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Jun 27, 2014 · Rick Rowell/ABC. -- It was in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Isla Vista, Calif., that Peter Rodger would learn that his 22-year-old son Elliot was dead. "I'll remember this forever the rest of my life," Rodger said.
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On the awful night of May 23, Peter Rodger, his wife, and Elliot's mother all rushed to their cars, starting a frantic 100-mile sprint to Elliot's apartment in Isla Vista, worried for their son's safety and his life. "I didn't know what he was doing," his father said. "I just wanted to go and find him...and talk to him, do something. You know, hold...
Elliot had had problems, "but they weren't things that I would consider overly worrisome -- or that he would ever be a threat to himself or he would be a threat to other people," his father said. Like a lot of kids, he wanted to be part of the cool crowd but had trouble fitting in. His parents moved him from school to school, trying to find a place...
Sex became an obsession and an agony for Elliot. "Finding out about sex is one of the things that truly destroyed my entire life. Sex, the very word fills me with hate," Elliot would write in his journal. "I would always covet it, I would always fantasize about it. But I would never get it." Peter Rodger said he tried to talk about this issue with ...
When Elliot sent the websites to his father, Peter Rodger angrily called his son. "Elliot, why are you going on these websites?" he recalled saying. "This is negative, this is-- evil kind of-- And you shouldn't go on there." But the father's outrage failed to work. He failed to realize the depths of Elliot's hatred of women. The young man became ob...
Jun 27, 2014 · Friday, June 27, 2014. It was in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Isla Vista, Calif., that Peter Rodger would learn that his 22-year-old son Elliot was dead. "I'll remember this forever the...
Jun 28, 2014 · Peter Rodger, an assistant director on the film Hunger Games , told ABC's Barbara Walters in an interview televised on Friday that he initially thought his son, Elliot, was one of the victims,...
May 25, 2014 · By Jim Axelrod. May 24, 2014 / 8:18 PM EDT / CBS News. Elliot Rodger, the suspect in Friday's deadly rampage, is the son of a long-time filmmaker in Hollywood, Peter Rodger, a second unit...
Jun 27, 2014 · Getty Images. The 22-year-old serial killer Elliot Rodger was a virgin and had trouble fitting in. Six people died and 13 more were injured. Elliot shot himself in the head after a gunfight with...
Jun 28, 2014 · Peter Rodger, an assistant director on the film "Hunger Games," told ABC's Barbara Walters in an interview televised on Friday that he initially thought his son, Elliot, was one of the victims,...