Source: Tip from accused Aurora shooter leads FBI to package

[maddezmom]

Source: NBC

The FBI recovered a package that apparently was mailed by James Eagan Holmes after the shooting suspect told investigators to look for the item on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News on Wednesday.

The source told NBC that the package contained writings about killing people, but could not go into more detail.

Holmes, a 24-year-old who was in the process of withdrawing from a graduate program in neuroscience at the university, has been arrested in connection with the killing of 12 and the injuring of 58 in a shooting spree at the midnight premier of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colo. on Friday.

Police recovered the package on Monday after getting a search warrant for the medical center mail room and then getting a second warrant to actually open the package, the law enforcement source said.

Police found the package as Holmes described it, including his name in the return address, and it's now being analyzed, the source said.



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[NYC_SKP]

1. This one is definitely "different"....

Evil, awful, for sure, but different from your ordinary serial killer.

Reminiscent of the unibomber.

[HankyDub]

9. technically a spree killer

not a serial killer.

[harun]

2. Other reports say it was sitting there for a week, unopened.

[MrsBrady]

3. when reading the article it said this:

"It was unclear how long the package had been in the mail room before its discovery. "

[glinda]

4. he sure likes attention it seems like

[bluedigger]

5. A manifesto, perhaps?

It would be interesting to know more about his motivation. I guess.

[Chemisse]

6. I wonder if he expected it would be seen in time to stop him

Doubtful; he probably wanted to brag and waited til the last minute so he wouldn't get caught in advance of the massacre.

[maddezmom]

7. my theory is

it was a backup plan incase his apartment blew up and all the evidence with it.

[marble falls]

8. One of the many things cut from state and federal budgets by compassionate "Conservatives":

Mental health treatment. Why do these crazies end up in a police system and not the health system?