The new details were unsettling. After Kinkel, already in custody for the school shootings, urged police to search his house, they found his mother and father dead in separate, blood-spattered rooms. They also found bomb-making materials and how-to books, along with a popcorn tin full of 9-mm shell casings. A bottle of Gilbey’s gin was in Kinkel’s bedroom. A Mother’s Day card–signed LOVE, KIP–sat on the living-room mantel. Now awaiting trial, Kinkel was recently transferred to an adult prison; he turned 16 in August.
