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In reply to the discussion: Adam Lanza was crazy. Nancy Lanza was crazy. [View all]boonergang
(5 posts)I am glad I found this group. This case has been troubling me substantially. The day before the shootings I logged into Suicide Forum late at night. I know the precise day because my friend and neighbor's funeral was the day of the Sandy Hook shooting. I often greeted new members and visitors there as I had begun to recover and was trying to help other people in crisis. I remember a very hostile young man with an odd mishmosh screenname. At first he said , he was distraught and going to kill himself. This is common on the forum, so I tried to probe what was troubling him. He said that his mother was away, but when she got back she was going to institutionalize him. I found this odd that she would leave a disturbed, suicidal son home alone brooding about his upcoming hospitalization. At first I tried to offer comfort that it would only be temporary, but he insisted she was putting him away. Then he said something odd and chilling. He said his suicide would make the news. At the time, there were two people logged into the Triggering room to the best of my recollection.. One was an SF moderator. This hostile newcomer called me old and stupid and discounted my attempts at kindness. Then, he private messaged me. I assumed he was going to apologize. Instead he insulted me further. Then the newcomer and the SF moderator started chatting about Bestgore.com. My curiosity got the best of me and i clicked the link to find a cover photo of a naked Asian woman roasting on a spit. At that point I logged out as I clearly wasn't going to get any support there for my grief over the next day's funeral.
I honestly didn't make the connection until I read a National Enquirer article that stated that Adam Lanza had visited suicide chatrooms. At this point I called the FBI . The fellow who answered the phone and took the report didn't know who Adam Lanza was, but I gave him my information, nonetheless. When I suggested to the Suicide Forum moderators that Adam Lanza had been there, they banned me. A few days later, the moderator, Brandon Scweiger aka Cult Logic pm'd me on facebook saying that people at the forum hoped i would kill myself and would celebrate my death. At this point, I called the Connecticut State police and gave one of the detctives my information. I was called subsequently by another Connecticut detective and tried to recall the conversation to the best of my memory. I hope I was helpful in some way. The whole experience has been deeply disturbing.
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