Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Appendix B

“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Appendix B
By: Nick Kollerstrom

I’m not sure why these six pages are included as a second appendix rather than as another chapter, but bizarre choices like this are the least of this book’s problems.

Kollerstrom didn’t exactly cover himself in glory in his previous outing, managing to strike out on just about every goofy claim that dripped from his fingertips. Let’s see if he fares any better here. Granted, the bar couldn’t be much lower, so at least he has that going for him.

“Seven out of the twenty families were Jewish and the data suggests that they seem to have played some key role.” pg. 239

Oh, I clearly spoke too soon. We already know James Fetzer is a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semite, and it seems Nick Kollerstrom is keeping him excellent company.

“The FBI’s year-summary of crimes had no murders registered in Newtown over that period.” pg. 239

Nope.

“Nor have any birth certificates, death certificates or coroner’s inquests been to-date produced for the twenty alleged children who died [Editor’s note: apart from the fake death certificate discussed in Chapter 11.]” pg. 239

Here’s more of that bulletproof denier logic: “If I haven’t seen it, then it doesn’t exist. But if it does happen to cross my desk at some point, then it’s fake.” This was exactly how James Fetzer responded to the release of Noah Pozner’s death certificate, which I thoroughly dismantled back in Chapter Eleven.

The death certificates for all 26 victims (as well as Adam Lanza and his mother) are publicly available and can be ordered from Newtown by anyone. That includes vultures like Fetzer, who, despite all the money he’s raked in from online donations and the sale of this book, has never given any indication that he’s shelled out the $20 fee to obtain even a single one. Honestly, with so many contributors to this book, they could have all pooled their lunch money and bought the entire set.

Meanwhile, the broke-as-hell newspaper industry managed to get it done. The New York Post reported:

All but two of the 26 students and staffers killed in the Sandy Hook school massacre died from “multiple gunshot wounds,” according to death certificates obtained by The Post today.

And they didn’t even write an entire book on the subject!

Now, I won’t say much about the following quote other than it might be the absolute worst sentence I’ve encountered in this book thus far:

“Therefore their status, as to whether they really lived, remains unclear. Without wishing to prejudge the issue, we shall here allude to them as ‘SHUC’, Sandy Hook Undead Children.” pg. 239

Fuuuccckkk yooouuu.

“The SSDI Social Security Death Index is closely linked to the database of ancestry.com, and is widely regarded as a reliable guide to who really lived and died in America. It based upon a unique account number owned by each US citizen; plus in addition, parents may apply for their child’s SSDI for tax-deduction purposes, so that young children may also have them. All twenty of the SHUC had been given SSDIs, and these recorded their deaths on 14December, 2012, whereas that for Adam Lanza, their alleged killer, was for 13 December 2012. Did the killer die the day before his victims?” pg. 239

So, let’s get this straight: the SSDI is “regarded as a reliable source to who really lived and died in America,” and Nick Kollerstrom—unlike “Dr. Eowyn” (aka Maria Hsia Chang)—acknowledges that the SSDI recorded the deaths of all twenty child victims on December 14th, 2012… but he still thinks they’re “undead”? Consistency really is the key, isn’t it? And if you can’t manage that, well, I guess you wind up contributing to this wretched book. Isn’t that how the saying goes?

All claims regarding the SSDI are thoroughly addressed here, in Chapter Nine.

“It seems to be a place where storied and mundane history somehow overlap. In the year 2000, a film, ’The Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre’, had a deranged killer strike in the aftermath of a hurricane.” pg. 240

I covered this one last time, but Sandy Hook Lingerie Party Massacre takes place in Sandy Hook, New Jersey:

“The Hollywood blockbuster, The Dark Knight Rises had an area on the Gotham City Map (used in the viral marketing campaign, and in the movie) changed to Sandy Hook. A Mr. Scott Getzinger was the prop master who did this, and he lived in the Sandy Hook school district; his widowed wife still does. He was killed in April 2012 in a car accident in which first responders noted his injuries were ‘not life threatening’. He died in the hospital later that night. His widow is public in her belief that he was murdered.” pg. 240

It’s funny how readily Kollerstrom accepts the idea that Scott Getzinger is actually deceased. Has he seen his death certificate? What about photos of the wreckage? Isn’t it suspicious that there’s no CCTV footage of the crash? Reports suggest that the young driver who caused the accident may have been texting at the time and tested positive for THC. So, how do we know the accident wasn’t staged to further an anti-texting, anti-marijuana agenda?

Sarcasm aside, I’m making a point about the absurdity of Kollerstrom’s logic. However, I want to address Susan Getzinger’s tragic loss with some necessary context, as Kollerstrom clearly misrepresents her statements about her husband’s death.

Mr. Getzinger passed away in April 2012 in a car accident. His wife, Susan, spoke about his death at the bipartisan task force public hearing on Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety in January 2013. Kollerstrom tries to link her comments to a conspiracy about Sandy Hook, implying she believed her husband was murdered due to his connection to The Dark Knight Rises map. Here’s what she actually said at the hearing:

Umm, what weak weapon laws help kill people through a lack of deterrents. This is a weapon. [holds up cell phone]

We have very weak texting laws in Connecticut. My husband was killed in a car accident on the Merrit Parkway on Good Friday. This might have been part of the crime. It’s under investigation. You have to look at this weapon as well as any other weapons you look at, and I think you all have them, and I think they’re not regulated, and I think they’re more dangerous than the number of gun deaths because car accidents top that.

I did a quick search on deaths by car accidents vs gun deaths in the US and the numbers surprised me. It appears that gun deaths are projected to catch up to deaths by car accidents by 2015.

My love of my life. The best man, obviously a big man in many ways. My children are without. There are 3 kids in the Newtown school system that were in lockdown, including a 4 year old pre-k, who do not get services in this, in this district because I discovered after 3 1/2 years of complete hell that ended the night before he was killed, biblical stuff, folks, pay attention.

He was killed. The night after I had a hearing in this high school, in a room down the hall, exposing the alleged corruption in your Connecticut Department of Ed, Legal Affairs Division and Special Ed Division and the top administrators in this school district.

Susan Getzinger clearly attributed her husband’s death to a possible distracted driving incident, not to some Hollywood- or Sandy Hook-related conspiracy. Furthermore, her speech—while impassioned—focused primarily on local issues, like the lack of services for children in Newtown schools and corruption within the Connecticut Department of Education, rather than national conspiracies.

She even acknowledged the reality of the Sandy Hook shooting during her remarks:

No child left behind? All children are getting left behind and 20 kids and adults. And you know what? Adam Lanza was the first victim because he probably had medical problems and the attorneys sealed the records.

I really don’t want to come across as callous, but much of the rest of Susan Getzinger’s speech veers into territory that is, at best, difficult to follow. For example, she mentions “Gandhi,” references The Sting, and delivers a series of increasingly bizarre analogies involving peanuts, popcorn, and vaccines. Here’s one particularly head-scratching excerpt:

Peanuts and popcorn. Peanuts, popcorn. My son can’t eat them. You know why? Cuz the undisclosed adjuvants and ingredients in vaccines that my own pediatrician didn’t know on Sept 27th of this year, I had to tell him what they were. Adjuvant 65-4 is peanut oil. How many kids do you know are allergic to peanuts today, hmm? They cross react with nuts and the mercury gets in the brains.

The boys have 2 “X” chromosomes. They can’t flush it out of their system. Check the hair, it’ll tell you if the mercury’s getting out. Most boys can’t get it out. You know what that leads to? Learning disabilities, dyslexia, mental health problems. Then, instead of taking care of them and giving them services, we drug ‘em with psychotropic drugs…let the kernels…popcorn, remember?

Kernels pop. Virginia Tech, Newtown those are only the first kernels. We got one fourth of them in schools on psychotropic drugs. These are children. They shouldn’t be on this. They shouldn’t be on this at all.

Check all the conflicts of interest, the disclosures on all the people who have stock in big pharma. Thank you very much.

Ghandi, school choice, peanuts and popcorn, crap in the vaccines and the popcorn are the kids in the microwave, they’re about to pop, they’re all on drugs.

“Fifty days after the event at Sandy Hook, ten of the SHUC were observed singing happily in the Sandy Hook Choir at a Superbowl conference–with Beyoncé! They are  identifiable–but curiously they were some years older.” pg. 240

It was Jennifer Hudson who performed “America the Beautiful” with the Sandy Hook Choir, not Beyoncé. Beyoncé handled the halftime show, entirely unrelated to the choir. Not all Black women are Beyoncé, Nick—maybe take a moment to check next time.

“They are identifiable–but curiously they were some years older. From this students have inferred that the images of the ten six to sevenyear-old children put out as having died at Sandy Hook, had actually been taken some years earlier. The table below gives data on these ten SHUC families: the official birthdates are given, but these would seem to be impossible in view of their more mature appearance at the Superbowl.” pg. 240

Or—and bear with me here—maybe the much more reasonable conclusion is that these are not the children who died at Sandy Hook Elementary. Shocking, I know.

“Important research on this topic has been done by Dr. Eowyn, who traced each of the twenty SSDI records and these include the states in which they were issued as ‘State of Issue.’ Only four out of the ten SHUC who sang ‘after-death’ at the Superbowl had their SSDIs issued by the State of Connecticut (of which Newtown is a part). SSDIs are issued by the state in which the individual was born, not where he or she died.” pg. 241

In all seriousness, what the fuck does any of this have to do with anything? SSDIs are issued in the state where someone is born—great observation, Nick. Now explain how that remotely supports the idea of a massive conspiracy involving fake deaths, fake children, and a fake choir.

“There is evidence of false identity. Sandy Hook appears to have been a virtual-reality event, which set up huge revenue streams of income for certain Newtown residents. Thus ‘Avielle Rose Richman’, for example, seems to have been Lenie Urbina, whose parents Curtis and Richmond Urbina are both directly associated with the Newtown area synagogue. They seem to have loaned their daughter—or at least a picture of her—for this event: the alleged-parents Jeremy Richman and Jennifer Hensel were thereby able to establish the ‘Avielle Foundation’ and its smart website on 14 December 2012, the very day of the ‘shooting.’ This aimed to raise $5m in the first year.” pg. 242

The claim that The Avielle Foundation was founded on December 14th, 2012, is completely false. This particular lie is so common that I dedicated an entire post to debunking it—you can read it here.

“Another mystery of the Sandy Hook story—which has a tendency to be ignored because it is so strange—is that most of these families acquired their properties on Christmas Day 2009, apparently for free (i.e., the recorded price for these transactions was zero dollars).” pg. 243

Just because someone labels something a “mystery” doesn’t mean it actually is. As Penny Mudgett, CCMA II of Newtown’s Assessor’s Office, clarified:

The date of 12/25/2009 is just a software conversion date, it is a non useable date.

For those who want a deeper dive, Keith Johnson published an excellent write-up on Sandy Hook Stalkers. He thoroughly debunks this nonsensical claim, so rather than rehash it all here, I strongly recommend reading his work. Still, here’s the gist of what he uncovered:

In 2009, Newtown’s Assessor’s Office transitioned from one database system (Totalvaluation, later renamed eQuality CAMA) to another (Vision Government Solutions, or VGS). During this conversion, data didn’t seamlessly transfer between systems. To resolve this, staff manually entered partial information, such as owner names and book/page numbers.

They used “12/25/2009” as a default placeholder date because it was an easily recognizable, non-working day. Likewise, “$0” was input for the sale price as a clear indicator of a default value. As administrative assistant Andrea Santillo explained:

You can’t sell something for $0. That goes against the very definition of the word “sale.”

Santillo even had the unenviable task of dealing with Dr. Eowyn (aka Maria Hsia Chang) during her wildly incompetent “research” and still managed to deliver a polite and factual explanation—something conspiracy theorists clearly have no interest in understanding.

Next: Appendix C