SEATTLE (AP) Police
released a letter Tuesday that
was possibly written by Kyle
Huff before he killed six people
and then took his own life at a
house party in March.
Police said verification of the
letter’s authenticity will not be
completed for about two weeks.
Last month, however, Officer
Deanna Nollette said “the circumstances
under which it was
found lead us to believe it might
be authentic.”
The one-page handwritten letter
was addressed “to Kane” _
the name of Huff’s twin brother
_ “from Kyle,” and began by
stating, “I hope that you will find
this letter after the fact. Don’t
let the police or FBI keep you
from haveing (sic) it, this is my
last wish.”
The letter goes on to say,
“Don’t kill yourself moron.
That’s the last thing I would
want to happen. I hate leaving
you by yourself, but this is something
I feel I have to do. My life
would always feel incomplete
otherwise.”
The letter writer expressed
disgust with the “hippie” lifestyle
one he described as “this
world of sex they are striving to
make” and called his action a
revolution.
“I can’t let them get away
with what they’re doing,” the letter
said.
The letter was found April 24,
nearly a month after the killing
spree, by an apartment owner
who was going through his trash
bin looking for something else,
police said. It was found in a
location where Huff did not live,
although the apartment he
shared with his twin brother was
not far away. The brothers
moved to Seattle nearly five
years ago after leaving their
family home in Whitefish, Mont.
Police said a physical analysis
of the letter, including an
identification of the handwriting,
was being conducted at the State
Crime Lab. The content of the
letter was being examined by a
panel of experts trying to find
out what motivated the mass
killings.
James Alan Fox, a
Northeastern University professor
and mass killing expert who
is heading up the panel, said
that from a lay person’s perspective,
the handwriting seems to
match.
“I have many examples of
Kyle’s handwriting and the
handwriting is similar,” Fox told
The Seattle Times. “I’m going on
the assumption that it was written
by Kyle.”
Police have said Kane Huff
was not aware of the letter until
they showed it to him.
