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    A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
    A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
    A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
    Audiobook8 hours

    A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings

    Written by William H. Reid, MD, MPH

    Narrated by William H. Reid, MD, MPH

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    About this audiobook

    James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man was allowed to record extensive interviews with the shooter. This is what he found.

    On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. He threw a canister of tear gas into the crowd and began firing. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded; young children and pregnant women were among them. The man was found calmly waiting at his car. He was detained without resistance.

    Unlike the Columbine, Newtown, San Bernadino, and Parkland shootings, James Holmes is unique among mass shooters in his willingness to be taken into custody alive. In the court case that followed, only Dr. William H. Reid, a distinguished forensic psychiatrist, would be allowed to record interviews with the defendant. Reid would read Holmes’ diary, investigate his phone calls and text messages, interview his family and acquaintances, speak to his victims, and review tens of thousands of pages of evidence and court testimony in an attempt to understand how a happy, seemingly normal child could become a killer.

    A Dark Night in Aurora uses the twenty-three hours of unredacted interview transcripts never seen by the public and Reid’s research to bring the reader inside the mind of a mass murderer. The result is a chilling, gripping study of abnormal psychology, and how a lovely boy named Jimmy became a killer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 14, 2018
    ISBN9781543680539
    A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
    Author

    William H. Reid, MD, MPH

    William Reid, MD, MPH, is among the most experienced forensic mental health professionals in North America. He has received both the Manfred Guttmacher Award for forensic writing and the Seymour Pollack Award for Distinguished Contribution to Education in Forensic Psychiatry, and is a past president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Dr. Reid has written, co-authored, or edited 16 professional volumes and over 200 professional articles and book chapters, many on antisocial behavior, terrorism and forensic practice. Dr. Reid was one of two psychiatric experts retained by the presiding judge in People of the State of Colorado v. James Holmes, and the only psychiatrist allowed to record interviews with Holmes and access the unredacted videos and transcripts. He currently resides in Horseshoe Bay, Texas.

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    • 5/5
      The details are amazing. You'd think you have all the answers in a case like this, then you hear the details from Holmes beginning to his ruling. You also find out how the court system works (in Colorado) which is very interesting. There is so much to consider in a case like this. Very interesting read!
    • 5/5
      Very comprehensive and overall respectful dissection of the Aurora Cinema massacre.