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Man Who Killed Student Seeks Class Reunion


SWARTHMORE, Pa. A man who shot a sleeping student to death during a rampage in a Swarthmore College dormitory in 1955 says he plans to attend his 50-year class reunion in June.

Robert Bechtel was acquitted by reason of insanity for the slaying. He spent five years in a psychiatric hospital before he was judged well enough to return to the community, and went on to become a psychology professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson.


Now Bechtel says he wants to visit with his former classmates and explain that he was driven to kill because he felt bullied.


"I am certainly planning to attend, assuming people aren't too disturbed by me coming there," Bechtel told The Philadelphia Inquirer for Sunday's editions.


His plans have upset college officials and some members of the class.


Swarthmore officials issued a statement saying Bechtel has offered a misleading portrayal of the events surrounding the killing and rejecting his assertion that he had been intimidated or bullied by other students.


Alumnus Harry Roeder, 70, of Kentucky, said Bechtel will find "no sympathy" at the school.


"Over 50 years, he has rationalized that what he did was not evil, not a crime, but retribution," said Roeder.


Bechtel was 22 when he slipped into a fellow student's room in Swarthmore's Wharton Dormitory and shot him in the head with a rifle. Police said that after the killing, Bechtel ran through the building firing into walls before surrendering.


University of Arizona officials were unaware of Bechtel's past when they hired him in 1976, and he stunned students last year by talking about the shooting in his class on the psychology of happiness.

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Man Who Killed Student Seeks Class Reunion


SWARTHMORE, Pa. A man who shot a sleeping student to death during a rampage in a Swarthmore College dormitory in 1955 says he plans to attend his 50-year class reunion in June.

Robert Bechtel was acquitted by reason of insanity for the slaying. He spent five years in a psychiatric hospital before he was judged well enough to return to the community, and went on to become a psychology professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson.


Now Bechtel says he wants to visit with his former classmates and explain that he was driven to kill because he felt bullied.


"I am certainly planning to attend, assuming people aren't too disturbed by me coming there," Bechtel told The Philadelphia Inquirer for Sunday's editions.


His plans have upset college officials and some members of the class.


Swarthmore officials issued a statement saying Bechtel has offered a misleading portrayal of the events surrounding the killing and rejecting his assertion that he had been intimidated or bullied by other students.


Alumnus Harry Roeder, 70, of Kentucky, said Bechtel will find "no sympathy" at the school.


"Over 50 years, he has rationalized that what he did was not evil, not a crime, but retribution," said Roeder.


Bechtel was 22 when he slipped into a fellow student's room in Swarthmore's Wharton Dormitory and shot him in the head with a rifle. Police said that after the killing, Bechtel ran through the building firing into walls before surrendering.


University of Arizona officials were unaware of Bechtel's past when they hired him in 1976, and he stunned students last year by talking about the shooting in his class on the psychology of happiness.

snarg? :mellow:

[dezdrew]

snarg? :mellow:

its gotta be- they're about the same age, both psychotic, and both desperatly crave attention ( sup snarg)




( i'm just kidding snarg, ......i love you.):lol:

[Undeadcannibal]

sexy.