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Va. Tech killer Cho’s calculator for sale, renewing debate on ‘murderabilia’

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The Whasignton Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-tech-killer-chos-calculator-for-sale-renewing-debate-on-murderabilia/2011/12/26/gIQAGEfLPP_story.html

By T. Rees Shapiro, Published: December 30

According to the seller, the item is a Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus calculator, similar to thousands of others used in college-level math classes. It usually retails for about $99. This one is listed at $3,700.What makes it worth so much? It once belonged to the man who killed 32 people at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.

The listing on the crime memorabilia Web site Supernaught says it is “one of the few items that the Virginia killer Seung Hui Cho sold on eBay to raise money for the guns, clips and ammo utilized during the rampage.”

The calculator and hundreds of items like it — the personal effects, paintings, letters and even fingernails of killers — are being peddled to collectors by at least a half-dozen Web sites as “murderabilia.”Seung Hui Cho’s calculator is also a rarity. Experts and murderabilia collectors say it is the first item with a connection to the gunman to be available for purchase in more than four years — since the first 48 hours after his mass murder. It is the only item of his on the market, experts say, at a time when Virginia Tech is back in national news after the December shooting death of a police officer in Blacksburg. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Washintong Post

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:54:25 GMT: Hundreds of items associated with serial killers, including personal effects, paintings, letters and even hair and fingernails, are available for purchase online to collectors as “murderabilia.”

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