March 19 Tip: From NPR's "Fresh Air": For Sandy Hook Killer's Father, Tragedy Outweighs Love For His Son

From NPR's "Fresh Air": For Sandy Hook Killer's Father, Tragedy Outweighs Love For His Son

(The March 19 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/13/289815818/6-interviews-1-reckoning-sandy-hook-killers-dad-breaks-silence

We still don't know why Adam Lanza killed his mother, then 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School before turning a gun on himself in December 2012. But we do know more about Lanza's life, what his doctors had to say about him and what his parents did to try to help him.

His father, Peter Lanza, broke his media silence by granting a series of interviews to writer Andrew Solomon. They met six times for interviews that lasted up to seven hours. The resulting article, "The Reckoning: The Father of the Sandy Hook Killer Searches for Answers," was published in the current edition of The New Yorker.

Solomon's latest book, the best-seller Far From the Tree, is about the parents of children who are profoundly different — children with psychological, cognitive or physical disorders; children conceived in rape; and children who become criminals or murderers. That book was published one month before Adam Lanza's rampage.

Solomon tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about how Adam's autism diagnosis may have masked other problems.