Tag: Dylan Klebold

Online Crush – Sarah Slater (JC-001-004433): Sarah said she was close to Zach Heckler, and also knew Dylan. Sarah said she used to chat with Dylan online, that Dylan had a “crush” on her, and during her Freshman year. Dylan “wanted to date her”, but she declined. Sarah said that Dylan did not persist in his efforts to go out with Sarah.

At age 14, Dylan started at his freshman year at Columbine High School together with Eric. They were good friends with their classmates, and fit very well into the environment. “That’s back when they were just like everybody else”, said classmate Katie Rutledge. “They dressed normal, I’d even say preppie.”

But in his sophomore year, Eric and Dylan started hanging out with the group later known all over the U.S. as the “Trench Coat Mafia”. They were angry and rebellious, and united by their differences. People said they always wore black trenchcoats, therefore the name.

Dylan became an “outsider”.

But Sarah Slater, a member of the same theater group as Dylan, e-mailed with him for a while, and she didn’t at all think he was that much more different than anyone else.  “I liked him”, she said. “He was really shy, although he wasn’t all that shy with me.”

When they came home from the theater at nights, they spent hours communicating by e-mail. “We talked about a lot of stuff, mostly about alcoholic beverages and how he hated school.”

Sarah understood that hatred. With her baggy pants and spiked jewelry, she didn’t fit in until she started dressing more conventionally at the end of her freshman year. She worked hard to change her negative attitude, and discovered when she did that she enjoyed Columbine.

Dylan never did.

“Just when I talked to him, I don’t know, it was like he would end the conversation with, ‘(expletive) the school’”, Sarah said. “If I asked how he was doing, he’d say, ‘I wish I didn’t go here’, or ‘I wish I was somewhere else.’”

Sometimes during their online chats, Dylan would say he had been drinking. Sometimes Sarah could tell by his typing mistakes. Sometimes he would invite her to go out drinking.

But other classmates doesn’t remember Dylan drinking a lot. Maybe he was just trying to impress Sarah, trying to come across as a party animal, trying to make her think he was living up to his nickname, VoDkA.

After Sarah quit theater, she lost touch with Dylan.

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Dylan rarely dated. “He liked girls, you know, but he would never approach them because he was too shy or waiting for them to approach him,” said Sarah Slater, a friend from theater.

Nate Dykeman has another opinion on why Dylan didn’t date. “Dylan wanted to wait,” he said. “He didn’t want to get into anything in high school.”

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White tablets taken from Klebold’s room: “per Sgt West, the tablets will not be analyzed.”(18701)

“Among the items police found in his room were two half-empty bottles of St. John’s Wort, an herb believed to elevate mood and combat mild depression. I asked one of Dylan’s friends if he knew that Dylan had been taking it. Dylan told him he hoped it would increase his "motivation." 
– I Will Never Know Why” – Sue Klebold

“he’s either really hyper or really kicked back,” – Devon Adams

“Dylan was the same happy person that he normally is and was very talkative and friendly… with him joking a lot. Over the last month or so Dylan had become more and more withdrawn.” – Kelli Brown (10680)

In discussing any drug use that Tim was aware of concerning Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Tim stated that he was aware that Dyian took some kind of energy pills that he bought at the store.  – Tim Kastle (004322)

Jeffrey reported that he had noticed a behavioral change in Dylan the prior several weeks before the incident. He stated that Dylan was normally a very good student but had been falling asleep in the 2nd period class each day. The teacher kept threatening to throw him out of class if he fell asleep again but never did. And there were times in that several weeks that Dylan appeared unusually hyper and full of energy. – Jeff Marquardt (000988)

There is good evidence that St. John’s Wort may reduce symptoms in people with mild-to-moderate but not severe (or major) depression.

When art finds truth Real story of Columbine is told as survivors’ views unfold onstage — and in audience

Opening of Columbinus

“This production is the real truth of Columbine,” Brown said the morning after the show. “We have never stopped wanting the complete truth of what happened. There is something to be learned. Eric and Dylan were not crazy. Crazy is easy. They did the things they did because they had the motivations to do them.”

Chicago Tribune A & E – Feb 8, 2013

EBay Pulls Listing for Columbine Gunman’s Car – March 8, 2006

A 1982 BMW advertised as once belonging to one of the gunmen in the Columbine High School killings was pulled from an online auction, a spokesman for eBay said.

“If the owner wanted to sell this car, there’s nothing stopping them from doing so," eBay spokesman Hani Durzy told the Rocky Mountain News. "They just can’t market it as being owned by Dylan Klebold.”

Durzy, citing privacy reasons, would not say whether the San Jose, Calif.-based eBay would apply any sanctions to the prospective seller, whose handle is “isubars.”

“The car was bought without knowing who previously owned it,” the seller said on the site. “Once I found out it was Klebold’s I put it up here.”

Bidding on the black 320i, which has 144,000 miles, reached at least $1,825 before it was pulled Monday. The seller did not respond to an e-mail request for an interview.

Investigators returned the car to Klebold’s family Aug. 2, 2000, once it had “no remaining value” to investigators, said Jefferson County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jacki Kelley.

A police report shows investigators seized Klebold’s car after Klebold and Eric Harris shot 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves April 20, 1999. Among the items inside the car were two 20-pound propane tanks and seven pipe bombs.

The vehicle identification number for the BMW listed on eBay matches the number on a police report, the newspaper reported.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187206,00.html

“Do you feel any anger towards Eric and Dylan now?”

Devon Adams, who had been a close friend of the two: “This is kind of a tough question for me. I was very good friends a long time ago with Dylan. A long time ago. And I was also friends with Eric my freshman year until I got scared of him. He threatened my life, and I pretty much said, no thanks, you leave now, I don’t like you.

Prom night, I danced with Dylan because he was one of my best friends. He had been my confidant. I wanted to tell him how much he meant to me, and I said, no, there’s tomorrow. And I never told him. And then he was gone and he took all these people with him, including two of my friends. And, every time I think about him and Eric I just… it makes me so mad, it just sickens me, that they would have ever done that. I wish we could go back to before it all happened. And I wish I could have done some things differently.” (May 9, 2005)

Credit: ColumbineConfessions

Source: It Still Hurts: For Columbine Students, the struggle isn’t Over.

It doesn’t matter anymore anyway.

A few weeks before the shooting, Dylan got sent to Richard Long for swearing at the librarian, Peggy Dodd.  Dylan used more than 10 pages for printing per their policy and so Peggy Dodd tried to get him to pay. Dylan replied by calling her a “Bitch.”  He was then sent to Richard Long. When Richard Long asked Dylan what happened, Dylan replied “Well, that Bitch…” Long stopped him there and told him he was banned from the computers for good, and he laughed at him and said something to the effect of: “You know what? It doesn’t matter anymore anyway.” 

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.

Susan Klebold (via columbineintrest)

He was very malleable; you’d reason with him and say, ‘This is why I think you should do something’, and you could almost always persuade him to change his mind. Which I used to see as a strength, from the perspective of a parent. But I see now that it might have been a terrible detriment.

Sue Klebold on her son Dylan Klebold. (via columbine-massacre)