946 pages of documents seized from the homes of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in 1999, after the Columbine High School tragedy, were made public yesterday by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado. The massive and highly detailed collection contains fictional writings, naive and cathartic rants (page 942 is a real stand-out), apocalyptic and weirdly comical drawings and doodles, frenzied notes, scribblings, placid school assignments, friendly yearbook page-signings and day-to-day emails by and between Eric and Dylan (with blacked-out names for private citizens). Like the picture book to any boy’s dream – they contain violent and weapon-centric imagery, obsessive sketches of rap and heavy metal band logos, horror film heros, and video-game-logic fantasy plans to blow up their home town, hijack a 747, and crash it into New York City. An article about the controversial public release here contains a link to the entire 946 page collection, as a downloadable .pdf file. Reportedly there are no plans to release the audio and video tapes made by the boys leading up to the murders, for security concerns. Lots of information about the Columbine tragedy can be found here and here.

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