But interviews with relatives of students, as well as with one child released from Columbia, suggest otherwise.

"My initial reaction was disbelief," he said, in an official interview released by the marine corps.

"It's a fake court," he told Russian news channel RT in an interview released on Friday.

He later recounted in interviews, released in 1990 on Old Man Time, how this prompted him to switch to double bass.

"He said he didn't know," Mr. Specter said, in a transcript of an interview released by his office, recounting the conversation.

Asked if a referendum were getting close, he replied, "Yes, it is, yeah," according to a transcript of the interview released before its broadcast.

The band never gave interviews, never released photos, and held their distance from the black metal scene.

In an interview released to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Nannini explained:

He also said the summary of Mr. Duncan's interview released by the committee three months ago accurately reflected what he told investigators.

In two interviews released in 2005, both Lollo and Grillo admitted for the first time their responsibility in the act.