All language subtitles for Signs.of.a.Psychopath.S11E01.I.Guess.Im.a.Maniac.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-RAWR_track3_[und]

The thing
inside of me, it's like...

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

feeling...
the hunger.

On the surface, he seems to be
a cleaned-up member of society.

He's clean-cut, looks like
the boy next door.

And yet, if we just dig,
not very hard,

we figure out this is someone
who's gotten himself

in and out of trouble.

I think Moulton is somebody
who engages in congenial ways

of interacting with people.

It's what we think of
in psychopathic individuals

as superficial charm.

He's glib.
He's easily relatable.

He talks to people
in a friendly way.

And so he can pass in a very
chameleon-like way.

He passes as somebody
who's a law-abiding,

upstanding member of society
when we know that his history

really doesn't support that.

By now, he could easily have
just said, "I did this."

"Doesn't matter why I did it.
I just did it."

But instead, he is trying
to convince other people

that he's not such a bad guy

because it was
all of these other

external influencers
that were compelling him

to engage in this behavior.

But he was administering
his steroids to himself.

He was using drugs himself.

He's just using these things
as a way of explaining away

his behavior rather than
taking responsibility.

It's just a tool.
It's just a tactic.

He knows he's going to prison.

He just wants the least amount
of time in it.

When Moulton introduces
his son as a concept

in this interview, he's not
being asked about his family.

What he's doing is what we call
impression management.

Again, as he goes right up
to the line with detectives

about this awful,
sadistic crime he committed,

he's backpedaling and saying,
"But I'm a nice guy."

Like, "You can trust me.
I'm a family man."

There's a little bit
of self-awareness there,

like where he said,
"I had this void."

And that is probably
a real reflection

of what he actually feels.

And this is something that
has been said multiple times

about the way psychopaths feel
when they're actually willing

to state their true feelings.

The void is
from not feeling empathy.

If you don't feel close
to any person,

'cause you can't feel love,
imagine the void you would feel.

Certainly, Moulton would not
be the first psychopath that

conveniently found God

as a way of helping to
just cleanse themselves

and distance themselves
from their actions.

It's a way of saying,
"I did this horrific thing,

but you can't think of me
as a horrific person,"

which is that
image manipulation.

And if I take it and put it
behind me on my terms,

I control the narrative,

I control the way
this goes down,

and I can probably even
control the consequences.

He's talking about squeezing
the life out of Nicole,

that she just goes limp.

That is the one time that
he's actually being descriptive

without prompting.

That was the piece that
excited him the most.

His deviancy is about
pushing life to its very limit.

It wasn't about anger.

It wasn't about these
crimes-of-passion moments.

It was simply about satisfying
and gratifying his own needs

and by taking the life
of someone else.

When we look at the different
categories of psychopathy,

there's always an element

of boundary crossing
and antisociality.

But the sexual psychopath is
a little bit different in that

the primary boundary that
they're looking to cross

is the sexual boundary.

Other people can certainly
achieve their full gratification

just through the act
of strangulation itself,

but I think Moulton has
progressed in his deviancy

where just doing the behavior
isn't enough.

There's a lack of remorse
and a shallow affect.

And this is what we're
seeing in Moulton,

is that while on the surface
it sounds like he's

taking responsibility
for his actions

and he's also expressing
some very pro-social attitudes,

you know,
"I'm concerned for them

and the dangerous people
that are out there,"

but if you listen closely
to what he's saying,

he's actually blaming
the victims.

They shouldn't be getting
into cars with strangers,

not, "I shouldn't be out there
preying on women."

I want people to understand
that the psychopath

can feel fear,

and they can feel fear similar
to those around them

who are not psychopaths.

They just can't read the fear
from other people.

And so it is a feeling
that is wholly unique,

and they're unable
to truly deal with

and they mask it with anger
and violence, right?

They mask it with
drugs and alcohol.

The constant paranoia of having
to look over your shoulder.

"Are the police gonna come
arrest me now?"

All of these thoughts can
kind of rattle in your head,

and maybe those things broke
containment and escaped

their compartmentalization
to the point where now he has

to reveal this kind of stuff.

The importance is exactly
in the point she makes

that he's had a decade
to think about this.

And you don't just
develop empathy and remorse

over slow periods of time.

You either have it or you don't
by the time you're in your 40s.

Empathy, conscience,

that sort of understanding
of right versus wrong,

and the concept of consequences
when you harm another

human being, most children
develop before the age of five.

So if you don't have it
by the time you're 10, 15,

20 years old,

you don't just wake up
one day at 40 or 41,

pick up a religious text
and, "aha," you have it.

The religion is nothing other
than a convenient explanation

and a way of trying to minimize
the consequences to himself.

For any of us,
the reasonable question is,

why would you tell
your child this?

It's a completely
inappropriate topic to have.

But again, what you hear is,
he's blaming

everyone but himself.

He's not taking responsibility
for his actions.

And Moulton is in many ways
a textbook narcissist.

He's focused on himself.

And his attempts to talk
to his son about his crimes

are, again, about
impression management.

He's explaining away
his behavior.

He's not saying, "I didn't have
sex with these women."

He's not challenging
in his own head as a parent,

"I have a teenage son
who's coming of age,

"and I'm communicating a lot
of messages about sex,

sexuality, and how you treat
the opposite gender."

But instead, he's just
making it about himself.