Whatever happened to Klebod and Harris' parents?

[Anonymous]

Did the Harris family ever speak publicly, interview or otherwise?

[Anonymous]

In an interview on FA recently, the author of 'Far from the Tree' (which a PP mentioned), talks about his interviews with Dylan Klebold's parents. I feel very sorry for them. The link to the audio is at this page, beginning at 27:58:

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/12/164958401/parenting-a-child-whos-fallen-far-from-the-tree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here it is

http://www.oprah.com/world/Susan-Klebolds-O-Magazine-Essay-I-Will-Never-Know-Why

She's the one that went to get her hair done the next day or two days later.

Seriously? Fuck her.

You know what, you cannot possibly know what you would do under extraordinary circumstances. Stop condemning until you have taken one step in her shoes. I am so tored of people blaming parents for heinous crimes committed by their adult children. My BIL was murdered but wben his parents reached out to my family, we didn't slam the door on their face. Their lives had been devastated, as well. Also, FWIW, my sister and I bothhad our hair done the day before his funeral.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here it is

http://www.oprah.com/world/Susan-Klebolds-O-Magazine-Essay-I-Will-Never-Know-Why

She's the one that went to get her hair done the next day or two days later.

Seriously? Fuck her.

You know what, you cannot possibly know what you would do under extraordinary circumstances. Stop condemning until you have taken one step in her shoes. I am so tored of people blaming parents for heinous crimes committed by their adult children. My BIL was murdered but wben his parents reached out to my family, we didn't slam the door on their face. Their lives had been devastated, as well. Also, FWIW, my sister and I bothhad our hair done the day before his funeral.

Some people are in shock and deal by just going through the motions and doing their normal routine.

[Anonymous]

Mrs. Klebold is on 20/20 right now, Ch 7.

[Anonymous]

She says it was a huge mistake that she didn't keeping searching is bedroom, and instead allowed him his privacy.

[Anonymous]

Hated school, falling grades, got arrested with bad influence of a friend, got expelled from school for hacking into the school computer, wrote a "disturbing" story in English class about a dark figure killing 9 students....sulky, secretive, spending time either in his room or out with friends even after all the trouble he had already gotten into.

This kid was a tragedy waiting to happen. No, this was not normal teen behavior. At all.

I feel sorry for his parents but I get the impression that they really didn't want to know...like if they looked the other way things would get better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I think I remember reading that, actually, now that I've just (re?) read it. What I remember is feeling dissatisfied. It doesn't actually say anything except I had no idea. She writes of some vignettes - holding his face in her hands, talking to him about how much he is loved. But can you really really miss 2+ years of depression and suicidal thoughts? (My kids are younger, so I've not faced teenagers). Can you really miss every single warning sign? Can there really be no warning signs?

It's speculated Klebold was the follower, right? And Harris the more dominant personality?

I think everyone, after something senseless happens, wants to know why. And just hearing that people are mentally ill isn't enough. That's not why. There have to be reasons why. Because of there are reasons why, then we can work backwards and figure out how to stop this from happening again. We have to stop this from happening again. We can't accept these things just happen.

Hdn't they been bullied by the "in" crowd? The star athletes, cheerleaders, etc.

This is a contested issue. A friend of the boys said that they were bullied. A reporter who investigated the issue found that they weren't bullied, but that Harris was prone to bullying himself. Harris was a sociopath. Klebold was depressed. Harris had a severe case of megolomania and wanted to prove his superiority to the whole world. He was deeply angry that no one recognized that he was God-like and better than everyone else. Klebold got sucked in to the fantasy.

I immediately get suspicious about the bolded. I can see a reporter wanting to skew fact for his/her own purposes.

[Anonymous]

I just google imaged those two. Oh man, those images of those murderers sauntering into that school wearing those trench coats is just chilling.

These kids were sociopaths and they fed off each other. And they had been spinning off of each other getting worse and worse for a while.

Honestly I didn't watch too much coverage of this when it happened because it was so awful. I see evil there.

[Anonymous]

Were they on anti-psychotics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just google imaged those two. Oh man, those images of those murderers sauntering into that school wearing those trench coats is just chilling.

These kids were sociopaths and they fed off each other. And they had been spinning off of each other getting worse and worse for a while.

Honestly I didn't watch too much coverage of this when it happened because it was so awful. I see evil there.

That is just so simplistic. Things aren't quite so simple when you have a troubled child and you don't know what to do, despite your best efforts. Seek psychiatric care? - minimum two to three months wait, and that's with insurance. I hope you never have to deal with a child with psychiatric issues. I wonder if you would consider them 'evil'.

[Anonymous]

Wasn't this one of the first big school shootings? I think the possibility just wasn't in people's heads then like it is now. And even though we know the risk now, I still always hear about parents with troubled kids who can't get the help they need. Wasn't there a mother who, after Sandy Hook, wrote about how she worried her son would commit a violent crime and everyone criticized her?

"We Need to Talk about Kevin" was made into a movie with Tilda Swinton. Highly recommend it.

[Anonymous]

this article by Malcolm Gladwell answers a lot about the "why" of school shootings for me...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence

[Anonymous]

Klebold's mother has just authored a full length book:

http://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Reckoning-Living-Aftermath-Tragedy/dp/1101902752/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1455364164&sr=1-1&keywords=klebold

[Anonymous]

I have two great well rounded boys. They are both the dead opposite of those two aND are empaths. However, I feel terribly sorry for the parents of murders. It's got to be a living hell.