Hide and Go Seek

Stefanie Haney started earlier in the school year (’98), Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, and Brooks Brown had their differences.  

She knew this after having observed in several verbal altercations in the smokers pit.  However, after the Christmas vacation, (Jan ‘99), it appeared as if Brown, Klebold and Harris had settled their difference, and were then friends.

Stefanie said that she talked to Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris while they were all in the “smoker’s pit”.  

Stefanie told me that she had smoked marijuana with Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris while they were in the “smoker’s pit”.  She said this was 1998, and said she has heard Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris talk about how they hated their parents.  Stafanie recalled that either Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris (unknown which one) had been overheard saying at one time, that their parents had taken his car away from him for getting into trouble and either Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris made a comment something to the effect of, “The will get theirs”.

She said that for a time, she knew Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, and Brooks Brown did not get along with each other, however, she did not know why.

She said she had seen them hide when they saw each approaching their location while at Columbine High School, because they did not want to see each other.

 She said she believes they had have since worked out their differences.

In A Mother’s Reckoning, Sue Klebold, for the first time, recounts, based on her recollections, her daily journals, and the difficult and harrowing writings and video recordings her son left behind, the days and months leading up to the tragic shooting at Columbine High School, where 12 students and one teacher, as well as the shooters themselves, died–and the indelible impact on Sue, her family, the community, and our culture. In large measure, this candid and unflinching narrative was written to explore how Sue and others close to Dylan missed potential signs. How did her beloved golden boy go so utterly off the rails, without her knowledge? Did she miss the indications, subtle or obvious, that Dylan was in trouble? That her child, who had just attended the senior prom and was soon to graduate and go off to college, had a dark, secret life, and an inner rage, that she could not even imagine? Is there something valuable and important that she can share with other mothers and families in terms of recognizing the signs that might get others the help they need?

In an age when the number of mass shootings has escalated to unprecedented levels, is there something we as parents and concerned citizens and community members can do to help our children and prevent such senseless tragedies? With fresh wounds from Newtown and Charleston, never has the need or yearning for insight and understanding been more urgent.

About the Author
Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters at Columbine High School in 1999 who killed 13 people before ending their own lives, a tragedy that saddened and galvanized the nation. She has spent the last 15 years excavating every detail of her family life, and trying to understand the crucial intersection between mental health problems and violence. Instead of becoming paralyzed by her grief and remorse, she has become a passionate and effective agent working tirelessly to advance mental health awareness and intervention.

Author profits from the book will be donated to research and to charitable foundations focusing on mental health issues.  
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ANNOUNCEMENT!  – SUE KLEBOLD’s BOOK & 1st INTERVIEW – Feb 2016

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Sue Klebold Book to be released February 2016
and  ABC’s Diane Sawyer Will Have First Television Interview Ever with Sue Klebold, Mother of Columbine Shooter Dylan Klebold 

Klebold Will Discuss the Topics Revealed in Her Memoir, “A Mother’s Reckoning,”

Including the Tragedy and What She Learned About Her Son

ABC News Primetime Special Examining Warning Signs of School Shootings and Mental Health
Will Air in February, 2016
Sawyer’s In-Depth Interview Will Air Across All ABC News Platforms

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ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer will have the first television interview with Sue Klebold, mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold. Klebold will discuss the topics revealed in her memoir, A Mother’s Reckoning:  Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy.

The interview will air during a one-hour ABC News primetime special investigating school shootings and mental health in February, 2016. ABC will also report on the lasting impact of mass shootings on our communities and what might be done to prevent them from happening.?

A Mother’s Reckoning will be released on February 16, 2016 by Crown.

Klebold writes about coming to terms with the murder-suicide by her son and Eric Harris at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. She shares potential warning signs and offers insights that may be able to help other parents and students in the future.

Klebold is donating all of her profits from the book to research and to charitable foundations with a focus on mental health issues.  

Excerpts from Sawyer’s in-depth interview will air across all ABC News platforms, including “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Nightline,”ABCNews.com, ABC News Radio and ABC NewsOne.

Where did dylan play the drums? Was he very good at it?

As young boys in Littleton, one of the interests Brooks and
Dylan shared was a love of music.  The
two boys in sixth-grade, their last year of Elementary school while part of the gifted program known as CHIPS, the boys performed in a band at a local talent show.  Brooks,was on saxophone, while Dylan
played drums.   Sue Klebold indicated that Brooks used to have a band and that Dylan played the drums in that band. The Klebolds said that Brooks got out the Chips program in the sixth grade and after that Brooks and Dylan were more acquaintances than friends.

We have no way of knowing if Dylan was ‘good at it’ but given his strong interest and love of music and the fact that Devon mentioned that he liked music that emphasized strong beats, plus the fact that you often see Dylan snapping his fingers, even whistling, in some videos, I tend to think he was naturally, intuitively  inclined when it came to listening to and repeating back

mathematical patterns, rhythm and repetition and without missing a beat too.  I’d go so far as to say it was one of his many innate gifts and talents – that he could’ve gone into the music industry and exercised his creative musical abilities and perhaps combined it with technical production and sequencing of music like that of his beloved techno genre favorites such as NIN or The Chemical Brothers.

“If you have a blog dedicated to two mass-murderers then take a time to rethink wether you’re a good person or not” This has been written by some Columbine blog and I don’t know if I agree with this implied sense of “no, you’re not a good person if you do”. What do you think?

What type of Columbine blog is probably relevant as to why they feel the need to add a guilt trip clause. Are they blogging about Eric and Dylan too and their feelings of personal ambivalance are being skewed at others? Is their blog only about the victims or are they just a general Columbine blog in which they are simply biased and missing that the point that the tragedy was begot by victims as well as ended with them? My opinion on this type of mindset is that it’s not one that I personally subscribe to, obviously.

did dylans parents know he smoked and if so what did they think of it

I think he attempted to hide it from his parents at first but there came a point in time where there was just no disguising the scent on him any longer. He also would’ve gotten into the habit of going out for a puff at the smokers pit at school or while socializing with friends. The impulse to step outside his own home and have a smoke late at night would’ve been just too great.  But again, the smoke scent wafting about and immeshed in his clothing and trench (can’t you just picture Sue throwing his t-shirts into the wash and holding them up to her nose? aww..) There’s just no concealing that for very long. His parents likely confronted him at some point and and wouldn’t have been too happy given that Bryon was a pot head but perhaps they capitulated since there wasn’t a whole lot they could do about it plus many of Dylan’s friends smoked too. They were probably marginally okay with it, sort of  like, ‘as long as it’s not marijuana or hard drugs, son’. lol 

I’m taking away from the foot fetish that he was more of a submissive person?

Mmhm, yes, it’s true that foot adoration/fetishes generally denote submissive tendencies. Though it’s not necessarily that Dylan was ‘more of’ a submissive but it was one intrinsic side of himself that got awakened by discovering this type of play and it became in conflict with other parts of himself that he thought he was supposed to conform more like. He was secretly drawn to his ‘liking’ but also at odds with it. 

Dylan had poor hygiene and a foot fetish. That is some creepy, dealbreaking shit right there. Yuck.

Nah, Dyl wasn’t a creepy foot fetish dude that smelled like pig pen if that’s what you sound like you’re alluding?   He was, however, your average teenage boy that was on the computer playing video games until the wee hours of the week nights which meant that he sometimes only managed to get 4-5 hrs of sleep. At the crack of dawn, the alarm would sound and he’d keep slamming the damn thing  until he eventually rolled out of his bed half asleep while fumbling for the nearest pair of decent once worn jeans and his favorite maybe twice worn AoL HaXoR t-shirt.. still crumpled up on floor from yesterday. He then grabbed his trench and trademark shades to make it out the door in time to attend his god awful  6:15 morning Bowling Class. Sometimes the shower was super quick in the morning where’d he rush out the door letting his still dripping wet curls air dry on the ride to class and other times, he didn’t bother to shower until the next day when he got home around 1:30ish. As for his foot fetish, it was an fantasy turn on in addition to the myriad of porn that frustrated teen dudes dabble in.  While he was attracted to this fetish, he never had the pleasure of indulging in it in real life.  Then again, some fantasize about sexual turn-ons they don’t necessarily even plan to make a reality.  Apparently, to Dylan, feet had begun to be something attractive to notice and look at and there isn’t anything wrong with that anymore than certain guys noticing a nice pair of well shaped legs. ahem. 😉