Aurora, CO Batman Shooting. Trial underway.

[Daglord]

Published on Jun 2, 2015
In his own words, the Aurora theater gunman describes what it was like as he entered Theater No. 9 and began firing on those inside to complete his "mission."

[Daglord]

Terrifying Journal of Colorado Theater Shooter James Holmes Released
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a35272/james-holmes-journal/

The fate of Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes may come down to the jury's interpretation of his personal journal, the contents of which were released to the general public Wednesday morning. Holmes, who is currently on trial in Colorado, was arrested shortly after his attack on the Century 16 movie theater on July 20, 2012. Holmes' defense is aiming to prove that he is mentally ill, while the prosecution is presenting a case that will make Holmes eligible for the death penalty.

In his journal, Holmes draws careful diagrams of his plan to attack the theater. He raises questions about distinctions between good and evil and the value of human life, including: "What kind of God commands his people not to murder yet cowers behind free will?" Holmes mailed the journal to his psychiatrist shortly before he carried out the attack.

See all 34 pages of the journal here: http://photos.denverpost.com/2015/05/27/photos-james-holmes-notebook-evidence-exhibit/#1

[Daglord]

anyone else remember the odd story re: that journal?

it was the notebook included in the package that holmes (allegedly) mailed to his psychiatrist's office a week before the shooting & sat there unopened until the FBI searched her office after a random, unrelated call from another professor 2 days after the shooting.

seem legit?

http://www.inquisitr.com/284813/james-holmes-sent-a-notebook-with-drawings-of-the-shooting-to-psychiatrist-a-week-before-the-aurora-theater-shooting/

James Holmes, alleged Aurora movie theater shooting suspect reportedly sent a notebook to a psychiatrist with drawings depicting the Century 16 theater massacre, Fox News reports. James Holmes notebook was found in the University of Colorado mail room, it never made it to the hands of the psychiatrist.

The notebook of the alleged midnight movie massacre shooter is allegedly “full of details about how he was going to kill people,” Fox News notes. The package sat unopened in the University of Colorado mail room since July 12. FBI agents and Aurora police officers were called to the Anschutz medical campus yesterday morning by a college professor who is also a psychiatrist. The man thought he had received a packaged from suspected shooter James Holmes. While the package turned out to be from another person, it prompted an on-campus search by law enforcement officers.

According to a source which spoke to Fox News, another package found in the college’s mail room room was labeled with James Holmes return address and name. After obtaining a search warrant, the package was opened and the “chilling contents” inside were reviewed. Exactly why the mail was not delivered to the psychiatrist it was addressed to remains unclear.

where are the conspiratards on this one? much more plausible conspiracy than the SH or BB hoax. where is the interest? a PHD student in neuroscience. psych patient undergoing counseling by 3 different Drs. father involved in the LIBOR scandal (?). eye witness accounts of more than one shooter, holmes almost asleep when arrested in the back lot after shooting, this odd notebook/journal story...

[Edge Guerrero]

- The mind of those psychopaths, they want to become famous, be remembered by something, even if that is such a horrible act.
They act like a Batman vilain, that sole propose is to atract Batman attention, in the case of real world the midia is attention they wan't.

[Daglord]

speaking of the notebook... dafuq?

this is an old story, but kind of a head-scratcher:

James Holmes' Prosecutors Say Notebook Story Can't Be Trusted
http://www.thewire.com/national/2012/07/james-holmes-prosecutors-say-notebook-story-probably-fake/55145/

That story about the notebook James Holmes supposedly mailed to a psychiatrist, outlining his plans to shoot up the movie theater was a hell of a scoop for Fox News, but now Aurora prosecutors are saying in a court filing that it was probably all a big hoax. The new doubts come from a motion prosecutors filed Friday, saying the package from Holmes, discovered in a University of Colorado mailroom, hadn't yet been inspected and any report of its contents -- that would be the notebook -- couldn't be trusted. "The contents were secured and not examined, and held for potential in camera review," the motion says. The motion comes in response to one from Holmes, and argues that his rights to a fair trial hadn't been violated (as he'd claimed) by that leaked information because the supposed leaks were either hoaxes the reporters fell for, or made up by the reporters themselves. For evidence, the motion cites two facts it says reporters for Fox News and NBCNews.org got wrong.

The report from Fox News' Jana Winter, which first mentioned the notebook, cited two unnamed "law enforcement sources," which prosecutors now claim either don't exist or didn't give accurate information. The prosecution's motion, which Reuters' Matthew Keys uploaded to Scribd, also calls out NBCNews.com for inaccurate reporting. The motion claims Fox News' story, which said the FBI had taken possession of the package and its contents (the notebook), couldn't be true because the Aurora police took possession of the package. It also throws cold water on NBCNews' report, from Mike Kosnar, which cited a law enforcement source who said there were two search warrants: one for the mailroom and one for the contents of the package. "This is not correct, as the Aurora Police Department obtained only one search warrant." Finally, there's this:

These factual errors lead the People to believe that there may not even be a "law enforcement source" "leaking" confidential information and that the media is getting information from hoaxers, fraudsters, or maybe from nobody at all by creating fake "law enforcement sources" out of whole cloth. To put it bluntly, the People are extremely dubious of the media assertions that "law enforcement sources" exist. The court need not, and should not, accept that the media is correctly identifying the affiliations of the persons they claim are providing them with "information."

Earlier this week Michael Roberts, a reporter with the Denver area alt-weekly Westword, questioned Winters' notebook story, writing that police wouldn't confirm they'd found the notebook from Holmes. We've reached out to Fox News and NBCNews.com, and will update this with their response.

[Daglord]

Jury finds Colorado theater shooter guilty of murder
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/16/jury-reaches-verdict-in-colorado-theater-shooting-trial-james-holmes/

Jurors convicted Colorado theater shooter James Holmes on Thursday in the chilling 2012 attack on defenseless moviegoers at a midnight Batman premiere, rejecting defense arguments that the former graduate student was insane and driven to murder by delusions.

The 27-year-old Holmes, who had been working toward his Ph.D. in neuroscience, could get the death penalty for the massacre that left 12 people dead and dozens of others wounded.

Jurors took about 13 hours over a day and a half to review all 165 charges. The same panel must now decide whether Holmes should pay with his life.

The verdict came almost three years after Holmes, dressed head-to-toe in body armor, slipped through the emergency exit of the darkened theater in suburban Denver and replaced the Hollywood violence of the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" with real human carnage.

His victims included two active-duty servicemen, a single mom, a man celebrating his 27th birthday and an aspiring broadcaster who had survived a mall shooting in Toronto. Several died shielding friends or loved ones.

The trial offered a rare glimpse into the mind of a mass shooter, as most are killed by police, kill themselves or plead guilty.

Prosecutors argued Holmes knew exactly what he was doing when he methodically gunned down strangers in the stadium-style theater, taking aim at those who fled. They painted him as a calculated killer who sought to assuage his failures in school and romance with a mass murder that he believed would increase his personal worth.

He snapped photos of himself with fiery orange hair and scrawled his plans for the massacre in a spiral notebook he sent his university psychiatrist just hours before the attack, all in a calculated effort to be remembered, prosecutors said.

The prosecution called more than 200 witnesses over two months, more than 70 of them survivors, including some who were missing limbs and using wheelchairs. They recalled the panic to escape the black-clad gunman.

The youngest to die was a 6-year-old girl whose mother also suffered a miscarriage and was paralyzed in the attack. Another woman who was nine months pregnant at the time described her agonizing decision to leave her wounded husband behind in the theater to save their baby. She later gave birth in the same hospital where he was in a coma. He can no longer walk and has trouble talking.

That Holmes was the lone gunman was never in doubt. He was arrested in the parking lot as survivors were still fleeing, and he warned police he had rigged his nearby apartment into a potentially lethal booby trap, which he hoped would divert first responders from the theater.

His attorneys argued he suffers from schizophrenia and was in the grip of a psychotic breakdown so severe that he was unable to tell right from wrong — Colorado's standard for insanity. They said he was delusional even as he secretively acquired the three murder weapons — a shotgun, a handgun and an AR-15 rifle — while concealing his plans from friends and two worried psychiatrists in the months before the shooting.

Defense lawyers tried to present him as a once-promising student so crippled by mental illness that he couldn't reveal his struggles to anyone who might have helped. They called two psychiatrists, including a nationally known schizophrenia expert, who concluded Holmes was psychotic and legally insane.

But two state-appointed doctors found otherwise, testifying for prosecutors that no matter what Holmes' mental state was that night, he knew what he was doing was wrong.

Jurors watched nearly 22 hours of videotaped interviews showing Holmes talking in a flat, mechanical tone about his desire to kill strangers to increase his self-worth. Using short, reluctant answers, he said he felt nothing as he fired, blasting techno music through his earphones to drown out his victims' screams.

Prosecutors showed jurors Holmes' spiral notebook, where he scribbled a self-diagnosis of his "broken mind" and described his "obsession to kill" since childhood. The pages alternate between incoherent ramblings and elaborate plans for the killings, including lists of weapons to buy and diagrams showing which auditoriums in the theater complex would allow for the most casualties.

Jurors saw an investigator's video of the shooting's aftermath. It showed bodies wedged between rows of seats and sprawled across aisles amid spent ammunition, spilled popcorn and blood.

During the sentencing phase, Holmes' attorneys will present so-called mitigating factors that they hope will save his life. Those will probably include more evidence of mental illness and a sympathetic portrayal of his childhood. Prosecutors will present so-called aggravating factors in support of the death penalty, including the large number of victims.

[Daglord]

Remember this?? same girl? :shock:

Former Inmate Says Colorado Shooting Suspect Is Treated Like A 'King' In Jail
http://www.businessinsider.com/james-holmes-created-jailhouse-memorial-2012-9

A woman who claims to have been housed just four cells down from the Aurora, Colo. theater shooting suspect says he is nothing like the subdued man who keeps appearing in court. Marie, who asked that FOX31 Denver not use her last name, says she was held in the Arapahoe County Jail's medical ward this weekend and was just a few cells away from movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes. Marie had quite a bit to say about Holmes. From FOX31 Denver's story:

- Marie's cellmate called Holmes an "effin' baby killer," to which he responded "that's me that's me!"

- Holmes told his father he would be fine and beat the case against him.

- Marie claims Holmes, who is treated like a "king inside here, with extra privileges," enjoys a larger bed than most inmates, has a window, and has checkers and dominoes in his cell.

- He's also created a shrine to the mass shooting. "I don't know how he got it but he has his booking photo and he has newspaper clippings of the case as if he is glorifying what he did," Marie told the TV station.

When FOX31 Denver's reporter asked Marie if Holmes confessed to the shooting "she said his words were 'yes, I did it, I did it," according to the TV station.

Aurora Massacre: Jailhouse Snitch is Actually a Co. Youth Corrections Department Employee
https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/aurora-massacre-jailhouse-snitch-is-actually-a-corrections-department-employee/

The kangaroo court trial of James Holmes just took another, bizarre and potentially illegal twist.

Yesterday we talked about how this trial was turning into a freak show, today it seems it’s more staged than I originally thought. It seems like someone involved in this case took a corrections department employee from the neighboring county and booked her on a trumped up charge which would be easily dismissed later and stricken from her record, then put her in protective custody on the same medical ward that James Holmes is on, so that she could falsely claim that he confessed to the killings.

Chillingly, this jailhouse plant, the corrections employee, hinted in an earlier Facebook comment that Holmes may kill himself in jail.
Turns out the “former inmate” who gave an interview to FOX31 Denver’s Justin Joseph in which she claims to have heard him admit to committing the July 20th massacre at the Century 16 theater in Aurora, just happens to have posted comments in the past (July 23rd) condemning Holmes and stating that he’s “not going to get away with it”. Not only that, but it appears she may even be a correction officer in a nearby county.

This is a still of “Marie” taken from the Fox31 interview that came out just the other day in which she claims James Holmes confessed to the Aurora Massacre.

Here’s Desira Keys’ Facebook page and a photo of her from that page with the image of her child removed for her protection. This is definately “Marie” from the Fox 31 interview. Notice the purple band on her left arm and the tattoo on her right forearm. If you watch the Fox 31 interview here, you can see the purple band and the right arm has what appears to be the same tattoo, only she is careful to hide it as much as possible.

Notice what she says in her profile description: She will “continue” working in “the corrections side of things”… that means she works somewhere in a jail or sheriff’s department and according to her map, she is in Parker Co. a neighboring country to Aurora. It also claims she is from Aurora.

It’s no doubt the same woman who claimed James Holmes confessed to mass murder.

But think about this, back on July 23rd of this year, she posted these comments on Facebook under her name:

Desira Keys: prison is the best place for this man. yes he gets 3 hots and a cot but when ur on death row which he will be..you r in a cell the size of a bathroom or walk in closet 23hrs a day, no physcial contact with ne1 not even visitors…so this man will suffer n personally id rather c him sit n rot in a cell going insane from being isolated from the rest of the world with hopes that his day to die comes soon. and being that Nathan Dunlap is still waiting to be executed and that was in 93, this guy is going to have a nice cold sement cell in Sterling Correctional facility as his home for the next 15 plus yrs…and that right there is what he deserves. yes we as tax payers are paying for it, but thats the way it wrks…we r gnna pay taxes either way. He will get what he deserves…with more then a few a** whoopins along the way!!

Desira Keys: the insanity plea will NOT wrk in this case…this was premeditated..no way he vjust snapped idc what lawyer he gets its not hppning this guy will pay for what he has done if he dsnt kill himself first.” Facebook chat log

Desira Keys was arrested on a trumped-up charge of violating a protection order when she got back together with her ex-husband. She was then put in a protective custody type cell just feet from James Holmes, where as a corrections employee she would be safe and she could “inform” on Homes.

Is that illegal? Is the fact that this corrections department worker foresees Holmes killing himself in custody before he goes to trial relevant? Is it cause for concern?

Someone in Aurora County has a lot to answer for. It could be Chief Dan Oates or even the prosecution.

If she had anything relevant to add to the case, my guess is that she would have kept her mouth shut and turned state’s evidence. As it is, since the judge issued a gag order on the trial, she may not be allowed to testify in court now that she has given this interview and she may not want to anyway in fear of perjuring herself.

Either way, this was an outrageous move by the prosecution or the sheriff’s office and equally dishonest on the part of Fox 31 for broadcasting her statements without publicizing her personal interest in the case.

[Daglord]

a little background info on his lawyer Judy Clarke. She seems to be the 'go to' person when the govt wants to ignore evidence and convict someone.

Theodore Kaczynski
The Unabomber.

Buford Furrow
the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting

Zacarias Moussaou
co-counsel for 9/11 suspect, Zacarias Moussaoui.

Eric Rudolph
Centennial Olympic Park bombing & and other various bombings a year later.

Jared Lee Loughner
Tucson, AZ Gifford shooting

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Boston Bombing suspect

James Holmes
Aurora, CO Batman Shooting

[Daglord]

BTW, here is the pic that is being circulated as "james holmes" latest:



is that really a pic of Holmes? something about the eyes/nose doesn't seem right to me.

or is it a photoshop of Andrew Auernheimer (the hacker)??



Masato? thoughts?

if it's a "shoop", someone should probably tell EY & Co. :lol:

[Daglord]

IMHO... it looks like this face (eyes/nose):



put on andrew's head:



James Holmes?



anyone...............??