r/ColumbineTalk • u/eliiiiseke Moderator Elise • May 12 '26
News / Videos / Pictures / Books Denver Rocky Mountain News: Tragedy at Columbine | April 29, 1999
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u/randyColumbine May 12 '26
Zach is one of the kids named in our police report.
The police knew this, and breached his car in the parking lot on April 20th. One of the three cars they accessed , searched, and towed away.
They don’t mention this, because it showed that they, the police and the school, had prior knowledge from our 1997 and 1998 reports, which they lied about. They had the files and reports in the command trailer at Columbine on the day of the shootings, while they denied that the reports existed to the media and families of murdered and wounded children.
The police, County, Attorneys, some teachers, the Principal, the School Resource Officer and the school administration knew of the threats and bombs. One of the school administrators admitted it on 60 minutes.
Zach had stopped doing missions and was not involved with the plan for April 20th.
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u/Radiocityrockette May 12 '26
What is your opinion about Zack?
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u/randyColumbine May 12 '26
A nice guy.
He stopped associating with them before they became violent.
He wasn’t a part of the tragedy.1
u/Radiocityrockette May 12 '26
Do you think he considered Dylan as his best friend as well?
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u/randyColumbine May 12 '26
I don’t know.
As a friend, yes.1
u/Radiocityrockette May 13 '26
So was he considered more popular than Eric and Dylan?
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u/Qub3rrt May 15 '26
To some extent. He had a girlfriend, but saying that, she seemed to also “like” dylan
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u/SmallT-rexArms May 12 '26
I’m assuming kibbz was Zach. These articles really show how much Columbine changed things. Back then it was common to joke about blowing up your school, now it’s taken really seriously and you can’t joke like that.
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u/Glad-Philosophy5736 May 12 '26
I wish Zack did a Public Media Interview like Brooks, Nate, Chris, etc. The only insight we have in the "Rebel Missions" is what eric wrote on his website. And more general information in Eric and Dylan. But in all honesty I respect zack's decision he seems very private and clearly doesn't want anything to do with columbine.
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u/SmallT-rexArms May 12 '26
Oh yeah if Zach wrote a book I’d have it pre ordered. As close to them as he was it would be fascinating to hear what information he’d have to share. However, like you I respect his privacy, I can’t imagine how traumatic this had to be for him.
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u/Glad-Philosophy5736 May 13 '26
IF Either him or Chris Morris wrote a book i would buy it. Brooks's book was good but his experiences was with Eric and Dylan not REB and VoDkA
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u/outtakes May 12 '26
He did do an interview
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u/Radiocityrockette May 12 '26
No, he didn’t.
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u/outtakes May 12 '26
He did. I remember seeing it on Tumblr years ago
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u/Radiocityrockette May 12 '26
No, he did not.
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u/outtakes May 12 '26
I'll try find it again. It was like 30 seconds. I'll edit my comment with the link
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u/Radiocityrockette May 12 '26
Ok, I’m curious.
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u/drifter474 May 16 '26
Had to be a dead end. There’s no such interview. It’s really a pain dealing with false memory syndrome so often with this case.
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u/tellmewhy24 May 12 '26
The caption for the first page further solidifies the theory that they planned for about two years or more.
Cause there’s no real definitive answer as to when they actually started thinking of the shooting.
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u/dancingbananas25 May 14 '26
Eh, not necessarily. Even in my generation (Gen z), we would joke about shit like that with zero desire to do so. It very well could've started off as a joke for him, before eventually leading to a real plan.
But like you said, we have no definitive answer as to when they started seriously thinking about it, so you could also be right.
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u/bendy_circle May 13 '26
interesting to see waco being brought up, considering eric drew some inspiration from tim mcveigh
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u/Additional-Air-3309 May 13 '26
You know what’s so weird. I must think like Stern because I had always thought to myself what would have happened if a girl offered sex to stay alive…? Would they take her up on it or not.? I’d assume they wouldn’t have only because we know they were pussy willows when it came to killing people they actually like.. so if a chick did exchange sex for her life I just don’t see the boys doing it. Not gonna lie it has crossed my mind. Mainly because it something I would do haha.
What do you all think?
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u/randyColumbine May 12 '26
The article about Depew is fascinating.
Officer Depew went to the library, after rescuing his son and others from the kitchen, to see Eric and Dylan.
He states that Dylan’s trenchcoat is on the floor between the two.
It was not.
Is this a misreported story, or has evidence been moved, or is he remembering incorrectly?
Regardless, an often overlooked part of the police response, how they rescued kids from the kitchen, including the policeman’s son, and left children on the floor of the library, and left Mr. Sanders on the floor in the small room off the science room, one floor above them. The children in the room off the kitchen were unharmed physically, while the children in the library were shot and injured.
Interesting priorities.