Did Someone Murder Dylan Klebold?

A thorough, evidence-based analysis of the crime scene evidence and documentation

On June 4, 2002, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER published what it claimed were two crime scene photographs of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold lying dead on the library floor. The photos—depicting two different angles—were accompanied by an article written by Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky claiming the photos suggest Harris shot and killed Klebold and that Klebold died first.

Until this publication it was generally accepted that Harris and Klebold committed suicide. That’s what investigators officially concluded and what the evidence suggested. However, this issue of the ENQUIRER created a wave of uncertainty that still exists today.

Several years ago, I created a 2.5-hour presentation analyzing all the evidence related to Klebold’s death and I’ve included this video at the end of this article.

Since the controversy surrounding Klebold’s death was sparked by the ENQUIRER, let’s dive into how this all began and what’s wrong with what they published.

(1) The ENQUIRER misled readers with a quote from an unqualified, random individual close to the case to assert the photos prove Harris shot Klebold.

“It’s obvious that Klebold didn’t shoot himself but was shot by Harris. Klebold was shot in the left temple, but his guns were on his right side. How can photos lie?”

This is a recurring theme. They wanted the public to think: “gun found on right side of body+entry wound in left temple=suicide impossible.”

While you don’t need to be an expert to identify certain elements of a crime scene, this individual’s opinion is incorrect. The misleading implication they want you to infer here is this: Klebold couldn’t have shot himself with the TEC-DC9M in the left temple because it was found on the right side of his body. Since Jefferson County published evidence proving the TEC-DC9M fired the shot that killed Klebold, they lied, the evidence was falsified, and the only other option is that Harris killed Klebold and they covered it up.

That sounds juicy but it’s not true. There is no evidence that suggests Harris killed Klebold. There’s also no evidence that anyone else killed Klebold. Iin fact, the photos clearly show Harris died first. But as always, the truth goes deeper. Especially since we’re looking at a phony crime scene.

Stick with me here. I’m not going to tell you the official narrative is true. Klebold didn’t commit suicide. He never died. And picking apart this ENQUIRER article will show you exactly how they manipulated the public view of this case by tossing out red herrings as distractions.

Here’s what’s wrong with this misleading quote:

• Klebold’s TEC-DC9M was on a strap attached to his body. If Klebold shot himself in the left temple with his left hand, the pistol could have fallen out of his hand and swung over to the right side of his body as he fell.

(2) Next, the ENQUIRER misled readers with several bogus quotes from an “expert” to assert the photos prove Harris shot Klebold.

First, only shills write articles for the ENQUIRER. They are journalists paid to write false stories to sway public emotion/opinion. All of these rag mag articles are carefully crafted to support a false narrative.

The ENQUIRER claims to have showed the alleged “suicide photos” to a lab tech named Lawrence Kobilinsky, Ph.D., who said the photos don’t match Jefferson County’s official conclusion of suicide.

The ENQUIRER referred to Kobilinsky as “one of the nation’s top legal experts,” but that’s also misleading. He was the media’s go-to guy who analyzed a ton of fake crimes, including the JonBenét Ramsey case. His TV interview CV is impressive (click here for his CV). He was selected for these interviews for a reason—you can’t have real experts analyzing fake cases.

Meet Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky—the lab tech who shaped the ENQUIRER’s false narrative.

Even a cursory glance at Kobilinsky’s claims will make you wonder if he assessed the photos with his eyes closed or if they just compensated him to use his name in a pre-fabricated narrative designed to cast doubt on the story of a “double suicide.” My vote is with the latter.

Kobilinsky’s first claim is that “Harris’ left foot is on top of Klebold’s right elbow.” The photos—even the poor-quality magazine prints—don’t show Harris’ boot ON Klebold’s elbow. It’s close, but not on top. If you account for the angle of the photo there would be a small space between Harris’ boot and Klebold’s arm.

If you look closely, you’ll see a blood transfer pattern on Harris’ boot and Klebold’s inner arm that would line up if you rolled Klebold onto Harris left leg. That’s because the photos and all available crime scene documentation show that Klebold fell on Harris and the right side of his face rested on Harris’ left leg before he rolled over and aspirated blood. Yes, the crime scene is phony, but that is the scenario they created.

Although it’s important to look at the entire crime scene before forming conclusions, it’s glaringly obvious that Klebold fell on Harris. The fact that Kobilinsky didn’t “observe” this isn’t an oversight on his part—it was intentional. Because if Klebold fell on Harris, Harris died first, which destroys the ENQUIRER’S narrative that Harris killed Klebold.

Kobilinsky’s next claim is that Klebold couldn’t have shot himself in the left temple since all the guns were found to his right.

Kobilinsky studied criminal justice at John Jay College, where he earned a degree in forensic science. He knows better than to form this kind of conclusion based on two isolated photos without looking at all the evidence. I also studied criminal justice and crime scene investigation in college. No professional would form this conclusion. Did he not notice the gun was strapped to Klebold’s body? Oh, he knew.

Next, Kobilinsky claimed that the photos led him to conclude that Klebold’s fatal wound was not a contact wound. Although Klebold’s autopsy report concluded the wound was not a contact wound, that’s impossible to conclude from these photos. Not only that, but Klebold’s autopsy report was still sealed at the time this article was published. Was Kobilinsky psychic? Or was this a scripted narrative?

Why does it matter if the wound wasn’t a contact wound? It’s all designed to cast doubt on suicide and point to murder. The mistaken belief is that suicides always result in a contact wound. That’s not true. Many suicides are near contact wounds. Not everyone presses the gun to their head. A near contact wound doesn’t automatically indicate homicide. Based on Kobilinsky's credentials, he should know this.

But more importantly…

At the time of this publication, Klebold’s autopsy report was still sealed. How did Kobilinsky know the wound wasn’t a contact wound? That’s not discernable from the photos. The photos don’t even show Klebold’s left side where the bullet entered his head. Making this determination requires analyzing the skin for a muzzle imprint, soot, lacerations, and gunpowder residue.

At first glance you might think Kobilinsky got something right. And that’s the point. That’s what they want you to think. But this is smoke and mirrors. Kobilinsky didn’t look at the photos and conclude the wound wasn’t a contact wound. That was scripted to boost his credibility. They knew that when Klebold’s autopsy came out, Kobilinsky’s observations would be confirmed, and that would make people believe his assessment that Harris killed Klebold.

In an attempt to mislead the public, the ENQUIRER attributed several facts documented by the medical examiner to Kobilinsky’s photo analysis in order to boost his credibility. Remember, the autopsy had not been released yet, so Kobilinsky was basically a prophet.

Once Klebold’s autopsy was released, anyone who had even briefly read it would have recognized the handful of facts in Kobilinsky’s “photo analysis” and therefore be more inclined to believe his false statement—that the photos prove Harris killed Klebold. After all, if he was able to discern documented facts that match what the medical examiner found just by looking at the photos long before the autopsy was ever released, then his assessment of Klebold’s “murder” must also be correct!

It’s a classic journalistic move that relies on appeal to authority to install false beliefs in the public mind. Present 4-5 known, verifiable facts attributed to an expert, insert a lie or two, and readers will believe the whole story.

Next, the ENQUIRER made no hesitation to insert the “leader/follower” narrative to further support the false idea that Harris killed Klebold.

“And Kobilinsky said the pattern of blood on Klebold’s face indicates he had his head down when a single bullet entered the left side of his head—consistent with a cowering position as “leader” Harris opened fire on “follower” Klebold!”

Ah yes, follower Klebold. I think I know the guy.

So, did Klebold kill himself? Was he shot by a cop? Is he still alive?

Just like Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold is still alive. He’s still friends with Randy Brown. He is obsessed with Columbine and school violence prevention and still loves Dr. Pepper.

And I knew his handler personally for a brief period of time.

In 2001, “Alive!Dylan’s” handler who poses as his mother and business partner, befriended me under false pretenses claiming I had won some kind of award for my work with school violence prevention. It had been more than 15 years since I had concerned myself with violence prevention, so I knew her story was suspicious. It wasn’t until years later that I found out she’s the woman who takes care of Dylan. She is a lawyer and has multiple identities just like everyone else involved in this case.

On a side note, it’s interesting to see the Dr. Pepper connection in this case. There was a can of spilled Dr. Pepper right by Daniel Rohrhbough’s dead “body” on the sidewalk that gave the impression of a bloodstain. Artiles about Klebold regularly stated that his favorite soda was Dr. Pepper. And someone snapped a photo of Brian Rohrbough, Daniel’s father, walking into a very serious court hearing holding a can of Dr. Pepper smiling. Dr. Pepper was invented by a freemason. It seems like some kind of inside joke in this case.

Here’s “Alive!Dylan” (left) and dead Dylan (right). Check out those lips and smile. He can’t hide even after gaining weight:

Shoutout to the researcher who pointed him out to me from Randy Brown’s Facebook friends list! Contact me if you’d like to be credited by your username or a nickname! Not surprisingly, Randy has since hidden his friends list.

I have a copy of his “American Terrorist” video and it’s bizarre. Here are a few screen shots:

What are the chances that a Dylan Klebold doppelganger would be friends with Randy Brown, love Dr. Pepper, create a video essay commenting on Columbine that won a fake award in a fake film festival that doesn’t exist, have a mother (who isn’t his real mother) who befriends me under false pretenses who has multiple identities, live near Nate Dykeman’s hometown, and run what turned out to be a phony organization for preventing school and workplace violence?

I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar.

Now we have the video presentation analyzing the crime scene!

This presentation was created as a thorough walkthrough of all evidence related to Klebold’s death. It addresses common misconceptions, beliefs that don’t work with the evidence, and theories that are based on misunderstandings.

It’s lengthy and detailed and was intended to clarify some of the most common, pervasive misperceptions in the research community.

I focused heavily on how Laura DeLong documented the crime scene because that has been a point of contention in the research community. People believe she drew the gun upside down accidentally in the diagrams and that isn’t true, so I did a full rundown of how the scene was documented and how the diagrams were edited and perfected over the course of 7 months.

Skip to 1 hr 32 minutes if that part bores you!

A few corrections 6 years later:

I now know neither Harris nor Klebold died and never killed anyone that day. This presentation should be interpreted as an analysis of the story they wanted the crime scene evidence to tell—it does not reflect reality.

At 29 minutes:

Firearm discharge #11 is not the physical bullet, just the item # assigned to the casing for the bullet that allegedly went through Klebold’s head.

At 54 minutes I accidentally typed and stated roll #8 was taken at 1858 hours but it was 1859 hours.

At 1 hr 31 minutes when talking about how Harris died first, I have since found documentation stating it was Kate Batton who noted the blood on Harris’ pants was Klebold’s based on lab results.

Video #1: Watch me roll around on the ground with a model TEC-DC9M to demonstrate impossibilities.

At first glance it’s easy to say Klebold was probably holding the gun in his right hand when he fell but that may not be true.

By doing what I did, you can see for yourself that Klebold’s hand could have only come to be over the gun after he fell to the ground and rolled over. The gun was never in his hand when he fell. If it was, he’d have had a broken elbow and wrist.

Now here’s the full analysis. Enjoy the presentation! Sorry for the repetitiveness!

In conclusion, all the evidence supports a double suicide. But there were no suicides that day, just like there were no murders. What happened here is pure genius.

They created a phony investigation, completely with carefully calculated phony crime scene documentation that supports the official narrative. Then they introduced a handful of red herrings to intentionally cast doubt on the official narrative so the public would continue arguing about false conspiracies (third shooter, murder-suicide, MK Ultra, etc.) when the only real conspiracy was that it never happened in the first place.

Phew.

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A lot of work went into creating all of this phony documentation. They want you to keep arguing over who killed Dylan because it keeps you from seeing through the whole show.

What’s really going on here?? And why do all these major cases seen to fall apart under scrutiny? Why didn’t we see it before? Why now? ENQUIRING minds want to know…