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Just a few minutes ago,
police released this sketch of

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the woman whose body was found
in Washington Park.

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Investigators don't know
who she is, but they do think

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she was murdered,
and they're asking

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for your help
in identifying her.

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[man] On July 10th,
a maintenance worker told

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officers he found
Niki Powell's body lying badly

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decomposing on her bed.

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Once homicide detectives
searched the apartment,

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they found a shoelace wrapped
around Niki's neck.

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The medical examiner says
Niki likely died

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within 3 to 5 minutes.

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[theme music playing]

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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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[man] The body
of Nikala Powell was found in

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Southeast Portland
in her apartment.

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Her family says Nikala was
a harmless young woman

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who loved her job helping
homeless people get back

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on their feet.

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Detectives say Beebout quickly
became a person of interest

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in the case when they started

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looking into activity on
Niki's debit card.

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Investigators say these photos
show Beebout pulling out money

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from Niki's account or using
her Oregon Trail food card.

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They say he did so in southeast
Portland, on the coast,

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in California,
and eventually, in Seattle.

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That's where a fugitive task
force arrested Beebout

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driving Niki's car.

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Police say he had her dog
and debit card on him

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when he was arrested.

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The telling thing about
Beebout's choice of words,

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to say it's smoke and mirrors,
is him kind of admitting that

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he puts on a persona,
that he's a bit of a chameleon,

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and he's able to

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convince people of what
he wants them to think of him.

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It's what we want you to see,
but it's not really what is.

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[detective] No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no.

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We're starting to see Beebout
being squirmy, acting sort of

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indifferent about this sex act.

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And that's pretty on par for
the course for sex offenders.

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They tend to have this
background where they have

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very little social skills
and low self-confidence,

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and they have a hard time
interacting with

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and having
sexual relations with

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same-age peers, which is
why they seek out usually

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younger, more vulnerable victims
to take that control over that.

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Beebout enjoys being
in control of this interview.

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And certainly, inviting
an attorney into the room would

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be him giving up any control
over the narrative.

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So ultimately, for his own sort
of ego, he would rather keep

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control of the narrative
and stay in the room, even if

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it means, ultimately,
that he might say things which

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are gonna
be self-incriminating.

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The thing that's difficult
about this portion of Beebout's

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interview is that it could be
that this was all in his head

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and possibly a fantasy that
Beebout has developed, which is

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that he's in some kind of
a dating relationship

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with this woman, and he goes on
to tell detectives how

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he thought things were going
really well between them.

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But what he also then goes on
to talk about is that Niki was

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embarrassed by him.

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What is clear is that
his narcissism is offended at

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this point.

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And that likely was the powder
keg that kicked off the crime.

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[Alexander]
Many individuals like Beebout
have a very fragile ego,

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and it takes very little to
damage that fragile ego.

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In many ways, like many
psychopaths, he feels that

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he needs to put up a front,
kind of like the Wizard of Oz.

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A small man needs to project
a big image, and anything that

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damages his core identity
evokes murderous rage.

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[Nameeta] Beebout is talking
about his pattern as a person,

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and nothing about it
adds up to his history.

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None of it's consistent with
his history, except one thing

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he says,
that nothing bothers him.

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It's like water off
a duck's back.

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That part
might actually be true.

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He doesn't get aroused
or bothered by things with

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other people the way
the rest of us do,

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because he's not
invested in people.

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He is not able to tolerate
that transition from being in

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control, telling this nice
story, to suddenly being

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a rapist, to carrying these
labels which society recognizes

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as being very pejorative.
He is getting angry.

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He doesn't want
to be called that.

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The fact that he took
Niki Powell's dog after

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he killed her,

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and then he goes on a little
further and said that he was

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just worried about what was
gonna happen to the dog.

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But you don't hear him talking
about Niki Powell in

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the same vein --
very opposite.

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So you can see here clearly
that he dehumanizes people.

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[woman] Now, Beebout is accused
of killing 32-year-old

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Nikala Powell, a local homeless
outreach worker.

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Police arrested Beebout for that
crime in Seattle last month.

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Investigators now say
they found DNA evidence that

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also links him to the woman
whose body was found

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in the park.

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Oregon State Police Crime Lab
was able to definitively

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determine DNA linked the two.

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At this point, we don't know of
any more victims,

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but certainly, we want to hear
from anyone who has any

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information about Mark Beebout.

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[woman] This story developing
just before news time,

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KOIN Local 6 News
has confirmed,

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accused serial killer,
Mark Beebout,

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has agreed to a plea deal
with prosecutors.

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Beebout is accused of killing
two women in the Portland area,

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32-year-old Niki Powell,
who befriended Beebout at

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a church outreach program,
and a teenage runaway from

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California, whose body was found
in Washington Park last year.

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[speaking indistinctly]

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He's got an appetite
for sex and violence.

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The appetite for sex
is a much easier

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one for him to pursue.

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In fact, that's the kind of
lead in to both of these

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murders is convincing a young
woman to spend time with him,

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and in that context,
assaulting her sexually

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and then killing her.

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And I think that the choice of
where he finds these victims is

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very telling, too.

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He's purposefully going to
environments where there's

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either gonna be young, lost
women who are homeless or being

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in an environment where
caregivers are drawn

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to these individuals because
they wanna help them.

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And that's where
he finds his prey.

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Beebout's ability to pivot away
from the facts that he just

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raped and murdered Mayra
and left her for dead,

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and only the next day, escapes
town, meets Niki, and goes on

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about his life as if nothing
has happened,

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and the fact that he's able to
do this is part and parcel of

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that dangerous chameleon trait
that we see in

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psychopathic individuals.

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And it's also part of
their disconnectedness from

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the emotions of what
they've done.