Exit Plan: The Writings of Mass Shooters

By Brian Whitney

"A chilling and detailed look into the mindset of mass murderers..." - Gil Valle, author of Raw Deal: The Untold Story of NYPD's "Cannibal Cop."

Ruined day trader Mark O. Barton describes to police where they can find the bodies of his wife and children.

Supreme Gentleman (and incel “saint”) Elliot Rodger muses about becoming the ruler of the world.

Adam Lanza, perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Massacre, imagines a horde of mewling babies has him trapped in a remote cabin.

Columbine killer Eric Harris keeps an extensive diary, detailing his rage against his schoolmates and the human race, his plans for the upcoming massacre, and his joy at acquiring new weapons.

Binghamton, New York mass murderer Jiverly Wong in broken English shares his delusions of persecution as a “targeted individual” stalked and harassed by the police.

Short stories. Blog and diary entries. Bizarre fantasies. Suicide notes. Lists of favorite movies and music. Threatening letters. Complaints. A one act play.

These are the writings of men and boys (they are all males) who have committed some of the worst peacetime massacres in the world.

Some of the writings are short, raising more questions than they answer. Some are long and compulsively detailed. Some are introspective and insightful. Some are strange and clearly the products of disturbed minds. One or two make little sense at all.

These writers are isolated, broken, lonely. Many of them are angry. Very, very angry. And they want to seek revenge on the people and society who wronged them.

You will be amazed, horrified, and fascinated. You may find the thoughts expressed uncomfortably similar to your own. You may dip into this book each day, entranced by nightmarish acts and deranged flights of fancy. You may stay up late at night, and read the whole thing in one sitting.

All of the writers committed, or attempted to commit, mass murder. All were either gunned down, captured, or killed themselves at the scene of their crimes.

In addition to the ones described above, the writers include:

Dylan Klebold, one half of the team that executed the Columbine Massacre, an event that has inspired other mass killers for over two decades;

Seung Cho, lone perpetrator of the Virginia Tech Massacre;

Richard Farley, who carried his obsession with a young female co-worker much too far;

And more than 20 others.

Check out these brief excerpts:

“Women should not have the right to choose who to mate and breed with. That decision should be made for them by rational men of intelligence. If women continue to have rights, they will only hinder the advancement of the human race...”
- Elliot Rodger

“Films hold enormous power. I believe that costume dramas in particular are a good way to make white people proud of their history and physical beauty. I believe only the most beautiful people should be allowed to act. A beautiful person can make a mediocre film wonderful.”
- Dylann Roof

“There is nothing that any of you could have done to prevent this from happening; it was my destiny, and sometimes destiny is a bitch.”
- Randy Stair

“My interests include listening to music, watching movies, internet piracy. I mostly have uploaded porno, ebooks, things like that. That has been my only joy in life. I will leave a sign on my profile there for any who wish to see it. Check out what I’ve uploaded. You may find our tastes are more similar than you realize.”
- Christopher Harper Mercer

“Greetings from the dead. You have received this letter after a rather horrendous event.”
- Robert Flores

If you are a person who enjoys true crime, and gaining insight into the minds of the people who did it, Exit Plan is for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: StrawberryBooks
• Release date: Dec 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005169756

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Introduction

Mass shooters usually want to get even.

The media and the society at large would like you to believe that mass shooters are evil. As is often the case with mainstream thinking, the reality is quite a bit more complicated, and less appealing. The motivation for a mass killing is usually revenge.

It could be that serial killers are simply evil. Your typical serial killer is a psychopath, who tries to appear outwardly normal, often with a great deal of success. Serial killers usually have an itch they’re trying to scratch, some sort of dark desire, usually sexual, they need to fill.

Mass shooters are different. Far from appearing normal, they are often loners and outcasts. Many were bullied as children and teenagers; school shooters in particular fit this bill. Almost every mass shooter has two very distinct characteristics. They are miserable and depressed enough to be willing to die, and angry or paranoid enough that they blame others for their suffering, which for them has become unbearable.

This book is a collection of writings by mass shooters. It includes diaries, blog entries, excuses, suicide notes, shorts stories, screeds, explanations, and even a play.

Most mass shooters plot for days, months, even years before they lash out against the world that they feel has hurt them so. In their warped minds, they have been wronged and the only way to fix it is through a cataclysm of violence. With this one incredibly violent act towards others, and often themselves, they will fix the years of injustices they have endured in silence.

There are other types of mass shooters as well. Some are terrorists. Some are motivated by fame, the desire to impress, to get attention. Others do it simply for the thrill.

It’s hard to know for sure what the motivation was in every case. In large part, this is because many wind up dead, some without leaving a message behind.

Not so with the mass shooters in this book. Through their writings we get a glimpse of their thoughts about the world, about what they did, and why they did it.

It’s okay to be curious as to why these people killed, to want to get into their minds. It doesn’t make you a bad person to want to read the preoccupations, bizarre logic and viewpoints of mass shooters.

It does none of us any good to ignore minds like these. Disregarding the actions and motivations of these people does not make them go away.

The writings in this book have not been edited, except for two reasons. One was to redact the names or personal information of certain individuals to protect their privacy, and the other, in the cases of Robert Flores and Valery Fabrikant, was for length.

Adam Lanza

On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza killed his mother by shooting her four times in the head as she slept in her bed. He then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where he shot and killed 20 first-graders and six educators. Most of the killings occurred in two of the school's first-grade classrooms; 14 students were murdered in one classroom, and six in another. Most of his victims were 6 or 7 years old.

Along with the Columbine killers, Lanza is arguably the most infamous school shooter in the world. He struggled with mental illness from an early age. He was obsessed with violence and had become increasingly isolated before the murders. Some experts feel he had undiagnosed schizophrenia. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the head when police arrived at the scene of his massacre.

The following is a short story written by Lanza.

I am writing this more for my own comfort than for anything - I do not want to feel the loneliness I do. Though it is ironic that I feel this loneliness when surrounded by people. People may not be an accurate description of these creatures, however. It is creatures such as these that have driven me from my former life as a vagabond and into this abandoned shack which is now my sanctuary. They cannot enter, it appears, though I have not ascertained the reason. They indubitably know that I am inside, though. If I survive the night, I should be safe for the next day. This infernal noise they emanate will have subsided and they will have fled - they work in the darkness when we are most susceptible. Curse this mindless noise. It is all around this shack. If they enter, I am not sure what I would do. I immediately closed the latch on the door and fled upstairs and could not look around below, mostly owing to my lack of any source of light. It is a miracle I stumbled across this sanctuary. Upon stumbling up the stairs, I entered this room at the top of the steps. I fumbled around and found this functioning lantern which gives me this hope and simultaneously perhaps will be my downfall because the creatures know exactly where I am. Perhaps I could use this lamp against them if they manage to enter, but I do not believe they fear light in the way some may assume. I pray that I live to tomorrow - I may then have a chance. I am not sure what I will do first if I survive until tomorrow - I am not sure of anything. I am only writing this to comfort myself in this situation, not as a record of my activities but as a record of my emotions. Although I should think of the possible future. For now, I pray that they do not enter.

I managed to survive last night and now am writing on the following night. Last night, as dawn approached, the crawling gradually receded and I decided it would be appropriate (that is not the word I wanted) to sleep and regain my energy. What was I thinking? I am now here awake at night when I could have utilized that time while the sun was shining to strengthen my defenses. Upon awakening, I decided that I would survey the damage that the babies caused. I nervously stepped outside and immediately noticed how normal everything seemed. The babies made no attempt at entering. What were they doing crawling outside if not attempting to enter? They clearly knew I was inside.

Elliot Rodger

Elliot Rodger killed 6 people as the perpetrator of the Isla Vista, California Massacre which occurred on May 23, 2014. His first three victims were Chinese exchange students - all young men, two of whom were his roommates. He stabbed them to death at his apartment. The last three were killed with a gun during a rampage in the town. 14 others were injured, either by gunshot or by Rodger hitting them with his car. He has since become a hero to a segment of so-called incels - involuntary celibates - men who cannot find female sexual partners. He is known as The Supreme Gentleman and Saint Elliot in those circles.

Rodger was convinced his misery was caused by his lack of success with women. His massacre was to be his Day of Retribution for what women had put him through over the course of his life. He attempted to enter a sorority house in the hope of killing all the young women he found there, but the door was locked. So he attacked random people he found on the streets instead. After Rodger was wounded by the police, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

The following is an excerpt from his autobiography, My Twisted World.

The ultimate evil behind sexuality is the human female. They are the main instigators of sex. They control which men get it and which men don’t. Women are flawed creatures, and my mistreatment at their hands has made me realize this sad truth.

There is something very twisted and wrong with the way their brains are wired. They think like beasts, and in truth, they are beasts. Women are incapable of having morals or thinking rationally. They are completely controlled by their depraved emotions and vile sexual impulses. Because of this, the men who do get to experience the pleasures of sex and the privilege of breeding are the men who women are sexually attracted to… the stupid, degenerate, obnoxious men.

I have observed this all my life. The most beautiful of women choose to mate with the most brutal of men, instead of magnificent gentlemen like myself.

Women should not have the right to choose who to mate and breed with. That decision should be made for them by rational men of intelligence. If women continue to have rights, they will only hinder the advancement of the human race by breeding with degenerate men and creating stupid, degenerate offspring. This will cause humanity to become even more depraved with each generation. Women have more power in human society than they deserve, all because of sex. There is no creature more evil and depraved than the human female.

Women are like a plague. They don’t deserve to have any rights. Their wickedness must be contained in order to prevent future generations from falling to degeneracy. Women are vicious, evil, barbaric animals, and they need to be treated as such.

In fully realizing these truths about the world, I have created the ultimate and perfect ideology of how a fair and pure world would work. In an ideal world, sexuality would not exist. It must be outlawed. In a world without sex, humanity will be pure and civilized. Men will grow up healthily, without having to worry about such a barbaric act. All men will grow up fair and equal, because no man will be able to experience the pleasures of sex while others are denied it. The human race will evolve to an entirely new level of civilization, completely devoid of all the impurity and degeneracy that exists today.

In order to completely abolish sex, women themselves would have to be abolished. All women must be quarantined like the plague they are, so that they can be used in a manner that actually benefits a civilized society. In order to carry this out, there must exist a new and powerful type of government, under the control of one divine ruler, such as myself.

The ruler that establishes this new order would have complete control over every aspect of society, in order to direct it towards a good and pure place. At the disposal of this government, there needs to be a highly trained army of fanatically loyal troops, in order to enforce such revolutionary laws.

The first strike against women will be to quarantine all of them in concentration camps. At these camps, the vast majority of the female population will be deliberately starved to death. That would be an efficient and fitting way to kill them all off. I would take great pleasure and satisfaction in condemning every single woman on earth to starve to death. I would have an enormous tower built just for myself, where I can oversee the entire concentration camp and gleefully watch them all die. If I can’t have them, no one will, I’d imagine thinking to myself as I oversee this. Women represent everything that is unfair with this world, and in order to make the world a fair place, they must all be eradicated.

A few women would be spared, however, for the sake of reproduction. These women would be kept and bred in secret labs. There, they will be artificially inseminated with sperm samples in order to produce offspring. Their depraved nature will slowly be bred out of them in time.

Future generations of men would be oblivious to these remaining women’s existence, and that is for the best. If a man grows up without knowing of the existence of women, there will be no desire for sex. Sexuality will completely cease to exist. Love will cease to exist. There will no longer be any imprint of such concepts in the human psyche. It is the only way to purify the world.

In such a pure world, the man’s mind can develop to greater heights than ever before. Future generations will live their lives free of having to worry about the barbarity of sex and women, which will enable them to expand their intelligence and advance the human race to a state of perfect civilization.

Luke Woodham

Early in the morning on October 1, 1997 in Pearl, Mississippi, Luke Woodham stabbed his mother to death as she was preparing to go for a jog. He then went to Pearl High School and shot and killed two people, including his ex-girlfriend, and injured 7 others. He was detained at gunpoint by the assistant principal while attempting to escape. When asked at the scene why he did this, he stated Life has wronged me, sir. Woodham later testified he had no recollection of killing his mother.

In theory, Woodham was part of a satanic cult who influenced his decision to kill. His defense team at trial opined he suffered from mental illness and was under the leader of the cult’s control. He has been sentenced to life plus 140 years in prison.

What follows is a note from Woodham to Grant Boyette, the defacto leader of the cult.

I am not insane! I am angry. This world has shit on me for the final time. I am not spoiled or lazy, for murder is not weak and slow-witted, murder is gutsy and daring. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society push us and we will push back! I suffered all my life. No one ever truly loved me. No one ever truly cared about me. I only loved one thing in my whole life and that was [girl’s name]. But she was torn away from me. I tried to save myself with [another girl’s name], but she never cared for me. As it turns out, she made fun of me behind my back while we were together. And all throughout my life I was ridiculed. Always beaten, always hated.

Can you, society, truly blame me for what I do? Yes, you will, the ratings wouldn’t be high enough if you didn’t, and it would not make good gossip for all the old ladies. But I shall tell you one thing, I am malicious because I am miserable. The world has beaten me. Wednesday October 1, 1997 shall go down in history as the day I fought back. (At this time Grant, say what you will, when you are through I ask you to read to them sec. 125 of the Gay Science the madmen. Grant, see you in the holding cell!). I, Luke Woodham, being of sound mind and body, do hereby will to Grant Boyette my books. To Lucas Thompson: my guitars and amplifier and their equipment. Also, all of my guitar magazines and guitar books. I leave my music and lyrics to Lucas Thompson, so that he may perform them. I also leave my other writings of philosophy and poetry