Aurora woman opens up about her giant crush on ‘Dark Knight’ shooter James Holmes

An online community of women, who call themselves “Holmsies,” are in a romantic parasocial relationship with Aurora killer James Holmes.

This article reads like it came from The Onion, but apparently it’s real. Do we have any explanation for this, as media psychologists?

– Jill Elswick
via http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/women-crush-batman-shooter-holmes-article-1.1238090#ixzz2Hg3sLGkE