Here are two videos of George Sodini, the man guilty of the LA Fitness gym shooting just outside of Pittsburgh. One is him talking to the camera, the other is a creepy tour of the exterior and interior of his house.
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This next video was very disturbing to me because the contents of his house combined with his narration screams “unhealthy desperation.”
The books on his table are Body Language Secrets: A Guide During Courtship & Dating, Office Politics : The Women’s Guide to Beat the System and Gain Financial Success and How to Date Young Women: For Men over 35. They are all by R. Don Steele, who runs the web site http://www.steelballs.com offering advice to men who have troubles with women, especially younger women. (George was actually in a couple of his seminar videos, which can be viewed here) Click the links to find out more about those titles on amazon.com. Here’s a still image of them from the video:
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Wow it IS sad isnt it. Its comforting to see that people are having compassion on him. People are so cruel these days. I am pleasantly surprised. If only…Im sure there MUST be some attractive women out there that are just as wierd as HE was. Too bad. Life just sucks for some…
Amen and I second that heaven and hell thing…I have never in my life heard anyone say it’s okay to pray for someone after they’re dead…I don’t get that thinking. When you’re dead, you’re dead and like you said, in heaven or hell and no amount of praying is going to help you at that point.
I wish he could get some help or go see some counselor to help him out before that happened. He should have thought about moving out of Pittsburg, PA to move south that where it will be warm place so he could have a good chance to meet the special ladies there since I do not believe that he couldn’t find one lady out of 30 millions there, something must be wrong with him. He could be going to some church that I am sure that there will be some ladies to find him a attractive! My smypathy to all victims’ families that happened at gym club.
What planet did this guy live on? How you could you even meet 30 million people and also get rejected by them. Obviously if you are older and have not married it is hard to date someone your own age due to the issues involving children, either her ability to have them or her already having them. This guy from the videos seemed a little superficial. I not married and in my 40s, I live in California but have lived in the northeast before, I have found the women in that part of the country to be friendly LOL, I think there is more going on here than meets than we are being told, this guy probably had his eye on a specific girl, I cant believe in a place like Pittsburg he could not meet them. I lived in New York before and visited there also and you will meet women there, maybe not on the level of the southern states but friendly enough and definitely more friendly than Southern California. I think this guy was pissed about something else and unfortunately he chose to take it out on people that had nothing to do with his situation.
There are more people like him out there than any of us realize. Today’s ideas and standards are so different from just a few years ago.
That is simply sad. I did not see any animals or even people. He must have been totally alone. Why oh why would someone want to kill themselves and take others with them in some viscious murder suicide? He said something like I hope she will like it…there was no she. God have mercy on him, and yes, on all his victims, and yes, even he needs prayers. I believe God understands us all in everything we do. Not that his deeds can be defended.
did not notice that, but this guy seemed just a bit different, like he could not interact with people as people.
After watching these videos, I find my sympathies extended beyond the victims, their families and friends to George Sodini himself. I’ve worked with individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome, a higher functioning form of autism, and see in him many of its symptoms. The rigid thinking, his severe difficulties in establishing a relationship or “connecting”, his chosen profession in IT, and the overall oddness of his being, all suggest Asperger’s. Does this begin to excuse his actions? Of course not, but it does at some level explain them. Untreated, AS leads to social isolation, anger and depression, all of which this man exhibits. At age 48 he was too old to have received treatment from the schools he attended as a child. Thankfully that’s changed for the current generation of school children. Autism is now diagnosed in one out of every 150 children (mostly boys). These children can’t be swept away or they may grow up to become another George Sodini.
You can still pray for people after they die. Just because they die in body on Earth does not mean that prayers won’t help their souls get into Heaven. For some people, they need prayers from others the most when they die; for others to pray to God to have mercy on their soul.
Also, was it just me, or was anyone else looking for the secret room in the basement, where he provides the lotion for it to rub on it’s skin? Silence of the Lamb creepy…
What’s up with all the nightlights? He’s a grown man. There’s at least two in the kitchen, they are lining the hallway…I mean, I could understand if you had little kids, but that wasn’t the issue. Somebody was very afraid of the dark. Somebody had a messed up childhood, I’m thinking…
That dude had some serious issues. This video is kinda sad. I mean hes taking us through his house and complimenting himself that his furniture matches and his router works…and you can hear how genuine he is in his voice….I mean it really wasn’t a joke. This guy was desperate for someone to like him.
yes bringing up the couch up from the basement and matching chair is impressive.
yes he was…I found myself feeling sorry for him. The guy wasn’t ugly or anything, didn’t really look his age so I think, like others, that people just generally found him weird or creepy. I think also, like others, that he had his eye on someone specific as he was saying “she” like he had a particular person in mind. I just cannot imagine this guy hadn’t had a date in 19 years…this is almost Norman Bates weird.
I’m guessing the reason women didnt like him, is because he was the kind of guy who might kill them…women can pick up on these things.
He and he alone is responsible for his self pity and he allowed it to fester within his selfish self to a boiling point that it destroyed countless people. He went out in a blaze of glory in a smug egocentric way to let the world no he was lonely. I feel only sorrow for his victims, no doubt he knows now his actions were horrible. He chose not to reach out to others, get help, and too he wanted someone younger, by 20 yrs to satisfy his lust, how pathetic. He was an emotionally child-like man who, unfortunately, had a major temper tantrum and struck out on innocent women, sounds like a whiny bully to me. AND there is a reason people reviled him, HIM… HIS PERSONALITY.. as he had nobody for all these years its because he wistfully wanted people, women, to come to him and that is just horrible. I have NO ABSOLUTE PITY FOR SUCH A PERSON.PERIOD.
He should have listened to more Miley Cyrus! She’s great!
what? why? kiddie music?
i AGREE TO PRAY FOR THE victims’ families but once you’re dead, there’s no use praying to God for that person, they’re even in heaven or hell at that point, and no amount of prayer will change God’s mind, in this case- Im fairly sure- bringing this guy out of hell. LOL though- my couch and chair match, Im sure the women will be really impressed. Dude was living large
Loser, I haven’t had sex for 20 years either, and I’ve been married for 21
These are the saddest videos I’ve ever seen. What he did was unforgivable, but he seems like he could have been a nice guy had he been less insecure and found the right woman. He wasn’t bad looking, so it must have been incredibly frustrating for him. My condolences to all those who died or were wounded. Condolences also to the family of George Sodini. None of you deserved any of this pain and sorrow.
This is so sad. Yeah he is a killer, but he is also someones son. Its a shame that he didnt seek help. we should pray for him and his victims, that he finds the peace of God, and that God shows his mercy to all and for the victims and him to rest in peace.
I do fell pity for him, fell sad that ha was so lonely, wanted to have more tham life could give to him. He had hope until a certain time. And so he gave up. And with anger decided in the wrong way to tell people what made him so miserable. Life is hard, sure is. He is not the only person alone in the planet. In the end we all are, becuase we have to strugle alone and we cannot count with people after all. If he had 1 good friend, If he had a good family this would not be happening to him or others that he killed. He felt that in this planet there is no love, no hope and he did what he did. I think the sistem of the society is responsable for that. Many belive the material life is the most important, he also belive in that. This is why so many live a miserable life. They strugle to have all things and are slave of the material life. They forgot spirituality, not religion, but spirituality, meditation, right thoughts and acts. Hope all the people that thinks like him could be help somehow or this will never stop.
Very sad that he became so bitter due to his loneliness but I have to disagree w/ you Vanna, we are not all alone and many of us myself included have plenty of friends and family we can rely on when things get tough.