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MAN: Woodstock Police received
information that eight people

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aged 65 to 96 had

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been murdered at area nursing
homes over a seven-year span.

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They're dealing
with a serial killer.

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[theme music playing]

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MAN: There's this thing inside
of me, it's like...

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the appetite.

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It's like a wolf that's...

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filling... the hunger.

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SAHNI: Wettlaufer believes
she's the chosen one,

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that God has chosen her to do
important work,

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that God has identified
who should die next.

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I think what that really is

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is just good
old-fashioned narcissism.

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It's making herself
more important

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than she is as a person.

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BERRILL: We never think of
health care professionals

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to be the type of individuals

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that would consciously kill
the people they're in charge of

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taking care of,
so she's got that as

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a kind of interesting
cover working for her.

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So this is an excerpt from notes

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that nurse Wettlaufer wrote,

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and she says, "James was known
for inappropriately touching

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"the staff -- that evening,

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"I got the urge
to overdose James.

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I was angry that he was
so inappropriate."

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It comes across
as very sterile clinical.

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It's as if James is a problem.

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James needs to die.

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It might be revenge killing,
because Wettlaufer talks

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about how James was
inappropriate

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with the nursing staff.

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MORGAN: But she's ignoring
the fact of his condition.

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If he made a pass at her, that
may have been the last straw.

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But the step into psychopathy is

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deciding to kill him for
that behavior.

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My guess is what
she's feeling relief

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about is an internal
sense of loathing.

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It's a sense of self-hate.

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It's a sense of rejection
socially -- to kill Silcox

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allows her to release
that sense of conflict.

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BERRILL:
Rage usually starts early.

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She's probably, slowly but
surely since childhood,

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been an angry person

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and she finally found a place
where she could safely enlist

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her predatory skills.

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MORGAN: This is about
her second victim,

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and it says, "I was told by
one of the nurses that

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"Maurice had a bad habit of
grabbing the staff's breasts

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"and asses.

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One afternoon, I was working,
and I felt angry."

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There's anger that is
triggered by something related

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to sex.

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It's not specific revenge
on this patient.

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But he now represents
something that she's going

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to eliminate,

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and so that triggers
her psychopathic behavior.

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When Wettlaufer says,
"I felt a lot of guilt."

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It's not over the murder.

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She feels guilt because
there's a conflict between

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the part of her that went
into nursing to

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help people and the part of
her that just took someone's

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life because she was
angry at them.

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BERRILL: It's also
interesting that she uses

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the term ass --
Ass is a vulgar word.

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There's a clue there.

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She doesn't really seem
like she's socially

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adapt or skilled with
other people.

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People reveal themselves
through the language they use.

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Hydromorphone is an opiate.

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The choice to use an opiate
and get high I think was

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a different direction of

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trying to get that same
stimulation or thrill-seeking

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that she got from killing
those two patients.

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What often happens
on narcotics --

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Your inhibitions

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are reduced
to the place where some

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of those bad thoughts
can come back.

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The more she does that,

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the more likely it is that
the rage would re-emerge.

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She says, "Gladys had severe
dementia and no longer talked.

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"She was very stubborn
and horribly difficult

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to give pills to."

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So her victim is a woman
in this case.

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We learn something new.

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Women are eligible to be killed.

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BERRILL: After laying off
killing for about three years,

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the bar seems lower for whom
she's willing to kill.

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She's choosing the weakest
and the most vulnerable

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to act this rage out on.

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These people can't fight back.

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They can't hurt her.

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Some of them can't even talk.

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She celebrates this woman
decking another guy.

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She laughs,
she's invigorated by it.

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But then, um, this woman that
she can identify with now

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becomes a pain in the ass,
because she's demented

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and giving her a problem.

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This is where I think
psychopathy becomes even

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more prominent.

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It doesn't matter now whether
you're a man or a woman making

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sexual or non-sexual comments.

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The common denominator is
you're irritating, and if you

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irritate her,
she decides you got to go.

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Wettlaufer started to
write poetry.

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Here is one of those poems.

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"She watches some life drain
from the notch

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"in his neck vein --
As it soothingly pools,

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"it smothers her pain.

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Sweet stiletto, so sharp,
craves another cut."

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I really see that as murdering
people helps her feel better.

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And it makes me really wonder
if there is

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some sadistic piece of her

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that enjoys
watching them struggle.

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On the surface,

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it makes her look like
the super nurse on the unit.

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But what we know is that
she also knew that she was

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essentially giving her

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her last meal, and she had
every intention of killing her

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later that night.

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BERRILL: She didn't have to give
her blueberry pie and ice cream.

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So she's playing with her.

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She delights in killing someone,

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and that's a very
perverse delight.

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To actually state that
she laughed out loud after

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killing her, I mean...

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what kind of person does that?

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Person didn't even annoy her.

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SAHNI: Wettlaufer's showing us
what it is to be a psychopath.

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She enjoys the high,
she enjoys the power.

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This isn't about
the patients at all

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at this point, uh, Wettlaufer

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has discovered something
about herself

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she didn't know --
She enjoys killing.

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This is a -- an excerpt from

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the confession letter
of, uh, Wettlaufer

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about Mary Zurawinski.

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"Mary bugged me,
because she was outspoken

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"and resistive to care.

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"I was feeling very angry
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She died the next afternoon."

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She's returned to some of

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the old playbook signals --
If patient is annoying,

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patient's got to go.

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She was fun to work with,

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but she's also saying that Mary

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essentially gave her
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The impulse control is very
poor at this point.

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MORGAN: Just because someone
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doesn't mean you have permission

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to kill them or that
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but it enables her psychopathy
in the sense that she doesn't

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even have to be annoyed.

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It's about revenge

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writ large -- revenge about
whatever happened to me in

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the past --
I'm gonna bite the world back.

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She's plotting
everybody's murder

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while being sweet to them
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and then ushers them
right off to their death.

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[knocking noises]

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This is what she has to say
about Maureen and killing her.

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"Maureen had a lot of behaviors.

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"She would hit other residents
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"Then I got the idea that
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brain damage, she wouldn't
be such a handful."

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Wettlaufer is changing her
motivations for killing.

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Now, she's dealing with

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patients where she doesn't
even feel the urge necessarily

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to kill them -- she just wants
to control the situation.

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SAHNI: It's terrifying to think
about a nurse doing that.

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Wettlaufer is making
the decision to

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handle these patients
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You really see an arrogance
coming over Wettlaufer -- now,

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it's just about making sure
she doesn't experience stress.

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MORGAN: She's not even saying,
"It's a sign from God.

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I should kill her."

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She's going, "I just want
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so she stops being
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which is hostile and aggressive.

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We are seeing this progression
from killing men who are

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sexually aggressive and
abusive, and then it progresses

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to general irritability.

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She then picks on a victim
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This is psychopathy.

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It's important to note
that she turned herself in,

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because she had an opportunity
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She says it's because
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but it's not as easy to kill
children without people

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asking questions.

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Even the pretense that this is
driven by God is off the table.

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She's mastered the art of
being a nice person.

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So she covers very skillfully
how malignant she is.

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She really is an angel of death,

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and she's highly psychopathic.

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