Suspect with the Tie-Dyed Shirt

Robert Perry, a member of the Trench Coat Mafia who allegedly dropped out of Columbine before 1999, loved to wear brightly colored tie-dyed t-shirts. Many people saw him at Columbine the day of the shooting and many people identified Perry as a shooter. The official story is that Dylan Klebold was simply mistaken for Robert Perry, but there are too many inconsistencies for that to be taken at face value. The full list of inconsistencies is discussed on the page linked above. This page is dedicated to the sightings of a tie-dyed t-shirt the day of the shooting.

People reported seeing a suspect wearing a tie-dyed t-shirt underneath his black trench coat. Some said the shirt was bright orange. Robert Perry was wearing a tie-dyed t-shirt that day.

Despite the official story stating he was home sleeping, witnesses saw him in the school before the shooting began and one witness even interacted with him and said hello to Robert by name.

Another witness saw Perry running away from the school without a trench coat, and watched him flag down his father, who was driving down the road. Prior to this, Perry was seen wearing a trench coat. Interestingly, a witness reported seeing a discarded black trench coat by the nearby reservoir. These facts fit together too perfectly to be coincidences.

Perry claimed to have been sleeping at home since he was working overnight shifts at Safeway, but according to his supervisors, he had not been showing up for work lately.

People who were seen wearing a tie-dyed shirt on 4/20/99:

Robert Perry
Teacher Al Cram

When rescued, Cram was taken down to the floor hard by SWAT and patted down at gunpoint, and it could be because of his shirt. Maybe a suspect was reported as wearing a tie-dyed shirt. I have a source for this and will add it when I find it in my thousands of pages of notes.

People who saw Perry (or someone matching his description) wearing a tie-dyed shirt casually, not as a suspect:

Zach Cobb [pp.2729-2734]

"Zach stated that they drove away and were in the vicinity of S. Pierce and Roxbury when he saw a person known by him to be a member of the Trench Coat Mafia. He said this person was on foot by the Pizza Hut and had waved down a Toyota Tercel, blue in color. He described the male as being very tall, approximately 6'5", with very long hair, wearing jeans and a tie-dyed shirt, black and red in color and a black and red cap, worn backwards. He said he did not know the person by name."
(11k, p.2731)

This can only be Robert Perry because Perry flagged down his father in the middle of the road around 12:15 p.m., and his father drove a 1992 Toyota Tercel. I personally checked the VIN number through a background check to verify his ownership.

Hilary Snyder [pp.7184-7186]

Two of her friends, Rachael Danford and Janel Phiebolt, told Snyder they saw Perry in the school by the choir room wearing a tie-dyed shirt. Danford said she later saw Perry at the public library.

Rachel Danford [pp.5187-5190]

"She said that when she was at the Columbine library, she saw Robert Perry walking towards the library wearing a tie dyed t-shirt. I asked Danford if she knew what time that had been. She said that she had been at the library about 10-15 min.
(11k, p.1861)

Patricia Stevens [pp.4536-4540]

She was a special education aide. She said a student, Breanne Cook, became alarmed and pointed out Perry while they were at the library and said she had seen him with the two suspects. This was misinterpreted as her having seen him with the suspects the day of the shooting. She made it clear that wasn't what she said. She did, however, point out Perry to say he was part of the trench coat group.

Here's what Stevens said:

"While at the library, she had occasion to talk with a CHS student, Breanne Cook, who talked of knowing the 2 gunmen, and also of having seen them at the school with another person. While explaining this to Ms. Stevens, Breanne Cook became noticeably alarmed and pointed to a male standing among the students at the library and identified this individual as the same person she had seen with the 2 suspects. This individual was described as a white male, 18-20, red, dirty, matted down hair, 6'2" with a slender build, wearing a pink/yellow tie-dyed shirt.

He was described as having "wild eyes" and did not stay at the library, but wandered West from the library toward the lake present at that location."
(11k, p.4537)

This is corroborated on p.6274 and p.6275 of Cook's interview and Perry is mentioned by name many, many times.

On p.6276, she states Perry was wearing blue jeans and a backwards baseball cap with the tie-dyed shirt.

Andrea Cook [pp.5187-5190]

Cook told police she dated Perry once and they went to Columbine's winter formal together in 1998 and showed them a photo of them together. She said that Perry told her he knew they were going to do it.

She saw Perry outside the public library shortly before noon, while the incident was still going on, which contradicts his alibi that he was sleeping. However, it fits with the other sighting of him flagging down a car as students were fleeing.

"She stated that he came up to her and said, "This has got to be Eric Harris' doings." [Robert Perry] further told her that Eric Harris had told him that he was planning on doing something like this. Andrea Cook stated that [Robert Perry], at this time, was quite angry when he was telling her this information. She further stated that he told her that he wished he had killed Eric before he did something like this."-"... when she was talking with [Robert Perry] at Clement Library, he was wearing a tie dye shirt with the primary colors being hot pink and yellow."
(11k, p.5189)

Sunnee Hoppe [pp.1935-1937]

"That within two hours after the incident began, Sunnee was at the public library in Clement Park and saw [redacted] walking from the vicinity of the lake behind the library, toward the front of the library."-"That based on the direction that [redacted] was walking, Sunnee assumed that he had come from CHS and thought that was unusual because he is not a student there anymore. "-"That Sunnee described the clothing that [redacted] was wearing as black pants, a tie-dye shirt, and a black baseball cap turned backwards."
(11k, p.1936)

Jean Richer [pp.4199-4203]

"Jean told me after the initial shooting, that himself and a few friends had gone over to the Columbine Public Library, and he recalls an associate of the Trench Coat Mafia, who showed up at the library. He described the individual as being very tall, quite ugly, and was wearing a pink tie-dyed shirt. Initially, he couldn't tell me who the individual was. He referred to his yearbook and identified that party as being Robert Perry. He told me he thought it was peculiar that this person associated with the Trench Coat Mafia would show up after this incident."
(11k, p.4202)

Witnesses who reported seeing a suspect wearing a tie-dyed/orange/pink shirt:

Patrick Caruso [pp.2682-2688]

Patrick described the shooter as "165lbs, 6'3", Senior at the school, no glasses, dark brown hair, black trench coat, pink tie die type shirt, possibly yellow."
(11k, p.8793)

On p.2683, Caruso states he thought the trench coated suspect looked like a student he saw before who had bad acne, which would be Perry.

On p.2686 he describes the same suspect and states the pink tie-dyed shirt was tucked into his pants.

John Curtis [pp.2785-2792]

... he described him as about 5'10" tall, with a medium build, dark brown collar-length hair, and said that the male was wearing "a black duster." Curtis also told me that he thought he could see "something yellow" inside of the duster when it swung open at one point."
(11k, p.2786)

Lisa Forgan [pp.3004-3018]

"1st gunman - white male, 5'5", slim, blue baseball cap, orange t-shirt, shaggy blonde hair sticking out of cap, narrow face, spoke German." (11k, p.3007)-Why did she mention that he spoke German? She said she thought she heard the janitor yell at the gunman to put his gun down and the gunman yelled back in German.

Keni Dooley [pp.2886-2890]

"She said Dylan was wearing black pants, a bright orange shirt and a black trench coat, and a hat of some kind."
(11k, p.2888)

Joey Marcotte [pp.3645-3647]

"Joey stated that she had seen the suspect come into the cafeteria wearing a black baseball hat, but she couldn't see his face very clear because it was covered up, but he was wearing an orange or white t-shirt with some kind of writing on it, then he had a trench coat on, with some kind of automatic weapon. I asked Joey if she saw his hair, and she stated that she remembers that he had long curly black hair."
(11k, p.3646)

Now let's look at a couple of interesting things.

Sunnee Hoppe saw Perry walking away from the area of the lake in Clement Park toward the public library. A teacher reported finding a discarded trench coat by this lake.

"Stevens also said she was told by a teacher, whose name she does not know, that the teacher, who would walk around the lake during 6th hour, found a trench coat by the lake, but that later it was gone. There is no further information regarding time frame or details of this."
(11k, p.4539)

On p.10864, Perry's mother told police he left the house wearing his trench coat. But, everyone who saw him at the library said he was not wearing a trench coat. Did he ditch it by the lake before going to the library, or is the story of him being home a lie? I vote for the latter. I think he ditched his coat on the way home, after he left the school as the shooting was happening.

Trista Fogarty saw a tie-dye pattern on the monitor that displayed the "thought of the day."

"Trista said she remembered the "thought of the day" as something to the effect of "You wished you weren't here today," and said it also contained the date of 4-20. Trista described a pattern that was on the monitor during this announcement, and she described it as being a tie-dye type pattern."
(11k, p.1419)

Is this all false memory and transference?

Now the question is this - the witnesses who saw a suspect with a tie-dyed shirt, or a brief flash of orange, yellow, and pink, develop a false memory because people planted it in their mind that Perry was a shooter, and he was wearing a tie-dyed shirt in the public library?

Or did they really see a suspect with a bright colored shirt?

If you believe Perry's alibi - that he was home sleeping when the attack happened and went to watch the news when he was told - you might think yes, absolutely, those witnesses were experiencing transference and false memory.

However.

There's no possibility that Perry's presence at the public library was just false memory. He was seen and identified by multiple people without a doubt. Before noon and right about noon. However, he didn't stay long. He may have popped in for a few minutes and then left.

Perry claimed to have talked with his grandmother, who lives next door to him, between 8-11am, but police have never released her interview. Hmmm...

Perry also claimed that he went to sleep at 11am and his mother woke up him at 11:40 to tell him what was happening at Columbine. He got dressed and at noon, he claims he started to walk to Columbine to look for his sister. He lived 2.2 miles from the school, that's a long walk.

At 12:15, he just happened to meet up with his father, who was driving down the same road looking for Lydie. Zach Cobb witnessed this and said it happened by the Pizza Hut. There is apparently no Pizza Hut in the area Cobb stated anymore, but if there was a Pizza Hut near Roxbury and S. Pierce, that's 1.6 miles from the school all the way down Pierce. Robert was seen dropping someone off at school earlier in the day driving a red car, so why would he walk 1.6 miles to get to his sister at the school instead of drive? That makes no sense.

So he walked at least 1.6 miles in 15 minutes, from noon to 12:15 when his dad picked him up. That's a world record. Even if he did walk fast, it would have taken him at least 25 minutes. The average mile, walked, takes 15-22 minutes.

We know his father picked him up because the witness saw him flag down the car and it matches that part of his story, but there is no way he originated from his own house on foot because he was already at the public library before noon, and he had been seen in the cafeteria at Columbine before the shooting broke out. Was his father driving the getaway vehicle?

His mother claimed Robert never made it to the school before his father ran into him and picked him up. It seems he had already left the school, ditched his coat by the lake, popped into the public library to make a brief appearance, and then left and met up with his dad most likely as he was walking home, away from the school. But was he really on foot? Nah. I don't think so. Why would he walk that far to get his sister when he wouldn't even have a way to transport her back? Why leave his car?

The timing doesn't even work out with his story.

He got in his dad's car and they drove home. Then, Pauline Colby called him and told him his sister, Lydie, was at the public library. Then, Kristine Theibault showed up at his house and they talked for a short bit. THEN Robert and his father went to the public library to pick up his sister.

This would put Perry at the library at LEAST a half hour to 45 minutes AFTER witnesses saw him there. His mother claims they got to the library at 12:30-12:45 to pick up his sister. And nobody said they saw him go to the library twice, which is what would have had to happen for his story to be true since he was seen there before noon.

On p.4057, Robert's sister, Lydie, claims her mother, father, and brother Robert picked her up after she got out of the school. They found her at the library, after they had driven back and forth a couple of times. This could not have happened during the time witnesses saw Perry at the library.

Perry's entire story, along with the statements allegedly given by his family, do not add up.

Perry claims he walked FROM the library TOWARD Columbine, but he was seen heading TO the library FROM the back side of Columbine, through Clement Park, on foot, before noon.

Perry also did not show up to work on the 19th or 20th.

Trista Fogarty saw a tie-dye pattern on the monitor that displayed the "thought of the day."

"Trista said she remembered the "thought of the day" as something to the effect of "You wished you weren't here today," and said it also contained the date of 4-20. Trista described a pattern that was on the monitor during this announcement, and she described it as being a tie-dye type pattern." (11k, p.1419)

We know Perry was at Columbine that day, he was seen in the cafeteria by multiple people, some even talked with him and said hello to him using his name and responded back.

What do Perry, Morris, Dykeman, and Brown all have in common?

Too many inconsistent stories that are not just minor mistakes, but rather, massive, gaping holes and contradictions that can't be reconciled.