Virginia Tech was in the news today. Cho´s mental health records turned up at the home of the director of Virginia Tech´s student clinic – where they´d been for two years while people were searching for them. It´s taken a lawsuit to find them.

It´s interesting that the Kaine commission never turned them up. It didn´t even investigate the director.

As readers of this blog know, I was the first person to suspect V Tech of gross negligence and a cover-up of what happened. I also noted that  it was highly likely that Cho was being given drugs and that there was more to his mental history, which the university was probably concealing.

(You can check out my articles on this site, as well as my blog posts, through the search tab).

It´s satisfying to be vindicated after I got all that nasty mail for “attacking” ‘nice’ university administrators.

“Nice” isn´t good.  Good takes a whole lot more effort .

AP reports:

“Why would he (Miller) take any student mental health records to his home at any time, and why that student?” Robert T. Hall said.

“It certainly is a question of whether there is more to the Seung-Hui Cho mental health history than we’ve been told,” Hall said.

Kaine said he was dismayed that it took two years to find the records.

“That is part of the investigation that I am very interested in and, of course, I’m very concerned about that,” Kaine said.

The discovery calls into question the thoroughness of the ongoing criminal probe and the findings of the Virginia Tech Review Panel, a commission Kaine appointed to review the catastrophe, one victim’s relative said.

“Deception comes to my mind in my first response,” said Suzanne Grimes, whose son Kevin Sterne was injured.

“To say it doesn’t make sense is an injustice,” she said. “It gives me the impression: ‘What else are they hiding?'”

While a large part of the shooting investigation focused on how university officials and law enforcement responded following the first reports of two deaths in a dormitory, family members of victims have also inquired how the troubled Cho slipped through the cracks at university counseling.

Miller was not listed among the more than 200 people interviewed by the panel. The leader of the investigation, former Virginia State Police Superintendent Gerald Massengill, said Wednesday that investigators interviewed Miller’s successor at Cook Counseling Center, Dr. Christopher Flynn, but not Miller….”

Funny, huh?

Check out Psych Time Line, one of scores of posts on V-Tech. You can get some of the posts by googling V-Tech and Lila Rajiva directly.

The rest can be viewed via the search function. You can also just search the archives for April 2007 and the months thereafter.

I contacted a couple of lawyers who were interested in the case and offered them the information on my blog. One of the victims´relatives was also in contact with me, because she felt strongly that what was happening was a cover-up. I thought so too, but I was involved with financial writing at the time and I couldn´t follow up. Besides, I was sure the students´lawsuits would turn up new evidence.
Which is what happened.

There was also another reason I left the story alone…but it´s not something I want to post on publicly.