State dismissive of truthers' Newtown hoax claims Connecticut's attorney general has swatted away multiple requests, made by conspiracy theorists, for a state investigation into whether the worst elementary school shooting in U.S. history was a hoax. George Jepsen, a Democrat in his first term as the state's top lawyer, expressed his bewilderment and disgust at the nature of those requests during an interview Wednesday with Hearst Connecticut Newspapers. Twenty children ages 7 and under and six female educators were gunned down with a semi-automatic rifle on Dec.