Kyle Huff Left A Note (or not)

Kyle Huff did write a suicide note before going off on his deadly shotgun rampage on Capitol Hill a while back. It was addressed to his brother Kane and we haven't been able to dig up a copy of it yet but word is that he goes on about how pissed off he was about ravers. These are the quotes we can find right now:

"They’re packed in there, groping each other, having sex. This hippy shit has to end."

"I’ve got to do something about it,"

"These people are screwing up the world."

"Now, kids, now!"

What a fucking asshole. More interesting than the contents of the letter is how it got into the hands of the Seattle PD. A man who managed apartments near where the Huffs lived was pissed off that someone was continually filling his dumpsters and when he investigated he found a bomb in one of them. SPD detonated it and found the note, which was dated a few days before the killings.

Seattle police belive that Kane Huff didn't see the letter before the shootings. Apparently he says he's never seen it. Seattlest can be made to believe a lot of crazy shit, but when you tell us that Kane Huff never saw this letter that his identical fucking twin wrote before he went on an armed rampage that was just found in a dumpster near the apartment where they cohabitated... C'mon.

You wonder why the police didn't find a bomb and a suicide note when they searched Huff's apartment the day following the shootings. We wondered that, anyway, because it appears to us that it was there or nearby if it's showing up in a dumpster now. Unfortunately a phone call to the police department media guy went to voice mail. The message did confirm that the letter exists, that it's believed to have "evidentiary value" and that it hasn't been authenticated. We're going to wildly speculate here that the letter may have evidentiary value in a case against Kane Huff, who, if he did know of his identical fucking twin's intentions beforehand, could be in some trouble.

Update: We probably fell for something here - Seems like it's probably a hoax. SPD won't authenticate the letter and while they did detonate a "suspicious device" it turned out to be fake bomb type thing; a clock with a bunch of wires but no explosive capability. Good thing we jumped the gate disparaging Kane Huff who, despite being his twin is not the same as Kyle Huff and is probably an upstanding young man.

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By Dan in News on May 19, 2006 7:11 AM

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jason

Nice way to set yourself up for a libel suit Seattlest.

So glad that Seattle is a tolerant city comprised of intelligent, rational individuals who are willing to get all the facts before jumping to an emotional decision about their fellow human beings.

I’d sure hate to live in one those red-state cities where people are so easy to condemn someone based upon the sensationalism of a single news report.

James Callan

Cecil Adams sez:

"Identical twins have fingerprints that can be readily distinguished on close examination. However, the prints do have striking similarities."

Amy

And no one has ever lied under oath? C'mon. Kane was probably cleaning out his brother's room after a month of not being able to deal with the task.

Do identical twins have identical fingerprints? Hmmm.

Seth

I don't believe in hoaxes. The person may have THOUGHT they were making a hoax, but really it was God acting through them to help us understand this tragedy.

Brian Fellow

The letter is a hoax. King 5 jumped on it for sensational reasons, but upon further review a few glaring things stick out.

1. It was found in an area that is cleaned up regularly.

2. It was found more than a month after the attacks.

3. Kane told police (under oath) that he'd never seen the letter.

It's a hoax.

Seth

If this was 11th century Iceland, Kane Huff would have to compensate the families of the victims or face their violent vengeance. Sometimes I wish this was 11th century Iceland.