A rehash of an old post with some info from the new 10K
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who are the splatter punks
how did they get their name
did they go to columbine high school and if so when
if they went to CHS, then what was their reputation like
what is their claim to fame
what type of clothing did they typically wear
what is their role in this investigation
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eanelson2000
1. Believed to be associates of Harris.
2. Believed to be so named, because they like scary movies. I think it was at least adopted by them as their own moniker, if not made up by them.
3. Their dress varied, but on the day of the Columbine shooting they were wearing Camo and chilling out in a nearby field, when John Law came to ask them questions.
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starviego
1) Who are the SPs? They are Matt Nalty(7543), Matt Akard, and Jim Brunetti(7434). Early reports had one of the SPs being identified as "Matt Christianson" (instead of Matt Nalty, I believe). Neither Christianson(if there is such a person) nor Akard has an interview in the 11K(please correct me if I'm wrong).
3) Did they go to CHS and. if so, when? That's a good question. Nalty admits he used to live in the area eight years before, he is named on a list of H&K associates(9798 ) , and he had no trouble finding CHS or a place to park when he drove himself and his cohorts to the scene from Broomfield, across town. In addition, according to
--JCSO Schweitermann, the SPs were pointed out to him by students being evacuated from the school, saying they were either the suspects or friends of the suspects(8096).
And for what it's worth, CHS student
--Sarah Roasberry(4210) saw three 'subjects' in the main hall of CHS at 7:30am, wearing camoflage clothes. So just maybe they were familiar with CHS and CHS was familiar with them.
5) What is their claim to fame? Getting arrested on national TV, probably around 2pm. At least some early media accounts and many eyewitness statments had the shooters wearing black jackets and (especially) cami pants, exactly what the SPs were wearing. And according the
--Sheriff John Stone, "they heard it on the radio....well, it wasn't on the radio at that time" which, if true, means they lied to the cops about what they were doing there. No wonder he called them 'his best leads'. Their alibis are kind of shaky, they either rely on themselves or close family members-which is a pattern among many of the TCM.
Even if they didn't fire any weapons, it looks as though they may have had foreknowledge. According to onlooker
--Cork Chicota(7462), the three approached him in Clement Park and told him they had friends at CHS and wanted to help them. Mr. Chicota got the impression, after a few minutes, that the 'friends' they were referring to were the perpetrators, not the victims. One of them said the shooters were doing it to 'get even'(now where have I heard that before?). Oddly enough, he says this happened around noon, when he saw them exit their car, approach him, and shortly thereafter get arrested. If true, this would explain Sheriff Stone's remarks.
But was there more to it than even that?
--"Investigator Eaton(Duane Eaton, Arvada PD)* advised Nalty that he had received NUMEROUS(emphasis mine) tips that Nalty, Brunetti, and Akard were claiming to be members of the "trench coat mafia" and planning to cause the same type of incident which had occurred at Columbine High School at Pomona High School."(pg 7549)
Those are leads I'd like to see, that is the only reference to these 'tips' in the 11K(7543). Elsewhere(7434) it says the SPs have "numerous friends at Arvada Senior High and often socialize in the area of Arvada Senior High School", although they told Mr. Chicota they attended Wheat Ridge High School.
For whatever reason they were released fairly quickly, it seems.
--Matt Lohrenz(1505) says he saw them walking near the Public Library, "looking at the people and grinning."(he recognized one of them when they appeared on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show 10 days later)
--Johnathan McMaster(3721) says one of his friends(Tindall) saw them walk past his house talking on cell phones(one IDed as Redacted, oddly enough).
*Interestingly, he was assigned this lead by an FBI man, not a JeffCo man.
--Ken Greenwalt(748 ) is a security guard at the Swedish Medical Center. He saw the 3 SPs exit their vehicle. Columbine was already on the news at the time, and he sees them being arrested on TV(unfortunately he does not give a time). Later, he sees them reenter vehicle and
"raise their fists in the air and wave them towards the school, as if they were happy about what happened."
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jane
I ran across the splatter punks interview from the Sally show on a video I have and transcribed it. I believe it's about 98% of the interview. The video it came from is worth looking into. It's called "An American Tragedy - The Littleton Masacre".
The splatter punks were wearing dark pants, white t-shirts and black waist length jackets at the time of their arrests. One of them was wearing black suspenders. In the interview they had an assortment of clothing items on nothing like what they were wearing the day of the shooting. This is all on the above mentioned tape. The splatter punks are: Matt Nalty, Jim Brunetti and Matt Ackert. Here is the interview:
Splatter Punks interview/Sally Jesse Raphael
Sally: And the people ask who else is responsible besides Dylan and Eric. Minutes after the shooting the police along with the swat team thought they had an answer didnt they, And what was the answer? The answer might have been Matt Nalte, Jim and Matt Ackert. They were detained, searched and questioned. Tell me about it.Tell me what happened.
Matt N: Well we started going down to, er we heard on the radio and
Sally: You were in a car?
Matt N: Yea we were driving around and decided to go down there and see what was going on. Kinda got us a bit curious. And we got down there and we started walking around a path that was going around the lake. There were people you know with baby strollers and kids you know roller blading and what not and so we thought we were fine. And we take about 10 steps off the path to go talk to a cop at the top of the hill to find out if we can get any more information and all of a sudden we hear sirens and theres 3 cop cars behind us with their guns pointed at us telling us to put our hands behind out head. We start doing everything they tell us to do then and get down on our knees and
Sally: Whats going through your head?
Matt N: Scary. Pure fear.
Sally: Allright so you do everything they tell you to do.
Matt N: As we were getting down on our knees we see a golf cart coming up from the other side of the hill with about 7 swat team members all of em carrying M-16s and assault shot guns and they come up and they have all those pointed at our heads and theyre still telling us what to do. They laid us flat down on the ground and started searching us and emptied our pockets and scattered it all over the field.
Sally: And you dont know what this is all about. Put yourself in that position. You dont know what this is all about. Now its retrospect. It was your own clothing that made them think you might be involved. Why?
Jim: inaudible.
Sally: Because you looked different?
Jim: Yea and they hand cuffed us.
Sally: They handcuffed you? For how long?
Jim: Yea they were dragging us around by the chains on our necks and stuff like that. They detained us for about an hour and questioned us on like if we knew the trench coat mafia and stuff like that. I mean we had never heard of them before that day.
Sally: What an experience. Now lets talk about the aftermath of that experience. Youve had death threats?
Matt A: I have.
Jim: So have I.
Matt A: People seem to think we had something to do with it just because they saw us on TV. Um
Sally: In other words its just like in the newspaper. If somebody accuses you of something and then they retract it, the retractions on page 31 but the headline was on page 1.
Jim: Then it must be true what the press says and the press screwed up a lot with ours.
Sally: How did the press screw up?
Jim: um
Matt A: They said we were friends with these people that we hung out a lot that we talked over the Internet with them.
Sally: Were you friends? Did you talk.. Were you friends?
Matt A: No
Sally: Did you know them?
Matt A: No.
Sally: Did you know how they dressed?
All three in unison: No.
Matt A: We had no clue who they were. I mean we would not know anything about them.
Sally: So whats it like to have the nation watching you?
Matt A: Ah kinda scared. Kinda scary. I mean everywhere I go Im like looking around cause Ive..
Sally: Do you think that in anyway youre like Eric and Dylan?
Matt and Jim: No
Sally: Is that things that..Do you think about those things?
Matt A and Jim: No
Matt N: We dont go out and think about shooting people we dont condone violence at all. Its not at all a way of life.
Sally: Let me talk to Jim. Jim when we were interviewing you, you said some really interesting things to our producer. You have been pushed around and made fun of.
Jim: Oh yea. All throughout high school, um, even before then, because I was into this kind of stuff. I went through my gothic phase and I was a punk before that and went back to punk. And, um. I got pushed around in school by a lot of like, I dont know if they were athletic or not but they werent like real nice kids. They would just like start pushing you around, push you into pop machines and try to throw you in trash cans. Like a big group of them.
Matt A: Jim and I went to school together and the only way we could keep from getting beat up or getting in a lot of trouble or anything was to stick together.
Sally: I have to ask this question. Why do you dress this way?
Matt A: Um, Its comfortable and the fact that..
Sally: Now wait. Its comfortable to have a chain around your neck and your hair out to here like that..
Matt A: These chains actually weigh less than a pound and
they probably weigh a few ozs.
Sally: Now I dont take that you dress this way cause its comfortable.
Matt A: Actually the jeans you wear those pants you wear. Its like its those pants when you get off work and you go home and you want to change into something comfortable you know that you dont have to worry about anything Thats what we want to wear. Something that we dont have to like worry about.
Jim: That and its also about expression.
Sally: Ah Ha! Im not buying the its comfortable. Im buying its a quote by you (Jim) Its a free country. We can dress how we want. Im buying that. Why are you here today? What do you want to say?
Matt N: I want to say first off that we had no part in this at all.
Sally: Somebody lost their job over this right?
Matt N: I did
Sally: Say what your going to say. I didnt mean to interrupt.
Matt N: We had no part in this at all. We want society to know just because we look different, we act different, we think a bit different than what normal society does. Not all of us are like what Eric and Dylan are. We dont want to go out and do what they did. We dont believe anything like that.
Sally:Well be right back
[The link to the video is www.aegvideos.com/littleton.html]
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starviego
brother's interview on pg7425--Matt Akard's interview itself is MISSING). Also, do any of the SPs have noticeably bad teeth on the video? According to Mr. Chicota's interview(see above) "the tall splatter punk with bad teeth said he used to go to Columbine High School."
From the SJR transcript it sounds as though the SPs had no connection to CHS whatsoever.
Yet
-- "Chicota advised Investigator Eaton that the three males told him that they communicate with their friends(the ones they came to help) often and knew that something bad was going to happen at Columbine High School....."
And
--Nalty told officers that they had 'friends'(7544) or 'casual acquaintances' (7549) at CHS. Too bad they were never pressed to come up with actual names.
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jane
Matt Akard does have visable bad teeth in the Sally interview. He also states that he went to school with Jim Brunetti, but doesn't say what school.
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starviego
Akard is the one with bad teeth who then claimed to have gone to CHS? That's weird--I though for sure it was Nalty-the one who used to live in the area and who admitted to having friends at CHS.
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(9798 )
--Matt Nalty listed along with others on a list of TCMers described as 'associates' of H&K; list compiled 4-21-99.
(17327)
--"Akard was allegedly present outside the school(CHS) prior to the shooting."
(17328 )
--Matt Akard is a Pomona H.S. student--wears trenchcoat to school.
(17824)
--"West Metro Fire Investigator Dave Green advised Pomona High School students (Redacted) and (Redacted) arrested on 4-17-99 with explosive. Also within past month (Redacted) contacted in early am hours at Pomona High School in fatigues. Claimed to be on maneuvers....... There is no connection with this investigation."
Comment: Let's see now, who probably goes to Pomona H.S. and likes to wear fatigues? Oh yeah, it's the Splatter Punks!! One or more of them is arrested three days before the attack with bombs and then they show up outside Columbine on 4-20, and it's all just coincidence!!
[Note: Pomona HS was evacuated on 4-21 or 4-27 because of a phony bomb threat; no bombs found (Emergency Net News)]
(17864)
--According to an unnamed listiner of KOA radio, library witness Brian Anderson was interviewed and said the splatter punks were involved with the delivery of pipe bombs.
(18007)
--SPs seen getting out of white Ford after CHS already on TV
Cork Chicota(18274)
--"...they said they knew these guys(suspects) and knew this was going to happen because they talk to each other on the internet all the time. They also advised the suspects were very angry at students because of the way they treated them.
Chicota(19307)
--Saw the SPs in Clement at noon.
(FBI Report, 1666)
--"Christianson..... said he once lived across the street from Columbine."
(Matt Christianson I'Ded as Matt Nalty since his appearance on Sally Jesse Raphael Show)
(13394(seven notebooks))
Matt Nalty wrote in student's yearbook at Stanley Lake H.S. "death is coming for you."
(13447)
Parent (who worked at the John Elway auto dealership) of an SP and '97 CHS grad was told by his son that "he had been invited to the school to witness something big by either Harris or Klebold." Parent later says it was all a big mistake, though he says son was TCM associate.
(13511) Paintball store employee in Englewood CO says H&K and 2-3 others came into his store 1-2 weeks before 4-20. Others were possibly the splatter punks seen in Clement Park.
(13626)
Matt Akard is "good with swords". A Pomona HS student says Akard talked of "blowing up jocks and shooting 'em", and "how to make bombs."(Sept-Oct '98 ) . Akard kicked out of school.
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who are the splatter punks
how did they get their name
did they go to columbine high school and if so when
if they went to CHS, then what was their reputation like
what is their claim to fame
what type of clothing did they typically wear
what is their role in this investigation
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eanelson2000
1. Believed to be associates of Harris.
2. Believed to be so named, because they like scary movies. I think it was at least adopted by them as their own moniker, if not made up by them.
3. Their dress varied, but on the day of the Columbine shooting they were wearing Camo and chilling out in a nearby field, when John Law came to ask them questions.
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starviego
1) Who are the SPs? They are Matt Nalty(7543), Matt Akard, and Jim Brunetti(7434). Early reports had one of the SPs being identified as "Matt Christianson" (instead of Matt Nalty, I believe). Neither Christianson(if there is such a person) nor Akard has an interview in the 11K(please correct me if I'm wrong).
3) Did they go to CHS and. if so, when? That's a good question. Nalty admits he used to live in the area eight years before, he is named on a list of H&K associates(9798 ) , and he had no trouble finding CHS or a place to park when he drove himself and his cohorts to the scene from Broomfield, across town. In addition, according to
--JCSO Schweitermann, the SPs were pointed out to him by students being evacuated from the school, saying they were either the suspects or friends of the suspects(8096).
And for what it's worth, CHS student
--Sarah Roasberry(4210) saw three 'subjects' in the main hall of CHS at 7:30am, wearing camoflage clothes. So just maybe they were familiar with CHS and CHS was familiar with them.
5) What is their claim to fame? Getting arrested on national TV, probably around 2pm. At least some early media accounts and many eyewitness statments had the shooters wearing black jackets and (especially) cami pants, exactly what the SPs were wearing. And according the
--Sheriff John Stone, "they heard it on the radio....well, it wasn't on the radio at that time" which, if true, means they lied to the cops about what they were doing there. No wonder he called them 'his best leads'. Their alibis are kind of shaky, they either rely on themselves or close family members-which is a pattern among many of the TCM.
Even if they didn't fire any weapons, it looks as though they may have had foreknowledge. According to onlooker
--Cork Chicota(7462), the three approached him in Clement Park and told him they had friends at CHS and wanted to help them. Mr. Chicota got the impression, after a few minutes, that the 'friends' they were referring to were the perpetrators, not the victims. One of them said the shooters were doing it to 'get even'(now where have I heard that before?). Oddly enough, he says this happened around noon, when he saw them exit their car, approach him, and shortly thereafter get arrested. If true, this would explain Sheriff Stone's remarks.
But was there more to it than even that?
--"Investigator Eaton(Duane Eaton, Arvada PD)* advised Nalty that he had received NUMEROUS(emphasis mine) tips that Nalty, Brunetti, and Akard were claiming to be members of the "trench coat mafia" and planning to cause the same type of incident which had occurred at Columbine High School at Pomona High School."(pg 7549)
Those are leads I'd like to see, that is the only reference to these 'tips' in the 11K(7543). Elsewhere(7434) it says the SPs have "numerous friends at Arvada Senior High and often socialize in the area of Arvada Senior High School", although they told Mr. Chicota they attended Wheat Ridge High School.
For whatever reason they were released fairly quickly, it seems.
--Matt Lohrenz(1505) says he saw them walking near the Public Library, "looking at the people and grinning."(he recognized one of them when they appeared on the Sally Jesse Raphael Show 10 days later)
--Johnathan McMaster(3721) says one of his friends(Tindall) saw them walk past his house talking on cell phones(one IDed as Redacted, oddly enough).
*Interestingly, he was assigned this lead by an FBI man, not a JeffCo man.
--Ken Greenwalt(748 ) is a security guard at the Swedish Medical Center. He saw the 3 SPs exit their vehicle. Columbine was already on the news at the time, and he sees them being arrested on TV(unfortunately he does not give a time). Later, he sees them reenter vehicle and
"raise their fists in the air and wave them towards the school, as if they were happy about what happened."
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jane
I ran across the splatter punks interview from the Sally show on a video I have and transcribed it. I believe it's about 98% of the interview. The video it came from is worth looking into. It's called "An American Tragedy - The Littleton Masacre".
The splatter punks were wearing dark pants, white t-shirts and black waist length jackets at the time of their arrests. One of them was wearing black suspenders. In the interview they had an assortment of clothing items on nothing like what they were wearing the day of the shooting. This is all on the above mentioned tape. The splatter punks are: Matt Nalty, Jim Brunetti and Matt Ackert. Here is the interview:
Splatter Punks interview/Sally Jesse Raphael
Sally: And the people ask who else is responsible besides Dylan and Eric. Minutes after the shooting the police along with the swat team thought they had an answer didnt they, And what was the answer? The answer might have been Matt Nalte, Jim and Matt Ackert. They were detained, searched and questioned. Tell me about it.Tell me what happened.
Matt N: Well we started going down to, er we heard on the radio and
Sally: You were in a car?
Matt N: Yea we were driving around and decided to go down there and see what was going on. Kinda got us a bit curious. And we got down there and we started walking around a path that was going around the lake. There were people you know with baby strollers and kids you know roller blading and what not and so we thought we were fine. And we take about 10 steps off the path to go talk to a cop at the top of the hill to find out if we can get any more information and all of a sudden we hear sirens and theres 3 cop cars behind us with their guns pointed at us telling us to put our hands behind out head. We start doing everything they tell us to do then and get down on our knees and
Sally: Whats going through your head?
Matt N: Scary. Pure fear.
Sally: Allright so you do everything they tell you to do.
Matt N: As we were getting down on our knees we see a golf cart coming up from the other side of the hill with about 7 swat team members all of em carrying M-16s and assault shot guns and they come up and they have all those pointed at our heads and theyre still telling us what to do. They laid us flat down on the ground and started searching us and emptied our pockets and scattered it all over the field.
Sally: And you dont know what this is all about. Put yourself in that position. You dont know what this is all about. Now its retrospect. It was your own clothing that made them think you might be involved. Why?
Jim: inaudible.
Sally: Because you looked different?
Jim: Yea and they hand cuffed us.
Sally: They handcuffed you? For how long?
Jim: Yea they were dragging us around by the chains on our necks and stuff like that. They detained us for about an hour and questioned us on like if we knew the trench coat mafia and stuff like that. I mean we had never heard of them before that day.
Sally: What an experience. Now lets talk about the aftermath of that experience. Youve had death threats?
Matt A: I have.
Jim: So have I.
Matt A: People seem to think we had something to do with it just because they saw us on TV. Um
Sally: In other words its just like in the newspaper. If somebody accuses you of something and then they retract it, the retractions on page 31 but the headline was on page 1.
Jim: Then it must be true what the press says and the press screwed up a lot with ours.
Sally: How did the press screw up?
Jim: um
Matt A: They said we were friends with these people that we hung out a lot that we talked over the Internet with them.
Sally: Were you friends? Did you talk.. Were you friends?
Matt A: No
Sally: Did you know them?
Matt A: No.
Sally: Did you know how they dressed?
All three in unison: No.
Matt A: We had no clue who they were. I mean we would not know anything about them.
Sally: So whats it like to have the nation watching you?
Matt A: Ah kinda scared. Kinda scary. I mean everywhere I go Im like looking around cause Ive..
Sally: Do you think that in anyway youre like Eric and Dylan?
Matt and Jim: No
Sally: Is that things that..Do you think about those things?
Matt A and Jim: No
Matt N: We dont go out and think about shooting people we dont condone violence at all. Its not at all a way of life.
Sally: Let me talk to Jim. Jim when we were interviewing you, you said some really interesting things to our producer. You have been pushed around and made fun of.
Jim: Oh yea. All throughout high school, um, even before then, because I was into this kind of stuff. I went through my gothic phase and I was a punk before that and went back to punk. And, um. I got pushed around in school by a lot of like, I dont know if they were athletic or not but they werent like real nice kids. They would just like start pushing you around, push you into pop machines and try to throw you in trash cans. Like a big group of them.
Matt A: Jim and I went to school together and the only way we could keep from getting beat up or getting in a lot of trouble or anything was to stick together.
Sally: I have to ask this question. Why do you dress this way?
Matt A: Um, Its comfortable and the fact that..
Sally: Now wait. Its comfortable to have a chain around your neck and your hair out to here like that..
Matt A: These chains actually weigh less than a pound and
they probably weigh a few ozs.
Sally: Now I dont take that you dress this way cause its comfortable.
Matt A: Actually the jeans you wear those pants you wear. Its like its those pants when you get off work and you go home and you want to change into something comfortable you know that you dont have to worry about anything Thats what we want to wear. Something that we dont have to like worry about.
Jim: That and its also about expression.
Sally: Ah Ha! Im not buying the its comfortable. Im buying its a quote by you (Jim) Its a free country. We can dress how we want. Im buying that. Why are you here today? What do you want to say?
Matt N: I want to say first off that we had no part in this at all.
Sally: Somebody lost their job over this right?
Matt N: I did
Sally: Say what your going to say. I didnt mean to interrupt.
Matt N: We had no part in this at all. We want society to know just because we look different, we act different, we think a bit different than what normal society does. Not all of us are like what Eric and Dylan are. We dont want to go out and do what they did. We dont believe anything like that.
Sally:Well be right back
[The link to the video is www.aegvideos.com/littleton.html]
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starviego
brother's interview on pg7425--Matt Akard's interview itself is MISSING). Also, do any of the SPs have noticeably bad teeth on the video? According to Mr. Chicota's interview(see above) "the tall splatter punk with bad teeth said he used to go to Columbine High School."
From the SJR transcript it sounds as though the SPs had no connection to CHS whatsoever.
Yet
-- "Chicota advised Investigator Eaton that the three males told him that they communicate with their friends(the ones they came to help) often and knew that something bad was going to happen at Columbine High School....."
And
--Nalty told officers that they had 'friends'(7544) or 'casual acquaintances' (7549) at CHS. Too bad they were never pressed to come up with actual names.
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jane
Matt Akard does have visable bad teeth in the Sally interview. He also states that he went to school with Jim Brunetti, but doesn't say what school.
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starviego
Akard is the one with bad teeth who then claimed to have gone to CHS? That's weird--I though for sure it was Nalty-the one who used to live in the area and who admitted to having friends at CHS.
====================
(9798 )
--Matt Nalty listed along with others on a list of TCMers described as 'associates' of H&K; list compiled 4-21-99.
(17327)
--"Akard was allegedly present outside the school(CHS) prior to the shooting."
(17328 )
--Matt Akard is a Pomona H.S. student--wears trenchcoat to school.
(17824)
--"West Metro Fire Investigator Dave Green advised Pomona High School students (Redacted) and (Redacted) arrested on 4-17-99 with explosive. Also within past month (Redacted) contacted in early am hours at Pomona High School in fatigues. Claimed to be on maneuvers....... There is no connection with this investigation."
Comment: Let's see now, who probably goes to Pomona H.S. and likes to wear fatigues? Oh yeah, it's the Splatter Punks!! One or more of them is arrested three days before the attack with bombs and then they show up outside Columbine on 4-20, and it's all just coincidence!!
[Note: Pomona HS was evacuated on 4-21 or 4-27 because of a phony bomb threat; no bombs found (Emergency Net News)]
(17864)
--According to an unnamed listiner of KOA radio, library witness Brian Anderson was interviewed and said the splatter punks were involved with the delivery of pipe bombs.
(18007)
--SPs seen getting out of white Ford after CHS already on TV
Cork Chicota(18274)
--"...they said they knew these guys(suspects) and knew this was going to happen because they talk to each other on the internet all the time. They also advised the suspects were very angry at students because of the way they treated them.
Chicota(19307)
--Saw the SPs in Clement at noon.
(FBI Report, 1666)
--"Christianson..... said he once lived across the street from Columbine."
(Matt Christianson I'Ded as Matt Nalty since his appearance on Sally Jesse Raphael Show)
(13394(seven notebooks))
Matt Nalty wrote in student's yearbook at Stanley Lake H.S. "death is coming for you."
(13447)
Parent (who worked at the John Elway auto dealership) of an SP and '97 CHS grad was told by his son that "he had been invited to the school to witness something big by either Harris or Klebold." Parent later says it was all a big mistake, though he says son was TCM associate.
(13511) Paintball store employee in Englewood CO says H&K and 2-3 others came into his store 1-2 weeks before 4-20. Others were possibly the splatter punks seen in Clement Park.
(13626)
Matt Akard is "good with swords". A Pomona HS student says Akard talked of "blowing up jocks and shooting 'em", and "how to make bombs."(Sept-Oct '98 ) . Akard kicked out of school.
