More bombshells coming out of Colorado on the Columbine case...
GOLDEN, Colo., Oct. 29 - The two students who gunned down 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School bragged about making pipe bombs and said they were looking for a "ground zero" two years before the bloodbath - and authorities knew it, the sheriff said Wednesday.Hindsight may be 20/20, but it seems like a lack of foresight was involved here. The police should have responded to this information at the time it was presented, it's not like Harris and Klebold invented school shootings.Authorities have said they knew about violent rants by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in 1998, a year before the shootings, and that a search warrant was not acted upon.
But Jefferson county Sheriff Ted Mink, who took office in July, said Wednesday that someone had called the sheriff’s office a year earlier, in 1997, to tip off authorities about a Web site run by Harris.
A deputy investigated the tip and forwarded a report and printouts from the Web site to a sheriff’s investigator in charge of computer-related crimes, Mink said.
The investigation of the Web site apparently stopped there, Mink said. The report was not found until last week, when a deputy came upon it as he was leafing through a training manual, the sheriff said.
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