As investigators are looking for 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow’s motive to kill herself before a random firing inside the school that killed one teacher and a student and injured many, a former FBI profiler weighed in and said the case fits a very well-known pattern. “Just go in and pull the trigger a few times and you get worldwide publicity that you could never get any other way,” Gregg McCrary said.
School shooters, the former FBI profiler said, often seek infamy as they view it as a form of fame — fame without work. “That’s what they’re getting here, fame without work,” McCrary said.

‘Would rather be dead than sit in a room all day’

McCrary pointed to one sentence of the alleged manifesto that said Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow “would rather be dead than sit in a roll all day”.
“She has planned to kill herself all along and then is going to get this posthumous notoriety,” McCrary said.
The alleged manifesto sheds light on the disturbed family life that the 15-year-old had with his parents marrying and divorcing each other more than once — and thereby changing her custody. Rupnow said all this made her lonely but did not actually affect her. She wrote her father Jeff Rupnow never loved her like he loved his other children. Both Rupnow’s parents were apparently married before they married each other.
The latest development in the Wisconsin school shooting case is the arrest of a 20-year-old Californian man, Alexander Paffendorf, who was in touch with Rupnow and was plotting a separate gun attack. Paffendorf admitted to the FBI agents that he told Rumnow that he would arm himself with explosives and a gun that would target a government building.
Samantha and Paffendorf reportedly exchanged messages about their gun violence plans.
Rupnow had a sick passion for watching morbid things, it has been revealed — probably contributing to why she chose violence. She had a membership in a morbid site called Watch People Die which showed people getting shot to death, run over, other school shootings etc.