Adam Lanza's Father Is Certain His Son Would've Killed Him

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Peter Lanza, the father of Adam Lanza, spoke for the first time since his son killed 20 children, six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School, his mother and ultimately himself in Newtown, Conn. in Dec. 2012. 

The guilt-ridden Lanza told the New Yorker that although there's no way anyone could've predicted his son's actions, he wished he would've done more to be a part of his son's life during his final years. "Any variation on what I did and how my relationship was had to be good, because no outcome could be worse," Lanza confessed, adding "You can’t get any more evil." 

Peter and Adam Lanza were close when Adam was younger, but Peter's divorce from Adam's mother, Nancy, when he was nine-years-old took an obvious toll on his son. By the time he reached middle school, Peter said it was "crystal clear" there was something wrong with his son: 

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The last time that Peter Lanza saw his son was in September of 2010, when he took him to visit Norwich University. Earlier that year, Nancy told Peter that Adam no longer desired to carry on a relationship with his father. The last time he talked to Nancy was a month before the shootings, and Peter said his ex-wife had no idea what was brewing inside of Adam:

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The most harrowing revelation of the interview is that Lanza is frighteningly confident that he would've met the same fate as his ex-wife if he was still in his son's life at the time of the shootings: 

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[via The New Yorker]

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