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When detective Bob Keppel was investigating Ted Bundy’s “Ted Killings”, he was struggling so much to find Bundy that, at one point, he was convinced his suspect was already in prison. One man, who had already been in prison for several similar murders, was shocked upon hearing the details of Bundy’s crimes. He vomited at the crime scene photos and told the young detective: “Look, man. I kill people. But I don’t kill people like… that.”

Ironically, he and Dylan Klebold were childhood friends. And up until their junior year (1998) Brooks was also friends with Rachel’s killer, Eric Harris. During his senior year he became good friends with Rachel. They had a class together and they were known to go out to the smokers pit and just talk almost everyday during 5th hour.  At the request of her friend and prom date, Nick Baumgart, Rachel quit smoking a week or two before she was killed. If she hadn’t, she probably would have been in the smokers pit on April 20th. Instead of being directly in the line of fire. In 2002, Brooks dedicated a chapter of his book ‘No Easy Answers’ to Rachel’s memory.