I'm betting we're going to discover this kid is suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka, Multiple Personality Disorder):
James Holmes Claims Amnesia:
Quote:
James Holmes, the suspected shooter in last week's movie theater massacre, has told his Colorado jailers he doesn't know why he's locked behind bars, the Daily News reports.
But no one at the Arapahoe County Detention Center is buying Holmes' story, a lockup worker told the News. The jailers who come in contact with Holmes, who is sequestered from other inmates, believe he's faking amnesia.
Since the 24-year-old PhD dropout was accused of killing 12 theatergoers and wounding 58 at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" last Friday, the media has lavished attention on Holmes' odd behavior.
The suspect appeared in court on Monday with brightly dyed orange hair and made peculiar facial expressions. At times his eyes bulged and he often appeared tired.
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That last part in particular struck me. Different personalities will often exhibit corresponding physical changes that under normal circumstances others don't really notice. Being trapped, under duress and in the spotlight like this would reveal those changes, particularly if the personalities were rapidly switching due to the circumstances; like a roulette wheel trying to find the appropriate one to "stay" as it were.
Note also that
he didn't claim amnesia (that's what others said about what he claimed); he claimed only that he didn't know why he was in jail, which a personality that wasn't aware of other personalities (or their actions) would claim.
Anyone else ever hear of or read about
Billy Milligan?
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