(STATIC CRACKLING)
MAN: The thing inside of me, it's like...
The appetite, it's like a wolf that's...
..feeling...the hunger.
(SIRENS WAILING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
(CHILLING MUSIC)
He was high on cocaine.
He was fairly heavily intoxicated it appears,
and so his impulsivity would have been increased.
Yet, when he didn't find an axe,
that wasn't the signal to just retract and back away from that plan
and use it as a cooling off to just get away from her.
He then sees a hatchet,
and he gets the bright idea to kill her with the hatchet.
So there's still some organisation to his thought process,
even though he wants to
believe and hold onto the idea that the drugs made him do it.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
DR BERRILL: The word 'escape' is interesting.
It has some meaning, I think, that is deeper and more relevant.
And his concern is that she was escaping.
But you don't escape after you've been hit in the neck
with an axe or a hatchet,
to the other end of a couch, that's not an escape.
What we know is that the girlfriend was finally going to leave him,
and he was aware of that and there had been an argument that night.
Psychopaths like to stay in control of their situation.
They have, in many regards, pretty fragile egos.
They don't handle rejection well.
And, having her leave him,
is not a reality he likely would have accepted.
I don't think he was worried about the mother suffering at all.
I think this is another opportunity for him
to use his glib and superficial charm
and to present like he's being helpful, he's the hero.
And it's very chilling when we're talking about
somebody murdering their girlfriend in front of her daughter.
Reddish is pretty matter of fact
about the reality that Becky's daughter
was witnessing her mother being violently killed.
No real regard for her presence during this violent crime,
even to the point that when he's asked
if she was there while the blows were happening,
he says, 'I think so.' He's not sure.
Reddish doesn't have a typical sense of connection to human beings,
and he doesn't have a typical sense of emotions
or loyalty, if you will, to others.
And that's consistent with what we see in psychopaths.
Their attachment to people is instrumental.
It's about what they can do for this person.
What can they do for me?
The analogy I can draw from the idea that, uh...
..he would say he didn't want her to suffer is
is kind of what people say about animals.
You know, if they hit an animal on the road
and the animal's not dead, they don't want them to suffer.
So they go into their truck and they retrieve a gun or rifle
and they shoot the animal.
I mean... It's, it strikes me as callous.
It strikes me as absurd.
What does he mean, he didn't want her to suffer?
He hit her with an axe, or, or a hatchet.
Of course he wanted her to suffer. You know? He was murdering her.
And he's full of baloney.
He had no concern about her suffering
and, uh, was treating her like an animal.
But he didn't want to be looked at
as someone who might think like that.
He literally is laughing as he is talking about
raping a 14-year-old girl.
His narcissism is front and centre here.
His desire for control and his lack of remorse is astonishing,
and also what we see in some psychopaths.
(CHILLING MUSIC)
DR BERRILL: And who COULD do that?
He's not pulling himself back.
What he's doing is saying, 'Well, what else can I do?'
I mean, there...
There is a piece missing from this guy's psyche, that's for sure.
There's a lot of very twisted
and perverse behaviour here,
all based on rage.
What we know is that Jennifer convinces him to call his mother,
because she's in survival mode
and she's using a level of decision making that is profound.
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It's clearly outrageous that after
subjecting this kid
to this, this horrific whirlwind of violence,
that he would be saying like, 'Woe is me',
and then invite her to commit suicide with him.
I mean, how is she supposed to respond to any of this?
I mean, it's, it's preposterous.
And he's so selfish and so self-absorbed,
that he doesn't even grasp
the enormity of what's just happened.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(CHILLING MUSIC)
REDDISH: Uh...
The possibility that surprising someone in their own apartment,
because you find them attractive,
would result in a sexual encounter,
it's preposterous.
When he gets it in his head and he's high enough...
..these cuckoo ideas are acted on.
I think it does put him in the psychopathic spectrum.
He's operating from the framework of, like, an infant.
You know, like a teenager.
(CHILLING MUSIC)
He talks about if she hadn't been attractive,
he wouldn't have tried to enter her apartment to have sex with her.
But he also actually says that essentially,
the reason he suffocated her is because she started screaming, she started protesting.
And if she hadn't said anything, he would just have left.
So I think that willingness to blame the victim like that,
and to do it in such a matter-of-fact way,
is some of that callous, cold nature that we see in psychopaths.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
This was a planned attempt to cover his tracks
and to avoid getting arrested.
And, um, I think what's the most horrific is just the,
the way he discusses it so calmly,
as if he's going to the store to buy groceries.
Just wrapped her up and put her in a shopping cart.
It is egregious, the lack of
concern or remorse that he has for her.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
It's very possible that,
that was the birth of this identity as a killer.
At age 16, even though he wasn't certain if he was a killer,
he latched onto that as a potential identity.
And that, again, may have been foreshadowing
for what we see happens later on in life.
That accident could have opened the doors
for him to think that he could kill again, and he did.
He demonstrates textbook psychopathic qualities.
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