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Sometimes he was a little aggressive and people were -- not to work him. he was not a pleasant person as it turns out. he seemed to have some anger and stress. >> he seemed to blame others for his own shortcomings. we have people in our newsroom who have worked with him at previous stations and they say the same thing. is that a common trait in disturbed people to blame others and not take on responsibility. what changes a regular person from being someone who can take on a violent act like this...

Someone who can take on a violent act like this. >> at the core of every narcissist, is a shattered ego. they cant deal with any more blame or shame or guilt. so they project it outwards. if this is someone with delusions who was borderline psychotic and we wont necessarily know that, we are looking at someone who looks like the world is against him. so what we have to look at here is he saw the world as him against the world. what he then did with the south carolina shooting is he found his cau...

[ laughter ] ♪ >> get back here. >> when "lockup" visited there, we met two such inmates. they killed after their own minds turned on them, and their murders took on dimensions that were not only shocking, they were unimaginable. >> im frank smith jr. im 38 years old. ive been down since 1993 for shooting my mom. >> during our first day of shooting at wabash, our crew met frank street. an inmate housed in the residential treatment unit. at the time of the interview, street was experiencing inv...

By james holmes outweighs the heinous nature of the theater massacre just over three years ago. 12 people killed including a six-year-old girl, another 70 people injured. the jury decided once holmes is elgible for the death penalty but under colorado law they will have to do that two more times and be unanimous two more times for holmes to be sent to death row. jury heard from holzs parents that he had a normal, happy childhood. they also said they had no idea he was capable of violence or murd...

Poisoning cases were reported in 2013. so far this year the number has nearly doubled, with texas mississippi and new york recording the highest numbers. >> its become an increasing priority for us. >> reporter: austin police say theyve responded to a record 600 emergency calls since the end of may. while fatal overdoses are rare, consuming the drug is quite risky, because its essentially plant material laced with dangerous chemicals like bug spray. >> it caused some sort of high, but with it ex...

20th of 2012 was completely out of character for holmes it was a direct result of mental illness, something that caused delusions and ultimately led to the movie theater massacre. >> anna cabrera fors sus in colorado. the former prison seam stress is now facing her own time behind bars could be as many as seven years. she was weeping quite a bit there in the courtroom this morning. she accepted a plea deal today in this courtroom in upstate new york. that is where, back on june 6th convicted kil...

Military installation in history. lieutenant hassan shouted the phrase meaning god is great. 13 people were killed and 32 people injured. hassan an army psychiatrist was sentenced to death for that rampage. september 16 2013. four 12 people died and four were hurt in washington, d.c. the fbi said that he was driven by delusions that he was being controlled by low frequency radio waves and scratched the words end the torment on the barrel of the rifle he used. police shot him and he died. to this...

Delusions made holmes believe it would increase his own south worth. and the defense shows videos of holmes in jail acting strangely, falling backwards from his bunk a few months after the shooting before being hospitalized for a psychotic episode, proof of his insanity they say. each side pointed to a notebook holmes sent hours before the shooting to dr. lynn fenton a psychiatrist who treated him at the university of colorado when he was a grad student. the defense highlighted ramblings that do...

>> no. >> reporter: james holmes describes a mission to kill. >> well the dead cant be repaired or come back to life or be normal again. so its kind of irrevirsible. >> what i heard you say was that that accrues to something positive to you. >> right. >> reporter: his words likely to linger with jurors. >> theyre collateral damage. >> reporter: holmes chose not to take the witness stand but prosecutors placed hours of interviews. >> the delusions propelled him to commit this act. >> reporter: th...

>> no. >> reporter: james holmes describes a mission to kill. >> going back to life or be normal again. its irreversible. >> what i heard you say was that constitutes something for you. >> reporter: his words likely to linger with jurors. >> they are like collateral damage, i guess. >> reporter: holmes chose not to take the witness stand but prosecutors played 22 hours of interviews with the court-appointed psychiatrist. one of two mental health experts concluded holmes suffered mental illness b...