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Professor Planned Mass Murder At High School After Son’s Suicide

August 1, 2012 at 10:38 am by imonfireDAMMIT

Santa Ana, CA - A California professor, grief-stricken over the recent suicide of his high school son, was allegedly plotting a rampage at the high school where his son attended, planning to kill teachers and administrators before burning down the building.

Rainer Reinscheid, a professor at the University of California for the last 12 years, has been charged with setting five fires on the campus of University High School, in Mason Park Preserve, and at a school administrator’s home. It was after he was released on bond that investigators found these fires may have been the beginning of a much more sinister plot.

They say that e-mails found on Reinscheid’s cell phone contained a detailed mass murder plot against University High School.

“He is accused of writing a graphic, detailed emails,” Orange County Deputy District Attorney Andrew Katz told MyFoxLA.com, ”In which he laid out plans to purchase guns, murder unnamed students and named administrators, burn the school to the ground, commit acts of sexual assault and kill himself.”

Investigators say the motive may have been revenge against the people he felt responsible for his 14-year-old son’s suicide in March. Reinsheid believed that the suicide was a direct result of disciplinary actions the high school took against his son after the teen was caught stealing from the student store. Soon after being given trash pick-up duties, the teen was found dead in the Mason Park Preserve. The official cause of death was asphyxiation due to hanging by suicide.

School officials did not connect Reinscheid to the arson fire at the University High administrator’s home until after Reinscheid’s most recent arrest. Officer’s had stepped up patrols after the series of recent fires and caught Reinscheid as he tried to start another fire at the park preserve where his son died.

“Based on the location and nature of the arsons, we believe Reinscheid was specifically targeting the people and places he believed were related to his son’s discipline,” Orange County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Farrah Emami said.

He posted $50,000 bail the same day and was released. When police began to examine his phone records three days later, they found some quite disturbing emails Reinscheid had sent to himself and to his wife. Reinschied had allegedly planned to acquire firearms to kill students, administrators, commit rape, burn down the school and then kill himself.

The professor was arrested again and is now being held, at the request of prosecutors, without bail.

“The emails by themselves do not support a criminal charge but they do support our argument that he should be denied bail because he’s dangerous” Emami said.

I know that kids can be emotional in their teens but I just can’t wrap my head around a child killing themselves because of some lame punishment handed out by the school. It was mentioned in several comments on OCRegister.com that the boy was a victim of bullying, but Irvine police say they didn’t find any evidence to support the claims.

Tags: Arson, Bullying, California, Crime, Mass Murder, Rainer Reinscheid, school, Suicide

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RachelAnnPrince

Talk about a family of jackasses. Blame everyone but yourself why don’t you for the things you have done. Dad while I’m sure he’s distraught over his son’s death needs to man the fuck up and realize that it’s no one’s fault but his son’s that he took his life.
Sam

“…burn the school to the ground, COMMIT ACTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT and kill himself.”
WTF? How does it go from acting out in grief over the loss of your child, to being a perv douchebag, all in the same breath? Seems to me like there was something hinky in the way this guy thinks all along.
Anosmia

His kid commits a crime (stealing from the school store) and is given a fair punishment because of it (picking up trash around the school), and this guy feels that because his son was ridiculous enough to commit suicide over that, it warrants mass murder and rape? I can understand his grief and all, but wow, what an overreaction. If the kid had been bullied and tortured at the school, and let down by administrators who refused to punish the perpetrators, then I could understand the dad’s rage against the school (although his plans would still be over the top and wrong). But to do all that just because your kid couldn’t cope with being punished??
Songdancer

I’m certain it is hard to deal with a childs suidide and a lot of parents try to blame everyone else or deny it was a suicide and think it was homicide. This man needs some help to deal with. Lucky he was caught before he killed anyone. bad think when you go on a rampage such as this, you only kill the innocent. I cant relate with a parents sadness over their sons suicide but I am sure there are people here than can.
RachelAnnPrince

Well his kid did commit suicide for being made to pick up trash so…I’m thinkin the whole gene pool is a little hinky…
Sam

Kinda makes me wonder whether things going on at home may have (also) had something to do with the young one’s early departure…
Sam

Wait, hang on. He sent detailed & fucked up plans to his wife, but she never batted an eyelid?? WTF? Why didn’t she shop him to the police?
RachelAnnPrince

Never being held accountable for ones actions is tops on that list I think. I mean did they NEVER punish this kid for acting out? He couldn’t have been an angel his entire life, unless his Dad was a major ass and punished the boy for any minor infraction and he figured suicide was better than whatev his Dad would do.
CT

Christ almighty. While I have sympathy for him that his kid killed himself how about you man up and accept some responsibility for the fact that your kid fucking stole from his school? How on earth is that anyone but your child’s fault? The administrators and teachers didn’t make him steal – he did it. This pisses me off. I pray that I never have to deal with my child’s death by their own hand – but if I do – should I go bat shit crazy and kill a bunch of people? How in the hell does that make anything better?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sarah-Silcox-Martin/1460419094 Sarah Silcox Martin

The son over reacted and the father over reacted. So at least we see where the son got it from.
newstarshipsmell

Because the whole family’s crazy?
Andyman

She was in on it?
Andyman

Seems like over-reaction runs in the family. Wonder where the kid got it from? Oh yeah, his dad?
tkaz

I could make a wild assumption here that a father who puts blame on others like this for his childs suicide probably never gave the child coping skills they needed to either deal with the bullying(if that in fact happened) or at least ask for help. I can also assume this man never really thought of his son when he decided to tarnish the memory of his life in such a selfish way.
Totally off subject but when did we forget to notice that maybe bullying isn’t REALLY the problem, but how we raise our kids to handle it is. I understand there are extreme cases that support the kids suicides but…..ALL of them? Bullying is always used to explain it away.
This man is a coward. Now he gets to be angry in jail instead of where innocent people are in his path.
Andyman

For a second there I thought you were talking about Obama. (ducks and runs for cover) lol
daffodil127

I’m sure she was in denial, especially after losing her son. She was probably hoping he’d never go through with any of it.
David

That was the 1st thing I wondered as I read this story.
daffodil127

Except mom, who is aware of her husband’s plans and does nothing. I assume there is another side to the story that the school admins are covering up.
David

That doesn’t even make sense. No reason to duck and run for cover if we’re all just scratching our heads in wonder.
sugarpie

He sent emails to himself and his wife. Now, I’m not a professor or anything, but if you want your wife to know your diabolical plan and you yourself are conjuring it up in your head, why the emails ??
kimbev69

Maybe the kid killed himself due to problems at home
Chinchillazilla

“unless his Dad was a major ass and punished the boy for any minor infraction and he figured suicide was better than whatev his Dad would do.”

Considering that the dude seems to think rape and murder is an acceptable punishment for someone who punished a thief, I’d say that’s likely.
imonfireDAMMIT

I agree with the comments that this kid didn’t just kill himself because he got in trouble at school. There were comments made in some of the news stories that he was a victim of bullying. My first thought was that he was being molested, I don’t know why, but I believe that is the only logical explanation in my mind. I also agree that the mom should have reported the emails. She had to know that this man was bat shit crazy.
JohnQknowitall

The child did not kill himself over punishment for theft. There was something wrong in that house before and after the hanging. The father needs psychiatric care. Suicide does not end with the death of the self murdered.
FrownyFace

I just don’t think how a teen deals with bullying is as simple as how they were raised. There are plenty of teens with legitimate depressive disorders, many of whom perhaps don’t have a chance to be diagnosed before they end it themselves. Teenage crazy + chemical imbalance crazy = no amount of logic is gonna talk you out of that despair- you either find something within yourself that keeps you going, or you don’t.
I just think it’s probably easier to raise a child to not be a bullying little asshole completely devoid of compassion than to raise a kid that can take the abuse. Plus I never like the idea of shifting focus away from fixing a problem to coping with a problem because it’s like treating the symptoms instead of the disease. Not saying coping skills aren’t helpful, but I still think that bullying is the bigger problem. The even bigger problem is how adults handle it- schools that don’t listen, teachers who are bullies themselves, parents who don’t care if their little shits are terrorizing everyone else, etc.
Who knows what happened in this case, though- none of it makes much sense.
Heather4877

She was ok with the rape plans. Weird.
Heather4877

I have a 13-year-old son and a 10 year-old daughter, and while I never even batted an eyelash at these types of articles when they were younger (I felt sad, but removed), these days they almost bring tears to my eyes and a little bit of fear into my heart. While I obviously don’t approve with his plans or behavior, I honestly don’t know WHAT I’d do if one of my children commited suicide. I DO know, however, my plans wouldn’t include rape. There’d be no lubricant and who wants to get all chaffed?
JGo555

It makes total sense that you want to kill people because your son killed himself.
Sam

Maybe she was looking forward to a night off?
http://twitter.com/Bigcced Cedric

Sorry about the 14 year old’s death … maybe he hung himself to escape this total idiot of a father … maybe the gene pool is trying to correct itself …
wyrosjr

Accepting responsibility for one’s actions is less and less a part of our culture every day. I wonder how much it played a part of this fiasco.
Clayton Knudsen

When I was in JR High, I was bullied to the point of suicide. I attempted it twice. The school did nothing to the bullies. It always happened in gym class and the coaches watched and did nothing. I got expelled for fights when I did not even throw a punch. Hows that for the school protecting the innocent?
JGo555

I was being sarcastic.

Fuck this, I guess I’ma have to start using the /sarcasm thing now.
midniteshadows

@FrownyFace – do you live in our town? What you wrote described to a “T” what my husband and I just went through with our 14 y/o son. We had him hospitalized for a week at a child psych unit for attempted suicide and ideations – all the result from bullying that started in 3rd grade and compounded by punitive teachers and administration as time went on. I can’t begin to describe how we felt and still feel at how close we came to losing our son. Plus the guilt of thinking we had not done enough to protect him and to help him. He was already in therapy, had a social worker working with us, IEP, psych. eval for ADD -again – we had everything in place before his attempt. Yet, it still wasn’t enough.
We raised our son to be respectful, polite, helpful, honorable and to have integrity.
It sucks big green donkey dicks that now we have to teach him “to be mean” right back at the abusers. Being polite, respectful and following the rules just doesn’t cut it.
My son is 90% better and on medication for depression.
As for the school and the school district, “they done pissed off the wrong Mom”. Even God won’t be able to help them. Pendejo’s.