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[man] Breaking news. A murder mystery
emerges in the woods.
Three people are dead.
Police are now on a manhunt for the killer,
and they are searching across Florida.
In a house in Chuluota,
police discovered a family murdered.
A couple in their 50s
and their son, in his 30s,
were found dead.
And now, this just in.
The prime suspect is a family member,
Grant Amato.
Officials say he is armed and dangerous.
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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.
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[officer speaks indistinctly]
[officer] Yeah, that's balding, right?
- [officer] Yeah. - [officer] Yeah.
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Okay.
- [officer] Yeah. - Okay.
Okay. I see his body.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[officer speaking]
Let me get to it.
[officer] Yes.
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[Grant speaking]
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[Dr. Charles] He's actually being very concrete.
I don't think that he has the ability
to experience that empathy.
The tone of his voice is strange.
It's got a teletype in tone.
It is related to that lack of emotional connectivity,
that empathy, that ability
to convey emotions to other people
and hear emotions from other people.
That is a sign of psychopathy in him.
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[Grant speaking]
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[Dr. Charles] They want to get an emotional hook
in the person so they can play on guilt,
sadness, or remorse,
and then get the person to confess.
For Grant Amato,
this technique is not likely to work.
They are trying to tap into emotions
that simply aren't there.
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[man speaking]
[Grant speaking]
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[Grant speaking]
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He blew $200,000
essentially on virtual reality that he stole.
There's obsession,
there's impulse control problems,
and there's lack of recognition
that in stealing this money,
he harmed his family.
[Dr. Charles] He's taking it secretly
which is much more than exploitative and parasitic,
so that's more of the psychopathy realm.
He's going to use them or their money
so that he can get what he wants.
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[Dr. Charles] Grant has lost himself in fantasy.
People who suffer from what we call erotomania
fall in love with people
who don't actually really have a relationship with them.
It is more than an obsession.
We refer to is a delusion.
Delusions are really beliefs that are firmly held
in spite of evidence to the contrary.
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[Dr. Chitra] The fantastical imaginary connection
is making him feel alive
whereas when he's being interrogated,
he's a shell of a man.
The fact that they're interacting
where she's nonglamorous
is contributing to his delusional belief
that it's a reciprocal relationship.
He believes this is real, that she is real.
He doesn't seem to understand that this is about money.
If she were real, he wouldn't know what to do,
she would be too alive, too overwhelming,
too threatening, too beautiful.
And feel that he couldn't perform.
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[Dr. Charles] What we're looking at
are... Is an itemized list of issues and rules
that the family would like him to adhere to.
Current Grant responsibilities.
A, get job,
this is absolutely a threat.
Owes family apology.
And in parentheses,
we don't expect due to lack of real feelings.
I believe the family noticed
the signs of psychopathy over the years
that lack of genuine connectivity,
of follow through with what he was saying he would do.
[man speaking]
All right, Sylvie, look at me, I am...
I'm outside,
going to check the mail.
And I'm asking you if you can please,
pretty please,
send me one of your videos.
I just... I've love it so much
when you just send them to me.
Yeah, I don't like buying your stuff,
it makes me feel weird.
Would you please send me one though?
He wants a free video because he doesn't
have any other way to get it, he doesn't have money.
But also because then it would be evidence
that Sylvie truly loves him
and that it's not a fantasy relationship,
it's reciprocal.
The key thing here is he's not able
to attach to real people
and this is only possible in a virtual way.
[Grant speaking]
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[detective speaking]
[Grant speaking]
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[Grant speaking]
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[Grant speaking]
You're seeing somebody expressing
a pretty psychopathic trait.
I'll just throw my brother and the family under the bus
even though I killed them.
Uh, there's no empathy there.
[Dr. Chitra] This is consistently being driven
by a delusional belief that he's gonna get back
together with Sylvie.
It's a very cold move in the name of love.
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[Grant speaking]
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[Dr. Charles] The frustration when
the policeman was sitting there
is that he can't believe it.
When you meet with someone who has psychopathy,
uh, it's as if part of us refuses to believe
that someone could be so callus and so uncaring.
That's what the policeman's responding to
and that's what you see and feel
with people who have psychopathy.
There is no human glue,
there's no emotional glue
that connects you to them.
[Dr. Chitra] The detachment is interesting to me
and this detachment seems to have carried over
into this rage in a sort of a tool if you will
that let him plan and carry out this murder.
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[Jason speaking]
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[Jason speaking]
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[Jason speaking]
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Over the months
- and everything like that. - [Jason] Okay.
He seems to have slipped up when he said,
"I know what I've done to everybody."
Then he catches himself.
He can't forgive his family because he blames them
for ruining his fantasy love.
[Jason speaking]
[Grant speaking]
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[Dr. Chitra] We should all make sure we understand
what's real, what's not
and put a little extra effort in connecting,
in a real, honest, open-hearted way,
he couldn't, he wanted to, but he couldn't.
Those of us who can,
we should not take it for granted.
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[man] The verdict is finally in.
[woman] We, the jury, find the defendant guilty
of first degree premeditated murder.
[man] Grant Amato was found guilty of three counts
of first degree murder.
The state successfully argued
that he murdered his family
over his love for a webcam model,
stealing about $200,000 from them to pay her.
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