Holmes case and trial costs still being tallied

Dec. 20, 2015

Number reaches $4.5 million — and that doesn't begin to count defense attorney salaries and some expenses still to be released by prosecutors Graphic by Lo Snelgrove/CU News Corps No one knows exactly how much taxpayer money was spent on the Aurora theater shooting case, but the three-year investigation and...

Reporter by trade, human by nature

May 18, 2015

COMMENTARY - The very people that the Aurora theater shooter maimed sit just a stone’s throw away from him describing in as much detail as allowed the events of that day, the bodily wounds suffered and the long-term, physical disabilities or pain. Gunshot victims have told about and/or shown the...

Jury selection starts in Aurora Theater Shooting trial

May 18, 2015

COMMENTARY, NO BYLINE There’s a retired Army ICU nurse, a female explosions expert, and a victim’s advocate who, if she’d stayed with Aurora two more years, she’d have been counseling traumatized movie theater shooting survivors instead of sitting on the jury of one of the country’s most horrific massacres. Colorado...

Book on theater shooting asks: what causes the mass-murder 'phenomenon'?

May 15, 2015

Reporter Lo Snelgrove speaks with Stephen and Joyce Singular about their new book, “The Spiral Notebook,” and the social issues surrounding the Aurora theater shooting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=56&v=orADc7SFniU Joyce Singular reads from the book, "The Spiral Notebook." https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=121&v=4_vOxtxXZDU

Theater trial, Day 11: Hours spent showing shell-filled, bullet-pocked theater

May 12, 2015

Carol McKinley and Lo Snelgrove reflect on Day 11 of the Aurora theater trial. AUDIO Defendant James Holmes stands trial for the murder of 12 people at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater on July 20, 2012. Prosecution seeks the death penalty; the defense seeks to prove the defendant’s insanity at...

Day 8 of Aurora theater shooting trial features mountains of evidence

May 7, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — In an effort to demonstrate the forethought that went into the murderous rampage at Aurora’s Century 16 theater in July 2012, the prosecution in the theater shooting trial Thursday steered the courtroom away from personal testimony, at least in the morning session, and called FBI agents to...

He was a quiet man: DA digs into defendant’s life as a Ph.D. student on Day 7

May 6, 2015

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Just because a person is smart doesn’t mean he isn’t mentally ill. Judge Carlos Samour, Jr. made this point clear Wednesday, Day 7 of the Aurora theater shooting trial. All morning, prosecutors tried to prove defendant James Holmes’ intellect as a means of establishing his sanity on...

Police interview Holmes: It's all about the bombs

May 6, 2015

James Holmes’ second interview with police happened with no attorney present at 3:45 p.m. July 20, 2012. It lasted 38 minutes. News organizations requested the the interview transcript. It’s all about the bombs. Read full transcript

FBI agent: Booby-trapped apartment would have killed or maimed 'whoever was there'

May 5, 2015

Centennial, Colo. — In addition to shooting up Theater 9 at the Century 16 in Aurora on July 20, 2012, James Holmes booby-trapped his apartment with a goal of killing or maiming anyone who was lured in by the loud music that began blaring from his computer half an hour...

Police interview gives details of Holmes' state of mind

May 5, 2015

In the hours after the shooting, the police interviewing James Holmes in a tiny room at the Aurora Police Department said to him, “You’ve seen this before hundreds of times. Do you have any questions?” His answer was, “Were children hurt?” Other moments from James Holmes during that interview: The...

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