Dr. Fenton
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189 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Dr. Fenton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Many people walked to the theater with smiles on their faces, wearing their Batman t-shirts, so excited for the night ahead. James was also excited, but for a different reason. Shortly after midnight, he walks into Theater 9. There were hundreds of people already in their seats, watching the previews. James takes a seat next. near the front.
But after a few minutes, he pulls out his phone and pretends to take a call. He puts the phone up to his ear, stands up, and then walks out of the theater's exit door by the screen. Now these doors are made so that you can leave in an emergency, but once they close, you can't get back in from the outside. However, James had already prepared for this.
He pulled out these clips that he attached to the door to keep it propped open. Then from there, he made his way to his car to put his gear on.
Once James was fully dressed, he grabbed his weapons and supplies. His plan was to walk in the theater and throw two cans of tear gas, one for each exit. Then he would begin shooting using a number of guns he had with him. But first, James decided to make a phone call. He pulled out his phone and called the university's mental health crisis hotline.
Now exactly what happened with this call is still a little unclear. The prosecution would later say that James hung up as soon as someone answered. A worker claimed that she tried to talk to the caller, but only heard silence. However, James said that no one ever picked up. Now, there are some people who believe this was a cry for help.
However, there are others who think that James planned this entire thing out wanting to claim insanity and calling the university hotline would help his case. But we will get into that more in next week's episode. After calling the hotline, James grabbed his headphones and he began blaring loud techno music.
He would later admit that he didn't want to hear the sounds of the attack, so he turned up the volume as high as it could go. As he stepped out of the car, holding his guns and tear gas, he accidentally dropped one of the tear gas canisters. He looked around for it on the ground, but he couldn't find it. It had rolled underneath his car, but that didn't matter. He didn't need it.
And from there, he took a deep breath and he opened the door to Theater 9. The flickering light from the screen illuminated the audience of 400 innocent people. James could see their faces. To him, they were numbers, lives he needed to take to improve his own. He then tightened his finger around the trigger of his shotgun. He recalled thinking to himself, quote, I'm really going to do this.
But what happened next would haunt our country to its core because up until this point, movie theaters were safe. And within an instant, that would all change.
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