SMH: School Shooter Flooded With Fan Mail in Prison
It's really crazy how many crazy people there are in the world.
The school shooter who killed 17 people in Florida has reportedly been receiving mass amounts of "fan" mail from his admirers.
The alleged Florida high school mass murderer is being showered with fan mail in jail — including pictures of scantily clad women — as well as cash contributions to his commissary account, according to a report.
Teen girls, women and even men have sent the adoring missives to Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Jail, where he is being held on charges of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
The ghoulish groupies also are joining Facebook communities to discuss ways to help Cruz avoid the death penalty, according to the paper, which obtained copies of some of the letters.
On March 15, a Texas teen sent a letter in an envelope adorned with happy faces and hearts.
“I’m 18-years-old. I’m a senior in high school. When I saw your picture on the television, something attracted me to you,” she wrote. “Your eyes are beautiful and the freckles on your face make you so handsome.”
She also described herself as white with big, brown eyes. “I’m really skinny and have 34C sized breasts,” she said, ending her letter with juvenile jokes about gummy bears and peanut butter.
In a letter sent six days after the Feb. 14 massacre to the jail’s post office box in Fort Lauderdale, a Texas woman wrote: “I reserve the right to care about you, Nikolas!”
Her greeting card features a furry bunny holding binoculars looking out at the ocean. The message inside reads, “Out of sight, but never out of mind.”
An 18-year-old New Yorker wrote him: “No one else is dealing w/your demons, meaning maybe defeating them could be the beginning of your meaning, friend. I know you could use a good friend right now. Hang in there and keep your head up.”
And a woman from Chicago sent Cruz nine suggestive pictures, including a shot of her cleavage, another one of her in a skimpy bikini sucking a Popsicle and a tight shot of her rear end as she bent over.
Cruz’s attorney Howard Finkelstein said the suspect has received “piles of letters.”
“In my 40 years as public defender, I’ve never seen this many letters to a defendant. Everyone now and then gets a few, but nothing like this,” he told the Sun-Sentinel.
Cruz, who is on suicide watch, has not seen any of the mail, Finkelstein said. He has requested a Bible, according to jail records, but it was denied because of the suicide watch, Finkelstein said. -(Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post)