Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Police About Pittsburgh Health Club Shooter’s Website?
Posted Aug 6, 2009, 03:35 pm CST By Martha Neil A law firm systems analyst described in detail his troubled thoughts on at least one one website before going on a fatal shooting rampage at a suburban Pittsburgh health club this week that may have been triggered by his apparent anger at being rejected by women. So why didn’t anyone try to warn police? Experts speculate that no one read what 48-year-old George Sodini wrote or, if they did, discounted what he said. “Even one person who read that would probably have alerted authorities. There must have been no traffic on that site,” general counsel Christine Jones of godaddy.com tells the Associated Press. The website is the world’s largest domain registrar, overseeing about 36 million of the world’s 100 million or so registered domain names. Likewise, those who encountered Sodini in person probably discounted any disturbing behavior—and people also are less adept at reading interpersonal cues, now that online interactions, rather than fac
