On 16 March 2001 Marc Sappington answered the voices in his head, which were telling him to harvest human flesh and blood. He killed four people - two in one day - and drank their blood. This practice earned him the nickname the ’Kansas City Vampire’. Sappington’s mother discovered a body in their basement and called the police, who soon tracked down Sappington. He jumped into a car, however, and led the police on a brief chase. When he was captured he was sentenced to four consecutive life terms in El Dorado Correctional Facility.

During a 20-minute period on Sunday 30 April 1989 in Monkseaton, Tyne and Wear, Robert Sartin killed one and wounded 14 others. Schizophrenic Sartin would later claim to have heard voices in his head compelling him to carry out the attacks. He had been obsessed with the Moors Murders committed by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, and the poisoner Graham Young. He had also visited Hungerford, the sit of Michael Ryan’s massacre. Sartin habitually wore black, and liked to be known as ‘Satan’. Sartin was just 22 when he strode around Monkseaton armed with a shotgun, discharging the weapon at anyone he saw. When he stood trial in April 1990 he was deemed ‘unfit to plead’ and was subsequently confined to a psychiatric unit for an indefinite period.

“How many people can a football stadium hold? Can it hold fifty, sixty thousand? Most stadiums can … Now, picture a stadium filled, not just seats but the field and all the air above it, with dead men, women, and children,”

-Eric Harris.

Hungerford Massacre - On 19 August 1987, Michael Ryan stalked the streets of Hungerford, Berkshire, shooting at will. He murdered 16 and wounded 14, eight of whom were seriously injured. Ryan was an unemployed labourer with a love of guns and weapons. He had begun the slaughter across the border in Wiltshire, with the cold-blooded killing of Susan Godfrey; he had then driven into Hungerford on the town’s market day in order to find more victims. As the firing started, one of the victims, a police officer, Robert Bereton, managed to contact another officer who called in firearms units and a helicopter. Bereton then died where he lay. After rampaging through the town, Ryan barricaded himself in a school and the police surrounded the building with snipers. Negotiators made contact with Ryan, who told them “I have killed all those people, but I haven’t got the guts to blow my brains out.” Just after 7.00 p.m. Ryan found the courage and the police discovered him dead in one of the school’s classrooms. The massacre prompted the government to ban semi-automatic rifles in Britain under the Firearms Act of 1988. Ryan’s chosen weapon, unlicensed, had been a Russian-designed AK47.

Glen Rogers was a charming, handsome and volatile individual, Glen was the focus of an all-points national manhunt after a cross-country rampage that left at least four women dead in four separate states. The consummate ladies man, Glen liked to pick up blond and redheaded women in bars and ask them for a ride home. Then he would try to spend the night with them. The killings came usually as a drunken afterthought. Glen is an example of a spree killer who, unlike serial killers, does not have cooling off periods between kills. His killings were the consequence of impromptu bursts of rage. On July 11, 1997, Glen was sentenced to death.

In November 2005 18-year-old David G. Ludwig shot and killed his 14-year-old girlfriends parents. Ludwig and his girlfriends parents got into an argument after he brought her home in the early hours in the morning after spending the night at his house, she had lied and said she was at a friends. The argument lasted around 45 minutes and then Ludwig lifted out the gun he brought over with him and shot her father and then her mother, the couple then fled in his car. It wasn’t long until they were caught, Ludwig was sentenced to two consecutive life terms while no charges were brought against his girlfriend.

From the outside, on Easter sunday, March 30, 1975, the house at 635 Minor Avenue in the small Ohio town of Hamilton seemed perfectly normal. However, on the inside was a different, much more gruesome story - the bodies of an entire family lay slaughtered, adults and children, eleven in all. The only surviving member was forty-one-year-old James Ruppert, the shooter. Investigation revealed that Ruppert, an alcoholic and also completely paranoid, was constantly being picked on by his brother Leonard and mother, Charity, and continually taunted for his inadequacies. Fantasies had been building within him for a long time, and by now he was sure that everyone was against him and had to be dealt with. So on that Easter morning he came from his room upstairs, armed with a rifle and three handguns, and he started to shoot people at point-blank range. He fired a total of forty-four times. Then he simply waited for the police. Ruppert was tried and conviced, receiving two consecutive life sentences.

Six Dead in California School Shooting, Police Say

Six people were killed and at least three others were wounded in a shooting at a California religious college Monday, Oakland police said. “We believe the suspect is in custody,” Oakland Police Sgt. Christoper Bolton said. “He was arrested in a nearby city.” Highland Hospital spokeswoman Jerri Applegate told KGO-TV that five shooting victims were being treated there. She gave no information on their conditions, saying that was a police matter. A SWAT team entered Oikos University in East Oakland to make sure no other shooters or wounded people were on the campus building, police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said. Gunfire erupted inside the single-story building that houses the private Christian college at about 10:30 a.m. (1:30 p.m. ET), according to Lucas Garcia, who was teaching an English class when it began. Garcia told CNN affiliate KGO-TV that he counted about six gunshots from a nearby nursing classroom when he heard someone yell, “He’s got a gun.” Garcia evacuated his students from the building while the gunfire continued, he said. The college offers degrees in theology, music, nursing and Asian medicine, according to its website.

Dylan Klebold: Directors will be fighting over this story.

Eric Harris: Yeah I bet Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino will direct it.

Dylan Klebold: But who will play us?

Eric Harris: Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt?

A page from Eric Harris’ weekly planner showing a diagram of a figure showing how ammo would be worn (drawn over the April 20, 1999 day) and next to it is a list of munitions.