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[eerie music]

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[gunshots blasting]

[dial tone]

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[eerie piano playing]

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

the appetite.

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

filling...the hunger.

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WOMAN: A deadly shooting tonight
in the parking lot

of this local shopping center.

Authorities say two of
the gyms, employees were

gunned down
after closing for the night.

J.C. Escamilla,
who was escorting

Maggie McCombs to her car,
died instantly.

21-year-old Maggie McCombs
is in critical condition.

[distant siren wailing]

There was a brief scuffle.

The suspect apparently
was trying to get

to a gun that was in
his waistband.

Officers subdued him,
and they

brought him downtown
for questioning.

WOMAN: Hey, Yu, tell us
what happened.

What happened there?

Can you tell us
what happened?

Tell us about the girl.

Some people, if they have blood
on them, want to show it off,

but he never brings it up.

These external things in
the world don't really

concern him --
he views people as separate

and distant from himself
in the world.

SAHNI: He's totally
matter-of-fact, as if they're

not talking about a shooting
of two human beings.

It's really more like, hey,
I went out hunting for her,

and I caught her --
that's very consistent with

psychopathic behavior.

He just has no value for
human life.

He's trying to tell her,
"I'm fine."

People who suffer
from psychopathy

know that they are different.

He's discussing it as
he would any other topic

and without any sadness or any
anger or any excitement.

It's simply a description
of events.

Yu Masaki doesn't B.S.

and doesn't lie,
because it has no meaning.

There's no thrill in it
for him

to lie to the police officer.

He represents one of the more
extreme forms of psychopathy

in that he doesn't even derive
pleasure from his interactions.

SAHNI:
Masaki is asked a question,

and he turns himself
into the victim.

This is somebody who has
a lot of self-loathing.

He looks depressed.
He sounds depressed.

This is somebody who just
doesn't have a lot of purpose.

MORGAN: Not only is there
no point to Yu Masaki's life,

from his own viewpoint,

there's no point to anyone
else's life either.

Masaki's own brother identified
when they were children

that he was different.

He was having problems then.

He was showing antisocial
behavior then,

enough so that his brother
said to him,

"You're gonna be a criminal."

MORGAN: He's definitely blaming
society for not accepting him.

But we can't attribute all of
his feelings about life,

the universe, and everything to
just being in the United States

and not speaking English as
well as everyone else.

In trying to understand why
do people become psychopaths,

we do think about
the chicken and egg problem.

So the nature-nurture dynamic
of what were we born with in

life and how did
early experiences

shape or enhance or reduce
those capacities?

There are some people
who may be born

with some biological
characteristics that predispose

them to psychopathy.

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It's interesting that
the detective pushes him

a little bit on that and says,

"Do you know that she was
laughing at you?"

He kind of says,
"I don't know."

He holds these wounds so
strongly to himself and clearly

uses them as his justification
for how he's ended up here.

He experiences a level of rage
or anger or chronic rejection,

and he doesn't really have

the skills to work through
those emotions.

So then the emotions just
build up and build up

and build up,

and it may very well have come
bubbling up at the point

that Maggie McCombs
rejected him.

MORGAN: He's saying,
"I can't make this work,

so why should you?"

This was his idealized woman,
and the other guy

just represents the deficits
that he struggles with.

He represents the example
of what I'm not,

so it reminds me of
how much I can't do,

so I'll shoot him.

MAN: Friends and investigators
say Masaki was obsessed with

Maggie McCombs
and had been stalking her

for more than a year.

He'd shown up to her front
door at home and was eventually

told to never come back
to this Planet Fitness

after his repeated, quote,

"extremely aggressive advances"
were turned down by Maggie.

It might seem like
a bit of a paradox.

So how could he long after
this woman if

he's at the extreme end of
psychopathy with no empathy?

And that's because it's about
the world inside his head.

It's not really about
a relationship with her.

It's whatever she represents
inside his head.

They didn't go out socially,
they weren't friends.

He wouldn't have had many
opportunities outside of

his own stalking behavior to
learn who Maggie was.

So to say that he's
in love with her --

he's in love with a concept,
he's in love with an obsession.

His comments carry that
feeling of this existential

recognition of the emptiness
and meaninglessness of life.

I think this represents
that, um,

psychopathic disconnectedness.

SAHNI: Masaki really is helping
to connect the dots for us,

that some of his rage
and his anger and feeling

rejected by Maggie stems from
his anger at his mother.

[eerie music playing]

So this is a psychiatric
evaluation that was

performed on Masaki after
the shooting and the murder.

His mother allowed him
to do what he wanted because

of his reactivity when
he did not get his way.

He admits to not speaking
and having outbursts

of anger many times directed
to his mother

since childhood.

The outbursts of anger would
sometimes be destructive,

destroying property
or threatening harm.

Sometimes it was directed
to self --

banging his head
against the wall.

Sounds like maybe she was
frightened or she didn't

want to have to deal with
the demonstrations of anger.

But he learns, "I get what
I want by insisting."

And we see that in
his behavior with Maggie.

She keeps saying no, but he
goes, "No, I'm just persisting.

I'm gonna get what I want."

And that feeds right into
that obsession with her.

You get a little window
into what kind of behavior

might have been modeled
for him by his father,

that it was okay to treat
women this way, and it was okay

to not tolerate rejection,

and you should always
get what you want.

Children that grow up
around violence

learn to use it
as problem-solving.

MORGAN:
And if we happen to be

biologically
predisposed to psychopathy,

it just shunts us down that
road even further.

So it's possible with
Yu Masaki that his early

experience simply gave him
a further kick in the direction

of being distant,
aloof, separate,

not needing as much of a
relationship from other people.

I remember everything...

pretty well, details.

There's days where
I just...

I wake up and I just kind of
wonder why this happened.

I wanted to make it through
this, and I wanted to be

able to live and just have the
life that I've always wanted.

MAN: 28-year-old Yu Masaki
flashes a smile before

shuffling up to the judge,

ready to enter pleas for
the murder of 31-year-old

J.C. Escamilla
and aggravated assault

of 21-year-old Maggie McCombs.

How do you plead?
Guilty? Not guilt?

-Or no contest?
-Guilty.

Throughout the interrogation,

he is flat,
there's no emotion.

But here, Yu Masaki,
we see him

sauntering up to
the judge's bench.

It's the most emotion
we've seen out of him so far.

He's smiling,
he's suddenly important.

He's relevant.

People see him,
people hear him, and I think

that's ultimately what
Yu Masaki was after,

and he got what he wanted.