Alleged shooter's manifesto released

COEUR d'ALENE — Kyle Andrew Odom will not face federal charges after being arrested by Secret Service agents in front of the White House Tuesday night.

Instead, a District of Columbia Superior Court judge began the extradition process for Odom — a 30-year-old Coeur d'Alene man wanted in Kootenai County for the attempted murder of pastor Tim Remington — at an arraignment hearing Wednesday afternoon. Odom allegedly shot Remington multiple times in the parking lot of The Altar Church in Coeur d'Alene Sunday afternoon, before heading to Spokane.

Coeur d'Alene Police Department investigators believe Odom was in Spokane for a brief period of time before heading south to Boise. Odom, a former Marine and University of Idaho graduate, mailed letters to his parents and several media outlets containing a lengthy manifesto sometime before Monday, however police can't confirm when the letters were sent.

On Monday morning, Odom boarded a commercial flight to Washington, D.C., and was arrested Tuesday night at 8:27 p.m., EST. Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback told The Press Odom was arrested after he threw "unknown material," which was later to determined to be non-hazardous, over the southern fence at the White House.

Odom is being held without bail at a facility in Washington, D.C., until an April 6 extradition hearing takes place.

A Transportation Security Administration source sent The Press an email Wednesday afternoon, confirming Odom boarded a commercial flight at the Boise Airport on Monday. The federal agency did not receive a bulletin notifying them of law enforcement's interest in Odom until Monday evening, the email states.

The email also says at the time of Odom's departure, the TSA had not received a law enforcement bulletin to "be on the lookout" for Odom.

"Per TSA protocol, the suspect was screened through the security checkpoint," the email states. "TSA screens passenger information against the U.S. government’s consolidated Terrorist Watchlist, which is maintained by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center. TSA does not generally match for criminal wants and warrants when we screen passengers."

Coeur d'Alene Police Detective Jared Reneau told The Press his department sent a bulletin to the Fusion Center on Sunday afternoon. The center is responsible for disseminating information to law enforcement agencies throughout the Pacific Northwest, he added, and it is unknown when it passed along the information to the TSA.

More than 40 pages of information and drawings were transferred onto USB drives sent by Odom, along with a page of paper stating "The Truth About Kyle Odom." The letters were received on Tuesday, and the Coeur d'Alene Police Department released the documents written by Odom in their entirety on Wednesday afternoon.

"My life was ruined," Odom wrote. "Ruined by an intelligent species of amphibian-humanoid from Mars. I wish I was joking, keep reading."

The document details Odom's versions of the events leading up to the shooting, beginning when he was studying biochemistry at the University of Idaho. During his last semester in the spring of 2014, Odom writes that he became interested in meditation and affecting our consciousness.

His experiments with meditation continued, he writes, until he encountered "another being" in February of 2014. The being, Odom wrote, was female and connected with his mind.

"I then began to feel the most euphoric, comforting, and blissful feelings I have ever felt," he wrote. "It was incredibly powerful and life-altering."

Odom wrote he ultimately gave up on meditation and the experience enabled him to tap into "some kind of power." He graduated with honors from the university and was then accepted into a PHD program at Baylor College of Medicine, where he planned to study medicine.

"Everything changed once I started the program," Odom wrote, explaining his mind was expanded to the point he could see flaws in his professor's research. "This caused me to become very concerned about what I was doing and I felt like I was wasting my time...All these issues made it impossible for me to continue, so I decided to leave."

Odom then writes "the story gets weird" when he flew home to Coeur d'Alene from an unsuccessful job interview in Houston, Texas. On the flight, he writes that an older man was sitting in front of him who kept glancing back until he got Odom's attention.

"As he kept looking back, my head began to hurt and tingle. The moment my head began to hurt, his lips curled up into this evil-looking smile," Odom wrote. "The pain and tingling in my head continued for the rest of the flight and got more intense as time went on. Every time I felt it, the man would start taking notes in a notepad."

Once the flight landed, Odom wrote the man kept showing him a TracFone. Odom believed this was a message to purchase one, adding that he had applied to several government jobs and he thought this could be how they were contacting them.

"Out of curiosity, I decided to go and buy a TracFone," Odom wrote. "I checked it every day to see if anyone messaged or called. About a month later, I got a message from a man named John Padula. He invited me to come to church at The Altar. It seemed like a strange place to be recruiting for government jobs, but I went anyway."

When he got to the church, Odom said he became so uncomfortable, "as if his life was in danger," that he had to leave. He proceeds to state Pastor Tim Remington text-messaged him several times a couple days later.

Odom claims Remington was threatening him via text, and "did all this through Bible verses so it would not look suspicious." He wrote he thought he was in trouble, so he made an appointment to meet Padula.

"Little did I know, he had no intention of meeting me," Odom wrote.

After making the appointment, Odom wrote, he began having nightmares, one of which included an entity singing lyrics from a song by Talking Heads, that kept him up at night. He was becoming delirious, he wrote, and decided he would take a trip to visit his family in New Mexico because he thought he was going to die.

At the airport, Odom said "a huge group of them" surrounded him at the baggage claim and began sniffing him, something he wrote "they" do all the time. "They" followed Odom and his family throughout the trip, and finally told him to go to church.

"When I went to The Altar for the first time, the people acted very strange. It was unhuman," Odom wrote. "As I walked into the sermon room, everyone stared at me and began sniffing emphatically. Needless to say, I was scared as hell, but I took a seat. When the service began, a man came and sat down next to me. After he sat down, I began smelling something. It was a smell I had never smelt before. The only thing I can compare it to is a reptile and vinegar."

Odom then writes he was embarrassed for weeks by "hypersexual" "Martians" following his visit to the church.

"I broke down and became completely distraught," Odom wrote. "I knew I couldn't take any more, so I attempted suicide."

The attempt was unsuccessful, Odom wrote, and prompted the man to check himself into the VA. He was admitted, he wrote, and stayed there briefly but did not improve.

"After I left the VA, everything I tried to do with my life was sabotaged," Odom wrote. "They didn't want me dead, but they also weren't going to let me live. In desperation, I went back to The Altar to ask them what they wanted from me. I didn't know what else to do..."

Odom states that "their response" was that they wanted to use the man as a sex slave. He wrote that he continued attending church and, at one point, came face to face with Remington.

"He was telling me that I should consider becoming a minister," Odom wrote. "We were in mid-conversation when he suddenly revealed himself to me. I have no clue how he did it, but it looked as if his human face became his real face."

Odom eventually left the church and wrote that things began to improve. He enrolled at North Idaho College, intending to move on to Idaho State University's pharmacy program.

But, he wrote, they were in every class he took and he was continually harassed. The pressure became so intense, Odom wrote, that he dropped out.

"My last resort was to take actions to bring this to the public's attention," Odom wrote. "I hope something good comes out of it. Just realize that I'm a good person, and I'm completely innocent. Also realize that the 'people' I killed are not what you think."

Odom also included a letter to President Barack Obama, and a list of "Noteworthy Martians" on the drive. The list notes 50 members of congress and 28 members of the Israeli government.

"This is by no means an all-inclusive list," Odom wrote. "Martians are ubiquitous. They exist at every level of society in every nation."