Their teenage son, along with his classmate Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. Can you imagine having one of those monsters as your brother? Apologies in advance if this question has already been answered. Under different circumstances it would've been a lot different. My mom and I have always thought that my brother is one "snap" away from ending up hurting someone and/or in jail. Wayne - who owned guns himself - told the clerk he hadn't ordered any clips. . The big trifecta of psychopathology. Cullen, who covered the story for the former Rocky Mountain News, seems to take the view that the Harrises were willfully ignorant of their son's personality (and Major Wayne Harris honestly seems like a bit of a tyrant), and the Klebolds were just clueless. so it seems that they had a pretty solid relationship from what has been released. The term "psychopath" was in academic use by the early 1910s, and the definitive work on psychopathy was published in 1941. The Klebolds stayed, at least as of 2004. I can't believe Oprah canceled her Columbine show today. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are once more in the family room of the Harris home. They made sure to know who their kids were spending time with, and made sure they knew and felt that they were loved. Tom Klebold said they hope to understand someday why the shooting happened. I kind of admire that. Don't believe me? On Dylan's part, I think that in January 1999, he was depressed and preparing to die - distancing himself from those he loved, so that it would be easier for him to carry out the attack. It may have hurt him. Sue Klebold, mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold, poses for a portrait on Feb. 23, 2016. He has always been excessively cruel to animals (he even shot and killed his own dog because it barked), obsessed with weapons, "charmingly" manipulative of adults, a pathological liar, disdainful of other people and abusive to them and VERY quick to anger. Harris was born in Wichita, Kansas, on April 9, 1981. Sue acknowledges that before Columbine, she would have reacted to news of some horrific act by wondering what that persons parents must have been like to allow someone to turn out like that. How they could live with themselves is beyond me. ". "Doctors" can profit, too, financially, when their names are attached to certain "studies.". Tom was a geophysicist, Sue worked with handicapped people. His parents raised their two boys as many others did, following that close-knit, suburban family model (p. 62). I think you did an excellent job with this blog post. FULL DOCO - PT 2 OF 3, 2. You teach them to recognize triggers that exacerbate symptoms. He'd gone with a traditional black tuxedo, bow tie slightly askew. It's far more complicated than a matter of discipline. She has spent the last 15 years excavating every detail of her family life, and trying to understand the crucial intersection . Kids do know about their frineds. On August 30, 2006 Columbine obsessed 18 year old Alvaro Castillo would murder his father with a sawed off Mossberg 500 shotgun at their home and then drive to a local high school and open fire. Parenting is the ultimate denial of responsibility because it is always the OTHER PARENT'S FAULT. I go into Target and there are children shrieking like banshees in the shopping cart and the mother never says "Be quite. Sociopaths are born, but people who remain sociopaths as they age: either missed puberty; or had bad parents. "He got his satisfaction by dominating." He was a sociopath and needed drugs and a really good psychiatrist. I believe it was either a sibling or playmates. They always have, and unless we can change it (which might be very "Pandora") they always will. Wayne & Kathy Harris are the parents of infamous Columbine HS shooter, Eric Harris. "However, there is credible, tangible, measurable, and repeatable evidence that there are some people, for whatever reason, have their brains wired differently.". Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had openly admired Adolf Hitler. 9-11-1981 -- 17 year old son of Mr. Thomas Klebold (then 52) and Mrs. Susan (Yassenoff) Klebold (then 50), younger brother to Byron (21 at the time). His father was a geophysicist and a mother worked with the disabled . Sue Klebold Recalls What Her Son Dylan Was Like at Home: Part 2. Nothing taken care of that I needed him to do (like take care of the cats). Harris also had sadistic tendencies, which propelled him to "seek vengeance.". I couldn't put the book down, and even though I thought I knew the ending of the story, or at least most of it, I have to admit, the last couple of chapters, specifically the one detailing the Basement Tapes, and the one about what had happened leading up to Harris and Klebold committing suicide were fucking frightening. As the son of a geophysicist father and a mother who worked with the disabled, his upper-middle-class upbringing and well-meaning family didn't seem like contributing factors to his eventual killing spree. They haff come here to haff a nice dinner und a nice time. His father was an Air Force pilot, and moved him and his . Christ R22/R32/R39 et all. Weren't they in a small group of rebellious kids? How can that not bother you? I found this thred on accident and had to comment. Dylan was behaving differently, getting in more trouble, not always acting like himself. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Boston: Pearson. Planning? I think it's really odd that Tom Said Dylan was His best friend and Dylan Kind of didn't seem to care at all about his dadso one of them Had a really wrong perception. If someone read my journals as a teen, youd assume my Mom and I would have killed each other by now, but now we are pretty close. Maybe that's what I find so scary about the whole thing, that there are people who walk around, every day, and are completely lacking in everything that I thinks makes us human. In 1997 Wayne Harris, Eric's father, started logging all of his son's problems. Or it's everything. Harris' family eventually settled in Colorado in 1992. Susan Francis Klebold ( ne Yassenoff; born March 25, 1949) is an American author and activist. His dad followed him around with a camcorder, capturing every move. He overslept and missed a class and was sleeping when I got home. These people do have emotions. When I was in high school, my mother knew everyone I went, who I associated with, what I read, what I had my room, etc. Making intentions known ahead of time? By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Apparently his meds caused an issue with a military enlistment, but wouldn't a caring parent sit down with their kid and figure out a Plan B? Eric: "Susan, sorry. It would be comforting to think otherwise. Dylan Klebold had written about a "god-like figure" dressed in black, brutally gunning down fraternity-type boys. That doesn't make them monsters. multiple newspapers and media outlets in the days after reported dylan and his father having the kind of relationship where, when dylan would come home from school, they would share a snack and read the sports section of the newspaper together. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire at the suburban Denver school on April 20, 1999, killing 13 people before taking their own lives. I can't remember. No scientist knows this absolutely. We relate. Is that correct? The attack on Columbine is almost a prototypical school shooting, but one way in which it stands out is that it was committed by two people together. The owner (a woman) had no qualms about going up to people with a screaming child and saying "You need to take ze child out to ze car vare he can calm down. When I was in high school, i was friends with a guy who very well could have done what those kids did. He was enrolled in a program for juvenile offenders run by the county court, he was taken to a psychiatrist and given both therapy and medication. Psychiatry has long attacked outsiders of all kinds, including gays, while not saying a word about society. Attention was paid. Betty Shoels, Isaiah's aunt, said that "her 18-year-old nephew was a fun-loving athlete who was always smiling, despite feeling out of place as one of the school's few African-American students." . By his junior and senior years, Dylans parents knew something was wrong. Real estate records indicate they bought their 10-acre plot in 1990 for $65,000. Dylan Klebold's father contacted authorities, saying the boy might be involved and offering to help, Jefferson County District Attorney Dave . When someone is in a store, that is not their own private property. Also when I was growing up, people had no qualms about calling a parent and saying "Your little boy Johnny said something really awful to my son today." or "Your little Janey slapped Susey today and she needs to stop doing that." Reviews: 81% of readers found this page helpful, Address: Suite 369 9754 Roberts Pines, West Benitaburgh, NM 69180-7958, Hobby: Worldbuilding, Shopping, Quilting, Cooking, Homebrewing, Leather crafting, Pet. ", "R77, there are people who don't have feelings.". Plus the drug industry makes a profit. The next deadliest school shooting (based on fatalities) was the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, with 27 fatalities. Mrs. Klebold had her hair done the day after the shooting. I suppose it's ok to let children scream in restaurants and theaters as well? It was obvious that the attack had been in the works for a long time, and the plan carefully thought out. The narrator seemed to revel in the graphic violence he was depicting, but it was the final passage that was particularly disturbing, where Dylan conveyed unabashed awe and . Jesus, what a loathsome pair of people. I know my mom and dad will be just like.. just fucking shocked beyond belief. So no, nothing in the gifted program could have helped this kid. And then later on, how was he able to conceal his mental state so successfully? Great job! Subject: Re: Dylan's house google earth Tue May 10, 2016 10:18 pm. She didn't do anything that would be perceived as spying. But they confess that in the main, they have no explanation. Yesterday there was a girl in her backyard screaming like an insane person at somebody or something. Tonight, an interview with Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, is set to air on the ABC news-magazine . The giant whine of "I did my beeeeest!" They will live on forever !!!!!!!! Brooks said the Klebolds agreed to the interview after an exchange of e-mails initiated by Tom Klebold, who was angered by Brooks April 24 column. I'm a true follower of Reb &VoDka. Dylan ended the shooting which saw 13 . Sue is from a prominent Jewish community . I think we can value Sue's words more than Dylan's words in this one. OP, I agree with you. 'Toxic culture' blamedHe was hopeless. Yaron Steinbuch. No matter how angry they were they wouldn't be able to kill that many without those weapons. Empathy; not so much. He was one of the teens behind the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999. WOuldn't one of the friends have felt him a little bit off, at the least? With these many, many factors in mind, I turn to A Mothers Reckoning. When I was 16 my parents sure as hell would have known if I had firearms in my possession or were building pipe bombs anywhere near our home. VOTN, I have Cullen's book but have not yet started it. On April 20, 1999, when Sue Klebold heard about a shooting incident at Columbine High School, her thoughts immediately turned to her 17-year-old son, Dylan, who was a senior there. German-American restaurant owner: "You vill not be a mass murderer!" I think those that readily (and outrightly) blame the parents are inclined to do so as to perpetuate some aspect of control, otherwise the shear nature of the case becomes too frightening. He deflates a lot of myths surrounding the event. No scientist knows this absolutely. Or, as Eric himself said, quoting Shakespeare, in the farewell video he left for his parents: x93Good wombs have borne bad sons.x94. r54 is right. Klebold, S. (2016). [quote]I can't believe Oprah canceled her Columbine show today. ". The problem, Cullen concludes, was that there is almost nothing that can be done to help psychopaths. Eric Harris was an American murderer from Wichita, Kansas. His parents were Wayne and Katherine. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold stormed into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and murdered 13 people before killing themselves. A 'Gentle Boy,' His Parents Told Investigators, Klebold Was Enrolled in an Elementary School Program for High Intellectual Potential Students. [] Asking why only makes us feel hopeless. "This was murder," he said. Bit of a warning, it's a PDF file. She also spent a lot of time conferencing with my teachers to know how well I was doing in school and she was interested in my assignments. comes from the shittiest of shitty, lazy parent(s). At the same time, the father must have believed that his son's future was still bright. Dylans parents were hands-on parents who limited the intake of television and sugary cereals. February 12, 2016 11:56am. Just as the son's evil made people go back and re-evaluate his dad, discovering examples like the time Poppy sabotaged his opponent's sail boat the night before the race; one wonders if one should investigate more closely the dealings of the Harrises. Bull fucking shit. COLUMBINE, pisode 3 : l'impact sur la socit, 3. Has anyone seen it who can comment? For a couple reasons. Unfortunately, Eric was able to channel Dylans experiences and psychology into a violent act that would take not only his own life, but the lives of many others. How do you teach someone to have emotions or empathy? Oprah asked the teachers to describe Harris/Klebold, the teachers talked about how they didn't fit in, wore trenchcoats, seemed troubled and dangerous, and so on. Funny how things cycle.". At the beginning, when he writes about the good things in his life, he mentions his parents. Sue Klebold with son Dylan in 1985. Credit: Sue Klebold via Penguin/Random House Tall, slim and graceful (her younger son was a gangly 193 centimetres tall), she is given to direct eye contact . She went to Ohio State University where she dated Tom. He was afraid Dylan might be involved. Neither seemed to know where or with whom he was most of the time. R71, having seen Patti Lupone shit all over Gypsy, I can assure you, there's a Hell. ", Dylan: "They gave me my fucking life. The world was shocked and sickened on April 20, 1991, when crazed students Dylan Klebold, 17, and Eric Harris, 18, slaughtered 12 students and one teacher at Colorado's Columbine High School. [quote]It is absolutely the parents vault. Dylan Klebold's mother: 'I felt I was a good mom'. The Harrises moved away almost immediately. if anyone can correct or find the sources for me that would be greatly appreciated! Dylan says people will note the date and time when watching it. However, most people know they are guilty as sin and should burn in hell with their son. 1/12 Tom is home from the hospital. As she says, The rest of the world could explain away what he had done: either he was born evil a bad seed or hed been raised without moral guidance. They crowned a queen, they crowned a king. In my defense, R78, everyone knew I wrote the best hand. I am certain that Sue no longer lives there but she still does visit the house as two Columbiners took a Columbine/E &D tour" in Jan .or Feb and saw Sue outside the house as they drove by. For not seeing that, I will never forgive myself.. Hey mom, gotta go Tom isnt even included in the insincere goodbye. Without advertising income, we can't keep making this site awesome for you. It's still about management. And although there was never anything we could do to put him away, so to speak, before he hurt someone, my mother would *never* claim in an aftermath that she had no idea of his mental state or his comings and goings or that she didn't know what made him that way. (They said no.) "How do you teach someone to have emotions or empathy?". Harris and Klebold met at Ken Caryl Middle School during their seventh grade year. In a story for Sundays editions of The Post, Lozow related the first moments after the Klebolds learned of the shooting. - You're all over this shit aren't ya? The most undereducated, illiterate, ridiculous people become teachers. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, walked into Columbine High School with shotguns, automatic weapons, and homemade pipe . When the clerk told him "Hey, your clips are in." I wanted a contribution to help us understand why it happened, so that it would never happen again. Read a little more about the case, R28. I got picked on a lot and dealt with a lot of shit from the "jocks" and the "cool kids." [quote]He has always been excessively cruel to animals (he even shot and killed his own dog because it barked), obsessed with weapons, "charmingly" manipulative of adults, a pathological liar, disdainful of other people and abusive to them and VERY quick to anger. This page is focused on the tragedy as well as its perpetrators so we can try to better understand the psychology and motives behind this horrific event. It's always about management. It's up to me what I do with it. There are also certain traits that lead to a school itself being more or less at risk for a shooting event: an inflexible culture, inequitable discipline, tolerance for disrespectful behavior, and a code of silence (p. 315). Hell, Klebold and a bunch of their friends went to the prom the weekend before the killings. Sue provides details that help us address some of the other considerations as well. I knew it wasnt nearly so simple (p. 146). If only we would have asked the right questions." He was kind, gentle, smart, and happy. [quote]I think he made only one phone call to a recruiter. [quote]None of us knows exactly how the brain works. Teachers have no training in mental disorders or warning signs. He started getting in trouble, and complained of how certain groups of kids were ruthless bullies, yet the school did nothing to stop them. Dylan kept talking about college, about his future. Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold. I couldn't do that to my family and I admit that I would never have the guts. Tom's surgery was today. People can be fooled. It is actually a lot of conformist bunk to serve the status quo. Eric . What happened isn't their fault. Per the other Columbine thread, I'm in the midst of reading Dave Cullen's "Columbine." How often did they fix things up, was he emotionally available for Dylan? Criminal behavior: a psychological approach. : apparently tom was really hurt when 4/20 happened and grieved heavily because he felt like him and dylan were best friends, and had especially gotten closer in the months prior. It didn't help matters any that our father was an abusive asshole. Maybe I'm just feeling too knowledgeable having been re-reading Steve Pinker's "How The Mind Works" recently. Guns and weapons? Even after he broke into a car and stole stuff, there was no monitoring of his time spent making pipe bombs or firing guns or playing video games that glorified killing. "Mrs. Klebold had her hair done the day after the shooting". He had friends, but felt as if he were a burden; he wanted love, but the girl he was interested in didnt know he existed. I didnt hear it.. ", "If they had even one shred of decency they would have taken full responsibility for creating and shaping and not monitoring these monsters.". Well, Mrs. Klebold is quite the victim, isn't she? Just three days before the shooting, he went to prom with a friend. Press J to jump to the feed. (21 at the time). It is also true that environmental stimuli can make the difference between a kid with "problems" and a kid who becomes a "monster." I'd add that Tom watched the basement tapes and even after seeing them first-hand, stated something to the effect of 'see he didn't want to do it' (I'm paraphrasing here). Firstly, like everyone else he didnt pick up on his mental health nor was Dylan apparently showing it to his best friend. I do find it odd that youd characterise your 17 year old son as your best friend anyway, youre his father. "In the very . Harris was excelling in classes in the year leading up to the murders. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history, . Sue Klebold broke down in tears as she remembered the funeral of her son Dylan. The half-Jewish Dylan Klebold is more of a cipher. Dylan Klebold had been accepted by the University of Arizona and planned to attend this fall. Dylan Bennet Klebold Born: 9-11-1981 6 feet 2.5 inches tall, 143 lbs. -- b. . Based on what I've read so far, he's working off the assumption that Klebold was a depressive with self-destructive tendencies (he mentions suicide over and over in the journal kept for two years prior to the incident), and that Harris was a full-blown psychopath. armed with one 10-shot hi-point model 995 carbine rifle, one intratec ab-10 (tec-9) pistol, two savage 12-gauge shotguns, and as many as . His father Wayne was a U.S. Air Force transport pilot . Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters at Columbine High School in 1999 who killed 15 people before ending their own lives, a tragedy that saddened and galvanized the nation. That kid was born with some sort of brain injury. Age : 36. Harris was a "budding psychopath, a person without a conscience," he said. This is my (completely layman's) opinion, but I've always figured that we have more or less tamped down the "How" of the brain, but we're still working on the "Why" of the brain. LITTLETON, Colo., April 24 - The parents of Dylan Klebold, one of the teenage shooters in the Columbine High School massacre, said goodbye to their dead son . When early word came that the Trench Coat Mafia may be involved in the shooting, Tom ran downstairs to look for Dylans trench coat, which he couldnt find, Lozow said. For a couple reasons. Talking about the home video they took of that day, Its absolutely stunning how normal Dylan seems (p. 235). The glaring one that Americans seem unable to see is the huge amount of available weapons in the US. Younger brother to Kevin Harris (21 at the time). Ken Caryl Middle, where he met Dylan Klebold. Unfortunately, we only have her word today as to what went on in the home. I recently watched the documentary Raising Adam Lanza, and, though it wasnt as detailed, there were some interesting overlaps between Adam and Dylan. Bratty kids in Target are not mass murderers in the making. R17, would you call yourself more of a Harris or more of a Klebold? They do not have a moral center that can be reached. In Cub Scouts, he was a bright, dedicated boy who worked hard for his badges. His parents didnt understand the full extent of it, but high school wasnt turning out to be a kind place for him. 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"He said, 'One of the boys my son shot said Dylan was a nice kid,' " Berg says. They cry innocence and ignorance, when I know they were anything BUT. Indeed, up until he died, he had been going to school, working a part-time job, hanging out with his friends, planning for college all behaviors of a normal teenager. I guess it's my generation. To develop coping skills. Susan Francis Klebold was born on March 25, 1949, to Milton Yassenoff and Charlotte Yassenoff. I think that even I have sustained some slight rewiring from that, though not anywhere *near* to the extent of my brother's. Are any of Robert Hare's books of interest, if you know? I can't find any photos of Eric's older brother, Kevin. No one could control him. I believe the parents both left the Columbine area, and possibly the state of Colorado. My parents didn't know anything I did, didn't care,and were happy if I stayed invisible. Good-bye. Tom and I failed to recognize these conditions and to curtail the influences violent entertainment, his friendship with Eric that exacerbated them. Family & Personal Life. But Sue and her husband didnt know what the signs they were seeing meant. I remember Oprah had teachers and students from Columbine on her show within a month of the event. ", Dylan: (talks about how his parents taught him to be independent and self-reliant) "I appreciate that.". These things outweighed their concerns about him. Dylan Klebold and Ryan Harris killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. He still was the boy his parents joked seemed to be on autopilot (p. 65), but Sue notes that this may have been particularly dangerous in his case. What is something of a mystery to me is why things reached the point they did. Firstly, like everyone else he didn't pick up on his mental health nor was Dylan apparently showing it to his 'best friend.'. They could still have been on the outskirts of the school. . Of course there is no formula for determining whether someone will turn out to be a school shooter, but I definitely agree with the sentiment that it is important to look at how these things happen. Or is your tiny mind only capable of two viewpoints? Eric Harris was quite the hottie, I don't understand why he had to go and kill himself. "If a person was denying it, he would say, 'One of . Focus on the mental. Yet, despite a happy upbringing, Dylan still did what he did. In the vacuum of actual news, they just start over again. As the mother of Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold prepares to speak out in her first interview since the gruesome 1999 shooting massacre, a survivor of the attacks has . He did it in contradiction to the way he was raised.. Klebold and Harris were in a juvenile diversion program for breaking into a van and stealing tools and other items in January 1998. Maybe he needs to go home. His father, who had been in the military, was strict with Eric, and actions in that house had consequences. . It Always seems like he didn't give a damn about them, in his writings and in the Basement Tapes. Not only had Dylan experienced bullying in school, his school fit some of the factors that meant it was most at risk for a shooting by ignoring certain behaviors and otherwise unevenly enforcing the rules. The parents cars were in the driveway. Yes, it's the fifth anniversary of when you met your partner and you go out to dinner and somebody's child is relentlessly screaming throughout dinner that's fine. To me its really hard to determine the quality of a relationship based on how teenagers feel about it. OP is an idiot, laying the whole thing at the parents' door. Dylan was a depressed teenager with many mental issues. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were charged with theft, criminal mischief, and criminal trespassing for breaking into a van and . I think he was broken over the loss of his son, and wants to remember the boy Dylan was and not the murder he became? 17 year old son of Mr. Thomas Klebold (then 52) and Mrs. Susan (Yassenoff) Klebold (then 50), younger brother to Byron. . KleboldI started reading the Columbine book, how does he try to explain Klebold? Its exactly people like you that caused this massacre to happen in the first place. Sorry. He's wearing a plaid shirt, either dark blue or black with white; the shirt's untucked. Although in their rantings, they seemed to have special hatred for fags, and various other epithets for minorities that I don't even like to write, let alone speak.
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