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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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