Woman-hating massacre gunman Elliot Rodger was visited by police[AP]Officers called on the British-born loner after being alerted by his parents on April 30 that he had written a manifesto of hatred towards women and threatened murder.
But they just chatted briefly to the 22-year-old student in the doorway of his flat and did not enter.
They decided Rodger was no threat and reported that he had been “articulate, polite and timid”.
By failing to go inside and look around, they did not uncover written plans and an arsenal of guns which would have alerted them that a shooting spree was imminent.
After the officers had left, jubilant Rodger wrote of the near miss: “I had the striking and devastating fear that someone had somehow discovered what I was planning to do, and reported me for it.
“If that was the case, the police would have searched my room, found all of my guns and weapons, along with my writings about what I plan to do with them.
“I would have been thrown in jail, denied the chance to exact my revenge on my enemies.
“I can’t imagine a hell darker than that.
"Thankfully, that wasn’t the case, but it was so close.”
Rodger, who had Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism, stabbed three young men to death in his flat before shooting dead three people in Isla Vista, near the University of California’s Santa Barbara campus. He then killed himself.
After seeing a video their son made in which he threatened murder, film director Peter Rodger, 49, who worked on The Hunger Games, and his wife Lichin set off in their car to stop him. They were too late and learned of the murders on the car radio.
The first three victims were named as George Chen, 19, Weihan Weng and Chen Yuang Hong, both 20. All died from multiple stab wounds.
Rodger went on to shoot students Veronika Weiss, 19, and Katie Cooper, 22, and Christopher Martinez, 20, before turning the gun on himself.
Details of the manifesto Rodger emailed to his horrified parents and a therapist emerged yesterday.
I would have been thrown in jail, denied the chance to exact my revenge on my enemies
In it he vowed: “The first people I would have to kill are my two housemates, to secure the entire apartment for myself as my personal torture and killing chamber.
“I will torture some of the good looking people before I kill them, assuming the good looking ones had the best sex lives.
"All of that pleasure they had in life, I will punish by bringing them pain and suffering.”
The frustrated virgin also wrote of his loathing for women.
Rodger, whose grandmother Lois, 89, lives in Kent, vowed: “The Second Phase will represent my War on Women.
"I will punish all females for the crime of depriving me of sex.
"They starved me of sex for my entire youth and gave that pleasure to other men.
“I cannot kill every female on Earth but I can deliver a devastating blow that will shake all of them to the core of their wicked hearts.
“I will attack the girls who represent everything I hate in the female gender, the hottest sorority girls of UCSB (University of California Santa Barbara).
"After extensive research, I found the sorority [a society for female students] with the most beautiful girls is Alpha Phi.
"I know where their house is, I’ve sat outside to stalk them many times.
“Alpha Phi sorority is full of hot, beautiful blonde girls, the kind of girls I’ve always desired but was never able to have because they look down on me.
“I will sneak into their house around 9pm on the Day of Retribution, just before the partying starts, and slaughter every single one of them with my guns and knives.”
Rodger’s first stop in his black BMW was indeed Alpha Phi.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown revealed: “The girls heard someone knocking and banging repeatedly and loudly on their door and were so disturbed by this that no one answered it.”
One student at the house said last night: “We were scared.
"We thought some whack job was at the door and everyone was too scared to answer it.
"Thank God we didn’t.”
A young blonde model branded “evil” by Rodger was devastated to find she was in his 141-page manifesto.
Monette Moio is said to have “teased and ridiculed” him, sparking his vendetta against all females.
But her father, Hollywood stuntman John Moio, said: “She was 10 years old for God’s sake – she can barely remember the guy.”
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