1 00:00:23,266 --> 00:00:24,266 [scoffs] 2 00:01:06,375 --> 00:01:08,110 [suspenseful chord strike] 3 00:01:31,834 --> 00:01:33,935 MAN: There's this thing inside of me, it's like... 4 00:01:34,036 --> 00:01:36,171 the appetite. 5 00:01:36,272 --> 00:01:37,906 It's like a wolf that's... 6 00:01:38,007 --> 00:01:42,344 filling... the hunger. 7 00:01:46,782 --> 00:01:52,521 ♪♪ 8 00:02:18,948 --> 00:02:21,082 [police sirens wailing] 9 00:02:47,009 --> 00:02:48,944 [distant siren wailing] 10 00:03:06,028 --> 00:03:06,995 OFFICER: Okay. 11 00:03:11,867 --> 00:03:13,235 One of the things that strikes me is 12 00:03:13,336 --> 00:03:15,537 the rapid nature of his a shift of mood. 13 00:03:15,638 --> 00:03:17,372 So it kind of goes into what we call 14 00:03:17,473 --> 00:03:19,374 shallow affect or shallowness 15 00:03:19,475 --> 00:03:21,042 of the emotional expression. 16 00:03:22,011 --> 00:03:24,179 MORGAN: This is bizarre. 17 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:29,117 What this behavior is is sussing out or exploring. 18 00:03:29,218 --> 00:03:30,385 What do the police know? 19 00:03:30,486 --> 00:03:33,321 So that he will then know what to expect 20 00:03:33,422 --> 00:03:35,590 and how to angle what he's going to do next. 21 00:04:08,324 --> 00:04:09,924 Daniel's appeal to God can be seen as 22 00:04:09,992 --> 00:04:12,193 kind of an attempt to be seen positively. 23 00:04:12,295 --> 00:04:15,530 If people view him as a spiritual or religious figure, 24 00:04:15,631 --> 00:04:18,233 that they might be more forgiving of his sins. 25 00:04:19,935 --> 00:04:22,370 It's an attempt at manipulation. 26 00:04:22,471 --> 00:04:25,640 MORGAN: This is a continuation of the performance. 27 00:04:25,741 --> 00:04:28,977 He's really quite sharp about what he's doing. 28 00:04:29,078 --> 00:04:30,378 I think he... 29 00:04:31,414 --> 00:04:33,348 it could be a genuine expression of hope 30 00:04:33,449 --> 00:04:34,783 that maybe his dad doesn't die, 31 00:04:34,884 --> 00:04:36,818 but I don't think so. 32 00:04:36,919 --> 00:04:44,919 ♪♪ 33 00:04:46,562 --> 00:04:53,568 ♪♪ 34 00:04:53,669 --> 00:04:58,673 ♪♪ 35 00:05:38,614 --> 00:05:44,786 ♪♪ 36 00:06:43,846 --> 00:06:46,448 What he's doing here is very calculated. 37 00:06:46,549 --> 00:06:50,151 He is providing a reason 38 00:06:50,252 --> 00:06:52,120 that might explain why his fingerprints 39 00:06:52,221 --> 00:06:53,888 will be found on the gun. 40 00:06:53,989 --> 00:06:56,424 And he makes it even sound like it was a gesture 41 00:06:56,525 --> 00:06:58,860 of kindness. 42 00:06:58,961 --> 00:07:00,962 But no, he's plotting an alibi. 43 00:07:01,063 --> 00:07:07,268 ♪♪ 44 00:07:20,783 --> 00:07:23,384 MORGAN: It's just this absolute indifference 45 00:07:23,486 --> 00:07:26,087 to the whole situation he's in. 46 00:07:26,188 --> 00:07:27,922 He is entirely self-absorbed, 47 00:07:28,023 --> 00:07:30,959 and there's no emotional involvement in this tragedy 48 00:07:31,060 --> 00:07:33,495 he's supposed to be experiencing. 49 00:07:33,596 --> 00:07:41,596 ♪♪ 50 00:07:58,988 --> 00:07:59,854 Mm-hmm. 51 00:08:53,108 --> 00:08:55,643 KATSAVDAKIS: The video game is not what's significant. 52 00:08:55,744 --> 00:08:59,414 What's significant is his parents, in his perception, 53 00:08:59,515 --> 00:09:01,916 are intentionally 54 00:09:02,017 --> 00:09:04,919 and motivated to prevent him from reaching a goal. 55 00:09:05,020 --> 00:09:07,455 And that is what increases 56 00:09:07,556 --> 00:09:11,826 the level of anger and subsequent aggression. 57 00:09:11,927 --> 00:09:14,062 MORGAN: The video game is definitely a fantasy world. 58 00:09:14,163 --> 00:09:16,931 This is absorbing to him. This is his world. 59 00:09:18,334 --> 00:09:23,371 Invasion narratives are about the other that's coming in 60 00:09:23,472 --> 00:09:25,340 either to threaten or take over something, 61 00:09:25,441 --> 00:09:28,476 and you get to fight back and ward them off and overcome 62 00:09:28,577 --> 00:09:31,212 and win, so this is about power. 63 00:09:31,313 --> 00:09:39,313 ♪♪ 64 00:10:29,371 --> 00:10:31,606 MORGAN: I don't buy it at all -- This is the story 65 00:10:31,707 --> 00:10:33,641 he's decided he's going to tell. 66 00:10:33,709 --> 00:10:37,412 He's trying to sound emotionally upset. 67 00:10:37,513 --> 00:10:42,016 Well, kind of half-covering, covering his face for it, 68 00:10:42,117 --> 00:10:45,219 but the dynamic he's setting up is that he is a victim 69 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,321 in all of this. 70 00:10:47,423 --> 00:10:50,124 We see him attributing to the father his own 71 00:10:50,225 --> 00:10:53,061 aggression and blaming the father because he resents 72 00:10:53,162 --> 00:10:54,429 his father. 73 00:10:54,530 --> 00:10:55,997 I think the emotion and the story are 74 00:10:56,098 --> 00:10:58,232 absolutely calculated -- This is his alibi. 75 00:12:35,731 --> 00:12:38,132 KATSAVDAKIS: His change in body language is very interesting. 76 00:12:38,233 --> 00:12:41,702 He has his left hand toward his brow to indicate that 77 00:12:41,804 --> 00:12:43,871 he's crying, looking with his left eye 78 00:12:43,972 --> 00:12:45,840 to see what the detective is doing. 79 00:12:45,908 --> 00:12:49,977 MORGAN: There's the element of psychopathy, 80 00:12:50,078 --> 00:12:53,014 someone who apparently 81 00:12:53,115 --> 00:12:55,449 doesn't really have empathy. 82 00:12:55,551 --> 00:13:01,189 It looks like he is angling and conniving and planning 83 00:13:01,290 --> 00:13:05,459 and checking out what he needs to say and what he won't say 84 00:13:05,561 --> 00:13:07,862 so he can figure out what will be best for him. 85 00:13:49,938 --> 00:13:54,375 So people who are psychopaths, they can put on a mask 86 00:13:54,476 --> 00:13:59,780 and appear as normal as possible to other people. 87 00:13:59,882 --> 00:14:01,682 He doesn't care about the police officers, 88 00:14:01,783 --> 00:14:04,585 but he is probing. 89 00:14:04,686 --> 00:14:06,721 What's clear, no matter what we read into his specific 90 00:14:06,822 --> 00:14:11,359 comments, is that he is not behaving like a normal person. 91 00:14:11,460 --> 00:14:15,529 He's not having the basic emotions of fear, 92 00:14:15,631 --> 00:14:18,666 anxiety, loss, and concern about family. 93 00:14:18,767 --> 00:14:25,039 ♪♪ 94 00:15:21,630 --> 00:15:22,463 Okay. 95 00:15:26,401 --> 00:15:34,401 ♪♪ 96 00:15:35,310 --> 00:15:43,310 ♪♪ 97 00:16:16,251 --> 00:16:17,718 [dinging noise] 98 00:16:36,438 --> 00:16:38,139 Okay? 99 00:16:58,293 --> 00:17:00,628 He's trying to think of reasons -- I've spun 100 00:17:00,762 --> 00:17:03,731 the religious reason, I've spun the I don't know what happened 101 00:17:03,832 --> 00:17:06,167 reason I've spun my father did this reason. 102 00:17:06,268 --> 00:17:08,369 I think we're on the sixth different narrative at 103 00:17:08,470 --> 00:17:11,072 this point, but he did not snap. 104 00:17:12,641 --> 00:17:14,108 The literature and the science has been very, 105 00:17:14,209 --> 00:17:16,243 very clear that people don't snap. 106 00:17:16,344 --> 00:17:18,879 If you scratch below the surface 107 00:17:18,980 --> 00:17:22,716 in many of these instances, there are many clues. 108 00:17:22,818 --> 00:17:25,386 Long-term anger, possible depression, 109 00:17:25,487 --> 00:17:27,188 inconsistency within parents, 110 00:17:27,289 --> 00:17:29,890 high control, low empathy. 111 00:17:29,991 --> 00:17:31,659 There's always signs. 112 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:37,364 ♪♪ 113 00:17:37,466 --> 00:17:42,403 ♪♪ 114 00:17:42,504 --> 00:17:44,805 MAN: Reverend Mark Petric takes the stand in 115 00:17:44,906 --> 00:17:47,708 the trial of his 17-year-old son, Daniel. 116 00:17:47,776 --> 00:17:50,511 Prosecutors say in October of last year, 117 00:17:50,612 --> 00:17:53,948 the teenager shot his father and shot and killed his mother, 118 00:17:54,015 --> 00:17:54,982 Sue Petric, 119 00:17:55,083 --> 00:17:57,118 in the living room of their Wellington home. 120 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:06,494 MORGAN: The line that the father tells us, 121 00:18:06,595 --> 00:18:10,464 I think there is an element of sadistic pleasure in doing it. 122 00:18:10,565 --> 00:18:12,766 It does come within the context of an adolescent 123 00:18:12,868 --> 00:18:16,270 who I suspect for a while has felt enraged 124 00:18:16,371 --> 00:18:19,573 living in the home under the rules from the parents. 125 00:18:19,674 --> 00:18:27,674 ♪♪ 126 00:18:29,017 --> 00:18:32,386 MAN: Mark Petric of Wellington believes his son's addiction 127 00:18:32,487 --> 00:18:34,021 to a violent video game 128 00:18:34,122 --> 00:18:36,457 is what caused him to shoot both his parents 129 00:18:36,558 --> 00:18:39,627 after they took the game away. 130 00:18:39,728 --> 00:18:42,663 He got involved in the violent graphic video games 131 00:18:42,764 --> 00:18:44,632 and became addicted to them 132 00:18:44,733 --> 00:18:47,635 and was playing as much as 18 hours a day. 133 00:18:47,736 --> 00:18:55,109 ♪♪ 134 00:18:55,210 --> 00:19:00,047 ♪♪ 135 00:19:17,666 --> 00:19:20,401 MORGAN: If you're growing up in a household where you realize 136 00:19:20,502 --> 00:19:22,102 the rules are very strict, 137 00:19:22,204 --> 00:19:26,840 it can produce a sort of split sense in kids growing up. 138 00:19:28,176 --> 00:19:30,911 Some children may discover they have to be duplicitous. 139 00:19:31,012 --> 00:19:33,714 You have to be able to say yes to get along with 140 00:19:33,815 --> 00:19:36,617 everybody because those are the rules while then secretly 141 00:19:36,718 --> 00:19:37,918 doing something else. 142 00:19:39,921 --> 00:19:45,292 Where this can then move into the psychopathy range is that 143 00:19:45,393 --> 00:19:47,361 they can develop a genuine 144 00:19:47,462 --> 00:19:51,599 lack of empathy for the people they have to live around 145 00:19:51,700 --> 00:19:53,968 but can no longer relate to. 146 00:19:54,069 --> 00:19:56,170 Being involved in the gaming 147 00:19:56,271 --> 00:19:58,839 meant something very important to him 148 00:19:58,940 --> 00:20:01,809 emotionally in the fantasy he could engage in. 149 00:20:01,910 --> 00:20:04,812 KATSAVDAKIS: The video game in and of itself is 150 00:20:04,913 --> 00:20:08,382 not the cause or the factor to a homicide. 151 00:20:08,483 --> 00:20:13,153 However, it feeds the fantasy that this violence is 152 00:20:13,255 --> 00:20:15,689 actually a feasible and reasonable solution 153 00:20:15,790 --> 00:20:17,157 to my grievance. 154 00:20:17,225 --> 00:20:23,964 ♪♪ 155 00:20:24,065 --> 00:20:32,065 ♪♪ 156 00:20:33,074 --> 00:20:41,074 ♪♪ 157 00:20:41,750 --> 00:20:44,084 WOMAN: Despite the shooting, Daniel Petric's family, 158 00:20:44,185 --> 00:20:46,954 including his father, says they forgive him. 159 00:20:54,896 --> 00:21:02,803 ♪♪