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A Dark Night in Aurora

Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings

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A Dark Night in Aurora

By: William H. Reid MD MPH
Narrated by: William H. Reid MD MPH
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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 listener inside the mind of a mass murderer. The result is chilling, gripping study of abnormal psychology and how a lovely boy named Jimmy became a killer.

©2018 William H. Reid (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved
Criminal & Forensic Psychology Mental Health Murder Personality Disorders Psychology Psychology & Mental Health True Crime Health Crime Crime Psychology
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An insightful, fairly balanced and well written account of an unfathomable tragedy. Equal parts gripping and informative.

Insightful & Gripping

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Fairly written, can induce sleep or drowsiness. Do not operate machinery, avoid alcohol.

Take 1-2 chapters, 30mins before bed.
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Great book and insight from the Doc. the history, the event, the demise of the offender and offers a professional and neutral stance throughtout such a tragic event for so many.

Doc has smooth gold voice.

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A depressingly nasty little book from an insider involved in the case. Some of the chapters will have you wondering how the hell the criminal justice system works and how 'experts' have the gall to claim there's true justice. The book is opinionated and does little to help you understand this tragedy.

A nasty little book

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