More details emerge on Super Bowl massacre plot

The man whom the FBI accuses of planning a Super Bowl massacre sent his rambling missives in red, white and blue envelopes to media heavyweights and locally run Web sites, according to court records unsealed Friday.

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Kurt Havelock, who turned himself in to authorities Feb. 3, also sent letters explaining his plan to a federal employment office in Pennsylvania, his parents in Surprise and a woman in Chandler.

The envelope to the Chandler woman also contained $928 in cash, a Home Depot credit card, a Visa card and keys, according to a list of items seized for evidence.

Havelock is being held without bail on suspicion of sending threats through the mail. Sandy Raynor, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney for Arizona, said prosecutors have 30 days after an arrest to seek a grand jury indictment.

Court documents allege the 35-year-old entrepreneur bought a semiautomatic rifle and took it and 200 rounds of ammunition to the vicinity of the Super Bowl to kill people.

FBI special agent Philip Thorlin testified in court Feb. 5 that Havelock had a change of heart and turned himself in to Tempe police at the urging of his parents.

He concocted the plan in retaliation for the Tempe City Council rejecting his request for a liquor license for his restaurant and bar called the Haunted Castle, 6463 S. Rural Road, documents state.

Thorlin said Havelock admitted to the scheme and told investigators about the eight-page "manifesto" he'd sent to various media outlets, friends and family.

Postal investigators intercepted them and turned them over to the FBI.

Authorities haven't made the letter available in its entirety, but excerpts can be found in court documents in which he is credited with writing that "bullets speak louder than words" and he was going to "shed the blood of the innocent."

Havelock sent letters to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and locally to the Phoenix New Times, a weekly arts and entertainment newspaper.

Havelock, whose business was a venue for local bands, also sent letters to azpunk.com and theshizz.org, which are message boards for the local music scene.

Havelock visited theshizz.org on Jan. 22 to ask for a mailing address and promised no mailing lists.

"I was thinking of sending some stuff along," Havelock wrote under the pseudonym Nil Failstorm. The message from Havelock was accompanied with a smiley-face icon.

In a Feb. 7 posting, someone wondered whether he had sent one of his manifestoes to the Web site. The site's moderator, Donald Martinez, wrote that he didn't receive one.

"I kind of wish I had received one so I could have read what he said, but at the same time I don't want to be dealing with the FBI," Martinez wrote.

Martinez did not return an e-mail seeking comment.