Sandy Hook, Part 13: The Sedensky Report on Contents of the Lanza House

Alleged writing by Adam Lanza, shown in a YouTube video, from NBC News, on January 23, 2019, entitled “Documents Reveal Sandy Hook Killer’s Descent into Darkness”

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

This article is not written by me, but by the State’s Attorney in Connecticut. Yet it does have my “opinion” in it, to the extent that I bolded many items that looked a bit odd to me.

When publishing earlier parts of this Sandy Hook series at GumshoeNews.com, a person named Bob added ideas to the Comments section, generally supporting the official story. After I announced my conversion to the position that “Sandy Hook is a hoax,” Bob has challenged me, for which I am grateful. Today is the first day I have had a chance to inspect the Sedensky Report, from the pdf of it that Bob supplied to us all.  It is here.

I don’t think it will be of great interest to Australians, so I suggest you just peruse it to see if you can find something that strongly suggests Adam Lanza was the killer. If so, please say so in the Comments! It occupies thousands of pages; I will use only the summary.  The state website portal.ct.gov says:

“Based on a painstaking investigation it is determined that there will be no arrests or prosecutions. The Connecticut State Police are to be commended for their tireless work on this investigation and their consideration of the families and victims involved,” State’s Attorney Sedensky said.

Now here it is, from pages 27-30. I chose only the bit involving the post-crime inspection of Nancy Lanza’s house. I did not modify anything, but made a few elisions.

Summary of Final Report on Sandy Hook Investigation, by Stephen J Sedensky III, Connecticut State’s Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury, issued on November 25, 2013.

[The] 36 YOGANANDA STREET, NEWTOWN, CT – SCENE INVESTIGATION

After the body of the shooter’s mother was found and the scene declared safe, the process of obtaining search warrants for the house began, with the first warrant being reviewed and signed by a judge of the Superior Court at 5:29 p.m. on December 14, 2012, at the Emergency Operations Center.  Additional search warrants were approved and issued as the search disclosed additional evidence. …

The weapon used to kill Nancy Lanza, the .22 cal. Savage Mark II rifle, was found near her bed and seized. In the chamber of the rifle was a spent .22 cal. shell casing and three live rounds were in the magazine. Three other spent .22 cal. shell casings were found in the room and seized.

The shooter’s second floor bedroom windows were taped over with black trash bags. The second floor computer room also had its windows covered. There, investigators found a computer hard drive that appeared to have been intentionally damaged. To date, because of the extensive damage, forensic experts have not yet been able to recover any information from that hard drive.

In a typical criminal case, the investigation would remain open when potentially important evidence was still being examined. Given the improbability of any information being recovered from the damaged hard drive, this outstanding piece of evidence is not preventing the closure of this case now. Should any relevant information related to the existence of any accessory or co- conspirator be obtained from the hard drive, the case will be reopened.

Investigators found a large number of firearms and related items in the home. All firearms involved in these incidents were legally purchased by the shooter’s mother over the years. The home also contained many edged weapons, knives, swords, spears, etc. A prescription bottle in the shooter’s name for acetaminophen with codeine was found in the mother’s bathroom, which was part of the master bedroom.

During the search of 36 Yogananda Street, a global positioning system (GPS) device was located in the shooter’s room with various routes in the memory from April 25, 2012, through December 13, 2012. Investigation revealed that the GPS was purchased for the shooter.

The routes taken indicate a number of trips from 36 Yogananda Street to the area of a local theater where a commercial version of the game “Dance Dance Revolution” is located. Over that time period, trips were made that took the driver in the vicinity of some schools in Newtown, including SHES. On December 13, 2012, a trip was recorded from 2:09 p.m. to 2:32 p.m. starting and ending on Yogananda Street and driving in Sandy Hook, which is in the area of SHES, though the route does not indicate the shooter drove up to the school.

Numerous video games were located in the basement computer/gaming area. The list of video games includes, but is not limited to:

-“Left for Dead” -“Metal Gear Solid” -“Dead Rising” -“Half Life” -“Battlefield” -“Call of Duty”

-“Grand Theft Auto” -“Shin Megami Tensei” -“Dynasty Warriors” -“Vice City”

-“Team Fortress” -“Doom”

Other items found and noted for this report are:

● A Christmas check from the mother to the shooter to purchase a CZ 83 firearm;39
● (39 The return for the December 16, 2012, search warrant indicates that Exhibit #612 was a check for a “C183.” A closer inspection of the check makes it clear that “CZ83” is written. A CZ 83 is a type of pistol.
The check reads “Christmas Day” in the check’s date section.
● A New York Times article from February 18, 2008, regarding the school shooting at Northern Illinois University;
● Three photographs of what appear to be a dead human, covered in blood and wrapped in plastic;
● The book Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, Jossey-Bass, 2007, by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven Nolt and David Weaver-Zercher; and
● Photocopied newspaper articles from 1891 pertaining to the shooting of school children

While the vast majority of persons interviewed had no explanation for the shooter’s actions, a review of electronic evidence or digital media that appeared to belong to the shooter, revealed that the shooter had a preoccupation with mass shootings, in particular the Columbine shootings41 and a strong interest in firearms. For example, there was a spreadsheet with mass murders over the years listing information about each shooting.

The review of the electronic evidence also found many things that are on a typical hard drive or memory card that would probably have no relevance to the investigation either because of creation date or subject matter. That being said, the following selected topics or items were found within the digital evidence seized:

● Bookmarks pertaining to firearms, military, politics, mass murder, video games, music, books, Army Ranger, computers and programs, ammunition, candy, economic books
● Web page design folders
● Two videos showing suicide by gunshot
● Commercial movies depicting mass shootings
● The computer game titled “School Shooting” where the player controls a character who enters a school and shoots at students
● Screen shots (172) of the online game “Combat Arms”
● “Dance Dance Revolution” (DDR) game screen shots
● Videos of shooter playing DDR
● Images of the shooter holding a handgun to his head
● Images of the shooter holding a rifle to his head
● Five-second video (dramatization) depicting children being shot
● Images of shooter with a rifle, shotgun and numerous magazines in his pockets
● Documents on weapons and magazine capacity
● A document written showing the prerequisites for a mass murder spreadsheet
● A spreadsheet listing mass murders by name and information about the incident
● Materials regarding the topic of pedophilia and advocating for rights for pedophiles (not child pornography)
● Large amount of materials relating to Columbine shootings and documents on mass murders
● Large amount of materials on firearms
● Comedy videos
● Music
● Images of hamsters
● Images of Lego creations

36 YOGANANDA STREET, NEWTOWN, CT – AUTOPSY INFORMATION

The OCME performed an autopsy on the body of Nancy Lanza, age 52, on December 16, 2012, at the OCME. The cause of death was determined to be multiple gunshots to the head. The manner of death was homicide.

SHOOTER – AUTOPSY INFORMATION

The autopsy of the shooter was conducted on December 16, 2012, at the OCME. The shooter, age 20, was 72 inches tall and weighed 112 pounds. No drugs were found in the shooter’s system. The cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the head. The manner of death was suicide.

INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE ACCESSORIES AND/OR CO-CONSPIRATORS

The investigation sought to determine if the shooter was aided by or had conspired with anyone to commit these crimes. As detailed above, none of the persons found in the vicinity of SHES on December 14, 2012, played any role in the shootings. Most were attempting to escape the area; others were responding to the school after learning of the shootings. None had any association with the shooter.

Investigators then sought to determine if anyone had conspired with or aided the shooter before the shootings. To that end, investigators examined social contacts, writings, e-mails, internet blogs, telephone records and his general internet presence. One of the internet blogs on which the shooter posted focused on mass shootings and in particular the Columbine shootings ….

What follows are some observations that investigators developed in attempting to determine the shooter’s motive.

Parents

The shooter’s mother and father Peter Lanza had been married to each other. They moved from New Hampshire to the Sandy Hook section of Newtown in 1998. In addition to the shooter, they had another son Ryan Lanza, who was four years older than the shooter.43 (43 Both the shooter’s father and brother cooperated fully with the investigation.)

In 2001 the shooter’s parents separated. The children continued to reside with the mother. The parents subsequently divorced. The father remarried in 2011; the mother never remarried.

After college, the brother moved out of state. He reached out to the shooter a few times but the shooter did not respond. As of December 14, 2012, the older brother had not had contact with the shooter since 2010. The brother believed that the shooter and his mother had a close relationship. After his older brother left for college, the shooter reportedly became interested in firearms and at one point considered joining the military.

Both the shooter’s mother and father indicated that the shooter was bullied growing up. The father indicated that it was not excessive and concerned his social awkwardness and physical gait. As expanded upon in the Education and Mental Health section below, other witnesses did not recall the shooter being overtly bullied. Nonetheless, the shooter appears to have had few friends growing up.

The shooter’s father saw him regularly until he turned 18. They would go hiking, play video games and other activities. They went shooting twice. The shooter had a cell phone but never used it. Calls all went to voice mail. His father would just e-mail him when he wanted to reach him.

The shooter’s relationship with his father deteriorated in the last quarter of 2010 and the father last saw the shooter in that year. After that the father would reach out to the shooter by mail or through e-mails regularly, asking him to join him at various places for different activities. The shooter stopped responding at some point prior to December 2012.

One witness who knew the shooter in 2011 and 2012 said that he rarely mentioned his father or his brother; though he would mention briefly something he did with his father or brother in the past.

While it appears that the shooter’s mother did volunteer at SHES, it was when the shooter was a student. There is no indication that she volunteered there in recent years.

The mother took care of all of the shooter’s needs. The mother indicated that she did not work because of her son’s condition. She worried about what would happen to the shooter if anything happened to her.

One witness indicated that the shooter did not have an emotional connection to his mother. Recently when his mother asked him if he would feel bad if anything happened to her, he replied, “No.” Others, however, have indicated that they thought the shooter was close to his mother and she was the only person to whom the shooter would talk.

A person who knew the shooter in 2011 and 2012 said the shooter described his relationship with his mother as strained because the shooter said her behavior was not rational.

The shooter was particular about the food that he ate and its arrangement on a plate in relation to other foods on the plate. Certain types of dishware could not be used for particular foods. The mother would shop for him and cook to the shooter’s specifications, though sometimes he would cook for himself. Reportedly the shooter did not drink alcohol, take drugs, prescription or otherwise, and hated the thought of doing any of those things.

The mother did the shooter’s laundry on a daily basis as the shooter often changed clothing during the day. She was not allowed in the shooter’s room, however, even to clean. No one was allowed in his room.

The shooter disliked birthdays, Christmas and holidays. He would not allow his mother to put up a Christmas tree. The mother explained it by saying that shooter had no emotions or feelings. The mother also got rid of a cat because the shooter did not want it in the house.

People Outside the Family

When the shooter had his hair cut, he did not like to be touched and did not like the sound of clippers, so they were not used much. He would sit with his hands in his lap and always look down, giving one word answers if the cutter tried to engage him in conversation.

Those who worked on the property at 36 Yogananda Street never entered the home. They spoke with the mother outside in the yard or at the bottom of driveway. …

Over the years his hobbies included building computers, writing poetry and hiking. The shooter worked briefly at a computer repair shop. When he was younger he played the saxophone. The shooter had a cell phone but never used it.

Addendum by GumshoeNews

Here is a YouTube video, by TOMONEWS US, that shows, from 1-2.25 minutes, an animation of the story of what Adam Lanza did in his home at 36 Yogananda St, before the school shooting: