Day Four of Virginia Tech Tragedy

BLACKSBURB, Virginia - Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui has shocked the nation again with his horrifying messages from beyond the grave.

Investigators are going through Cho's hate-filled rant, looking for motives behind his murderous rampage.

The dozens of pictures are surreal. And Cho flashing a menacing grin and posing with guns and assorted weapons the multiple video files are even spookier.

Included is a 23 page hate filled monologue filled with profanity and references by first name to the columbine high school killers Eric and Dylan - Cho calls them martyrs.

The multimedia package was sent at 9:01 am Monday morning - that would be after the first shooting and less than an hour before the mass murders.

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Cho rants about rich kids, hedonism, and rambles about how unspecified wrongs were committed against him.

"I did it," rants Cho in one video clip. "I had to do it."

With classes cancelled for the week, many Virginia Tech students have left town.

There was only one student, Kristy Venning, watching NBC's report in the university's student center Wednesday night.

"That was the most depressing thing I've ever seen," she said. "I have cold chills. I am shaking right now."

What got Kristy the most was Cho's references to Jesus in the videotapes.

"You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing," Cho said in one clip. "Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people."

Kristy said, "I just think that's so sad because that is not what Jesus Christ would have wanted from his life and that hurts so badly to see him hurting that way."

Authorities believe Cho had been troubled for quite some time.

What can an education system do to protect itself and its students? What are the laws for people who presen this kind of danger to society. Watch the video to the right for an interview with CBN News reporter David Brody on Virginia Tech's campus.

After being accused of stalking two women, and other complaints, campus police were able to get a detention order against Cho.

With a district court believing he was a threat to himself, Cho was briefly sent to a mental facility but was eventually released.

Counselors say there's no sure way to know what someone who's had emotional problems will actually do later - if they'll turn violent, or just go back to their lives."

Meanwhile, detectives are now trying to access his mental records from that stay to see if that offers clues to his motive.

The whole ordeal has left Kristy and others searching for deeper meaning.

She said, "I just hope that as a Virginia tech community and the whole world we can show forgiveness and love and most of all that God would be glorified through this."