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MAN: The thing
inside of me, it's like...

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the appetite.

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It's like a wolf that's...

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feeling...the hunger.

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Everyone is wondering
what's happened.

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Of course, it's a small town,
and, you know,

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you just don't think things
like this are gonna happen here,

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and everyone's just concerned,

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and our hearts go out
for the families.

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MAN: Family members mill about
as sheriff's deputies,

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the Division of Criminal
Investigation,

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and Altoona Rescue crew,

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and then Des Moines
Crime Scene Mobile Command

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and then Des Moines
Crime Scene Mobile Command

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descend on
the farmstead -- tonight,

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hope for a break in the case.

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Investigators want to find
a red 1995 Chevy Tahoe.

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The sheriff's office believes
a man

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named Russell Overlin is
driving this truck.

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The big question tonight --
could Russell Overlin explain

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what led investigators
to spend

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much of the night
digging in the elderly

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couple's backyard.

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Overlin's history is
consistent with

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somebody who is displaying
a parasitic lifestyle.

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He hasn't been able to hold
down jobs consistently.

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He has not only employment
instability because of

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He has not only employment
instability because of

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his work performance,
but because interpersonally,

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he doesn't seem mature enough
to realize

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how you handle
interactions with bosses.

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He's in his fifties,
living on his parents' property,

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in a trailer that they own.

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[Overlin sighs]

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The reaction of,
"Really?" is not a normal

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reaction to finding out
your parents are dead.

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Even if he maintained
he didn't kill them

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or tried to pretend
that he didn't,

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that reaction is just --
it's incredibly telling.

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that reaction is just --
it's incredibly telling.

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The detective knows what's
going on, just from that.

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MORGAN:
He's sitting back in his chair,
almost twiddling his thumbs.

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Then he asks the question,

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"So you found them,"
or "You found the bodies."

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So then he turns around
to poking to see

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how much do they know --
someone with psychopathy,

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they like to control
the situation.

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They want to slowly dispense
the information they have,

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because it will all be
about them.

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He's gonna make them work.

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There's no remorse
in what he describes.

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It's -- it's as if
he's just giving

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the facts of it happened
this way,

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almost if you were narrating
what was on a video.

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almost if you were narrating
what was on a video.

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It's sort of this commentary
on his own actions

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that's really indifferent
and detached.

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Overlin's description of
a fairly gruesome crime

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and the amount of effort

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that it took for him
to kill his stepmother

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and his father is, again,
just very matter-of-fact.

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He's not fazed by the fact
that he was violently involved

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in any kind of interaction
with them.

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But the fact that he returned
to his stepmother

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But the fact that he returned
to his stepmother

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and then beat her
the number of times

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that he did suggests
that, in that moment,

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he lost control, and the only
emotions he was in touch

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with were his anger
and rage towards her.

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I think a lot
of his odd attempts

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at humor are much more
for his own enjoyment,

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kind of in-jokes with himself
and less for the detectives.

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His "ladies first"
with a little bit

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of emotion, kind of
a chuckle almost.

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That's --
that's concerning -- it's --

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That's --
that's concerning -- it's --

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it's callous --
when we see emotion, it's dark.

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The statement that
his stepmother wrote like

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a serial killer
is another demonstration

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of a really glib attitude --
on the one hand,

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glorifying his actions, and on
the other hand, he's really

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reducing his stepmother's
reputation and her existence

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reducing his stepmother's
reputation and her existence

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down to something that
justifies his behavior.

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He's complaining
that she's saying that it's

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making the place smell
like an outhouse,

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or the simple fact
to ask him

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to take shoes off
coming into the house.

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This is enraging to him.

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We think that those kinds of
things reflect a very,

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very fragile ego on
the person's part.

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They feel insulted
very easily, because he thinks

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They feel insulted
very easily, because he thinks

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what he's doing
is just fine.

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He owns the phrase,
"I'm a bum."

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There's some kind of
self-loathing there,

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that he's in the circumstances
he's in.

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I'm wondering how much that
financial reality is

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I'm wondering how much that
financial reality is

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what kind of catalyzed it
happening when it happened,

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because suddenly,
he couldn't just cruise

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maybe the way he had.

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SAHNI: Overlin's planning is
somewhat half-baked.

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He doesn't really think
through the logistics of

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how he's going
to live on the run.

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He spends four years
lying in wait

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He spends four years
lying in wait

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in his head, trying to
plot out the perfect way to get

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rid of them, but even there,
you hear this lack of effort.

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He didn't want to have to
struggle to do it.

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And then ultimately, he decides
on a Sunday, while they're

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at church, that that's the day
he's going to do it.

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And he lays in wait
for them to

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come home, and then bludgeons
them both to death.

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SAHNI: Lizzie Borden is
a well-known case of a woman

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who, in the 1890s, killed her
own father and stepmother

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and stood trial for that.

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And the fact that Overlin
chooses to draw that parallel,

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I think,
speaks to his own ego.

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He's proud of what he's done.

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This is somewhat
self aggrandizing.

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He's making himself important.

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He's making himself important.

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He's making himself elevated
in terms of his status.

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The idea of being thrown
into a well

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while you're still alive,

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you know, horror movies are
made on the topic.

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It's something that most
people have

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a very strong emotional
reaction to.

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He's talking about
how much joy he took from it.

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That's -- that's some
impressive sadism.

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When he's talking
about suicide,

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um, I don't think he's
describing so much depression,

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but he's describing feeling
rejected from the entire world

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and not having a place in it.

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He's probably spent a lot of
his life feeling horrible, um,

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horrible and judged and not
appreciated and entitled

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and not getting attention
or acknowledgement.

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Him telling police that they
look sadder than he does

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I think actually shows
some insight.

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It shows a little bit of
awareness and willingness

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to say,
"Yeah, I'm not motivated

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"by the same things
most people are.

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"I thought I'd be dead by now.

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I'm still here,"
and he doesn't really

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want to continue to live.

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He doesn't get anything out of
this life -- instead of getting

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He doesn't get anything out of
this life -- instead of getting

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busy living,
he's waiting to die.

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He is the center
of attention, and for him,

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that's got to be satisfying,
because this might be the most

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notoriety and meaning
and attention

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he's gotten from
other people.

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When we say that psychopaths
are narcissistic and that

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everything has to be
about them, what they're doing

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and focusing on
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and other people
that they matter,

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that they're powerful,
that they're important.