Echoes in the Columbine Archive

“(…) There are so many haunting loose ends. Take the case of Sarah Cudworth, an eighteen-year-old interviewed by an Arapahoe County investigator less than two weeks after the shootings. Cudworth told the deputy that she’d been introduced to Eric Harris in 1997 by her friend Robert Craig, a Columbine honor student who killed his stepfather and himself later that year. Like Harris, Craig was a bright, moody young man who hung out with a disaffected crowd but was not a member of the Trenchcoat Mafia. His stepfather happened to be a former sheriff’s deputy.

“Sarah told me they were all drawn together by their intelligence and boredom with school,” the investigator wrote in his report. “Harris had a lot of hate, but he never told her about any plans to hurt anyone. Harris did talk about how he was harassed.

Eric Harris and Robert Craig. You’d think such a startling nexus of anger and despair would require some follow up, but there is no trace of any subsequent interviews with Cudworth or anyone else on that point.”