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[eerie theme music playing]

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

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

feeling... the hunger.

[theme music concludes]

We see Demich start to talk about how he felt

rejected by Cynthia Cole.

He talks about how he was attracted to her

and he had feelings, but then she shut him down.

So inherently, Demich took that rejection as this is not

a good thing.

His ego is hurt, but by sharing that he's a sex offender early,

may seem like he's coming off as helpful and he's acting like

he's her friend, But In reality, he's just

constructing this narrative and this image that he wants

police to see him as.

It's very possible that he was just trying to hide

who he really is, and that would make him

sort of like, a suspect,

because he had prior offenses that were sexual

and violent in nature.

So, it would be only natural for police to start

paying attention to Demich at this point.

I think Demich is trying to play this game by ear.

I think he's still trying to send up test balloons to

figure out what do the detectives know,

how quickly can they tell it to me,

and how fast can I make up a story that best fits

the narrative that they're already trying to spin.

So he seems like, when we take a look at him,

he doesn't seem all that distressed, right?

He's -- arms on the table and he's, you know,

looking forward, but I think his mind is like,

you know, the duck flapping in the lake

where it's super calm up on of the lake,

but he's spinning his flippers

trying to figure out,

what's the next thing that I need to say

in order to make it seem like I'm not the bad guy.

[Dr. Saraiya] I think he had a general idea

that he would try to give 'em a certain timeline,

but he's not that good at anticipating having to

hide his tracks.

I think that speaks to the grandiosity that he has.

So, he does not have a sense

that his story isn't so good and has holes in it.

He's convinced himself, just because of this narcissism

and grandiosity, that he can get away with things.

[Dr. De La Torre] His psychopathy is about manipulating people,

but it is more about getting back into the shadows.

He doesn't like being out in the spotlight.

Notice his overall appearance.

He's not really someone that cares about having

a bright light put on him. He prefers the darkness.

He prefers to be out of sight.

So he doesn't like all of this attention

that is being brought to him.

His psychopathy is not pronounced.

He's not trying to mitigate. He's not trying to obfuscate.

He's not trying to even get a lesser sentence or even

draw detectives in.

He's just trying and hoping that they will let him go

so he can go back to the shadows where he prefers to be.

What he's trying to do is just deny

and hopefully I can get released.

[Dr. Saraiya] His interest in trying to control

the narrative, and his belief that he's gonna be

able to convince the police of something

fits with the pattern that we see with psychopaths.

They tend to think that they're smarter than everybody,

and they do have a history of being able to

manipulate other people.

So they're going into these interactions thinking that

they're gonna be able to manipulate the detectives

the same way that they get through life,

manipulating people and telling their own story.

But we can see that he's completely lost control of

the story, but he's in it, you know, trying his best to

maintain the control. But it's falling apart fast.

Now to a disturbing story out of Martin County,

where the sheriff's office there says they have found

a woman's body in Jensen Beach.

Cynthia Cole was last seen on February 24th after a night out

with her friends.

The 57-year-old's body was found in the septic tank of

her home during an overnight search.

[suspenseful music playing]

Most sexual psychopaths we know from research tend to

engage in a lot of fantasy because that really helps

their arousal system that generally does not work in

a typical fashion.

And so fantasies are usually rigid, they're persistent,

and they have to escalate over time.

So the next plausible step after grabbing her underwear

and going into the shower and waiting for her is probably

to act out on those fantasies.

They can only really suffice for the psychopath for so long

until they just become saturated.

And then novelty is needed to

get that arousal system back up again.

[Dr. De La Torre] I don't know that he was fully prepared to engage in

everything that he had been fantasizing about.

You still have to cross that barrier.

Now, yes, he has been convicted as a sex offender, sure,

but his behaviors since then have not really demonstrated

an ability to break that boundary

and physically violate someone with touch.

So I think he's probably fantasizing about how

everything is gonna go down.

And when it doesn't go down and she screeches

and she runs away, things have to escalate very quickly.

And since he's already upset with her,

since he's already angry and wants to violate her,

because she is running away,

that is more evidence that he needs to what he wants

from her because she's not gonna give it freely.

[Dr. Vienna] It really shows his lack of attachment to

anybody, a person, but particularly here,

Cynthia Cole, because he has no distress

over what just happened,

he's back engaging in his normal everyday activities.

So it's really a lack of emotional connection,

a lack of empathy, a lack of remorse,

and really highlights his level of callousness.

Cynthia stopped being a person to him.

Cynthia Cole became an object to Demich to serve his,

you know, sexual needs, but again, more so to fulfill

that psychological aspect of having power and control,

and really that's feeding his ego, which is what he wants

more than just a sexual connection.

This is absolutely an element

of the rejected sexual psychopath.

There's no way that he's just gonna take no for an answer.

Remember, he's already admitted that there's another way in

which I can enter back into her life.

There's another way in which I can try to convince her to go

on a date with me.

I can find another way to do all of these things.

But she keeps saying no. That's what he's tired of.

He's tired of being told no.

He's heard no enough times from her that he's willing to

now cross the boundary.

I think for Demich, he feels that this relationship

had to end with him killing Cynthia Cole

because she rejected him and she didn't take him.

I don't think that he wanted another way out.

I think he planned this. He wanted this to happen.

It was very goal-directed behavior.

It fulfilled all of his psychological needs.

He wasn't really connected with her in any other way than

seeing her as an object and a means to an end.

[Dr. Saraiya] Mr. Demich is a psychopath.

You know, it's anything that happens, even though

it's driven by their own needs,

people get what they deserve.

You know, she didn't go along with what he wanted,

so therefore she got what she deserved.

I mean, it's a simple calculus. It's cold.

It's unfeeling.

It has no recognition for her as a person,

for their relationship.

But again, those things don't exist in the mind

of a psychopath. In the end, he's being honest.

I had no feelings.

I simply took what I wanted, and the flip side of that

is she deserved it.