If the victim photos ever surfaced...

Say there was a leak and these photos were made available. Would you look at them? If so, why? For extra Columbine research or just out of morbid curiosity? I know some Columbiners are interested in the tiny details of the case such as what the victims were wearing, what positions they were in etc. I think some of them (such as Cassie Bernall's photos) would be truly awful. I understand that they were kept under wraps out of respect to the families, who probably don't want their son or daughter's death pictures floating around deranged "gore" websites.

I think we recently had another thread about this very topic. But yes I would want to see the other victims pictures along with all the other crime scene pics.

I would likely regret it, but as a researcher I would still have to view them IF they ever surfaced.

ShadowedGoddess wrote:

I think we recently had another thread about this very topic.  But yes I would want to see the other victims pictures along with all the other crime scene pics.

I would likely regret it, but as a researcher I would still have to view them IF they ever surfaced.

I would liken it too if the full 911 call came out. I would listen to it, Though I don’t know how it would affect me. I may regret it.

I have a hard time grappling why it was OK for us to see Eric and Dylan suicide pictures but the other photos are off limits. Eric and Dylan were dead children as well and they had family and friends who loved them too. Granted what they did was horrible and unforgivable

Screamingophelia wrote:

I have a hard time grappling why it was OK for us to see Eric and Dylan suicide pictures but the other photos are off limits. Eric and Dylan were dead children as well and they had family and friends who loved them too. Granted what they did was horrible and unforgivable

100% TRUTH right there! E&D were two angry, lonely, sick minded, mixed up kids, in need of help. Yet they were still someone's son, brother, friend, etc. I have always said there were 15 victims that day.

The fact that any of the photos were leaked and only E&D's remained shows how people were feeling at that time. But how fucking devastating that must have been to the Harris and Klebold families.

Screamingophelia wrote:

I have a hard time grappling why it was OK for us to see Eric and Dylan suicide pictures but the other photos are off limits. 

No-one cares about the dignity of a murderer.

QuestionMark wrote:

Screamingophelia wrote:

I have a hard time grappling why it was OK for us to see Eric and Dylan suicide pictures but the other photos are off limits. 

No-one cares about the dignity of a murderer.

This is true. I do think the feelings of most killers families are often not cared or even thought about. Mainly because they get tainted by the actions of the person who committed the crime.

I was thinking more of their parents. However I am sure they didn’t expect that the response of the suicide pictures would’ve elicited a lot more empathy for the two of them

I feel like so many of the things that have been released and leaked of Eric and Dylan have kind of made them more empathetic and more normal seeming then other shooters that we’ve learned of.

I would have to see them out of curiosity.

Some sick fuck would have them instantly saved to beat their meat to Cassie's or Laura's corpse, I'm calling it. On the other hand, that would be a next level file leak on JeffCo, considering how tight lipped they are about it and the supposed "destruction" of evidence they "held on to" for too "long"

TBH we really shouldn't even have Eric & Dylan's death photos, could you imagine having any of your love ones commit suicide and being able to google their crime scene photo?

It's not just the effect the pictures being out there would have on the families, it's also what some people would do with those pictures. When Nikki Catsouras died in that horrific Porsche crash in 2006, her family was hounded by people sending them the pictures, mocking and ridiculing them. I imagine the same would happen here.

SandraSmit19 wrote:

It's not just the effect the pictures being out there would have on the families, it's also what some people would do with those pictures. When Nikki Catsouras died in that horrific Porsche crash in 2006, her family was hounded by people sending them the pictures, mocking and ridiculing them. I imagine the same would happen here.

That poor girl I came across her photos on accident. Terrible

joebox97 wrote:

TBH we really shouldn't even have Eric & Dylan's death photos, could you imagine having any of your love ones commit suicide and being able to google their crime scene photo?

I have to agree with you. Those photos should never have been released, even if Eric and Dylan were the ones who killed all the other people. They also had loving families and friends who were deeply affected by seeing those photos. I'm sure some of them had never seen the suicide photos nor did they want to. Now, the friends and families will have those images forever burned into their brains. I doubt it is how they wanted to remember Dylan or Eric. I certainly wouldn't want to think of a photo of my friend with the top of his head blown off every time I mourn their loss. It was plastered everywhere for a while. The National Inquirer did dirty by deciding to release those photos.

As much as I'd like to see photos of the victims (morbid curiosity gets the best of me), it is better they aren't released. I can't imagine having pictures of your child killed in a shooting being plastered all over the web for anyone to see.

hvernon wrote:

joebox97 wrote:

TBH we really shouldn't even have Eric & Dylan's death photos, could you imagine having any of your love ones commit suicide and being able to google their crime scene photo?

I have to agree with you. Those photos should never have been released, even if Eric and Dylan were the ones who killed all the other people. They also had loving families and friends who were deeply affected by seeing those photos. I'm sure some of them had never seen the suicide photos nor did they want to. Now, the friends and families will have those images forever burned into their brains. I doubt it is how they wanted to remember Dylan or Eric. I certainly wouldn't want to think of a photo of my friend with the top of his head blown off every time I mourn their loss. It was plastered everywhere for a while. The National Inquirer did dirty by deciding to release those photos.

As much as I'd like to see photos of the victims (morbid curiosity gets the best of me), it is better they aren't released. I can't imagine having pictures of your child killed in a shooting being plastered all over the web for anyone to see.

I Remember in the Sues book she was talking about a few things from his funeral. And she talked about the look on his face. And I’m thinking that was such a private moment that the whole world knows about because we know what the look was