Orlando, Florida: The shooter opened fire on the club’s main dance floor with a Sig Sauer MCX assault rifle. The shooter entered the club’s Hip-Hop lounge and began to shoot victims at point-blank range. 13 minutes after gunfire started it suddenly stopped. The shooter then went to the men’s restroom and fired into the handicap stall where 17 people were hiding. The shooter retreated to the women’s restroom. Active Shooter: America. Under Fire s1e5: Orlando, captions
The police made first phone contact with the shooter at 2:35 a.m. Outside the club, first responders began to transport the wounded to hospitals. ibid.
Police discovered an air conditioning unit leading into the dressing room where people were trapped. ibid.
The shooter was hit eight times and died instantly. ibid.
Santa Monica, California 7th June 2013: ‘A call came into the computer: it was a shots-fired call. And then we got a fire call which was right where the initial shots-fired call came.’ Active Shooter: America. Under Fire s1e6: Santa Monica, California, rozzer
‘And then he opened the door. I just remember a white man in all black with a squared-off chest in SWAT gear, and he just raised his rifle and starting shooting through the window.’ ibid. bus driver
Library: ‘Numerous shots fired! Sounds like an automatic weapon.’ ibid. rozzer’s emergency call
The gunman is declared dead at the scene. ibid.
‘White-power skinhead neo-Nazi groups – they are ready to lash out and hurt other people.’ Active Shooter: America. Under Fire s1e7: Oak Creek, Wisconsin, ex Hammerskins band member
The ‘Guardawar’, or Sikh temple of Wisconsin, was established on October 1st 1997. ibid. caption
August 5th 2012: ‘I was like – there’s a shooter outside.’ ibid. girl
The shooter fired 51 bullets. 10 people were shot. 6 were killed. ibid. caption
Soon after the incident, the FBI, police, and other authorities began to piece together the sequence of events that occurred inside the temple. ibid.
Everybody knows Columbine: it’s not a flower, it’s an event. Active Shooter: America. Under Fire s1e8: Columbine, woman
Hey, mom. Gotta go. It’s about half and hour before our little judgment day. I just wanted to apologise to you guys for any crap this might instigate … Just know I’m going to a better place. I didn’t like life too much and I know I’ll be happy wherever the fuck I go. So I’m gone. Good-bye. ibid. Dylan’s home-recording April 20th 1999
22 students were shot in the library, ten of them died. ibid. caption
Columbine has inspired over 80 copycat incidents. The phenomenon has become known as the Columbine effect. ibid.
In the last fifteen years nearly one hundred prisoners serving life sentences have been released from prison only to go on and commit another violent crime. Sometimes even murder. It is the job of the Parole Board and the Probation Service to determine whether prisoners can be safely released into the community and not reoffend. But they don’t always get it right. Released to Kill Again, Channel 5 2019
Three girls who were all ten years old went out to the woods. Two of them conspired to kill the third. Slender Man, CI 2019, dude
Girl Pleads Insanity in Slenderman Stabbing Case. ibid. newspaper headline
… Slender Man Stabbing: Geyser Could Go Home After Only Six Months. ibid.
Slender Man was created out of a form. ibid. Professor Kendrick, Baylor University
Stab Stab Stab Stab Stab. It didn’t feel like anything. It was like air. ibid. Weier to investigating rozzer
Doctors diagnose Morgan with early onset schizophrenia during her competency evaluation. Her attorneys immediately petition to have her case moved to juvenile court. ibid.
In July of 2014 the court orders Morgan to begin the process of restoring her competency at Winnebago Mental Health Institute. By November of 2014 Morgan Geyser was found competent to stand trial. Despite being diagnosed schizophrenic, she was transferred back to jail from Winnebego Mental Health Institute without a treatment plan. ibid. captions
In 2015 Morgan Geyser’s team began work on its mental illness defense. ibid.
I’m going to order that the commitment be 40 years. ibid. Judge
They were both mass murderers. Hitler was responsible for nearly ten million deaths in the Holocaust … Stalin murdered more than twenty million of his own people. History’s Most Hated s1e4: Hitler & Stalin, History 2019
Are you coming? The Sinner s1e1: Cora: Part I, opening scene bird, Netflix 2017
What are you doing? What are you doing? ibid. him drags her from stabbed victim
Can you please tell me what’s going to happen to me? … I already confessed. ibid. her to rozzers
They kept turning it [music] up. ibid.
I just did it. I don’t know why. ibid.
Like she was saving her? ibid. rozzer to husband
The mind plays tricks … He looked like he recognised her. When he saw who it was, he let her go. ibid. husband to rozzer
Cora, why did you lie to me about your parents being dead? ibid. rozzer
He did something to you, didn’t he? ibid.
Have you ever tried to harm yourself? … When you picture yourself as a kid, how old are you? … What would you say to your thirteen-year-old self? … The Sinner s1e2: Cora Part II, shrinks’ questions
Rozzer: Heroin, right? When did it start?
Cora: Five years ago. ibid.
I would sleep with guys for fixes. ibid. Cora to rozzer
The possibility of parole in thirty years depending on good behaviour. ibid.
You don’t know how to do it, do you? ibid. rozzer to Cora with heroin kit
She is a shameless harlot … I could watch it all from here. The Sinner s1e3: disabled sister to Cora flashback, re young female neighbour with boyfriend
Cora: There’s a light at the bottom of the stairwell.
Rozzer: Go down there. ibid. hypnosis regression
I think it was a mistake for you to move back in. The Sinner s1e5: Mrs rozzer to rozzer
She’s got some idea that going back to the scene of the crime, she’s gonna get some kind of release, catharsis. The Sinner s1e6: rozzer to prosecution brief
Everything will be fine because you are a miracle. The Sinner s1e7: mother to Cora’s sister
I’m not letting you ruin this for me. ibid. Cora to sister
They are still out there. The Sinner s1e8: Cora to judge
It was you. I remember your eyes. I know you did it for your son. ibid. Cora to father
Extreme emotional disturbance. I hereby reduce the conviction from murder in the second degree to manslaughter in the first degree. ibid. judge
We are not hitchhiking. Adam! The Sinner s2e1, Julian, family car beaks down, her to him
Who else has been in here? ibid. rozzer over corpse with pebbles in eye sockets
So you think he [son Julian] poisoned them and then he arranged the bodies this way? ibid. hero rozzer to charming black lady rozzer
What kind of parents go on a trip and don’t pack anything for their kid? ibid. lady rozzer to hero rozzer
I need to know where he is: I am his mother. ibid. Mrs Walker
Utopian community or something: it’s called Mosswood Grove. The Sinner s2e2, lady rozzer to hero rozzer
My son is so far beyond anything you can understand. ibid. Mrs Walker
The residents of Mosswood Grove – at your disposal. ibid.
They weren’t coming back were they? … We’re done here. ibid. hero rozzer