Six weeks after his 14-year-old son killed himself, a grieving Rainer Reinscheid downed some sleep medication, cracked open two bottles of wine and wrote a chilling email titled "a good plan" on how he wanted to get revenge on the people he blamed for his boy's abrupt suicide.
Reinscheid's son hung himself hours after being disciplined by the assistant principal at his high school in Irvine, setting the university professor on a weekslong downward spiral that authorities say included setting small fires and sending emails in which he vented his anger about school officials.
He wrote about fantasizing about buying a dozen guns, killing 200 University High students, sexually assaulting the guidance counselor and killing the assistant principal.
"I will make him cry and beg, but I will not give him a chance, just like he did to Claas," Reinscheid wrote, using his son's name. "I will make him die, slowly, surely. Next I will set fire to (the school) and try to burn down as much as I can, there should be nothing left that gives them a reason to continue their miserable school."
The emails, which prosecutors say he wrote to himself and to his wife, were obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday from court filings.
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This image provided by the Orange County District Attorney's Office shows a booking photo of Rainer Reinscheid, 48, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who was arrested July 24, 2012 and charged with numerous felony arson charges. Bail has been denied for a college professor charged with arson for allegedly setting a series of fires at an Orange County high school his son once attended before committing suicide. District attorney's spokeswoman Farrah Emami says a judge ordered Reinscheid held without bail at a hearing Tuesday, and postponed his arraignment until Aug. 8. (AP Photo/Orange County District Attorney's Office)
Close Reinscheid never acted on his most violent musings, and authorities said they found no evidence that he made any preparations to obtain weapons. They believe Reinscheid acted alone in setting fires that targeted his late son's school, the assistant principal's home and the park where the teen hanged himself.
The emails were discovered on Reinscheid's smartphone by Irvine police who were investigating the arsons and were filed by prosecutors in court to support a motion to deny bail.
Reinscheid, who also holds German citizenship, has not been charged with anything related to the content of the emails because they were private communications between Reinscheid and his wife, said Farrah Emami, a district attorney spokeswoman.
Defense attorney Ron Cordova did not return multiple calls for comment. He told the judge in court Tuesday that he didn't want his client to "suffer from a media circus."
In an email to himself in April, while he was on medication and drinking his second bottle of wine, Reinscheid wrote he had dreams of burning down the school and killing himself in the place where his son died. He also told his wife he loved her and was sorry if he disappointed her, and asked her to take care of her two children as a single mother.
"I hope you will tell Timmy only one story: Daddy was so sad when Claas passed away, he was just eaten away by his sadness and stopped breathing," he wrote to his wife.
The case began on March 14, when the boy hanged himself after being disciplined by the assistant principal for stealing from a student store.
Reinscheid, a professor at the University of California, Irvine's pharmaceutical sciences department, struggled with his son's suicide and was angry with school officials, who he believed hadn't properly handled his son's case, family friends said.
After the suicide, rumors circulated around school that the teen had been bullied, but police and the school district say they investigated and found no evidence of it.
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