As the trial for the Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes continued Tuesday, a notebook was read to the jury detailing his dark “obsession” of wanting to murder people.
CNN noted that Holmes’ brown, 29-page notebook described an “obsession to kill” that stemmed from childhood and grew in adulthood.
"The obsession to kill since I was a kid, with age became more and more realistic," he wrote.
His writings in the notebook went on to talk about different ways to kill and his “broken mind” that he said he tried to “fix.”
As previously reported, Holmes is on trial for his life after he admitted to opening fire in a dark, crowded theater during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012. Twelve people were killed in the attack and another 70 were injured.
The heart of defense’s case is all about the 27-year-old’s state of mind as he has plead guilty by reason of insanity. His lawyers hope that the revelations from his personal notebook show jurors a sick man who rambled on through his writings.
However, the prosecution contends that the key piece of evidence proves that a sane and methodical thinking man penned the terrifying threats and then carried out a killing spree.
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