Quotes from William H. Reid

To those who don't understand why Fenton or Feinstein didn't simply put Holmes into a hospital whether he wanted to go or not: it just doesn't work that way. Protection from unjustified confinement is a very important civil right in the United States.

He maintained later that he stopped seeing Fenton because he lost his insurance when he dropped out of graduate school, implying that if she'd kept seeing him, he wouldn't have committed the Century 16 murders.

Blaming the shootings on the doctors or lack of money doesn't wash, of course. It's a ridiculous rationalization, or just crazy. Holmes admits that Drs. Fenton and Feinstein offered to see him regardless of insurance and that he had plenty of money and additional support from his parents. Bob and Arlene had told him clearly that money was no problem when it came to getting psychiatric help.

I did not find, and don't believe today, that Holmes met accepted psychiatric criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia or its even more serious cousin, schizoaffective disorder, at the time of the shootings.