Klebold as having been her ''best friend,'' said members of the group often stayed up late at one another's homes, watching movies or playing Goldeneye, a video game on Nintendo 64. But the picture painted so far by the authorities and the news media ''is not at all accurate,'' he said, dragging on a cigarette, a bright turquoise beeper sticking out of his pocket. Her son Tad, a blond wearing dark sunglasses, a black long-sleeved shirt with a gold design, and black dress pants that hung off his skinny hips, said today that a lawyer had advised him not to discuss his friends in detail. ''The things that they did had nothing to do with what the group was about.'' The group, she added, ''wasn't about anything else but hanging out with friends.'' Harris, whom she knew only slightly as Tad's friends. ''These kids that did this, they're disturbed,'' Mrs. Klebold are not even in the picture (and those who do appear are not wearing trench coats). Klebold - dead at Columbine High, the group has been described as devoted to dark, Gothic music and culture, computer video games with names like Doom, and all things German, including Hitler, whose birthday coincided with Tuesday's carnage.īut members of the group, their parents and other students at the school say it was never much more than the gibes that gave it its name, just a tiny clique of boys long seen as losers, finally finding a place. Since the shooting and bombings that left one teacher and 14 students - including Mr. In retrospect, the name sounds menacing, now that it is linked to the two young men behind one of the deadliest school massacres in American history: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. That spring, the girls bought a business-card size ad in the Columbine High yearbook, right there with all the jocks and preps, showing a photograph of their friends under the label ''Trenchcoat Mafia.'' ''One kid was messing around with Chris one afternoon, and Chris said, 'You better watch out, we'll get the trench coat mafia after you,' '' recalled Kristin Thiebault, 16, one of about five girls who hung out with the group of 10 duster-wearing boys.
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