Newtown Killer Called Radio Show In 2011

Adam Lanza

The 20-year-old gunman who carried out the 2012 Newtown school massacre, killing 20 first-graders and six educators as well as his mother, apparently called an Oregon-based radio show a year earlier to talk about the 2009 mauling of a Connecticut woman by her friend's chimpanzee, the New York Daily News reported Thursday (January 16th).

Adam Lanza called into a show called Anarchy Radio, hosted by anarchist John Zerzan, whose writings have been compared to the Unabomber's anti-technology manifesto. Lanza said the chimp, named Travis, had been raised like a child, saying, "Look what civilization did to him. It had the same exact effect on him as it has on humans. He was profoundly sick in every sense of the term . . . " Lanza also said, "His attack can be seen entirely parallel to the attacks and random acts of violence that you bring up on your show every week, committed by humans, which the mainstream also has no explanation. I just don't think it would be such a stretch to say that he very well could have been a teenage mall shooter or something like that."

Zerzan told the Daily News, "The only thing that seemed odd was his voice seemed kind of robotic . . . but what he was saying made sense."