A Dark Night in Aurora
James Holmes is almost unique among mass shooters in his willingness to be taken into custody alive. In the investigations and court case that followed, only Dr. William H. Reid, a distinguished forensic psychiatrist, would be allowed to video record nine interviews, 23 hours in all, with the perpetrator and later testify as one of the trial Judge's psychiatric experts.
Reid read Holmes’ private diary; investigated his phone calls and text messages; interviewed his family, friends, teachers and professors; spoke with many of his victims, and reviewed tens of thousands of pages of physical evidence, notes, photos, videos, psychiatric reports and court testimony in an effort to understand a horrible event and the person who created it. The result is the gripping story of how a lovely little boy named Jimmy became one of the worst killers in US history.