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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Dark Knight’ shooting suspect James Holmes claims amnesia
ny daily news ^ | 7/26 | By Matthew Lysiak In Aurora, Colo. AND Larry Mcshane / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Posted on 07/26/2012 9:41:41 AM PDT by RummyChick

The Joker is playing the amnesia card.

Accused mass murderer James Holmes told jailhouse workers that he remains stumped about what landed him in a Colorado lockup, a jail staffer told the Daily News.

“He claims he doesn’t know why he’s in jail,” the worker said Thursday. “He asked, ‘Why am I here?’”

Holmes, 24, who is charged with shooting a dozen people to death and wounding 58 more at a screening of the new Batman movie, was also complaining of a stomach ache caused by lousy jail food after his sixth day at the Arapahoe County Detention Center, the worker said.

“He’s claiming his belly hurts him,” the worker said. “He complained once that he didn’t like the food . . . The guy killed 12 people, and he’s upset that he’s not getting a four-star meal?”

The former California honor student picks at his meals on some days, and doesn’t eat at all on others. A typical breakfast would include sausage and grits, while lunch could mean a ham sandwich.

Holmes was arrested in the parking lot of the Century 16 multiplex in Aurora, Colo., within minutes of his bloody rampage early Friday through a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Holmes surrendered without incident to police.

The suspect remains under 23-hour lockdown, leaving his cell just once a day. Authorities fear that other inmates could target Holmes and have him wear a bulletproof vest during his daily walk.

The jail worker said most folks inside the county lockup consider Holmes’ memory loss a ruse.

“He needs to save his act for the jury because no one here is buying it,” the worker said. “Everyone is convinced he is faking it.”

Published reports indicated that Holmes mailed a notebook filled with gruesome sketches and details of his plans for the attack in the crowded theater.

The notebook was in a package sent to a professor at the University of Colorado, where Holmes was a Ph.D. candidate until dropping out of school just prior to the killings.

The FBI snapped up the evidence after school officials notified them that the package was at the university.

In a statement, the university denied a report that the package sat in its mailroom for a week before the shooting spree.

The package was delivered by the U.S. Postal Service on the Monday after the shootings, and forced the evacuation of a campus building for 2 1/2 hours, the statement said.

The notebook and the rest of the contents were turned over to investigators within hours of the package’s discovery, the university said.


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1 posted on 07/26/2012 9:41:56 AM PDT by RummyChick
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Does he claim it each time he spits on the guards as well?


2 posted on 07/26/2012 9:46:56 AM PDT by SengirV
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To: RummyChick

I don’t care, fry his ass.


3 posted on 07/26/2012 9:47:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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Claiming to have amnesia is just going to fuel the fantasies of the superstitious. I look forward to countless rants on how he’s not responsible because he was possessed now.


4 posted on 07/26/2012 9:47:59 AM PDT by Melas (u)
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To: EEGator
I don’t care, fry his ass.
LOL ... and he can discover why he's in jail when his miserable life flashes before his eyes.
We need to bring back public hangings.
5 posted on 07/26/2012 9:50:25 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: RummyChick

Even liberals are saying this guy is toast.


6 posted on 07/26/2012 9:50:47 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: RummyChick; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; ...
Re: The package was delivered by the U.S. Postal Service on the Monday after the shootings, and forced the evacuation of a campus building for 2 1/2 hours, the statement said.

Gadzooks! Let old James "I am the Joker" Holmes go free... it is all the post office's fault!

7 posted on 07/26/2012 9:52:00 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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“Countless,” uh huh.


8 posted on 07/26/2012 9:52:41 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Melas
I look forward to countless rants on how he’s not responsible because he was possessed now.

Or once played with a ouija board.
9 posted on 07/26/2012 9:53:40 AM PDT by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
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“He’s claiming his belly hurts him,” the worker said. “He complained once that he didn’t like the food

We can fix that for ya, Jimmy.

We will strap you face down,
Place a bit of sugar in yer butt crack,
And send in about one hundred bullet ants to.....eat the sugar.....
And make a new home out of your rotting carcass.

That food that you don't like will be out of you lickety-split



................eventually.

(At least the bullet ants won't complain like you, you little b**ch!!!)
10 posted on 07/26/2012 9:55:12 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Obama hates Mexicans (Fast and Furious))
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Waterboard the bas-turd and he’ll remember really fast then turn him loose in general population!


11 posted on 07/26/2012 9:55:12 AM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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The jailhouse food is okay. It’s the fecal matter in it that causes the stomach to hurt.


12 posted on 07/26/2012 9:55:52 AM PDT by pallis
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To: oh8eleven

Sounds good to me.


13 posted on 07/26/2012 9:56:30 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: RummyChick

Maybe he then wont remember the needle that gets stuck in his arm?


14 posted on 07/26/2012 9:58:18 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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“Authorities fear that other inmates could target Holmes and have him wear a bulletproof vest during his daily walk.”

I thought there was gun control in jails. How is this possible?


15 posted on 07/26/2012 9:58:34 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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Doesn’t like his food?

Hmmm...He sould consider that in any other country in the world-he likely wouldn’t still be alive much less GET food


16 posted on 07/26/2012 9:58:42 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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Yeah right. He was able to send a notebook about what he was going to do, bobby trap his appt and for 2 months or so looked online and bought all his gear and other items for this event he now says he doesn’t know why he is in jail.

I am not buying it, sorry.


17 posted on 07/26/2012 10:00:48 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 0bie don' t eat my dog!)
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To: RummyChick

Makes a person wonder what kind of research was being done in those research projects and if they were using each other for guinea pigs....


18 posted on 07/26/2012 10:01:07 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then.)
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To: RummyChick

He managed to remember that he’d booby-trapped his apartment and told the cops about it after his arrest. So much for the amnesia excuse. Maybe his defense will be “selective amnesia.”


19 posted on 07/26/2012 10:04:02 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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I wonder if toxicology tests were given when he was arrested.


20 posted on 07/26/2012 10:04:28 AM PDT by Terry Mross ( To kin and former friends: Do not attempt to contact me as long as you love obama.)
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