Why is the la fitness club killer being called crazy george?
Gunman at Pa. health club was bitter over women By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press Writer – Wed Aug 5, 7:43 pm ET BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. – George Sodini seethed with anger and frustration toward women. He couldn’t understand why they ignored him, despite his best efforts to look nice. He hadn’t had a girlfriend since 1984, hadn’t slept with a woman in 19 years. “Women just don’t like me. There are 30 million desirable women in the US (my estimate) and I cannot find one. Not one of them finds me attractive,” the 48-year-old computer programmer lamented in a chilling diary he posted on the Internet. For months, he also wrote vaguely about using guns to carry out his “exit plan” at his health club, where lots of young women worked out. On Tuesday, Sodini put his plan into action. He went to the sprawling L.A. Fitness Club in this Pittsburgh suburb, turned out the lights on a dance-aerobics class filled with women, and opened fire with three guns, let