Henry was arrested and placed in the Rolling Hills Mental Health nuthouse in Mankato, Minnesota while he awaited trial, under the care of Dr. Robert Manuel Sweeney Fritzgerald, grandson of the famous opera lover Brian Sweeney Fritzgerald. Also known as “Fitzcarraldo” to the natives of the Amazon, he became famous for dragging a huge, 340-ton steam-driven riverboat over a mountain and across the Amazon forest to avoid rapids and eventually build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. He died shortly after, and his family moved back to the United States, where all of the Fritzgerald children grew up hearing the fantastical tale of their father and his opera house.
When Robert was in medical school, he interned at a state mental health hospital and became fascinated by the people that worked and lived there. After graduating, Robert moved to Mankato to work in an area well known for its homicidal maniacs, the Mid-west. Jeffery Dommer, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, the townsfolk of Black River Falls; the Mid-west’s history is well seasoned with crazed killers and introverted cannibals, so Robert couldn’t think of any better place to study and help lunatics like Henry James.
Robert prescribed the sedative Pretax to Henry and waited with keen interest for signs of change. . The results were discouraging, but interesting: Henry sat watching TV for a few weeks, then one day got up and began beating up the other nut-jobs with a broken chair leg. Before he could be stopped he had killed three people and wounded six others, including Dr. Fritzgerald, who suffered a trauma of the cranium resulting in a coma. Henry was moved to the Lincoln Hills Correctional Facility for the Criminally Insane in Milwaukee, WI.
After a brief battery of other ineffectual perscriptions, the quacks at Lincoln Hills seemed to have discovered that Nipnapsinol was effective in calming Henry. This was far from the truth, because Henry successfully escaped a year later by posing as an orderly, whom he had murdered and hidden in the janitor’s closet. The Nipnapsinol only suppressed the more hasty and overt violent tendencies, while increasing the auditory hallucinations. His wife apparently was not satisfied with the previous killings Henry had performed and her voice screamed for more blood.
The orderly’s name was Paulie Fitzino, son of the ex-bookie Randy Fitzino from Marion, who had abandoned his pregnant girlfriend, Samantha Orm. After he heard of her torment in Manawa, Paulie felt remorse about his hasty decision to cut loose Samantha. Determined to become a better person, he gave his life to helping others and after graduating from high school in Marion, enrolled in the University of Minnesota to study nursing care. At the time of his murder at the hands of Henry James, he was interning at Lincoln Hills to finish up his degree.
After the escape of Henry James, Dr. Donald J. Sullivan, the head Doctor at Lincoln Hills made an interesting discovery about the sedatives Pretax and Nipnapisol; primarily that the two drugs only caused hallucinations in users that were exposed to high levels of blue waves, which are emitted from televisions and computers. He had discovered this after noticing that only the patients perscribed those two sedatives that became violent were the ones that watched TV all day; the patients that chose other activities seemed to show no violent tendencies at all. Rather than take the televisions out of every insane asylum in the country, the two drugs were pulled off the market and Dr. Sullivan was promoted to head of the pharmaceutical research team DrugWatch in Settleburg, IL.