As I had suggested yesterday the mass murderer, James Holmes, may not be as brilliant as his resume superficially suggests.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/07/james-holmes-was-unusually-bad-intern.html
"More anecdotal evidence emerged Wednesday calling into question the academic prowess of the man accused of shooting midnight moviegoers in a deadly rampage at a Denver-area theater, with a former researcher who James Holmes listed as his mentor calling him a "mediocre" student."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57479689/james-holmes-reportedly-known-as-dolt-as-intern-calling-into-question-academic-credentials/
He certainly did not impress as an intern in 2006 though he had this on his resume:
"A resume posted on Monster.com paints a picture of a brilliant young man brimming with potential: He worked as a summer intern at the renowned Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., in 2006, and mapped the neurons of Zebra finches and studied the flight muscles of hummingbirds while an undergraduate at the University of California, Riverside."
"Even though a California administrator described Holmes as a "top of the top" honors student, a former researcher at Salk told the Los Angeles Times that Holmes wasn't a good worker and shouldn't have ever been accepted into the summer program.
"His grades were mediocre. I've heard him described as brilliant. This is extremely inaccurate," John Jacobson said.
"Jacobson, who Holmes listed as a mentor but said he merely ran the lab in which Holmes worked,, said he was accepted into the camp because he had a background in computer programming. But when he was tasked with writing code for an experiment, he failed."
Jacobson showed him the right way to do the computer programming but Holmes was very stubborn and wanted to do it a different way that didn't work. This seems to comport a little more with what the police are telling us-that he has not co-operated at all.
"What he gave me was a complete mess," he told the paper.
"Another researcher at Salk said Holmes had acquired a reputation as a "dolt," though he admitted he never knew Holmes personally."
This also comports with what a commentator had suggested here at Diary the other day:
"It seems obvious that this individual, James Holmes, was sadistic on such a level that he led a seemingly normal life just so he could obtain the firearms, ammunition, explosive materials, trigger mechanisms, chemical weapons, body-armor, and the knowledge needed to use all of these things to strike exactly when, where, and how he wanted. He clearly isn't just some loser who "snapped." I bet he spent months, possibly over a year, planning this."
You wonder how much of his interest in neuroscience was just to learn how to build bombs, etc. More gist to the idea that he wasn't so brilliant after all, comes from the story out now that what made him leave his program was failing an important oral exam. Upon failure, he went out and brought an rifle.
http://gma.yahoo.com/james-holmes-bought-rifle-failing-oral-exam-university-074214315--abc-news-topstories.html
He has not cooperated with police in the least, in fact he keeps spitting on them so much that they've had to have him wear a spit guard when they move him.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/james-holmes-spitting-correction-officers-forcing-spit-guard/story?id=16844456
He also sent a grisly letter received by his psychiatrist on Monday detailing the carnage he planned.
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/07/report-unopened-james-holmes-letter-detailed-plans-for-massacre/
For good measure there is a story by TMZ that he may have frequented prostitutes.
http://www.tmz.com/2012/07/25/james-holmes-prostitutes/
Overall, we're beginning to get a picture of who exactly James Holmes is. While we may not yet have a motive, I think we have enough that it's not so hard to guess. He is a real life Dexter. Dexter is a serial killer who we nevertheless like and see as a protagonist-it's because he trains his blood lust to only target those who in truth either deserve to die or we won't miss in any case-either serial killers, rapists, child abusers, etc.
For James Holmes, however, who is a real life mass murderer there is nothing likable at all. Some have been wondering if he was acting in court. My guess, no. I think think is the real him. The question is whether they find him competent to stand trial. In any case he will be locked up for a long time, only question is whether in a criminal facility or a mental facility.
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