A videotaped diatribe by the Virginia Tech gunman shocked students and mesmerised television viewers, but police said on Thursday it yielded little value for the investigation of the campus massacre."Muldoon! What'd you get outta that?"
"Ummm... Only that he wuz a dipshit, chief!"
"How about you, Toody?"
"That's all I got out of it, chief. Sorry."
"Damn. Me, too. Maybe that's all that was in it."
Students at the university expressed disgust and disbelief at self-made photos and a disturbing video the killer mailed to NBC News as he paused on Monday in the midst of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern United States history. Police handling the investigation expressed disappointment at the airing of the images and rants by Cho Seung-Hui, who killed 32 people and then himself. "I'm sorry that you all were exposed to these images," Virginia State Police Superintendent Steve Flaherty told a news conference.
Some family members of the victims were so outraged at NBC's decision that they cancelled interviews with network, which turned the package over to law-enforcement authorities. "While there was some marginal value to the package, the fact of the matter is we already had most all of this information and most all of this evidence," Flaherty said. "The package simply confirmed what we already knew in many, many cases."