After the shooting, Sue considered leaving her hometown, but decided against it so she could stay close to her support network of friends and neigbours who have stuck by her side. Try again later. He was described as a shy child who loved baseball, especially the Boston Red Sox. His is one of several infamous names that can’t be found in cemeteries, either because families have worked to hide them or because there is nothing to mark their final resting place: Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people, including 20 first-graders, in the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012; Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech; Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber who was executed in 2001, are all hidden. For one parent, Pam Grams, waiting to hear her 17-year-old son be pronounced as safe was indescribable. "I pushed [the pain] down, and I did that again with Columbine. Tsarnaev’s body now lies in an unmarked grave in Virginia. The Story Of Richard Cottingham, The Times Square Torso Ripper, The Unbelievable True Story Of Colonel Sanders, The Poor Boy Who Became King Of Chicken, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. After Columbine, local evangelicals—who said the shootings were the devil’s work and who used the tragedy as an opportunity to bring people to Jesus—infuriated him. https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/dylan-klebold. After reading about Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, learn about the Trenchcoat Mafia and other Columbine myths that spread widely after the massacre. Tell them about these good people.”, Pastor Donald Marxhausen Initially, the idea was to set off bombs in the school cafeteria. Dylan Klebold and Ryan Harris killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. He is half Jewish as I am all Jewish.” So it went for a half an hour or more. Which leaves the Klebold and Harris parents: What insights might they have to offer this traumatized community? “I want to grab some weak little freshman and just tear them apart like a fucking wolf. The 72-year-old said broke don in floods of tears as she revealed that her son was laid to rest in a cardboard box, and that she was terrified to leave the premise in case someone 'hurt him' or stole his body, 'I got home and before long a SWAT team got there and a detective and it was just craziness', said Sue. Ten years later, these two men of God—radically different in personality and theological approach—are still struggling to deal with the damage done to them by two boys bent on murder and mayhem. cemeteries found within miles of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Though Harris’ temperament and behavior were seemingly as “normal” as anyone else’s at his age, he did appear to have trouble finding his place in Littleton. But he didn't feel like he fit in at Columbine High School in Colorado. Marxhausen now lives south of Littleton in Highlands Ranch with his wife, and he ministers to a tiny, rural congregation in mountainous Idaho Springs. + Follow. Wikimedia CommonsColumbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the school cafeteria during the massacre. Year should not be greater than current year. April 20, 1999. “When there is a funeral for the perpetrator, it is private,” James Fox, a mass shooting expert and professor of criminology at Northeastern University, told ABC News in 2012. . The pair killed themselves at the end of their rampage. Sorry if its a stupid question. We will remember him forever. He had performed the marriage of Misty and Brad Bernall in 1980; more recently, he had helped guide their teenage daughter Cassie through a dark and rebellious time. If you have questions, please contact [email protected]. I beseech", "My son was a Columbine shooter. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. Despite being tormented by guilt, Sue says she is finally in a better place, and has 'plenty to be thankful for'. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. What happened? Upon arrival at the funeral home I met Tom Klebold and his other son Byron. His hands were folded on his chest, and stuffed animals surrounded him. But there were guns in every scene of the video, so you can’t show that.”, The boys even submitted creative writing essays that highlighted their bloodlust and aggression. But the local drug dealer who was supposed to provide Harris and Klebold with their ammunition was late. March 6, 1999. Student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people on Virginia Tech's campus in 2007. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Dylan Klebold (10972)? It was to be a private, secret affair, with a few trusted friends. His family then moved to Colorado once he became a teenager. A female friend of Klebold’s reportedly helped them get three of the weapons – the same young woman he took to the prom shortly before the killings. Dylan lay in the casket surrounded with Beanie Babies. I said, “Let’s just sit and talk for a while. Hopefully, Columbine’s legacy is one we will learn from rather than be doomed to continue to repeat. During his sermon, George Kirsten proclaimed Cassie a martyr. Lived: 6430 days = 17 years. ", Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Gun Laws Have Disproportionate Impact on Black Communities | Opinion, There's Nothing Racist About Gun Safety | Opinion. American college football coach Bear Bryant won six national championships at the University of Alabama and retired with a then-record of 323 wins. ', Following the shooting, Sue says their entire community was 'in chaos', and that their local governor went on television to hold the parents responsible, which started 'open season on their family', Sue believed her son was in a good place, happy that her he was employed, doing extracurricular activities and set to go to a university of his choice. Marxhausen’s role later lost him his job, but he told the Associated Press in 2012 that he didn’t regret it. The media circus had begun, and Tom, on the best of days, is a private person. The expression on Dylan’s face was unfamiliar, which Byron later confessed made it easier for him. The Chicago Tribune reported that in the videos, Harris and Klebold “had their friends pretend to be jocks, and they pretended to be gunmen shooting them.” The production included practical effects for gunshot wounds. The work is “like cataloging hell,” as New York magazine put it. While Dylan had run into trouble for stealing in the past, Sue believed her son was in a good place, happy that her he was employed, doing extracurricular activities and set to go to a university of his choice. Of course, Klebold was also severely depressed and both he and Harris developed an obsession with Adolf Hitler shortly before the events of April 20, 1999, but video games were merely a more digestible target for the media to latch onto. The further Kirsten got from the tragedy, though, the more he began to crack. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Dylan Bennet Klebold I found on Findagrave.com. Still, he concedes, he left when his church needed him most. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? Dylan Klebold was one of the two teenagers behind the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, one of the deadliest school shootings in history, Sue Klebold’s son Dylan Klebold was one of the two teenagers behind the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999. He was asked to start a nondenominational evangelical church in the 1980s, just as the megachurch movement was beginning to take off. Follow our team of columnists and reporters who write about the media. Please contact Find a Grave at [email protected]ndagrave.com if you need help resetting your password. Tsarnaev’s wife refused to claim his body, and his parents would not return to the United States to arrange his funeral. The Klebolds claimed Dylan's remains. "Tom Klebold told me he thought he had a good finished product." ___Their son, Dylan Klebold, 17, would have graduated from Columbine High School this spring and was planning to attend the University of Arizona in the fall. “I do understand no one wants to associate their names with such evil events,” Tsarni told public radio station WBUR. “It was like they were having the time of their life.”. One family jumped in and talked about how much they loved Dylan. To learn more about each individual, please see the Deceased page. Klebold was called “a bright young man who has a great deal of potential.”. In 1999, however, Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold became the nation’s first poster boys for the phenomenon — and the first to be widely misunderstood. In 1998, junior Brooks Brown discovered his name on that very website and that Harris had threatened to murder him. The majority of the fatalities during the Columbine High School massacre occurred in the library: 10 students would never make it out of the room that day. While the claim that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were part of the Trenchcoat Mafia was yet another myth, they certainly dressed like the group — a school clique of self-described loners and rebels who dressed in all-black garb. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? Yet the Rev. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. i have always wondered that as well considering that dylan had atleast a very small family gathering for a funeral.maybe erics parents possibly did have some sort of private funeral or memorial service for family that wanted to attend.if so,they probably made it private for obvious reasons.this is just speculation though.even though he did a … The story of Cassie's martyrdom instantly became legend at West Bowles. What’s more, Harris and Klebold were meanwhile amassing a small arsenal of weapons. For months Sue was in denial about what her her son had done: 'They said the boys did all these terrible things. Columbine author Dave Cullen’s conversations with survivors, psychiatrists, and law enforcement revealed a whole roster of ominous signposts along the way — including Klebold’s thoroughly evolved depression and Harris’s coldblooded psychopathy. Circa 1998. ", Marxhausen said the Klebolds have remained in seclusion because they fear "all the anger and scapegoating and blame-pointing.". Everyone says you should NEVER try to change a man. In the days after Dylan Klebold along with Eric Harris shot and killed 12 students and one teacher and then himself at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, his mother, Sue Klebold, remembered . Byron Klebold spoke with police outside of his parents' house on the day of the attack. It was very important to me that I immediately tell Sue that I was there to love her and comfort her, and that I was not sitting in judgment of her. Today, West Bowles is a soaring modern building facing the Rocky Mountains where ministers preach a fundamentalist Christianity.

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