Six years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre claimed 26 lives, newly-released writings by the gunman show his steely-cold calculation in planning one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history.
“I am unable to distinguish between my problems because I have too many,” Adam Lanza wrote in a list he titled, “Problems,” according to NBC News.
Lanza killed his mother Dec. 14, 2012 before heading to the Connecticut school where he shot down 20 children and six staff and teachers, and then killed himself.
Thousands of pages of documents were released when the criminal investigation concluded a year after the shooting, but an October Connecticut Supreme Court ruling deemed that Lanza’s personal belongings, including journals, must be made public.
The newly released writings include the “Big Book Of Granny,” which was a book Lanza wrote with another boy when the two were in elementary school that described violence against children.
Authorities also seized a spreadsheet Lanza kept that listed mass killings dating back to 1786.
“Most of my social contact was through those players,” Lanza wrote to a fellow gamer. “All of them are typical detestable human beings, and it bred an aura of innumerable negative emotions for me. You were a respite from that.”
