I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother — The Essay That Packaged Sandy Hook
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
In the 13 years since the tragedy at Sandy Hook, public debate has centered around a familiar argument: was the massacre the result of an underfunded mental-health system, or the product of a failed mental health model that relies on fraudulent diagnosis and drugging? Soon after the shooting, The Huffington Post ran an essay entitled I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother that garnered national attention, but contrary to the essay, the real story is not about a mental health debate but, rather, a murderous record built on contradiction, secrecy, and concealment.
At the center of the Sandy Hook story stands Nancy Lanza, remembered as the mother of a killer, yet, in truth, a parent caught in the fraud of psychiatric diagnosing and drugging, following the industry’s rules until compliance became dangerous and threatening. Lanza’s story—sealed in court records, rewritten by investigators, and recast by media—speaks not of clarity, but of institutions protecting themselves.
Psychiatrists who prescribed Adam Lanza’s medications were shielded from scrutiny, and whose names were suspiciously withheld for more than a year. Adam Lanza’s psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Fox, who destroyed all records of care for Lanza, fled the country during the investigation and was later arrested on charges of sexual misconduct and returned to the United States. How such a central figure in Lanza’s treatment was allowed to flee the country during this most critical investigative period remains unanswered. Another, Dr. Robert King at Yale University, was soliciting children for psychiatric research while treating Lanza with mind-altering drugs. Investigators never examined this conflict.
AbleChild sought Lanza’s medical and autopsy records in court, but the state of Connecticut blocked the release, intimating that people would stop taking medications if the files were released. Those files remain sealed, ensuring the psychopharma industry continues to be spared any accountability for its role in the murderous attack.
The viral essay written in the Huffington Post, I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother, received national attention. The sympathetic article portrayed the pain of raising a troubled child and pleaded for compassion. What the article ignored were the contradictions in the official case and the failures of the behavioral health systems surrounding Nancy and Adam.
From the beginning, the investigation revealed inconsistencies an AR-15 was recovered and declared the weapon used in the shooting. Forensic files linking bullets to weapons remain incomplete and questionable. DNA and fingerprint data do not support official events raising many questions about Nancy’s death. Of interest is that the DNA evidence pulled from the death scene at the Lanza home matches a convicted felon DNA profile and yet the Connecticut State Police have never followed up on that lead or made those efforts public. The police never explained how a convicted felon’s DNA got inside the Lanza home and on evidence important to the shooting at Sandy Hook. Why?
And, even more bizarre is that there was another DNA profile at the Lanza home on the .22 caliber Rifle allegedly used by Adam Lanza to kill his mother that the Police could not match. In fact, Nancy and Adam Lanza were eliminated as contributors on the tested .22 caliber Rifle and cartridges.
It should be further noted that the FBI report reflects that none of the recovered bullet evidence collected from the Sandy Hook school crime scene could be matched to the AR-15 allegedly used by Adam Lanza. Literally hundreds of bullets and bullet fragments were taken for testing by the FBI. None could be matched with the alleged weapon. Apparently, no one found this odd. Even the families of the deceased never questioned this. Why? Every. Single. Bullet. Fragment. Does. Not. Match. The. Alleged. Weapon. What are the odds?
Moving along, Nancy’s personal diary was never released. Accounts describe it as a record of her fears, her search for treatment, and what services Adam was receiving. Rather than release the diary, the state fought to keep it sealed. The public was left with only the state’s interpretation of what the diary contained. Nancy’s own words, perhaps the most critical first-hand evidence, remain locked away.
The corruption context made the omissions harder to ignore. A firearm was moved at the crime scene. The Newtown Police Department, at the center of the case, faced its own scandals: officers implicated in importing drugs from China and selling long guns out of the station. Medical oversight failed too. The Medical Examiner’s assistant allowed her husband unauthorized access to Adam’s body, breaking chain of custody. Toxicology offered no credibility. Adam’s urine sample, tested for marijuana, was recorded as so badly compromised upon arrival that no results could be trusted—yet it was still released as official fact.
What we know of Nancy’s conflict with psychiatry comes mainly from the police report. That document says Dr. King labeled her “non-compliant” with Adam’s medications. But Nancy had advised Dr. King that Adam was suffering serious side effects from the drugs prescribed. King never filed an FDA MedWatch report and never informed Lanza that she could file with MedWatch. Instead, Lanza’s judgment was reduced to medical disobedience being “non-compliant.”
The “non-compliant” label misrepresents Lanza’s reality. As a mother, Lanza had never been resistant to getting help for Adam. She had become the poster mom for America’s pharmaceutical model: comply, try one drug, then another, adjust the dosage, or combine them, always trusting the authority of doctors with a prescription pad. Lanza followed faithfully for years, hoping the model would bring relief.
When compliance itself became dangerous, Lanza stopped. Nancy Lanza’s complaints were written off as “non-compliance,” a term used to protect psychiatry from responsibility.
The viral essay I am Adam Lanza’s Mother turned Lanza’s story into evidence for more mental health services and greater compliance. The essay never raised the dangers associated with over-treatment, trial-and-error prescribing, or medical negligence. Lanza’s own experience with Adam embodied those dangers. Lanza was a mother who followed the rules, saw them fail, and was condemned when she resisted further harm.
AbleChild drew the opposite conclusion. The organization’s parents rejected blind adherence to the pharmaceutical model and demanded transparency. After the shootings AbleChild, not the state, pressed for disclosure of Nancy’s records in court. AbleChild was denied the records, but its stand highlighted what Nancy was never given: recognition that the system had failed her and her son.
What emerges from the Sandy Hook record is not clarity but crisis at every level. Psychiatrists shielded. Records sealed. Forensics contradictions. Nancy’s diary suppressed. Evidence mishandled. Police corruption. Autopsy chain of custody broken. Toxicology compromised. Each institution acted not to reveal the truth, but to guard itself.
I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother invited sympathy for overwhelmed parents. It offered compassion, but it does not explain what went wrong with the institutions tasked with helping Nancy Lanza. If left as the final word, it distorts her story.
The murders at Sandy Hook school cannot be understood until the sealed psychiatric files, the diary, the autopsy report of Adam Lanza, and the flawed DNA forensic records are completed and released to the public. Until then, one of the most brutal crimes in American history remains one of the least investigated. Photo Credit: David Goldman/AP
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