Massacre might have been avoided

[danmand]

James Holmes Sent Notebook To Psychiatrist Before Colorado 'Dark Knight' Massacre, Report Says


Posted: 07/25/2012 1:50 pm Updated: 07/25/2012 2:36 pm


The man accused of killing a dozen people at a midnight screening of the 'The Dark Knight Rises' sent a journal detailing the rampage to a University of Colorado psychiatrist prior to the attack, only for it to go untouched in a campus mailroom, according to a Fox News report.

The diary of 24-year-old James Holmes -- "full of details about how he was going to kill people" -- was discovered Monday by authorities investigating another package at the school's Anschutz medical campus in Aurora, a law enforcement official told the network. The source also said that the package had been in the mailroom since July 12.

The notebook, intended for a psychiatrist who also teaches at the university, reveals haunting sketches with stick-figure assailants carrying out the attack.

“There were drawings of what he was going to do in it -- drawings and illustrations of the massacre," police told Fox News.

 

[sabu69]

All irelevant now

 

[Petzel]

It's not irrelevant. There is a lesson to be learned here.

 

[blackrock13]

It's not irrelevant. There is a lesson to be learned here.

Pay more to your mail room staff?

 

[simon482]

It's not irrelevant. There is a lesson to be learned here.

if there is no one will learn it. next year there will be another of these and this discussion will happen again.

 

[LKD]

lesson: get the mails out asap and on time you lazy mail room staff... had you not waited for the weekend to pass, lives might've been saved

xD

 

[Rockslinger]

It's not irrelevant. There is a lesson to be learned here.

Yes, it is irrelevant. There was a recent case in Ontario where the court was presented with a detailed outline written by one member of a couple of how they couple would kidnap and murder a young girl and the prosecution still couldn't get a conviction. I think the defense argued that the outline was merely musings and didn't prove a thing.

 

[buttercup]

Wait a minute. We want these baboons, when they are getting ready for a spree, to send their journals to their psychiatrists. Keep putting it out that the material was irrelevant and useless - but it made interesting reading.

 

[Rockslinger]

to send their journals to their psychiatrists.

Aren't psychiatrists bound by client confidentiality?

 

[Hurricane Hank]

Aren't psychiatrists bound by client confidentiality?

Well, Tony Soprano's doctor made it quite clear that if he were to discuss killing someone, she would be obliged to report this to the police.

 

[OddSox]

If only his kid had drawn a picture of a gun in school - everything would be cool now!