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RJ Sykes's avatar

An excellent piece and some very interesting observations. I am skeptical of how they appeared on a tabloid show just a week after the event, while investigations were still ongoing. There's so many unanswered questions, contradictions, and things that just don't add up that should, if the story we were told was true. The conflicting timelines & witness statements are a huge red flag. The missing polygraph test for Akard (it appears to have been a planning oversight). The acceptance that the inconsistent stories were consistent. Just too much to be a coincidence.

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Independent Journalist's avatar

There are so many instances where inconsistent stories are categorized as "consistent" and that is what officials say, and that is what the public believes. This information in this post has been deleted and suppressed from other spaces for being "misinformation," which says a lot. It's not even speculation! I also find it odd that they got on a talk show so fast and were given a free pass - literally - that cleared them for the show. It's like they had to be on the show, it was part of the script, so they had to get a crooked polygraph examiner to pass them and ignore Akard entirely. That makes me wonder if Akard played a larger role since they didn't even try to include polygraph results for him in the final release.

Brunetti has become quite a firearms enthusiast and he appears to have military training and possibly automatic weapons. Just from a visual look at his social media profiles.

One thing I left out here is that Matt Nalty at one point shared a house with the Leyba family, as in, Kiki Leyba, principal Frank DeAngelis' best buddy. And one of the three guys got a job working as a Jefferson County police officer - amazing, right?

And I have good reason to believe that same "Splatterpunk" runs one of the main Columbine subreddits. The admin in question, early on (before he realized who I was) admitted to me that he works as a Jefferson County police officer, and that as soon as he was given admin privileges, he removed all the other admins and hijacked the subreddit. And his life story and details and everything match one of the "Splatterpunks." He goes to the ends of the Earth to defend them. He even commented once, about a photo of the exact "Splatterpunk" his life mimics... and he said, "wow I used to have a jacket just like that!" It's pretty safe to say these people were given lifetime roles that include monitoring social media :-D

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RJ Sykes's avatar

Pointing out obvious inconsistencies is not a crime and it says a lot that this information was suppressed. But the truth can’t be hidden forever. Especially in this day and age. With AI moving as fast as it is, it’s difficult to get away with more and more. Soon, we will have sophisticated technology that can tell what is real and what isn’t. The tabloid show so soon after the event does beg the question that it could have been prearranged. Same as the helicopters. And yes, the connections and roles as very intriguing!

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Independent Journalist's avatar

It is funny the way AI is better at detecting fraud than humans sometimes. And it will only get better. It's because it's not conditioned with so many programs that make it hard to see the reality. People tend to dislike AI, but it's actually quite useful! I think that's why more and more "events" today are being tightly controlled and have zero documents and zero witnesses available. It's too risky now to try to go all the way and create fake docs and evidence like they did in the past!!

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RJ Sykes's avatar

AI has its pros and cons, fraudsters use it to create fake insurance claims for instance, but fraud investigators can also use it to detect fraudulent pictures and documents. Interesting times indeed!

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Michael Torres's avatar

I knew Matt Nalty for a short time in fall of 1999. He was in Seattle briefly and I traveled back to Colorado with him. I was a 17 yr old squatter punk back then so skipping town with someone you just met wasnt that weird. Crashed at his mom’s place for a short time. He even gave me a stick n poke tattoo in his moms living room. He told me about all this columbine stuff (I hadn’t seen the tv show so I didn’t recognize him or anything, but I’d heard whisperings of their story among punk circles) and he always maintained they didn’t know the shooters. But who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️. Has anyone here ever found his social media if he even has any? I’d love to get back in touch with dude.

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The Lost Crime Files's avatar

That's pretty interesting! Ah yeah, I remember those days of just going anywhere with people you just met. It's kinda baked into the culture.

I personally haven't found any active social media, only know of Brunetti's. But I think Matt may be a photographer now. I think I found a profile he doesn't use. It kinda looks like him, if you search FB I bet you could find it :)

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R!CKYRANTS's avatar

These guys feel like bad teen soap characters, but that's precisely what they insert into these hoaxes.

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The Lost Crime Files's avatar

Columbine is one giant soap opera!

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RJ Sykes's avatar

Indeed!

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