EXCLUSIVE: Virginia killer Vester Lee Flanagan wrote letters to rant about lack of sex and his days as gay escortBY Nancy Dillon , Stephen Rex Brown
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, August 31, 2015, 2:30 AM
Psychopath Vester Lee Flanagan sent photos of himself along with letters to his pal Robert Avent. Vester Lee Flanagan lamented shortly before gunning down two journalists on live TV that his glory days as a $2,000-a-night male escort were behind him, stunning new documents reveal.
The typed and handwritten letters, as well as photographs, driver’s licenses and student IDs, were shown to the Daily News by one of Flanagan’s close friends, Robert Avent, who says he spoke to the calm and collected killer moments before he committed suicide as cops closed in on him last Wednesday.
The notes provide a new window into the megalomaniacal madman’s mental state as he made the decision to exact revenge for an unsuccessful career filled with perceived racial slights.
In the stream-of-consciousness-style letters Flanagan, 41, is alternately cheery, reflective, apologetic for any hurt he caused Avent and eager to reveal the “raw truth” that racist gunman Dylann Roof’s massacre of nine black churchgoers inspired his own decision to kill.
“I do NOT wanna get old ... HELL NO!!!” Flanagan wrote.
“Please keep working out player ... when the heads stop turning, it’s AWFUL!!!”
Avent, who is straight, said he was not any part of Flanagan’s life as an escort.
“He didn’t hit on me. We were just friends and roommates. I didn’t participate in any of that,” Avent told The News.
Flanagan, apparently obsessed about his fading looks, recalled his life as a sex worker in the package to Avent.
“I totally CANNOT score right now ...,” Flanagan wrote. “And this is from a man who used to be paid hundreds an HOUR to sleep with men...one was a hot YOUNG guy in SF...he once asked, ‘Can I f--- you?’ He offered to give me $1,000...I playfully said, ‘No.’ Well, he gave me 2k.”
But Flanagan’s creepy confessional to his friend and former roommate in Vallejo, Calif., was far from over. As he fled a manhunt around 7 a.m. Wednesday following the rampage near Roanoke, Va., he texted Avent.
“Please do not respond to this text,” the perplexing message said, according to Avent, who said he didn’t see it until he woke up.
Flanagan admitted he did something “very bad,” but didn’t say what, Avent said.
“I’m sorry,” Flanagan wrote, according to Avent. “I had no other choice.”
The unexpected text was vague, so Avent didn’t reply as he rushed to his office job.
“He didn’t tell me he was planning to kill anybody. I had no idea,” Avent, 45, said Saturday, still shaken.
Around 8:30 a.m. (Pacific time) Avent called his friend from work.
“Hey, what’s going on with the text?” he said he recalled asking Flanagan.
“He said, ‘Oh, I did something this morning.’ And he was talking normal, like nothing. Like he didn’t do anything at all. Like a normal voice,” Avent recalled.
“And he said, ‘I shot and killed two people.’ Just like that, in a normal voice,” Avent said.
“No you didn’t,” Avent replied.
Flanagan told Avent to check CNN and hung up.
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