On Thursday, authorities released nearly 1,000 pages of hate-spewing diary entries and homework that provided chilling new insights into the Columbine massacre. The papers included their step-by-step plans as they gleefully plotted the deadliest school attack in U.S. history. It also included a journal kept by Harris’ father that referred to his son’s disciplinary and psychological problems but shed no light on whether he knew the teen might be capable of the slaughter.
It was April 20, 1999, that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris went on a deadly shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton. Colo., that left 15 dead, including themselves.
“Hell on Earth - ahh, my favorite,” Dylan Klebold writes in the 1998 yearbook of Eric Harris above a drawing of a gun-wielding headless soldier. “So many people need to die.” The documents released yesterday by the Jefferson County sheriff include essays, school work and computer files from Harris and Klebold, the two suicidal killers.
The Denver Post sued to force the release of the 936 pages. The Colorado Supreme Court left the decision up to the sheriff’s office, and the Harris and Klebold families did not challenge the decision.
More than 20,000 documents and videos have been released since the attack. The sheriff has refused to release videotapes made by the gunmen, concerned they would encourage copycat attacks. Some of the details revealed Thursday were disclosed previously.
The release of the documents has caused fresh pain for Columbine parents and more proof, some say, that the bloodshed might have been prevented.
“The school knew about the pipe bombs,” said Brian Rohrbaugh, whose son, Daniel, was killed in the shootings. “The police knew about the pipe bombs. The families knew about the pipe bombs. So there’s just a mountain of information that shows it should never have happened.”
The parents of both killers have long chosen not to give interviews, but a journal written by Eric Harris’ father, which was among the documents released Thursday, sheds light on what appears to be talks with therapists, police and lawyers about his son.
Still, the new material offers a chilling insight into the killers in the months before the attack. They had “to do” lists, with each purchase of a gasoline or a weapon marked off, and they had a hit list with at least 42 entries (all redacted).
“Once I finally start my killing, keep this in mind, there are probably about 100 people max in the school alone who I don’t want to die, the rest MUST (expletive) DIE!” Harris writes in a journal entry from October 1998, six months before the attack.
The pages are filled with profanity, racial slurs and drawings depicting violence or death. A scrawled entry in a Klebold day planner apparently sketches out April 20, 1999, down to the minute, starting with a 6 a.m. meeting, a 10:30 a.m. “set up,” an 11:12 a.m. “gear up” and at 11:16 a.m., “HAHAHA.”
Some victims’ families have long maintained that the boys’ plans should have been unearthed in advance, and continue to call for full disclosure of all information relevant to the shootings.
Police refused to release videos and audiotapes made by the pair amid fears they could spark copycat killings.

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