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The thing that’s throwing me at the moment is this story of becoming aware of his final manifesto, calling 911, and frantically driving to Santa Barbara, then hearing about the violence on the way, but not knowing their kid was involved. Whereupon, they did what?

Santa Barbara’s an hour and a half north of the SF valley, which makes it kind of likely that if they actually made the call, it was during the time the incident was taking place.

And I’m confused about why you’d start to drive up there to prevent a mass murder, hear that there was one, and not know that your kid was involved.

Maybe it all makes sense when you diagram it... at the moment I’m having trouble grasping how it played out.

I am thinking the same, then thinking that the parents lived apart, so they both get this manifesto, read it at the exact same time, (what are the chances of them getting this at the exact same time and read at the exact same time) then call each other and decide their child is up to something, then drive up to what they don't know may be happening? How much time did all that take? Their story is impossible.

Then seeing the raging father spew that hatred toward the NRA and gun owners??? all I saw in that clip was HATRED for everyone except himself who did not do his job as a parent. No wonder the boy was insane.

being in Santa Barbara and reading after the fact local blogs like Edhat and knowing the layout, there is a distinct timeline that is starting to make sense.

The only thing I am struggling with is when did he kill his roommates in relation to leaving the home to kill.

If you think about it is takes both good timing, energy, and time to stab three healthy young bucks. It id n't say he had any military or martial arts training thus I am wondering if he killed them either throughout the day or before sending the whacked out emails to his therapist and family.

It sounds as though he sent out the email right before getting in his car and he lived in Isla Vista. So that took two seconds to start his killing. My thought is the therapist called the Mom as soon as she got the email and checked it out. Mom checked out the sites, called Dad, called 9-11 and they headed up here to try to intervene and/or do something to stop their son as at that time they did not know he had done anything.

I would think they were very concerned when they heard about mass killing in Santa Barbara on the way up here. Yet that sort of information is still difficult to process emotionally. That your own child may have just killed a bunch of people.

Having said all of this. I do wish Daddy O would have spent more time with his son that was clearly struggling. Rather then spend his off time shooting women's uh, hmmm, glutes. What a selfish jerk! He new wife sounded just as narcissistic.