Quirks: The idiosyncrasies of DBK
Trenchcoat
Judy Brown, mother of Brooks Brown, recalling an incident that happened four months before the massacre when Dylan was dining at a restaurant with his mother, Sue. Dylan had on his coat and those glasses and as Sue looked around the restaurant she thought people were uncomfortable and afraid of him. Then she said, ‘Dylan, people are afraid of you with that on. You need to take it off.’ And he just smile at her. I think when he got this coat, it was the first time he ever felt power in his life.
Even though his fashion sense and temperament had changed, Dylan remained polite. It was as if he was uncomfortable with his new image. When he showed up at the Hecklers’ in the trench coat, he’d always leave it in his car before coming in the house. Heckler said that, for some time, he had noticed that Dylan Klebold was becoming different.
“We watched the change in Dylan,” (Mark Heckler) he said. “He came around less and less.” And yet: “When he came to visit us, he’d take the trench coat off and leave it in the car.” It was almost as though a persona went along with the trench coats, one that was more apparent in school, where other students said Klebold and Harris wore the distinctive garb no matter what the weather.











