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Aurora: The Psychiatrist Who Treated the Movie Theater Killer Tells Her Story Spiral-Bound | July 19, 2022

Dr. Lynne Fenton, Kerrie Droban

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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. Lynne 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?”
 
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Original Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0593101294
Item Weight: 0.9 lbs
Dimensions: 5.7 x 1.1 x 8.5 inches
“We rarely glimpse inside the minds of mass murderers, much less the minds of the professionals who crawl into them. Here, Dr. Lynne Fenton chronicles her deep dive into a genuine madman’s nerve center—and the personal price she paid for it. Aurora is a vital, important book that captures the human and legal confusion in the aftermath of mass murder. It can’t bring the dead back to life, but it can make you feel the terror. It takes your breath away.”—Ron Franscell, bestselling author of The Darkest Night and ShadowMan

“The harrowing story of a woman who saw violence on the horizon but was powerless to prevent it. This book is disturbing on multiple levels.”—Peter Langman, PhD, author of Warning Signs: Identifying School Shooters Before They Strike

“Insightful, brilliant, and unflinching, Aurora sheds light on America’s most disturbing and inexplicable crimes—mass shootings. The authors have created a page-turner that both fascinates and educates. This in-depth study of random violence will serve as a wake-up call to help prevent future massacres.”—Leslie Rule, bestselling author of true crime, including A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, A Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice

“Aurora is a captivating descent into a mind without a conscience and the tightrope walk of the psychiatrist trying to bring him back from the brink. When he committed a mass murder, shock and pain reverberated through a whole community including his former psychiatrist, who was scapegoated without mercy. A vivid and disturbing read that will haunt you for days.”—Diane Fanning, bestselling author of true crime, including Death on the River

“A terrifying inside portrait of the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater killer from the psychiatrist who treated him in the months prior to the massacre.”—Peter Vronsky, author of American Serial Killers
Lynne Fenton, MD attended The Chicago Medical School on a military scholarship and completed her four year residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the prestigious Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, part of the Northwestern University medical campus. She then served as Chief of Physical Medicine of the US Air Force during Operation Desert Storm. Upon completing her military service she relocated to Colorado and returned to training at the University of Colorado Medical School, completing a psychiatry residency followed by a research fellowship in brain imaging. She remained at the university seeing patients in many clinics as well as training psychiatry residents and medical students. Today she lives on a hobby farm in rural Colorado seeing patients and teaching classes via teleconference. United States.
 
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. She has appeared in several true crime television shows including CNBC's American Greed, "A & E's "Gangland" "Behind Enemy Lines", Investigation ID, Discovery Channel's "Deadly Devotion," and "Fatal Vows," and in episodes of Grave Mysteries, "Deep Undercover," "Homicide City Philadelphia," and HLN's "Vengeance Killer Millionaires." 

Author Residence: Fenton: rural Colorado Droban: Phoenix, AZ

Author Hometown: Droban: Fairfax, VA