primarily for reasons of security, and will continue to be used in the future. Unfortunately for all of us, their killed-to-injured ratios are steadily improving with each mass murder they execute. Do not allow yourself to be distracted by the overall number of dead, but focus instead on the killed-to-injured ratios. Dunblane was very professional at 1.30 to 1, but the team then improved its performance at Port Arthur with 1.59 to 1. At Erfurt the team really aimed for the stars, and produced a staggering further increased killed-to-injured ratio of 2.43 to 1. God help the next country on the Globalist list.

Coming soon: Part Two – Dunblane and Port Arthur



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"A Step Too Far"
Robert Steinhäuser Not Guilty of Erfurt Mass Murder
Part Two

Joe Vialls and Ralph Kutza, 10 June 2002

The original intent of this extended report was to examine and compare the mass murders at Dunblane, Port Arthur and Erfurt. In the view of this author, all three atrocities were staged deliberately by professional contractors, paid by globalist lobbies determined to disarm the general public under United Nations supervision.
Guided by invisible hands in New York, each new manufactured “atrocity” lends weight to lobby claims that guns are simply too dangerous for members of the public to be trusted with. Indeed, long before each individual atrocity was perpetrated, a set of UN-designed draft anti-gun laws was ready and waiting in the target governments of Britain, Australia, and Germany.
Part two of this report was originally intended as a comparison of the crime scenes at Dunblane and Port Arthur, but that has now been changed due to developments at the third crime scene at Erfurt in Germany. The most important development was the sudden death on Saturday of an 18 year-old student from Gutenburg Gymnasium high school, where 17 were killed and 7 injured in the mass murder executed on April 26, 2002.
So far as it is possible to establish at this early stage, the dead student was one of the most vociferous in claiming that two or more shooters were involved in the mass murder. This unfortunate student was found at 0120 hrs on Saturday morning, hanging by the neck from a beam in his parent’s barn. He could not be revived, and there was no suicide note.
The fact that this student's death was reported by media at all, shows a marked difference in mind-set between Germans and Australians. Back in 1996, most of the Australian public accepted without question the absolute rubbish peddled by the Tasmanian Government and Police about the mass murder at Port Arthur. Nowadays in Germany, tens of thousands of citizens are actively suspicious about the mass murder at Erfurt. And unlike most Australians, Germans demand detailed and accurate investigations.
Apart from the dramatic hanging in Erfurt on Saturday, there have been a large number of other suspicious incidents and media misquotes surrounding the Gutenburg high school shootings, many of them well beyond my limited capabilities to translate accurately from the original German text. Though I spent more than a year at boarding school in Germany when I was a teenager, most of the schoolboy German I learned back then was forgotten years ago.
Rather than provide inaccurate information by personal misinterpretation, I have decided to insert a report here by German writer Ralph Kutza. Ralph speculates that a secret service probably orchestrated the mass murder at Erfurt, though understandably he does not seek to identify the country of origin of the shooters involved.
All text beyond this point is therefore the copyright property of Ralph Kutza, and has been edited by me only for English structure and grammar with Ralph's permission. Editorial comments by me on evidential links to other mass murders at Port Arthur or Dunblane, are shown clearly in italics.

Ralph Kutza writes:

“Finally - more than one week after the Erfurt terror massacre - police claim that more than 70 bullets were fired! The apparent differences in reports of the weekly magazines SPIEGEL on the one hand, and FOCUS on the other, of how Robert Steinhäuser is supposed to have killed himself or how he was found, must be considered a scandal! More and more eye witnesses talk of at least two people shooting After doubts has arisen concerning the evidence given by the hero who supposedly stopped the shooting [School teacher Herr Heise], the evidence given by the Head of the high school has come under closer scrutiny.
Let me speculate today about the background of the crime, trying to give it a concrete shape. The following, I have to admit, is a rather daring hypothesis in 12 steps. But these can be checked scientifically against the Erfurt reality, and in principle could thus easily be disproved. In fact you are invited to disprove me. I really won’t mind if you can prove I’m wrong!

HOW WOULD A SECRET SERVICE COMMIT A DEED LIKE THIS?

1. They would create a scapegoat, who under no circumstances would be allowed to survive the mass murder.

Was Robert Steinhäuser such a scapegoat, i.e. a red herring? Certainly Robert can be credited with halfway fitting the required emotionally suggestive profile, and alleged professional shooting skills supposedly gained at the Police Sports Club. The media has already pointed the finger of "joint" guilt at police by stating that Robert was trained to shoot by a staff member of the Erfurt "Bereitschaftspolizei", i.e. riot police.
For emotionally supercharged members of the public this will sound alarm bells, and they will automatically be wary of specialist police who wear black [just like the shooters at Gutenburg high school], training a teenager to fire high-powered handguns. However, few members of the public will bother to consider the reality that specialists like these, are by far the best qualified instructors to instil gun safety in the young.
On the other hand, the media has paid little attention to the critical fact that Robert had not visited the Police Shooting Club since October 2001. Why not? If Robert had indeed planned this mass murder "long in advance" as claimed by the media, he would have been practicing day-by-day for at least a week before the event. This total lack of shooting practice during the twenty-eight weeks preceding the mass murder, certainly excludes Robert from the murder of 42 year-old police officer Andreas Gorski, who was killed by a single shot to the head while getting out of his car, more than 100 feet away from the school building.

Attempts to involve the police in the crimes were made at both Dunblane and Port Arthur. At Dunblane the police response was criticized as too slow, while at Port Arthur the media insinuated that because specialist police did not shoot Martin Bryant when he was holed-up in Seascape, they must have been in on the act.
Both claims were and are rubbish, but they served the valuable international lobby purpose of putting the respective national police forces on the defensive. And when the police forces are busy defending themselves from media attacks, they have less time available to look closely at the crime itself.

2. False leads have to be planted at the crime scene.

A bag (not a rucksack!) was found in a toilet close to the corpse containing 500 bullets. That is something quite heavy and can’t be carried easily. Besides 500 bullets would have made sense only if Robert Steinhäuser had planned to fire at every pupil who happened to come across him. Otherwise SUCH AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT of ammunition doesn’t make any sense. Especially not if (as is commonly taken for granted by the media), the attack was planned for months.
Instead of being evidence for the official explanations of what happened, this finding can be more easily interpreted and accepted as a red herring. One cannot help but think of some absolutely INSANE PERSON perpetrating the crime due to so much ammunition. However, if Steinhäuser had indeed indulged himself in “long term planning”, he would have known well there was no need for the excess weight or added firepower it might provide. Clearly then, he would not have been insane at all.
The janitor reported that Robert talked to him before 11 a.m., when he arrived at the school, and then went to the toilet. This was ON THE GROUND FLOOR, but the bag with the ammunition was found in a toilet ON THE FIRST FLOOR!

After the mass murder at Port Arthur, police found a large bag of loose ammunition in the boot of Martin Bryant’s abandoned car, along with his passport. This false evidence then helped to “prove in absentia” that Martin Bryant was the shooter.

3. False leads, that harden the suspicion the scapegoat has indeed committed the crime.

Such false leads would consist of “evidence” found in the home of the “scapegoat”. To THE COMPLETE SURPRISE of his parents and brother, such evidence was found in Robert Steinhäuser’s apartment. But only shortly before 1 p.m. on the day of the mass murder. Until then, his brother and parents did NOT KNOW that Robert had ever had any weapons or ammunition in his apartment.

4. What kind of evidence would a secret service have planted in the flat?

On April 26, around 1 p.m. Robert´ s brother, the 25 year old Peter Steinhäuser, found the following (DER SPIEGEL; 06.05.02, p. 120): “Peter went to Robert´s room. His foot kicked at a heavy travelling bag [read: one should stumble over this evidence!] and at that moment, Peter Steinhäuser said, “ I knew , that it was not good, what I was doing now.” But “not good” seems a peculiar and rather moral expression. “The bag contained hundreds of bullets.” [Well, to be more exact here than Peter, surprisingly another 500 bullets were found in this second bag]. (...)
“On Robert´s desk laid the BILLS OF THE WEAPONS, and everything had been cleaned up, for the first time” (...) Peter thinks he was supposed to find the bills [someone who lays red herrings would want that to!]. “The bills of the weapons were Robert´s farewell letter”. [Nonsense! Only a farewell letter is a farewell letter].

Police found weapons and a large quantity of ammunition in suspect Martin Bryant’s house, at Newtown in Tasmania, after the mass murder at Port Arthur. This mystified Bryant’s mother Carleen, a frequent visitor who “tidied the place up thoroughly for him from time to time”, and had done so the day before the mass murder. In an interview with J. Vialls, Carleen Bryant stated emphatically that at no time were guns or ammunition stored at the house. If they had been, she would certainly have found them.

5. Plant evidence without being noticed.

This could only have happened in the morning, on the day of the crime in Erfurt. The parents were not at home, and a secret service would have no problem with access. (SPIEGEL, 06.05.02, p. 119f): “For Mr. and Ms. Steinhäuser, who are married for 25 years, it had been TWO SPECIAL HOURS. Robert’s father, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and diabetes, had been off sick, and his mother had taken a day off, so they went shopping for the weekend at Real. (...) The parents were sitting in their car on their way home from Real [i.e. a competitor of Wal-Mart], when they heard about the shooting in the Erfurt Gutenberg-Grammar-School.”
Perhaps by accident, the magazine reinforces the narrow time window for covert activity at the Steinhäuser residence: “... it was towards 9.45 a.m. on 26.April 2002, when the parents noticed that their son Robert LEFT WITHOUT ANYTHING, no rucksack, no bag. Ten minutes later Robert was back again. ‘I’ve forgotten my pens,’ he said, went to his room and again disappeared.” It is NOT reported, that Robert left this time with a bag or a rucksack! If he left again immediately, as implied, this must have been around 10.00 a.m. or even earlier.

6. Sent someone into the house who looks like Robert to plant the “evidence”

This is absolutely necessary to ensure that the neighbours or the grandmother do not become suspicious. And what is reported by granny? According to SPIEGEL (p.120): “The grandmother, living on the floor beneath, told she saw Robert leave the house, with a rucksack” but she didn’t speak with him, [meaning: she could well have mistaken him for someone else!].
“…And with a cigarette in his hand”. Robert, the non-smoker? To me this was one of several false flag pointing towards the monstrous crime “Robert “was intending to commit. Looking at it coldly, this strange episode, and the impossible timing of the sighting long after Robert had already left for school, proves the smoker was not Robert at all.

7. To leave the corpse in a way that suggests reasonably well he committed suicide

This is always quite difficult, the examinations of a forensic doctor can often prove murder instead of suicide. Concerning this topic I want to start with the adventurous descriptions of the so-called “leading” German News magazines SPIEGEL and FOCUS in the edition of 06.05.02 in both cases.
DER SPIEGEL (p. 132) bases its report on information provided by 54 year-old emergency doctor Gabi Wirsing (at least it gives this impression): “And then there was Robert Steinhäuser. In the preparation room for the Arts, a tiny (storage) room completely packed with shelves. [Do you remember art teacher Heise’s implausible claim, that Robert had voluntarily trotted after him into the room?].
“He lay on the floor half on his side next to his pump gun which he had laid on the floor. He must have put the pistol in his mouth, before he pulled the trigger. His jaws were completely smashed. Then the weapon must have fallen out of his hand, it lay between his legs.”
Now watch as FOCUS (p. 95) romps about and even includes a quick aside concerning the janitor: “In room 111 [Heise definitely always spoke of Room 110 before, as did SPIEGEL online from 26.04.02] lies the dead body of the 19 year old, whom the janitor had met on the ground floor this morning.”
“Robert Steinhäuser had put the nine millimetre ‘Glock’ pistol ON HIS RIGHT TEMPLE. The bullet bored its way through his skull making the skin burst open, leaving a star-shaped pattern around the hole. Out of his head streamed a thin red shiny current of blood. Robert's pump gun lies closely beside his body.”
These absurd contradictions allow only four possibilities: The police did not know how to make it appear a suicide, because Steinhäuser was found murdered. OR Two different bodies had been found (beyond the 17 reported dead). This would explain why the first reports on the day of the massacre spoke of 18 dead bodies. OR The perceptive faculties of one of the cited witnesses are extremely disturbed. OR One of the magazines is lying, though this last is hard to believe given the seriousness of the event.

As Ralph states, this serves to confuse, but as with Port Arthur there is more here than first meets the eye: Most notably the shotgun, a full-length Mossberg pump action which measures 48 inches [121 centimetres] from muzzle to butt plate. This shotgun cannot be “broken down” into smaller pieces for transportation, so where did it come from? Certainly not from any haversack or bag that Steinhäuser might or might not have carried into school.

Once again there is an uncanny similarity to Port Arthur. As well as the 400+ loose rounds of ammunition found in the boot of Martin Bryant’s abandoned car, there was also a large loaded semi-automatic Daewoo shotgun that was never fired. In both cases the shotguns were merely stage props to help the official fabricated story along, but the careless and logistically impossible placement of the Mossberg shotgun next to the body in the tiny storeroom at Gutenburg high school, serves as definitive and irrefutable proof that Robert Steinhäuser could not have been the shooter.

8. To prevent the real killers from being seen and identified.

The persons committing the mass murder all wore masks. Nobody saw who really fired the shots. Even teacher Heise did not claim to have seen Steinhäuser actually shooting.

At Dunblane the only “witness” who claimed to have positively identified Hamilton as the shooter was never named in the Cullen Report, and is widely believed not to exist. After Port Arthur there was not a single positive identification of Martin Bryant as the shooter.

9. Prevent the real killers from being heard talking.

So far we have no comments on the fact, that not one of the students or teachers had heard the shooters speak. There is only one exception. Only Herr Heise CLAIMED he heard the/a masked person/Robert Steinhäuser calling after some students: “I’ll get you too, sooner or later”. No statement by any student anywhere in the media reports or supports this lone claim.

There was a single isolated claim like this at Port Arthur. An elderly man whose wife was killed in the mass murder, and who later married a very attractive younger woman, is alleged to have claimed Martin Bryant said “No-one gets away from me.”

10. One uses allies in the teaching staff, or blackmail or threats, to create false evidence.

Regarding the contradictions of Herr Heise enough has been said already. After a week the wall of silence finally broke down. FOCUS was in the leading position on 04.05.02. “Teacher Heise ‘confessed’, that his colleagues [who were eye-witnesses too, and knew him] called him a liar and a rotten pig, who wallowed in the blood of his colleagues.” According to FOCUS he was thinking about “picking up” a gun and killing himself.
Notice the choice of words: not buy himself a gun, but just pick it up somewhere. [translators note: the German term “holen”, the word Heise is reported to have used, is used colloquially as the English “get”, suggesting either going to pick something up somewhere or buying it.] Where from? Out of the weapon cabinet at home or from his cellar? Does Heise illegally store weapons at home? Why was his flat and cellar not searched by police after this statement in FOCUS?
But let us take a closer look at the school Headmistress. The SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG [a leading German daily newspaper], that by the way on 06.05.02 still trustingly withholds the enormous suspicion concerning the trustworthiness of Heise, writes on the 02.05.02, I’m giving the gist of it: “Because she was under pressure to finish important things, the Headmistress closed the door to the adjoining office (she doesn’t speak of locking it up).
“Then she heard a couple of shots, opened her door and saw two dead bodies. She closed the door to the corridor, and then went back into her office, called the police and then the ambulance. After that she had answered calls coming in.” If this is true, she’s an exceptionally brave woman, and at least as much of a “heroine” as the “courageous” Herr Heise.
But not a single word of the shooter trying to get into her office. Neither did he shoot through the door, as happened upstairs where two pupils were killed this way. This suggests a person with no specific knowledge of the surrounding, not Robert Steinhäuser, who according to media consensus, had been after the Headmistress. According to FOCUS (citing the janitor) he had asked if she was in. If it was really Steinhäuser, why would he spare her?
FOCUS (O6.05.02) states on that subject: “She [the Headmistress] - according to her own statement - had locked herself up in her office. [Does that mean she turned a key? This would be rather unusual.], to be able to work without disturbances.” (...) “A certain haziness surrounds this part of the events.” Oh!
“The janitor, Uwe Pfotenhauer, enters the office at 11.05. At this time the door to Headmistress Ms. Alt’s office was closed.” [but he must have called her, wouldn’t you have done?] “He alerted the police, being the first to do so.” Where was Ms. Alt??
Yes this is a thoroughly justified question! The media so far without exception has reported that the janitor alerted the police. If Ms. Alt later called the police too, as she claimed, it could be proven. People in charge of the police control centre would have taped her call, but nothing was said for two weeks.
Then, the FOCUS suddenly claimed (on 13.05.02, p. 40) Ms. Alt called for help "one minute later" than the janitor. Pardon me! This was allegedly at 11.06 a.m., and these two individuals were only a few feet apart? How is it possible that that Mr. Pfotenhauer and Ms. Alt did not meet, or see each other, or at least that hear one another? Neither has claimed or stated any interaction with the other. But since its first reports immediately after the mass murder, the media has consistently claimed that Pfotenhauer SHOUTED his call for help into the telephone at 11.05 a.m.
In addition, daily THUERINGER ALLGEMEINE reported on 11.05.02 that the killer did not even try to open the door to Ms Alt´s room. As the FOCUS asked on 10.06.02, why did Ms. Alt wait for a minimum of siix critical and valuable minutes after the beginning of the shooting at 10.58 or 10.59 a.m., before finally calling for help Was Ms. Alt misquoted by the media or did she tell the truth? If Ms. Alt did tell the truth, does she have something to hide?

11. The public in the victim country is flooded with propaganda, with the result, that the investigating authorities and media let the people know the real “truth” only drop by drop, and when it cannot be subverted or avoided any longer.

This propaganda process started with the media celebrating teacher Herr Heise as Germany’s new hero. But with the help of the Internet, his extremely contradictory statements were exposed. Following an article of the online-magazine Heise-Telepolis, the magazine FOCUS broke out of the front of silence and cover-up.
Now it became increasingly obvious, that the claims of police and media concerning the number of fired bullets could not be correct. For days there had been talk of 40, suddenly it became 45. But then, more than a week after the crime, seemingly all of a sudden again FOCUS (06.05.02) reported: [yes, yes the scapegoat Steinhäuser] fired from his pistol more than 70 bullets. So far the investigators thought it had been 45.?

Whether this is revealing or subverting the truth remains to be seen. The original total of 40 rounds indicates that a team of experts was responsible for the mass murder, rather than Robert Steinhäuser. By artificially raising the number of rounds to 70, the media “builds in” or more likely “rebuilds” the possibility of an amateur, i.e. Steinhäuser, because amateurs always expend far more shots per kill..
After Port Arthur an identical pattern emerged. Forensics confirmed that the total shrapnel weight found in the victims and building interior of the Broad Arrow Café, matched the 29 rounds fired by the shooter, which killed 20 people and injured another 12. Clearly then the shooter was a highly skilled professional, who could not under any circumstances have been intellectually impaired Martin Bryant, with his rated IQ of 66.
Then later a fully-funded subversive lobby group toured Australia, telling everyone who would listen that at least 50 rounds were fired in the Café, indicating more random shooting, thereby “rebuilding” the possibility that amateur Martin Bryant might have been responsible for the carnage.

The janitor has something else to say about teacher Heise. FOCUS (06.05.02, p. 24): “At midday of April 26, janitor Uwe Pfotenhauer walks to the bakery across the college. He becomes aware of students on an opened window of a toilet of the Gutenberg-Gymnasium and calls out to them: ‘Take cover!’ The history teacher Heise passes on his way to get cigarettes from a machine. He has stopped the assassin, he claims, but Pfotenhauer only pays him little attention.”
How could Heise be so “cool” and “callous”? According to his own statements he had only locked the killer in the room. But this supposed killer still had his pump gun and his pistol with him. That the pump gun possibly was jammed, how could he know? For this reason the suspect easily could have shot his way out, by simply firing at the lock.
There is only one logical explanation for this provocative coolness of Heise as compared to the extreme strain the janitor was in. He must have known that Robert Steinhäuser was dead already. According to Police Chief Grube at a press conference, the post mortem examination revealed that Robert Steinhäuser must have died between 10.58 and 11.30 a.m. At an earlier press conference he and not only he had clearly given the impression that the suspect had shot himself when special action forces of the police approached, perhaps because he recognised there "was no way out".
But police special action forces only began searching room for room at Gutenburg between 11.43 and 12.00 a.m., and supposedly found Robert “towards” 1 p.m. So although it is claimed he shot himself as they approached, in reality he had already been dead for almost one and a half hours. Serving as confirmation of this, and reported by FOCUS on 10.06.02, police claim Robert´s suicide bullet was fired at exactly 11.17 a.m.

12. One is trying to arrange the whole to appear as the work of a single person.

More suspects would automatically result in more investigations and accordingly a higher risk of being discovered, and so on. The hushed up true number of bullets too was meant to imply, there was only one person shooting. But this pretense can’t be kept up for very long.
DER SPIEGEL (06.05.02, s. 132) reported about several sixth graders that had fled to the cellar: “And there they told [the librarian] that up there were two men, one with darker the other with lighter clothes, both had pistols in their hands, and one of them had something on his back, maybe the pump gun. Three of these sixth graders immediately went to a computer to write down what they had seen, …” [Thus a later case or cases of “false memory syndrome” can be confidently and completely excluded.
TIME Magazine reported on eye-witness Steffen Holzhaeuser, 15, who had seen a second masked person fleeing over the school-yard and then into another direction than the fleeing Steffen himself, but for sure this man did not run back into the school-building.
On 05.06.02 media like the daily THUERINGER ALLGEMEINE or SPIEGEL finally wrote that police had eye-witness reports from about 40 [yes, FORTY!] persons claiming there was more than one masked killer. In the same article these same media nevertheless came to the astonishing conclusion that Robert Steinhäuser was the one and only killer.

End Quote Ralph Kutza…

There will be follow up reports on Erfurt when fresh details come to hand, and when those details have been verified 100 percent. This is essential for accuracy, and in turn accuracy is essential when reporting an event of this magnitude. Even the slightest error could undermine any genuine investigation into the global activities of those who organized and funded this atrocity and those at Dunblane and Port Arthur. This may take a long time.
In part one, I promised that I would place you the reader within 100 yards of the office from whence these atrocities were ordered, and so I will. Imagine yourself standing on the red spot shown on the map below, and you will be less than 100 yards away from the ideological maniacs who specialize in this insane form of social control “for the greater good” of mankind.

[lundbaek]

I believe that there have been dark government forces at work behind every one of these mass shootings. There are just too many illogical, insensible and almost impossible circumstances surrounding every one of these mass shootings to believe otherwise. The goal of the globalist Deep State conspirators in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, are working to manipulate politicians into disarming the American public.

[Niemand]

Wouldn't it be better to have split that up into multiple posts rather than one monster one?

I believe that there have been dark government forces at work behind every one of these mass shootings. There are just too many illogical, insensible and almost impossible circumstances surrounding every one of these mass shootings to believe otherwise. The goal of the globalist Deep State conspirators in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, are working to manipulate politicians into disarming the American public.

Since when were the people of Dunblane, Erfurt or Port Arthur, or the nations they in, part of the "American public"‽

[JohnnyL]

Wouldn't it be better to have split that up into multiple posts rather than one monster one?

I believe that there have been dark government forces at work behind every one of these mass shootings. There are just too many illogical, insensible and almost impossible circumstances surrounding every one of these mass shootings to believe otherwise. The goal of the globalist Deep State conspirators in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, are working to manipulate politicians into disarming the American public.

Since when were the people of Dunblane, Erfurt or Port Arthur, or the nations they in, part of the "American public"‽

There are multiple monster posts. Most of that information can no longer be found online, which is why I couldn't link to it. I wanted to get it out to any who might be interested.

It doesn't matter too much where the shootings/"shootings" occur, as long as it paints innocent victims leading normal lives being killed. Look at Chicago--more injured and killed in one weekend, but rarely reported beyond Chicago:
"From January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2020, 3,276 people were killed (655/year average). There have been 13,546 non-fatal shooting victims, and 101 domestic-related homicides." https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/vrd/home.html