The School Shooters .info team is hard at work on a new version of this website. School Shooters .info 4.0 will represent a complete overhaul of the functionality and design of the site and will introduce a wealth of new data, features, and documents. As part of the reimagining of the site, every in-house document (i.e., every document created or redesigned by us) is in the process of being newly copyedited, typeset, and proofread to higher standards than ever before. In anticipation of the launch of SS.I 4.0, we are publishing some of these new versions of documents on the current site. Such newly edited and designed documents are marked with “[SS.I 4.0]” at the start of their descriptions. These documents should be considered provisional, and we may continue to make small adjustments to them without incrementing their version numbers. Normal versioning will resume once the new website is launched. More information on the next iteration of School Shooters .info will be posted on this page as our work progresses.
Update, 7 July 2025: Introducing DOIs
We are proud to announce that, with the upcoming launch of School Shooters .info 4.0, all of our documents created in-house will carry DOIs for the first time. In preparation for this, we are assigning DOIs to documents as we re-edit and re-typeset them, meaning that some documents on the current site — the ones listed below — already have DOIs assigned. Many of our readers will already be familiar with the concept of DOIs, digital identifiers for academic articles and other documents that are widely used in academic citations. Adding DOIs makes it easier than ever before for researchers to find, share, and cite our documents.
School Shooters .info DOIs always begin with the sequence “10.64247/” and conclude with a series of six digits. Once the new site is launched, going to the URL https://doi.org/, followed by one of our DOIs, will lead you to information about the relevant document and a link to the current version of the document on our site. Please note that our DOIs will not be active in this way until the launch of School Shooters .info 4.0. In the meantime, some researchers may be comfortable citing our documents by DOI, knowing that these locators will eventually be active; others may prefer to wait until the relaunch, at which point our DOIs will be registered with the international authorities and will function accordingly.
DOIs for our in-house documents may be found at the foot of the first page. They are also included in the PDF file metadata. These DOIs are intended to be stable across all versions of a document; in other words, they will not change when a document is revised and will always point to the most current version of the document.
In-house documents that have been re-edited, re-typeset, assigned DOIs, and provisionally published in new form, or that are now being published for the first time:
“William Atchison’s FBI Interview”
“The Search for Truth at Columbine”
“Don’t Name Them, Don’t Show Them, but Report Everything Else”
“JCSO Columbine Documents Organized by Theme”
“School Shooters on College Campuses”
“Multi-Victim School Shootings in the United States”
“Not-So-Random Acts of Violence”
“The Columbine ‘Basement Tapes’”
“Themes in the Writings of Eric Harris”
“Adam Lanza’s Call to AnarchyRadio”
“Dorothy Dutiel’s Suicide Notes"
“Adam Lanza’s Audio Recordings”
“Influences on the Ideology of Eric Harris”
“Elliot Rodger’s ‘Retribution’ Video”
“Jesse Osborne’s Instagram Account”
“Dylan Klebold’s Journal and Other Writings”
“Kenneth Bartley’s Suicide Note”
“The Enigma of Adam Lanza’s Mind and Motivations for Murder”
“Two Personal Messages from Adam Lanza”
“Natalie Rupnow’s ‘Manifesto’”
“An Interview with Sky Bouche”
“Legal Histories of School Shooters”
“Duane Morrison’s Suicide Note”
“School Shooters — Nine Brief Sketches”
“My Conversations with Sue Klebold”
“Education — Failures and Family Involvement”
“Ten Lessons Learned from School Shootings and Foiled Attacks”
“Michael Slobodian’s Suicide Note”
“The Escola Estadual Professor Raul Brasil Shooting”
[Last updated 14 July 2025]