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"I\u2019ve spent my morning scouring the Internet for clues to who James Holmes is and why he, according to police, shot and killed 12 theater goers (while wounding dozens of others) at a midnight showing of Batman Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo. So far, I\u2019ve come up empty.\n\nMost of us share too much online, and history has shown that crazed lone gunmen often telegraph their intentions on the Internet long before they actually commit any acts of violence.\nNot, apparently, James Holmes.\nPolice say he\u2019s 24, with no previous criminal record. Another report said he hails from San Diego and that his mother is still there. We'll know more details soon enough: Holmes is in custody, and there\u2019s a 1 p.m. ET press conference. \nStill, I cannot get over what an online ghost Holmes appears to be. Like many others, I have searched Facebook and found many James Holmeses. One, who is not the shooter, had to go on Facebook to defend himself. Other than that, Facebook has no apparent evidence of the suspect Holmes\u2019s existence.\nI scoured MySpace and Twitter and found people with the same or similar names, but nothing fit. I kept digging. (I lived in Colorado for a time; at one point, not very far from Aurora \u2014 we often drove there for pizza \u2014 and felt an odd and uncomfortable connection to the tragedy.)\nIn the absence of real information, tasteless fake posts have emerged. They anger me both because they make it harder to get at the truth and because they\u2019re just plain heartless.\nI moved my search to gun enthusiast and support sites based in Colorado. I didn\u2019t look them up because people who like guns are violent people; they\u2019re not. But someone who wants to use a gun for violence might gravitate to such a site or even boast on it about his plans.\n\nSEE ALSO: Jessica Ghawi, Theater Shooting Victim, Escaped Shooting Last Month\nThese sites are easy enough to find. There\u2019s COGunOwners.com, for one. The forum lacks a search engine, but I used Google search to dig in. Searches on \"Aurora,\" \"theater\" and \"Batman\" returned nothing related to the incident or any chatter by any random poster about a plan to shoot people in a movie theater. \nI also stumbled on this site, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners: \"Colorado\u2019s only no-compromise gun rights organization.\" But they weren\u2019t talking about anything except gun rights and the second amendment.\nThree hours in and I couldn\u2019t unearth a single piece of useful online information.\nAs I scoured on Google, more and more of my results were filled with real-time reports of the incident, making it even harder to do research. Restricting my search by date helped somewhat, but even then, fresh reports on the shooting crept into the results.\nI tapped Twitter\u2019s advanced search, which let me search by keywords, phrases, area and sentiment, but not by date. There was little of use in there.\nIt\u2019s inconceivable to me that Holmes has no online profile. The most obvious answer is that he has not been using his real name. What his handles could be on these various social networks, I have no idea.\nBut I am convinced: somewhere online there are facts about the gunman and why he did this. The Internet will eventually tell his tale. \nThough I doubt his actions will ever make sense to any of us.\nMashable's Coverage of the Colorado Theater Shooting\n\n12 Killed in Mass Shooting at Batman Premiere in Colorado\n\u2018Dark Knight\u2019 Theater Shooting Suspect Is an Online Mystery\nWitness to \u2018Dark Knight\u2019 Shooting Describes Chaos [VIDEO]\nPresident Obama \u2018Shocked and Saddened\u2019 Over \u2018Dark Knight\u2019 Shooting [UPDATED]\nColorado Theater Shooting: How it Played Out Online\nTheater Shooting Suspect James Holmes Studied Neuroscience\nJessica Ghawi, Theater Shooting Victim, Escaped Shooting Last Month\nOther James Holmes Mistaken on Facebook for Theater Shooting Suspect\nInternet Urges Batman to Visit Victims of \u2018Dark Knight\u2019 Shooting\nAlleged Killer Effortlessly Bought 6,000 Rounds of Ammo Online [VIDEO]\nAurora Police Confirm via Twitter: Controlled Detonation a Success\n\u2018Will you visit me in prison?\u2019 Asks James Holmes on Adult Sex Profile\nVideo of Alleged Theater Shooter Emerges Online\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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