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Nancy Lanza's Will, Which Dates To 1994, Left Estate To Her Sons, Adam And Ryan
Hart\ford Courant ^ | April 5, 2013 | DAVE ALTIMARI

Posted on 04/06/2013 5:02:32 AM PDT by Daffynition

Nancy Lanza, the mother of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, had nearly $60,000 in bank accounts and a will dating to 1994 that left her estate to Adam and his brother, Ryan Lanza.

The five-page will, originally signed in November 1994 when Nancy Lanza and her husband at the time, Peter Lanza, lived in New Hampshire, was filed in the regional Probate Court in Bethel earlier this week by Stamford attorney Samuel Starks.

Starks had been assigned by Probate Judge Joseph Egan to search for Nancy Lanza's will and to file an accounting of her estate. Starks has yet to file that accounting, although in a letter to Egan he said that he had identified $59,000 in liquid assets that belonged to Nancy Lanza as of Dec. 14, when 20-year-old Adam killed her in her sleep before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School and murdering 20 first-graders and six women before killing himself as police closed in.

Nancy Lanza's will originally made Peter Lanza her beneficiary and executor. But the couple was divorced in 2009, removing him as a benefactor or executor.

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>>Police also removed from the house more than 1,500 rounds of ammunition, a few guns, knives and samurai swords.<<

Previously reported: **Lanza Had Arsenal Of Guns, Ammunition, Swords, Knives*

.....a bit of selective editing.

IIRC, the *few guns* were a BB gun and a starter's pistol. Heh.

1 posted on 04/06/2013 5:02:32 AM PDT by Daffynition
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What dreadful parents the Lanzas were. That little boy, Adam, reportedly fell apart when the marriage fell apart. He never got over not having a father at home.

No amount of alimony could have replaced what Adam really needed, a strong masculine presence in the home. The parents were selfish, secular, materialistic, lapsed Catholics. They should have focused on church and counseling and prayer and fellowship. They should have given full parental attention to the poor disabled child before he grew up to be a wild, murderous adult.


2 posted on 04/06/2013 5:19:52 AM PDT by heye2monn
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To: heye2monn

We’ll never know.


3 posted on 04/06/2013 5:23:12 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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Is this appropriate for the newspaper to even report. The woman was shot to death by her son. The other son, Ryan was claimed to have been the shooter. Sometime the family is treated more like the culprit than the actual person whom did the crime. Look at the Trayvon Martin family they filed a wrongful death suit against the Home Owner Association.


4 posted on 04/06/2013 5:31:51 AM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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>>Police also removed from the house more than 1,500 rounds of ammunition, a few guns, knives and samurai swords.<<

They call that an arsenal? I have more than that in my desk drawer.


5 posted on 04/06/2013 5:33:06 AM PDT by shelterguy
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6 posted on 04/06/2013 5:34:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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What dreadful parents the Lanzas were. That little boy, Adam, reportedly fell apart when the marriage fell apart. He never got over not having a father at home

He had chemical imbalances in his brain.

7 posted on 04/06/2013 5:35:31 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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......either caused by or aggravated by psychotropic drugs.
I feel this is info held back by the state and once released the people will go BS.


8 posted on 04/06/2013 5:40:41 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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The parents were selfish, secular, materialistic, lapsed Catholics. They should have focused on church and counseling and prayer and fellowship.
So attending weekly Mass, receiving Communion and saying a few prayers would have cured the kid's mental disease?
9 posted on 04/06/2013 5:43:53 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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I feel this is info held back by the state and once released the people will go BS.

I go BS. We go BS. Everyone, let's go BS!

10 posted on 04/06/2013 5:48:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: hondact200

Personally, I don’t think it is anyone’s business.

But the Hartford Courant *must* have an above the fold Newtown story every day. Their agenda is apparent and supect, as is all LSM.

We await the long overdue *report* from the police and state attorney’s office.


11 posted on 04/06/2013 5:49:56 AM PDT by Daffynition (The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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I can't speculate on the parenting skills of the Lanza's except to say that it seems as though this mother was in complete denial of her son's condition. The access to weapons, his ability to roam around free-will along with her failure to plan for his long term care through her estate seem to indicate she was in denial and also are in conflict of earlier reports that she feared him and was considering institutionalizing him.

The politicizing of this tragedy make it nearly impossible to know the truth.

12 posted on 04/06/2013 5:53:53 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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The other son somehow turned out normal...


13 posted on 04/06/2013 5:54:15 AM PDT by GreaterSwiss
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Welcome to the new America. What is saddest of all is that this mother apparently was in complete denial about her son’s behavior. One does not wake up one day and go on a murderous rampage that includes slaughtering your own mother and little children.


14 posted on 04/06/2013 5:56:48 AM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: Daffynition

That is why you need to set up a trust. If you do not and the probate courts get involved it is public knowledge. I have a trust. Easy to do and private.


15 posted on 04/06/2013 6:00:10 AM PDT by therut
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To: oh8eleven

The mental disease was worsened when the father left home. That’s when the kid really fell off the ledge.

Being an active member of a good church would have helped prevent divorce. God hates divorce. The church hates divorce. With fellowship, Bible study, and spiritual counseling, the parents would have been less likely to go their own selfish ways.


16 posted on 04/06/2013 6:06:04 AM PDT by heye2monn
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To: Lazamataz
About your current tagline...

("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)

Some Soviets at least had Radio Free Europe. Whatta we got to counter THIS particular Pravda? The Internet? Doesn't seem to function effectively so far.
17 posted on 04/06/2013 6:06:13 AM PDT by Resettozero
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Getting a divorce (and not remarrying) is bad parenting. That kid needed a father. That was the origin sin in the household, not the guns.


18 posted on 04/06/2013 6:09:03 AM PDT by heye2monn
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To: GreaterSwiss

Only by the grace of God. He was lucky. Just like someone who smokes all his life and never dies of lung cancer.


19 posted on 04/06/2013 6:10:09 AM PDT by heye2monn
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I too blame the dad, he should have stayed where his duty lay. Oh, duty is a bad word these days, evil psychologists would have people do what they want, self-actualize, no matter the damage to others as long as the self is “happy” Adam Lanza’s dad had a weinie problem. He should have behaved himself and honored his family.


20 posted on 04/06/2013 6:14:06 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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