Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Afterword

“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Afterword
By: Nick Kollerstrom

“No-one has been able to get into the Sandy Hook elementary school to verify if there are any bullet-marks, bloodstains etc” pg. 209

No one? Well—except law enforcement, EMS, crime scene investigators, medical examiners, school staff, and the parents of murdered children. Surely Nick Kollerstrom isn’t genuinely baffled that an elementary school where twenty-six people—including twenty five- and six-year-olds—were slaughtered wasn’t opened up for public walkthroughs.

That said, if Kollerstrom were actually interested in seeing bullet impacts and blood evidence (he isn’t), he could simply consult Detective Walkley’s crime scene documentation, all of which is publicly available in the final report:

• Bullet marks / structural damage: Pages 54–61, 404–431, 448–454, 513, 622–624, 626–630
• Blood evidence: Pages 71, 73, 365, 386, 392, 393, 428, 457, 473, 475, 495, 622-624, 626, 627, 636, 643, 663, 665

Happy reading, Nick.

“Perhaps a shootout DID NOT ACTUALLY HAPPEN THERE, it was just an illusion. Kids heard bangs, that’s all we can say.” pg. 209

All caps, so you know it’s serious.

No, that’s absolutely not “all we can say.” We know far more than that.

Children who escaped from classroom 10 didn’t merely hear noises—they directly witnessed Adam Lanza enter their classroom and murder their teacher, Victoria Soto, along with several classmates. Their interviews appear throughout Book 5 of the final report. Here’s one example (Source: Book 5, 00198959.pdf):

[Redacted] stated he is a [redacted] class, which according to [redacted] is just several doors down from the principal’s office. He said that had just finished writing class when he heard loud shooting coming from the hall. After a few moments, the classroom door opened and a “bad man” entered the room and started shooting everyone in class.

[Redacted] said the shooter was dressed in “army clothes” and was firing a “bazooka”. He thought the shooter had dark skin and a beard.

[Redacted] said he saw his teacher [redacted] get shot and said she was “dead”. He also said he saw at least two of his classmates get shot and referred to them as “dead” as well.

Natalie Hammond—shot in the hallway alongside Dawn Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach—also came face to face with the shooter. Her statements are likewise documented in Book 5.

School secretary Nancy Cox visually identified the gunman through the office window overlooking the lobby (Source: Book 5, 00007937.pdf):

Around 9:35 I heard a louse noise, which sounded like glass breaking. I thought one of the glass casings in the hallway had fallen over. I was going to call the school custodian, but then I heard it again and looked up. When I looked up from the desk through the office glass window that looks out to the lobby I saw a man standing in the lobby facing down the primary wing (hallway) to the 1st grade and 2nd grade classrooms. The man appeared white and was wearing a soft rim type hat, sunglasses (dark), and he was holding a rifle type gun with a long barrel.

And then there are the 911 recordings—where we can literally hear the gunshots.

Kollerstrom is technically correct about one thing: there was no “shootout.” But there was a mass shooting. That distinction isn’t semantic—it’s fundamental.

“The Mail Online 6 January shows this image, subtitled: ‘Chaotic scenes at the school as police work to secure the area and bodies are carried out of the school.’ But look carefully, no bodies are here, only some duffle bags–and some are doubting whether this is the school car-park.” pg. 210

This is the image Kollerstrom is referring to:

The absence of bodies at this particular triage site has been explained ad nauseam, so let’s focus on the equally absurd claim that this isn’t Sandy Hook Elementary.

First: what possible advantage would there be in staging this scene somewhere else—especially when Fetzer’s own narrative insists the school had been vacant for years? Filming elsewhere would only introduce unnecessary complexity. Like most claims in this book, it collapses under basic logic.

Second: anyone sincerely questioning whether this is Sandy Hook’s parking lot is engaging in willful denial. Channel 12 helicopter footage from that day clearly shows the same triage location:

“The Sandy Hook Elementary School was in an up-market area of Connecticut, shown by the large majority of its children being from Jewish families. It would have had high-security equipment including CCTV cameras. We have as yet not been shown images from the time of the crime (curiously vague, but said to have been three minutes around 9:45 on 14 December).” pg. 210

The claim about “a large majority” of Jewish students is unsupported nonsense—sources like Sterling’s Best Places don’t remotely support this characterization.

As for CCTV: this was already addressed in Chapter Five. Sandy Hook’s 2006 security system did not record video. There is no missing footage because none was ever captured.

“There are no images of a ‘crime scene’ with bullet-marks in walls or through windows.” pg. 210

There are dozens. Scroll up.

“There is no reason to suppose that the 20-year old autistic Adam Lanza had any expertise or practice in using guns” pg. 210

There’s no need to “suppose” when we have:

• Crime scene photos of firearms, ammunition, and gun literature inside the Lanza home (Sec_4_Primary_Scene.pdf)
• Shooting range sign-in sheets bearing Nancy and Adam Lanza’s signatures:

• Witness statements from range staff and retired law enforcement:

• Adam’s own online writings demonstrating detailed firearms knowledge
• Hundreds of firearms-related bookmarks on one of Adam’s hard drives, recovered from the Lanza residence and released via FOIA request (this screenshot is just a small sample):

• Family friend Marvin Lafontaine’s statement recalling Nancy bringing five-year-old Adam to shoot air rifles (Book 7, 00196017.pdf)
• Peter Lanza’s extensive statement outlining the family’s gun history (Book 7, 00006579.pdf)

Anyone who (mistakenly) doubts that Adam was familiar with firearms should start here.

“The car allegedly driven by him to the school turned out to belong to a shady felon, with FBI ties.” pg. 210

Nope.

This confusion stems from interspersed Connecticut State Police radio traffic involving unrelated traffic stops elsewhere in the state. Christopher Rodia had absolutely nothing to do with Adam Lanza’s vehicle.

Nancy Lanza purchased the black 2010 Honda Civic for Adam. It remained registered in her name, as documented in Book One, 0026454.pdf:

Photos recovered from one of Adam’s hard drives show the same vehicle parked in the Lanza driveway as early as August 2010—already bearing the matching Tarrytown Honda badge—confirming it’s the very same 2010 Civic later photographed at the school and processed by investigators:

The very same car, as documented in Meehan’s vehicle processing photos:

So no: not a “shady felon.” Just Adam Lanza driving the car his mother purchased for him.

“The story of the rifle used–the Coroner averred that all injuries had been made with the rifle, then it was found to have been placed in the back of a car outside the school–can never make any sense.” pg. 211

It doesn’t make sense because it’s false.

Only a shotgun was found in the Civic, initially in the back seat and later secured in the trunk. The Bushmaster rifle used in the murders was recovered inside the school near Lanza’s body.

“On the day of the event, starting at 9.00 am, a FEMA exercise ‘Planning for the Needs of Children in Disasters’ took place in Connecticut not far from Sandy Hook. “ pgs. 211-212

Already extensively covered in Chapter Five: this was a classroom training course about helping children after natural disasters, held about 30 minutes outside Newtown. Not a drill. Not an exercise. Not remotely related to shootings.

“7. Film pre-announcement of the event…  The 2000 film ‘The Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre’ has the killer strike in the aftermath of a hurricane.” pg. 213

There’s also a Sandy Hook in New Jersey. That’s where the movie is set. That’s the entire explanation.

“On December 19 the Connecticut State Police assigned individual personnel to each of the 26 families who lost a loved one at Sandy Hook Elementary. ‘The families have requested no press interviews,’ State Police assert on their behalf” pg. 214

Already dismantled in Chapter One. Numerous families spoke publicly. Robbie Parker alone disproves this.

“The Mother has been hyped as an Apocalypse-expecting gun-toting food-storing freak (as a prelude to demonising gun-owners in America, the whole point of this exercise).” pg. 214

By whom? No source. And crime scene photos from the Lanza home show zero evidence of prepper stockpiling.

“The security forces averred that they had removed the bodies from the school in the middle of the night: had they?” pg. 216

Who exactly are “the security forces”? When and where did they supposedly “aver” this? How is such a claim evidence of anything other than investigators working well into the night to process the scene? Unsurprisingly, Cimino offers no source, no quote, and no attribution—because the claim simply isn’t true.

Photos clearly show a Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner vehicle towing a large refrigerated trailer as it departed Sandy Hook Elementary in broad daylight on December 15th:

The timing of this image is easy to establish. The makeshift memorial outside the school had only just begun to form, the “Everyone Must Check In” sign had not yet been placed at the firehouse, and frost is still visible on the ground—conditions consistent with early morning on the 15th (confirmed by EXIF data), not some covert overnight operation.

Next: Appendix A: “The FEMA Manual For The Sandy Hook Drill”