On this episode of The Sofa King Podcast, we talk about some true crime and look at the most influential mass shooting in American history, the tragedy at Columbine. On April 20, 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School and shot and killed 13 people. Rumors spread in the media that it was caused by a great many things, but it turns out that much of the story we’re fed is pretty far from the truth.

Harris and Klebold were pretty bad eggs long before the shooting. They were often on the wrong side of the law, breaking into vans and posting death threats on their AOL web page. The threats were investigated, but the paperwork was never filed, so no judge ever issued a search warrant for their home. If they had, the police would have been shocked. They’d have found plans for several types of bombs, 99 explosive devices, and a small arsenal of guns (most of which were obtained illegally). However, this was pre 9-11, and, well pre-Columbine, so nobody took it too seriously.

However, on the morning of the attack, the two tried to execute a yearlong plan. The plan wasn’t just to shoot up the school. It was to set a series of explosions that would lure away the first responders, kill hundreds of students, and force the survivors to flee through exits that would then be fired upon, killing almost everyone in the school. Once this was done, car bombs were to detonate, killing cops, fire fighters, and reporters. But, the bombs mostly failed, so it ended up being a shooting frenzy instead.

The details of their shooting spree are horribly detailed, and we cover a lot of them in our talk on Columbine. Who did they kill? Who did they let live? What did the FBI profilers think was the cause of the rampage? How did the two shooters die? Where did they get the guns? Is this a false flag event? Were they in the Trenchcoat Mafia? Listen, laugh, learn.

Thorough article on the killers: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2004/04/the_depressive_and_the_psychopath.html

Article about Two Columbine Survivors: https://www.glamour.com/story/two-columbine-survivors-on-life-after-a-mass-shooting-and-the-columbine-generation