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Large numbers of people, he would get the publicity that he so much craved in order to feel important, powerful, in control, dominant, in charge of things. he wanted to be a celebrity. sadly enough, thats exactly what he is. >> reporter: so is that why you think he came out of the theater, he stood by his car essentially just waiting for police to take him into custody, and he says almost nothing but he does tell them his apartment is booby trapped? >> thats not only a game, as the former fbi ag...

They dont look like monsters. they dont act in a bizarre way. their pathology is situational. and almost every one of them has suffered some catastrophic loss. in this case, in june, the killer had withdrawn from his phd program. look, there are other graduate students who have sought revenge after failing academically, but they usually target the dean and professors on their committee. the interesting thing and sad thing here is that this killer didnt do that at all. he went into an aurora cine...

And thinking, that is so close to columbine. how did this happen again? what went through your mind when you heard? >> shock. disbelief. i think it was just disbelief, this cant be happening in this community again. >> and there also, i thought was very poignantly and we heard the brother of one of the victims talking about how he doesnt want the name of the shooter to be the only name thats out there. and im guessing you can really relate to that. >> i can very much relate to that. i think that...

Transcripts of the first hours and you can see it progress where it goes from reporters asking kids open ended questions like did you know the killers, what were they like to more leading questions to like we are hearing they are loners and outcasts. kids who didnt really know them saying yes they were. and then by like hour three it was taken as a given. within the first four hours nearly all the myths were established. once we have the profile in our minds of who they were we went with that an...

In front of his face and said, do you want to 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: for giving rachels killers. >> forgiving was like setting a prisoner free and then finding out the prisoner was you. columbine was the worst day of my life, but looking back, i can be almost thankful in a way for going through such a hard thing...

Like this. >> michael, if you can stand by, i also want to bring in jack levin. hes a criminologist and professor at northwest university. thank you for joining us. i want to pick up on what michael just had to say. the things we know about him do not seem to fit the profile of a mass murderer. you have a guy described as quiet but brainy, someone who was working with disadvantaged kids, a big brother and big sister. although he didnt seem to have a huge circle of friends, he wasnt isolated, eit...

Kitchen floor, i grabbed out a knife and i put it to his face and said do you want to know what it feels like to almost lose your life. >> it was a terrible 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 finding out the prisoner was you. columbine was the worst day of my life but now looking back i can be almost thankful in a way for going...

times. too often after a shooting like this the killers name becomes well known and months, years later the killers name is recalled but the victims names are not. i think thats wrong. i want to focus on the hour ahead in the 70 people shot or wounded last night. including the 12 of whom have died. now, we dont know many of the names of the dead, but police now do. just before air time they announced that they expect the notifications to begin tonight. it is a brutal job after a brutal...

times. too often after a shooting like this the killers name becomes well known and months, years later the killers name is recalled but the victims names are not. i think thats wrong. i want to focus on the hour ahead in the 70 people shot or wounded last night. including the 12 of whom have died. now, we dont know many of the names of the dead, but police now do. just before air time they announced that they expect the notifications to begin tonight. it is a brutal job after a brutal...

335 thousand people. once considered the eighth savest in the nation. at this very moment, as they have been all day, officers with the bomb squad, wearing tactical gear are surrounding what theyre calling the booby trapped apartment. the situation so dangerous only robots have entered the apartment and they wont consider entering the apartment until at least tomorrow. were also learning more about the young man who police say not only rigged that apartment with explosives, but in co...