As the investigation continues into the tragic Dark Knight Rises movie massacre, police learned that accused gunman James Holmes tried to share details about his deadly plan days before.
Investigators say Holmes mailed a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the attack, but the package sat unopened in a mail room for a week.
On Monday, police and FBI agents were called to the school after a professor, who is also a psychiatrist that treats students, alerted them that he may have received a package from the alleged killer. That package ended up being from another student, but after searching the entire mail room, they found a spiral notebook from Holmes.
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“There were drawings of what he was going to do in it -- drawings and illustrations of the massacre," a source told Fox News. It showed gun-wielding stick figures shooting down other stick figures. Investigators said it had been in the mail room since July 12, nearly a week before he killed 12 people at that Aurora, Colorado theater.
It's absolutely devastating to think what could have happened if that package were detected sooner. It's a cruel and sad twist of fate. Right now, it's unclear why the notebook wasn't delivered to the psychiatrist. They also don't know if the doctor had actually treated Holmes, who had dropped out of the school's neuroscience program. But what is crystal clear to everyone is that this attack was carefully planned and monstrous beyond words.
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They say accused and suspect because in America we are innocent until found guilty by the courts. Also as a journalism student I can tell you it protects the newspaper and journalist. If he was found innocent and a journalist had called him a murderer they could get sued by the suspect or the suspects family. I have seen people upset about this before but there are valid reasons why they say those words.
Appears to have been signs of significant concerns.
So many lives effected by this senseless choice to kill.
Just tragic.
I guess I do not understand why we are having a trial for this lunatic?! It is not like we dont know who did it or something, we are wasting time, fry this dude. Or better yet, let the victims parents shoot him.
@ghostbaby - in a free society, you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I'm getting so sick and tired of the public acting as though people are guilty until proven innocent.
This just goes to show that he wasn't just some crazy person that snapped. He planned all of it out, down to the last detail. He's just using the insane card to get out of the death penalty.
I doubt it would have helped had he gotten the notebook. That never stopped the killer at virginia tech, and that guy was all sorts of crazy and gave out so many signs it was ridiculous no one did anything to help or institutionalize him sooner. People are grasping at strings of what could have been prevented 'if'...its a sad sad game.
Had they gotten the notebook, he might have been taken into custody or put in the hospital for a mental evaluation. Had he been taken into custody, his weapons might have been discovered, therefore showing he was a real threat and that could have led to him being in jail and his guns taken away. This notebook is a cry for help in my opinion.
As for it "all being planned out" I don't think so. From what I can tell most of it was planned out. The shooting, the date, the rigging of the apartment: that all was planned. The location: not so much. The police department is close and anyone in Aurora knows that (myself included). If he had "planned it all out" he wouldn't have chosen a theater down the reoad form the police station. With one exception though, he wanted to be caught.