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Has occurred. you have to wonder if that didnt help the prosecution, if he would have been acting like a madman in court, then it might have boll terrified the insanity defense that most of us think is the only possible defense in this case. for him to act like a normal human being, i think thats good evidence for the prosecution. >> yeah, we dont want to read too much into this, clint van zandt, a former fbi profiler, a and someone who obviously knows a lot about the psychology, the profile of ...

>> although the perpetrator of this evil act has received a lot of attention over the last couple of days, that attention will fade away. and in the end, after he has felt the full force of our justice system, what will be remembered are the good people who are impacted by this tragedy. >> were exploring this tragedy in depth this morning. well hear from survivors of the shooting and also going to hear from the mayor of aurora, a clinical psychologist, and former fbi agent and speak ex...

off, a number of puzzling expressions. at times he looked blank. other times groggy. there might have been concern in his eyes. after a couple of minutes he was taken back to solitary confinement without holmes. hes accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at a midnight showing of the dark knight rises. police say they caught him outside, without a fight. he was wearing a gas mask and body armor from head to toe. jim spellman in aurora for us. he was inside the courtroom whe...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com im suzanne malveaux and this hour in the "cnn newsroom," the movie theater massacre suspect has just had his first court appearance, and the family is expected to break their silence. and penn state is slapped with a $60 million fine because of their part with the sexual abuse scandal, and their role. and now a first close-up look at the man accused of the mas massacre inside of that colorado movie theater. james holmes made his first court a...

Know what it feels like to almost lose your life? >> reporter: it was a terrifying moment, but also a turning point in craigs life. he decided he had to let go of his anger. the first step was also the hardest. forgiving rachels killers. >> forgiveness was like setting a prisoner free and then finding out that prisoner is you. columbine was the worst day of my life. but now looking back, i can be almost thankful in a way for going through such a hard thing because it made me who i am today. >> c...

And i think that was probably one of the scariest parts for the kids, the idea of being locked up, actually inside of a cell. >> get in there. welcome home. oh, theres only two beds. you got to share beds. have a seat. make yourself comfortable. thats where youre going to be. >> thats how you want to live [ bleep ]? >> you want to cut people? >> you in with a bunch of killers now. >> huh? you want to cut people? >> you want to go home now. >> go in there. go. im going to put you in there with th...

died early friday in that shooting. let me just tell you that a citywide prayer vigil is set for a few hours from now, and of course, we will be covering it for you. and from the police today, they are still not saying anything about what would make their suspect, that suspect go on the deadly rampage. they do believe though that holmes planned this attack for at least two months. and it is that planning and the evidence that holmes left behind that i want to talk to cnns ed lavandara ...

>> what i can tell you the fbi and secret service came to the conclusion theres any single profile but the good news is theres sort of four classes of pro trial. anger depressive, a psychopath, which is the bad person you talked about, somebody severely mentally ill with a clean break from reality and then joe like virginia tech would be an example of that and a terrorist is the fourth type. in those four types the people ever remarkably similar. once you understand each of those types you under...

Shouldnt do anything is absurd. i see the data in my neighborhood and communities in the country where you see the proliferation of guns. if guns werent available people wouldnt be shooting as many people. >> can i come to the final thing? what did you take away from the book that you did on columbine and the question on this level and the policy about guns? >> the biggest thing was that we didnt understand the killers and we could have done a lot if we had. in that case there were two different...

I think it was just disbelief. this cant be happening in this community again. >> and there, also, i thought was very point yagnantly, we he one of the family members of one of the victims, he doesnt want the shooter name to be the only one throughout. i guess you can relate? >> i can very much relate to that. i think thats something that the media is play such a large role in. although, you know, its difficult when you have so many names and so many victim, but it helps so much to have the medi...