Speaker 1: Today, jurors heard more from James Holmes, the man who
Speaker 1: opened far in a Colorado movie theater. Witnesses say Holmes
Speaker 1: fired into the air and then started shooting into the crowd.
Speaker 1: At that moment, I just remember thinking, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to die in here. Me and my kids, we are
Speaker 1: not going to die in here. I need to get
Speaker 1: them out. From James Holmes to Lorraina Bobbitt to John
Speaker 1: Heackley Jr. Some of history's most notorious criminal defendants are
Speaker 1: linked by a common thread, the insanity defense. Lorraina Bobbit
Speaker 1: goes on trial for maliciously wounding her husband and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are watching. She went to the kitchen,
Speaker 1: she sees a knife, she grabs it. She cuts off
Speaker 1: his penis while he is asleep. The basic dynamic of
Speaker 1: that case for some people is going to be he
Speaker 1: deserved it. He had it coming to him. I mean,
Speaker 1: as a matter of law, he didn't have it coming
Speaker 1: to him. Each season on the Thread, we unraveled the
Speaker 1: stories behind some of the most important lives and events
Speaker 1: in history to discover, essentially how one thing leads to another.
Speaker 1: We turned back the clock, one story at a time
Speaker 1: to reveal how various strands get woven together to create
Speaker 1: a historic figure, a big idea, or an unthinkable tragedy.
Speaker 1: He decided that he would assassinate Ronald Reagan when he
Speaker 1: was giving a speech at the Washington Hilton. The defense
Speaker 1: of you was that the President was just a bit
Speaker 1: player in this drama that was being, you know, played
Speaker 1: out in Hinckley's mind. In season four of The Thread,
Speaker 1: we explore some of the most high profile criminal cases
Speaker 1: in history through the lens of the controversial legal defense
Speaker 1: that unites and binds them all not guilty by way
Speaker 1: of insanity. Will journey back in time to witness some
Speaker 1: of the most extraordinary but largely forgot crimes and trials
Speaker 1: in history. Were they bad? Or were they mad? People
Speaker 1: thought that the gunshots were part of the show at first,
Speaker 1: but he said to his attorney's no way, I'm perfectly
Speaker 1: saying I did. I did the act, and in fact
Speaker 1: I should have been given a medal. And he decided
Speaker 1: the only thing that he could do to stop this
Speaker 1: was to shoot the Prime Minister. Yeah. I mean literally,
Speaker 1: if it was an episode of House of Cards, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't believe it, right, But it really happened. How can
Speaker 1: you ever know what somebody knows right, We couldn't go
Speaker 1: back in time and be there with him, inside his
Speaker 1: brain at the time that he was pulling the trigger.
Speaker 1: Bad or mad. Subscribe now to the thread on Apple
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