Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Chapter Six

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Chapter Six
By: James Fetzer

Chapter Six is nothing more than a transcript of a thirty-minute interview with a man named Paul Preston from May 2014. That’s it—just a transcript. It’s hard to imagine a lazier way to pad a book, but it’s certainly indicative of the regard Fetzer has for his readers. This interview isn’t even premium content; it’s already freely available.

So who is Paul Preston? Like Wolfgang Halbig, he’s repeatedly described as a “school security expert,” though any concrete credentials to support that claim are elusive.

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Who Writes This Shit? Who Is “Dr. Eowyn”?

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James Fetzer frequently brags about the quantity as well as alleged quality of his book’s contributors, usually as a way of deflecting attention away from the actual quality of his research (or lack thereof). After all, a book written by multiple doctors couldn’t possibly be wrong, could it?

One of the book’s more flagrant chapters – Chapter Two – is written by someone calling themselves “Dr. Eowyn”, who goes to great lengths to remain anonymous not only throughout this book, but on their own crank website, “Fellowship of the Minds”. But I wanted to know a bit more about the kind of person who could shit out something so vile and have the audacity to commit it to print. Were they actually a professor and professional author, as they so proudly claimed? Without a name, we have only their word, and can we really trust the word of someone capable of making so many elementary mistakes? So I did some digging and it wasn’t long before I found the information I was looking for.

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Sandy Hook Elementary Was Open, Part One: The Lobby

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For the absurd theory that Sandy Hook Elementary closed in 2008 and was later used for a staged shooting in 2012 to hold up, you’d have to believe that the school, allegedly repurposed as ‘storage’ at some unknown point, was meticulously staged for the sake of some heavily redacted crime scene photos that most people weren’t going to look at in the first place. Unsurprisingly, proponents of this theory make no effort to address how outrageously complex such staging would have been. The photos are packed with small details about the school—details even the most thorough examiners might have missed.

Let’s dive into some of those overlooked details. I’ll start in the school’s lobby (with a quick detour to the kitchen), where Adam Lanza first made entry by shooting out a large window to bypass the building’s strikeplate security system.

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Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Chapter Four

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Chapter Four
By: James Fetzer

James Fetzer, stretching the limits of hyperbole as only he can, once referred to his twisted take on Shannon Hicks’s now-iconic evacuation photos as his “smoking gun.” Apparently, he’s still clinging to that notion, as he took his previous blog post on the subject, sprinkled in some appropriated images, and somehow stretched it thin enough to fill an entire chapter of his book. So, what exactly makes this photograph so “damning” in Fetzer’s mind?

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Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Chapter Two

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Chapter Two
By “Dr. Eowyn” aka Maria Hsia Chang

“Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi said (5:45 mark), “The school’s been closed down for God knows how long. [Neighbors] can’t understand why there were kids in that building because it was condemned.” pg. 30

Dan Bidondi, a never-was professional wrestler turned “reporter” for Alex Jones, doesn’t bother naming a single one of these supposed “neighbors.” The reality? Interviews with local residents are widely available, and they consistently show zero confusion about the school being open and filled with kids. If the school had truly been closed, as Fetzer claims, wouldn’t at least one person have wondered why children were there?

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Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Chapter One

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Disgraced former professor James Tracy, fired from Florida Atlantic University for using university resources to spread disinformation and subsequently lying about it, spends much of this chapter fixated on the typical errors and inconsistencies that surface in breaking news reports—an age-old issue only magnified by the 24-hour news cycle. Such reporting slip-ups are so common that entire books have been written on the subject, including Howard Rosenberg’s No Time to Think and Craig Silverman’s Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech. If these surprises still shock Tracy, he’s in the clear minority.

Rather than waste time on the glaringly obvious—that misinformation thrives in chaotic early reporting—I’ll focus my fact-checking on claims that aren’t solely rooted in those early, flawed reports. I’ll make exceptions when necessary or when the claims are particularly egregious.

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