
A Dark Night in Aurora
Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
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Narrateur(s):
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William H. Reid MD MPH
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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 reservedFantastic Objectivity
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I am an MD - and have some experience with forensic psychiatry (albeit in Canada) - so I can testify that Dr. Reid's survey of the BioPsychoSocial causes and expression of Holmes's mental illness (including his shocking crimes) is complete. Less fortunately, Reid is pretty clearly sympathetic/empathetic to the Century-16 Cinema killer. While admirable, Reid clearly decides to treat Holmes as a patient rather than as a case (which is fine.. just be aware that it might color his observations).
As to narration: Brilliance Audio should have insisted on a professional reader. Dr. Reid was clearly told to read slowly and enunciate. He is clear and has a comfortable timbre & cadence, but the overenunciation is striking at times and consuming this recording at 1.25X is a must (Reid's reading rate is *glacial*). That said, the technical support is exemplary.
Altogether, this exhaustively informative audiobook rates 5 stars out of 10. If you are fascinated by the case of James Holmes (or want some insight into how extensive court-ordered evaluations can be), this is a very good option (and I got it for free) - but you could do better in the "sensational crime aftermath" genre if they ask for money (Dave Cullen's 'Columbine' is a must-listen, for example).
A Straight Recitation of Clinical Notes
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Like reading the side of a cereal box
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Insightful and real
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Unlike most true crime books, this one tells James' whole life story. And he wasn't a terror who mutilated animals as a kid, like a lot of serial murderers. He was a happy, sweet kid. It's hard not to like him. The book portrays him as a human being, not just a monster.
In my humble opinion, it sounds like the murder was an act of OCD. A crazy compulsion. Extreme OCD. I have it myself, and while most of us with it feel compulsed to do things like clean or pick at our skin, it seems he had a compulsion to kill. He doesn't have any good reason for doing it. He just talks about feeling a need to complete it to feel better.
The narrator sounds like he's half asleep. Sometimes he nearly or does slur his words. Not succinct at all. It's quite annoying.
Sad
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