1 00:00:13,166 --> 00:00:16,767 [attorney] These human beings who became sacrificial lambs 2 00:00:16,767 --> 00:00:19,467 to Mr. Dahmer's fantasies. 3 00:00:19,467 --> 00:00:20,800 [Dr. De La Torre] In this series, 4 00:00:20,967 --> 00:00:23,667 we look at varying cases of psychopathy. 5 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:31,867 [Dr. De La Torre] From individuals who are 6 00:00:32,033 --> 00:00:36,100 willing to kill other people to sadistically kidnap them. 7 00:00:47,367 --> 00:00:49,567 [Dr. De La Torre] But there's a much more dangerous subset, 8 00:00:49,567 --> 00:00:51,367 one that you can never see coming, 9 00:00:51,533 --> 00:00:52,900 and that's the sexual psychopath. 10 00:01:07,467 --> 00:01:11,900 [theme music playing] 11 00:01:12,066 --> 00:01:14,100 The thing inside of me, it's like... 12 00:01:15,867 --> 00:01:19,867 the appetite, it's like a wolf that's... 13 00:01:19,867 --> 00:01:22,700 feeling... the hunger. 14 00:01:30,567 --> 00:01:34,367 [Dr. Sahni] In this series, we look at many psychopathic individuals, 15 00:01:34,533 --> 00:01:39,166 people who have not hesitated to harm and murder other people. 16 00:01:39,333 --> 00:01:41,700 And we look at them with a critical eye. 17 00:01:41,867 --> 00:01:45,367 But when we think about these cases, there's one population 18 00:01:45,367 --> 00:01:49,200 of psychopath that continues to show up time and time again. 19 00:01:49,367 --> 00:01:51,000 These are individuals that are motivated 20 00:01:51,166 --> 00:01:53,000 by their own sexual gratification, 21 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,667 their own urges, their own fantasies, 22 00:01:55,834 --> 00:01:59,200 and their own depraved beliefs that creating harm, 23 00:01:59,367 --> 00:02:02,667 force, and fear in others is how they're aroused. 24 00:02:02,834 --> 00:02:04,667 And we call them sexual psychopaths. 25 00:02:05,767 --> 00:02:07,100 [Dr. De La Torre] When we think of 26 00:02:07,266 --> 00:02:10,266 the sexual psychopath, a couple names come to mind. 27 00:02:10,433 --> 00:02:13,367 We have Ted Bundy, we have Jeffrey Dahmer, 28 00:02:13,367 --> 00:02:14,767 We have Richard Ramirez. 29 00:02:14,767 --> 00:02:18,166 All of these individuals have their own distinct way 30 00:02:18,166 --> 00:02:20,367 in which they were crossing the sexual boundary 31 00:02:20,367 --> 00:02:22,066 to include murder. 32 00:02:22,233 --> 00:02:25,367 Everything is really just about the gratification 33 00:02:25,367 --> 00:02:26,867 that it takes. 34 00:02:26,867 --> 00:02:29,400 Now, there's a particular way in which they get there. 35 00:02:29,567 --> 00:02:33,100 Their own unique offense cycle ultimately determines 36 00:02:33,266 --> 00:02:35,867 the style with which they are going to engage 37 00:02:35,867 --> 00:02:38,166 in that sexual boundary crossing behavior 38 00:02:38,333 --> 00:02:40,467 and the types of victims that they'll choose. 39 00:02:40,634 --> 00:02:43,166 In this hour, we're going to look at different approaches 40 00:02:43,166 --> 00:02:44,667 that the sexual psychopath uses 41 00:02:44,834 --> 00:02:46,900 to engage in their deviant behavior, 42 00:02:47,066 --> 00:02:48,767 how they choose their victims, 43 00:02:48,767 --> 00:02:51,266 and more importantly, why they choose their victims. 44 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:02,166 [dark ambient music playing] 45 00:03:02,333 --> 00:03:05,166 [Dr. Sahni] When we look more closely at the sexual psychopath 46 00:03:05,333 --> 00:03:08,400 and their methodology, how they choose their victims, 47 00:03:08,567 --> 00:03:10,667 we start to see some themes emerge. 48 00:03:10,667 --> 00:03:13,200 One of those themes is the opportunist, 49 00:03:13,367 --> 00:03:15,867 that sexual psychopath who's looking for 50 00:03:15,867 --> 00:03:17,367 the low-hanging fruit. 51 00:03:17,533 --> 00:03:19,066 They don't wanna put in a lot of effort 52 00:03:19,233 --> 00:03:20,467 to seek out their victim, 53 00:03:20,634 --> 00:03:22,800 and they don't wanna put in a lot of effort 54 00:03:22,967 --> 00:03:24,900 to disable their victim. 55 00:03:25,066 --> 00:03:28,700 Oftentimes, the opportunistic sexual psychopath's victims are 56 00:03:28,867 --> 00:03:32,166 young or they're old. They're most often women. 57 00:03:32,333 --> 00:03:35,467 These women are often in marginalized communities, 58 00:03:35,634 --> 00:03:38,266 like prostitution and other kinds of sex work. 59 00:03:38,433 --> 00:03:39,467 They're homeless. 60 00:03:39,467 --> 00:03:42,166 There's just an element in which no one is going 61 00:03:42,333 --> 00:03:43,667 to miss them. 62 00:03:43,667 --> 00:03:46,467 Or no one is really going to be watching out for them. 63 00:03:47,367 --> 00:03:50,867 The functionality of the opportunist's victims selection 64 00:03:51,033 --> 00:03:54,200 is more about the ease with which they can engage 65 00:03:54,367 --> 00:03:56,500 in their compulsive behavior. 66 00:03:56,667 --> 00:03:59,367 When we think of the opportunist approach, 67 00:03:59,533 --> 00:04:01,567 the first name that comes to mind is Jeffrey Dahmer. 68 00:04:06,767 --> 00:04:08,667 [attorney] These human beings 69 00:04:08,834 --> 00:04:13,100 who became sacrificial lambs to Mr. Dahmer's fantasies. 70 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:16,000 [reporter] Dahmer began having these feelings as a teen 71 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,367 and first acted on them in 1978 72 00:04:18,367 --> 00:04:20,700 when he killed a hitchhiker in Bath, Ohio, 73 00:04:20,867 --> 00:04:23,066 and had sex with his dead body. 74 00:04:23,233 --> 00:04:25,567 After that, Boyle says, Dahmer tried to control 75 00:04:25,567 --> 00:04:27,867 his obsession through substitutions, 76 00:04:27,867 --> 00:04:31,066 like religion, masturbation, and pornography. 77 00:04:31,233 --> 00:04:33,367 Once, he even went to a downtown Milwaukee 78 00:04:33,367 --> 00:04:36,166 department store, and stole a male mannequin. 79 00:04:36,166 --> 00:04:39,166 But Boyle says in 1987, Dahmer could no longer 80 00:04:39,333 --> 00:04:41,066 control his fantasies. 81 00:04:41,233 --> 00:04:43,400 Dahmer just didn't kill anyone off the street. 82 00:04:43,567 --> 00:04:45,166 He picked his victims carefully. 83 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,700 [Dr. De La Torre] Jeffrey Dahmer has been convicted 84 00:04:51,867 --> 00:04:54,467 of the rape, murder, and sometimes cannibalization 85 00:04:54,634 --> 00:04:57,567 of 17 different victims. 86 00:04:57,734 --> 00:05:01,300 His victims have often been young males, 87 00:05:01,467 --> 00:05:05,266 marginalized communities, often black, 88 00:05:05,266 --> 00:05:08,000 but not necessarily homosexual. 89 00:05:09,667 --> 00:05:12,467 His victimology is kind of all over the place, 90 00:05:12,634 --> 00:05:14,266 but the one thing remains the same, 91 00:05:14,266 --> 00:05:15,867 is that they were easy targets, 92 00:05:15,867 --> 00:05:17,667 making them the perfect victims 93 00:05:17,834 --> 00:05:21,867 for the opportunists, whose desire and compulsion 94 00:05:22,033 --> 00:05:26,300 is more about the ease of access as opposed to 95 00:05:26,467 --> 00:05:28,600 harder, more difficult kinds of victims. 96 00:05:29,867 --> 00:05:32,100 We see that same opportunistic approach in the case 97 00:05:32,266 --> 00:05:33,400 of Ryan Riggs. 98 00:05:45,367 --> 00:05:48,000 [reporter #2] This is where the Brown County Sheriff's Department 99 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,500 found the body of Rhonda Chantay Blankinship 100 00:05:50,667 --> 00:05:52,667 on County Road 424. 101 00:05:52,834 --> 00:05:56,700 [reporter #3] Blankinship died from a crushed larynx and blunt force injuries 102 00:05:56,867 --> 00:05:59,100 to her neck, face and torso. 103 00:05:59,266 --> 00:06:02,367 Sheriff Vance Hill says some of those injuries were caused 104 00:06:02,367 --> 00:06:05,767 by a lawnmower blade found near her body. 105 00:06:05,767 --> 00:06:07,767 [suspenseful music playing] 106 00:06:15,367 --> 00:06:16,867 [reporter #4] Brown County law enforcement arrested 107 00:06:17,033 --> 00:06:20,166 21-year-old Ryan Riggs last week for capital murder. 108 00:06:20,166 --> 00:06:22,600 The break in the case came when the sheriff's office 109 00:06:22,767 --> 00:06:25,900 released a computerized sketch of Riggs, using his DNA. 110 00:06:26,066 --> 00:06:28,967 Blankinship and Riggs went to the same church. 111 00:06:29,133 --> 00:06:31,700 [reporter #5] Riggs then went before the entire congregation 112 00:06:31,867 --> 00:06:34,100 and confessed to killing fellow church member 113 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:36,867 Chantay Blankinship, before turning himself in. 114 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:47,200 [Dr. Sahni] Riggs says it all. 115 00:07:47,367 --> 00:07:49,700 An opportunistic sexual psychopath 116 00:07:49,867 --> 00:07:51,567 is somebody who's gonna go after a victim 117 00:07:51,734 --> 00:07:53,166 because they can. 118 00:07:53,166 --> 00:07:56,000 It's an easy victim to access, it's an easy victim 119 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,100 to lure away, and it's somebody that they don't have to put 120 00:07:59,266 --> 00:08:02,800 a lot of brain cells and energy into getting in their prey. 121 00:08:02,967 --> 00:08:06,400 Chantay was an easy victim because she knew him, 122 00:08:06,567 --> 00:08:08,900 she trusted him, she was physically petite 123 00:08:09,066 --> 00:08:12,667 and small, and she was also special needs, cognitively. 124 00:08:12,834 --> 00:08:14,400 And this is consistent with what we see 125 00:08:14,567 --> 00:08:15,567 with sexual psychopaths. 126 00:08:15,567 --> 00:08:18,467 They tend to pick victims who are vulnerable. 127 00:08:18,634 --> 00:08:21,700 The opportunistic offender in particular relies on that. 128 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:31,266 The actions have very little to do with Chantay. 129 00:09:31,266 --> 00:09:33,967 It's not personal, per se. 130 00:09:34,133 --> 00:09:37,467 She is the easy target and victim to fit 131 00:09:37,467 --> 00:09:40,500 into Ryan Riggs' fantasy. 132 00:09:40,667 --> 00:09:42,667 So in one sense, what makes it really disturbing 133 00:09:42,834 --> 00:09:44,867 when we think about it is that she doesn't really mean 134 00:09:45,033 --> 00:09:46,500 anything to him at all. 135 00:09:46,667 --> 00:09:48,867 Her life and death are not meaningful to him 136 00:09:48,867 --> 00:09:52,100 in any way, other than that they help him 137 00:09:52,266 --> 00:09:54,500 act out a fantasy that he has in his head. 138 00:11:35,266 --> 00:11:38,500 [Dr. Sahni] What I think we see is the birth 139 00:11:38,667 --> 00:11:41,567 of a sexual psychopath in Ryan Riggs. 140 00:11:41,567 --> 00:11:43,300 He tried a variety of different things 141 00:11:43,467 --> 00:11:47,000 to see what kind of torture was gonna be gratifying to him, 142 00:11:47,166 --> 00:11:48,266 what was gonna create 143 00:11:48,266 --> 00:11:50,600 the most force or fear in the victim. 144 00:11:50,767 --> 00:11:51,967 And it's important to realize 145 00:11:52,133 --> 00:11:53,867 that giving in to the sexual gratification, 146 00:11:54,033 --> 00:11:56,266 that poor impulse control, that moment 147 00:11:56,433 --> 00:11:59,367 that Ryan Riggs said, "I'm gonna give in to these fantasies," 148 00:11:59,533 --> 00:12:01,667 he didn't have a plan for how he was gonna do it. 149 00:12:19,700 --> 00:12:22,166 [Dr. Sahni] While Riggs was an opportunistic sexual psychopath, 150 00:12:22,333 --> 00:12:25,166 we also know that some sexual psychopaths 151 00:12:25,333 --> 00:12:28,200 are far more elaborate. They're far more sophisticated. 152 00:12:28,367 --> 00:12:31,567 And the predatory component is far stronger 153 00:12:31,567 --> 00:12:34,700 in these individuals. They're organized. 154 00:12:34,867 --> 00:12:37,467 The thrill of the chase is part and parcel 155 00:12:37,634 --> 00:12:39,166 of their sexual arousal. 156 00:12:39,333 --> 00:12:41,166 They don't experience gratification 157 00:12:41,333 --> 00:12:43,000 if that part doesn't happen. 158 00:12:43,166 --> 00:12:45,500 The predatory component, the hunt, 159 00:12:45,667 --> 00:12:47,567 becomes most important to them. 160 00:12:47,567 --> 00:12:49,667 And that is when we think about the sexual psychopath 161 00:12:49,667 --> 00:12:51,066 who's the hunter. 162 00:13:08,567 --> 00:13:10,066 [Dr. Morgan] Up in Anchorage, Alaska, 163 00:13:10,233 --> 00:13:12,767 between 1972 and 1983, 164 00:13:12,767 --> 00:13:15,066 Robert Hansen was able to rape and murder 165 00:13:15,233 --> 00:13:18,367 at least 17 women and children in those years, 166 00:13:18,533 --> 00:13:22,667 and that his style was that of the psychosexual predator, 167 00:13:22,667 --> 00:13:24,400 the psychopath who hunts. 168 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,367 [Dr. De La Torre] For sexual psychopaths like Hansen, 169 00:13:41,533 --> 00:13:44,266 what we see is that it's not simply 170 00:13:44,266 --> 00:13:46,967 the sexual boundary crossing behavior. 171 00:13:47,133 --> 00:13:49,166 It's not just the assault and the rape. 172 00:13:49,333 --> 00:13:50,967 Yes, that was gratifying. 173 00:13:51,133 --> 00:13:53,800 But the real thrill came in releasing the victims 174 00:13:53,967 --> 00:13:56,767 into the wild so that he could hunt them down 175 00:13:56,767 --> 00:13:58,066 like they were animals. 176 00:13:58,233 --> 00:14:00,800 In Hansen's mind, he believes himself to be 177 00:14:00,967 --> 00:14:03,367 the ultimate predator, the apex predator. 178 00:14:03,367 --> 00:14:06,600 And women, children, doesn't really matter. 179 00:14:06,767 --> 00:14:11,000 Anyone on the fringes of society are the prey for him. 180 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 Because it's not just simply a thrill-seeking behavior. 181 00:14:14,166 --> 00:14:17,367 It is engaging in the thrill-seeking behavior 182 00:14:17,367 --> 00:14:20,700 as a method with which they're going to engage 183 00:14:20,867 --> 00:14:22,567 in the sadistic nature 184 00:14:22,567 --> 00:14:26,266 of whatever violent fantasies they have. 185 00:14:26,433 --> 00:14:28,900 And we see the same approach in the case of Richard White. 186 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,567 [dark music playing] 187 00:16:19,266 --> 00:16:21,867 [Dr. De La Torre] He simply describes her in the things 188 00:16:21,867 --> 00:16:23,500 that he noticed about her, 189 00:16:23,667 --> 00:16:26,900 as opposed to what made her another human being. 190 00:16:27,066 --> 00:16:29,000 And I think that's telling because he doesn't see 191 00:16:29,166 --> 00:16:30,800 them as human beings. 192 00:16:30,967 --> 00:16:35,467 These are prey for him to engage in his hunter approach. 193 00:16:35,467 --> 00:16:37,367 These aren't real people. 194 00:16:37,367 --> 00:16:39,667 They're just animals for him to slaughter. 195 00:17:36,367 --> 00:17:40,166 [Dr. De La Torre] His interactions with the sex workers 196 00:17:40,333 --> 00:17:42,867 are about the sexual gratification, 197 00:17:42,867 --> 00:17:46,266 but it's the hunt that makes him the sexual psychopath. 198 00:17:46,266 --> 00:17:49,166 It's the hunt that really gets him going. 199 00:17:49,166 --> 00:17:53,066 It's the hunt that really allows his arousal to achieve 200 00:17:53,233 --> 00:17:57,567 its peak, as opposed to simply engaging in sexual behaviors. 201 00:17:57,567 --> 00:18:02,266 There is an addictive aspect to it, but I think we need to be 202 00:18:02,433 --> 00:18:05,400 careful when we're describing the addiction element. 203 00:18:05,567 --> 00:18:07,266 It makes it sound like it's a disease. 204 00:18:07,266 --> 00:18:09,667 It's not a disease. It's a compulsion. 205 00:18:09,834 --> 00:18:12,166 He doesn't have to do it. He wants to do it. 206 00:18:12,166 --> 00:18:14,200 He wants to have sex with these women. 207 00:18:14,367 --> 00:18:15,667 He wants to violate them. 208 00:18:15,834 --> 00:18:18,066 He wants to hunt them down and kill them 209 00:18:18,233 --> 00:18:19,667 simply because he can. 210 00:20:27,767 --> 00:20:30,567 [Dr. Sahni] What is important to realize is that Richard White 211 00:20:30,567 --> 00:20:32,200 fully acknowledges that this is 212 00:20:32,367 --> 00:20:34,367 what he got up and went to bed for, 213 00:20:34,533 --> 00:20:36,567 every single day, was the hunt. 214 00:20:36,734 --> 00:20:38,667 If he wasn't busy doing something, 215 00:20:38,834 --> 00:20:40,867 he was out on this street 216 00:20:40,867 --> 00:20:43,700 hunting these women, driving around 217 00:20:43,867 --> 00:20:45,467 looking for his next victim. 218 00:20:45,634 --> 00:20:47,767 He was methodical, he was precise, 219 00:20:47,767 --> 00:20:49,300 and he was deliberate. 220 00:20:49,467 --> 00:20:52,667 This is someone who maintained a level of control 221 00:20:52,667 --> 00:20:55,967 and impulse control over his actions and his urges 222 00:20:56,133 --> 00:20:57,367 and his fantasies. 223 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,000 [Dr. De La Torre] So for the hunter, we see the individual 224 00:21:21,166 --> 00:21:25,467 is getting most of their arousal from the hunting process. 225 00:21:25,467 --> 00:21:28,400 We see certain sadistic elements, but they're only 226 00:21:28,567 --> 00:21:30,700 there as ancillary aspects. 227 00:21:30,867 --> 00:21:33,300 They don't necessarily need to be there. 228 00:21:33,467 --> 00:21:37,367 Evolving from the hunter approach is where it's not only 229 00:21:37,533 --> 00:21:40,100 just about hunting and stalking their victims. 230 00:21:40,266 --> 00:21:43,900 It's about torturing them, over a prolonged period of time. 231 00:21:44,066 --> 00:21:46,467 It is making sure they are no longer human 232 00:21:46,467 --> 00:21:49,000 when the sexual psychopath is done with them. 233 00:21:49,166 --> 00:21:52,066 We call these types of offenders, "the sadists." 234 00:21:57,867 --> 00:22:00,700 [reporter] Richard Ramirez, a drifter from El Paso, Texas, 235 00:22:00,867 --> 00:22:02,867 and a self-described Satan worshiper, 236 00:22:02,867 --> 00:22:06,200 began his reign of terror in June 1984, 237 00:22:06,367 --> 00:22:09,000 when he murdered 79-year-old Jennie Vincow 238 00:22:09,166 --> 00:22:11,100 in her apartment in Glassell Park. 239 00:22:11,266 --> 00:22:13,767 By the time of his arrest 14 months later, 240 00:22:13,934 --> 00:22:17,166 Ramirez had gone on a killing rampage so grisly 241 00:22:17,166 --> 00:22:19,867 that deputy district attorney said Ramirez 242 00:22:19,867 --> 00:22:22,567 had probably rewritten the book on serial murders. 243 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,967 [Dr. Morgan] Richard Ramirez is also known as the Night Stalker, 244 00:22:30,133 --> 00:22:33,667 terrorized the community by stalking people, 245 00:22:33,667 --> 00:22:35,100 hunting them down. 246 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:38,700 The experience for him was all about getting a victim 247 00:22:38,867 --> 00:22:42,266 that then he could torture and use for his own pleasure. 248 00:22:42,266 --> 00:22:44,867 That's where he found his satisfaction, 249 00:22:44,867 --> 00:22:47,967 in doing ritualistic torture and rape on his victims. 250 00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:51,700 [Dr. Sahni] The nature of his criminal activity had 251 00:22:51,867 --> 00:22:55,567 the entire Los Angeles area in a state of fear and panic. 252 00:22:55,567 --> 00:22:57,567 People didn't know if it was OK 253 00:22:57,567 --> 00:22:58,867 to leave their windows open, 254 00:22:58,867 --> 00:23:01,266 and the Night Stalker wanted it that way. 255 00:23:01,266 --> 00:23:05,867 This is a good example of where the sadist gains power 256 00:23:05,867 --> 00:23:07,567 over their victims 257 00:23:07,567 --> 00:23:09,500 before sometimes they even catch them. 258 00:23:09,667 --> 00:23:11,967 And for the truly sadistic offender, 259 00:23:12,133 --> 00:23:15,300 they draw out that pain. They draw out that fear. 260 00:23:15,467 --> 00:23:19,400 They don't worry about the harm it causes that individual. 261 00:23:19,567 --> 00:23:22,400 But the more pain, the more fear, the more torture, 262 00:23:22,567 --> 00:23:24,867 that they expose their victim to, 263 00:23:24,867 --> 00:23:26,767 the more arousing it is for them. 264 00:23:26,767 --> 00:23:28,367 That is their primary goal, 265 00:23:28,533 --> 00:23:31,967 to ensure that their sexual arousal is met. 266 00:23:32,133 --> 00:23:34,967 And we see this in the case of Jeremiah Connelly. 267 00:23:44,967 --> 00:23:49,266 [somber music playing] 268 00:24:39,467 --> 00:24:42,467 [Dr. Morgan] So with the sadist sexual psychopath, 269 00:24:42,467 --> 00:24:46,166 remember the salient element is enjoying the suffering 270 00:24:46,333 --> 00:24:48,567 of other people or the emotional turmoil of other people. 271 00:24:48,734 --> 00:24:53,500 And one way that they can relive that is by telling 272 00:24:53,667 --> 00:24:57,800 the story again to the police or by instilling 273 00:24:57,967 --> 00:25:01,400 in their interviewers shock, horror, or dismay. 274 00:25:01,567 --> 00:25:03,266 And he's not telling the story all at once. 275 00:25:03,266 --> 00:25:05,867 He throws little bits and pieces out there, 276 00:25:05,867 --> 00:25:08,567 and I think it's for to control their emotions. 277 00:25:08,567 --> 00:25:10,200 This is what the sadist will do. 278 00:25:10,367 --> 00:25:13,700 They wanna control and enjoy the distress 279 00:25:13,867 --> 00:25:15,100 in another human being. 280 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:48,567 [Dr. Sahni] While Connelly gives some gestures of caring 281 00:25:48,734 --> 00:25:51,867 about the victim and shows some superficial attempts 282 00:25:52,033 --> 00:25:54,767 at remorse, what becomes very clear as we learn 283 00:25:54,767 --> 00:25:57,166 about the details of his crime is that he really didn't care 284 00:25:57,166 --> 00:25:59,567 about the victim. She was an object to him. 285 00:25:59,567 --> 00:26:02,567 And ultimately, it was about getting his own way. 286 00:26:02,734 --> 00:26:04,967 It was about maintaining the status quo 287 00:26:05,133 --> 00:26:07,567 based on a fantasy that he had built in his head, 288 00:26:07,734 --> 00:26:10,000 that this relationship was something he wanted, 289 00:26:10,166 --> 00:26:13,166 he deserved, he was entitled to it, and he was gonna get it. 290 00:27:06,967 --> 00:27:09,367 I think there are multiple things that are happening 291 00:27:09,533 --> 00:27:11,066 when it comes to his animation. 292 00:27:11,233 --> 00:27:13,166 It's something that he typically is. 293 00:27:13,333 --> 00:27:15,867 I think in his everyday life, he is this elevated. 294 00:27:16,033 --> 00:27:17,500 But he's also excited 295 00:27:17,667 --> 00:27:20,166 because he engaged in this behavior, 296 00:27:20,166 --> 00:27:22,166 didn't recognize how much he wanted to engage 297 00:27:22,333 --> 00:27:23,667 in this behavior. 298 00:27:23,667 --> 00:27:26,100 And now he's describing it to law enforcement officers. 299 00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:29,567 So, now he's getting the double whammy of reliving it, 300 00:27:29,734 --> 00:27:32,266 but also psychologically torturing them, 301 00:27:32,266 --> 00:27:34,600 as he describes it play by play. 302 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,400 [Dr. Morgan] The sadist will set up an idea 303 00:27:56,567 --> 00:27:57,867 in the mind of the victim, 304 00:27:57,867 --> 00:27:59,800 like where things are gonna go. 305 00:27:59,967 --> 00:28:01,266 And it is for the purpose, then, 306 00:28:01,433 --> 00:28:04,800 of causing them more distress or torturing them. 307 00:28:04,967 --> 00:28:07,367 So in this phase, he's promising her, 308 00:28:07,367 --> 00:28:09,266 "Yeah, you'll go home eventually." 309 00:28:09,433 --> 00:28:10,867 It's raising hope. 310 00:28:11,033 --> 00:28:13,467 But he's gonna hold out the promise so that he can 311 00:28:13,634 --> 00:28:16,100 enhance her suffering and then eventually announce to her 312 00:28:16,266 --> 00:28:19,700 what is going to happen to her so that he can actually enjoy 313 00:28:19,867 --> 00:28:22,000 her realization that, you know, 314 00:28:22,166 --> 00:28:23,200 it's not gonna turn out well. 315 00:29:31,367 --> 00:29:35,967 The decision to smother a victim by covering her face 316 00:29:36,133 --> 00:29:39,967 with duct tape serves no other purpose than to distance 317 00:29:40,133 --> 00:29:42,266 himself from her humanity because he doesn't have to look 318 00:29:42,266 --> 00:29:43,567 at her face, 319 00:29:43,567 --> 00:29:46,667 and to prolong her death and dying process. 320 00:29:46,834 --> 00:29:50,166 Instead of it being a quick kill, 321 00:29:50,166 --> 00:29:54,967 the sexual psychopath and the sadistic psychopath 322 00:29:55,133 --> 00:29:56,767 wants a slow death, 323 00:29:56,934 --> 00:29:59,100 wants that slow torture and torment. 324 00:29:59,266 --> 00:30:01,967 And that's exactly what Connelly got by making that decision. 325 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,667 [Dr. De La Torre] This whole thing with Connelly started because Wilcoxen had 326 00:30:23,667 --> 00:30:27,600 rejected all of his overtures to move in with him. 327 00:30:27,767 --> 00:30:32,000 What Wilcoxen didn't know was that there was an underlying 328 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,600 desire by Connelly to hurt people. 329 00:30:35,767 --> 00:30:40,767 There is another approach in which that initial rejection 330 00:30:40,767 --> 00:30:45,767 compels the person to engage in sexually violent acts. 331 00:30:45,934 --> 00:30:49,000 But the primary driving force is that of revenge. 332 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,667 Sexual psychopaths who are triggered 333 00:30:51,834 --> 00:30:54,700 by feelings of rejection, feelings of abandonment, 334 00:30:54,867 --> 00:30:57,100 feelings that they're losing control 335 00:30:57,100 --> 00:30:59,667 over a relationship or being left, 336 00:30:59,667 --> 00:31:03,367 are individuals that are what we think of as "the rejected." 337 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,967 [reporter] Serial killer Ted Bundy is talking, 338 00:31:11,133 --> 00:31:12,867 confessing to murder after murder, 339 00:31:12,867 --> 00:31:14,867 giving investigators grisly details 340 00:31:15,033 --> 00:31:17,900 of a decade-long cross-country crime spree. 341 00:31:18,066 --> 00:31:20,000 Bundy tells of a murder and describes himself 342 00:31:20,166 --> 00:31:21,367 in the third person. 343 00:31:21,533 --> 00:31:25,066 [man speaking] 344 00:31:32,166 --> 00:31:34,166 [reporter] Bundy has been convicted of three murders, 345 00:31:34,333 --> 00:31:36,667 confessed to a dozen more, and is still a suspect 346 00:31:36,834 --> 00:31:37,967 in another two dozen. 347 00:31:38,133 --> 00:31:39,867 The victims were all young, pretty, 348 00:31:39,867 --> 00:31:41,700 and with long, dark hair. 349 00:31:45,467 --> 00:31:47,900 [Dr. Sahni] Ted Bundy was responsible for raping 350 00:31:48,066 --> 00:31:49,767 and killing over 30 women, 351 00:31:49,934 --> 00:31:51,667 and there were many crimes that went unsolved 352 00:31:51,834 --> 00:31:54,000 that likely were attributed to him as well. 353 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 And what we know about Ted Bundy 354 00:31:56,166 --> 00:31:57,467 is he's a perfect example 355 00:31:57,467 --> 00:32:00,367 of a sexual psychopath who was rejected. 356 00:32:00,367 --> 00:32:03,166 [Dr. De La Torre] For Ted Bundy, we see his rejected approach 357 00:32:03,166 --> 00:32:05,667 starts with his college girlfriend, Diane Edwards, 358 00:32:05,834 --> 00:32:07,266 who broke up with him. 359 00:32:07,266 --> 00:32:10,000 It's not surprising, then, that his victimology 360 00:32:10,166 --> 00:32:12,367 closely matched that of Diane Edwards. 361 00:32:12,533 --> 00:32:16,000 He was specifically looking to take revenge out on her, 362 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,867 as often as he can, 363 00:32:18,033 --> 00:32:19,567 matching their ages, 364 00:32:19,734 --> 00:32:22,700 matching their hairstyles, everything perfect 365 00:32:22,867 --> 00:32:26,867 so that he can violate her over and over and over again. 366 00:32:27,033 --> 00:32:30,767 The rejected sexual psychopath is oftentimes not driven 367 00:32:30,934 --> 00:32:33,100 by a direct need for sexual gratification 368 00:32:33,266 --> 00:32:35,100 that has to do with physical arousal. 369 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:37,600 It has much more to do with preserving their ego, 370 00:32:37,767 --> 00:32:39,867 preserving their sense of power and control, 371 00:32:40,033 --> 00:32:42,266 preserving their sense that they're OK. 372 00:32:42,433 --> 00:32:44,367 In other words, helping to maintain 373 00:32:44,533 --> 00:32:47,700 that their narcissistic view of themselves is correct. 374 00:32:47,867 --> 00:32:50,166 When we think about the rejected sexual psychopath, 375 00:32:50,166 --> 00:32:52,166 we also think about the case of James Barnes. 376 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:08,367 [somber music playing] 377 00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:34,100 [somber music playing] 378 00:35:26,867 --> 00:35:28,700 [Dr. Sahni] She left enough of an impression on him 379 00:35:28,867 --> 00:35:30,967 that he became focused on her and had no choice 380 00:35:31,133 --> 00:35:32,567 but to annihilate her. 381 00:35:32,567 --> 00:35:35,667 And that deep level of rejection and anger 382 00:35:35,834 --> 00:35:38,800 and animosity that James Barnes exhibited in his crime 383 00:35:38,967 --> 00:35:41,867 and how he killed Patricia Miller is consistent 384 00:35:41,867 --> 00:35:44,166 with the sexual psychopath who feels rejected. 385 00:35:44,333 --> 00:35:46,667 Their drive isn't necessarily sexual arousal. 386 00:35:46,834 --> 00:35:48,967 The sexual arousal may have been a secondary gain. 387 00:35:49,133 --> 00:35:52,500 But realistically, it likely was more about increasing 388 00:35:52,667 --> 00:35:56,200 the fear that she felt, increasing the pain she felt, 389 00:35:56,367 --> 00:35:58,767 increasing the power and control over her. 390 00:35:58,934 --> 00:36:02,266 And how a rejected sexual psychopath takes back control, 391 00:36:02,433 --> 00:36:05,767 resumes homeostasis on their ego and their narcissism 392 00:36:05,767 --> 00:36:09,467 and grandiosity, is to pretend that everything is fine. 393 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,467 Barnes can't even just admit and say, 394 00:36:52,467 --> 00:36:55,266 "I was mad at her 'cause I made a pass. 395 00:36:55,266 --> 00:36:57,300 She didn't accept it. I got rejected." 396 00:36:57,467 --> 00:36:59,500 That's a blow to the ego, right? 397 00:36:59,667 --> 00:37:01,500 To admit I was turned down. 398 00:37:01,667 --> 00:37:04,867 And these are the kinds of psychopaths who can't take 399 00:37:05,033 --> 00:37:06,667 that kind of rejection. 400 00:37:06,834 --> 00:37:09,767 It cuts very deep, and they're offended, 401 00:37:09,767 --> 00:37:12,166 and then they're enraged by it, which is then why 402 00:37:12,333 --> 00:37:13,600 someone has to suffer. 403 00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:57,266 [Dr. Sahni] The fact that Barnes is willing to discuss 404 00:38:57,433 --> 00:38:59,367 the painful details and the graphic details 405 00:38:59,533 --> 00:39:02,467 of the crime itself that led to Patricia Miller's death, 406 00:39:02,467 --> 00:39:04,800 but he won't discuss what led up to it, 407 00:39:04,967 --> 00:39:07,400 and he won't discuss what happened afterward, 408 00:39:07,567 --> 00:39:10,200 or the fact that she humiliated him, 409 00:39:10,367 --> 00:39:12,367 that she brought him some pain. 410 00:39:12,533 --> 00:39:14,400 Barnes can't tolerate that level of shame. 411 00:39:14,567 --> 00:39:17,600 He can't tolerate that level of humiliation and rejection. 412 00:39:17,767 --> 00:39:20,567 And when we see the rejected sexual psychopath, 413 00:39:20,567 --> 00:39:22,767 this is precisely what we're talking about. 414 00:39:22,934 --> 00:39:27,200 Their ego can't handle reality, and their ego can't handle 415 00:39:27,367 --> 00:39:28,767 how fragile it really is. 416 00:39:52,467 --> 00:39:56,066 [Dr. De La Torre] Sex is a primary motivator for nearly everyone's behaviors. 417 00:39:56,233 --> 00:39:58,867 The only reason why people do anything is probably 418 00:39:58,867 --> 00:40:00,867 because it's sex related. 419 00:40:01,033 --> 00:40:04,700 I think, though, what separates the sexual psychopath 420 00:40:04,867 --> 00:40:07,600 from the regular human being, 421 00:40:07,767 --> 00:40:10,166 from the prototypical psychopath, 422 00:40:10,333 --> 00:40:12,367 is the compulsion. 423 00:40:12,533 --> 00:40:14,767 Sex is always on their mind. 424 00:40:14,767 --> 00:40:16,767 The deviant ways in which they can engage 425 00:40:16,934 --> 00:40:18,867 in their sexual behaviors 426 00:40:18,867 --> 00:40:21,767 are constantly fantasized and masturbated to. 427 00:40:21,767 --> 00:40:25,300 The rest of us, even the prototypical psychopath, 428 00:40:25,467 --> 00:40:28,100 can have motivators outside of sex. 429 00:40:28,266 --> 00:40:32,367 We can do things simply because it's a fun thing to do. 430 00:40:32,533 --> 00:40:35,967 For the sexual psychopath, however, everything is deviant. 431 00:40:36,133 --> 00:40:39,000 Everything is about gaining power and control, 432 00:40:39,166 --> 00:40:41,100 of exacting revenge, 433 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:45,100 of bringing attention to whatever slight has happened 434 00:40:45,266 --> 00:40:48,000 to them, to their fragile narcissistic ego. 435 00:40:48,166 --> 00:40:53,667 So for them, it's not just that sex is a primary motivator 436 00:40:53,834 --> 00:40:56,667 it's that the violation needs 437 00:40:56,667 --> 00:40:58,467 to be associated with that. 438 00:40:58,634 --> 00:41:01,300 And that violation is whatever the fantasy is. 439 00:41:02,367 --> 00:41:05,567 The sexual psychopath has no boundary or limits 440 00:41:05,734 --> 00:41:08,567 to what they will do and what steps they will take 441 00:41:08,567 --> 00:41:11,667 to harm another person to meet their own sexual needs, 442 00:41:11,834 --> 00:41:15,367 to achieve and maintain their own sexual gratification. 443 00:41:15,367 --> 00:41:18,000 And it is because of that lack of a boundary 444 00:41:18,166 --> 00:41:20,166 that we should absolutely regard these individuals 445 00:41:20,166 --> 00:41:23,467 in this category of psychopaths as some of the highest risk 446 00:41:23,467 --> 00:41:25,467 and most feared in society.