Posted on 10/10/2009 4:18:47 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Dylan Klebold's mom speaks in "O" magazine
"No inkling" of plans for Columbine massacre
By The Denver Post
Posted: 10/10/2009
Susan Klebold wrote an essay in the November issue of O magazine. (Denver Post file photo )An essay by the mother of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold says she had "no inkling" of her son's inner turmoil, and her examination of his journals has prompted her to learn about suicide in an effort to understand the school shooting.
The essay by Susan Klebold, which appears in the November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, explores her son's role in the 1999 massacre where he and co-conspirator Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen wounded before killing themselves.
Neither family has spoken at length in the aftermath of what at the time marked the most deadly school shooting in U.S. history. Pending litigation contributed to the silence for several years, but even with the lawsuits resolved, repeated requests for interviews have been turned down.
In a news release, Oprah Winfrey also noted that Susan Klebold had declined interview requests but then, several months ago, agreed to write about her personal experience. The magazine released a few advance excerpts.
"From the writings Dylan left behind, criminal psychologists have concluded that he was depressed and suicidal," Susan Klebold wrote in one passage. "When I first saw copied pages of these writings, they broke my heart. I'd had no inkling of the battle Dylan was waging in his mind."
She added: "Dylan's participation in the massacre was impossible for me to accept until I began to connect it to his own death. Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the intention of dying there. And so in order to understand what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I could about suicide."
Susan Klebold received no payment for the essay, said a magazine spokesperson, but hoped to "raise suicide awareness and to generate support for organizations such as The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the American Association of Suicidology."
A spokesperson for the Klebolds' attorney, Gary Lozow, would not field questions and said that the Klebold family would have no further comment.
The magazine hits newsstands on Tuesday.
In another passage, Susan Klebold recounted the early morning before the violence began:
"Early on April 20, I was getting dressed for work when I heard Dylan bound down the stairs and open the front door. Wondering why he was in such a hurry when he could have slept another 20 minutes, I poked my head out of the bedroom. 'Dyl?' All he said was 'Bye.' The front door slammed, and his car sped down the driveway. His voice had sounded sharp. I figured he was mad because he'd had to get up early to give someone a lift to class. I had no idea that I had just heard his voice for the last time."
Another excerpt describes her struggle to come to grips with the tragedy.
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," she wrote. "I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family, and about love."
FBI agent Dwayne Fuselier, a psychologist,
is one of three investigators heading the probe
of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
THANKS.
WILL CHECK IT OUT.
and I for mine every single day and night.
There’s no legal obligation to protect every person primarily because it is impossible to do so.
The simple fact about Columbine is that more were involved than just Harris and Klebold, based on numerous, overlapping witness accounts. Hell, they even named the co-conspirators—
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/columbineeight.php
Thank you.
Good running in to you. I’ll watch for your postings in future. Best regards.
The pharm. industry has done an absolutely perfect job of getting it all swept under the rug. I see their success is total, complete, definitive, and I give up. It’s obvious that any normal, happy, American teenager can do exactly the same thing at any time. That’s much more comforting.
Go back to sleep...
When your child manufactures pipe bombs in your garage, and you don’t know it, you’re screwing up!
OH, DEAR! That won’t earn you any points with some folks!
LOL.
THANKS much for your kind words. I feel similarly and appreciate your insights and postings.
DOH! INDEED!
Kinda reminds me of the life that Adam Gadhan or whatever had before he went to al qaeda. Raising psychopathic mass killers with their insane leftism.
HiTech Redneck is a genius - “If I had ever tried anything like “Trench Coat Mafia” or anything weird at all I would have been smacked down and tied up in the closet until I came to my senses.”
If only these highly unstable homicidally inclined nutcases had been subject to regular beatings by their parents... this could’ve all been avoided!
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