Echoes in the Columbine Archive

I had the privilege of interviewing Frank DeAngelis twice for my upcoming book, I appreciated his honesty, perspective and time a lot. While the material explored in the book will go into far greater depth, I felt that the interviews themselves were so valuable and insightful that I wanted to share the raw conversations here as part… — read more

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Year 1995-1998 Columbine high school course catalogs. It describes the classes available at the time. — read more

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This is my compiled research of the student play titled The Smoke in the Room, performed at Columbine High School during April 1999. The poster for the play Newly scanned 1999 Yearbook Supplement Although Smoke in the Room has been referenced in later books and recollections, very little original material from the production has been publicly available. This 1999 Columbine High… — read more

This letter was written by Columbine teacher Tom Tonelli to his graduating class of 1999 in the months following the April 20 tragedy. It was distributed to his students around summer after graduation. To my knowledge, this particular copy has not been publicly shared before. Tonelli was the sponsor of a Bible club at Columbine. He also… — read more

In the years following the Columbine High School massacre, Jefferson County District Attorney David J. Thomas proposed conducting a “psychiatric autopsy” of the perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, in an effort to better understand the motivations behind the attack and identify warning signs that might help prevent future acts of violence. The project was carried out by the Threat Assessment… — read more

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Supplement to the 1998 yearbook. — read more

Most discussions about Dylan Klebold focus almost entirely on Eric Harris. Over time, the narrative has narrowed Dylan’s world down to that one relationship, as if no other friendships carried real weight. But when you go back to the primary material, Dylan’s journals, FBI interviews, statements from classmates, and accounts from Zack’s own family, a… — read more