Article: Failures in love bred LA Fitness Center killer's hate

George Sodini couldn't find love.

He tanned, worked out at the gym, held a steady job and still went nearly two decades without the loving touch of a woman, according to his online blog begun in November. He wrote that he felt totally alone -- isolated -- and estimated that 30 million desirable women rejected him in the last 30 years.

Enraged, he hatched a heinous plan to make some of those pretty young women pay for his misery.

The price would be their lives.

Armed with four weapons, Sodini on Tuesday carried out a massacre planned for months when he washed the Collier LA Fitness center in blood, killing three women in an aerobics class and wounding nine others before killing himself.

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