Holmes' Harlots

by Loren Coleman ©2012

The women involved in the private lives of James Holmes ~ whether called harlots, whores or prostitutes ~ are coming forward with interviews and supposed insights.

Are we really learning anything? 

And what does it matter? 

Is this all another distraction?

Isn't it just the media trying to keep this story going?

The known or used names are intriguing, nevertheless: Roxanna, Tiffany, and Monica Hall.

What's "Roxanna" mean? Dawn, bright, star. Roxana, sometimes given as Roxanne and Roxane, was a Bactrian princess who became the famed wife of Alexander the Great. 

The meaning of the name Tiffany is "manifestation of god."

The origins of "Monica" is unknown, and thus is said to mean "uncertain, perhaps counseller."

Just like John Dillinger's "woman in red" (Ana Cumpănaş or Anna Sage) who resulted in his death, the phrase has been associated with prostitution, fairly or not. (See "Blood Red Movie Massacres" for more.)

A redheaded hooker from Colorado's Aurora (red dawn)? Now that's a turn of a phrase, isn't it? I could think of several alliteration headlines that would have had more shock value, and you will find some of those around the web. "Holmes' Harlot" got across what part of this media circus I think we are traveling into now.

TMZ said they spoke to three of the sexually marketing women Holmes supposedly reviewed. TMZ used the labels #1, #2, and #3.

The New York Post picked up on it too, and tracked down one woman, who allowed herself to be quoted, using her name ~ Monica Hall (because they picked it up from The Sun of London):

A redheaded hooker says that she had sex with murderous Colorado “Joker’’ James Holmes — and that he became obsessed with her flaming locks and dyed his hair the same color before his theater massacre.
During their sometimes violent trysts at her apartment — less than a mile from the Aurora, Colo., movie theater where he later allegedly shot dead 12 and wounded 58 — Holmes would grab her hair, sniff it and repeatedly pester her with questions like, “Are you a natural redhead?’’ prostitute Monica Hall, 25, told The Sun of London.
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“He was mean, and during sex he kept gripping my hands and wrists,’’ she said. “Next morning, I discovered I had bruises. I saw two sides, like Jekyll and Hyde — sweet and later mean.’’
When he would act “aggressive and controlling, he threatened me, saying, ‘You’re going to do this because I told you.’ His eyes were wild-looking.
“He was big-eyed, like someone who had done drugs. But I don’t think he had,’’ she said.
“I was so scared. I thought I was going to get really hurt. [But then] after sex, he wanted to lounge around and talk about himself all night.”
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Hall is apparently among a slew of prostitutes who serviced him in the months before.
Another working girl, named Tiffany, has told TMZ that she, too, had hooked up with the madman last August and that he “was really nice.”
Holmes had posted online critiques of his liaisons with Tiffany and two other hookers, although one of them said she couldn’t even remember him. The other prostitute only said that he “looked very familiar.”

Meanwhile, the New York Daily News lets us hear from Roxanna:

Just one week before the Aurora cinema carnage took place, Dark Knight massacre suspect James Holmes paid $240 for an encounter with a prostitute, but in the end was too freaked out to perform. A Denver-area prostitute told the Daily News that the baby-faced 24-year-old hired her for sex about a week before the July 20 attack, but the alleged killer of 12 paid for little more than talk.
The shapely blond escort, who gave her name only as Roxanna, said Holmes contacted her online and made arrangements to meet her in a tawdry bedroom at a Denver cathouse. 

The other mystery woman in Holmes' life is turning out to be the person he was supposedly seeing in a therapeutic relationship. In the week after the shooting a notebook thought to be from James Holmes was found to have been mailed to a University of Colorado psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton.

Media created imagery of the "notebook."

"There were drawings of what he was going to do in it – drawings and illustrations of the massacre," a source told FOX News.

The notebook could debunk rumors that Holmes originally wanted to attack the Dark Knight Rises cast and crew. The National Enquirer (obviously not the greatest source) reported that Holmes was about to unleash his plan at the New York City's premiere showing, but then Holmes became too paranoid after he was denied access to a local gun club and launched his assault in Aurora, Colorado instead.

Dr. Lynne Fenton

Questions are being raised about Dr. Fenton. According to the Los Angeles Times:

Dr. Lynne Fenton, the University of Colorado psychiatrist who was treating James E. Holmes, according to a court filing by his attorneys, was disciplined by the Colorado Medical Board in 2005.
State records show Fenton was reprimanded... for prescribing medication to herself, her husband and an employee. The medications, prescribed in the late 1990s, included prescriptions for Vicodin, Xanax, Lorazepam and Ambien.

For more on this part of the story, see also Andrew W. Griffin's "Was unethical psychiatrist the 'Aurora massacre' gunman's mind-control doctor?"

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Another Woman in Red

By synchromystic coincidence, a mystery woman at the London Olympics popped up in the middle of the India delegation during the march of nations. What was she wearing? Red, of course. She was not even trying to merge in with the other Indians wearing yellow and black.

She was not suppose to be there: "Indian officials said they had no idea who the woman was. The country's Deccan Chronicle newspaper said she was likely Madhura Nagendra, a graduate student from the southern city of Bangalore who had been living in London."

A circle? Really? Like she can't be seen? Jagran Post marked the photo and reported: "An unidentified lady (in red shirt) walks besides flag-bearer Sushil Kumar during the Indian team's parade at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2012 in London. A mystery woman who gatecrashed India's march past at the Olympic opening ceremony has reportedly been identified as Madhura Honey."

The meaning of "Madhura"? "Sweet."

"Nagendra"? "Chief of serpents; chief of the mountain." Apparently, "Nagendra" does not mean "honey," so who knows what mystery has been solved here, yet?

[Hat tip, in part, to Django, for Olympics news.]

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For the links to recent other postings about The Dark Knight Rises, the Aurora red dawn event, and copycats, please see also:

Aurora Copycat Effect: The Complete List

Red Dawn Again

Aurora: Synchromystic Wonderland

Aurora Copycats: Prepare Now

Anticipating Aurora and Beyond

Red Dawn

Blood Red Movie Massacres

Joker Copycats: 2008-2112

Dark Knight Shooting: 12 Dead, 58 Injured

Bane/Bain Bursts Bare (Part 3)

Bane/Bain Continues (Part 2)

Bane/Bain (Part 1)

Recent interviews, about the Aurora shootings:

WGN - Mike McConnell: Loren Coleman

The Corbett Report: The Copycat Effect with Loren Coleman

Binnall of America: Loren Coleman and Bruce Rux

Talk Shoe - 42 Minutes: Loren Coleman

Red Ice Creations

The Copycat Effect

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