1 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,000 [theme music playing] 2 00:00:47,767 --> 00:00:49,900 [man] The thing inside of me, it's like... 3 00:00:50,867 --> 00:00:52,133 the appetite. 4 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:53,333 It's like a wolf that's... 5 00:00:55,467 --> 00:00:58,333 feeling the hunger. 6 00:01:04,767 --> 00:01:07,533 I'm shaking. Like, this is my dad. 7 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,133 My dad who does everything in his power to take care of us. 8 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,266 [man] Joanne Bernard and her family are searching for her father, 9 00:01:14,266 --> 00:01:17,967 68-year-old Roosevelt Bernard, who went missing shortly before 10 00:01:17,967 --> 00:01:19,767 2 PM yesterday afternoon. 11 00:01:19,767 --> 00:01:23,567 She claims her pregnant sister, 22-year-old Martine, is 12 00:01:23,567 --> 00:01:24,667 also missing. 13 00:01:24,667 --> 00:01:27,867 Now police say the prime suspect in both disappearances 14 00:01:27,867 --> 00:01:30,634 is Cassandritz Blanc, Martine's husband. 15 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,567 Right off the bat, one of the first things he tells us is 16 00:02:56,567 --> 00:03:01,333 that he's setting up the stage for his two victims having some 17 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,333 animosity between them, that his wife and her father 18 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:06,634 were somehow at odds. 19 00:03:06,634 --> 00:03:10,367 So he's laying the groundwork for the rest of the story that 20 00:03:10,367 --> 00:03:11,567 he's about to narrate. 21 00:03:11,567 --> 00:03:14,667 He thinks he's really smart, and he thinks he's got it all 22 00:03:14,667 --> 00:03:16,900 figured out and all under control. 23 00:03:49,667 --> 00:03:51,333 Mm-hmm. 24 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,667 Upon being told that they found the body of his father-in-law, 25 00:04:51,667 --> 00:04:54,734 the lack of reaction, the lack of surprise, 26 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,233 he maintains this posture, leaning back like not a care in 27 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:01,000 the world, hearing what should be devastating news, 28 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,900 and it's not devastating to him at all. 29 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:20,266 [woman] A woman's body found in Fort Lauderdale 30 00:05:20,266 --> 00:05:23,133 has been identified as Martine Bernard. 31 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,667 She was pregnant and had been reported missing. 32 00:05:25,667 --> 00:05:27,634 Her husband is in police custody. 33 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:30,600 He's also a suspect in the death of her father. 34 00:07:05,967 --> 00:07:09,867 The incredible part at this point is seeing how confident 35 00:07:09,867 --> 00:07:13,567 he is in this lie and these incredulous stories 36 00:07:13,567 --> 00:07:14,867 that he's telling. 37 00:07:14,867 --> 00:07:16,967 And he's like, I'm gonna get away with it. 38 00:07:16,967 --> 00:07:19,433 [Nicole] All of a sudden, he's changing his story. 39 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:22,634 "I was trying to protect her," but she supposedly 40 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:23,533 killed her dad. 41 00:07:23,533 --> 00:07:26,133 He's now placing blame on his wife, 42 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:27,767 which is typical of psychopaths. 43 00:07:27,767 --> 00:07:29,166 They fail to take responsibility 44 00:07:29,166 --> 00:07:30,800 for anything in their life. 45 00:08:47,867 --> 00:08:51,567 [Nicole] He's so focused on having these cookies. 46 00:08:51,567 --> 00:08:56,166 We know from neuroimaging and clinical research in 47 00:08:56,166 --> 00:08:59,900 psychopathy is that some psychopaths can become 48 00:08:59,967 --> 00:09:03,467 so myopically focused on what's right in front of them, 49 00:09:03,467 --> 00:09:07,767 they sort of have this deficit in their information processing 50 00:09:07,767 --> 00:09:09,734 system because they're so overwhelmed with all 51 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,900 the information that they need to now process to make up a lie 52 00:09:13,967 --> 00:09:16,133 or continue on their path of deception. 53 00:09:46,567 --> 00:09:50,567 An innocent person would never ask, while their wife 54 00:09:50,567 --> 00:09:54,367 and father-in-law were just found dead, hypothetically, 55 00:09:54,367 --> 00:09:55,967 if there are any circumstances 56 00:09:55,967 --> 00:09:58,467 where someone could get off on a murder charge. 57 00:09:58,467 --> 00:10:02,533 There are psychopaths that could be lawyers 58 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,734 or politicians or salespeople. 59 00:10:05,734 --> 00:10:08,867 They can fake it well enough that they can relatively 60 00:10:08,867 --> 00:10:12,900 make it in the world -- he is not a good psychopath. 61 00:10:12,967 --> 00:10:15,634 He thinks he's got control of the situation. 62 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:17,467 He thinks his lies are believable. 63 00:10:17,467 --> 00:10:21,233 He doesn't even understand that his psychopathic tendencies are 64 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:23,600 just shining straight through at this point. 65 00:10:54,567 --> 00:10:58,066 His concerns are all about himself, about poor me, 66 00:10:58,066 --> 00:10:59,100 what's gonna happen to me now? 67 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:03,567 I mean, this shows you how callous he is and how 68 00:11:03,567 --> 00:11:07,166 egotistical and self-centered -- it's all about him. 69 00:11:07,166 --> 00:11:10,233 It has nothing to do with guilt, remorse. 70 00:11:57,100 --> 00:12:00,867 He's shifting this narrative now to paint himself 71 00:12:00,867 --> 00:12:02,867 in sort of like a victim light. 72 00:12:02,867 --> 00:12:06,667 His wife did something to him and that caused him 73 00:12:06,667 --> 00:12:08,233 to harm her. 74 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:13,967 He's trying to act like someone that's sad, that's crying. 75 00:12:13,967 --> 00:12:17,533 I don't even think there's any tears coming down his face, 76 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,100 but he's trying to project what he thinks is an image of 77 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:21,900 someone that's sad and upset. 78 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:37,033 A single bullet to the brain is a very deliberate act. 79 00:13:37,033 --> 00:13:40,734 It's not reflective of intense emotions. 80 00:13:40,734 --> 00:13:43,467 It's not disorganized, it's execution-style. 81 00:13:43,467 --> 00:13:47,867 So his statement that he didn't mean it or he didn't intend to 82 00:13:47,867 --> 00:13:52,166 do this is really not born out of his actual actions. 83 00:13:52,166 --> 00:13:56,634 At that moment, when she rolls her eyes, he sees himself in 84 00:13:56,700 --> 00:14:00,567 the mirror for who he is, as this unimportant, 85 00:14:00,567 --> 00:14:04,166 unlovable, irrelevant individual 86 00:14:04,166 --> 00:14:06,867 and that's something he cannot tolerate. 87 00:14:06,867 --> 00:14:09,367 Deep down inside, he does not have 88 00:14:09,367 --> 00:14:11,734 a whole lot of respect for women, 89 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,266 doesn't like when women around him don't do what 90 00:14:14,266 --> 00:14:15,634 he wants them to do. 91 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:17,734 And ultimately, that he's able to 92 00:14:17,734 --> 00:14:21,233 objectify them and get rid of them. 93 00:14:21,300 --> 00:14:24,900 They're as disposable as a piece of Kleenex. 94 00:14:50,066 --> 00:14:54,033 I think when detectives confront him or tell him, 95 00:14:54,033 --> 00:14:55,567 "You know you killed your son, right?" 96 00:14:55,567 --> 00:14:58,166 He, matter-of-fact, says, "Yes." 97 00:14:58,166 --> 00:15:01,066 Like, he knew, but he didn't care. 98 00:15:01,066 --> 00:15:04,567 And I think that's because other humans, you know, 99 00:15:04,567 --> 00:15:06,934 are only there to serve their needs. 100 00:15:06,934 --> 00:15:09,333 To Blanc, it's just another object. 101 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,734 His complete callousness around the fact that not only did 102 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,900 he kill his wife, but he killed his unborn child is remarkable. 103 00:15:16,967 --> 00:15:21,967 And my first thought is that he was getting rid 104 00:15:21,967 --> 00:15:23,100 of the competition. 105 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:27,100 He knew that, within months, his wife would give birth, 106 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:30,166 and suddenly, her focus would completely change. 107 00:15:30,166 --> 00:15:34,233 The attention would no longer be on him, and it would be all 108 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:36,300 about his son and not about him. 109 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:31,467 Even the way he kind of playacts how he had to lay 110 00:16:31,467 --> 00:16:35,467 the garbage container down and slide the body in 111 00:16:35,467 --> 00:16:37,533 is also just... 112 00:16:38,734 --> 00:16:43,066 bone-chilling in terms of how cold it is. 113 00:16:43,066 --> 00:16:47,000 I mean, we cannot put ourselves in his shoes. 114 00:16:47,066 --> 00:16:51,667 That's an impossible thing for any of us to empathize with, 115 00:16:51,667 --> 00:16:55,200 because it's beyond our capacity to do so. 116 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,867 The callousness involved in killing his wife, 117 00:17:47,867 --> 00:17:52,100 who was pregnant, while she's sleeping in bed next to him, 118 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:55,900 then to kill her father just as a way to try to pawn off 119 00:17:55,967 --> 00:17:58,734 the responsibility for the murder is just so callous. 120 00:17:58,734 --> 00:18:02,300 It shows that he has no remorse or empathy whatsoever. 121 00:18:37,567 --> 00:18:40,066 One's heart races for different reasons, right? 122 00:18:40,066 --> 00:18:43,934 I mean, your heart can race out of anxiety and fear, but it can 123 00:18:43,934 --> 00:18:45,367 also race because of excitement. 124 00:18:45,367 --> 00:18:48,266 There's something very empowering about making 125 00:18:48,266 --> 00:18:51,166 the decision to kill somebody, pointing a gun at someone's 126 00:18:51,166 --> 00:18:52,600 head, and then pulling the trigger.