the on-line life of Adam Lanza

Posted on: Thu, 08/15/2013 - 15:02 By: Tom Swiss

The Hartford Courant looks at the on-line persona of Newtown gunman Adam Lanza:

Mass Murders Captivated Online User Believed To Be Adam Lanza (Courant.com)

Although Lanza did not use his name, investigators linked the poster's user name to Lanza, according to sources familiar with the probe of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The same user name appears in the Wikipedia edits, discovered by The Courant. A Wikipedia spokesman said the website could not identify the poster, citing privacy policies. Investigators are now looking into whether the same person did the Wikipedia editing.

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The poster who authorities suspect is Lanza questions Connecticut's assault-gun ban, offers a blueprint for his laptop computer and provides YouTube links to a commercial for a laughing doll from the 1970s and for The Rock-afire Explosion, an animatronics band that played in ShowBiz Pizza locations in the 1980s.

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The poster appears to be part of a video gaming "clan," communicating with the others through myshoutbox.com in February 2010. At one point, some fellow gamers appear to be lamenting the departure of the poster, and of others, from the clan.