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Obviously, because colorado is a death penalty case. there are three people in colorado on death row right now. >> next question to you. what is the likelihood they will seek the death penalty? how do you decide? >> of course. this is a horrific tragedy. >> this is open and shut and you go for the death penalty. >> of course you go for the death penalty. >> a lot of people say, he was in school. this is a person that was bright. there is no education. the human mind doesnt stop growing until you...

Neurosciences with highest honors, by the way. when he came home in 2010, his mother told a neighbor that he was having a hard time finding a job. we understand he was having a difficult time. when he went to the university of colorado, in that ph.d. program, again, he seemed to be having some troubles. he was withdrawing from his classes when this happened. >> you know, peter, when the description came out about him as being shy, a loner, that kind of thing, everybody in the "newsroom," we were...

Pathologist dr. michael boden. thanks for being with us early. you said something i havent heard anywhere else. were trying to get inside the mind of this crazed gunman. you said if he was a medical student in a ph.d. program in neuroscience he would have had to have taken path psycho evaluation. >> there was always kaeufrlness to make sure a psychiatrist interviewed all the applicants being considered for admission because they dont want to take in somebody whos got some significant mental defi...

Frankly. >> bill: doctor this guy by all accounts right now, this is day one and we might learn more. clean. graduates at the top of his class at the university of california riverside. gets accepted in the phd program at the university of colorado. scoring really well on his school work. he doesnt have any history of drug abuse. he doesnt have any involvement in the criminal system. no way you get this guy off the street. you just dont get him off. >> when all is known and all it would take is ...

Camp, archery, horse back riding, swimming. and no incident reports at all, no record that there were any problems, no record that any complaints were ever made against him. this is consistent with what weve heard about him, that he was quiet, that he was intelligent, and that it does seem, at least for all the reporters who have been out there looking at high school in california, here at the university, that he didnt seem to have close friends. or if he did, theyre not talking. i also want to ...

Frankly. >> bill: doctor this guy by all accounts right now, this is day one and we might learn more. clean. graduates at the top of his class at the university of california riverside. gets accepted in the phd program at the university of colorado. scoring really well on his school work. he doesnt have any history of drug abuse. he doesnt have any involvement in the criminal system. no way you get this guy off the street. you just dont get him off. >> when all is known and all it would take is ...

Picked up or acted on. there should be considerable information about him at the medical school, at the center and why he dropped out. because he was in a very highly desired ph.d. program. >> the word is he was struggling academically with the course load. there is very little on-line about this man, whether it be facebook, twitter or some sort of blogging. the one thing people cant get away from is the mother of james holmes was called. she initially told the local affiliate -- quote -- "you h...

>> bill: doctor this guy by all accounts right now, this is day one and we might learn more. clean. graduates at the top of his class at the university of california riverside. gets accepted in the phd program at the university of colorado. scoring really well on his school work. he doesnt have any history of drug abuse. he doesnt have any involvement in the criminal system. no way you get this guy off the street. you just dont get him off. >> when all is known and all it would take is about 45 ...

Spiderman, reading comics and putting themselves in the place of somebody who has super powers essentially. they can do things that normal people cant do like kill other people. >> obviously whenever anything like this happens, we just want to figure out what caused the crack, what caused somebody to become unhinged to stop it in the future. once again you hear adjectives that dont sound alarming: quiet, loner, but that you hear repeatedly. what do you think about this kid that dropped out of th...

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...