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Columbine killer's mom: 'No inkling' son suicidal
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 10 - 10 - 2009


The mother of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold
says she has been studying suicide in the decade since the
high school massacre but had no idea her son was suicidal
until she read his journals after his death, according to AP.
Susan Klebold's essay in next month's issue of O, The
Oprah Magazine, is the most detailed response yet from any
of the parents of Columbine killers Dylan Klebold or Eric
Harris. The teenagers killed 12 students and a teacher in
the 1999 shooting rampage at Columbine High School in
suburban Denver. Twenty-one people were injured before
Klebold and Harris killed themselves.
The parents have repeatedly declined to talk about the
massacre. They gave depositions in a lawsuit filed by
families of the victims, but a judge in 2007 sealed them
for 20 years after the lawsuit was settled out of court.
In her essay, Susan Klebold wrote that she didn't know her
son was so disturbed.
«Dylan's participation in the massacre was impossible for
me to accept until I began to connect it to his own
death,» she wrote in excerpts released by the magazine
ahead of Tuesday's publication. «Once I saw his journals,
it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the
intention of dying there. And so in order to understand
what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I
could about suicide.»
In a statement with the essay, Oprah Winfrey wrote that
Susan Klebold has turned down repeated interview requests
but finally agreed to write an essay for O. A spokeswoman
for the magazine said there were no plans for Susan Klebold
to appear on Winfrey's television talk show, and a
spokeswoman for the Klebold family said there would be no
further statements.
Susan Klebold said her son left early for school on the
day of the shootings.
«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 said she had «no inkling» how sick her son
was.
«From the writings Dylan left behind, criminal
psychologists have concluded that he was depressed and
suicidal. When I first saw copied pages of these writings,
they broke my heart. I'd had no inkling of the battle Dylan
was waging in his mind.»
Susan Klebold said she is still struggling to make sense
of what happened.
«For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror
and anguish Dylan caused,» she wrote. «I cannot look at a
child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking
about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of
their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about
myself, about God, about family, and about love.»


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