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Good evening-- A break today

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in a high-profile
cold case murder

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more than 30 years ago.

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In June of 1988,

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21-year-old
UNM student Althea Oakeley

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was walking home from a party

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when she was attacked
by a man with a knife near CNM,

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stabbed multiple times
before her assailant ran off.

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Then, in September of 1980,

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13-year-old Stella Gonzales
was shot and killed.

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The following summer,
July 16th, 1989,

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18-year-old UNM
student Kaitlyn Arquette

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was shot to death
as she was driving home.

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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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53-year-old Paul Apodaca

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showed up
to the UNM police station

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{\an8}claiming he had found God

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{\an8}and wanted to confess to crimes

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he says he committed
decades ago.

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{\an8}This is not somebody
who just stormed

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{\an8}into a police station

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{\an8}and said,
"I've got to unburden myself--"

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this is somebody who's picked up
on a probation violation.

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He is homeless, has no money.

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He's disconnected
from his family.

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And I think those were
the driving forces behind

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Apodaca confessing.

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He has been in prison before.

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One of the things we see

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in individuals
who are psychopaths

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is sometimes, what we call,
a parasitic lifestyle.

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Meaning
that they're looking for ways

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to live off of other people.

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And his options, I think,

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outside of prison
are very slim, if none.

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But it's a choice
he's willing to make

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to not have to take care
of himself anymore.

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What we know about Apodaca

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is that he has this long history
of violent sexual offenses.

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{\an8}He raped a 13-year-old.

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{\an8}So that early offense behavior,

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{\an8}followed by more assaults
and rapes,

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indicate that this is a person

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that has a history
of predatory behavior,

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along with a lack of remorse
for his actions.

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And in fact,
he recently assaulted his aunt.

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He has a profound disregard

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for the well-being
and rights of others.

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He goes on this rant

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about how he's seen
women treated badly,

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how he had anger in his heart

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and he had resentment
towards women,

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{\an8}but he's still putting
on the mask.

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{\an8}I don't think
that that's the real reason

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{\an8}why he committed these crimes.

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When we think
of ritualistic killings,

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we think that someone has to do

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this particular
behavior in this specific way

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in order to achieve
whatever satisfaction

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they're looking for.

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We have assault histories,

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but then it graduates
to a knife,

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and then it graduates
to a rifle.

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He did this thing
because he wanted to do it.

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{\an8}This smile that Althea Oakeley
gives to Paul Apodaca

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{\an8}really triggers him.

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{\an8}Now, he says

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that it's because
of his hatred to women--

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How can you kill someone
who smiles at you?

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But, when we look
at why sex offenders

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commit the acts
that they commit,

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there's often
a misinterpretation

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of behaviors
being done by the victim.

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And I think that the smile
gave Apodaca the belief

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that he was free to do
whatever he wanted.

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{\an8}I think he was seeking revenge
in his mind

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{\an8}on all these women

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{\an8}who had not been receptive
to his overtures...

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This is somebody who has been,

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you know, exploiting women,
raping women before.

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And for him,
it's just the next step.

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He's followed the path

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that so many other
sexual psychopaths

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have followed in the past,

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which is
Starting out with sex crimes

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and progressing to murder.

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He says
the psychology of why he did

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what he did is complex.

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And that he had never actually

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thought about engaging
in this behavior.

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But, when we look at him--

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arms crossed, sitting back,

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he's comfortable with describing
what it is that he did.

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He wants us to believe
that it is more complex

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because he believes
that it's more complex.

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But the notion

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that he hadn't considered
doing this

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and that this is the first time
he has ever done this

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without ever
having fantasized about this,

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I think is just another lie

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because the psychopath refuses

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to ever tell the truth
about anything.

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{\an8}When Apodaca is talking about
the murder of Kaitlyn Arquette,

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{\an8}he is describing himself

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{\an8}going back
to see his own handiwork.

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By doing that,
that just gives him

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more of a sense
of power and control.

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He's seeing the actual damage

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he's done to somebody
after the fact.

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And I think
that really highlights

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his ability as a psychopath
to camouflage himself

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and sort of put on this--
this mask of an innocent person

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and be somebody he's not.

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And that in turn
could also be feeding his ego.

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{\an8}The idea that someone
will give a false confession

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{\an8}is about notoriety.

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{\an8}He's trying to escape notoriety.

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He's the psychopath
that doesn't want

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his name in the paper.

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I think, in the moment,

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He's just doing
whatever feels right.

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So he gives the number

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thinking that, "Eventually
they're gonna come get me".

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And when they never do,

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"Well, I guess
I got away with it."

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Apodaca's second murder

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isn't as great of a story
for him to tell.

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You know,
he shot her from a distance,

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he didn't really have
the details in mind.

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So he can't really
relive that experience,

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which-- when a psychopath

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is confessing to a murder
to police,

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part of the excitement there

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is just them reliving
the event in their mind

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as they're going through it
with detectives.

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And he can't
do that with Stella.

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I think this is the element

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of positive impression
management

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that we often see
with psychopathy.

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He wants to come across
as someone

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whose, you know, shame and guilt
for everything that they did

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has finally come to fruition

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and they're here
for-- uh, for penance.

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I don't think so.
But if this really was about...

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accepting responsibility
for what you did,

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{\an8}you wouldn't have waited

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{\an8}until after you
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{\an8}to get to that point.

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{\an8}From strangers to family members

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{\an8}is not a far leap
for the psychopath

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{\an8}because they only see
the relationship

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{\an8}in which they can get something

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{\an8}because of the parasitic
lifestyle

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{\an8}that the psychopath leads.

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{\an8}When anyone, in this case women,

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{\an8}somehow challenge Apodaca,

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{\an8}he'll do what he has to do
to maintain his masculinity.