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Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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🗓️ 20 April 2019

⏱️ 310 minutes

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April 20, 1999. Seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold enter Columbine High School armed with bombs and guns, murdering twelve students and a teacher, while injuring dozens more in what becomes the most iconic school shooting in US history. In the aftermath, a shocked community, and even the nation, searched for understanding that wouldn’t come easily. Twenty years later, we still want to know the answer to one question: why? Join host Ryan Kraus for a journey through the evolutionary architecture of existence, starting 200,000 years ago with the foundations of modern humanity, moving through the times of Egyptian pyramids, to the formation of the post-WWII middle class mindset, to the rise of Marilyn Manson, the mental health crisis, and finally, inside the doors of Columbine High School on that fateful day as he examines how we ended up with Eric and Dylan, why they killed, and, most importantly, how we can address the problem to finally put an end to mass shootings.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to Cold Case Murder Mysteries.
0:09.0	I'm your host Ryan Kraus taking the wheel once again as we delve deep into the unsettling psychology of one of the more
0:15.3	infamous criminal events of the 20th century, which is the massacre that occurred at Columbine
0:20.1	High School near Littleton, Colorado on April 20th, 1999.
0:24.7	Two students, seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold, unleashed their wrath upon the school
0:30.0	shortly after 11 a.m. armed with sawed-off shotguns, a semi-automatic Tech 9, a 9mm rifle,
0:37.3	explosives including pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails and large propane bombs planted in the cafeteria.
0:44.0	Their intention was to blow up the high school and then shoot the terrified
0:48.0	survivors as they fled the building, all of which would be carried out as a
0:51.3	revenge plot for the suffering they endured at the hands of their fellow classmates before taking their own lives too.
0:57.0	In the aftermath of the crime, a stunned nation watched as the community reeled in the agony of its loss, seemingly unable to even
1:05.0	fully comprehend the magnitude of the tragedy that had befallen the students at Columbine High School.
1:10.8	But as the dust settled, and the shock turned to grief, everybody was left with one question.
1:17.0	Why?
1:18.0	Why did 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Kleibold, two bright kids from good families living a traditional
1:26.4	middle class American life, turned to murder.
1:30.5	Why did they kill 12 students and one teacher while injuring dozens more in a plot that was designed to leave everybody at the school dead on that fateful day?
1:40.0	Raised in loving homes and not subjected to abuse.
1:44.0	What made the monsters?
1:46.0	That question has been explored exhaustively.
1:49.0	However, we still have no solution to the problem of mass shootings in today's high schools,
1:54.0	and so the endeavor of social enlightenment hasn't proven a very efficient method for resolving the issue.
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