Newtown killer wrote tales of graphic violence: documents

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Items found in a bathroom at Adam Lanza's home include a madman's ID card.


Mass murderer Adam Lanza 's schoolboy stabs at writing starred a trigger-happy grandma blasting with a 'rifle cane' and kids playing a game of 'hide and go die.'


'I like hurting people . . . especially children,' declared one of the repugnant characters in Lanza's now-chilling fifth-grade effort titled 'The Big Book of Granny.'


Newly released Newtown investigation documents showed one of Lanza's teachers was profoundly rattled by his obsessive writings - particularly a series of 10-page essays focused on 'battles, destruction and war.'


'Adam's creative writing was so graphic that it could not be shared,' the teacher recalled in a sworn, written statement three weeks after the Dec. 14, 2012, killing spree.


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'Adam's level of violence was disturbing,' the teacher continued. 'I remember showing it to the principal at the time. . . . I remember instructing Adam that he had to write something else to share with the class.'


At the end of that year, the young student - who later wrote a 'beautiful' poem that brought his dad to tears - left school abruptly.


Lanza killed himself after murdering his mother, 20 first-grade students and six staffers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.


On Friday, Connecticut officials released a flood of documents, photos, videos and audio recordings made during the investigation of the bloody rampage and its aftermath.



The most stunning item was a family snapshot of Lanza as a toddler, holding a gun to his mouth while clad in camouflage, an ammunition belt across his tiny lap.


But none of the 6,500-plus pages or any of the other evidence offered a clear motive for the murders in a sleepy Connecticut suburb.


The combat-laden creative writing was hardly the only indication of Lanza's intense childhood connections to weapons and death.


The main character in the lengthy 'Granny' series, written in a spiral notebook, starts with three pages of granny jokes - but quickly veers into seriously strange territory.


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In an episode titled 'Granny's Clubhouse of Happy Children 2,' the title character's son addresses the assembled kids in a bit of dialogue imagined for a television show.


'Hi! I'm Bobolicious the Explorer . . . Remember last time when everyone was slaughtered?' he asked. 'Well . . . you bread-brain leeches gave me 75 years of prison for that so-called 'Tragedy'! I was having fun!'


In the third episode, Bobolicious morbidly tells the clubhouse denizens that they're going to play a game of 'hide and go die.'



In a section dubbed 'The Adventures of Granny,' the title character and a pal dubbed Dora the Beserker visit a day care center.


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'Let's hurt children,' urges Dora, who is eventually arrested for murdering four animals with her six weapons.


Granny, for her homicidal part, uses her 'rifle cane' to gun down a hockey player, the Beatles and an entire Marine battalion, according to a police summary of the book.


She kicks a small boy into a burning fireplace, and blows up a bank after making her getaway from a holdup.


The gun-loving Lanza offered a detailed accounting of Granny's arsenal: A handgun, an AK-47, an M-16, a rocket launcher, a musket and a shotgun.


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'Adam Lanza holds all rights to all of the following content,' reads the print on the cover of the notebook - right above a drawing of Granny aiming her cane.


A student who collaborated on the cartoonish effort with Lanza recalled to investigators that he was spooked by the skinny, anti-social kid.



Lanza was 'weird,' he recalled. '(He) would sit by himself on the other side of the room and would not talk or associate with anybody else.'


The classmate said one other thing stuck out about Lanza: The elementary schooler carried a briefcase.


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The teacher who balked at Lanza's twisted essays said the future mass murderer stood out in her mind from the first time they met.


'After my years of experience in teaching . . . boys, I know how they are supposed to act,' she said in her statement. 'But I saw Adam as being not normal with very distinct anti-social issues.'


She also recalled seeing Adam's older brother flanked by police during television coverage on the day of the shootings.


'When I was watching the news about the Sandy Hook school incident and saw Ryan Lanza in handcuffs, I knew it would be Adam and not Ryan,' she wrote.


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Adam Lanza's mother pulled him out of the Newtown school system after his freshman year in high school, opting to home-school her younger child.



Authorities also released a free-form Lanza poem titled, 'No frogs, No kids.'


'Too many ants are coming,' it begins.


'Ants over populate. Ants dig dirt. dirt grows plants.


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'Bees come to plants. Cock Robin died. Bees die.


'Ants feed bees to babies. Ants will overtake to win.


'One baby died. 3 eggs won't hatch. one bird has no voice.'


Several other Lanza compositions were unearthed during the extensive investigation of his 20-year life and times.


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His computer hard drive contained a screenplay titled 'Lovebound.' A law enforcement synopsis said the would-be film focused on the relationship between a 10-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man.


Another eight-page document, titled 'me,' touched on subjects from relationships to culture to voting to the ideal companion, according to a police inventory.


A second document named 'tomorrow' included the 6-foot, 112-pound Lanza's thoughts on staying thin and a list of personal goals, the inventory said.


When the killer took classes at Western Connecticut State University, he submitted a final paper that prompted his professor to invoke the name of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, another police document showed.


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A nurse who met with Lanza four times said he was 'emotionally paralyzed,' and changed his socks a staggering 20 times a day - forcing his mom to do three daily loads of laundry.


The released documents also included a number of the initial 911 calls from the school, all made as Lanza was still prowling the halls.


He eventually gunned down his victims in a pair of classrooms near the entrance to the one-story school building where other kids and their parents were making gingerbread houses for Christmas.


'He's right outside the door,' a terrified mother told police after dialing 911. 'I don't want to move.'


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A school employee, after calling for help, seemed stunned that there was no end to the ongoing carnage.


'Oh, my God,' the worker says in disbelief at one point. 'He's still shooting.'


Another 911 call included a 25-second stretch of continuous gunfire echoing in the background.


lmcshane@nydailynews.com


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