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

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

feeling... the hunger.

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While it's really developmentally normal

for teenagers to feel intense emotions

around their relationships.

And so when you think about the unrestrained emotions

of teenagers and the poor impulse control

that is a very natural marker of being a teenager,

the front of the brain where

we have decision making,

where we have measured reasoning,

is still very much developing.

But the problem we have is that they spun out of control

to a level that most teenagers would never take it.

I mean, this could be the perfect situation for Bargo

to take that first step into engaging in a murder.

It sets the perfect stage.

He's already fantasized about killing

and destruction of property.

It's on the course to being an antisocial personality,

which eventually can become psychopathy.

And then there's this issue with Seath Jackson, where he was

challenged to a fight and he stepped down.

What we see here is it could be sort of a narcissistic wound.

It's a blow to his ego, a tarnish to his image

that he's not living up to this, you know, big, bold, brave,

you know, gangster image

that he's putting out to these kids.

Bargo is manipulating all of those around him into thinking

that he has some kind of power that he actually doesn't have.

And he's chosen, right, little teenagers as his audience

because he knows that he can manipulate them

easier than his own same-age peers

or adults that actually live this life.

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Is there a level of sadism here?

Potentially.

I think what Bargo is really doing is, again,

eliciting the fear.

Fear is the thing that he gets gratification from.

You can't get fear from a dead body.

You can only get fear from someone that's alive.

The more fear he can evoke from these kids,

the more intoxicated he's going to feel.

[Dr. Vienna] I think at this point, Amber's demeanor of being

so meek and mild and mellow, and the soft tone, is really

trying to manipulate the detective into seeing

her as the victim in the whole situation.

She's giving accounts that she was abused

and Seath cheated on her,

but she's just trying to create a narrative

that suits her at this point.

In looking at Amber Wright's phone data,

what detectives figure out is that Wright

initiates a text message to Seath Jackson

on the night of his murder.

And she says that she wants to work things out.

She asks him to, quote unquote, meet her at home.

Sadly, Wright's ability to successfully manipulate him

caused him to walk right into this trap.

So what she's showing us is a much greater capacity

to manipulate people, a much greater capacity

to utilize her femininity, her sexuality, and her softness,

when she needs to access it

to get people to believe she's credible

and that what she's telling them is the truth.

[detective] Can we agree with that?

[Dr. De La Torre] Is Wright demonstrating a level of narcissism?

She absolutely is.

She's otherizing both the two people that are supposed

to be her friends, including her brother.

She's still not willing to admit that she is, in fact,

this thing.

She calls other people murderers, but I don't think

she fully incorporates her level of culpability.

She thinks that she did this as a way of maybe placating Bargo,

or maybe as a way of getting back at Seath.

But in her mind, she never really thought

that she was guilty of a crime.

Detectives give her an opportunity to course correct,

to come clean at this juncture.

She doubles down on being a victim,

on being the wronged party.

She now pins it on Bargo.

she's unwilling to attach herself to any real culpability,

and she's promoting this idea that she's a victim.

That is consistent with somebody

who has a pattern of failure to take responsibility.

Certainly we see that in a variety of circumstances,

including with budding psychopathic individuals.

[Dr. Sahni] What we see with Bargo

is a more criminally sophisticated person.

He's smart enough to know that his best strategy

is to say nothing, ask for a lawyer,

and let the investigators run with the investigation

and do whatever they were gonna do.

But what it also does for a psychopathic individual,

it maintains control.

They are still in the driver's seat,

and they're not willing

to play ball on law enforcement's terms.

Bargo is accused of planning

and carrying out the murder

of 15-year-old Seath Jackson.

Four others have already been convicted of the crime.

Bargo is the accused mastermind of the 2011 murder

of 15-year-old Seath Jackson because of a dispute

over a girl, Amber Wright.

Investigators say he and four others

lured Jackson to a home, beat him and shot him to death,

then dismembered his body, burned the remains

and concealed them in paint cans.

[woman] In fact, isn't it true

that the reason you and Seath were feuding

is because she cheated on Seath with you?

She never cheated on Seath with me.

She never did anything with me.

[woman] And you've come in here now and you've made up this story,

about Seath raping her and Seath beating her,

when that was not the reason you guys were fighting at all.

I never made up a story.

I never told you something that I didn't already hear from her.

[woman] So somehow, again,

you're just a misunderstood victim in this whole thing.

Somehow, I got dragged in the middle of it.

He said that he pulled a gun out on him

and started shooting, coming from Seath,

that he didn't know what it was.

So he said, what he told me was, that he came too far

and it was -- it was too late.

He said he then shot him a couple more times in the head.

He said they -- they freaked out.

He said the girls were crying.

He said he freaked out.

[man] OK, what about, was there a plan in this or anywhere?

No, he said that when he came out, he was just there.

He just said Seath was just there,

and he tried to get him to leave.

He wouldn't leave.

[man] What did you say as a result of that?

I said -- I didn't know what to say.

I mean, he just told me that Seath was there

and that he wouldn't leave.

And he tried making him leave.

[man] Where was the body at that point?

[Bargo] When I came home, while he was talking to me,

the body was already in the fire,

that's what he ended up telling me.

The jury, they don't need to be lie detectors,

they can clearly see that everything he is saying,

he's making up, right then and there,

because his own ego won't allow him to just

take responsibility of this thing.

But the reality of narcissism is that

it's -- it's made out of sugar glass, right?

It's not real.

It can easily be penetrated when confronted.

And here we have him being confronted,

for actually probably the first time,

already as an 18-year-old who thinks himself to be a man,

who has been able to manipulate

little girls and little boys all around him,

to be confronted by a woman in which -- in this scenario,

it puts him on tilt, puts him on edge.

He doesn't like that he has to defend himself.

He doesn't like that he's being challenged in this way.

One of the things that I have to wonder is,

because the majority of these individuals were teenagers,

they were young, young adults, underdeveloped,

how much of

their willingness to sensationalize the acts,

to enjoy the attention, to get a sort of secondary social high

off of doing bad, is really what fed their motivation.

That what we had was one person in Mike Bargo,

who dropped some dye in a pool

and just watched it spread

in this very infectious way.

And Amber Wright comes along and offers the justification,

gives a method that allows everybody else's conscience

to get with the plan,

because Seath Jackson is a problematic human being.

And that...

willingness to all allow themselves to be involved

speaks to some disruption in each and every one

of their development, moral development, conscience.

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