My main concern is with the lack of a footprint Lanza left online.
Even with Lanza’s personal hard drive destroyed, we hear absolutely nothing about the person, his past ‘ranting’, remembered things from people who knew him and such.
Media does not seem curious at all. !!!???!!!! Anybody would have assumed they digged deep but came up with things they didn't like to surface.
/if that makes me a conspiracy nut, so be it.
Why? Adam Lanza was by all accounts reclusive and anti-social to an extreme. Why is it so unbelievable that he would not have left a big social presence online foot print? Sure, he was supposedly big into playing video games but not all games or players use multi-player options.
FWIW, I know a good number of people who do not use personal email accounts, don’t use Facebook or Twitter, etc. even some who do not even have PC’s at home. I work in HR and my employer has for the last two years required all employees to make their annual open enrollment benefit elections on line through our self service portal. But being a manufacturing company not all our employee’s have work computers and work emails. And I was surprised to learn that a number of these folks didn’t have PC’s at home and so we had to provide them with access to a PC at work, a temporary email account and basically hand hold them through the process as they were pretty much computer illiterate. These folks must have a zero online foot print but the absence of such is not evidence of their trying to hide something.
That Lanza tried to destroy his PC does not preclude the possibility that he had no on-line foot print. Busting up my hard drive wouldn’t destroy or erase my online footprint BTW.
“My main concern is with the lack of a footprint Lanza left online.”
My guess (and it’s ONLY a guess) is that he didn’t -leave- much or any of a “footprint” online.
Keep in mind that Adam Lanza had more than one developmental problems that even seemed to be physical. He had some variation of Asperger’s Syndrome. On top of that, he had some kind of problem in “feeling pain” (recall the comments by someone from Newtown High School that they were hesitant to permit him to using a soldering iron in the Tech Club because he might burn himself unknowingly. Also recall that Nancy Lanza had remarked to someone she knew that she had found him trying to burn himself with a cigarette lighter.)
Because of the nature of Asperger’s, Adam would shy away from contact with others (remark that when he walking down the hall in school, if someone was coming towards him he would press towards the wall and hold tightly whatever was in his hands).
I’ll guess that this unwillingness (or more correctly, his lack of ability) to interact with others in the real world extended to his online experience. He may have browsed quite a bit, but at the same time been mostly “a lurker” and left little evidence of his presence anywhere.
Just my thoughts. I could be completely wrong.