Kip Kinkel
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tempted murder on Sept. 24, for
killing his parents and two
Thurston High School students
while on a shooting rampage in
the school’s cafeteria on May 21,
1998. Mattison will decide
whether Kinkel should serve a
consecutive sentence for the
counts of attempted murder — ei
ther 25 years or 220 years.
The hearing began with testi
mony from Lane County Sheriffs
Detective Pamelia McComas,
who helped search the Kinkel res
idence the morning of the shoot
ing.
McComas said she entered the
house about three hours after the
Thurston High School shooting
and, with the soundtrack to the
movie “Romeo and Juliet” blaring
on the stereo, found the bodies of
Kinkel’s parents, Bill and Faith,
as well as weapons and state
ments from Kinkel.
McComas said trails of blood
around the house suggested that
the bodies had been moved.
Blood on the kitchen counter in
dicated that Bill Kinkel was shot
while sitting at the breakfast bar,
and then moved to the bathroom,
where Kinkel covered him with a
white sheet. He was shot once in
the head.
In a taped interview, Kinkel
said, “I didn’t know what to do so
I dragged him into the bathroom
and put a white sheet over him.”
McComas said it appeared that
Faith Kinkel was shot while
walking up the stairs from the
garage to the house. Kinkel left a
trail of blood while dragging his
mother to the garage floor, also
covering her with a white sheet.
Faith Kinkel was shot five times
in the head and once in the chest.
After searching the house, Mc
Comas said she found Kinkel’s
thoughts in the form of a journal.
“I am always alone. I try so
hard every day but in the end I
hate myself for what I’ve be
come,” the journal read. “I hate
every person on this earth, and I
wish they’d all go away.”
The journal also included
many calls for help.
“I am strong but my head just
doesn’t work right... I need help.
Why aren’t I normal? Help me ...
no one will...”
McComas also reported finding
piles of bullets, knives and a
wooden human silhouette at the
Kinkel residence.
In response to testimony given
Chris Pietsch The Associated Press/Pool
Dawna Nickolauson, mother of Mikael Nickolauson, one of two students killed
by Kinkel, pauses to wipe her eye after leaving the sentencing hearing.
by Springfield Police Detective
Alan Worthen, the officer who
first questioned Kinkel, defense
attorneys played the tape record
ing of Kinkel’s preliminary police
interview. On the tape, an upset
and sobbing Kinkel described
how he killed his mother.
On the tape, Kinkel told police
detectives that he said “I love
you” to his mother before he shot
her.
Worthen questioned Kinkel
about a possible bomb placed in a
fire extinguisher. Kinkel denied
the bomb’s existence and
Worthen believed him.
Eugene Police Officer Sean Mc
Gann, also officer for the Explo
sive Disposal Unit, later discov
ered the fire extinguisher device
in a crawl space under Kinkel’s
house. When the fire extinguish
er was detonated, McGann said it
was a “very powerful explosion.”
Pieces of the fire extinguisher
were propelled more than 100
feet in the air, he said.
McGann reported finding
many other explosive devices in
the Kinkel home, including fire
works, a ticking device connected
to explosive material, a can of
black powder and a bomb-like de
vice made out of soda cans put to
gether with black electrical tape
connected to a fuse.
K-9 units searched the house to
detect any other dangerous in
struments but were unable to re
main focused due to the number
of different chemicals and explo
sives, McGann said.
Additional testimony was of
fered by Kinkel’s former class
mates.
Adam Pearce said that the
morning of the shooting, Kinkel
warned him not to go to school
because it was “a bad day.”
Some students testified that
Kinkel did not only shower the
cafeteria with bullets but seemed
to deliberately seek out some vic
tims.
“Kip pulled out a gun and
pointed it at Ben [Walker], but it
didn’t fire. He looked frustrated.
He cocked it and shot him in the
head,” Ben Underwood testified.
Walker, along with Michael
Nicholauson, was killed in the
shooting.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Harassment
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“I hope this person is found as
soon as possible,” he said.
ASUO Vice President Mitra
Anoushiravani said she supports
looking into requiring passwords
if the directory continues to be
abused.
“This is the first negative expe
rience [with the directory] I’ve
heard about,” she said. “It’s upset
ting that we can’t trust our system
to protect us, and it’s upsetting
that these women were harassed
in this way. I hope the University
community can help the women
who were harassed.”
Jennie Breslow, Women’s Cen
ter spokeswoman, said if people
get threatening phone calls, they
should hang up the phone and
call OPS or the police non-emer
gency line.
“He wants to know that he’s
scared you,” she said. “That’s
why it’s best to not engage in con
versation with him.”
Though threatening phone
calls are often trivialized, they are
a serious invasion and cause a
heightened sense of fear, said
Sarah McCafferty, a senior sociol
ogy and women’s studies double
major who volunteers for the
spacecrisis hotline.Threatening
phone calls “arise fear that you
wouldn’t normally have,” McCaf
ferty said.
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