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[killer speaking] There's
a thing inside of me,
it's like...
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the appetite, it's like a wolf
that's...
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killing... the hunger.
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Even when you have seasoned...
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detectives,
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and seasoned police officers,
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there's very little
that prepares a human being
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for seeing
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a harrowing crime scene
like this,
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where a human being
has been treated with
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such a level of disregard
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that it just tells us
that this is a high-risk case,
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and it's somebody
who has some level
of psychiatric disturbance
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to be able to do that
to another human being.
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Cohee's displaying classic
psychopathic tendencies
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where he has absolutely
no remorse,
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no feelings of guilt.
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He's not offering up
any of that.
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But what he's offering up is
how much time he's got to do
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because of this murder.
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He's really not identifying
what the value of the life is.
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He doesn't really understand.
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He's just saying, "Oh, okay,
I'm going to go away
for a couple of years."
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There's no empathy towards
the victim, whatsoever.
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No understanding of life,
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feelings, emotions,
absolutely none.
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[Dr. Charles] He's announcing,
there are weapons in the car,
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and I'm a sick person.
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So, we can see this as
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already setting a new frame
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in the conversation
with the interviewer
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in controlling
where it's gonna go
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and then framing
how it should be viewed.
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He's already laying out
the status for
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what could be described as
an excuse or a defense,
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um, sort of putting the blame
somewhere else.
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[Dr. Nameeta] As he starts
to talk about the details
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of his attack on the victim,
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he seems to be
getting titillated
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and aroused by this,
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and not aroused
in the sexual
sense of the word
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but aroused in the sense
that the adrenalin
is starting to course.
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[mimics growling]
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[detective] Okay.
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[Cohee chuckles]
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[Dr. Nameeta]
He's not attached
to the fact that Warren Barnes
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this is a human being
he killed,
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and that he went on to then
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dehumanize,
and humiliate his body,
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his remains.
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It sounds like it's something
out of a horror movie.
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But what we also get
a sense of is that,
Brian Cohee was entertained.
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This was play-acting for him.
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This was him
going through the motions
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of creating
his own horror film,
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creating his own
set of memories.
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Many people with psychopathy
sense they...
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they don't appreciate
the world around them
like other people do,
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may incorporate the ideas
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that they've seen
in a film into the act
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that they act out
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because the fantasy world
is more interesting to them
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than the actual world
of human relations
that they live in.
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Cohee proudly talks about
what he knows,
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and what he has become
a learner of,
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which is
the forensic sciences,
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and how
the criminal mind thinks,
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and he has taken copious notes
on various serial killers.
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What is ironic,
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is that he didn't take
many steps
to hide his evidence,
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and his own sort of missteps
in decision making,
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the fact that his mother found
these remains in the home,
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speaks of somebody
who was looking to get caught,
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because it's not spectacular,
if it only lives in your head.
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I think there's a lot
in that comment.
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The... the criminal is someone
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who is not obeying
social rules,
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a police officer is someone
who has a lot of authority
over other people
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but I think it's more of
the access to people
in power and control issue
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that would be appealing
to someone with psychopathy.
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[Dr. Nicole] Cohee
is choosing a victim
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that he thinks
no one will know is missing,
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so he can actually
complete the act of killing.
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This is a new thing for him.
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He hasn't done this before.
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So he doesn't want
to engage in a struggle.
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He doesn't want it
to be interfered with.
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He wants
to accomplish this act
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to get that feeling
of excitement and arousal.
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[Dr. Charles] Cohee talks
about his experience
killing a cat
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and it's a miniature
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prelude to killing a human
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and cutting them open
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and taking their head off.
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Uh, and we do see that
in many instances
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of people
who are psychopathic,
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who then go on to kill people.
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They've done rehearsal.
They've tortured animals
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or they've hurt other kids.
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Those are all
sort of the baby steps
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toward the bigger act
of killing a human.
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What we know
about Brian Cohee's time
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in school and as a student
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is there were
a multitude of red flags.
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Revealing some of the entries
from Cohee's journals,
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they can best be summarized
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as a self-created
encyclopedia on murder,
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on harm of human beings,
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and glorifying
psychopathic behavior.
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There was also an incident
of a third-degree assault,
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where he created
a homemade weapon,
a homemade mace,
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and swung it around
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into one of
the other student's heads.
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[Dr. Nicole]
He was practicing,
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because if he can perfect that
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then he can take it
to next level and add in
that sexual component
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and that would make sense
for someone like Cohee
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who doesn't
have any history
of personal relationships,
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let alone with females,
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and so this might be
a way of him
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seeing what it's like
to be with a female,
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but controlling
and abusing them
and getting them to the point
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where they are in
such fear of their life
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that it's also giving him
sexual gratification
off of that.
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[Dr. Nameeta] What might be
most disturbing
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when Cohee talks about
how it felt for him,
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he's a bit deflated.
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Cohee's desire
to seek a thrill
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and a get a high
or an adrenalin rush,
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it didn't even really last.
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So, what happens
for a person like Brian Cohee
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if that thrill-seeking
and an adrenaline rush
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is short lived,
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after doing
that much destruction
to a human being?
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That part I think
is incredibly scary
to think about.
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[reporter] A Mesa County teen
accused of brutal murder
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of the local homeless man
has pleaded not-guilty
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by reason of insanity.
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Nineteen-year-old Brian Cohee
entered the plea in person
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during his arraignment
in Mesa County Court
this morning.
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During hearing in September
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an investigator
told the court,
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he believed Cohee suffered
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from mental illness
and depression
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among other conditions.
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In general,
when we think about
competency evaluations,
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we are thinking about
at the time of the crime,
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did they understand
the difference
between right and wrong?
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Brian Cohee understood
if he was caught
he'd be in trouble,
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and this is somebody that
from the outset of
when he left home
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took steps
to avoid being detected,
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avoid being
linked to this crime.
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And ultimately
his choice of victims
was also part of that,
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in that he chose somebody
that by his own definition,
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he thought
would not be missed.
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[reporter] Judge Gurley
sentenced Cohee
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to the rest
of his natural life in prison
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plus thirteen and half years
without parole.
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Justice served,
that while Warren is gone,
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he will never be forgotten.
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Now, some of
Warren's family members
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told me they choose
to remember Warren
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where he was known
and loved,
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at his memorial
in Downtown Grand Junction,
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not the murder site.