Batman Colorado shooting: James Holmes fixated by altered states of mind

A woman who introduced the talk said Holmes’s goals were to make scientific
discoveries, that he enjoyed football and strategy games, and “his
dream is to own a slurpy machine”.

Brad Garrett, a former FBI profiler, said: “I see someone who appears to
be very high functioning. He has some significant mental health issue I
believe.”

Six years after the video, Holmes was almost unrecognisable after dying his
hair orange. His profile posted on the dating website Match.com was
headlined “Will you visit me in prison?”

“The first thing people usually notice about me is my soul penetrating
eyes,” he wrote. “Learning is really great, knowledge is power as
the famous Sir Bacon [sic] said.” Holmes also said he liked techno
music, had “middle-of-the-road” political views, was agnostic, and “definitely”
wanted children.

A woman who was suggested as a possible date by the website said it was “pretty
scary getting matched to a mass murderer”.

Holmes secured his bachelor degree in neuroscience from UC Riverside in San
Diego in 2010 and fellow students described him as “weird”. In his
apartment in Aurora he had a poster advertising a DVD called Soldiers of
Misfortune showing men in masks.

According to his CV he spent the summer of 2008 working as a counsellor at
Camp Max Straus, which offers activities such as horse riding for
underprivileged children.

The CV said he was an “aspiring scientist” and his neuroscience
research included mapping the neurons of zebra finches and studying the
flight muscles of hummingbirds.

Holmes received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for his PhD. He
had recently undergone an intense three-part oral exam, before withdrawing
from the course.

On June 25 he applied to join a private gun range, the $250 Lead Valley Range,
in Byers, Colorado. Glenn Rotkovich, the owner, called to invite him for an
orientation and got through to a “bizarre” voicemail message. “Looking
back, and if I’d seen the movies, maybe I’d say it was like the Joker,”
Mr Rotkovich said.

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