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[man] The thing inside of me, it's like...
the appetite.
It's like a wolf that's...
feeling the hunger.
I'm shaking. Like, this is my dad.
My dad who does everything in his power to take care of us.
[man] Joanne Bernard and her family are searching for her father,
68-year-old Roosevelt Bernard, who went missing shortly before
2 PM yesterday afternoon.
She claims her pregnant sister, 22-year-old Martine, is
also missing.
Now police say the prime suspect in both disappearances
is Cassandritz Blanc, Martine's husband.
Right off the bat, one of the first things he tells us is
that he's setting up the stage for his two victims having some
animosity between them, that his wife and her father
were somehow at odds.
So he's laying the groundwork for the rest of the story that
he's about to narrate.
He thinks he's really smart, and he thinks he's got it all
figured out and all under control.
Mm-hmm.
Upon being told that they found the body of his father-in-law,
the lack of reaction, the lack of surprise,
he maintains this posture, leaning back like not a care in
the world, hearing what should be devastating news,
and it's not devastating to him at all.
[woman] A woman's body found in Fort Lauderdale
has been identified as Martine Bernard.
She was pregnant and had been reported missing.
Her husband is in police custody.
He's also a suspect in the death of her father.
The incredible part at this point is seeing how confident
he is in this lie and these incredulous stories
that he's telling.
And he's like, I'm gonna get away with it.
[Nicole] All of a sudden, he's changing his story.
"I was trying to protect her," but she supposedly
killed her dad.
He's now placing blame on his wife,
which is typical of psychopaths.
They fail to take responsibility
for anything in their life.
[Nicole] He's so focused on having these cookies.
We know from neuroimaging and clinical research in
psychopathy is that some psychopaths can become
so myopically focused on what's right in front of them,
they sort of have this deficit in their information processing
system because they're so overwhelmed with all
the information that they need to now process to make up a lie
or continue on their path of deception.
An innocent person would never ask, while their wife
and father-in-law were just found dead, hypothetically,
if there are any circumstances
where someone could get off on a murder charge.
There are psychopaths that could be lawyers
or politicians or salespeople.
They can fake it well enough that they can relatively
make it in the world -- he is not a good psychopath.
He thinks he's got control of the situation.
He thinks his lies are believable.
He doesn't even understand that his psychopathic tendencies are
just shining straight through at this point.
His concerns are all about himself, about poor me,
what's gonna happen to me now?
I mean, this shows you how callous he is and how
egotistical and self-centered -- it's all about him.
It has nothing to do with guilt, remorse.
He's shifting this narrative now to paint himself
in sort of like a victim light.
His wife did something to him and that caused him
to harm her.
He's trying to act like someone that's sad, that's crying.
I don't even think there's any tears coming down his face,
but he's trying to project what he thinks is an image of
someone that's sad and upset.
A single bullet to the brain is a very deliberate act.
It's not reflective of intense emotions.
It's not disorganized, it's execution-style.
So his statement that he didn't mean it or he didn't intend to
do this is really not born out of his actual actions.
At that moment, when she rolls her eyes, he sees himself in
the mirror for who he is, as this unimportant,
unlovable, irrelevant individual
and that's something he cannot tolerate.
Deep down inside, he does not have
a whole lot of respect for women,
doesn't like when women around him don't do what
he wants them to do.
And ultimately, that he's able to
objectify them and get rid of them.
They're as disposable as a piece of Kleenex.
I think when detectives confront him or tell him,
"You know you killed your son, right?"
He, matter-of-fact, says, "Yes."
Like, he knew, but he didn't care.
And I think that's because other humans, you know,
are only there to serve their needs.
To Blanc, it's just another object.
His complete callousness around the fact that not only did
he kill his wife, but he killed his unborn child is remarkable.
And my first thought is that he was getting rid
of the competition.
He knew that, within months, his wife would give birth,
and suddenly, her focus would completely change.
The attention would no longer be on him, and it would be all
about his son and not about him.
Even the way he kind of playacts how he had to lay
the garbage container down and slide the body in
is also just...
bone-chilling in terms of how cold it is.
I mean, we cannot put ourselves in his shoes.
That's an impossible thing for any of us to empathize with,
because it's beyond our capacity to do so.
The callousness involved in killing his wife,
who was pregnant, while she's sleeping in bed next to him,
then to kill her father just as a way to try to pawn off
the responsibility for the murder is just so callous.
It shows that he has no remorse or empathy whatsoever.
One's heart races for different reasons, right?
I mean, your heart can race out of anxiety and fear, but it can
also race because of excitement.
There's something very empowering about making
the decision to kill somebody, pointing a gun at someone's
head, and then pulling the trigger.