All language subtitles for Signs.of.a.Psychopath.S04E03.God.Was.Going.To.Use.Me.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-BurCyg_track3_[eng]

MAN: Woodstock Police received
information that eight people

aged 65 to 96 had

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

They're dealing
with a serial killer.

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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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SAHNI: Wettlaufer believes
she's the chosen one,

that God has chosen her to do
important work,

that God has identified
who should die next.

I think what that really is

is just good
old-fashioned narcissism.

It's making herself
more important

than she is as a person.

BERRILL: We never think of
health care professionals

to be the type of individuals

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

taking care of,
so she's got that as

a kind of interesting
cover working for her.

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So this is
an excerpt from notes

that nurse Wettlaufer wrote,

and she says, "James was known
for inappropriately touching

"the staff -- that evening,

"I got the urge
to overdose James.

I was angry that he was
so inappropriate."

It comes across
as very sterile clinical.

It's as if James
is a problem.

James needs to die.

It might be revenge killing,
because Wettlaufer talks

about how James was
inappropriate

with the nursing staff.

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

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

But the step into
psychopathy is

deciding to kill him for
that behavior.

My guess is what
she's feeling relief

about is an internal
sense of loathing.

It's a sense of self-hate.

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

allows her to release
that sense of conflict.

BERRILL:
Rage usually starts early.

She's probably, slowly but
surely since childhood,

been an angry person

and she finally found a place
where she could safely enlist

her predatory skills.

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MORGAN: This is about
her second victim,

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

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

"and asses.

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

There's anger that is
triggered by something related

to sex.

It's not specific revenge
on this patient.

But he now represents
something that she's going

to eliminate,

and so that triggers
her psychopathic behavior.

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

It's not over the murder.

She feels guilt because
there's a conflict between

the part of her that went
into nursing to

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

life because she was
angry at them.

BERRILL: It's also
interesting that she uses

the term ass --
ass is a vulgar word.

There's a clue there.

She doesn't really seem
like she's socially

adapt or skilled with
other people.

People reveal themselves
through the language they use.

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Hydromorphone is an opiate.

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

a different direction of

trying to get that same
stimulation or thrill-seeking

that she got from killing
those two patients.

What often happens
on narcotics --

your inhibitions

are reduced
to the place where some

of those bad thoughts
can come back.

The more she does that,

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.

"She was very stubborn
and horribly difficult

to give pills to."

So her victim is a woman
in this case.

We learn something new.

Women are eligible to
be killed.

BERRILL: After laying off
killing for about three years,

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

She's choosing the weakest
and the most vulnerable

to act this rage out on.

These people can't
fight back.

They can't hurt her.

Some of them can't even talk.

She celebrates this woman
decking another guy.

She laughs,
she's invigorated by it.

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

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

and giving her a problem.

This is where I think
psychopathy becomes even

more prominent.

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

sexual or non-sexual comments.

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

irritate her,
she decides you got to go.

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Wettlaufer started to
write poetry.

Here is one of those poems.

"She watches some life drain
from the notch

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

"it smothers her pain.

Sweet stiletto, so sharp,
craves another cut."

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

And it makes me really wonder
if there is

some sadistic piece of her

that enjoys
watching them struggle.

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On the surface,

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

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

essentially giving her

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

later that night.

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

So she's playing with her.

She delights in
killing someone,

and that's a very
perverse delight.

To actually state that
she laughed out loud after

killing her, I mean...

what kind of person does that?

Person didn't even annoy her.

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

She enjoys the high,
she enjoys the power.

This isn't about
the patients at all

at this point, uh,
Wettlaufer

has discovered something
about herself

she didn't know --
she enjoys killing.

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This is a --
an excerpt from

the confession letter
of, uh, Wettlaufer

about Mary Zurawinski.

"Mary bugged me,
because she was outspoken

"and resistive to care.

"I was feeling very angry
in general.

She died the next afternoon."

She's returned to some of

the old playbook signals --
if patient is annoying,

patient's got to go.

No.

She was fun to work with,

but she's also saying
that Mary

essentially gave her
permission to kill her.

The impulse control is very
poor at this point.

MORGAN: Just because someone
says, "I want to die,"

doesn't mean
you have permission

to kill them or that
you should kill them,

but it enables her psychopathy
in the sense that she doesn't

even have to be annoyed.

It's about revenge

writ large -- revenge about
whatever happened to me in

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

She's plotting
everybody's murder

while being sweet to them
and taking care of them

and then ushers them
right off to their death.

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

"Maureen had a lot
of behaviors.

"She would hit other residents
or pull their hair.

"Then I got the idea that
if I could cause her some

brain damage, she wouldn't
be such a handful."

Wettlaufer is changing her
motivations for killing.

Now, she's dealing with

patients where she doesn't
even feel the urge necessarily

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

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

Wettlaufer is making
the decision to

handle these patients
as if they're objects.

You really see an arrogance
coming over Wettlaufer -- now,

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

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

I should kill her."

She's going, "I just want
to mutilate her brain

so she stops being
such a pain in the ass,"

which is hostile
and aggressive.

We are seeing this progression
from killing men who are

sexually aggressive and
abusive, and then it progresses

to general irritability.

She then picks on a victim
who is defenseless.

This is psychopathy.

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

because she had an opportunity
to work with children.

She says it's because
she wanted to stop killing,

but it's not as easy to kill
children without people

asking questions.

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

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

So she covers very skillfully
how malignant she is.

She really is
an angel of death,

and she's highly psychopathic.

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