Courthouse Massacre : Brian Nichols

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Brian Nichols was being tried a sexcond time for sexual assault when he attacked a gaurd and went on a killing spree. He claimed that he was seeking justice for racial inequality in the justice system, but it turned out he was just a selfish monster.

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0:00.0	Most of the time, once a criminal gets to court, they're not able to hurt anyone else, for the time being.
0:06.7	Courthouses have pretty tight security, and even many law enforcement officers aren't allowed to have their weapons on them inside the building.
0:14.1	If the defendant is being tried for a violent crime, they usually have a police escort, and depending on the type of hearing they're attending, they may even still be in handcuffs or even in shackles. Still, a person can commit violence once
0:27.7	inside the courthouse if they really want to. That was the case with Brian Nichols, who was facing a
0:33.5	second trial for sexual assault after his first trial ended in a hung jury.
0:38.8	Despite the evidence against him being strong, he claimed that he was innocent and that
0:43.1	the system was set up against him. He believed it was his duty to fight back. This is Monsters.
0:50.9	Music monsters. Brian Jean Nichols was born on December 10th, 1971 in Baltimore, Maryland to Jean and Claritha Nichols.
1:23.6	He had one older brother named Mark. The brothers attended an all-boys private Catholic school called Cardinal Gibbon School, despite being raised in a Baptist family.
1:35.3	He's said to have had a pretty standard childhood, and though he started out pretty shy in high school, he began lifting weights and building more self-confidence.
1:46.2	After graduating, he attended Cutztown University of Pennsylvania, where he played football as a walk-on. Other players said that he
1:52.7	was a good athlete, but he had a knack for getting into trouble. Records show that Brian was arrested
1:58.3	at least three times while in Kututsown. In 1990, he was
2:03.1	charged with terroristic threats, simple assault, disorderly conduct, and harassment after an
2:09.2	incident in the university dining hall. He made a deal to plead guilty to two lesser charges.
2:15.9	He was arrested two more times in 1991 for criminal trespass,
2:20.5	misdemeanor criminal mischief, and disorderly conduct, but the charges were later dropped.
2:26.5	After three semesters, Brian dropped out of Cutsown University and enrolled at Newberry College
2:31.6	in South Carolina, where he also played football.
2:35.2	During that time, he had a child in 1992 with a woman named Stephanie Jay, but was not interested
2:40.8	in being a father. It's not clear where the mother and child lived, but Brian actively avoided
2:46.6	them after the baby was born. He got into more trouble while at Newberry College and was caught
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