All language subtitles for Signs.of.a.Psychopath.S10E01.1080p.WEB.h264-FREQUENCY_track3_[eng]

[reporter 1]
Have you seen this man?

[reporter 1]
U.S. Marshals and local
authorities tell News 3

that 30-year-old Cola Beale
is armed and dangerous.

[reporter 2]
Police in two Hampton Roads
cities believe he could be

behind three murders
in five days.

[reporter 3]
The string of murders all
started when a house near

Virginia Wesleyan University
went up in flames.

[reporter 3]
It's believed that Beale killed
his 31-year-old girlfriend

before allegedly setting
her house on fire.

The very next day, Beale was
connected to another murder,

a 71-year-old man who
neighbors say Beale was

close with was found dead
from a gunshot.

And then the very latest,
just this Monday,

Norfolk Police found a man dead
inside of his home

on Sewells Point Road.

[theme music playing]

The thing
inside of me, it's like...

the appetite,
it's like a wolf that's...

feeling...
the hunger.

[reporter 1]
A man suspected
of killing three people

in Norfolk and Virginia Beach
is behind bars.

[reporter 3]
Beale is not really a stranger
to the inside of a jail cell.

[reporter 3]
He has a long criminal history
that dates back all the way

to 2005.

[reporter 3] Beale served
prison time for armed robbery,

and sexual assault on a child.

And in 2012, Beale pled guilty
to several crimes,

including conspiracy and two
separate charges of robbery,

including armed robbery
and use of a firearm by a felon,

Now, Beale served
six years for those crimes,

and he was on
supervised probation.

[Dr. Morgan]
Cola Beale's history is not
that unusual when we put it

in perspective with the
histories of other people

with severe psychopathy.

In psychopathy,
a person's view is primarily

that they are unconstrained,
that if they want something,

nothing should really stand
between them, and their idea

of achieving their goal.

They just don't
take other people's views

into account, really.

It's all about them
and what they want.

[Dr. Tussey] He's angry
right out of the gate,

and he's really taking
the role of the victim.

He's been falsely accused

of the sex crime.

You know, wouldn't that
make you angry?

When you get a flair
for his criminal versatility,

his impulsivity, his failure
to accept responsibility.

Blaming his girlfriend's
parents, her mother,

for having caused
him to murder her.

[Dr. Saraiya]
He sorts of distanced himself
from his own responsibility,

he's just figured out how to
deal with that by just sort of

like, admitting it, and then
just sweeping it to the side.

There's certainly grandiose
things about Mr. Beale,

but this one is
definitely a twisted one.

Like the idea that
he's the better person

because he actually cared
about her in some fashion,

but then her family didn't
because it took him

setting her on fire
to get their attention.

His resorting to violence,
and the direction of

that violence is kind of
everybody else's fault.

[Dr. Tussey]
According to Beale,
he hasn't been heard

much of his life.

And so the fire
is symbolic of Beale's life

in some ways
going up in flames.

And he acknowledges that,
you know, life is over.

It's also, I think,
a manifestation of his desire

to be on the front stage
in the most grandiose display

of crime and violence.

[Dr. Tussey]
Not only am I going to kill
people, but I'm also going to

set a fire so everybody can
see what's happening.

This is the perfect opportunity
for him to,

you know,
"be heard."

[Dr. Morgan]
It's still all about him.

He's astonished that
she would say, "Oh,
take me, save the dog."

And his whole point is,
she's not even listening to him.

It's not about the dog.
It's not about her.

He doesn't want to hear
anything that she has to say,

putting the tape over her mouth
really quickly, he says,

"Oh, no, no, I didn't rape her."

But I think he was tired of
hearing what she had to say.

So she was making
too much noise.

And I think that,
that, the lack of understanding

is because he does not
experience empathy,

like normal people do.

There's just absolutely
no regard for a living entity,

whether it's humans or animals.

When you look at
Beal's behavior,

there really is an element
of sadism to them,

not only in the way he interacts
and describes the way that

he murdered his girlfriend,
and the conversation

they had leading up to her death
and then also to hurt

a completely innocent,
vulnerable animal,

is sadistic.

[suspenseful music plays]

[Dr. Saraiya]
Moving on to the father figure
Clifton Baxter, there's no

longitudinal connection
of any kind of relationship.

That regard is absent.

That building of
a connection, you know,

the things that enable most
of us to build a relationship,

those traits are missing
in psychopaths.

Their relationships
are transactional.

What can they do for me now?

And that's where
he focuses his explanation --

"Hey, in the recent time,
whenever I asked for money,

"not only did Clifton Baxter
not give it to me.

He lied about it," you know,
it's like a double affront.

"This person is a liar
who disrespects me,

and won't give me what
I want, so I shot."

[Dr. Morgan]
I think his theme is "I should
never have been accused

of a sex offense,
they should have cleared me."

I think he feels that this
has ruined his life,

and now he's gonna
make us all pay for it.

I think he's being genuine
about the idea of no remorse.

There probably was some
inherent propensity

towards violence,
he was surrounded by violence.

When Cola Beale was a child,
his father, Cola Beale III,

actually, tried to murder
his mother.

She survived,
but now his father is in jail

for having murdered
his stepmother.

He's identifying as a killer
as well by saying,

"Oh, my father is
a killer, too."

And then he talks
about having

a higher body count
than his father.

We know that with psychopathy,
some of the research has shown

there is a genetic
component to it.

Not that's the only reason
that somebody may have

psychopathic traits,
but given his father's history,

it does make me wonder
about what might be underlying

from a biological perspective.

So the whole nature
and nurture, both of those

factors seem to play
a role for Beale.

[Dr. Tussey] These are examples
of an individual

who doesn't have
that human connection that

the average person does.

And he doesn't seem
to feel guilty at all.

In fact, isn't even sure what
he should feel guilty about.

You know,
her family interfered.

Mr. Baxter didn't give him money
when he needed,

and his cousin was talking back,
and wouldn't stop.

He really has this very shallow
affect in that

he doesn't seem
emotionally impacted at all.

For all three of Beale's
victims, he has made a personal

connection and justification
for why he should murder them.

They all deserved it
for one reason or another.

[Dr. Morgan] Cola Beale is
a wonderful example,

when we think of psychopathy
of someone whose

predominant traits are those of
callousness, selfishness,

and the anger component.

When they feel, like,
they're not getting

what they want
or they've been wronged,

they're gonna make
everybody pay.

They really attribute
to other people the causes

for why they do what they do,
they don't blame themselves.

All they can do is react.

[reporter 1] He confessed
to our cameras yesterday,

to committing three murders
in the span of just three days.

[reporter 3] Beale told me
he was prepared to take

any penalty coming to him
from a judge and from a jury.