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I miss the topic of Eric alive, I looked at his photos every day and thought about it... greetings from Europe, yesterday I watched your live stream Columbine tapes

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That topic will return eventually :) It is an interesting one.

I'm not sure what livestream you watched, but it sounds like it was another content creator since I no longer make videos. But I hope it was a good video!

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maybe I made a mistake and linked your website to the mindshock youtube channel😅🤗 why does the Columbine Case bother me so much? I was never interested in true crime topics until I saw a documentary on YouTube half a year ago and this case is still on my mind. this is so mysterious to me, I don't want to believe that two teenagers wanted to kill everyone, maybe that's why I ended up here and I'm looking for answers? Greetings from Europe 🇪🇺

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No worries haha it happens a lot! I think it makes a lot of sense to get hooked into this case by not wanting to believe two teens wanted to kill everyone. It is pretty shocking to take in. The case takes many twists and turns, and I've been publishing content on this case for 25+ years, but this space is somewhat new so it's a little sparse. There's a lot to unpack. Mindshock's videos are actually a compilation of him reading research from myself and many other people who first started researching this case years ago, and his content comes from documents and witnesses, so I'd definitely recommend watching all of his videos! Welcome to the case! :)

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Very interesting research as always, and great detail! The chain of custody is indeed very questionable here. Where does it start, where are the receipts? The witnesses who are the sellers? I'm going to run this article by my OH who has over 30 years in the military and knows a lot about weapons and ammunition (he was also responsible for the first firing of the anti-air missile system on a new-generation warship about 15 years ago too, and the cost to fire the round? £3m! It just fascinated me). I think he will find these findings interesting!

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It's been tough to find that chain and trace it back. We have a few comments about how they "walked over to a table over there" and the witness pointed to a table location on a map hahahaha. Allegedly, they bought ammo from random people at the gun show, but just happened to buy their actual weapons from federal agents. I found a ton of holes in the gun show story, though. Somehow, they managed to get inside without being 18 and having nobody with them who was 18 at entry. People under 18 could only get in WITH someone over 18 at the point of entry. The story goes that they "went with Mark Manes" but they actually went multiple times and I've got "testimony" that they were already inside by the time their 18+ buddies showed up.

I would love to get some insight from your OH! I only know what I've researched. My dad used to make his own ammo. I've held reloads, they do not look factory and there's no mistaking them for factory ammo. Your OH sounds like he's had some excitement in his career lol that's awesome!

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Buying weapons from feds says it all really :)) Feel free to throw questions about ammo and weapons, he's had an interesting career for sure!

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Haha! For real. Awesome, I will toss some questions your way when I get a chance!

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idk if this question got asked before but i've read the comments on the post here where u discussed dead ppl are actually alive that byron is actually dylan, what about kevin? i remember in the post theres no mention about his existence at all so thats why it got me thinking. in this post https://www.reddit.com/r/ColumbineKillers/s/j503g10dt4 is this eric acting?

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I don't really know much about Kevin. Although, I will say I was only speculating that Byron might be Dylan and Sue may have only had one child. It's tough to find genuine evidence that Byron exists, and photos from his work website aren't enough to make that determination. I've found some family photos that have been Photoshopped, but for what purpose I can't be sure. It looks like they Photoshopped Byron into the scene. Now I am starting to think Byron may not exist at all, and he was just AI-generated in the photos we have access to, left as a trail to prove he's real. But I really don't know.

Kevin seems to be a real person, though. In that footage, the guy they say is Kevin is really beefy and stocky compared to Eric, so I would think he's at least 'not Eric' but from the side of the rest of the clip, he looks like Kevin, so I would presume he's Kevin. I use vague language with this because sometimes things that appear certain can be so deceiving!!

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he still has FB? I only found his Fake Eric Harris account, how much is there 😅

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Okay let's again keep the conversation off private lives. Thanks!

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Maybe related as she was supposedly shot that day? Did you see that Anne Marie Hochhalter died 2/16/2025? They say she died of natural causes, related to her 4/20/99 injuries. Would that be natural if it was from a 1999 shooting.......? Anyways. . .

Is she checking out of the matrix, no longer wanting to be part of the story, or is this real? Only time will tell.

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I did hear about that. I don't think anyone was actually shot that day, I think they all faked their injuries. So I don't think she really died. I heard it was from pressure wound infection complications, but I think she just took an out like the rest of them and now will just live her life with a new name. I can actually think of a name she might be using already lol

I never posted it, but the Hochhalters are related to Chris Clarke, the "maintenance man" who was actually a Jefferson County Public Schools employee. They lived together. Everyone is connected and in on this plot! I also found her mother, Carla, alive and well, so there's that!

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Oh so Carla didn't bring her own bullets to a gun store to shoot once at a wall, then herself when no one was looking?! NO WAY! ;)

I also noticed in the articles they say that Sue Townsend, the mother of Lauren, apparently "took Anne Marie on" as a second daughter? I know many of them have weird connections. I saw that and wondered if really those were her real parents? I haven't done any other investigating on that, I just thought it was odd for them to say in the article. They are alllllllll connected. Thanks for sharing that tid bit. What a joke lol!

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I just chuckled out loud! Man that was some feat. Of course, employees hand over guns to customers and turn their back, it's protocol to leave guns unsupervised in the hands of customers 🤡 And amazingly, there are NO police reports available for that investigation! Not even a statement from the shop owner! Amazing!!

That's a good observation and great question. I have suspected that some of the parents aren't really people's parents, and that is just weird. I just found that article. I vaguely remember that.

So Dawn Anna is said to be Lauren's mother and she looks like Lauren, so I believe that. Allegedly Rick Townsend is her father. And Rick remarried Sue while Dawn Anna remarried Bruce Beck.

Ann Marie really looks a lot like Carla, so I do think Carla is her real mother. But I also think there are some people in the mix who are not the real parents. Well, I found both Carla and Ann Marie alive and well just like the others, so I'm going to say I don't believe Ann Marie died and I can prove she was never shot, either.

She does have an injury that requires a walking aid, but she has always been able to walk and was definitely never paralyzed, but I don't know if the injury is from getting shot with a dummy round in the wrong place or if it's from something else entirely. But she's been living a double life for many years, with her mother, right under everyone's noses, getting into her "Columbine victim" costume for interviews and going back to her new life 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 I guess now was the time for her character to exit stage left.

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I want to know how much people get paid to write these stories!

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He agrees with all your findings:). He doesn’t know anyone who uses reloaded rounds, unless they’re dummy rounds. And it would be interesting to know if other similar cases have evidence of using reloaded rounds like this. And why use reloaded rounds if other rounds were bought from K-Mart (and why would K-Mart sell reloaded rounds in the first place, that seems unlikely).

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Oh that's really interesting! I wish I had photos of all the primers to get his opinion with a visual, too. I have some from the evidence exhibit they ran. But who knows if they're "from the case" if you know what I mean. I have never known any other case to use reloaded ammo, but I would love to know that, too.

I have only ever known people to reload for controlling the loads and making specific rounds. It would make sense to me that they had dummy rounds made for them vs. them using factory ammo if they were not actually shooting people. But I also wonder what would happen if a person was shot with dummy rounds. I do know blanks can still kill a person. Sean Graves said once in an interview, "I allowed myself to get shot" and I thought that was odd phrasing. How does one "allow" themselves to get shot? Unless he knew he was going to get shot and allowed it to happen, with blanks perhaps?

They bought the reloaded ammo allegedly long before the shooting, and they would have used some of it at Rampart Range, which means they would have known they had garbage ammo.

We have no labs on the powder in those rounds, it's not even on the worksheets we do have. And good ole' Randy Brown has withheld several key sections of the full CBI lab report for decades. I had a full copy back in the day, but it's long gone. He only gave it to a few researchers and made them promise not to hand it out. I have 3/4 of it.

Did I mention their fingerprints were not found on any of the 4 guns they used without gloves? lol the coroner didn't even send their fingerprints to the lab as requested. They send smooshed, poor-quality fingerprints and the investigators literally told the coroner to cut the fingers off the bodies and send them the dang fingers because the prints were unusable. Can't cut fingers off people who never died, heh.

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The story is full of holes, especially the forensic side of things it seems. It sounds like they're def trying to hide the facts on this that could give it away! No fingerprints seem pretty impossible. I remember being trained on what fingerprints can and cannot be found on - a gun shouldn't be too difficult. As well as getting fingerprints. Was the coroner in on it perhaps.

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You definitely chose an interesting career! I wish I could have studied fingerprinting more, that's always fascinated me. You would think some fingerprints would be on at least one gun. I do think the coroner was in on it. Galloway was the guy who allegedly performed the shooters' autopsies. (Well, he at least WROTE the autopsy reports), and he seems to be the go-to coroner for fake deaths. That girl, Sol Pais, who allegedly travelled to Colorado to buy a shotgun and unalive herself to "be with her soulmate Eric Harris" was allegedly found dead in the snow after running around naked. Okay, weird story, but her body was allegedly found in a different county, and Galloway made a special request to perform Pais' autopsy despite it not being in his territory.

Well I found out Pais never died, she's a bass player and her name is Valentina. The media said Sol and Valentina were sisters, but there's no evidence (childhood photos have been published that show 2 girls together, but there is no proof they're sisters - plus one photo was badly Photoshopped with incorrect shadows and contradictory lighting that has 2 photos of the same girl at different ages lmao) and I found an old genealogy report created by Valentina that doesn't mention having a sister at all. I went back through years of her father's social media posts and he never mentions having 2 kids. He's got like 3 accounts and some are older. He's very well known in his music scene. He only ever has 1 daughter, the bass player Valentina. And Valentina conveniently changed her name and moved out of the country.

People think Sol existed because Valentina played the part and met with people, but there is no evidence that she ever had a sister. Just misleading info and sleight of hand. So yep, I think the coroner was in on it!

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I remember reading about your findings on Valentina / Sol, very intriguing! And that coroner is definitely dubious, making a request like that. Social media tells us so much, we can find some really revealing info trawling through some very detailed public profiles (these people can't seem to keep things private). As for people playing different characters, it makes my head spin but it happens. But it only takes a simple background check to find real identities, but most people don't even think of doing that and are just happy to swallow crazy media narratives.

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It is amazing how this is all public! I guess they think nobody will question it, so they don't cover their tracks. Until we publish our findings, of course ;) Then they go on lockdown! Yep, hear that people, do background checks!!

People accuse me of "Googling" things and using free people search sites that are notoriously inaccurate, and I'm like, no, I use state records and it's legit... I have birth, death, and marriage records, legal documents, vehicle reports, and I've spent far too much money acquiring all of it :-D

Those media narratives are more palatable, though. Just a spoonful of sugar helps the propaganda go down!

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It's amazing what can be found really, it's all out there, paid and free! And as time goes on, even more will be revealed. Some of the best can be archival news footage too, it's hilarious! They really took people for fools back then. These things always come to light in the end. On a side note, I've also noticed a couple of key books and pages of 'collectibles' from popular sites being taken off the market in recent weeks. Uncanny that. These stories certainly have a lot of parallels. Makes me wonder if they have common parties behind it all!

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I'm starting to wonder if the whole town was, actually. Either that or the entire case is just an AI-generated story spun up by the Matrix that becomes "real" the closer you get (I've been in the school, it's "real" but that's how the Holodeck works, so I can't say anything is actually real). I have no idea!

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Yeah he definitely could have been mind controlled. It's easier than people think to accomplish. It happens every day through television and social media. The biggest MK-Ultra program is media itself! I can't imagine if Eric was aware of what happened to him or who he is, he'd just leave his whole life out in the open like he does. He might not even know he's the infamous Columbine "shooter."

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I remember that. He also deactivated the day after I published the article about him being alive. It's interesting. He seems to be aware, absolutely. He is government/military, so he probably had a hand in orchestrating the whole thing.

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