Chris Kyle's Death: Text Messages, Terror in 'American Sniper's' Final Hours. This story first appeared in the March 1. The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

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EARLY ON THE AFTERNOON OF SATURDAY, Feb. Ford F- 3. 50 with a lift kit and big tires, tinted windows and a massive Road Armor front grille adorned with a chrome skull pulled up in front of a small house in Lancaster, just south of the Dallas city limits. It was a sunny, unseasonably warm day in North Texas. Chris Kyle, a 3. 8- year- old former Navy SEAL and author of the best- selling autobiography American Sniper, stepped out of the cab and began walking up the gravel driveway. Eddie Ray Routh, 2.

You must be Eddie," Kyle said. The men had never met, but Routh's life was like a distorted mirror of Kyle's. Thirteen years younger, he graduated from the same high school in nearby suburban Midlothian that Kyle had attended. Unlike Kyle, who joined the Navy at 2. Routh enlisted in the U. S. Marines at the age of 1.

He became an armorer, repairing and maintaining small arms, and shipped out to Iraq in 2. There is no record that Routh went "outside the wire" — seeing combat, in military vernacular.

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After Iraq, he was stationed aboard the USS Bataan, an amphibious assault ship, on a seven- month Middle East deployment. Finally, he served for four months in the humanitarian relief effort in Haiti following the horrifically deadly earthquake of January 2. Chris Kyle, author of American Sniper and the most lethal sniper in American military history, was killed on Feb. He was 3. 8. By all accounts, Routh returned to civilian life a profoundly changed man.

Within a year, his life was falling apart. He had trouble keeping a job and began behaving erratically, having panic attacks and saying crazy, delusional things.

At one point he was convinced that an imaginary tapeworm was devouring everything he ate. He talked about killing himself; alarmed, his family members took away his guns. He was admitted to the Veterans Administration hospital in Dallas for the first time in July 2. Teen Wolf Season 2 Episode 5 Dailymotion.

PTSD. Doctors prescribed a raft of antipsychotic and anti- anxiety drugs, including Risperidone, a powerful antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia. Meanwhile, he steadily self- medicated with alcohol and marijuana. In September 2. 01.

VA hospital, suffering from what psychiatrists there called a major depressive illness and psychotic delusions. He was again given medication and discharged. He would seem better for a time, and he even found a girlfriend, Jennifer Weed, whom he had met online. They briefly lived together. She later recalled that he sometimes talked as though he had, in fact, seen action in Iraq, saying: "I've killed before, and I'll do it again." On Jan.

Weed and her roommate prisoner in their apartment while brandishing a knife until police arrived, and he landed at the VA hospital once more. But after a five- day stay, he was released again.

Routh's mother, Jodi, had pleaded with the VA doctors not to release her son. Exhausted and running out of options, she turned to Chris Kyle. His two kids attended the elementary school where she worked, so when he came to pick up his children, she approached him as a last resort. She said that she had heard he was spending a lot of time helping other veterans with disabilities and PTSD and told him about Eddie's deepening crisis. He promised to reach out to her son. Jodi Routh would later say that Kyle never mentioned that he might bring Eddie to a remote shooting range with an arsenal of pistols, rifles and ammunition. Eddie Ray Routh as seen in court on Feb.

Stephenville, Texas.••••••••WHAT HAPPENED NEXT — THE SHOCKING, SENSELESS FUSILLADE of 1. Kyle and his close friend Chad Littlefield dead and triggered a frantic manhunt for Routh — is the missing reel, the unseen ending to American Sniper. The filmmakers had considered but ultimately omitted a final scene portraying the killings, partly in deference to Kyle's widow, Taya, and her children.) New details that emerged at the capital murder trial of Routh at the Erath County District Court in the small ranching town of Stephenville, Texas, offer a riveting and disturbing account of the tragedy that befell the man they called The Legend. On Tuesday, after less than two and half hours of deliberation, the jury found Routh guilty of murder and minutes after that verdict was announced, the judge issued a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Watch The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death Online.

Before Clint Eastwood's film adaptation of Sniper became a runaway hit ($4. Chris Kyle became a best- selling author (his book has sold 2 million copies), he was already a folk hero in North Texas. After retiring from SEAL Team 3 in 2.

Kyle had returned to Midlothian with his family. Back home, he was revered as much for what he had endured as he was for his exploits as the deadliest sniper in American history. After four combat deployments in Iraq, Kyle was a physical and emotional wreck, to a degree suggested but largely unexplored in the film.

He had been shot twice, had undergone reconstructive surgery on both knees and had dangerously high blood pressure, impaired hearing and floaters in his right eye. He battled insomnia and nightmares and episodes of road rage and was receiving disability benefits for his PTSD.

For a time, he drank heavily. He totaled an SUV, was arrested for DWI and for assault after a bar fight and told some far- fetched stories that later proved troublesome (his estate is presently appealing a $1. Jesse Ventura). But the ever- resilient Kyle gradually recovered his equilibrium, reluctantly embraced fame, and found that an effective way to prevail in his own struggles was to serve his fellow veterans. The need was dire: In Texas, and across the country, the Veterans Administration was overwhelmed; by 2. VA hospital in Dallas had an annual caseload of more than 1. PTSD. In the time he could spare from building his security firm, Craft International, Kyle began sponsoring retreats and outings where men with shattered bodies and minds could hang out and do a little hunting or target shooting — tapping their "warrior spirit," as Kyle put it. Routh’s mug shot from 2.

During the trial, a battalion of TV remote trucks decamped to Stephenville, 1. Dallas, for Routh's murder trial. Flanked by his three defense attorneys, who entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, Routh sat calmly listening, dressed in a dark gray suit and tie, observing or taking notes, hunched over a yellow legal pad. At the time of his arrest, he was shaggy- haired, bearded and thin. Two years later, the beard is gone, his head shaved, his body much heavier. On the trial's opening day, Feb.

Taya Kyle, now 4. As several jurors wiped away tears, she narrated a slideshow of her husband's career and his life as a husband and father, with shots of Easter egg hunts and vacations together, offering her account of their last hours together. Spared the prospect of condemning a likely mentally ill veteran to death, the 1. Texas) murdering Kyle and Littlefield and was aware that it was wrong to do so. The alternative was an acquittal on the grounds that Routh was insane, "in the grip of a psychosis so severe," as defense attorney Tim Moore argued, "that he would not know what he was doing was wrong."Kyle’s widow, Taya, attended the Academy Awards on Feb. Clint Eastwood’s adaptation of Sniper earned an Oscar for sound editing. Even if he had been acquitted, Routh would almost certainly have spent the rest of his life in a maximum- security mental hospital.

But with the guilty verdict, it’s life in a penitentiary with no chance of parole. The keys to the verdict, and to the puzzle of how and why this tragedy happened, are hidden in the trial's details, exhibits and testimony — and in crucial new information about the fateful events of Feb. ROUTH SPENT THE NIGHT BEFORE HE MET CHRIS KYLE drinking Texas Crown Whiskey and seesawing between anxiety and wild optimism.