On April 20, 1999, teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold started shooting fellow students at Columbine High School outside of Denver. Less than an hour later they had killed 13, wounded more than 20, and committed suicide. It was the worst high school shooting in U.S. history. Unfortunately, it would not be the last.
Dave Cullen's “Columbine,” widely recognized as the definitive account of the tragedy, dispels many myths about the tragic event and provides insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the perpetrators' own words and drawings, to help explain what led the two teens to kill.
For the last 16 years, Dylan Klebold's mother Susan has lived with the unimaginable shame and sorrow of that day. In grappling with the tragedy, she wonders what happened to her once-promising son. Were there signs she missed? Had she, as a mother, done something wrong? Could she have done anything differently?
