Alexander Bychkov and his brother were raised single-handedly by their mother as their father left them at an early age. Their mother was noted to be an abusive alcoholic, caught beating them by a neighbor.

Olga, a neighbor of Bychkov, described how she witnessed him and his brothers’ early life to be. “They worked hard in the garden for money, as well as collecting scrap metal.“ The neighbor also added, “I just remember how they were half-naked, hungry, always dragging heavy buckets of water. His mother drank heavily and beat them.”

Alexander Bychkov is a Russian serial killer and self-confessed cannibal. He committed at least nine murders of men in the town of Belinsky, Penza Oblast, between 2009 and 2012.

Alexander Bychkov is a Russian serial killer and self-confessed cannibal. He committed at least nine murders of men in the town of Belinsky, Penza Oblast, between 2009 and 2012.

Some new info on Sandy Hook lads

So the FBI just released 1,500 pages of documents on Sandy Hook. They mostly consist of documents on Adam Lanza’s life prior to Sandy Hook. I’m not sure what’s already known about the case I’m just gonna put it all here.

The information consists of school information and medical records. There are also accounts of the websites he frequented. He had been taking some online language and college courses and also sold National Rifle Association safety qualifications after visiting shooting ranges with his mother, who had been described as a “gun nut.” Some blame her for her son’s mental health and for having weapons in the house at the time.

Above: An image believed to be Lanza as child

In addition to these, there are also records of his relationship with his mother as he only communicated with his mother via email as he does not leave his room for three months prior to the shooting, some neighbours even said they had not seen him in years. In these three months, he did very little, mostly listening to Japanese techno music and playing video games. (Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Doom, Left 4 Dead, Pikmin, Paper Mario, Shin Megami Tensei, Lego Star Wars, Kingdom Hearts.) The police discovered a number of gaming devices and computers upon searching the Lanza household which had been “significantly damaged by force trauma” and “scratched with an implement.”

Above: Lanza’s home

In his medical records, it stated that he was a vegan who did not like the texture of food, he was only 111lbs (50kg) when he died. In addition to this Lanza adopted “strange behaviours” such as preferring to sleep on the floor instead of the bed. He also liked to go on walks but avoided bright and natural light. It is also worth noting that Lanza was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome (which is on the autism scale) though he had a hard time accepting this and refused to take his perscribed medicine. 

In regards to his mother, it detailed that his mother once worked at a school, which Lanza also attended and he felt as though “his mother loved the students more than she loved him.” A witness told an agent that Lanza had been bullied at school though “not excessively” due to his “social awkwardness” and appearance. Also, when Lanza was in ninth grade he hacked through two levels of security to an undisclosed government computer. It was also reported that Lanza threatened to kill his mother sometime around December 2008.

Above: Lanza in 9th Grade

An online friend he met on a website dedicated to Columbine said he was the “weirdest person online.” Lanza also used screen names based on Tim Kretschmer and Kimveer Gill. It was said in an interview that Lanza “was singularly focused and obsessed with mass murderers and devoted almost all his internet activity to researching and discussing mass murderers and spree killing.” 

He also had an online relationship with a woman, whose identity was protected for privacy reasons whom he met through a website where players adopt the roles of the Columbine shooters. She noted that it was clear that he was depressed and viewed the world negatively. He expressed occasional suicidal thoughts but she did not think he was capable of killing himself nevermind others.

Despite this, the FBI concluded that Lanza had done “careful, methodical planning and preparation.” and could have possibly been planning the attack since March 2011. She also told authorities that he had gone into details about his sexuality, he also hinted at the fact he might’ve been asexual. She mentioned that he composed “at least one lengthy email” on his views about paedophilia. In which he expressed his hatred of it but also said it could be “possibly beneficial to both parties.”  FBI agents found a file on Lanza’s computer ‘advocating paedophiles’ rights and the liberation of children’ as well as a screenplay about a relationship between a 10-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man.  

Another online friend was quoted to have said that Lanza felt “pity” for children as they believed that authoritarian people were “improperly controlling” them. She added that Lanza possibly felt as though he was “saving” or “protecting” the children from “taking them away from harmful influences.” He also viewed death as “an escape from the pressures of life.”

A passage from an essay titled “Me,” among the documents seized by the Connecticut State Police at the home of Adam Lanza.

Lanza appears to be addressing a person he considers a close friend or potential partner.

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“After having spent much time analyzing this, I’ve determined which factors enabled me to love you. I projected a personality, which I consider to be virtuous, delusionally onto you. For the same reason, I ignored the many things which I fundamentally hate about you. I was deluding myself.

I am heavily emotionally susceptible to environments. Most of my social contact was through those players. All of them are typical detestable humans. and it bred an aura of innumerable negative emotions for me. You were a respite from that.

You could actually type coherently. Relationships cannot exist if communication is not present, which would immediately preclude me from being able to have a relationship with 99% of the humans there. I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the only other person I liked at all was Soresu, who usually types coherently. lf l had spoken to him more often, I might have loved him. Once every month or so in that game. I would meet someone who would type properly, and I would always try to play with them. I remember one person in particular whom I followed around only because he typed properly. Which allowed me to communicate with him without feeling as if I was dealing with a severely mentally handicapped duck. He spoke disrespectfully of his girlfriend the first day I spoke to him, which would normally serve as the catalyst for my detestment of such a person, yet I completely overlooked it because I was so relieved to be able to speak with someone who was in any way capable of communicating.

Relationships have absolutely no physical aspect to me: all that matters is communication. The nature of the internet fosters this.

I incessantly have nothing other than scorn for humanity. l have been desperate to feel anything positive for someone for my entire life.

Early on, you referenced serial killing multiple times in ways people normally don’t. That immediately appealed to me.

l have an affinity for people whom I perceive as being abused, and consummate scorn for the abusers. It was probably the primary enabling factor. The way you are relentlessly treated by these humans is obscenely offensive to me. so everytime they would do it. it would simultaneously increase my sympathy for you and increase my resentment for all of them. My wrath for them fostered more of a negative atmosphere. which would cause you to be even more of a respite from their depravity. It was self-perpetuating.

I’m capable of boundless affection. I had never been in a sitation to feel that way before, so I thought that it was special.

I took my focus away from myself and directed it toward you.

Because I used to be hate-filled and couldn’t just dismiss people I didn’t like. It tore me apart, and I needed someone who didn’t.

Coercion is endemic to parenting in general. Children are slaves to their parents’ will in virtually every family.

You’re a Christian. Religion, being cultural, inherently subjugates.

That whole “dishonor” fatuity. Something is “dishonorable” not because it lacks virtue, but because it goes against their “authority”. All they’re doing is imposing their will on you.

You submit to the notion of culture, which your parents forced onto you.”

High School Classmate Of Adam Lanza Speaks

User Rashikal on Shoryuken.com writes:

“My family members are safe, but my friend’s little sister was killed. My best friend’s nephew was getting ready to go to afternoon kindergarten at Sandy Hook when they got the call about the active shooter situation. I know almost all of the families of the victims. I used to play little league baseball at Sandy Hook elementary and went to smart camp there in the summer. The most memorable part about the school were the big colorful painted footprints on the long driveway to the school. I had a class with Adam Lanza in 2008. It was computer repair with Mr. Swetts at Newtown High School. He had an autism spectrum disorder. He was a very quiet and polite kid. The most disturbing part is that in that class kids brought in counter strike 1.6 on discs and installed it. The classroom was set up so there was an area for lessons, and an area for repair, and the teacher’s office. While the teacher was in his office or helping kids repair, we would play counter strike on Ian and Adam Lanza would play with us. I even did a group project with him. He was incredibly smart, and basically fixed the whole computer by himself while I was goofing off. I tried to be nice to him every day. He never once spoke as long as I knew him. If he smiled he only smirked. He clearly had a lot going on in his mind. He was fearful of people, he would always walk right up against the side of the hallway, with eyes to the ground clutching his briefcase that he carried instead of a backpack. If anyone bothered him or bumped into him he would clutch his briefcase against his chest. He was really small and weak. It was clear that he had an interest in guns. It fills me with so much anger that this happened. I know where he lives, and from his house he would have driven past the high school to get to the elementary school. I believe that he was afraid that security guards or high school kids would be strong enough to tackle him or overpower him, so he chose the elementary school for the easiest possible people to kill. Writing this makes me feel sick to my stomach.”

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The sad Adam Lanza that’s never talked about. I think these are really important to remembering who he was.

2008: “By 2008, when Adam turned sixteen and was going to school only for occasional events, Nancy’s e-mails describe his escalating misery. “He had a horrible night… . He cried in the bathroom for 45 minutes and missed his first class.” Two weeks later, she wrote, “I am hoping that he pulls together in time for school this afternoon, but it is doubtful. He has been sitting with his head to one side for over an hour doing nothing.” Later that year: “Adam had a rough night. He moved EVERYTHING out of his room last night. He only kept his bed and wardrobe cabinet.”

Spring Quarter 2008: The German class, in particular, is cited as a personal struggle in Adam’s life: “Schoolwork often triggered a sense of hopelessness. “He was exhausted and lethargic all day, and said he was unable to concentrate and his homework isn’t done,” [Nancy] wrote. “He is on the verge of tears over not having his journal entries ready to pass in. He said he tried to concentrate and couldn’t and has been wondering why he is ‘such a loser’ and if there is anything he can do about it.” He had been taking classes at Western Connecticut State University—for high-school credit—but he struggled there. “He wouldn’t speak on the way home and had his hood completely covering his face,” Nancy wrote one day. “He went straight to his room and won’t eat. I gave him time alone to compose and have tried to speak to him twice now, but he just keeps saying, ‘It does not matter’ and ‘leave me’ ‘I don’t want to speak of it.’ ” Two months later, Nancy recorded his despair when faced with some coursework in German: “He finally and tearfully said that he can’t complete the German. He can’t understand it. He has spent hours on the worksheets and can’t comprehend them.”

Late January/February 2010: Adam’s parents express concern to each other about his mental state as he approaches adulthood: “In early 2010, when Nancy told Peter that Adam had been crying hysterically on the bathroom floor, Peter responded with uncharacteristic vehemence: “Adam needs to communicate the source of his sorrow. We have less than three months to help him before he is 18. I am convinced that when he turns 18 he will either try to enlist or just leave the house to become homeless.”Nancy replied, “I just spent 2 hours sitting outside his door, talking to him about why he is so upset. He failed every single test during that class, yet he thought he knew the material.” Later that day, she wrote, “I have the feeling when he said he would rather be homeless than to take any more tests, he really meant it.” Nancy said that Adam had been pretending to go to classes and passing his time in the library.”

August/September 2012: Nancy tells Peter that Adam cannot see him, citing that Adam has had a “bad summer” and admitted he was a shut-in: “In early 2012, Nancy said that Adam had agreed to see Peter in the spring, but nothing came of it. Nine months later, Peter protested that Adam never even acknowledged his e-mails. Nancy wrote, “I will talk to him about that but I don’t want to harass him. He has had a bad summer and actually stopped going out.”

http://sandyhooklighthouse.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/timeline-adam-lanzas-life-and-online-activity/

Dylan Hockley’s story will always haunt and devastate me. He was one of the six-year-olds killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. He was also autistic, and like most people with autism, he was sensitive to sensory stimuli. His death would have been terrifying for him. His teacher had clung to him in an attempt to save him, his ears would have been ringing with the sound of gunshots and his peers screaming, and then of course the torture of being shot.

This sweet kid put so much work and joy into his life and the lives around him. He was very empathetic and always laughed. He should be 12 now. Nothing can bring him back to where he should be. Rest in peace, Dylan.

Adam Lanza (”Smiggles”) on school shootings

Robert Hawkins and His Mother

Robert Hawkins’ filial relationships were volatile for most of his life. At age 3, his parents divorced, and custody was awarded to Robert’s father Ron, who soon remarried. Robert did not get along with his step-mother Candace. After discussing plans to kill her, he was sent to a treatment center shortly before his 14th birthday, eventually becoming a ward of the state when the family’s insurance would no longer cover his treatment. The next few years saw him bounced between treatment centers, group homes, and foster families. While placed in one of these boys’ homes, Robert would express the desire to contact his biological mother, but he was not allowed to call her. A friend recalled, “He talked about her a lot. He wanted to be with her.”

In December of 2004, Robert called his step-father and asked if he remembered someone named Robert Hawkins. When his step-father handed the phone to Molly, she did not recognize Robert’s voice. The pair immediately bonded, and Molly began supervised visitation at the foster home where Robert was staying, though visits were infrequent and often resulted in arguments about Robert’s troubles with the law. Sometimes, following these fights, she would refuse to speak with him for weeks.

Robert continued to express the desire to move in with his mother, after which she gave the ultimatum that he could either live with her and have no contact with his father, or live with his father and have no contact with her. Molly also decided that she did not want him living with her daughters, later saying: “I was afraid of what Rob might do to the girls.” In December of 2005, Robert moved in with his father. He would be kicked out 6 months later for not following house rules. An ex-girlfriend recalled his emotional turbulence: “He cried all the time. It was really sad because he had, like, no family. He was the saddest about his mother.”

After having no contact with his mother for two years, Robert called her up again in September of 2007. Once more, the pair reconciled. Molly bought him a Jeep, spent Thanksgiving with him, smoked marijuana with him, and gave him relationship advice. Though Robert was happy to have his mother back in his life, things quickly deteriorated. Days after receiving the Jeep, he received an infraction for drinking beer in it and was due to appear in court again; he lost his girlfriend after bragging about cheating on her; he lost his job at McDonald’s after being accused of theft; his mother found out he had taken his step-father’s rifle. He vented to his friend about fears that he would not be able to pay the fine; his mother would take his Jeep away; he would face jail time; his girlfriend hated him; he would have no place to go. An hour before the shooting, Robert called his mother. It went to voicemail. “Hi, Mom. It’s me. I just wanted to let you know that I love you. I’m sorry for everything. I’ll see you later. Bye.”

Robert Hawkins was temporarily placed at an inpatient facility called the Richard Young Center when he was 13-years-old after threatening to kill his step-mother with a knife. He warned, “The only way she will leave the house is in a body bag.” 

During a cognitive behavioral group therapy session the evening of the incident, he thought, “I’m here for no reason, I’m mad,” although he acknowledged, “They think I want to kill my parents.” Furthermore, on one of his intake forms, he listed his three feelings as “Angry to be here, relieved to be away from parents, and confused at why I’m here.”

In the following days, Hawkins remained indecisive about whether he wanted to return home or never step foot in his parents house again, as they explored his relationship with the family, particularly the animosity shown towards his step-mother. He described her as “mean and abusive” and that his father “sides with her everytime.” Hawkins commented she just “hates me so much” and believed it was due to his biological mother, recalling an argument they had when they first met: “I think my step mom thinks I’m just like my mom, that’s why she doesn’t like me.” He made several violent Mother’s Day cards for his stepmother, one with a hangman’s noose on the cover. On the inside, he wrote, “Thank you for not letting me kill myself” and “I tried to love you but I couldn’t.” The cards were confiscated, and in response, he said, “Why, she’s just my step-mom and she knows I hate her.”

Hawkins stated he was “scared” at home because his parents constantly “yell” at him, and he exhibited the same fear about an upcoming family meeting. Instead of facing them, he wished “a car would hit my family on their way here so they wouldn’t come tonight.”

He displayed a noted hopelessness towards the home situation throughout his time at the facility, once commenting, “I used to cry all the time, but now I can’t even cry anymore, I don’t even feel anything.” It was also here that he first expressed fantasies of murder-suicide. He told staff, “If anything happens at home I’ll probably kill my step mom and then kill myself.”

Five years later, this desire would become generalized, as Hawkins opened fire inside Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall, leaving nine dead, including himself.