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Tuesday, June 6, 2006

“To Kane From Kyle”

Posted by on June 6 at 10:46 AM

Here’s the letter that Seattle Police have just released. Larger version is here:

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An apartment manager who was determined to stop illegal dumpers appears to have discovered the single piece of evidence that provides insight into what drove Kyle Aaron Huff to shoot and kill six young people at a house party in Capitol Hill last March, shortly before he turned the gun on himself.

The manager, who has not been identified by police, looked through his Dumpster on the 2700 block of NE 115th Street and on April 24 contacted police — but it wasn’t about the letter.

“While looking through the Dumpster he found a suspicious device,” said Seattle Police Department spokeswoman Deanna Nollette. “It was a lump of modeling clay with wires coming out of it and a digital clock — it looked bomblike.”

SPD summoned the bomb squad, which found the device to be harmless. “The ingredients were inert,” said Nollette. Police looked through the rest of the Dumpster, however, and it’s then that the letter was found.

Police are analyzing the handwriting on the letter against other samples of Huff’s writing they have recovered during the course of the investigation.

There is no evidence suggesting that the bomb-like device belonged to Huff — it was merely found in the same Dumpster, which was located a little over a mile from the Huff residence, at 12320 Roosevelt Way, in North Seattle. “It was a needle in a haystack,” said Nollette.

The photocopy of the letter released to the media appears to have been written on the back of a notice from the landlord of the Town and Country Apartments, which is where the Huff twins lived.

Nollette refused to say whether Kyle’s twin brother, Kane Huff has been able to provide additional evidence, such as whether Kane found the letter and disposed of it. “We can’t comment on the investigation,” said Nollette.

We have posted the transcript after the jump, and here is Eli Sanders’ post on Huff’s handwriting.

Date is partially cut off by copy, but appears to be 03/23/06 (the shooting occurred at 7 a.m., March 25)

To Kane From Kyle

I hope that you will find this letter after the fact. Don't let the police or FBI keep you from haveing it, this is my last wish for you to see this. Don't kill yourself moron. That's the last thing I would want to happen. As long as your alive so is a part of me, ya know, I hate leaving you By yourself, but this is something I feel I have to do. My life would always feel incomplete otherwise. I can't let them get away with what they're doing, kids like me and you are seriously dying over this shit. I hate this world of sex that they are striving to make. This is a revolution brother. The most important thing to happen since man began. To let it die out would be a crime. I will never "cumā€¯ with them, I will always see it . as hell, The things they say "and doā€¯ They're rapeing are us just too disturbing to me to just ignore and try to live my life with, I know this is a short letter and might sound stupid but It would take a book to properly explain this to you, I don't have the time for that, or the will. The basic gist of it is that they're fucking next to us when were really high to make us freak out. And trying to stop are heart by making it palpatate. And they are doing it it's just a question of if were willing to be OK with it And obviously i'm not. Maybee someday you'll be willing to help me Kill this hippie shit. I know that its going to get worse now, but that's part of the... Now Kids Now!!! Bye Kane. I Love you


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"They're raping us"?

"The most important thing to happen since man began"?

"They're fucking next to us when we're really high to make us freak out"?

I have a few more questions I'd like to ask Kane Huff.

Wow...some serious pathologies going on in that head. I'd be interested to read a psychologist's take on this.

Whoa, This seems pretty schizophrenic to me. Nothing excuses his attrocious actions but i have to wonder how much people who knew him were really suprised that he was capable of this.

"Don't kill yourself moron." ? That's what scares me the most. This letter suggests that the other brother is on a similar wavelength. I hope we don't get to see Huff Part II.

yeah schizophrenic to the max.

Jesus christ what a fucked up guy. And you're telling me that this guys brother had no idea he was this unstable. Sure, right..

I think schizophrenic is a misdiagnosis.
The letter reads classically Freudian.

A professional opinion would be best.

Okay, but... On Town & Country Apartments letterhead, even though it was in a dumpster a mile away? What, was he out of copies of Schizophrenic Montana Monthly to scribble on? And with a fake bomb that would draw attention to that needle in a haystack? And why leave a suicide note for your brother in a dumpster a mile away from the apartment you shared? Did Kyle chicken out on leaving the letter for his brother? Did Kane find it but try to toss it away somewhere far enough away as to not be found or connected to the two of them?

I had heard when the letter was first discovered that it may be a hoax/forgery, but some of the details revealed today only create new doubts in my mind.

Whoever wrote this certainly wanted to say "Kyle Huff of the Town & Country Apartments wrote a letter to his brother Kane Huff, oh, and here's a fake bomb too." But whether that whoever was Kyle Huff or a hoaxer can't necessarily be determined.

P.S. For the record, I haven't read the note yet, beyond any cuts and blurbs I've read in the media on the day it was discovered, and today. I just thought I'd share my observations before that fact.

Am I the only one who thought of the Freykis brothers after reading that sick note? Not to trivialize it. More to make serious the connections between extreme homophobia/ apocalyptic anxiety about sex and gender roles and this kind of psychotic shit.

Wow, that guy was seriously sex-negative.

Yes, sexual psychosis is always at the root of social psychosis, isn't it?

It doesn't make me think of the Freykises as much as it does "Hippie Hater" who likes to post on this blog. I think there's an excellent chance that a seriously fucked up Kane Huff is "out there" with the seed of an idea, though there's a big difference between being a nut case and being a gunman.

Wow. I blame the mother. She must have like busted him masturbating and spanked him for it or something.

So let's break it down. There's some kind of "revolution" taking place; it's super-important, even allowing for a little nutjob hyperbole in that "since man began" (are these song lyrics?) It's clear that it's Kyle and Kane who are leading this revolution, not the sex-having hippies (to let it die out would be a crime).

So, is the revolution Kyle and Kane's pledge to never have sex? Is this an extreme reaction to frustrated or frustrating impulses within the boys? Were they gay incestuous lovers, but hated themselves for it? Or were they just pissed off because none of the hippie chicks wanted to fuck them? Kyle at least appears to have not been an attractive fellow or successful with the ladies -- considering the age group and affectations of the ladies he was hanging out with, I'm not surprised.

Is the "fucking next to us when we're really high" a real episode that happened, where they observed or heard sex taking place? What kind of sex? Gay sex? Being afraid that someone is trying to actually "stop are heart" by freaking you out with public sex acts is just juvenile and stupid, but then, potheads frequently are emotionally undeveloped.

There's clearly something going on that Kyle is not "willing to be OK with". It's clearly something sexual.

Personally I don't think you need to read a whole lot more into it; assuming that Kyle Huff was doing a lot of complex theorizing. I don't think he was very smart. I think the "revolution" is hubris, Kyle believing in his dull synapses that something important was finally happening to him. This is the banality of evil.

How many twisted-up, worthless shitheads like this are there in the world?

These letters are delightful. Please tell us everything possible, what brand of pen did Kyle write them with?


Constructing a deviant identity and creating media celebrity is a welcome distraction from the war and global warming.


Remember, the most important thing as we construct this identity is to create someone "not like us". It helps a lot that Kyle is from a Red State. The letters are even more comforting. None of use would ever write something like that.


On the TV now they're saying our Marines walked into an Iraqi home and shot an entire family, even three year old children were found with bullet holes in their heads. That kind of murder is of course rational, it's done in our name with our tax money.


Obsessing about Kyle is a welcome distraction from Iraq.

Ewww...this posting from the slog about The Sugar controversy sounds a lot like Kyle Huff's letter. It's creepy.


Light the torches! We're going to take this place down! All business owners are revanchist capitalist pigs! Long live the revolution of underprivileged persyns! Shit on the Racist Stranger! Shit on Sugar!

And I've been to several of Kendall's events - white, white, WHITE, WHITE, WHITE.

Wow. Seriously twisted dude. Sorry the parents didn't raise the kid any better. Or at least take him in for some seriously neccessary help. Kinda sad that this stuff happens. Killing 6 kids doesn't exactly do a heck of a lot for anyone except cause a whole lotta hurting.

"Ewww...this posting from the slog about The Sugar controversy sounds a lot like Kyle Huff's letter. It's creepy."

I think that was meant to be ironic... there were some real nuts posting responses to the Sugar blog entry, and if you read through them, there are a few others that were poking fun at them.

Regardless of whether or not the letter is real, it's incredibly sad that someone took out their own distorted sexual neurosis out someone else. Sadder still that no one tried to help or stop this guy... i.e. his family. If you look back, I bet there were a lot of clues that he was deeply disturbed and likely to act on it.

Looks schizophrenic to me. And Kane might be completely normal, but have known about his brother's bizarre behavior. Often, one twin will develop schizophrenia while the other will not so I don't think the "dont kill yourself moron" part indicates that he is like Kyle in any way.

As far as how they found the note....the only thing that makes sense is this scenario:

Kyle had left a suicide note and he had been working on a bomb in his room (which didn't work) and after the shooting, but BEFORE police questioned the brother, he dumped the fake bomb and the note in the dumpster out of fear of being implicated. He probably told police about the bomb and the note and that's why it took so long to find it. They can't comment on the investigation and they wanted the location of the note for closure so that's why you get the bunk story about how they found it.

I have known MANY schizophrenic people in my life, and I know the way they think. His delusions about people having hostile intentions toward him and trying to put something inside him is very classic schizophrenic paranoia. The religious overtones, the misspellings, the sexual undertones are all very schizophrenic thinking. Even the language used "word salad" is very schizophrenic in its nature.

I have always thought that he was mentally ill, and this just seals the deal for me. I think that he was an undiagnosed schizophrenic, and his brother probably knew that his behavior was bizarre but he was never properly diagnosed and treated.

Sad.

Fonk wrote it.

I think this boils down to sexuality problems, not schizophrenia.

Kyle was attracted to the ravers and their sexuality as much as he was repulsed by them. In the back of his mind he must have envied these kids, and was probably hoping he might be accepted by them and lose his virginity with them.

After attending a few events, he feels just as isolated as ever. In the face of this perceived rejection, it is too painful for him to acknowledge his own desires and social deficits. Instead, he turns the rejection around by adopting the classic puritanical view of sex. This rationalization allows him to turn his intense self-loathing outward.

This is the same emotional dynamic that leads many men to rape.

Sad indeed.

In regards to some of the above posts -I can understand a person (gay or straight) being upset about being in a public place and having to deal with extremely rude people fucking in front of them. Why do you think we have LAWS about public decency? It's to protect everyone! What's disturbing is how Kyle Huff went about his anger. Clearly, he was a troubled person who chose a destructive way to make a point. I'm not making excuses for Huffs actions. But I also don't think anyone should make excuses for people that chose to have sex in front of everyone and expect it to be there right. I felt this way back when I was about 18 and I feel this way now well into my adulthood - and I have a fine gay sex life -did it ever occur to some of the people that posted here that some people know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate places to have sex? Responsible and irresponsible sex? What breaking the rules can lead to? It has nothing to do with sexuality or lack of. Clearly Huff was a nutwing but lets not use this tragedy as a way to distract from our individual and community accountabilities. Gay or straight.

Why is it when horrible tragedys like this happen, we always go to blame the parents? As a parent myself, I know that I can raise my children to the best of my ability, but they can still turn out messed up. I think with his comment "Don't kill yourself moron" he was just worried about his brother being depressed and embarrased of what his flesh and blood had just done, and killed himself so that he didn't have to deal with the scrutiny.

I would have to say that he is obviously gone beyond the edge of sanity here; but I think there is a coherent thread in the incoherent rambling. It is psychosexual in nature, true. But it DOES seem that his sensibilities rejected what he perceived as a libidinous lifestyle among his peers. Too much free love, too many drugs... perhaps where he lived was off-campus housing, and drug parties were common around him. What may have been mildly irritating to you and I became more than an annoyance... maybe it was ongoing. And with an unbalanced mind, he fixated on it. He probably complained often to his brother about it.

I'm not condoning it, and I'm sure as hell not saying that the kids in question asked for it; but a simple blanket-statement of he was crazy doesn't seem to be enough. Something drove him to his wits' end. Something was a focus or a trigger point. If it were completely random, he would not have gone through such trouble to elaborate on the perceived wrong. Some people perceive drug use and casual sex in college as experimentation, or good times before the responsibility of adulthood; whereas others see it as a sign of moral decay, not just of those participating, but the acceptance of it in society at large.

Wow. Do I sound like a middle-aged fuddy duddy?

It's obvious there was some mental illness going on there. I don't think it's farfetched that it could have gone unnoticed by family and friends either. Objectivity is often harder with loved ones than a complete stranger. From what I've read it seems he lost the few close connections he had. The divorce and eventual move his father made to Portland, the school friend who shot his parents and committed suicide, friends moving away and going to college...even the loss of his brother to an extent. It's clear Kane was doing well in Seattle and had goals for his future, while Kyle continued to flounder socially and otherwise. These combined with what I'm guessing was an already existing mental illness probably created major stress for him. Who really knows though. Tragic nontheless.

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