Cho is not the first killer to have his writing scrutinized in the aftermath of his crime. "Vengeance is coming," Kimveer Gill wrote in a blog entry before shooting six people to death and injuring 19 more in Montreal last year. "A light drizzle will be starting up. The clouds will be grey, so grey. Just the way I like it. Disemboweled bodies litter the streets. Some have been decapitated, others hung off bridges and overpasses." Joseph Edward Duncan III was much more explicit when he wrote in May 2005: "I am scared, alone and confused, and my reaction is to strike out toward the perceived source of my misery, society. My intent is to harm society as much as I can, then die." Four days later Duncan allegedly killed three members of a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, family and kidnapped two children aged eight and nine. He sexually assaulted both and later killed one of them before being captured in Montana with the surviving child. Investigators later tied him to four unsolved murders in two states.
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in a blog entry before shooting six people to death and injuring 19 more in Montreal last year. "A light drizzle will be starting up. The clouds will be grey, so grey. Just the way I like it. Disemboweled bodies litter the streets. Some have been decapitated, others hung off bridges and overpasses." Joseph Edward Duncan III was much more explicit when he wrote in May 2005: "I am scared, alone and confused, and my reaction is to strike out toward the perceived source of my misery, society. My intent is to harm society as much as I can, then die." Four days later Duncan allegedly killed three members of a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, family and kidnapped two children aged eight and nine. He sexually assaulted both and later killed one of them before being captured in Montana with the surviving child. Investigators later tied him to four unsolved murders in two states.
