Connecticut school district on lockdown after shooting report at a Newtown elemen #8

[Noniegrace]

Between the times the police went screeching up to the house for evidence, no one seeing him in public, and this alarming emaciation my imagination is running wild. Could NL really be the only person who had seen this boy in years?? What on earth was going on in that house???

 

[Wendy101]

Why did mom get so much child support.. $10,000 on the 1st and 15th of every month? is it because Adam had some sort of undiagnosed disability or mental problem? I wonder if Adam had been a "normal" child, would the child support be so high? Was dad and lawye convinced that "only" Nancy could help him? Did Dad rerquest updates from the professionals that may have worked with his son?
I guess I really want to hear that Adam was under the control of professionals... Not just his mothers "I know my child best" professional help..

 

[CJMAJORGIRL24]

He quit school when he was 16.
School didn't have anything to report him for.

Sorry you must have misunderstood my post. I realize he quit school when he was 16. What I would like to know--is this

Does anyone have a link that says they saw the killer in person in the last 2 years?


I would like to know who was the last person to see or talk to him alive. Besides NL of course.

 

[jjenny]

Between the times the police went screeching up to the house for evidence, no one seeing him in public, and this alarming emaciation my imagination is running wild. Could NL really be the only person who had seen this boy in years?? What on earth was going on in that house???

She did have people in the house who describe seeing the basement. Apparently it looked very nice.

 

[MyBelle]

I usually agree with you, but not this time, Mister. :blushing:

Most boys his age might be buyin' beer, but not him. He would be buyin guns....or tryin to blame a horrific crime on his bro!! And really, it worked-there are still those who when asked who commited this crime, would claim the innocent one. jmo and all....

It is entirely possible that Adam did blame his life and his failures on his older bro and parents. The family had been highly dysfunctional for years, imo.

JMO

 

[jjenny]

It is entirely possible that Adam did blame his life and his failures on his older bro and parents. The family had been highly dysfunctional for years, imo.

JMO

And AL could have been jealous of his brother, who was normal and social.

 

[MyBelle]

Why did mom get so much child support.. $10,000 on the 1st and 15th of every month? is it because Adam had some sort of undiagnosed disability or mental problem? I wonder if Adam had been a "normal" child, would the child support be so high? Was dad and lawye convinced that "only" Nancy could help him? Did Dad rerquest updates from the professionals that may have worked with his son?
I guess I really want to hear that Adam was under the control of professionals... Not just his mothers "I know my child best" professional help..

Was she still getting child support? Adam was an adult.

 

[Wendy101]

Sorry you must have misunderstood my post. I realize he quit school when he was 16. What I would like to know--is this

Does anyone have a link that says they saw the killer in person in the last 2 years?


I would like to know who was the last person to see or talk to him alive. Besides NL of course.

From the articles I have read, the answer to your question is no. Other than when he attempted to purchase a gun day before shooting... While mom was at the spa or resort..

 

[Wendy101]

Was she still getting child support? Adam was an adult.

?? i don't know, maybe is wasn't child support she was getting.. I also thought if you have a child with a disability, that age is extended..

 

[MyBelle]

?? i don't know, maybe is wasn't child support she was getting.. I also thought if you have a child with a disability, that age is extended..

I don't know how, legally, the age could be extended. Adam was legally an adult. We've yet to hear of any disability that prevented him from living independently from his parents. And, financially, they would no longer be obligated to pay for his care if he indeed had a disability that prevented him from gainful employment.

JMO

 

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BBM
Do you have any thoughts as to why the ME would want to consult with a geneticist? Are there hereditary conditions that could cause such wasting?

I knew a kid, 15, who had Crohn's that was so skinny the school called his dad wondering if there was abuse or something. Mom let him eat the wrong stuff and tons of candy for a long while before dad finally got custody. He had really bad diarrhea all the time. Maybe wasn't taking his medication.

 

[CJMAJORGIRL24]

A friend of Nancy Lanza, who had done contracting work for her, was last in the home eight months ago and remembers seeing a lock box in the basement where Lanza kept her guns.

He describes her as a country girl from New Hampshire who grew up shooting.

The two of them bonded, partly because both had family members with autism, the friend said.

He also said he met Adam Lanza, who did not make eye contact or engage in conversation.

Lanza tried hard to mainstream her son, the friend said. He now questions whether she tried too hard to have him "fit in."

He says she took her son with her to the gun range because, she said, she couldn't always leave him at home.


***FROM THE SAME ARTICLE***

On Monday, just a few days after the massacre at the school, a schoolmate of Adam Lanza told CNN that he bumped into Nancy Lanza a while ago.

Alan Diaz, 20, who was a freshman at Newtown High School when Adam Lanza was a sophomore, asked her how her son was doing.

To Diaz, it seemed that Adam Lanza just disappeared from high school after his sophomore year, but it turns out that Lanza, then 16, was taking classes at Western Connecticut State University, a school spokesman said.

It was hard to forget a kid like Adam Lanza.

"I would call him a genius," Diaz said.

Lanza got a 3.26 GPA at WCSU, including an A in a computer class, the school spokesman told CNN, but Lanza took his last class in 2009 and didn't come back.

When Diaz and Lanza were classmates, Diaz went out of his way to include Adam Lanza when few others would, he said.

It worked, for a little while.

Lanza opened up, sometimes telling jokes to the other students. There he'd be, in the same plaid green button-up shirt and his khakis -- the weird kid, telling jokes.

So those few years later, seeing Adam Lanza's mother, Diaz just had to ask: How are things going with Adam?

"When I talked to Nancy that time, about how he was doing, she said he's been going to the (gun) range a lot recently," Diaz told CNN. "That he'd taken that up as a hobby."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/16/us/connecticut-nancy-lanza-profile/index.html

 

[time]

?? i don't know, maybe is wasn't child support she was getting.. I also thought if you have a child with a disability, that age is extended..

I thought somewhere it was said that money was alimony. I got the impression when they made the agreement she was taking care of Adam for life.... but maybe I read something wrong.

 

[SouthAussie]

Sorry you must have misunderstood my post. I realize he quit school when he was 16. What I would like to know--is this

Does anyone have a link that says they saw the killer in person in the last 2 years?


I would like to know who was the last person to see or talk to him alive. Besides NL of course.

These links say that the dad and an aunt saw him in June. Haven't seen anything more recent yet.

Mr Lanza had moved out in 2009, remarrying a University of Connecticut librarian in January 2011. He was said to have last seen his son Adam in June. But the painfully shy young man had taken the divorce badly.

Lanza's brother Ryan reportedly told police that his sibling had autism or Asperger's syndrome, and a personality disorder. Ryan also said that he had not seen him since 2010.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...Adam-Lanza-a-fiercely-intelligent-killer.html

Marsha added that her nephew had been raised by ‘kind, nurturing’ parents’. She said she last seen Adam in June but recalled nothing appeared out of the ordinary.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-remember-genius-turned-heartless-killer.html

 

[gngr~snap]

Could he play the video games without interracting with others online?

He could I guess.
He could just play and never say a word.

My son is 6 months younger than the killer.
He does not play anymore....
He has a job and a life! ~ no offense.

During summer breaks and school vacations
my son and his buddies would hunker down
for days playing Call of Duty and Halo.
They put away liters of soda, snacks
and ordered pizza.

Played for hours on end... crashed, got up and went again...
The room was TRASHED! No one had showered
for 3 days and it smelled like feet!
THEN they were over it....

Back to the girlfriends... etc.
They called it "bro time"

They wore head sets, and hollered at the other players.
One went to college, one into the Army and my son
just hasn't decided yet... Military or college.
I am ok with that (for now).
He doesn't know what he wants to do
yet and neither did I at 20..

MAYBE...
if the killer didn't talk he felt bullied?

I NEVER thought the games were harmful, but
if a vulnerable boy was playing that didn't speak.
:what: That might light a fuse.

If this happened continuously for 2 years...
I shudder to think what it could do.

moo

 

[jjenny]

From the articles I have read, the answer to your question is no. Other than when he attempted to purchase a gun day before shooting... While mom was at the spa or resort..

He didn't attempt to buy a gun. That story was debunked.

 

[time]

Nancy Lanza divorced Adam’s father, Peter, in 2008. Peter Lanza, now a vice president of taxes for GE Energy Financial Services, agreed to annual alimony payments that started at $240,000 and would have reached $298,800 in 2015.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/conn-gunman-learned-shoot-mom-article-1.1220893

 

[MyBelle]

A friend of Nancy Lanza, who had done contracting work for her, was last in the home eight months ago and remembers seeing a lock box in the basement where Lanza kept her guns.

He describes her as a country girl from New Hampshire who grew up shooting.

The two of them bonded, partly because both had family members with autism, the friend said.

He also said he met Adam Lanza, who did not make eye contact or engage in conversation.

Lanza tried hard to mainstream her son, the friend said. He now questions whether she tried too hard to have him "fit in."

He says she took her son with her to the gun range because, she said, she couldn't always leave him at home.


***FROM THE SAME ARTICLE***

On Monday, just a few days after the massacre at the school, a schoolmate of Adam Lanza told CNN that he bumped into Nancy Lanza a while ago.

Alan Diaz, 20, who was a freshman at Newtown High School when Adam Lanza was a sophomore, asked her how her son was doing.

To Diaz, it seemed that Adam Lanza just disappeared from high school after his sophomore year, but it turns out that Lanza, then 16, was taking classes at Western Connecticut State University, a school spokesman said.

It was hard to forget a kid like Adam Lanza.

"I would call him a genius," Diaz said.

Lanza got a 3.26 GPA at WCSU, including an A in a computer class, the school spokesman told CNN, but Lanza took his last class in 2009 and didn't come back.

When Diaz and Lanza were classmates, Diaz went out of his way to include Adam Lanza when few others would, he said.

It worked, for a little while.

Lanza opened up, sometimes telling jokes to the other students. There he'd be, in the same plaid green button-up shirt and his khakis -- the weird kid, telling jokes.

So those few years later, seeing Adam Lanza's mother, Diaz just had to ask: How are things going with Adam?

"When I talked to Nancy that time, about how he was doing, she said he's been going to the (gun) range a lot recently," Diaz told CNN. "That he'd taken that up as a hobby."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/16/us/connecticut-nancy-lanza-profile/index.html

If she was afraid of leaving him home alone eight months earlier, why did she go out of town to a spa?

 

[jjenny]

These links say that the dad and an aunt saw him in June. Haven't seen anything more recent yet.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...Adam-Lanza-a-fiercely-intelligent-killer.html



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-remember-genius-turned-heartless-killer.html

Daily mail got it all wrong. Marsha Lanza last saw AL when he was 3 years old. She did claim her husband visited AL in June.

"Marsha Lanza, of Crystal Lake, had not seen Adam since he was 3 years old. But she told NBC Chicago her husband visited him in June. She was closer with his mother, Nancy and corresponded with her regularly."
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...-He-was-Raised-by-Good-Parents-183654241.html

 

[jjenny]

If she was afraid of leaving him home alone eight months earlier, why did she go out of town to a spa?

I don't see anything in the article saying she was afraid to leave him home alone 8 months earlier.