these documents in writing of the sandy hook shooter adam lanza have never been made public before nowconnecticut state police after a five-year legal battle ver eventually decided by the supreme court. the documents included lanza's own writing as well as assessments from medical professionals prior to 2012 when he shot 20 grade schoolers and six teachers after shooting his own mother to death. while we knew the 20-year-old had led a life of isolation, we now know that lanza was evaluated in 2006, six years before the mass shooting, by robert king, a professor of child psychiatry. according to the newspaper's reporting, king asked him if there were kids he enjoyed spending time with. a 14-year-old lanza replied, why would that be significant? according to the doctor's notes, he appeared pale, gaunt, awkward, and standing ridgeenedly with his eyes downcast, declining to shake hands, tremulous with discomfort and looking miserable. dr. king's report stated in part, it was difficult to interpret what this increasing social withdrawal and reclusiveness represents but stated his homebound

>> i think we learned more about adam lanza.fact alone that he kept a spreadsheet of 400 mass murderers on it and 17 categories and had kept that spreadsheet probably for three to four years, i think that tells you an awful lot about the person that we're dealing with here. that we were dealing with. there's also a lot of stuff that he wrote that was never -- that i don't think anybody ever saw. stuff that was found on his computer. one document in particular about pedophilia, about a screenplay about a pedophile. so we definitely learned some things about him, you know, that there wasn't much out there about before this. >> he -- and speak to that. that was a screenplay called "lovebound" and this theme of pedophilia came up multiple times, right? >> yes, it was basically a four-page -- i guess we'd call it a screenplay, but it was mostly just like partial scenes. but the theme of it was, in effect -- the relationship between a 30-year-old man and a 10-year-old boy. and there has been some references previously about, you know,

fairly positive feedback about providing some kind of a roamad for, perhaps, to prevent the next adam lanzau know, hopefully we created a body of knowledge about this shooter, and the next one won't come up the same way he did. >> brahgham: josh kovner ofe rtford, courant. thank you very much. >> you're more than welcome. >> brangham: on capitol hill this month, dozens of lawmakers are packing up their offices, including more than 70 house republicans who are either retiring or were voted out in this year's midterm elections. our lisa desjardins sat down with a pair of those departing members. two very different types ofre blicans, whose seats will now both be blue. mark sanford represents charleston, south caro he's a member of the conservative freedom caucus.ar and,s curbelo is a moderate who represents southern florida. have both spoken with the republican president, an yoinitiative from both ou who have been opposed and also attacked by this president. how privately do other members of congress see this president, what are ty saying in private? >> if you're committed to the truth, if yo

sixteenth anniversary of the sandy hook elementary school massacre in connecticut where twenty year old adam lanza shot and killed 20 small children and six adults. tonight we have some new and surprising numbers on the toll of gun violence in america. banglast year nearly 40=thousand americans lost their lives to gunfire .bang the death rate from firearms is now at a 20=year high.six times higher than canada's. forty times higher than in britain.and sixty times higher than in japan.most of the news coverage tens to focus on major tragedies ... like last year's mandalay bay shooting in las vegas, the deadliest in u=s history.but the c=d=c says most gunfire deaths are in private.sixty percent of last year's firearm deaths were self=inflicted.almost all of the victims white males, typically men in their fifties, married, and in deteriorating health.the states with the greatest gunownership had the most suicides.guns have also passed cancer to become a leading cause of death among children and teens, second only to only car accidents (vicki)about a quarter=million people are killed by gunfire around

newspaper published a report about more than 1,000nt docurelated to the killings and the killer, adam lanzae storpaints an even more chilling picture than we knew, a rigid and angry individual struggling with lonelinesshe disdain for and multiple psychiatric problems. pulitzer-prize winning reporter josh kovner wrote some of thve "courant's" ge, and he joins us now. josh, thank you very very much for being here. this report that you have put t is just a harrowing read, detailing the extenof the troubled mind of this killer. can you just give us a snapshot of the things that you found? >> it was a sense of greater, deeper extent of his obsession and compulsive disorder, his crippling problems that he notel juing eevery day. his meticulous fascination with marder and gun play, a very detailed spread sheath that he put together. we hadn't seen that before. his eling,is ambivalent sex wall. hes feeling about ped feeli had a soft spot about that. his feeling if a doctor touched him during a physical, it was tantamount to rape. the expression of surprise and concern from a psychiatrist who interv

perpetrator of the twenty sixteen school shootings in south carolina admitted that he wanted to be adam lanza the attacker at the sandy hook elementary in two thousand and twelve for the number of victims is the scale and carnage of school shootings going to go up because now we know they're trying to upstage each other. you know sometimes shooters are looking at previous attackers and as in the case with jessie osborne very aware of how many fatalities there were and sometimes they want to exceed that number other shooters though have no particular connection to previous shooters they're just acting out their own anguish or rage and it's not related to other attackers there's no role modeling or imitation going on so i think we have to be careful about putting all school shooters into the same category not all of them are following in the footsteps of a previous shooter not all of them are doing it just to become famous or to have a higher number of fatalities what is the main reason behind why what do you think moderates them or is there something that they all have in common i mean besides

several items written by adam lanza expresses anger and disdain for other people saying quote, i havether than scorn for humanity. he committed suicide after the sandy hook shooting. >>> disturbing details on the death of jamaal khashoggi who was killed by saudi agents. a transcript of the audio recording revealed his last words were quote, i cannot breathe. the new york times is reporting that president trump's son-in- law was his biggest defender inside the white house even after u.s. intelligence officers concluded the crown prince ordered the killing. they say he gave him advice on how to deal with the backlash. >>> hundreds of migrants still camped outside a shelter in mexico, hoping to cross the border into the united states cricket has been a week since the sports complex that housed 6000 migrants was shut down by city officials because of sanitary reasons. three other people live in tents outside the sports complex . officials are no longer offering food or water. officials say they have to move to a former concert venue that is further away from the american border but the mi

documents painting a dark and disturbing picture of adam lanza's life leading up to the massacre.nza's own writing. joining me is josh, one of the reporters behind the story. thanks for coming in. >> any time, kate. >> one of the first things you're struck with by reading your piece is this is not someone who had fallen off the radar. people knew something was wrong. they tried to do something. is that what you saw after looking through all of these documents and writings? >> yes, it was a perfect storm. mental illness probably. isolation, throw in the gun range, throw in mom's hesitancy to take meds. you had a lot converging. and there were two years of just abject isolation. kid is hardly coming out of his house. >> i'm also struck by how much of his own communication in writing or online that you were able to go through that was released. he wrote this to a fellow video game player at one point. i incessantly have nothing other than scorn for humanity. i have been desperate to feel something positive for someone for my entire life. in a strange way, you have probably spent more

these documents and writings of the sandy hook shooter, adam lanza, have never been made public untilwas able to obtain over 1,000 documents from of the connecticut state police after a five-year legal battle eventually decided by the state supreme court. the documents included lanza's own writings along with assessments from mental health professionals prior to december 2012 when lanza shot and killed 20 first graders and six educators at sandy hook elementary school after shooting his own mother to death. while we knew the 20-year-old had led a life of isolation, we now know that lanza was evaluated in 2006, six years before the mass shooting by robert king, a professor of child psychiatry at the yale child studies center. according to the newspaper's reporting king asked him if there were kids that he enjoyed spending time with. a 14-year-old lanza replied, why would that be significant? according to the doctor's notes he appeared pale, gaunt, awkward, standing rigidly with his eyes downcast, declining to shake hands, tremulous with discomfort and looking miserable. dr. king's repo

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