On a warm summer evening in Aurora, Colorado, an excited audience sits down for the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. But little do they know, this will be a night to remember, and not because of the movie. For sitting among them is James Holmes, and he’s taken a little too much inspiration from one of Batman’s most recognizable supervillains, “The Joker.” Intent on causing chaos and destruction, this copycat uses the latest Batman release as the inspiration for a deadly rampage that turned into the worst theater mass-shooting in American history.

New Copycat Killers podcasts drop each Thursday. Next week, Forensic Psychologist Dr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner and the experts dissect the murder inspired by The Matrix.

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