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

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

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feeling...
the hunger.

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[Dr. Morgan]
When the police arrive,
Cheyanne Jessie's not crying.

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She doesn't sound worried.

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Her daughter is a six-year-old
who has medical needs,

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has behavioral problems,
appointments with doctors.

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And it seems really unusual

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that a mother would wait a week
to call 911.

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This is a context
in which I think the police

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should be thinking, this woman
knows a great deal more

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than she's letting on.

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[Dr. Vienna] We would expect
a loving mother to say,

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"OK, well then
you must leave

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because my first obligation is
to my child."

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But instead, Jessie sees
her daughter as an object

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that gets in her way.

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She doesn't find any use in her.

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She's blocking her
from what she wants.

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[Dr. Morgan]
As we learn more about Jessie,

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we find out that she has
a complicated relationship

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with her father.
There's confrontation.

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There's anger, irritability,
according to her boyfriend.

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This complicates the features
for someone with psychopathy

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because, since they don't
regulate emotions

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like a healthy person does,
um...

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it makes them more frustrated

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when they can't just get
what they want.

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So they tend to become
quite impatient

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and short with people.

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They ask for something,
and when they don't get it,

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they get angry and they react.

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I think Jessie thought
that she had control over Cody.

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I think she thought
that she could, you know,

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use her feminine ways
and victim mentality.

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And in turn, she was buying
his loyalty.

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But that's not what happened.

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He comes out and tells police
everything.

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One of the traits of psychopathy

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is trying to control
other people

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and control the story that's
being told about you to others.

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And the way she did that,

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or attempted to do that
with Cody, sort of backfired.

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There's an idea
in the concept of psychopathy

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that we talk about which is
called "shallow affect,"

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which refers to the idea
that people don't have

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a wide range of emotions.

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We just get this monotonous
kind of tone describing things,

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but putting out some ideas

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that in and of themselves are
actually quite distressing.

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Maybe she's ben hurt
by girlfriend Vickie, right?

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She's trying out
different narratives

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about what might've happened

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that'll help shift
the blame from her.

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I think that's
a manipulative strategy that --

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to keep the police guessing,
keep the police busy,

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but not paying attention
to her.

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[Dr. De La Torre]
"I'm dehydrated."

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That's biologically
ridiculous, right?

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This is someone who
doesn't respond well

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when things get overwhelming,

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who does not like
to be challenged,

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who does not like
when things get rough,

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when things don't happen the way
she just wants them to happen,

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and will respond negatively,

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will respond in a way
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were not anticipating.

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She's definitely saying

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the first thing
that comes to mind

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to try to make it
more reasonable.

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But the problem is,

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is that her reasonableness is
so ridiculous

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that it's unbelievable.

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[Dr. Morgan]
And now she's a victim,

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someone who's afraid,
afraid of Mark Weekly

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and terrified and vulnerable.

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Ah -- so this is
setting the stage

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for a new narrative.

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If there's a physical threat,
we generally accept the idea

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that a person has the right
to physically defend themselves.

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So she's planting the seeds
that it wasn't just verbal,

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it was physical.

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Harm is being done to her
by this aggressive,

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violent man, her father.

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When someone says
they black out,

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especially in a criminal case,
it's usually a convenient excuse

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to discard
any sort of responsibility.

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Jessie's placing blame
on her medication

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and why she takes medication.

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She's not just controlling
the situation of how police are

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seeing her,
but she's displacing blame,

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which is a key
psychopathic trait.

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They don't take
any responsibility
for what they've done.

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Taking responsibility is not
in their mentality whatsoever.

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[Dr. Morgan]
This is where you see
the remarkable ability

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to invent a story very quickly.

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The minute he says, "Did he come
at you with a knife?"

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She's like, "Yes."

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She's already playing
the acting.

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She's making it up as she goes.

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It is a remarkable example
of how rapidly a psychopath

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can generate what might be
a compelling narrative

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to someone whose, like --
falls for the tears

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and then the apparent detail
in what she's saying.

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This is the new scenario.

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This is the new reality
she wants to create.

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I would have anticipated her
to be crying, and it isn't.

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It's not the time
that she's crying.

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It's cold.

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It's meant for other people
to see her as a grieving mother,

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but she's not
a grieving mother.

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She didn't care
that her daughter died.

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Then later she says,
"I was angry."

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She was just so angry.
She had been angry.

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She had been angry at Monroe
for threatening to leave.

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She had been angry at her father
for the abuses that she thought

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that she suffered from before.

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And she was most angry
at her daughter

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because the daughter put her
in a position

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to have to make a choice.

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And a psychopath doesn't like
to be forced to a choice.

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What stands out here is
that Jessie has no remorse,

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no shame, no feelings whatsoever
that her, her daughter is dead,

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her dad is dead,
and that she did this.

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And that's pretty consistent
with a psychopath.

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So if she is crying
or pretending to cry,

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I think it's has more to do
with her going to jail

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and being punished
and losing the one thing

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that probably mattered the most
to her, which was the affection

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and attention
of Matthew "Cody" Monroe.

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[news reporter]
According to reports,
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killed her father and daughter
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She returned days later

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and put their bodies
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then hid them
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[Dr. De La Torre]
Cheyanne Jessie,

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I think, is a product
of a lot of different things.

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Her own psychopathy
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of a deprived childhood.

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I think she ran up against
a society in which she thought

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that the only thing that she had
was her being a woman --

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and her being a woman meant
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And the challenge
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by having a six-year-old

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who was acting like
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I think all of that was
too overwhelming for her.

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And in her psychopathy,
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to completely detach
from the relationships

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that she should have leaned on
for support.

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I also think
that those relationships,

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whether it was her father
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or whether it was her daughter,

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were never
really gonna be healthy.

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And Cheyanne just responded in
the only way that she knew how,

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and that's to be violent
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[news reporter]
Jessie, who was accused
of killing her father

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and her own daughter,

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has been found guilty
on both counts.

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The jury did recommend Jessie

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be put to death
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but life in prison
for murdering her father.

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The judge is scheduled
to sentence Jessie on Friday.

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