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[intense music playing]

[man 1 speaking]

[man 2 speaking]

[man 3 speaking]

[man 4] The thing
inside of me is like...

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

feeling... the hunger.

[news reporter]
Westminster police hoping
you can help

find this missing 19-year-old.

She's Lea Chali Porter.

She lives in Pueblo,
but she was in Westminster
last Thursday,

when she went missing.

Now, take a look.
Porter's hair is dyed blond,
but she has brown hair.

She also has a tattoo
on her wrist,

and her lower lip is pierced.

You can call Crime Stoppers
or Westminster

if you have any information
to help find her.

[eerie music playing]

[Nameeta] Knowing that
Christopher Waide
had some very dark

and particularly sadistic
urges and fantasies

as young as teenage life
in high school,

would be a reason for
any parent to be concerned.

And Max Porter, because he
went to school with Waide,

and was aware of these rumors,

he's understandably really
worried about his sister.

Waide presents here,
as somebody who's
really nervous.

His answers almost
seemed like they were
written for him.

Like, he's thought about
what he was going to say,
and he's going by his script.

Very stilted,
very uncomfortable.

And he drops comments
here and there.

Almost comments, like,
he thinks he should say.

Like, he was concerned
about her drug addiction.

He found drugs.

She seemed depressed.

But there's really
not a lot of emotion
behind what he's saying.

It's almost, to me,
like he's more concerned

about saying the right thing
during this interview,

than he is about not knowing
where his friend is.

[Charles] First, you having
already lost a friend.

This has been also seen
in other cases where
people make us slip.

It does raise
their suspicions.

Some people would say
that's due to what we call

the guilty knowledge
in our head.

And that influences
the way we think
and the way we speak.

And he probably didn't
intend to say it that way.

But you can probably
believe it's true.

He's already lost that friend.

He's expressing a concern

that the reason
he's cooperating with police

is because they're telling him
he's not a suspect

and he wants to make sure
he continues to control
that narrative.

And ensure that
he stays off their radar.

But what Waide's
engaging in is constant
impression management.

The problem is,
he doesn't think quickly
on his feet.

And when it's not rehearsed,

you see these
awkward behaviors
and these cognitive leaks

come out
in the media interview.

[ominous music playing]

What we now understand
about pornography addiction

and the influence
of pornography exposure

on young children
as their brains are developing

and their sexual identity
is developing,

is that it sets up
an expectation around
sexuality, intimacy

and interacting
with sexual partners,
that's highly unrealistic.

And what also seems
quite clear is that

there were early warning signs

and his the family chose
to minimize the seriousness
of those.

[Chriscelyn] Here we have
Waide's own mother

confirming the rumors
and the other perceptions

that Lea's family
has about him.

When you think
about these red flags,

of not only express
sexual fantasies,

violent deviant fantasies,
but also actual behavior,

where he enacted
some of those fantasies.

When you take that
with what we have
in this current situation,

where he's being investigated
for a missing woman...

It certainly
is very concerning

when you think about
all the history that
we have thus far.

[Nameeta]
The psychological evaluation
from the United States Army

that was done in preparation
for Waide's discharge

paints a very different
picture than what his mother
wants to believe,

or what he maybe told her.

Waide was quite forthcoming
with the doctor

that he has ongoing urges
and fantasies of raping
a specific classmate.

And what the doctor
ultimately says, which is both

alarming and quite astute,

is that while there's
no evidence

that Waide has harmed anybody,
he's dangerous.

He has the potential
for dangerousness.

This particular scene
where he's being interviewed
by the police,

and he's going like,
"Oh, I do, you know,
criminal justice."

It's a way of saying,
"I'm kind of like you."

Like, "We have
something in common."

It's his effort to control
the image of him

in the police's eyes,
to make him look like

he's cooperative,
he's on board,

he's a good person.

It's part of his image
of being the helpful friend.

Here, Waide is almost
presenting himself

like he's an expert
in behavioral analysis

and almost teaching
the investigators

about what a real smile
looks like

and how he's able to discern

when she's telling him
the truth, or not.

He wants them to believe

that he knows more
than he really does

and that he's
a different person
than he really is.

He's lying and manipulating.

We see this parent, child
judgmental quality

in Waide's attitude,
time and time again.

What we also
need to pay attention to

is that consistent with
what we see

with psychopathic offenders
oftentimes,

is this shallow affect.

There's this shallowness
to his emotions.

They're superficial.

He's using all these
flowery words,

as if he's re-reading a script
that he's worked out
in his head,

that is gentle and soft
and almost romantic in nature.

And yet the words
and content he's describing

is an ugly confrontation
about drug paraphernalia.

And the two just don't add up.

So, the part that makes
no sense is, he's just said
to the police,

"Maybe she took the intent
of my reading too far."

But when he's
explaining the reading,

it's supposed to be
a joyous, celebratory thing.

There's nothing malevolent
in the reading that says,

like, die, hurt yourself,
bad things coming up...

She's off celebrating
or she's in a...
she's in a good space.

Which is really incongruous.

Why would you be worried?

So, the police have a right
to be suspicious of it.

We see Waide stumble here.

He didn't expect
law enforcement
to kind of confront him

about some of the blood
evidence.

To confront him and push him,
and because he hadn't
thought about that,

he didn't have
a rehearsed answer.

He didn't have an explanation.

But it is also important
to note the ease with which
he just makes something up.

And that kind of pathological
compulsive ability to lie

and just fill in the blanks

is something we consistently
see time and time again
in psychopathic offenders.

[Waide sighs]

[Charles] They're throwing out
information that they
don't yet really have.

Like, her cell phone
was found...

Right? With her clothing.

And you hear Waide sigh.

He's got to come up
with a new story.

And he goes,
"No, no, no. I saw her leave
with her cell phone."

But then you'd hear him
sigh again.

He's working really hard
at trying to figure out.

So, when he then finally says,

"I'm searching
for the right words",

I believe him.

He's trying to figure out,

"What is the best way
I can frame this."

[Rene Jackson
screaming, sobbing]

[Charles] A great moment
where you get a...

you get a peek, sort of,
into the thinking of
a psychopath

who is self-absorbed.

And he keeps saying,
"I know this is going to be
hard for you to hear."

It's not really empathetic.

His expectation is that
they should accept it
on his terms.

But that's
the manifestation of control

that you do see
with psychopaths.

They want to be in charge
of the information,

and in control
of other people's
feelings about it.

He's now, tossed in
the word, "rape."

And he's now woven it into
the story to make him
the victim.

That he was going to be
accused of rape, and that
he was defending himself.

But he, in the story,
is the victim.

It's consistent with how
he's tried to represent
himself all the way along.

Even at this point
in the investigation,

when he is clearly
at the end of his rope,

he's still not able
to say, "I murdered her. I am
responsible for her death."

He just says
I played a major role in it.

And that
lack of responsibility-taking

is something that we see
time and time again in
psychopathic individuals.

It's everybody else's fault
but theirs.

Or it's a misunderstanding.

[Nameeta]
What we know from
the investigation is that,

we have a person who
engaged in quite a bit

of deviant
sexual fantasies, urges,

and, to some degree,
behaviors.

No less than 21,000 images

found on his computers
and various hard drives

that would be identified
as possible child pornography.

When you start to look
at all these things that are
found in Wade's history,

we realize this is
somebody who has

escalating deviant urges
that are sadistic in nature,

and when you
couple that with
the impulse control issues,

this is a very
dangerous individual.

[Chriscelyn] Again,
we see the "I know better.

Let me discuss the semantics
of her death versus murder."

There is such a heightened
level of grandiosity
that's on display here,

and also a failure
to accept responsibility.

So, we know that individuals
with psychopathy

often will find other reasons
to justify their behavior.

So, maybe, in his mind,

murder is just
coldly killing someone
without any provocation.

And he's still
somehow trying
to hang on to this idea

that he was just
defending himself against her.

It's interesting
and really speaks
to a lack of self-awareness

that he talks about
the thing he values most,

and the emotion
he values most is loyalty.

He talks about
"to friends", and we know
from the investigation

he really doesn't have any.

So, what I think
he's really talking about
is loyalty to himself.

He's betrayed himself.
He's told on himself.

He didn't handle this
the way he thought he would,

and any suggestions of regret
really seem to be more

about the fact
that he's gotten caught.

[reporter] Developing
right now, the search tonight
for the body of Lee Porter.

Her high school friend
is sitting behind bars,
linked to her murder.

Christopher Waide
turned himself in to
Westminster police last night.

Now, the suspect is in jail
on charges of sexual
assault and murder.

Police searched
his apartment twice,

and today, sectioned off
part of a public landfill
in connection with the case.

So, in 2022,
almost eight years,

sort of after being in prison,

Christopher Waide
decides to write a letter
describing the events

of what took place on that day
when he killed Lea.

And it's not sent
to anyone in specific.
It's just sent to the court.

In the letter, he goes into
quite a bit of detail

about the events
that occurred that day,

um, that I think
are in many ways

illustrative of what goes on
in the mind of a psychopath,

in terms of the use
of other people.

What Waide
writes in the letter
is that, um,

when Lea was there,
she went into the bathroom.

There was never
any episode of doing
a tarot reading for her.

There was never an episode
of her wanting drugs,

and trying to hold him
hostage with a knife.

She went into the bathroom.
And then, he describes
this moment

when she came
out of the bathroom
where something just snapped,

and he was filled
with aggression, rage,
and sexual desire for her,

and he immediately
attacked her,

restrained her
and choked her.

I think there's
more truth in here
about what he did to her,

and the reason I believe that
is it's more consistent

with what we know
about his fantasy life
and what he was interested in.

But I don't believe that
he's told us the entire story.