A newly released FBI profile of Adam Lanza concludes that he did not just “snap” when he shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, but instead had engaged in careful, methodical planning that started 21 months earlier. 
 
 When FBI profiler Andre Simon met in 2014 with families of some of the victims killed at the Newtown school, he provided a summary of his findings that included a reference to Lanza “contemplating the attack as early as March of 2011.” Documents released by the FBI Tuesday do not reveal how Simon came to that conclusion. 
 
 The summary of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit’s assessment of Lanza is among more than 1,500 pages of documents related to the shooting at the Newtown school that left 26 dead, including 20 first-graders. Lanza shot the students and six school employees at the school after shooting and killing his mother, Nancy, in their home. 
 
 The documents include FBI interviews with neighbors of Adam Lanza and friends of his family, and an hour-long interview with a woman who communicated online with Lanza for more than two years. 
 
 The unidentified woman recounted for two FBI special agents how Lanza wrote about his meticulous spreadsheet of mass killers, professed his love of Harry Potter books and told her about a nightmare of being in a mall during a mass shooting. 
 
 The woman told FBI agents that she first “met” Lanza online more than two years before the shooting after spotting his postings on a website related to the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. They communicated about once a month after that, but the woman said she did not know Lanza’s real name or where he lived. 
 
 She told agents that he referred to the spreadsheet he created “meticulously documenting the details of hundreds of spree killings and mass murders.” She said Lanza wrote about mass killers with respect and understanding, saying such attacks were merely the symptoms of a broken society. 
 
 She told the FBI Lanza rarely spoke about his family or personal life, but said he once wrote that he liked the Harry Potter stories, and in particular the “idea that at the age of eleven, the kids were taken away from their families.” She told the FBI he was “the most fixated and disturbed internet associate she had ever encountered.” 
 
 The newly released documents show that the FBI opened a grand jury within days of the shooting to collect information from internet sites that Adam Lanza frequented. There also are field notes from agents who canvassed the Yogananda Street neighborhood in Newtown where Lanza lived. 
 
 One neighbor told agents that the FBI had visited the Lanza home several years earlier because Adam had hacked into a government computer system when he was in ninth grade. The neighbor said that Lanza made it through the second level of the unnamed government computer system before federal agents showed up at the house. 
 
 The neighbor said that Nancy Lanza said the agents remarked that Adam was so smart “he could have a job with them someday.” 
 
 FBI agents assisted the state police in the aftermath of the shooting. The documents released Tuesday are mostly redacted grand jury subpoenas and interviews agents conducted, as well as records they obtained from schools and health providers. 
 
 The investigators’ hand-written field notes on the day of the massacre show how the agents, during their initial canvass of witnesses, gathered a wide range of information about Nancy and Adam Lanza’s relationship that would later shed light on his increasingly isolated existence in the weeks before the murders. 
 
 One unidentified person told agents that Nancy Lanza had confided that Adam Lanza had not left his bedroom in three months and that she only communicated with him via e-mail. Several mentioned that Adam Lanza had been upset when their home lost power for days after Superstorm Sandy. 
 
 “He had no real friends,” an investigator noted, “and would not go out of the house to a hotel when electricity [was] out during Hurricane Sandy.” 
 
 Another family friend told agents that while in school, Adam Lanza was “bullied, but not excessively, for his social awkwardness and his physical gait.” Lanza weighed only 111 pounds at the time of his death. 
 
 The FBI profiler, after reviewing Lanza’s journal writings and internet posts and interviewing the few relatives who knew him, concluded Lanza had an “extremely rigid and inflexible worldview.” 
 
 The profiler concluded: 
 
 In the weeks and months preceding the attack, Lanza’s deteriorating relationship with his mother was a significant challenge and stressor in his life. 
 
 There was no evidence to suggest that Lanza viewed the attack as a “video game” or as a game. 
 
 Lanza was fascinated with past shootings and researched them thoroughly. 
 
 There is evidence to suggest that Lanza had an interest in children that could be categorized as pedophilia. Although the profiler acknowledged there is no evidence Lanza ever acted on that interest. 
 
 The unidentified woman’s online conversations with Lanza expounded on his loneliness and social awkwardness. She told federal agents, according to their summary, “Lanza seemed to have no friends or people he could turn to for support or assistance and did not appear to have any enjoyment of life.” 
 
 In his postings, Lanza expressed displeasure over natural light, the taste and texture of food, and the feel of clothing. 
 
 The woman said Lanza at least once had “casually mentioned suicide” and saw death as an escape from his joyless existence. But she told the FBI Lanza never directly expressed an interest in killing himself. The woman also told agents it was clear Lanza was knowledgeable about guns, but never indicated that he owned weapons and never suggested he would hurt others 
 
 She said Lanza also wrote about his nightmares. 
 
 Lanza wrote that he dreamed he was in a mall during a mass shooting, and found himself alone in a shoe store with the shooter, trying to persuade him to commit suicide before the police could arrest him. In another, he described watching bullies emptying the backpack of a victim, who then pulled a gun and began shooting his tormentors. ||||| FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012, file photo, a police cruiser sits in the driveway of the home of Nancy Lanza in Newtown, Conn., the Colonial-style house where she had lived with her son Adam Lanza. Some... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012, file photo, a police cruiser sits in the driveway of the home of Nancy Lanza in Newtown, Conn., the Colonial-style house where she had lived with her son Adam Lanza. Some... (Associated Press) 
 
 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter's personal belongings, including personal journals containing stories about hurting children and a spreadsheet ranking mass murders, must be released to the public because they are not exempt from open record laws, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. 
 
 Thousands of documents already have been released from the investigation that ended without determining a motive for the massacre of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, but the writings could provide insights into the thinking of the shooter, Adam Lanza. 
 
 The Hartford Courant and other media organizations requested to view Lanza's belongings, which were seized by authorities during a search of Lanza's home and described in a state police report released about a year after the shooting. State police rejected the requests, citing privacy rights in the state's search and seizure law. 
 
 The Courant appealed to the state Freedom of Information Commission, which in 2015 ordered state police to release the documents. But Superior Court Judge Carl Schuman overruled the commission in 2016 — a decision overturned Tuesday in the 5-0 Supreme Court ruling. 
 
 "We feel these documents are necessary to tell a complete story in our reporting," said Andrew Julien, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Courant. "Understanding what a mass killer was thinking not only paints a clearer picture of the individual, it helps us identify and understand red flags that could be part of a prevention formula for future mass shootings." 
 
 It's not immediately clear when the 35 requested items will be released. The state attorney general's office, which represents state police and declined to comment Tuesday, could ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling or possibly appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. State police officials did not return messages seeking comment. 
 
 Among the disputed documents are a spreadsheet ranking mass murders by name and number killed and a notebook titled "The Big Book of Granny." The notebook contains a story that Lanza wrote in the fifth grade about a woman who uses her "rifle cane" to kill people. 
 
 Police also so far have not released an eight-page document titled simply, "me," which was described in a police inventory as "detailing relationships, ideal companion, culture, voting, personal beliefs, describes doctors touching children as rape." Another, named "tomorrow," apparently contains details about the author's "desires, list of the benefits of being thin and negative connotations associated with being overweight, list of goals ...". 
 
 Some of the other requested items include a folder containing hand-drawn, comic-style pictures and stories about Pokemon-type characters; a packet of educational materials from the Sandy Hook school to Lanza's mother including report cards and an educational plan addressing his mental health issues; a list of problems and requests from Lanza to his mother; and a story about a relationship between a 10-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man. 
 
 A report by the Connecticut child advocate said Lanza's severe and deteriorating mental health problems, his preoccupation with violence and access to his mother's weapons "proved a recipe for mass murder." 
 
 Lanza's medical and school records included references to diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, the child advocate's office said. The 2014 report said Nancy Lanza backed her son's resistance to medication and from the 10th grade on kept him at home, where he was surrounded by an arsenal of firearms and spent long hours playing violent video games. 
 
 In Tuesday's court decision, Justice Raheem Mullins wrote that the court must "narrowly construe" language in state law that allows exceptions to public disclosure, and that "otherwise any statute governing an agency's general treatment of records becomes a possible restriction on disclosure." 
 
 "The trial court pointed to nothing in the express terms of the search and seizure statutes that creates confidentiality in the documents or otherwise limits the disclosure, copying, or distribution of the documents," wrote Mullins. "Indeed, the search and seizure statutes are silent on the issues of confidentiality, copying, or disclosure to the public." ||||| Computer evidence shows Lanza's interest in pedophilia 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 NEWTOWN -- Adam Lanza had an interest in pedophilia. 
 
 On his computer hard drive was a screenplay, "Lovebound," that describes a relationship between a 30-year-old man and a 10-year-old boy, as well as documents advocating for "pedophiles' rights and the liberation of children." 
 
 He also discussed with a friend how it was "a disease that needed to be treated and not looked at as evil," according to the State Police report on the shooting released late last month. 
 
 Smiggles, a screen name state police said Lanza used, made hundreds of posts on a now-defunct online forum, "Shocked and Beyond," that focused on mass shootings after Columbine. 
 
 In a post dated Dec. 30, 2009, Smiggles said, "I used to think I was asexual, but the primary reason why I thought that was because my BMI (body mass index) was 14." At the time of his death nearly three years later, he was 6 feet tall and weighed 112 pounds. 
 
 Smiggles also posted on the forum, "I castrated myself when I was 15 to rebel against society." 
 
 Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky said he was "unaware of any information" about Lanza attempting to castrate himself. 
 
 While there is still no concrete evidence that Lanza was a pedophile -- or a victim of one -- the material does point to an internal conflict that may have plagued Lanza in the years before he walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and took the lives of 20 young children and six educators before killing himself the morning of Dec. 14, 2012. 
 
 "Certainly, there isn't enough evidence to come to a firm conclusion," said Dr. Fred Berlin, director of the sexual behaviors consultation unit at Johns Hopkins University, "but it sounds like he was conflicted about these issues. It's possible he had an attraction (to children) or he knew people who had them and he was trying to sort it out. But it's still a long way from explaining what he did." 
 
 Berlin said one could speculate that Lanza, if he had pedophilia tendencies, could have targeted the elementary school in an attempt to eliminate temptation. 
 
 "The idea is that someone who has a strong desire for something and they're forbidden to act upon it, they can be angry at the source of temptation," he said. "It's not unreasonable, given what happened. There must have been a tremendous amount of rage inside of him." 
 
 He stressed, however, that the idea is just a hypothesis and there isn't enough evidence at this point to either refute or support the claim. 
 
 "It's just more pieces to an incredibly complex puzzle," he said. 
 
 It's a puzzle that may never be solved. Despite a nearly yearlong investigation and thousands of documents investigators have examined in a search for answers, what motivated Lanza to walk into Sandy Hook Elementary School that day remains a mystery. 
 
 Mary Ellen O'Toole, a retired FBI behavioral analyst whose expertise is in mass homicides and school violence, said there is a compulsive aspect to many pedophiles that isn't apparent in the evidence released to date on Lanza. 
 
 "These urges come back repeatedly, and they aren't satisfied by one instance," she said. "I would expect to see a more compulsive nature to the inquiry. When searching a home, you would expect to find volumes of material on the subject." 
 
 She added that investigators would expect to see some kind of searches pertaining to a sexual curiosity on most 20-year-olds' computers. Lanza's hard drive, however, was filled with documents pertaining to his research of mass shootings, images of Lanza holding a handgun to his head and a smattering of information related to the rights of pedophiles. 
 
 While additional evidence hasn't surfaced in the Lanza case, O'Toole said that doesn't mean it didn't exist. 
 
 "It could mean the investigators didn't find it or it was part of what was destroyed," she said. 
 
 Lanza made every effort to destroy his hard drive before his rampage, which included killing his mother in her bed at home. He also redacted a number of comments he left on social media forums that may have discussed the topic. 
 
 Dr. Charles Herrick, the head of psychiatry at Danbury Hospital, said it is difficult with the information released to date to know if Lanza's interest in pedophilia had any influence on his behavior. 
 
 "The material related to his obsession with mass shootings is far more compelling about what is driving his behavior," he said. 
 
 Herrick said that while perpetrators of any kind of abuse tend to have been abused themselves, there is no indication that Lanza was molested. 
 
 "That's pretty common," he said, "but they don't usually think about it in such a intellectual way. If abused, why would someone seek to justify it?" 
 
 Dr. Harold Schwartz, chief of psychiatry at the Institute for Living in Hartford and part of the 16-member Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, said there was not enough information in the documents to say whether Lanza may have been a victim himself of a pedophile. 
 
 Members of the commission, appointed by the governor last year to make recommendations on school safety, mental health and gun violence after the shooting, have been openly critical of the state police report on the shooting, saying the report released late on a Friday afternoon was all but indecipherable. 
 
 The report is so disorganized that the commission has accepted the help of a Hartford law firm to turn the 6,700-page file -- an online collection of hundreds of individual documents without a table of contents or index -- into a searchable database. 
 
 "I think all of us have gone into the document pages and were just never quite sure whether we missed something or have gotten to the thing that matters most to us," said Hamden Mayor Scott Jackson, chairman of the commission. 
 
 Staff writer John Pirro contributed to this report.
– "He was singularly focused and obsessed with mass murders," the FBI writes about Adam Lanza in a newly unsealed interview. The New York Daily News reports the FBI released more than 1,500 pages of documents on the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting Tuesday. Most of the heavily redacted files consist of grand jury subpoenas and interviews with neighbors and others regarding the shooter, Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people, including 20 first-graders, according to the Hartford Courant. Lanza, 20, killed himself during the 2012 shooting. Here are some of the details revealed in the unsealed documents: