Dr. Fenton
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189 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Dr. Fenton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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However, despite this information, they decided not to take action because James was no longer a student there. Dr. Fenton also contacted the campus police department and believe it or not, they offered to put James on a 72 hour hold, but Dr. Fenton declined it. She didn't think he met the criteria for the hold. So after she reported it to Beta, that was it.
No one would ever go to check up on James Holmes. If they had, they may have seen the arsenal of weapons in his apartment. They may have seen his journal entries where he was meticulously planning an attack and they may have intercepted his plan, but they didn't.
And now that he had fully dropped out of school, James could now dedicate all of his time to preparing for the massacre that was just on the horizon.
Now in the month of June is where James really started planning and getting everything ready. He visited the Century 16 Theater a number of times to study the building, and he wrote out a pros and cons list.
Over time, James began going into each of the theaters inside Century 16 to see which one would be best to attack. In his notes, he wrote that Theater 12 was a good one, only two exits. He gave Theater 10 three stars, writing, only two exits, excellent spatial approach. But other theaters weren't as good. In his notes, he wrote that Theater 8 had four exits, two that were visible.
avoid that one he wrote and finally after looking through all of them james decided that he would either do theater 9 or theater 10. both sat hundreds of people and they both had just two exits during the attack james planned on throwing tear gas near those exits so that people wouldn't be able to see where to run But strangely enough, James also planned on escaping after the massacre.
He even purchased tire puncturing devices to use on police cars so he could get away. He bought a ton of body armor so that he wouldn't get shot in the attack. And just in case he did, he also purchased a first aid kit for himself. He truly thought that he could shoot up this theater and then escape.
On July 1st, he went out and bought a rifle and more ammunition. He also drove to a shooting range about two and a half hours away from Aurora. He ended up going to this range five different times before the shooting to practice. He bought specialty earmuffs and he spent hours shooting at life-size silhouettes.
Witnesses reported that while shooting at the targets, he would move side to side, sometimes even crouching down. he was perfecting his form. That week, he also bought these black contacts that he wanted to wear during the shooting. Ones that made your eyes look completely black. He would later say that he bought them because he thought it would make him look cool.
On July 17th, James buys a movie ticket for The Dark Knight Rises on July 20th, 2012. And he actually buys three of them because every time he purchased the ticket, it put him in Theater 8. Now Theater 8 was one of the theaters that he wanted to avoid due to the amount of exits. So he tries to buy another ticket to Theater 9.
and another and another, but every time he does, it just gives him a ticket to theater eight. So that's when he decided, screw the ticket, I'll just pretend I'm walking into theater eight and instead I'll slip into theater nine. Earlier that week, he also bought an iPod so he could play music during the attack.
He also bought window tent for his car and air fresheners to mask the smell of gasoline in his apartment. In the days before the shooting, James laid out all of his weapons on his bed. He tried on all of his tactical gear. He would later say, quote, "'I tested it first, just wearing it with all the magazines in their places and the gun slings on and off.'"
end quote he said while wearing everything he looked at himself in the mirror he even snapped a picture of him holding up a gun he would later say that he wanted to look dangerous during the shooting like if people saw him they would be afraid he said that that was important because of all the people that were going to be in the theater he said quote you don't want 400 people rushing you it's quite easy they could have overwhelmed me
Which brings us to July 19th, 2012. As the evening approached, the midnight showing of the Dark Knight Rises was just hours away. And James was finishing up the last minute details of his plan.
That evening, James walked outside of his apartment complex holding a remote control car and a boombox. And from there, he walks over to his apartment's dumpster and sets them down on the ground. Now he rigged the boombox so that in exactly 40 minutes, loud music would start playing from it. He hoped that someone would follow the sound of the music.
And when they did, they would see the remote control car sitting by the trash can. In James's mind, if someone saw that remote control car sitting there, they would have to pick it up and play with it. Except the remote did not control the car. It was actually connected to his booby-trapped apartment. So if someone did find it and they pushed a button on the remote...
the apartment would engulf in flames. Now after setting this by the dumpster, James gets ready for the night. He packs up his gear, weapons, ammunition, and his body protection. He also takes a Vicodin, which is a pain medication. He would later say that he did this because he didn't want to get hurt if he got shot. But before leaving, he blares some music in his apartment.
He was hoping that if someone would hear it, they would walk into his unit, right into the trip wire. But from there, shortly before midnight, he leaves his home and makes his way to the Century 16 Theater.
Upon arriving to the theater, James parked his white sedan in the back. Now me and Colin actually visited this theater earlier this year, and the back parking lot is completely isolated. Even when we went, there were no cars, no security guards, or anything. So on that night, as James drove to the back, no one was suspecting a thing. James parked his vehicle right outside of Theater 9's exit,
Then after parking, he walked around to the main entrance and showed the workers his ticket. Now remember, he bought a ticket for Theater 8, but he planned on just walking into Theater 9 and finding an open seat. But before he did, he hung out around the concessions for a while. He likely saw people getting popcorn and drinks for the movie he was about to shoot up.
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