MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Associated Press, April 4, 2013
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — New questions confronted the University of Colorado, Denver on Friday amid disclosures that a psychiatrist who treated theater shooting suspect James Holmes had warned campus police a month before the deadly assault that Holmes was dangerous and had homicidal thoughts.
Court documents made public Thursday revealed Dr. Lynne Fenton also told a campus police officer in June that the shooting suspect had threatened and intimidated her [.....]
Campus police officer Lynn Whitten told investigators after the shooting that Fenton had contacted her. Whitten said Fenton was following her legal requirement to report threats to authorities, according one of the documents, a search warrant affidavit.
"Dr. Fenton advised that through her contact with James Holmes she was reporting, per her requirement, his danger to the public due to homicidal statements he had made," the affidavit said. [....]
Also see:
Psychiatrist Called James Holmes ‘Danger to the Public’ Before Killings
By Clayton Sandell, ABC News, April 4, 2013
[....] “Dr. Fenton advised that she had been treating Holmes, and that Holmes had stopped seeing her and had begun threatening her via text messages,” Whitten told investigators. Because of the alleged threats against Fenton, Whitten said she deactivated the card that allowed Holmes access to university buildings on July 12, according to the documents.
The new information came to light Thursday after Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. granted a request by news media companies – including ABC – to unseal about a dozen warrants and affidavits in the case.[....]
and:
The Aurora Warnings
By William Saletan, Slate, April 5, 2013
James Holmes’ psychiatrist told campus police he was homicidal. Why wasn’t the warning passed on?
Comments
They also revealed those pill bottles were Zoloft and some anti-anxiety drugs, which he must have also been taking along with the Vicodin he had fatal doses of in his system. (Some comments here said maybe it was because he "didn't take his meds" - he wasn't taking, say, Seroquel or something to treat a legitimate mental illness.) This guy was high as hell during the entire ordeal.
by Orion on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 1:43am
Whatever. It's not like it's unknown for the seriously mentally ill to like to self-medicate into further oblivion. But in this case, it certainly looks like it's not going to turn out that it was his psychiatrist's prescribed treatment plan causing him to murder.
Here's a former FBI profiler who doesn't think the new evidence shows someone drugging himself blotto, despite the mind alterers in his apartment:
Of course, the law enforcement world's idea of what constitutes mental illness differs significantly from mine and many others. The legal consequences affect how they think and the way they say things, even when, like here, they are not involved in the case. It's like as long as a person knows they're doing something bad, they can't be mentally ill. To pun, do they know how insane their own reasoning sounds to some of us?
by artappraiser on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 2:02am