i really want to get out of this place. reporter: in a chilling interview with investigators, 17-year-old john ladue is heard revealing why he wanted kill himself, his family and as many victims as possible at his high school in minnesota. i was not bullied at all. i don t think i ve ever been bullied in my life. i have good parents, i live in a good town. i think i m just really mentally ill. and no one s noticed and i ve been trying to hide it. reporter: yet it s those good parents and his older sister ladue allegedly wanted to murder. they did nothing wrong. i just wanted as many victims as possible. reporter: he calmly detailed step by step plans to set off bombs inside the hallways of his school. then my plans were to enter and throw molotov cocktails and pipe bombs and destroy everyone and when the swathe comes i will destroy myself. reporter: in the hour s long interview, ladue claims to be different from the rest of the mass school shooters, especially adam lanz
17-year-old john ladue is heard revealing why he wanted to kill himself, his family and as many victims as possible at his high school in minnesota. if i was not bullied at all. i don t think i ve ever been bullied in my life. i have good parents. i live in a good town. i think i m just really mentally ill. and no one s noticed. i ve been trying to hide it. reporter: yet it s those good parents and his older sister ladue allegedly wanted to murder. there s nothing wrong. i just want as many victims as possible. reporter: ladue calmly detailing step by step plans to set off bombs inside the hallways of his school. then my plans were to enter and throw molotov cocktails and pipe bombs and destroy everyone. and when the s.w.a.t. comes, i would destroy myself. reporter: in the hours-long interview, ladue claims to be different than the rest of the school shooters, including adam lanza who shot 26 at sandy hook
ladue allegedly wanted to murder. they did nothing wrong. i just wanted as many victims as possible. reporter: calmly detailing step by steppe pl plans to set bombs. then enter, throw molotov cocktails and pipe bombs and destroy everyone and when the s.w.a.t. comes i would destroy myself. reporter: ladue claims to be different from the rest of the mass school shooters, especially adam lance lanza, the 20-year-old who shot 20 at sandy hook elementary. i didn t want to prove i was a wuss like the recent shooters. i wanted to, like, get taken down by the s.w.a.t., just to show i wasn t a wimp and not willing to fight with equal force. reporter: the 17-year-old posted videos to youtube testing bomb material, explosives were found in a storage unit police say he was walking to when someone saw him acting suspiciously and called 911.
elementary. i didn t want to prove that i was a wuss like all the recent shooters like adam lanza who shot himself. i wanted to like get taken down by the s.w.a.t. just to show i wasn t a wimp and like really fight with equal force. reporter: prior to his arrest, the 17-year-old posted videos ontube. testing explosive. when someone saw him acting suspiciously and called 911. in this interview ladue claims his father had no idea what s going on. he thinks i m just a good kid because i can lie pretty well and persuade him that i m just ordinary. reporter: he said he planted to shoot students with guns he stole from him. i don t think he wants he knows he got himself in a strange place and he wants out. that was miguel marquez reporting. that s hard to listen to that. now tonight the woman who is responsible for thwarting this
children and six adult staff at sandy hook elementary. i didn t want to prove that i was a wuss like all of the other recent shooters like adam lanza who shot himself. i wanted to get taken down by the s.w.a.t. just to show that i wasn t a wimp and not like willing to fight with equal force. reporter: prior to his arrest he posted have you had yos to youtube, testing bomb material explosives, someone saw him acting suspiciously and called 911. in this interview ladue claims his father had no idea what was going on. he thinks i m a good kid because i can lie pretty well and persuade him i m just ordinary. reporter: he said he planned to shoot students with guns he stole from him. i don t think he wants to lie. i think he wants, he knows he got himself in a strange place and he wants out. reporter: now that 911 caller that alerted police to ladue s activity said it appeared he was breaking into that storage