To use this feature, use a newer browser. This is a carousel with slides. On Thursday, April 22, Tom Klebold called and asked for help. Comment. Tell them about these good people., Pastor Donald Marxhausen Dylan and Eric planned a large-scale bombing of their high school, hoping to take out five hundred lives in seconds and top the record for deadliest terrorist attack in American history. Then Dylans father Tom said, Who the hell gave a gun to my son? They favored dark clothing, as did others in their loose and relatively tiny clique, the so-called Trenchcoat Mafia. Byron indicated he is no longer living at the residence but returned to the residence when he heard about the incident at Columbine. There's where you screwed up!' I worked for several years with Sue Klebold at Arapahoe Community College. 1999-04-21. Bnai Chaim, the Jewish congregation nearest to where the Klebolds reside in Littleton, has apparently never had contact with the family. "You absorb everyone else's pain, and after a while that catches up to you, big time." By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Dylan's friends said he had never been on a date; he may never even have asked a. Try again later. Marxhausen said Thomas Klebold, 52, a geophysicist who also runs a small mortgage company, and his wife, Susan, 50, who works with disabled college students, have told him that their dead son's bizarre interests were a secret to them. And why didn't they know more? There are some people who saw the sweet side of Dylan. based on information from your browser. And so when a desperate Tom Klebold phoned, the pastora liberal-minded Lutheranagreed to arrange a private service. Since existence has known, the 'fight' between good & evil has continued. Wed Nov 30, 2016 8:35 am. The drives up to the mountains were always peaceful, a certain halcyon hibernating within the tall peaks & the armies of pine trees. The final of the Basement Tape, reported to have been recorded . We have set your language to He admired Hitler, yet his great-great grandfather was a respected Jewish philanthropist in Ohio. and our Franklin Graham was beating me up through my TV, he says. Eric played Little League baseball and once rescued a neighbor's lost puppy. The two, both Columbine seniors, killed a dozen students and a teacher before taking their own lives. Marxhausen believes firmly in a loving, forgiving God and a nuanced approach to questions of salvation. 1 review. You have to feel bad for them, she said. GREAT NEWS! The West Bowles congregation filled the Bernall's living room the week after April 20, praying and crying and praying some more. I mean, he was still their son. This was considered one of the worst school shootings to occur at that time. He wasnt raised Jewish. The further Kirsten got from the tragedy, though, the more he began to crack. Tom and I had brought a number of Dylans childhood stuffed animals, and we placed them in the coffin so they rested against his cheeks and neck. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had openly admired Adolf Hitler. No words are adequate to describe the pain of seeing Dylans body in that casket. April 24, 1999 For those who attended the service, it was as if Dylans life had ended at age 12, not five years later in a murderous rampage that left 12 students, a teacher, and the two killers dead, and a nation grieving and groping for answers. Eileen Zajac. Signals about the familys religious practice grew even more mixed when it was reported that Dylan Klebold was buried Saturday in a Lutheran funeral. Andreas Lubitz, Adam Lanza, Dylan Klebold and Anders Breivik (from left to right) On the second . 'For not being someone he could come to and talk to, for not knowing how to listen properly to him, that's what I would wish from him. Despite his son's murderous behavior and treachery, David mourns his death. "I learned how fear can take hold of a community. Back to society. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. This may not actually mean it was an open casket, besides for the family, then closed for everyone else. Susan Francis Klebold ( ne Yassenoff; born March 25, 1949) is an American author and activist. Obviously, this fight can never end. 'Then you start to feel guilty, because as soon as you begin to feel happy, you begin to hate yourself. But I never thought it would hurt that much. Published: 17:21 GMT, 9 July 2021 | Updated: 00:59 GMT, 10 July 2021. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Dylan Klebold asked the traditional four questions, the Times reported. For the past 19 years, Sue Klebold, has tried and tried to make sense of what happened. Off to the races! She appeared onBBC Four documentary Raising a School Shooter where she broke down while remembering his funeral. Yes, the Ever-lasting contrast. Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were a pair of school shooters, bombers, and mass murderers responsible for the April 20, 1999 Columbine High School Massacre in Columbine, Colorado, which killed thirteen people and wounded 21 others before ending with both of their suicides. I never liked coffee, but I loved the smell. Harris was born in Wichita, Kansas, on April 9, 1981. The 72-year-old said broke don in floods of tears as she revealed that her son was laid to rest in a cardboard box, and that she was terrified to leave the premise in case someone 'hurt him' or stole his body, 'I got home and before long a SWAT team got there and a detective and it was just craziness', said Sue. Funeral de Dylan Klebold. Staff writer Michael A. Fletcher contributed to this report. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Police said the parents of both teenagers "are being interviewed" in detail by investigators. Their teenage son, along with his classmate Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. Marxhausen hated the whole thing. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. A teen-age girl began screaming when she read a note addressed to Harris and Klebold left at a memorial site near Columbine HS. I said, Lets just sit and talk for a while. I turned it off., Still, Marxhausen might have survived the Columbine tragedy with his job intact were it not for his continued relationship with the Kleboldsand his very public support of them. He wrestles with those memories to this day. Cassie Bernall, a Columbine junior, had been shot in cold blood as she crouched under a library table, and word was that in her final seconds she answered her murderer's question and affirmed her belief in God. DENVER Dylan Klebold, one of two suspects in last weeks bloodbath at Columbine High School, led a life of contradictions. Despite being tormented by guilt, Sue says she is finally in a better place, and has 'plenty to be thankful for'. In youth-group meetings, kids mourned that they could not be in heaven with her, says Craig Nason, who was a friend of Cassie's and is now the West Bowles young-adult pastor. Your new password must contain one or more uppercase and lowercase letters, and one or more numbers or special characters. A subreddit focused on constructive discussion to better understand the events that took place surrounding the mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. At this time I completed an interview with Dylans brother, Byron Klebold (DOB 10-23-78). Now. But if there is a student who truly understood them, he or she has yet to emerge. cemeteries found within kilometers of your location will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Failed to report flower. Dylan Bennett Klebold. Long-time friends arrived; one couple was from my church. More than 2,500 people flooded the sanctuary of West Bowles Community Church, where Cassie had been a member. Since existence has known, the 'fight' between good & evil has continued. However, Marxhausen did speak to the New York Times this week and told its reporters that the Klebold family held a Passover seder in its home this year. Police have identified neo-Nazism and a fascination with Adolf Hitler as among several hate-oriented themes that influenced the pair. ..definitely seeing Bryons resemblance at first glance of this one. Columbine Massacre Suicide Photos. A buddy finally persuaded Kirsten to go to the VA hospital, where he was diagnosed as being 80 percent disabled with PTSD. Try again later. "I wished for my son to kill himself, and he did," Susan Klebold said. Who'll find love on our blind date? He stated that Dylan did wear a black trench coat and that he acted like he was tough. When asked about friends, Byron was only familiar with three, Zack, Eric and Nate. Would I do a funeral for his son? . Getty, AP, AP, AFP/Getty. That wasnt the young man Susan Klebold raised. Duchess dons $1,610 Carolina Herrera cape, $300 vegan leather Lovely in lilac! Dylan Klebold was meek, self-conscious, shy. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Weve updated the security on the site. Sucks for everyone else. LITTLETON, Colo., April 24 The parents of Dylan Klebold, one of the teenage shooters in the Columbine High School massacre, said goodbye to their dead son today at a private memorial service, joined by 11 other mourners and a minister who later described the Klebold family as being "in terrible shape.". We never taught any prejudice in our home. I want to buy the book so bad! Monarch is radiant in blue on a tour Bea's blooming! On the Sunday between Dylan's funeral and Cassie's, 70,000 mourners gathered in a parking lot to listen to Franklin Graham, among others, proclaim the gospel. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Wow :/ and on top of that pain she has the knowledge that his final actions were pure evil. Don Marxhausen believed that Dylans parents deserved to hear the message of Gods grace. Dylan was remembered as a Cub Scout who attended church with his family. "We rely heavily on scripture," says Kirsten, "and on the premise that Christ is the ultimate forgiver, the ultimate lover, and that only through him can we know the Lord.". [Dylan] never talked that way to me. As the son of a geophysicist father and a mother who worked with the disabled, his upper-middle-class upbringing and well-meaning family didn't seem like contributing factors to his eventual killing spree. With the disclosure by police today that one of the teenagers kept a year-long diary containing elaborate plans for the attack, attention focused anew on the parents of Klebold and Harris. Learn more about managing a memorial . Marxhausen, now nearly 70, is a burly, plain-spoken man who arrived in Littleton in 1990, and built St. Philip Lutheran Church into a thriving, mainline congregation with more than 1,000 members. His father was very enraged that day, asking who would give his son a gun. On April 20, 1999, I watched the television in disbelief as the tragic events unfolded at Columbine High School. Lived: 6430 days = 17 years. We were finally by his side, a family again. Sorry to make another post, but I found yet another photograph of Tom Klebold from when he was attending Springfield High School in 1962. His long, skinny body fit awkwardly into the cardboard casket where it would lie until cremation. His friends have said that he was cremated. Tom is a geophysicist, Sue works with handicapped people. The pastor of that church, Rev. I'm going to kill you all. It was very important to me that I immediately tell Sue that I was there to love her and comfort her, and that I was not sitting in judgment of her. As he preached, Marxhausen could see Dylan, laid out before him in an open coffin. Nothing made sense. I never liked salmon eggs, too much gooey crap that gets on your fingers. "She said yes with her life. When he came back in September, "it was clear this wasn't my church anymore," he says. I smoothed Dylan's hair and kissed his forehead, searching his face for clues and finding none. As a boy, he was in the Boy. Cast, Reel, etc. He had survived a helicopter crash in Vietnam; two months later he had watched as fellow crew members aboard the USS Enterprise burned alive. Kirsten was there for all of it. All we have in the house is a BB gun to shoot the woodpeckers. Except for issuing a statement last week expressing sorrow at their sons actions, the Klebolds have refused all media requests for comments or interviews. 'Somehow we were lesser human beings we were evil, we were people who did not know how to raise children, there were a world of people who hated us.'. When asked about his relationship with Dylan, Byron indicated that he was not very close to Dylan since he moved out in July of 1997. He could barely speak in front of a stranger, especially a girl. Normally unflappable, Klebolds mother was disgusted by her sons blood-sucking treasures; Dylan loved it, the fun of grossing out Mom. 'I was exposed to all the horrible things people believed to be true about us,' she said. He was asked to start a nondenominational evangelical church in the 1980s, just as the megachurch movement was beginning to take off. I would wake up to black skies & coffee bean aromas making their way around the house. ", "Instead of 'Absalom,'" Marxhausen said, "I substituted 'Dylan.'". For more information, please see our Eric's understanding of circuitry was shaky at best, though, and the bombing was a failure. That unfamiliar expression was perhaps the only thing that allowed us to get through that first, horrific, unreal moment. which Sues friend talks about having worked with Dylans mother for a couple of years prior to helping her arrange her son Dylans cremation. He was the second child of Thomas and Susan and the brother of Byron, three years older. Don Marxhausen said of the parents, Thomas and Susan Klebold. Dylan Klebold helped perpetrate one of the bloodiest school shootings in history, indelibly etching the name Columbine into our collective memories. I didnt know he could do this. Susan Klebold, former director of disability services at Arapahoe Community College, also works as assistant director of Access to Employment Projects for the Colorado Community College and Occupational Education System in Denver. Their shared hatred of teachers, students, and administrators enabled them to develop one of the most sinister plans to destroy lives this country has ever known. Across the road from Klebolds upscale cedar-and-glass home, neighbor Tammi Trojan, 15, remembered the playmate she met seven years ago. My disbelief turned into sadness as I learned that John Tomlin, a boy from my church, Foothills Bible Church, died in the library that day. Please reset your password. He was too late, however, to be useful as a mediator. And darn if I heard anything that made me think, 'Ah! Laughlin was driving his Mistubishi Galant, headed off . When your 17-year-old son has just perpetrated what was then the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, killing 12 students and one teacher and wounding 24 others before he and classmate Eric. After the shooting, Sue considered leaving her hometown, but decided against it so she could stay close to her support network of friends and neigbours who have stuck by her side. "They keep asking themselves, 'What happened? 'I decided to keep my name and stop hiding eventually and just acknowledge who I was,' she said. He admired Hitler, yet his great-great grandfather was a respected Jewish philanthropist in Ohio. Tom and I failed to recognize these conditions and to curtail the influences - violent entertainment, his friendship with Eric - that exacerbated them. After the killing: How parents of attackers cope. This browser does not support getting your location. In his sermon, Marxhausen spoke of God's love. They then killed themselves in the school library. Eric kind of let his feelings be known, his hatreds or dislikes. Telephone calls from the Jewish News to Marxhausen were not returned this week. Resend Activation Email. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. There was a myth going around that the boys were bullied and shot up the school to get back at the jocks and the people that called them . ", Marxhausen said the Klebolds have remained in seclusion because they fear "all the anger and scapegoating and blame-pointing.". The clean-cut, grieving classmates of the fallen tried to make sense of what was senseless. Emotions continued to run high in Littleton as families prepare for a string of funeral and memorial services for the victims of Harris and Klebolds Tuesday rampage. Over the next 10 years, Kirsten's persistent evangelicalism would make him the target of accusations that he was exploiting a tragedy. The elder Yassenoff and his son, Milton Yassenoff, were members of the Columbus Reform congregation, Temple Israel, the Dispatch reported. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. We are against guns. Susan said, How could he be anti-Semitic? Exhausted by the tragedy, Marxhausen took a three-month sabbatical. ", "Columbine Killers' Basement Tapes Destroyed", "$2.53 Million Deal Ends Some Columbine Lawsuits", "Columbine High School Shootings Fast Facts", "Columbine Shooter Dylan Klebold's Parents Speak Out", "Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold's mother to hold first TV interview", "Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast: 'A Mother's Reckoning', "#2 New York Times bestseller: "Mesmerizing, heart-stopping. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. Chaplain, Adams County Jail, Colorado. Dylan Klebold's diaries were just sad. . Harris's father, Wayne, 50, is a retired Air Force pilot who works in aviation safety as a civilian, and his mother, Kathy, 49, runs a catering business. This monster, she told her hairdresser, Dee Grant, tears coming down her cheeks, was not the son I knew.. or don't show this againI am good at figuring things out. Klebold's first journal entry was on March 30th, 1997, in which he refers to his depression on the front . It was horrifying to see him in that mode. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. "She Said Yes" became an instant bestseller. There was his mother Susans favorite story: One afternoon, Dylan, age 10, came running back from the creek with a pile of leeches. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. Marxhausen hated the whole thing. Please try again later. There is a July 1999 article in a magazine called "The Director which is a publication for professionals in the mortuary biz. Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 - April 20, 1999) was an American high school senior and one of the two students who committed the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999. Done. Thats where I think I started getting in trouble with my church, says Marxhausen. My fav. A 'Gentle Boy,' His Parents Told Investigators, Klebold Was Enrolled in an Elementary School Program for High Intellectual Potential Students. There was little sign of activity in the darkened Klebold household or at Harrisses two-story home on a quiet cul-de-sac. Columbine would open the floodgates of Kirsten's memory. Family members linked to this person will appear here. They would remain at peace with themselves, and with anyone who would respect them. KLEboLD: Being shy didn't help. Older brother, Byron, reading The Transformers animated series book while Dylan intently listens with posed, expressive fingers. 26 March 2017. His hands were folded on his chest, and stuffed animals surrounded him. And so when a desperate Tom Klebold phoned, the pastora liberal-minded Lutheranagreed to arrange a private service. Yet the Rev. "These parents have been tearing their insides out, trying to understand what the heck happened," said Marxhausen, who has been the family's pastor at St. Philip Lutheran Church here since last summer. That unfamiliar expression was perhaps the only thing that allowed us to get through that first, horrific, unreal moment. Dylan Klebold's body was released to Horan & McConaty Funeral Home (303) 477-1625 . Appearing in BBC Four documentaryRaising a School Shooter, the 72-year-old said that her son was laid to rest in a cardboard box, and that she was terrified to leave the premise in case someone 'hurt him' or stole his body. While Dylan had run into trouble for stealing in the past, Sue believed her son was in a good place, happy that her he was employed, doing extracurricular activities and set to go to a university of his choice. Video screengrab Harris & Klebold 'Hitman' video screengrab. cemeteries found in will be saved to your photo volunteer list. . countless times, and my mind would wander to wherever it would want to go. ", But at West Bowles, the Cassie legend was not thenand is not nowa matter of debate. ___Instead, on April 20, he and friend Eric Harris, 18, allegedly killed 12 students and one teacher and injured almost two dozen classmates in the worst school shooting in U.S. history. "Then the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept," as the Bible tells it. As the months passed, new evidence began to show that it had not, in fact, been Cassie who "said yes." But thats enough, Columbine HS student Katie Kirk, 15, said bitterly of the idea. But if the parents knew what was going on in the home, with bombs being made, my attitude would change, obviously., 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, 'THAT JERK' PROSECUTOR TRIGGERS MRS. 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After meeting several times with the couple since Tuesday's shooting-and-bombing rampage at the school, Marxhausen tonight described the Klebolds as being at a loss to explain what drove their son, 17, and his friend Eric Harris, 18, to carry out the attack. After Dylans funeral, he described the killers parents as the loneliest people on the planet to The Denver Post. Try again later. Don Marxhausen, has told Denver area reporters that he has been consoling the Klebolds since last weeks tragedy. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. . Dylan recited the Four Questions at a Passover seder recently held at his family home, yet he was buried in a Lutheran service on Saturday. As a boy, he was in the Boy Scouts and . Here's details; After a 3rd brief shooting duel with the cops, Harris sat down, with his back against the bookshelf, he placed the grip of his shotgun between his legs, the barrel was in his mouth, leaned upwards. We didnt even know the family. Every so often, the waves would form a small pattern, & change current in an odd shape. It took the mother six months to fully acknowledge the extent of her son's crimes, with police having to show Sue evidence that proved the massacre was premeditated. His father Wayne was a U.S. Air Force transport pilot . We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. I loved the water. Byron and Tom and I held one anothers hands, and together we held Dylans. Despite being tormented by guilt, Sue says she is finally in a better place: 'You might have days where you start to smile or forget for a while who you are and what has happened to you. You absorb everyone elses pain, and after a while that catches up to you, big time. Still, he concedes, he left when his church needed him most. Tom was a geophysicist, Sue worked with handicapped people. I thought, Dylan would not say anything like that. My fav. Following the shooting, Sue said their entire community was 'in chaos', and that their local governor went on television to hold the parents responsible, which started 'open season on their family'. Princess Diana's nieces Lady Eliza and Amelia share Do not sell or share my personal information. To summarize it is readily apparent that both Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold felt a tremendous amount of rejection for real or imagined reasons. Wayne & Kathy Harris' son is widely seen as the . LITTLETON, Colo. As many as 100,000 people gathered yesterday to mourn the 13 victims of the Columbine High School massacre, waving flowers, hugging strangers and weeping . Note: what appears to be his white hair streak birth mark. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. On the Sunday between Dylans funeral and Cassies, 70,000 mourners gathered in a parking lot to listen to Franklin Graham, among others, proclaim the gospel. Princess Anne dons a vibrant brocade coat Queen of the cobbles! In 2003, Kirsten relinquished his pulpit, though he remains the senior pastor at West Bowles. We will remember him forever. 'I said out loud, "Darling help me understand what happened, that's all I want to understand". Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, killed 12 students and a teacher before taking their own lives at the school near Littleton on April 20, 1999. Dylan Bennet Klebold was born in Denver, Colo., on Sept. 11, 1981. The media circus had begun, and Tom, on the best of days, is a private person. ', Following the shooting, Sue says their entire community was 'in chaos', and that their local governor went on television to hold the parents responsible, which started 'open season on their family', Sue believed her son was in a good place, happy that her he was employed, doing extracurricular activities and set to go to a university of his choice. As I walked into the incredibly tension-filled room, I knew that the service I had prepared was not appropriate. I didnt know their last name, said Debbie Wilde, who lives two doors away. Both are from Columbus, Ohio and went to Ohio State University. Cross in remembrance of Dylan Klebold, who w. Friend Eric Harris went on shooting spree at Columbine High School killing 13 & ending in their. -police interview with Byron JC-001-010524 & 25. Toms sister and brother-in-law were the only other family members. But thats enough.COLUMBINE HS STUDENT KATIE KIRKERIC. U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-Current. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. Marxhausen, now nearly 70, is a burly, plain-spoken man who arrived in Littleton in 1990, and built St. Philip Lutheran Church into a thriving, mainline congregation with more than 1,000 members. Dylans funeral was an open casket. Instead, I went with a lour, even though this was a lake. So why was being grilled about her books on Mastermind so Why should I be asked to tip when I shop online? He said Klebold's remains are to be cremated and that funeral arrangements for Harris are still being worked out.