OK, so we have a troubled young man with psychiatric problems flying into a rage, shooting his own mother and then going over to an elementary school to commit mass murder who killed himself when he heard police arriving.
Yet he took time during the course of all this to destroy hard drives so data couldn’t be recovered?
Why would he care? He clearly didn’t plan to be around.
“Why would he care? He clearly didn’t plan to be around.”
It’s all about molding his future persona. That’s why he did it, to make the world notice him, and remember his name. But the computer drive might reveal his weaknesses and vices (as perceived by him in his final hours) such as kinky websites or other proclivities he didn’t want associated with his “fame.”
Mass murderer of kids? No problem. That’s his grasp at fame, celebrity, and immortality. But if he visited shameful (to him) websites, that fact must be kept a secret.
And being a “man of mystery” might also have been an aspect of the post-mortem media persona he was attempting to shape.
He really, REALLY hated his mom and dad. His dad abondoned him (Adam’s perception) and remarried, then his Mom gets a boyfriend (my speculation) who wanted Adam in a nuthouse (the conservatorship papers). Mom spent two days at a resort in NH before her murder, leaving Adam at home. Was she at the resort alone? Or with her boyfriend? Did Adam know all about the conservatorship papers in the work, aiming toward his confinement in a mental hospital?
I had originally assumed that mom left the guns lying around. But given two days to stew, even if they were in a safe, Adam, very bright insdie of his limitations, might have cracked open the gun safe with drills, saws, or crowbars.
It would be nice to know.