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[sharp piano notes]

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

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

feeling...

the hunger.

[reporter] It was a crime scene bathed in blood and tears.

That's what a police officer said he faced when he arrived

at a Northside apartment complex.

[reporter #2] A call for a shooting sent officers to this

apartment complex in the predawn hours

on the day after the 4th of July.

They were met by a woman and several others,

all visibly upset.

I looked down and I saw a small child with a --

a very gruesome head injury.

I took several, um, looks back and forth

to my left and my right.

That's when I saw the male body.

[reporter 2] A body later identified as 26-year-old John Bones.

The child, two-and-a-half-year-old Anika Gass,

both shot in the head.

In an adjoining room was the body

of 26-year-old Courtney Gass, the child's mother,

also shot in the head.

[ghostly music playing]

[Dr. Tussey] Here we see Allgood

acting like a deer in headlights.

He's acting as if he doesn't know what's going on,

like he's thrown off by the investigator's question.

But he's presenting as if he's somebody

who's an innocent bystander, or who knows, maybe even

a victim in this situation that he actually created.

[Dr. Sahni] The superficial nature of Allgood's emotions,

the displays of emotion, the sound of emotion --

they're inconsistent, they're controlled,

they're performative.

And what's important to note here is that while there's

a high level of emotion, he seems able to turn it on

and turn it off as he needs to communicate.

And that's just not how traumatized people react.

If they're sincere, they don't typically

turn on and off like a light switch.

[sobbing]

So just because people have psychopathy doesn't mean

that they are brilliant at telling a great story

and making all the facts line up.

So it doesn't make any sense that he would go

being from, like, confused, disoriented, and he has

no knowledge of anything.

And then we see these moments of clarity where he's doing

something very deliberate.

He's making sure it sounds like he's still a victim,

that he does not know anything, and that Courtney is the one

who's committed murder.

Allgood is getting more and more, you know, animated

as time goes on, his voice is rising,

he's getting defensive.

We see often that individuals with psychopathy

start to get angry, or frustrated at least,

whenever they are no longer in control or they start

to sense that they're losing control.

I think that's what's happening here with Allgood.

He senses that she's not buying his story,

she's not trying to understand him,

and he's starting to get aggravated.

The resounding reality is that Allgood is trying

to manage impressions.

He's trying to control the narrative that this

detective has about who he is as a person.

He's throwing anything and everything against the wall

to try and gain credibility --

he's telling her he's the child of law enforcement,

he's telling her that he lied, and somehow by admitting

to a lie up front, that means he's really a truthful person

because he's willing to tell on himself.

These various versions of him trying to control how they see

him as a suspect is nothing other than his own willingness

to lie chronically and habitually without thinking

about the consequences of what he's saying,

that it can be disproven, that it's inconsistent

with what he said five minutes before.

And when he's confronted consistently about the lies

and the mistruths, he becomes more and more

glib and grandiose.

Despite this insurmountable evidence that's -- that's

piling up against him, Allgood is almost doubling down.

He's tripling down and saying, "No, no, no."

It's a very unsophisticated approach to engaging with humans

and -- and to accepting responsibility.

And -- and in this case, he's failing to accept responsibility

and he's doing so in any manner he can think of.

[tense music playing]

[Dr. Morgan] He's being a little bit honest, he's opening up.

I think that's to create the impression of, well,

he is being honest, he's a little vulnerable.

There might be something sympathetic here.

He -- he might have been victimized in some way, right?

I think it's still in the big picture purpose of trying to

manipulate the interviewers to get them away from the hostile

view of him to something that's more sympathetic.

[Dr. Morgan] So he's not able to intimidate the detective

into agreeing to his view of reality.

So he morphs his strategy a little bit,

and then he finally goes, "Okay, yeah, so I did shoot her,

but she came at me with the knife."

Psychopaths -- the manipulative part is gaslighting

other people and controlling how they view things.

You have to remember, this is not a man who's deep

in mourning and in psychological distress about that,

this is a man who knows he's in the room, and he's got to

figure out how to play the odds as best as he can to get

the best outcome he can get from the detective.

What we know from a review of the record is that there is

some indication and evidence that Courtney actually was

getting ready to leave and take their toddler daughter with her.

So something happened in that apartment that led to Allgood's

ego being bruised -- he was somehow humiliated,

he was confronted.

Something happened that caused him to flip,

and when he flipped, it became about him versus the world.

Him being a father didn't matter, his daughter didn't take

priority over his needs, and when you see

narcissistic individuals like that, they can't

handle rejection, they can't handle their ego being wounded

and so they don't have any choice but to annihilate

the source of that wound.

[pensive music playing]

[reporter] Christopher Allgood is on trial for murder.

Prosecutors say they will show expert testimony later

in the trial, proving that Allgood's fingerprints were

on the trigger of the assault rifle,

a rifle they say was used to kill all three victims.

[ominous tones playing]

"Do you want to [bleep] die, [bleep]?"

"Do you want to [bleep] die?"

He cocked the gun and pushed the gun up against my face

and said, "I'm gonna splatter your brains

"out all over this room, and I'm not gonna go back.

"I'm gonna kill you, and I'm gonna kill myself,

'cause I'm never gonna go back to jail again."

[witness] Standing there with him holding me with a knife

against my stomach like that, he proceeded to grab me

and hold a knife to my throat, and I started screaming

at that point because I was very scared.

[Dr. Sahni] We know that Allgood's history

of domestic violence is well-established.

He spent 10 days in jail for pleading no contest

to terrorist threats.

In 2003, while the charges were dropped, ultimately,

because his then-girlfriend declined to cooperate or press

charges, he was also arrested for pointing a shotgun at her.

He is a domestic violence perpetrator, and this is

somebody who doesn't know how to regulate his anger.

He doesn't know how to manage being left or rejected.

But ultimately, what Allgood never really takes

responsibility for is this pattern of violence

he engages in with several women.

This is not something that just cropped up

in this relationship.

It just became the most brutal and most fatal.

The sexual psychopath has no boundary

or limits to what they will do to harm another person.