I enlarged this class picture quickly. First of all – how were they able to colorize it?
You can clearly see a perfectly cut out square pasted over someone else’s face. You can see the top of someone’s head. I don’t know how well you’ll be able to see it here, but just look at it in a photo viewer at 200 or 400%.
Article link: http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/newtown-sandy-hook-school-shooting/hc-raising-adam-lanza-20130217,0,5614292,full.story
Here’s another one from Varga’s class:
I can’t find your article about the weirdness associated with Josephine Gay, but remember the “mother’s” name was Michele Hartman Gay. There is a photographer named Michele Hartman in Bakersfield, CA (interesting because that’s where the Taft High School shooting was.) She has lots of photos of children on her site.
do kids normally have necks that long? see the one next to the girl in the yellow shirt.
No. The necks are hard-edged, unpixelated and obviously used to connect bodies with heads that do not belong. The one you pointed out is most egregious but there are a couple of others along with Varga’s tie.
Susan – did you see the latest photo of “adam”? He doesn’t have eyelids.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/photos-details-emerge-newtown-mass-shooter-adam-lanza-124951161.html
confirmed photo manipulation for martin bryant (shooter in australia):
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nedwood/portarthur.html
i guess the “wild eyes” given to both is supposed to make it believable.
That’s very interesting, thanks. Yes, the wide eyes makes them look crazy. It’s beyond ridiculous.
Good catch Lynne!
Missing arms? Unbelievable.
Kids copy each other. The kids on the right have their arms behind their backs. I think this is true for the kid(s) supposedly without arms.
I thought that too, but there is an awful lot of sleeve hanging there (too much).
Lynne- When you research watch for palindromes. I know that sounds crazy, but Glen Beck now and then in his aside comments told some truth that is seeming to hold up. He noted that George Soros, was fond of palindromes (perhaps this was in reference to the name Soros, but I believe it goes deeper and maybe it is used to identify some how. Beck left a lot of hints. Esperanto, green and palindromes. Miss Soto’s s a palindrome. Just something to keep in mind.
I will do that:).
I went to the Vargas website, and downloaded the file.. I put it into Lightroom so I could see it was a jpeg better.. Since I am a photog, I can usually tell when things have been manipulated.. I had thought it was originally, but the “metadata” was still attached to the photo.. which tells what time, when, exposure,etc the jpeg was taken. This doesn’t usually come up when a photo has been manipulated heavily and downloaded mutiple times.. it says the photo was taken on 9/21/12 at 3:37:36pm.. Which would have been a Friday very late in the afternoon… I would love to be able to have this information on other pics, but all others I have tried from SH so far have showed me nothing of the short..
Thanks. That’s a good idea to look at the metadata when you can. Do you ever look at the images with photoforensics?
Also after pulling it up in PS, I think the key to this photo is going to be his name badge.. it says.. something with Staff at the bottom.. I can’t read it clear enough to see what it says.. I would guess it’s the school name, but it doesn’t look like Sandy Hook Elementary..
And he has on a microphone.. I could see that for a HS, but not an elementary school..
Very interesting. Thanks, SC.
If the photo were taken on 9/21/12 then it does not match Varga’s “welcome” to the 2011-2012 school year. The picture was taken at the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year. One thing that looks a little “off” to me is the size of the heads of the kids in front compared to the kids standing. They don’t seem to be far enough apart to justify the difference in size.
Good point, Susan. I agree about the disproportionate sizes of the kids. The kid with the football shirt – is he wearing shoulder pads or what?
No.. never heard of that..
http://fotoforensics.com/
You can analyze the image here. It’s pretty interesting. It shows if it’s been manipulated.
The easiest way to explain why the alleged Adam Lanza photo is in color, and the rest is in black and white, is to say that the rest of the photo was ‘chosen’ and then changed to black and white, leaving only Adam in color. (Easy to do with even simple photo software.) Or vice/versa.
It appears that there is more pixelation around ‘Adam’s shoulders and down – as if his whole body had been ‘cut out’ and then pasted into that photo. The background doesn’t seem to show so much pixelation – suggesting that black/white photo was taken by a different camera at a higher resolution. And, that would suggest that the photo was ‘shopped.
Looking at the calendar on the far left of the photo we can see that the first of the month was on a Saturday. It would either have been October 2011 (which is too far from the beginning of the school year to make sense as a welcome photo) or it would have been September 2012. If you look closely at the calendar there appears to be a yellow thing over the date Sept 21, 2012. Which could be marker showing the kids what day it is. Which would coincide with the above poster’s assertion that the photo was taken on Sept 21, 2012. But the person asserting that could have easily just said that because they saw the marker on the calendar and it would make sense easily enough. A huge problem for me in that photo is that nearly every student on the front row has something peculiar about one eye (with the exception of the “football player”). The girl on the far left end has one eye covered, And then from her on over, the rest have one eye that looks normal and one that looks edited.
Yes, I saw that too with the eyes and many of the mouths look weird too. Good observations on the calendar.
By golly, but this thread is really nit-picking the photo–but sooooooo effectively and tellingly–u folks show a fine eye, for sure.
One thing I thought is it’s kinda weird to have a male teacher for 4th grade, but I guess u gotta have some–but don’t those guys usually have their hands paternalistically on shoulders of their dear students?–ho ho ho–but maybe not.
And for sure, the size of the kids in the front row makes it seem the 5 right kids are about a couple yards or so out in front of the back row, then there are two to the left of the 5 right who are a yard or two behind the front kids. Then the 2 kids on the front left who are right in front as u might expect–so it’s a staggered arrangement for front row. Ho ho ho
Finally, the little cute girl on back row, furthest left, seems to be sitting/leaning on something, but what?–and she seems a little behind that back-row too.
Keep up ur great work, detectives.
Everyone ready to watch the new documentary “Raising Adam Lanza” on CBS tonight? What we can expect from the doc: An anti-social loner who loved to play violent video games and had access to semi-automatic weapons decides to go on a killing spree. Wait…haven’t we heard that story before???
I just watched the Today Show spot for the doc. Apparently they have “never-before-seen” home video footage of Adam and Nancy, so keep an eye out for that and we can pick it apart later. I heard this doc focuses a lot on violent video games and makes the connection between them and Lanza’s motives. Keeping in mind, this is right on the heels of Obama’s call on Congress to set aside close to $1 billion to do research on the links between violence and video games!
Correction/typo: The doc airs tonight at 10 pm on PBS (not CBS). It was produced by FRONTLINE with the aid of the Hartford Courant.
Here’s an article from Forbes discussing Obama’s call on Congress to set up a task force to investigate violent media and its effect on children: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/01/16/obama-calls-for-government-funded-research-into-violent-video-games/
As if we need anymore studies on this topic. It seems some are unsure of how much Obama wants to allocate for the task force. I’ve heard anywhere from $10 million to $1 billion. Either way, I’m sure we’ll be hearing much more on this in the coming weeks/months.
This is how they’ll ban games that “they” deem as violent. Then they’ll ban books and alternative news, etc. Youtube is already censoring some of my videos that are not offensive in any way. The one I put together that shows footage of St. Rose but it’s supposed to be Sandy Hook for example.
I think they will also demonize homeschoolers. They’ll suggest that he would have received more “help” if he had stayed in school.
I’ve been reading a little about what they are proposing for the new mental health policies. One thing mentioned was screening young kids at school for emotional and mental disorders. Do they want to get even more kids on meds at an even earlier age than they already are? I believe so.
The sad thing is – none of this happened. People with Asperger’s aren’t violent. We’re going to change policies based on a story that never even happened.
Here’s an article from WebMD written shortly after the shooting that interviews various psychologists on the links between Aspergers and violent behavior; short story, there are none!
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/12/16/aspergers-autism-not-linked-to-violence-experts
Yes, but now our government SAYS there is and that’s all that counts.
Looking at the “purpose” of Sandy Hook in the broadest context is to see that it is intended to divide the American people along the lines of “believers” and “deniers”. It is important to note that the words, “belief” and “denial”, come out of a religious lexicon – a context in which evidence, objectivity, and truth are heresy. On one side you have people questioning the facts and on the other you have the authority of the President of the United States of America. Obama’s authority gives license to believers to characterize all investigators and doubters as racists, conspiracy theorists, truthers, gun-nuts, preppers, birthers, tin foil hatter, homeschoolers, vaccine opponents, anti-Semites, right-wingers, lunatics, and haters.
Like Bush with 9/11, Obama is being used to give verisimilitude to false flag operations.
Well said, Susan.
I sprung for the RadioReference Premium subscription, and have downloaded tons of audio from Newtown, Bridgeport, Danbury, Hoboken NJ, etc. It’s going to take a lot of time to listen through it all, but as I find things I’ll be happy to post them here.
The subscription was only $15 for 6 mos – totally worth it imo for the mp3s of audio from that day. I will be very, very interested to see, for example, what the state police were up to in the days *following* 12/14, and what happened in Hoboken that day with the “missing girlfriend/murder” thing.
I guess “happy” is not quite the right word, but at any rate, I do feel it’s incredibly important for us to continue to share our efforts, and thanks again to Lynne for this virtual gathering point.
That’s excellent, Zephyr. I’ll be very anxious to hear what you find. Thank you.
That said, it’s not illegal to repost the mp3s so that non-subscribers can use them, and with an investigation of this magnitude, I think doing so is vital. As soon as I can figure out how, I’ll put them online in some kind of public folder.
That’s awesome! Thanks a lot! Can’t wait to hear them/hear about what you found.
Lynne please explain exactly how you found the square over ‘Adam’s’ eye. In other words what did you use etc. I’ve posted your work in a FB group and several people question your find. However, I can clearly see the square! Thank you!
I just used Windows Picture viewer and enlarged it and then cropped it. When you enlarge photos a little, it is very easy to see all the mistakes. There will always be people who question these things:).
Lynne thanks so much for the quick reply! I clearly see the square. And thanks for all the hard work you’ve done on Sandy Hook–much appreciated!