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Obsession: A picture from Adult Friend Finder shows James Holmes, who calls himself Classicjimbo on the website, and Sun Page 3 girl Keeley Hazell. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied

THE shooter who killed 12 people at a Batman movie was obsessed with Sun Page 3 girl Keeley Hazell.

James Holmes posed online with her picture before the slaughter in Aurora, Colorado.

In an interview with The Sun, Ms Hazell said "I'm horrified."

It was also revealed that the rifle he used during the rampage jammed and forced Holmes to use another gun with less fire power.

New footage has also emerged showing Holmes giving a presentation at a science camp in San Diego six years ago when he was 18.

Looking visibly nervous in front of an audience, he gives a speech on the subject of Temporal Illusions.

Police says he received several mail deliveries over four months to his home and school in advance of the attack.

"What we're seeing here is evidence of some calculation and deliberation," Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said.

It is believed that Holmes followed the "teachings" of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik as he planned his murder spree.

He even signed up to an adult dating website in a bid to follow twisted Breivik's advice to "keep up morale" by having plenty of sex before his attack.

Breivik, 33, killed 77 people exactly a year ago today by setting off a car bomb in Oslo and then opening fire on the Norwegian Labour Party's youth wing on the island of Utoya.

Holmes killed 12 died and injured 59 in a massacre that police said was planned with "calculation and deliberation".

It was revealed yesterday that the youngest person killed was six-year-old Veronica Moser. Her mum Ashley is fighting for life.

In his 1500-page manifesto, Breivik gives other monsters advice on weapons and equipment - and encourages them to have sex often.

He explains that it helps to maintain "a balanced state of mind" and "keeps your morale and motivation up".

Holmes joined Adult Friend Finder two weeks before the shooting with his profile showing the red hair colour he adopted for the gun onslaught.

In one online snap he is posing in front of a picture of Sun Page 3 girl Keeley Hazell, 25.

"It's chilling and has shocked and disgusted me. The whole thing is so weird,'' Ms Hazell told The Sun newspaper.

 

"That picture is from a magazine shoot I did a long while ago and I can't believe such a weirdo has it on his profile page. The whole thing is sick - but nothing to what the people of Aurora must be going through. My heart goes out to them."

Biology student Kaitlyn Fonzi, 20, who lived downstairs from the dropped-out PhD student in Aurora said: "He was always alone. I never saw him with a girl.

He looked very studious." That may explain why he joined Adult Friend Finder - which boasts it is "the world's largest sex dating site and swinger community". On his profile, Holmes eerily wrote: "Will you visit me in prison?"

The sex-starved weirdo described his manhood as "short/average".

He said he was looking for women or group sex and last logged on to his profile a few days before the Batman massacre. He wrote on the site: "Looking for a fling or casual sex gal."

In another echo of Breivik, Holmes is believed to have planned a double atrocity. The Norwegian used a bomb - and Holmes had rigged up explosives to be set off by a tripwire in his flat, five kilometres from the cinema.

The tripwire was attached to a terrifying network of bombs.

But last night police had successfully dismantled booby-traps by carrying out controlled detonations both in his flat and in a remote desert area south of Aurora.