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“I started having homicidal … thoughts about some people in my school,” he later tells officers in April of 2014. He develops a passion for chemistry and explosives. “I spent hours, maybe hours a day reading websites of how to synthesize things like mercury fulminate and nitrocellulose, HMX, HNB and various other things,” he says. His mother describes how she’d go to bed and see him still in front of his computer screen, but she had no idea what he was up to. LaDue bulids bombs, starting off with small charges. Police later find videos he made of himself setting off his homemade devices. He tested them then tinkered with their designs to improve them, he says.
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