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I wouldn't rely too heavily on Cullen's book for 100% facts, he's discredited by most communities that have a common morbid interest into the shooting. I do recommend the following if you're still curious for more about the incident after reading his novel.

http://www.acolumbinesite.com/ - an extremely informative site that appeared the day after the shootings. It has the most information out of anywhere else I've seen about the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNyX90HKWTM&feature=youtu.be - Informative documentary about the shooting. Doesn't have everything, but it's definitely interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007PS0Q3Q/ - Brooks Brown's autobiography with an emphasis on the shooting and the events that took place before and after. Highly recommend, it was a great read and it definitely helped me find answers.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101902752 - Susan Klebold's novel; the mother of Dylan Klebold. Haven't gotten around to reading this one yet, but from what I've heard it's very informative and interesting.

Hope I helped you (or anyone else) learn more about the tragedy.

Great book, and highly recommended for anyone on this sub.

https://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/dp/0393324826/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482508787&sr=8-1&keywords=Stiff

This story is covered in a great book called Killer on the Road, which explores how the US highway system has impacted and influenced crime. I really enjoyed it, although it meanders a bit.

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Don Winslow has a couple novels dealing with the cartels, and the efforts to fight them. While they are fictional, they do track pretty closely with reality, and go into a lot of the politics, corruption, and economics involved. It's a lot easier to understand when you have a full picture of what exactly is involved.

They are definitely worth checking out. They are fairly graphic, but nothing that will shock someone who just looked at that album.

• The Power of the Dog
  
• The Cartel
  
  The two books are a series, but they don't strictly need to be read in order. I read The Cartel first, and didn't feel like I missed out on anything.

There's actually a really good book about these two.

I thought you were joking. But you weren't.

Erm ... Number 14 is a photo of figurines from the book Welcome to Marwencol by Mark Hogancamp (page 59 in the preview).

from james ellroy's lapd '53...

bjp-online.com/2015/10/james-ellroy-finds-real-crime-scene-photographs-from-lapd-in-1953/

Same. Organ donation if possible, then toss me out in the woods! I want my dead flesh to become the living tissue of another plant or animal as fast as possible. It's my version of eternal life. :)

ETA: If you haven't read Caitlin Doughty's book, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes yet, you should.

Unfortunately, beyond the fact that he died in a failed reentry, the story you commonly see surrounding the incident is unverified. Any article that provides sources (eg the Wikipedia article or the NPR article) will always lead back to this one recent book on the subject, where the story originates, which is heavily debated wherever it pops up as a source. Its details have not been verified by anyone despite its narrative becoming quite popular. The NPR article, which probably popularized this story online, even added "these events, if true" before proceeding to cover the book's telling of events, and had to release a follow-up to look at specific details that are amiss due to reader responses casting doubt:

https://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-cosmonauts-fiery-death-retold

This is completely fucked up. If he was trying to dispose of the evidence, why keep the head?

and also a weird side note... I can't help but notice that the killer is wearing the same shoes that I always wear. I am a woman. These are women's shoes

Their parents sound sociopathic, so that's a bad start. They were both abandoned, with mental, physical, and probably sexual abuse in between periods of abandonment. While the eldest was raped, it wouldn't surprise me if the younger two were as well.

Then they get into a situation where they're put through mental abuse by their employer. It's not a shock that the pressure became too much and they exploded.

I recommend Dr. Michael H. Stone's "The Anatomy of Evil" (and the follow-up "The New Evil"), if you've not read them. (https://smile.amazon.com/Anatomy-Evil-Michael-H-Stone/dp/1633883353) His Gradations of Evil scale is pretty interesting.

I LOVE the photo- it really tells a story. I found this photo originally from the book New York Noir: Crime Photos from the DAILY NEWS archives The excerpt under the photo is from the full text of the case People v. Luscomb. Pretty interesting stuff. THe original newpaper caption for the photo is "In the depths of remorse, manacles, LeRoy Luscomb sits in a room with his dead wife . . . . [he] killed her with a deer rifle after she left him because of his interest in another woman". From the case report it wounds like he almost killed her whole family, or wanted to for a second.

Here's the description of the days leading up to the murder and the SUPER HARROWING description the in-laws give about the murder itself. Can't stand how someone asked the FIL "how could you just stand by and let it happen" as if it were his fault.

>When the defendant arrived home on Sunday, April 18th, he found that his wife had departed taking the youngest child with her. She had returned to the home of her father one Reuben Eck, at Corbett in the town of Colchester. To Eck's home the defendant sent a letter by his oldest son on Monday, asking the deceased to return saying that he would be "true to you from this day on." The deceased had previously left the defendant on two prior occasions because of his excessive indulgence in liquor. After the delivery of the letter the deceased did not return. On Tuesday morning defendant left a second letter on the kitchen table of his home asking the deceased to return to him. Deceased, however, failed to return.

>On Wednesday, April 21st, the defendant did not work but went fishing with his oldest son. They returned home about two o'clock in the afternoon and the defendant went to the village of Downsville, where he had some beer. At about six o'clock he came home and had his evening meal with his children. He obtained his Winchester rifle, loaded it and drove with the children to a restaurant where he had a bottle of beer and the children had soft drinks. He then drove to Corbett to the home of Reuben Eck. He entered through the woodshed door. The deceased was seated in the kitchen.

>Ida Eck, the mother of deceased, said that at about a quarter after seven in the evening one of her grandsons came in and asked her daughter to go outside to see the defendant; that when her daughter refused, she heard her grandson say, "Ma, you better go because he's got a gun and he's going to shoot you"; that then she heard the defendant enter the kitchen and say to her daughter in a loud voice "Ella, I want you to get your clothes and things and Dixie [the six year old child] and go home. Do you hear?"; that she then heard a scuffle in the kitchen but could not hear any conversation; that when her husband went into the kitchen she followed him as far as the doorway and stood there; that the defendant had a rifle which he held with both hands; that defendant said to her husband, "None of your funny business here. Don't come a step further"; that the rifle was pointed at her husband; that he swung the gun around "onto me" and said, "or you, either damn you, I think you are a lot to fault of this"; that he pointed the gun at her for a minute and when he swung it around she left the room; that she then heard the defendant say "I'll clean up the whole damn bunch of you"; that she then went upstairs and when she reached the top of the stairs she heard a shot.

>Reuben Eck testified that when he entered the kitchen he saw the defendant "with his wife with her back up against the kitchen table, and he had hold of her clothing like that and was a shaking her"; that when the defendant saw him "he let go of her and grabbed up the rifle, and he said to me, `None of your damn funny business, don't come a step farther'"; that the defendant, holding the gun in both hands, pointed the rifle right at him; that at that time Mrs. Eck stepped in the door and defendant turned the rifle in her direction and said, "G d you, I think you are a whole lot to fault of this"; that defendant then laid the gun back on the table and took off his jacket and laid it on the table, and said, "I'll clean up the whole damn bunch of you"; that he told the defendant that no one was at fault and defendant replied, "Rube, I don't think you are to fault. I have always liked you" and that they shook hands; that then the defendant picked up the rifle and swung around to the deceased and said, "Now, Ella, G d you, you are going home with me, or I'm going to kill you right here"; that decedent refused to go home with defendant and after a couple of seconds the gun was discharged; that at that time deceased was about three feet from the defendant and he (Eck) was about four feet from him; that deceased did not turn the defendant around; and that the witness never attempted to seize the rifle; that during the entire time he remained in one spot, that being the spot he reached when defendant told him not to come one step nearer. Eck was asked "Do you wish this jury to understand that you, the father of this girl, stood and took all that." His reply was, "What could I do?"