James Helm
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155 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
James Helm’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, but I plan on telling my parents. I don't think they'd be surprised. I've kind of been giving them hints that I haven't been doing well.
His caginess in discussing any details regarding methods, targets, and timing. 3. In later interviews, James told professionals, I don't think I made it clear enough that I was mentally ill. I'd already started getting weapons, and then I started thinking they were going to be frightened of me because I had weapons.
Dr. Reed supposes in A Dark Night in Aurora, a part of him believed, and a part of him hoped, that they somehow knew his thoughts and his plans without his revealing them.
But even after speaking to James's mother, Dr. Fenton said she was still worried.
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Just two days after his final therapy session, James buys hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a laser sight, hearing protection, and magazines for his weapons. Then a few days after that, he officially returned his student badge. It's also around this time when he and his parents send some emails back and forth.
After his mom got the call from Dr. Fenton about him leaving school, they messaged James and let him know that he's welcome to come back home to San Diego. But he tells them that he didn't want to come home yet. So his dad suggests that he apply for unemployment. And he does. He messages his dad that week, telling him that he applied and he's ready to become a lazy bum.
His emails seem pretty normal. and given this big life change he was going through, he seemed to be in good spirits. In one email, his parents talk about a trip they're taking to Mexico, and James responds, Hasta la vista, baby.
Pro. Pro. You can lock the double doors with handcuffs, trapping the victims, increasing casualties. With the exit doors, there might be too many escapees.
Over the course of the next few weeks, James took several pictures both inside and outside of the Century 16 theater. He buys more ammunition. He also finds out that his unemployment had been denied, but he was doing okay on money. On June 29th, he even walks into his apartment's leasing office and hands in his rent check. A few days after that, he dyes his hair that infamous orange color.
Now, later on, many people believed that he did this to represent the Joker in the Batman movies. That he was this evil force. But James himself would later admit that this wasn't true. In fact, he only chose the Batman movie because he knew a lot of people would be at that showing. There was no hidden meaning behind it. In his journals, he wrote...
Most fools will mistake correlation for causation. The message is there is no message. The causation is my state of mind for the last 15 years. He would also say, I didn't really have a reason for dyeing my hair. I did it to stand out. I guess to be like exotic, I guess. I dyed it red because I thought it would look better than green or blue.
Now, another huge part of James' plan was booby-trapping his apartment, and it's around this time when he started buying more supplies for that, including a remote-controlled vehicle, a boombox, batteries, and chemicals. But interestingly, he also signs himself up for a bunch of dating websites, with one being called HornyMatches.com.
That week, he uploaded pictures of himself with his new orange hair with captions that read, He would later say, It's unusual to have dyed hair like that and contact lenses like that. It's more likely I'd be remembering something unusual than something mundane. Now, that week, he also texted that girl from his classes.
She asked if he was still in Aurora, or if he had moved back home, and James said that he was still in town, but he warned her. Look, you should avoid me. I'm bad news bears.
That night he got out at least $400 in cash, and he spent some time burning each of the bills. He then put them in an envelope, along with his journal which he had been using to plan the attack. Then he made his way to the post office. You see, James was going to send this package to his therapist, Dr. Fenton.
He knew it wouldn't get to her until after the attack, but he clearly wanted to send her a message.
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