All language subtitles for Signs.of.a.Psychopath.S05E03.It.Wanted.to.Kill.Somebody.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-BurCyg_track3_[eng]

[man] This thing inside of me,
it's like...

...the appetite.

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

...feeling the hunger.

[male reporter]
This is where the Brown County Sheriff's Department

found the body of
Rhonda Chantay Blankinship

on County Road 424.

They're calling
her death a homicide.

[female reporter] Blankinship
died from a crushed larynx,

then blunt force injuries
to her neck, face, and torso.

Sheriff Vance Hill says
some of those injuries were caused

by a lawn mower blade
found near her body.

[male reporter] Brown County
Law Enforcement arrested

21-year-old Ryan Riggs
for capital murder.

The break in the case came
when the sheriff's office released a computerized sketch

of Riggs using his DNA.

Blankinship and Riggs went
to the same church.

[male reporter] Pastor Keener
says Riggs then went before the entire congregation

and confessed to killing
fellow church member, Chantay Blankinship

before turning himself in.

[Pastor Keener] He said,
"I need to confess something."

And in that confession,
he, uh,

he said,
"I've done something real bad. I murdered her."

He says that
he's killed Chantay, but there's no real emotion,

there's nothing
in his body language that suggests

that he's experiencing
any real stress.

He's not shaking,
he's not showing any outward or visible signs of stress.

He's somewhat
matter-of-fact about the whole thing.

And those are some
of the indications that start to suggest

that there is
a psychopathic presence.

He's owning that

he has strong impulses
to do things that

he's told he shouldn't do,
it invokes Satan.

It feels evil to him.
It comes to him very naturally.

And so that's what's
interesting about him.

He's aware of these
feelings that he has,

these urges that he has

to do things
that he knows aren't right,

but it bothers him
that it doesn't bother him.

The way that Riggs
hangs out with Chantay

and describes
that they're sitting in the car,

they're flirting,
they're listening to music...

There is an element
of manipulation in this,

that he is basically trying
to pull her in

and, and get her
to feel comfortable.

It is an effort to disarm her,

so that ultimately
he'll have greater control and power over her.

What he chose to do
was harm her, torture her,

drag her off,
and then bludgeon her,

and all of those indications
suggest somebody

who's got paraphilic
interests.

Paraphilias are
deviant sexual interests.

What we're talking about
is an individual who gets sexually aroused

by creating harm and fear
in their victims.

The nonconsensual component
of that sexual activity

is the point of arousal.

This is an example
of his sadistic tendencies and desires.

He is going above and beyond.

At this point,
she's presumably already dead,

which is a very
personal action to take, and full of rage,

so it's an enhanced
level of sadism

that he is getting
some sort of pleasure

out of being
so violent with her.

Riggs may have been
keeping the shoes

because, functionally,
they were nice shoes,

but more likely,
he kept them as a trophy.

He kept them
as a reminder of the crime and what he had done.

And the dubious part
about it is that

they were hidden
in plain sight.

They were part of the weapons
used in this crime that harmed her.

And ultimately,
nobody at that point suspected

that he had anything to do
with Chantay's disappearance,

much less her rape
and her murder.

And to walk around
with those shoes on

for some time after
she was killed and found

really does start to speak
to someone who is reliving it.

[Dr. Daniel Mundy]
His victim selection is really important to his MO.

He's keeping it close to home.

He very easily could've gone

somewhere else
to find a victim

in a different community
and then just come back.

Part of targeting her is...

...because her absence
will be noted,

that's doing
something for him.

It calls to mind, like, the,

the arsonist who goes
to watch the fire, in a way.

[Dr. Chriscelyn Tussey]
Individuals who are psychopaths

purposely target the weaker
and the more vulnerable

because they can
be easy targets.

He viewed her
as an easy target because of her size

and her cognitive limitations.

And it's an opportunity
for him to take control,

exact his will
and desires,

and not have
to fight too hard for it.

[Dr. Mundy] He's saying,
"It's evil in me." But it's, it's him.

When he says nothing's going
through his mind,

I don't think that's actually
how it's happening. I don't think he's lying,

but I think he has a hard time

kind of tapping into the part
of his brain that feels

just very natural
doing these things

that seem so unnatural
to most people.

So Riggs' decision
to confess

was not because
he was overcome by guilt.

It's not because he was
overcome by regret or remorse

for what he'd done
to another human being.

It's because he knew
that he was going to be found.

It may have been
his attempt to remain in control of the narrative,

which is, "I'm a good person
who did a bad thing,

and I have all this
remorse and regret."

[Dr. Tussey]
Hard to say about his expression of suicidality

if he genuinely
had been suicidal

or if he's saying it
in order to garner sympathy

and perhaps impact
the outcome of his case,

or maybe it's
a little bit of both,

but his other actions
and statements

throughout this interview
and in the records

do not paint the picture
of someone

who is riddled with grief

and remorse over his actions.

[Dr. Tussey]
This is an early red flag

for future violent behavior,
even sadistic behavior.

Individuals who hurt

those that are more
vulnerable to them,

whether we're talking about
an animal or a human being,

are people who tend
to be particularly callous

and not have the same
respect for humanity

that the majority
of society does.

So this small animal was
another easy victim for him.

[Dr. Mundy] When we get
into drug use

and drug experimentation,

we're in that
novelty seeking realm.

One of the features
with psychopathy

can be just increased
stimulation needs.

That, they, they need
something new,

they need something
stimulating, exciting,

and that can
frequently be drugs,

it can be a lot
of other things,

but we're seeing that
in his own description.

[Dr. Nameeta Sahni]
Psychopathic individuals are difficult to spot,

often times because
they're highly motivated to manipulate people

and to become
what we call chameleon-like.

They know how to mimic
just the surface

of typical human behaviors
and emotions.

Riggs was someone
who blended in to the community.

The sheer fact that
he went undetected as long as he did

speaks to his willingness
and ability

to manipulate others
and to pretend.

[male reporter]
Why'd it take you a year and a half

to confess, Mr. Riggs?

Why'd it take you
18 months to confess?