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

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

feeling... the hunger.

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The one thing that we see a lot with psychopaths

is they want to be normal.

They think they are being normal,

but because they don't actually feel it

or know what normal is,

some of them are very bad at showing that.

And here's Alec Blair, who's just acting

like he has no fear, no cares.

He's actually laughing and giddy.

This is what he's trying to make seem normal,

and yet it's anything but for these detectives.

[Dr. Saraiya] I think that, you know,

his feelings of rejection,

I think that triggers just incredibly,

sort of, high levels of anger and violence.

And this is his way of kind of containing that.

So, he speaks about it casually, matter-of-factly,

alludes to it, talks about saying these terrible things,

doing violent things,

and -- but then just kind of laughing about it

and playing it off to try to minimize it.

[Dr. De La Torre] Blair's being disingenuous here

when he's talking to investigators, you know,

saying that he doesn't really know where she is,

that he's never interacted with this other guy.

He had already been interacting with both of them,

essentially stalking both of them

and sending them, you know, terrible messages.

I think the reality is more that

he doesn't know what the police know,

and he's already started the impression management

of being, you know, "I'm just this aw-shucks, you know,

"this youthful guy who's just wrapped up in a situation

that I had no idea that this was gonna unfold."

One common thing we always see with people that have

high psychopathic tendencies is in every situation,

especially when they wanna get out of it,

they claim they were the victim.

And that's what we see here.

Blair is saying, "I was trying to be civil.

She was the one, you know, making this bad for us."

He's implying that and saying

he was trying to take the high road with her.

But in fact, we know he was the one

instigating all of this.

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At this point, the vast majority of people

would either genuinely, or at least understand

that they should pantomime concern.

Bizarrely, he's still kind of focused on himself.

We can sort of assume that he doesn't feel any guilt,

he doesn't feel any remorse, he doesn't feel any empathy.

So the only thing that he would generally go by,

and what we would usually see with a psychopath,

is that self-preservation instinct.

But that seems not to have kicked in, which is why I think

it comes across as such a bizarre interaction.

[Dr. De La Torre] I think there's a unique element of this

where he is obviously engaging in misogynistic behavior,

he's clearly engaging in behaviors that are consistent

with patriarchal systems of oppression, and he expects

the police officers, because they're both men,

to just laugh with him when he says that he calls

this woman that he claimed to love

all of these terrible things and just excusing it.

And so, is that an element of narcissism?

Sure, but I think it has more to do

with the objectifying nature that psychopaths engage in,

in order to accomplish the goals that they wanna accomplish.

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We get to this point and he's revealed

all that he's alleged to have done, right?

He harmed her, left her in the cornfield,

he went to work.

He still has a smile on his face.

Looking at the smile is a little bit

much to do about nothing.

If we take that away, what we see is a man

who is calm and relaxed and confident

because he finally got to engage in the thing

that he's been wanting to do, which is take a life.

One common thing amongst people with psychopathic traits is

they're very goal oriented.

They don't have the other goals that we would have,

like forming long-term relationships,

emotional closeness.

So they want these objective measures.

Here we have this goal. He had to win.

He had to beat Gabe.

He had to physically just make her subdue to him.

And so I think when he said it was a big deal for him,

he finally won in his mind.

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What we know is that she was stabbed 14 times

and her head was nearly taken off the body.

That's how severe his behavior was.

That's how intense his anger towards her was.

This wasn't some "Aw shucks, let's try to get back,

but, you know, I know we can't."

This wasn't that.

This was, "I am offended that you would reject me.

And so you can no longer live at all."

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[Dr. Fox] They already have all of the evidence.

They have the receipts.

So why wouldn't you just cop to the truth?

And the reason is, psychopaths pathologically lie.

They can't even really stop themselves.

It just comes natural.

What they want to be the truth is what they say.

This was not a case where he just,

you know, had some rage

and hit her and, you know, things went sour.

No, he brought a weapon.

He stabbed her savagely 14 times.

He almost decapitated her. It was so severe.

It was what we would call overkill.

He went way beyond what was needed to kill this poor woman.

And he still won't even admit that.

So for the psychopath, the only thing worse than

unrequited love is once-requited love.

She decided to take her life into her own hands,

and he was offended that she would do that.

His ego is so fragile that it needed to be masked

by this youthful, aw shucks, you know, I'm just a smiley,

happy-go-lucky type of guy,

when the reality is, is that underneath the surface

was this brewing buildup of anger and frustration,

and the moment that she decided to do something different

that did not include him, she could no longer live.

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