All language subtitles for Signs.of.a.Psychopath.S10E07.1080p.WEB.h264-FREQUENCY_track3_[eng]

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

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

feeling...
the hunger.

[reporter] A sheriff's deputy
from Kentucky is accused

of killing his girlfriend.

Kentucky police say
Randall Creek murdered

his girlfriend at her Kentucky
home on Sunday night.

On Monday, Kentucky authorities
suspected he was in Iowa.

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[reporter #2]
After fleeing Kentucky,
Randall Creek stopped

at the North Liberty Library
to taunt police officers

who were looking for
him nearly 500 miles away.

He emailed saying he wasn't
going to put up a fight.

However, he was going to make
the Kentucky State Police

earn their money.

As he's fled Kentucky,
he leaves breadcrumbs

all along the way
for law enforcement,

taunting them,
giving them clues.

But there's an arrogance
about how he does this.

He doesn't sound concerned,
he doesn't sound upset.

And ultimately,
what Randall Creek is saying is,

"This is about me.

"Let me tell you
how I got wronged.

"Let me tell you
how I had no choice

but to take this person out."

[reporter #3] Investigators
back in Kentucky traced Creek

to North Liberty,
and then alerted officers

in eastern Iowa.

30 minutes later,
police found his truck

at a hotel in Evansdale.

[Dr. Tussey] The fact that Creek
would self-disclose this

makes you wonder, like,
"What is it about him?"

Is he somebody that's been
wearing a mask,

essentially looking
and appearing to the public

one way as a law-abiding
law enforcement officer?

But in reality, he's really
somebody very different.

How much of this is also
his inflated ego and trying

to present himself
as somebody who's

particularly cold and a killer?

[Dr. Sahni]
What we know about people

with maladaptive
or negative personality traits

is behind their presentation,
their grandiosity,

their overinflated sense
of self-importance,

they're fragile, they're weak,
they fear being abandoned.

And with Randall Creek,
we see this pattern.

He has this expectation
that people are gonna

drop everything for him.

And to not do that, to not meet
his needs, he starts to have

problems regulating
his own impulse control.

Very quickly,
his ego comes to its knees.

He has a difficult time not
being the center of attention.

[Dr. Tussey] Creek is providing
a motive as he's talking here.

You get the sense he's feeling
misled or he's confused

because they're meeting
once a week for lunch.

She's kissing him
and hugging him.

Individuals with psychopathy
have a difficult time reading

the room in -- in regards
to emotions.

For Creek, that is the ultimate
slap in the face.

It's the rejection.

And unlike the average
individual who might

be disappointed
about a rejection.

Individuals with psychopathy
may ruminate on that rejection,

and that rumination
just fuels their anger

and desires for vindication.

He initially says,
"I'm doing all the things

"that I don't normally do,
like give flowers

and cards and gifts,"
and he's doing it a lot now.

That's called love bombing.

All of it was hollow.

Everything that he did
was simply to try to keep

the victim around because
that's what psychopaths do.

He's going to now
do something dramatic.

On its face, it looks like
"I'm emptying out

"all my bank accounts
and packing up

all my stuff and I'm going to
Anchorage, Alaska."

But the reality is,

is that he already planned
to murder her,

and his plan was to kill
her and then escape to Alaska.

That was what he wanted to do.

In Creek's mind,
the narcissistic injury

that he won't ever forgive
her for is that she left him.

She quit him, and his ego is
way too fragile to handle

that kind of rejection.

'Cause a narcissistic
individual doesn't handle

a wound to their ego,
they don't handle rejection.

It's not about
what the other person wants,

it's not about the relationship,

it's about
their needs exclusively.

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[Dr. De La Torre]
He tells police officers
that he's willing

to accept this idea
that she needs some space.

But in reality, he doesn't
give her any space at all.

He's already love-bombed her,
and now, even though

he's not a stalker, he's leaving

incessant voicemail
after voicemail.

They happen so frequently
that it becomes stalker,

it becomes scary.

For a woman, these kinds of
behaviors are red flags.

For the psychopath,

they're just normal,
everyday business.

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[Dr. De La Torre]
For him, that level
of frustration gets to a point

where now
he has to exact blame,

he has to exact revenge,

he has to do a physical act
in order to get that power

and control back because
he's been so deeply wounded.

And that's the fragility
of the narcissism

that we're talking about.

Because his psychopathy
is so fueled by narcissism,

any wound in of itself is gonna
have an outburst, right?

His behaviors are gonna be
so overblown as a result.

[Dr. Tussey] Creek is now
blaming the victim.

He's justifying his behaviors
and he felt disrespected.

There is also a clear lack of
remorse as Creek is speaking.

And we know that individuals
with psychopathy don't have

the same emotional attachment
to relationships

as the average individual.

And in this case,
there's no point

in the interview
that Creek has talked

about feeling bad,
feeling guilty, or regretting

what he did -- if anything,
he's justified his actions.

[Dr. De La Torre]
Every single decision,
every single behavior

that she did was the absolute
wrong one in his mind.

And because of that,
she needed to be taught

a lesson, several bullets
worth of a lesson.

And when the man comes out,
you can see the level

of animosity that he has.

This is the only real time
that we get

any real kind of emotionality.

He's more offended that this
man is less of a man than him,

than he is at being shameful
and feeling guilty that he took

another person's life.

[Dr. Sahni]
That dynamic of power
and control we see

in D.V. perpetrators
all the time.

Things have to be
on their terms.

"It's my way or the highway."

And in the case
of Randall Creek,

he's not actually any different
than every other criminal

who's in prison for killing
a spouse or killing a partner.

But he has this ongoing need
to put himself on a pedestal.

And his choice
of how to do it is to say,

"People aren't going to be
surprised that I did this."

It's as if Creek
wants to live up

to this reputation
that he's a bad boy,

that he's a rebel somehow,
and all he really is

is a criminal who didn't
get caught before now.

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