DBKP (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Weekly crime round-up by crime blogger, Trench Reynolds. Included is MySpace and Craigs List crime, as well as Psycho for Love--crimes of passion.
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Magazine reveals new details about NIU shooter: Talk about dropping the other shoe. For months we heard nothing about NIU gunman Stephen Kazmierczak or what his motive was. Now Esquire magazine is saying something that should not surprise me in the least but yet it does. I originally thought that Kazmierczak was just a victim of an undiagnosed mental problem but as it turns out he was something much...
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
NIU Shooting Investigation: This is a really short article so here it goes... There are new calls for a task force to be created at NIU to study the school's response to the shootings on campus. The head of NIU's Board of Trustees say's she'll be asking the school's president to create the task force later this week. She also thinks the board needs to discuss whether an extensive review of the psychiatric...
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
NIU gunman's autopsy shows some antidepressant, cold medicine in his system, police say: The autopsy of NIU gunman Stephen Kazmierczak showed that the only drugs in his system were trace amounts of an anti-depressant, a cold medicine, and nicotine. Well, that blows my Ambien theory to hell. Now the question is will the anti-pharmaceutical Luddites blame this on the anti-depressant, the lack thereof,...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
The gunman who opened fire inside a Northern Illinois University lecture hall died from a "contact-range" bullet wound to the mouth, according to partial autopsy results released Friday by the university.
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Did you notice that no one raised the issue of video games following Monday's tragic shooting spree at a Wendy's in West Palm Beach, Florida? That's likely because the shooter, Alburn Edward Blake, was a 60-year-old man. I’ve written in the past (see: How Old is Too Old for Game Blame?) about my theory that if a rampage killer is 30 or younger, [...]
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Editorial: 02/28/2008 05:46:27 PM PST LAST April 16 at Virginia Tech University, mentally ill student Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage killing 32 people and himself. This past Valentine's Day, Stephen Kazmierczak killed five people then himself inside a Northern Illinois University lecture hall not long after he stopped taking his medication. In Baldwin Park, a 28-year-old self-described
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
LAST April 16 at Virginia Tech University, mentally ill student Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting rampage killing 32 people and himself.
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Girlfriend: Shooter was taking cocktail of 3 drugs: Remember when I said that Stephen Kazmierczak meds had nothing to do with the shooting? I stand corrected...sort of. It turns out that Kazmierczak was on three drugs, Prozac, Xanax, and Ambien. Prozac is an anti-depressant which as I stated before should have still been in his system at the time that he stopped taking it. Xanax is an anti-anxiety...
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Northern Illinois shooting goes unnoticed: This is an op-ed piece from the San Jose State student newspaper about how the national media has treated the NIU shooting and how it's basically ignored the story since it happened. People reacted in horror when Seung-Hui Cho attacked Virginia Tech University last April, and grief gripped the nation for several days. Compare that with Thursday, when people...
TheTrenchcoat Chronicles (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Gunman Hid His Tracks, Officials Say: It seems that The Times is on a roll lately. Anyway this is an article about how NIU gunman Stephen Kazmierczak covered his tracks prior to the shooting. The hard drive from his computer and the SIM card from his cell phone are both missing. I think this lends credence to my theory about Kazmierczak possibly being a paranoid schizophrenic. This wasn't the typical...
1UP (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
The usual suspects find yet another opportunity to capitalize on national tragedy.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Despite mental health issues, the NIU gunman was allowed to purchase guns.
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
Several recent gruesome slayings had vastly different aspects: the killers' use of guns, another a meat cleaver, and another gasoline. However, all the murderers had something in common: psychotropic drugs. If ban guns, shouldn't we also we ban drugs? From...
GamePolitics.com (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
Miami anti-game violence activist Jack Thompson isn't the only one connecting last week’s shooting rampage at NIU to the popular online FPS Counter-Strike. Fringe political figure Lyndon LaRouche has also linked the game to the NIU tragedy. In a news release bearing the headline International Fascism: Microsoft Will Kill More Youth than Hitler, LaRouche’s political action committee writes: Another...
