Wisconsin Christian School Massacre Suspect Identified - Alleged Manifesto Shows Radical Views

The perpetrator of Monday’s tragic school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, has been identified as a 15-year-old girl who previously attended the Christian institution. She reportedly left behind a so-called “manifesto” laden with views starkly opposing Christian teachings.

ABC News identified the shooter as Natalie Rupnow, also known by the alias Samantha.

While authorities have yet to determine a motive for the attack at Abundant Life Christian School, which claimed the lives of a teacher, a student, and the shooter herself, the manifesto — if genuine — paints a disturbing picture of hatred for humanity.

As reported by Newsweek, investigators are still working to authenticate the document. It was shared on social media by an account claiming it came from Rupnow’s boyfriend.

The manifesto, titled War Against Humanity, expressed anger toward her parents, admiration for violent attackers, and a profound disdain for human beings.

“Humanity is filth and I don’t like filth nor want to live in it nor should anyone else and I know it follows me and how it has followed me and will follow everyone else because of how the world is runned,” one passage stated.

“I am part of the real thought and the real revolution,” another excerpt read.

The manifesto also glorified the actions of several notorious attackers, including an individual responsible for an eight-victim school shooting in Finland in 2007, the assailant who killed 19 people at a vocational college in Crimea in 2018, and a Turkish neo-Nazi who injured seven in a tea house knife attack in August.

It referred to the Turkish attacker as an “Ultimate saint.”

A particularly troubling section read, “I got the weapons by lies, and manipulation and my fathers stupidity,” and added, “I planned on shooting myself a while ago but thought maybe its better for evolution rather than just one stupid boring suicide which hopefully ill reach that point.”

The final page concluded with a chilling quote from Theodore Kaczynski, infamously known as the Unabomber, who conducted a 17-year domestic terror campaign. The excerpt read, “Finally, one learns that boredom is a disease of civilization,” with the text boldly emphasized.

This quote originates from a 1999 interview Kaczynski gave to the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch in Montana. Kaczynski, who took his own life in federal custody in June 2023, had been a figure of admiration for other criminals, including Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the December 4 assassination of a New York health insurance executive.

Rupnow’s relationship with the school appears to have been fraught. The last page of the manifesto referenced her dissatisfaction, noting, “Moved schools, but what’s already happening? Picked on again, just not any worse.”

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes confirmed that the girl’s parents are cooperating with the investigation and, at this time, are not expected to face charges.

“The parents are fully cooperating. We have no reason to believe that they have committed a crime at this time,” Barnes said during a press briefing, as reported by ABC.