Who was in the Trench Coat Mafia

 

 

Approximately Thirty Students

 

 

 

     
 

       

Eric Ault

Melissa Sowder

David Caravan

Jeremiah  Hess,

John Beachem

Alejandra Marsh

Nate Dykeman

Patrick McDuffee

Eric Dutro

Josh Barnes

Cory Friesen

Chris Morris

Charles Phillips

John Beachem

Michael Hardesty

Robert Perry

Dustin Gorton

Brian Ford

Horst Rossmueller

Robyn Anderson

Kirsta Hanley

 Pauline Colby

John Savage

Brooks Brown

Alyssa Sechler

Chris Tibaldo

Eric Veik

Alejandre Marsh

Eric Jackson

Joe Stair

Andy Thomas

Kirsten Theibault

Nicole Markham

Kristi Epling

 Brian Sargent

Chantel Beery

Eric Jackson

Thaddeus Boles

Zach Heckler

Charles  Phillips
 

Group Message On Attack

  
 
 

 

  
 
 
     


 

 

 

         

Joe Stair

 Scott Fuselier Brooks Brown Chris Morris Cory Friezen
         
Jonathan Greene Zack Heckler Nickie Markam Sarah Marsh Benjamin Sargent
         
Mark Manes Nathan Dykeman Sarah Alex Marsh Robert Perry Eric Harris
         
Thaddeus Boles Dylan Klebold Duran   Robert Craig
         

Sowder Eric Peth John Savage Dustin Gorton Christopher Tibaldo
Alysa Sechler Kristi Epling Robyn Anderson Eric Veik Charles Phillips
Eric Dutro Kristine Theibault Eric Ault Patrick McDuffee Julie Grunke
       
Krista Hanley        
         

 

         
 

TCM Associates Index

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Chris Tibaldo

Eric Veik

Deanna Veik

Devon Adams

Robyn Anderson

Eric Ault

Thaddeus Boles

Brooks Brown

Kelli Brown

Eric Dutro

Chris Morris

Brenda Parker

Robert Perry

Lydie Perry

Charles Phillips

Jessica Rusch

Brian Sargent

Joseph Stair

Kristine Theibault

Chris Tibaldo

Nathan Dykeman

Kristi Epling

Cory Friesen

Dustin Gorton

Krista Hanley

Zachary Heckler

Eric Jackson

Nicole Markham

Alejandra Marsh

Patrick McDuffee

  
         

 
         

 

 

 

 

 
     
  • Josh Barnes
  • Joe Stair
  • Chris Morris
  • Horst Rossmueller
  • Cory Friezen
  • Chuck Phillips
  • Brian Sargent
  • Pauline Colby
  • Nicole Markam
  • Kristen Theibault
  • Krista Epling
  • Tad Bowles
  • Alex Marsh

 

 

 

 

  Who are the Trenchcoat Mafia?  
   
 

Listing 13 names next to a smiling group photograph, the entry is typical of teenage exuberance. "Who says we are different? Insanity's healthy!" it reads.

"Remember rocking parties at Kristen's, foosball (table football) at Joe's and fencing at Christopher's! Stay alive, stay different, stay crazy."

Andrew Beard alleged that Harris and Klebold had spoken of "hating jocks" while Sean Kelly, 16, said Harris and several members of the Trenchcoat group had made a video about guns, made racist comments towards black or Hispanic students and bragged about acquiring guns. 

Another message posted on AOL claiming to be from the group said: "Trench Coat Mafia in da House', preparin' for the big April 20!!'' 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Detailed Backgrounds

 

John Savage

     
   

Allowed To Escape the Library

At 11:37 a.m., the shooters moved to the center of the library, where they continued to reload their weapons at a table midway across the room. Klebold noticed a student nearby and asked him to identify himself. The student was John Savage, an acquaintance of Klebold's. Savage asked Klebold what they were doing, to which Klebold replied, "Oh, just killing people." Savage then asked if they were going to kill him. Klebold hesitated, and then asked him to leave the library. Savage fled immediately, making a safe escape through the library's main entrance.

After Savage was gone, Harris turned and fired his carbine at the table directly north of where they'd been, hitting Daniel Mauser in the face at close range, killing him. Both shooters then moved south from there and fired randomly under another table, critically injuring Jennifer Doyle and Austin Eubanks, and fatally wounding Corey DePooter. DePooter, the last victim of the massacre, was said to have been instrumental in keeping his friends calm during the ordeal.

Hoffschneider's circle — known as "the steroid poster boys" — had their cafeteria table. On the other side of the room, shy skinny boys — among them Harris and Klebold — claimed a table, too. The athletes threw Skittles candy at them, said senior John Savage. Once, athletes threw a bagel close to the table, and the cafeteria emptied for fear of a fight. In the boys' bathrooms, a graffiti war broke out — "Jocks rule!" Came the rejoinder: "Jocks suck!"

 

  
     

 

 

 

Dustin Gorton  ...Given a lie detector test

     
 

Several students expressed anger at the jocks for spreading rumors to defame the two in death with the same slurs that dogged them through life. Dustin Gorton, a good friend of Harris and Klebold, was particularly outraged. "I think it'd be really funny if you tried to tell their girlfriends that they were gay," he said. Gorton, a brawny 6-foot senior dressed in camouflage pants, said prom pictures had been taken with Harris and Klebold and their girlfriends, but hadn't been developed. He promised that the media would never see the pictures, or find the two young women.

"You're never going to get those names. [The girlfriends] are so far hidden, and they are so screwed up right now," he said. Gorton described himself as a "nontraditional jock" who played Doom on the Internet with the two killers, as well as baseball with a team outside the school. He said he was not a member of the Trench Coat Mafia.

Dustin Gorton(10743)
"He named 2 other individuals he believed to be involved as Nathan Dykeman, Chris Morris."

 
 
     

 

 

 

Alyssa_Sechler .. Polish Jew

     

 

Alyssa Sechler, who took German class with Harris, told investigators he included a drawing of a guy holding a gun with a note in her yearbook.

She told investigators she knew Harris did not like jocks, "but she just thought it was hot air."
 
     

 

 

Scott_Fusilier

     

 

Scott Fusilier .....Former TCM
His father, Dwayne, was the head of the FBI investigation into Columbine.
 

 

One of the students who helped produce a 1997 video that's similar to the April 20 assault on Columbine High School is the son of the FBI's lead agent in the investigation.

Scott Fuselier is not considered a suspect in the April 20 shootings. Why was Dwayne Fuselier the head of the FBI investigation?
His son was a former member of the Trench Coat Mafia. Wouldn't that be the *last* senior FBI man to put in that spot?
The many Christians who felt Columbine was a religious crime,

Officials with the FBI said Friday their lead investigator in the Columbine High tragedy will stay in his post despite close ties to the school.

Dwayne Fuselier's son graduated from Columbine in 1997 and was one of the students who produced a videotape more than two years ago that shows TRENCHCOAT-WEARING STUDENTS ARMED WITH WEAPONS MOVING THROUGH THE SCHOOL'S HALLS.

The film ends with four students walking away from the school as it EXPLODES IN FLAMES.

  
     

 

 

Thaddeus_Boles

     

 

While rumours continue to fly, few members of the Trenchcoat Mafia have spoken to the media.

But one who has spoken, Thaddeus Boles, has tried to make it clear that whatever Harris and Klebold did, the rest of the group were no different to their schoolmates who had suffered so much.

"We all just started wearing (trenchcoats) to keep warm," he said. "All of us pretty much got along with everybody."
 

 

  
     

 

 


Melisa Sowder

     

 

And at least two of the female trench coat associates-Melissa Sowder and Alejandra Marsh- told other students that they had advance foreknowledge of the attack. CHS asked Sowder not to return, find another school.

 

  
     

 

 

 

Cohn

     
 

But another member of the group told The Denver Post that he understood why the teens snapped: One of the reasons the Trenchcoat Mafia existed, he said, was to give its members a sense of belonging in the face of teasing and
bullying by other students, especially athletes.

"I don't think kids were ever scared of the trench coats before," the elder Cohn said. "They were just different. But now the word "trench coat" sends fear into them." The killers even spared a Jewish student, Aaron Cohn.

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

Eric Dutro-

     
 

 

TCM-er Eric Dutro walking around the school cafeteria telling people that "Satan loves you"

  
     

 

 

 

 

Kristi Epling --- Jewish  ---PDF 10716-10724

     
 

 
     

 

 

 

 

Mark_Manes

     

 

 

The 22-year-old man who provided one of the guns fired by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the Columbine High School massacre was sentenced Friday to six years in prison.

Manes received six years in prison for selling a weapon to a minor and three

 

 

 

  
     

 

 

 

Tibalado

     

 

 
     

 

 

 

 

Zach_Heckler ...TCM

     

 

But Mark Heckler, father of group member Zach Heckler, said the group considered themselves outside of the norm, but there was nothing sinister in the coats.

"We know these kids," said Mr Heckler said. "Nothing indicated that Harris or Klebold were about to explode."

 

 

  
     

 

 

 

 

Eric_Veik

     

 

 Eric Veik made three videos with Klebold and harris.

They created this idea and asked me to film it. It was 'Hitmen for Hire.' Dillon & Eric were the hitmen, I was the victim & [another student] was the jock harassing me. They used replicas of guns & spoke of killing in the video. I never heard if this video was successful...

 
     

 

 

 

 

 

Charles_Phillips ..Jewish

     

 

Pat McDuffee-told police that five of the seven named above were indeed inside the school with guns, in addition he named five more trench coaters-Eric Ault, John Beachem, Eric Dutro, Charles Phillips, and Eric Jackson- as being involved in the planning or bomb-building

 

  
     

 

 

 

Robert Perry

     

 

Perry Was Thought To Be A Shooter

His alibi was, he was with his father in a car.

 

  
     

 

 

 

Kristi Thiebault ...TCM..Jewish

     

 

 

Kristi Thiebault said she was with Robert Perry on the day of the shooting. McDuffie states Thiebault was a TCM

 
     

 

 

 

Cory Friesen

     

 

 

Cory Friesen provided the alibi for Chris Morris, on the day of the shooting.

 

 
     

 

 

 

Eric Ault

     

 

 

Ault was in the TCM, and Pat McDuffee said this in an interview.

 
     

 

 

 

 

Krista Hanley

     

 

 

Krista Hanley was standing in the cafeteria line when she heard glass shatter and pipe bombs explode. She dove for cover with the rest of the students. And when the entire cafeteria "got up and moved as one," Krista escaped through the auditorium and down a hallway.  Eric and Dylan were her friends, but that's all she'll say

 

 
     

 

 

 

 

Nickie Markam

     

 

 

 
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexandria Marsh

     

 

 
     

 

 

 

 

 

Patrick McDuffy ...Read PDF --Starts 10783

     

 

McDuffie was most informative of group

 

  
     

 

 

 

 

Robyn Anderson  ....Klebolds closest friend

     

 

 

  
     

 

 

 

Duran

     

 

 

Philip Duran was arrested around 4 p.m. (6 p.m. ET) on suspicion of two separate counts: One for unlawfully providing or permitting a juvenile to possess a handgun and the other for the illegal possession of an assault weapon.