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Aurora : the psychiatrist who treated the movie theater killer tells her story  Cover Image Book Book

Aurora : the psychiatrist who treated the movie theater killer tells her story / Lynne Fenton, MD and Kerrie Droban.

Fenton, Lynne, (author.). Droban, Kerrie, (author.).

Summary:

"A chilling and controversial look at evil from the psychiatrist who treated mass murderer James Holmes prior to the 2012 shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. As a national expert and speaker on mass shootings and gun violence, Dr. Lynn Fenton knew it was impossible to "spot a killer." But when she embarked on treating troubled grad student James Holmes, the hair on her arms stood up. She knew she was dealing with evil. Yet she could find no legal means of locking him up. A decade ago, on July 20, 2012, Holmes struck: he entered a packed movie theater and opened fire, killing twelve people and wounding seventy; some were left brain damaged, several were paralyzed for life. Dr. Fenton's inability to thwart Holmes's mass murder made her a scapegoat and put her own life in danger. Her chilling account provides an intimate look at her life before, during, and after the Aurora massacre, as well as alarming insight into the sinister patient who described himself as "fear incarnate." With unprecedented access to thousands of pages of documents, audio and video recordings, trial transcripts, medical records, and notes, Aurora attempts to answer the question Holmes himself posed in his infamous notebook: "Why? Why? Why?""-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593101292 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xii, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Berkley, [2022]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Fenton, Lynne.
Holmes, James, 1987-
Colorado Theater Shooting, Aurora, Colo., 2012.
Mass murder > Colorado > Aurora.
Mass murderers > Colorado > Aurora > Psychology.
Mental health personnel and patient > Colorado > Aurora.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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LYNNE FENTON, MD, served as Chief of Physical Medicine of the US Air Force during Operation Desert Storm. After military service, she returned to train at the University of Colorado Medical School and eventually completed a psychiatry residency followed by a research fellowship in brain imaging. She has remained at the university, seeing patients in many clinics, as well as training psychiatry residents and medical students.
 
KERRIE DROBAN is a criminal defense attorney and the award-winning author of several true-crime books, one of which was made into a television series called Gangland Undercover. She is a national speaker and expert consultant on criminal pathology, organized crime, and outlaw motorcycle gangs.


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