Missing Mental Records Found for Virginia Tech Gunman

The deranged gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007 had been to counseling on the campus prior to his rampage. But up until now, any documentation related to those visits had been lost. That was because the reports were inexplicably in the home of the former director of the university's clinic, Dr. Robert C. Miller.

Miller was not questioned by investigators following the shooting because he was no longer the head of the clinic when the murders took place. But he was head of the clinic in 2005, when Cho was originally triaged for his erratic behavior.

The records for Cho and several other students were recovered at the home of Dr. Miller and now investigators are trying to determine why those records were ever removed from the clinic, as removing them is illegal under state law.

This discovery brings into question the events that led up to the mass murder and whether or not school officials or mental health professionals could have had the information necessary to intervene and possibly avoid the catastrophe.

At this point, the content of the recovered records has not been revealed, but investigators are assuming that the reports will shed some light on what university therapists thought of Cho when they interviewed him in the years prior to the murders.