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This is the second part of our two episodes on James Holmes. If you have not listened to last week's episode, please do that first.

Mass Murderer James Holmes sought help before he shot and killed 12 moviegoers at An Aurora Colorado Theatre on July 20, 2012.

The 24-year-old student at the University of Colorado believed he had what he termed a broken brain.

After telling a social worker at the school that he was having thoughts of killing people, she immediately connected him to psychiatrist Dr. Lynn Fenton, the medical director of the Student Mental Health Clinic.

James was not a model patient. Within his first few meetings, Dr. Fenton observed, quote, a profound lack of emotional depth.

A sense that all he knew about feelings was what he had read. Although she made several attempts to draw out more detailed answers, his affect remained flat.

And he appeared disinterested in all topics.

During those sessions, Dr. Fenton repeatedly asked James if he intended to hurt anyone specifically or hurt himself.

Other than expressing he had a vague desire to harm what he called sheeple or people who blindly follow without thinking, he denied everything.

Dr. Fenton met with James six times before he abruptly ended their professional relationship on June 11, 2012.

After he left, she notified a campus threat assessment team about his homicidal statements. She also checked to see if he had an arrest record or if he owned a gun.

Though James's record was clean, campus police still canceled his key card, which blocked him from entering campus buildings.

This was not the last time, however, that James Holmes would reach out to Dr. Fenton.

Before the shooting, James bought a notebook that he used to record and explain why he was going to kill people.

He detailed his plans for the massacre with crudely drawn stick figures and diagrams.

James included a South diagnosis and his motives for the killings, which he called the theory of human capital.

For every person he killed, his own life increased in value. He also withdrew several hundred dollars from an ATM and burned the edges of the bills over his kitchen stove.

Then he tucked them into his notebook, along with some pine tree air fresheners.

James addressed a padded envelope in black crayon to Lynn Fenton and mailed her the book just hours before the midnight screening.

The notebook would not be discovered until four days after the shooting.

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