Here is a collection of all the photos I’ve been able to find of George Sodini, the man responsible for the LA Fitness gym shooting outside of Pittsburgh. Included are some profile pictures from various online sites, some shots of him in a Wellsboro, Pennsylvania “swimming hole” and some stills from videos. I will continue to add more as I’m able to dig them up.
(Most of these photos came from Sodini’s “other” site crazygeorge.com – click here to find out more about that.)
Click here to read the full text of George Sodini’s blog.
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I agree with CC. I think this guy may have had Asperger’s Syndrome. Combine that with a father who wasn’t interested, a controlling & abusive mother, and a bully brother and you have a recipe for disaster. It was nature & nurture. And I don’t find this guy to be a creep, psycopath, sociopath, or any other label, but an overly normal guy who cracked under intense personal and sociological pressures. We’ve all been there to some extent (though nowhere close to killing people – at least I hope not!). Think of your first heartbreak or the first time someone you loved cheated on you and how it made you feel so inadequate. Now extend that for an entire lifetime. His love turned to rage at some point as he couldn’t grasp his situation. But I don’t think Sodini was evil or got off on hurting people like a Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. And he was only a creep insofar as he is shy b/c we all know that the court of public opinion has criminalized shyness. He was just lonely and cracked at the possibility of a lifetime of loneliness. These people need professional help so they can talk to women and transform into the arrogant a$$holes that society idolizes.
Well not all Software Engineers are shy and unsocial. I am a Software Coder myself and am average looking but I got guts to attract women and I have been single only recently since I started my career.
But interestingly, during my job at current Employer, I know a similar kind of guy, a software engineer like me, who was has just left the company. He had a few unusual myseteries and similarities to that shooter. He was always quiet. He liked to work alone. He hated team work. He was always rude to female staff in the office. And nevertheless he was religious :O
He noted on a site of his linear thinking, think Spock. to logical. It is the way some people are born. A news story now reports he was teased by girls and he had finally asked someone where he tanned at for a date but they thought he was joking. That seems to be the theme because of how nevrous he was when he spoke. He was a literal thinking person. You are born this way and do not see grey areas well. It makes you good for science and computers but sucks for real life. Without people like him we would not have computers, computer chips, cars,, and mp3 players but they often suck in dealing with people. Overly shy, timid, and it it is hard for people like this to understand people lie and lie a lot. That is why they do good with nnumbers. Numbers make sense and do not like He was to reliigous to go to a hooker. Many men are, and we women ignore these guys. Yet we go ape when our bad boys cheat on us. Ah, the conflicts of life. RIP and to all the victims and my sympathies to the families and his family. I cannot imagine what they have to endure now. A fund raiser was held for the victims on sun in PA.
For some ppl they are raised so rigidily and you can see it in his posts and videos that they cannot go outside that known comfort zone. He was religious so a hooker was out of the question. I noticed on his google searches he had checked out amfar and advert. both aids org. Noticed that his last sex was with the Lee Val. person that he may have impregnanted. He weight only 155 pretty small for a man his height. her family noted she died of a resipiratory illness. Aids has that, So maybe she gave him something and he knew it. He searched congestive heart failure and side of affects of whey protein which can be good for ppl with heart issues. He may have had undx health issues that were causing his rage feelings. He is from my generation where men did not talk about thier feelings, hide them as he put it and you kept your problems to yourself. He had sought some help but may not have gotten it fast enough or the right help. He, unlike most shooters had more to live for. That is why this case is more scary. He was rich, had good job, home but he had no confident. We all need that. Social skills naturally elude people. Sometimes it can be taught but if no one tells you lacking them and i think he needed to hear that based on his post, then you cannot work on them.
Today it was noted that he was spotted on the bus with a grenade that he dneied to police but he noted it in his journals. He was spotted oddly sitting in his driveway two days before the shooting. He was so nice and polite on good looking on the surface that i bet people thought he was already taken or stuck on himself. This happened to me for years but I did not know ppl thought I was nice looking or even looking at me. It sounds like he was having a feel melt down and he had become estranged from his family from the undedited blog he had. He had issues with his sister becoming controlling with her adult kids and his mom may have done the same. It seems he had no issues with sex in college and then it all dried up. He was probably raised to be told what to do for women and when he did and he had no one he could not reconcile it. This case is more disturbing than most because if anyone saw anything odd at his law firm he worked for and his sil is a lawyer. no one noticed or said a thing. Everyone did ignore him it seems. I hope his family take the money he left and start an org to help ppl like him and thier families learn the signs and how to deal with of emerging mental issues. Do you know how many families ignore and turn thier backs on ppl like him. They need help and everyone turns thier back on them. This has got to stop to stop the mass killings.
This role has Billy Bob Thorton written all over it!
All I can ask is why didn’t he just kill himself years ago (his ‘bully’ brother should have taken him out; seems like he knew a weirdo when he met one)!! And why, if he was so ‘afflicted’ by young women (I do not believe he desired women AT ALL) and (under 26?)did he chose to hurt and murder women HIS age?? Doesn’t make sense (not that it ever would actually) Ann Rule will write a very intriguing book I am sure (she is the best in true crime books)
The lack of respect for other people and the selfiness of this man is incredible. There are alot of lonely people in the world that choose to be good to there fellow women and men despite their disappointments in life. I have nothing but contempt for this man. If he wanted to end his life, it is really sad that anyone would be so depressed but he should left it at that.
i hate to say it, but the guy wasn’t bad looking. i also hate to say this, but he could have easily tried to find a mail order bride or something if he was THAT lonely for female companionship. he must of had a really “creepy” vibe about him for women to steer clear from him. he was obviously VERY loney & depressed.
I agree, he was a good looking guy – especially for his age group! Why didn’t he try online dating? I’ve tried it myself, and though it’s not for me (from what I saw, most of the men doing it are married guys trying to get some action on the side), I think he would have done well on that kind of venue. He photographed nicely (photos are required online these days), is well-built, has a steady job, has most/all of his hair (I know, it’s superficial, but many women are picky about that), and looks normal from his photos. All I can think is that this guy was so insecure that he was afraid to even try that! It’s really a sad story – taking the lives of innocent women just going about their lives, simply because he couldn’t get his act together. And he had no excuse – he was born with above-average looks, and clearly kept himself fit, so what he did with those tools was all up to him. Nobody to blame but himself for his social failures, but of course, he didn’t see it that way – he blamed everyone BUT himself!
I agree to what DonnaM says. That guy was not bad looking. It was either his guts in bed that left him with lack of confident to approach women or some mental creepy behavior that always scared women that he have had in his past.