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“When I get upset, I look at his picture and I calm down”

For the third straight day, as a riveted courtroom heard grisly new details about Aurora shooter James Holmes’s July rampage—this time that he scoped out the movie theater in advance, snapping photos along the way—there was one woman, her hair dyed red in solidarity, who was firmly on the gunman’s side.

“It seems crazy, but I’m not crazy,” Misty Benjamin, 30, says of her hair. “I wanted something that if he saw me he knew it would be me—a supporter.” An Aurora resident who lives just four miles from the apartment Holmes set up as an explosive booby trap on the day of the massacre, Benjamin has been watching the trial from an overflow courtroom at the Arapahoe County courthouse. …

“When they showed photos of him, everything I saw were cries for help,” said Benjamin, who says she joined the church of Latter Day Saints nine years ago after her dentist committed suicide, and is dating a man who knows of her affection for the accused killer. “He wanted someone to stop him. He knows he is in trouble. He stands and sits when he is told. There is a kid-like quality to him.” …

Prodded, Benjamin admits that she keeps photos of Holmes in her wallet and on her bedroom wall. “When I get upset, I look at his picture and I calm down.”

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And the scary thing is that we let women vote.

(Bishop’s not the only one with this gift)

platypus on January 10, 2013 at 11:23 AM

Do you think the media is trying to find pictures of this woman at past tea party rallies?

Or do they KNOW (like I know) that this would be a waste of time?

blink on January 10, 2013 at 11:31 AM

Hey, even the Menendez brothers had female admirers in prison.

Must be that “bad boy” quality about them.

Mitoch55 on January 10, 2013 at 11:31 AM

Well.. we know one person who shouldn’t be given access to guns.

Illinidiva on January 10, 2013 at 11:33 AM

She needs a slap to the face by a family member of every victim.

portlandon on January 10, 2013 at 11:33 AM

said Benjamin, who says she joined the church of Latter Day Saints nine years ago after her dentist committed suicide

Wow. I wonder Which religion she would have joined if her hair stylist died in a boating accident?

portlandon on January 10, 2013 at 11:35 AM

Well Charles Manson got letters from female admirers back in the day (don’t know if he still does.)

rbj on January 10, 2013 at 11:39 AM

The media glorifies these mass murderers. I don’t want to any laws limiting freedom of the press, but we need to recognize that media coverage makes these guys look like antiheroas and inspires the next round of killings.

I think news organizations should voluntarily adopt standards where they dont print these guys’ faces or pictures. They also need to stop portraying them as “cold blooded killers” or calculating and methodical” or any of that; it turns them into some sort of antihero. They should be nameless, faceless, annonymous losers.

bitsy on January 10, 2013 at 11:44 AM

Mark Twain in Tom Sawyer – Chapter 33:

Injun Joe was buried near the mouth of the cave; and people flocked there in boats and wagons from the towns and from all the farms and hamlets for seven miles around; they brought their children, and all sorts of provisions, and confessed that they had had almost as satisfactory a time at the funeral as they could have had at the hanging.

This funeral stopped the further growth of one thing — the petition to the governor for Injun Joe’s pardon. The petition had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot. Injun Joe was believed to have killed five citizens of the village, but what of that? If he had been Satan himself there would have been plenty of weaklings ready to scribble their names to a pardon-petition, and drip a tear on it from their permanently impaired and leaky water-works.

Drained Brain on January 10, 2013 at 11:52 AM

Well.. we know one person who shouldn’t be given access to guns.

Illinidiva on January 10, 2013 at 11:33 AM

This^^

GWB on January 10, 2013 at 12:06 PM

Mitoch55

What woman wouldn’t feel for the Menendez boys? They were orphans, after all.

jdpaz on January 10, 2013 at 12:14 PM

I’ll keep Misty’s picture in my wallet and hang her picture on my wall and tell myself…this is what a fluffy nutter looks like.

moonsbreath on January 10, 2013 at 12:21 PM

One crazy. There is almost a stadium load of survivors, relatives of victims, and the righteously outraged howling for this vile shooter’s blood, and the media manage to dig up one wacko. One out of all the people in and around this trial and trot her out as though her wacky views weren’t some bizarre aberration.
The media love the grotesque. This is just more proof.

LincolntheHun on January 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM

The one on the left is Philip.

logis on January 10, 2013 at 12:29 PM

Hey, even Major Nidal has his fans – his superior officers.

CorporatePiggy on January 10, 2013 at 12:34 PM