All language subtitles for Signs.of.a.Psychopath.S08E07.1080p.WEB.h264-FREQUENCY_track3_[eng]

[theme music playing]

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

the appetite.

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

feeling the hunger.

[De La Torre] So the guys that
actually work on the oil rigs,

they're called roughnecks,

and they're called roughnecks
for a reason.

This is a job
where masculinity is key.

You have to be strong,
and you have to be tough.

This kind of job is very,
very dangerous.

So everything is about
the bravado and the machoism

of working a job like that.

[Tussey] It's a missing persons
case at this point,

yet he's describing her in a way

that he's almost blaming her
for the circumstances.

She dressed provocatively,

she had a smart aleck attitude,
she had a bad temper.

He's got a lot of negative
things to say about her,

but you don't hear any concern
about, where is she?

Is she OK?

It's just a lot more like
potential victim blaming

is what we're
hearing here.

The first big signal is
the fact that he said,

"I've never been arrested for
beating somebody up."

If somebody asked me, I would
say, "I've never done it."

So the fact that he's already
saying I was never arrested

shows he knows he can get away
with this.

He's done it before,
and there was no consequences.

One thing that people with
psychopathy hate is

being questioned.

It undercuts their authority,

and so he's actually thinking,

why should I have
to answer to you?

This is my situation.

I'm in control.

That's why he's getting so
irritated throughout

this conversation.

He doesn't run, he stays.

He thinks, I'm in control
of the situation,

and that really
shows his narcissism.

What we're seeing emerge is
the start of pathological lying.

I mean, he's
changing his story.

He knows he's at risk of
getting caught,

and you see him rapidly coming
up with these

quite manipulative,
deceptive stories.

He shows enthusiasm as he's
telling the story of

his girlfriend's head getting
beaten in,

and he's excited about it.

It makes him --

the technical term would be
aroused.

He's clearly showing signs that
this is something

he's interested in,

and that tends to happen
in psychopathy.

[reporter] Horrific news out of
Carlsbad tonight.

Police say they found the body
of missing third grade teacher

and mother of two,
Emily Lambert,

beaten and barely clothed
behind this bar near Loving.

Her boyfriend, Robert Earley,
initially told police that

Lambert took off with
another man.

However, authorities now say
Earley has confessed

to her murder.

For psychopaths, when they have
a grandiose sense of self,

it can often take
particular forms.

For Earley, it's related to
his masculinity and being

the most macho guy in the room.

He has unconsciously already
revealed the reality of what

has happened.

There was something that
she did not like,

and because she didn't like it,
she decided that she was going

to use her own agency and stop
that thing from happening,

but because that threatened
his masculinity,

he's going to be violent.

Definition of first-degree
murder is that you had

an opportunity to cool off
and still engage in

the behavior anyway,

and if his plausible story of

"It was self-defense,
we got into a fight,"

was true, none of these things
would have happened.

Emily wouldn't have been on
the ground when he's kicking

her in the head if he was
engaging in self-defense,

but he continues on with this.

It's just getting worse
and more brutal

and grotesque and sadistic,

and he's just enjoying
the torture of her.

So after committing this
heinous crime, Earley goes back

to the hotel room and is able
to fall asleep.

Somebody who had remorse for
their actions, or even just

the physiological reaction
we would expect someone to have

after so violently hurting
another human being,

doesn't seem to be in place
for Earley.

He's able to just drive back to
the hotel and go to bed.

For a psychopath,
they know the words that people

expect them to say,
but they just don't have

the same definition.

I think what he actually means
when he says that he loves

her was that Emily was willing
to be the toy that I wanted

her to be,

and like any other little kid,
when they're tired of the toy

and they want to throw
a temper tantrum,

they're going to kick that toy.

Psychopaths need other people
in order for them to get

their own wants and desires
fulfilled, but they're only

ever a tool.

An object can be discarded once
the object has threatened

the person's own ego.

I think that he finally becomes
aware that the investigators

are going to charge him with
murder, but he's thinking,

how can I still control
this situation?

And I think he's trying to,
even now, while he's

essentially confessing to
the murder, saying,

"Well, if I can get the charges
that I want, then I still won."

[reporter]
It was our first look at Robert
Earley, the oil worker from

Texas accused of killing
his girlfriend of three months,

Emily Lambert,
while working in Carlsbad.

Lambert, a third grade teacher
and mother of two, was visiting

Earley for the weekend.

Investigators found her body
behind a barn.

Earley is charged with
first-degree murder.

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