Jul 6, 2006 7:05 pm US/Central
Columbine Killers' Journals, Writings Released
Golden, Colo. (AP) ―
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Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris (File)
CBS
Authorities on Thursday released more than 930 pages of documents seized from the homes and cars of the two teens who slaughtered 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School, including hate-filled diaries.
The documents released by the Jefferson County sheriff include messages that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold wrote in each other's yearbooks and a journal kept by Harris' father, Wayne Harris.
Sheriff Ted Mink decided against releasing videotapes the gunmen made out of concern they would encourage copycat attacks.
Documents already released from the two teenagers' belongings have been jarring -- a school paper by Harris on Nazism is next to an essay he wrote for a court-ordered anger management class he attended after he and Klebold were convicted of breaking into a van in 1998.
"I believe the most valuable part of this class was thinking up ideas for ways to control anger and for ways to release stress in a non-violent manner," he wrote.
In another school paper, he discussed a newspaper editorial about death and muses: "I think that more Americans need to discuss death with their families and with their doctors. It is a fact of life ... ."
The Denver Post sued to force the release of the release of the documents. The Colorado Supreme Court left the decision up to the sheriff's office, and the Harris and Klebold families did not challenge the decision.
Harris and Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher before taking their own lives on April 20, 1999. It remains the deadliest school attack in U.S. history.
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