Lost Video Island

SuperKC · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject: Minnesota Teen

I have been reading a lot about the kid who committed that mass homicide/suicide in Minnesota these last couple of days thanks to a friend who is obsessively interested in stuff like that and of course she gives me links and of course I CAN'T. STOP. READING!

Anyway, Jeff Weise was pretty active on the internet so there are traces of him all over the place, but I thought THIS would be of particular interest to the LVI crowd. He made a flash movie, which is pretty foreshadowing and also disturbing. Here's the article by the Smoking Gun and in there you can find a link to the movie:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0323051weise1.html

He posted at some conspiracy website and they have catalogued his posts here: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/weise.html

And here are a couple of interesting things I extracted.

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Enchirito · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject:

Thanks for posting this. That was really interesting reading his posts. I was thinking, more and more people who come up in the news will have an 'internet trail' like that. It really does give you an insight into who they are. Much better than any news article can.
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SuperKC · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:30 am Post subject:

I completely agree. What's so scary about this kid IMO is that reading those posts and his livejournal he seemed so typical of what you see on the online journalling/message boarding communities from kids his age. It's all startlingly similar to so many other journals/blogs I've seen in the past.

My friend that I mentioned who was checking out all of this to begin with, said what shocked her most was how articlate he seemed and how well-written his posts are for the most part. But to me, the startling thing is how easily his dark moods just seem to fall right in line with the youth of today. I was in high school when Columbine took place and I knew kids like this.

We had a "shooting scare" when one of my classmates was discovered to use "imgonnakilleveryoneinthisschool" for his computer password and other whisperings. Instead of treating him like dirt, our entire class signed a petition to allow him to come back to school with us. In hindsight, you have to wonder, what would have happened if, instead of rallying around him in support, we had turned our backs on him? I personally don't think he was capable of something terrible like that, but how many people chatting with Jeff Weise would ever think he'd do such a thing until he actually did?