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Ice Cold Case

I'm Batman

Ice Cold Case

Madison McGhee

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4750 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Every hero has an origin story and this is mine — the story of how I found out about my dad's murder and what pushed me to start asking questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What kind of weekend are you in the mood for?

0:03.0

Well, with Disney Plus, anything is possible.

0:06.0

Whether that be two days of twists and turns with only murders in the building,

0:11.0

drama and fine dining with The Bear,

0:13.0

or a journey back to feudal Japan with Shogun.

0:17.0

January weekends just got better with Disney Plus.

0:20.0

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0:22.1

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0:24.0

Learn more at Disneyplus.com.

0:28.6

Everyone has a favorite superhero.

0:31.4

The one who has always kept my attention is Batman.

0:35.5

Christopher Nolan's Batman, to be specific. For me, he felt weirdly relatable.

0:43.0

It was Batman's beginning that drew me in, how the murder of his parents informed the rest of his

0:49.2

life. His urge to avenge their death might feel extreme to some people, but it still resonates with me.

0:57.6

The similarities seem obvious, but the connection is deeper. It's not just in his inspiration that I see

1:04.8

the resemblance. The internal conflict he faces is one that I have been dealing with from the moment I learned of my dad's

1:12.4

murder. Superheroes are complicated. It's not as simple as saving the day. A moral struggle is

1:20.7

inevitable, and it's never black and white. Intention doesn't always match impact. That's a lesson I learned the hard way.

1:30.4

I'm no Bruce Wayne, but if you squint hard enough, you'll see a detective in the making.

1:36.7

And this is how I got here. My dad wasn't discussed much when I was a kid.

1:58.6

I didn't have much context or knowledge about how my parents met,

2:02.6

why they broke up, or what was going on at the time of my dad's murder. My curiosity didn't

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