re: #114 teleskiguy

The supposed martyrdom of Cassie Bernall. Yeah, I remember that. The killers did ask a gal if she believed in God. She survived. Cassie didn’t say anything when she died, the last words she heard were “Pee-A-Boo,” uttered by her murderer.

I was a junior in high school when that happened, Columbine was a two hour drive away. I was going steady with a gal who had just moved up to the mountains the year before, she went to Columbine before she moved. So it hit home, it really scared me when that happened.

Cullen’s book was a sort of catharsis for me. It took him ten years to write that book and he went through all sorts of bad mental health problems in the process (he says the hardest part of the book to write was Dave Saunders’ passing, the only teacher killed). It’s the definitive work that lays it all out.

What everyone wanted to know was “Why?” and “Columbine” by Dave Cullen tells you.

It’s definitely an interesting book and covers a lot: inept policing and the department’s cover up after the fact, the media which got pretty much everything wrong, etc.