Parents of famous murderers. How fucked up would it be to just wake up one day and get a phone call, or turn on the TV, and all of a sudden you're in this club.
Bill and Mildred McVeigh attending their son Timothy's trial for killing 168 people with the Oklahoma City bomb.
Bill McVeigh with his daughter Jennifer (Tim's sister) during the trial.
Jennifer is a bit of a mysterious one, with how much she did or didn't know ahead of time. He was much closer to her and in much more frequent contact with her (via letters) in the months/years prior to the bombing than he was with his parents. She
definitely knew that he was cooking "something big" that would happen "in the month of the bull" (April-May.) He told her to burn his letters to her as the FBI might be monitoring him, and she (mostly) did. He wrote and warned her not to incriminate herself, and not to communicate with him after April 1. The FBI later gave her immunity to testify against him. You don't need immunity from prosecution if you genuinely don't know anything and are merely a completely innocent, unknowing bystander.
Wonder where she's at now, and if she's still a McVeigh. How do you walk around with a distinctive name like that after an event like that? What's that like?
White supremacist Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof's (abusive) father:
Batman cinema shooter James Holmes' parents attend his trial:
Ted Bundy's mother speaks to him for the last time, from her home, a couple of hours before his execution.
She hugs an old jacket of his immediately after hearing that the execution had been carried out and he had been pronounced dead.
Peter Lanza with his son, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza. Peter was divorced from Adam's mother Nancy, didn't live in the same city, and didn't see Adam much. After the shootings, Peter Lanza publicly stated that he wished his son had never been born.
Years later he said that he can't go an hour without thinking about what happened, he gets chronic nightmares, and "You can’t get any more evil. How much do I beat up on myself about the fact that he’s my son? A lot."
Adam Lanza loved playing Dance Dance Revolution. Here he is, having just finished a game:
Birthday card from Peter to Adam Lanza.
"Adam,
Happy Birthday.
Send me an email when you want to go hiking or shooting.
Love
Dad"
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik with his Mum and his hot sister:
Breivik's dad:
Utoya Island, photo taken 24 hours before Breivik arrived and massacred 69 people on it:
Teenagers on Utoya frantically try to barricade a door with mattresses:
Sue Klebold, mother of Columbine killer Dylan, sits as the guest of honour at a mental health and suicide prevention organization's annual breakfast. To process her grief and guilt over what happened and her failure to have any idea what was going on with her son, she became a mental health advocate and worked a lot with parents of suicide victims. A lot of parents in that situation feel tremendous guilt and shame over "allowing" their kid to get so depressed that they commit suicide, and Klebold found that her experience gave her a lot of credibility. People talked to her and told her their inner thoughts, because they knew that no matter how badly their kid's suicide wrecked their lives....... this woman had it far, FAR worse.
Tom Klebold helps his son get ready for the Columbine prom.
These photos were taken on a Saturday. The next Tuesday, the kid and over a dozen of his classmates would be dead. The weird look on his face might well be him feeling guilty that his parents are all happy and excited and thinking that they'll treasure these photos and all look at them together years from now....... but he knows what he's going to do three days from now.
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