Adam Lanza speaks from beyond the grave: Listen to killer's call to radio station where he compares chimp that ripped woman's face off to 'a teenage mall shooter'

  • Friends and an internet trail identify Lanza as the caller on Anarchy Radio nearly a year to the day before the Sandy Hook massacre
  • The caller, who went by 'Greg,' professed a chilling affinity for the infamous Connecticut chimpanzee Travis who ripped a woman's face off in 2009
  • 'Travis wasn’t an untamed monster at all': 'Greg' says as he tells host John Zerzan that Travis was misunderstood by society

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 02:52 EST, 16 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:13 EST, 16 January 2014


A chilling audio recording of a phone call likely made by Newtown killer Adam Lanza to a radio show a year before his deadly rampage gives a terrifying look inside the 20-year-old's sick mind.

Lanza apparently spoke on Oregon college radio show Anarchy Radio on December 11, 2011 and compared a chimpanzee that famously tore off the face a Connecticut woman to a human mass killer.

'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,' he said about Travis the chimp in a recording, which was first reported by Sandy Hook Lighthouse.

Although he disguised his voice and used the name Greg, friends said the recording sounds just like the killer. And online discussions by an internet forum user called Smiggles - a name known to be used by Lanza - also nod at the eerie call being made by him.

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'Travis wasn’t an untamed monster at all': Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza (right) professed a bizarre affinity with Connecticut chimpanzee Travis (left), who tore off a woman's face in 2009, as he called a radio show

Lanza spoke for some seven minutes in a soft voice to host John Zerzan, whose fringe worldviews somehow kept him from seeing just how bizarre and frightening Lanza's statements truly were.

He spoke about Travis the chimp, who made headlines in 2009 after ripping off the face and arm of a Connecticut woman named Charla Nash. She would later receive a face transplant.

 

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'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,' Lanza said.

'Travis wasn’t an untamed monster at all,' caller 'Greg' said. 'Um, he wasn’t just feigning domestication, he was civilized. Um, he was able to integrate into society.

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Violent: Travis's attack left Charla Nash horribly disfigured (right), though the radio caller - believed to be Adam Lanza - says the animal was just misunderstood by society

Chilling: A voice friends and a blatant internet trail identify as Lanza's speaks to Anarchy Radio host John Zerzan at length about the bloodthirsty chimp and draws chilling parallels that foreshadow his own turn to violence in 2012

Chilling: Anarchy Radio host John Zerzan, pictured, said he did not find anything alarming about the call

'[Travis] didn't really act any differently than a human child would and the people who would use that as an indictment against having chimps live as humans do wouldn't apply the same thing to humans so it's just kind of irrelevant.'

Zerzan, 70, of Eugene, Oregon remembers the call but somehow found nothing alarming about it.

'There's nothing there indicating he was considering something so heinous and inconceivable,' Zerzan told The New York Daily News.

'It was a year before Sandy Hook, so no one has any idea what he was thinking a year before…I don't see how anyone could have guessed that with what was said.'

Connecticut authorities would not confirm that the recordings were of Lanza. But a trail of internet forum comments and evidence collected in the sprawling investigation strongly suggest it was.

Evidence: In this digital evidence report, Lanza's forum name is listed as 'Smiggles' - the same user who commented about speaking on the radio show

Evidence: In this digital evidence report, Lanza's forum name is listed as 'Smiggles' - the same user who commented about speaking on the radio show

Red flags: Lanza regularly shared messages on the forum, including this about feeling schizophrenic

Red flags: Lanza regularly shared messages on the forum, including this about feeling schizophrenic

Confirmed: Kyle Kromberg (pictured), who went to school with Lanza, said the voice is definitely his

Confirmed: Kyle Kromberg (pictured), who went to school with Lanza, said the voice is definitely his

A public safety investigation report on Lanza's shooting spree - which left 20 students and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary dead - indicates Lanza was known to use the alias Smiggles on internet forums.

On the discussion board Shocked Beyond Belief, user Smiggles wrote about Zerzan just before the call believed to be from Lanza was made.

'I should call in on John Zerzan's radio program about Travis,' Smiggles wrote. 'I'm really surprised that I haven’t been able to find anything he’s written or said about the incident, considering how often he brings up random acts of violence. It seems like Travis would be a poster-chimp of his philosophy.'

Smiggles also posted about the call the next day.

'It didn’t go as horribly as I anticipated. I wish that I hadn’t spoken nonstop about Travis for so long, but I didn’t want to seem crazy by randomly bringing up a chimpanzee for unknown reasons,' Smiggles wrote.

Killer: Adam Lanza shot himself dead after his deadly rampage on December 14, 2012 in Newtown

Killer: Adam Lanza shot himself dead after his deadly rampage on December 14, 2012 in Newtown

Just a year before: The call was made December 11, 2011, almost a year to the day that Lanza went on his armed rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary in the most shocking mass shooting in American memory

Just a year before: The call was made December 11, 2011, almost a year to the day that Lanza went on his armed rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary in the most shocking mass shooting in American memory

In another post on the same site, he wrote: 'Well, I feel schizophrenic.'

In addition to the internet evidence trail, friends and associates of Lanza's have also confirmed the recordings are of the killer.

'As soon as he opened his mouth (in the audio clip), I knew it was him,' Kyle Kromberg, 21, told the Daily News.

Kromberg attended high school with Lanza for years and spoke to him each day. Another friend confirmed the recording was of Lanza, as well.

'Yes, I think it’s him,' said the unidentified friend. 'It does sound like something he would say. But he is talking funny.'

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Mad

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These stories do nothing but stigmatise people with ASD's. Although we could all easily commit acts like this without a shred of remorse, 99.99999999% of us never do

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hindsight is a great thing... I wonder if we should start paying more attention to the "peculiar" comments left on this site?!

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May he burn in hell for all eternity.

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What proof is there that this is him? the logical and rational answer is NONE. But hey don't let that get in the way of your emotional reflex response.

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1. evidence on an internet message boards linking his username to a post he made about phoning in. 2. A person who knew him claiming he easily recognised the voice.

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You honestly think with the technology available to the fed/cia they cant plant information? Also wouldn't the NSA have had this info long ago an made it public? Read up on voice tec you would be amazed at what's possible. 2. how do you know for sure the person that recognised his voice knew him? You don't, your repeating hearsay, you need to study the art of deception.

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schizo, but not. "organized" mad, but definitely mad, and that speech pattern IS evidence of such a state. the monotone "perfection" of the diction. you could sense the "asperger's" in his lack of attention to potential input from the listener while he was speaking, but i think the asperger's diagnosis of "inability to relate or comprehend" is a kind way of explaining away arrogance, or narcissism. his defense mechanism for the aspects of life he could not control was to feel superior, and to narrow the focus of his life down to those aspects in which this complex could be supported and defended.

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The lack of affect in this kid's voice is amazing. No inflection, no feeling, totally monotone and lacking in dynamic variation. It almost sounds like an artificial intelligence software program "speaking". I think "Siri" on the Apple iPhone actually sounds more human.

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I wish he were still alive. Everyday I wish he was sitting in a cell just rotting his brain out.

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I just wanna smash his face with my son's bat.

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That kid don't look all there...

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wow good call guy... glad you put that together all by yourself...

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