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[sinister tones playing]

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[theme music playing]

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[man] The thing inside of me,

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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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[reporter]
43-year-old Mary Fowler
of Greenville

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and 44-year-old James Dobson
of Easley were found

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on the side of Interstate 85
between Anderson and Townville

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around 6:30 on the morning
of Christmas Eve.

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A passerby says he saw
Dobson's arm waving

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from the shoulder
of the southbound highway,

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while Fowler was unconscious.

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[uneasy tones playing]

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[Dr. Saraiya] Villarreal is
coming out of the gate,

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kind of building an alternative
theory of the crime.

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He's got an agenda.

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He's got a story that he wants
to put out there.

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He is starting out trying
to sort of cast suspicion

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on somebody else.

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A lot of times,
the psychopathic individuals

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feel pretty self assured.

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They're pretty confident that

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they're the smartest person
in the room.

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You can see the gears turning,
and he feels like he's got

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a shot at outsmarting
the detective.

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[Dr. Sahni] The assertiveness
that Villarreal shows

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speaks to his narcissism.

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And when the detectives start
to push him on this friend

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that he describes as being
like a sister to him,

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he has to correct the record.

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He has to continue to be
this important person

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who's socially competent.

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He has just not girlfriend,
but a fiancée.

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And the fact that she's 17,
the fact that they met online,

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the fact that he's never
actually met her in person is

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an inconvenient reality.

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And when he's confronted
with that, he can't adopt

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that reality.

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His narcissism is injured,
his ego is injured,

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but he also can't accept that
his view of the world is

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incorrect or somehow
fantasy-based.

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Because this is a kid who lives
his entire life in a scripted,

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fantasy fashion.

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[Dr. de la Torre]
It's important to make
a distinction between

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psychopaths who are
actually intelligent

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versus those individuals
who are pseudo-intellectual.

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The intelligent psychopath is
constantly setting up

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test balloons.

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He's constantly thinking about,

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"What's the next thing
that I can say, that I can
manipulate others."

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Whether they're successful
or not, that's up

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to other people.

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But what we see with Villarreal

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is that he's so unsophisticated
in his thinking.

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He wants to be the smartest
person in the room.

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And in doing so, you just
kind of feel put off.

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You kind of feel
as if he's the phony.

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A poser is probably the best
word to describe

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anybody's interaction with him.

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[somber tones playing]

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He's trying to take control
of the situation here now.

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He's decided, you know,

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"I'm gonna be the one
who tells the truth.

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"And then I'm gonna sort of
humble myself before God

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because that's what one does."

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With the idea that this is
gonna evoke

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some kind of empathy.

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But I think there's some
of that, like,

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teenage boy kind of wanting
to sort of pump his chest

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in front of these, you know,
actual detectives,

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these actual grown men,
and sort of try

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to kind of be on the same
level as them.

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[soft eerie music playing]

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When we think about failures,
just overall,

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we usually attribute them
to some external force

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or some internal force.

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Now, as a typical human,

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you want a kind of mixture
of both.

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With the psychopath, though,

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everything is attributed
to the external.

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It's a lot easier
to blame other people.

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Failure to him is never
failure about himself.

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Failure to him is
an opportunity

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to become better.

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And that's the concerning part,

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because if he's allowed
to become better,

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I think he learns how to become
more sophisticated

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so that he doesn't get caught.

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This is the most intense
emotion we've seen from him.

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Right at the point where
he's recounting and reliving

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the details of when he overtook

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and gained control over
the vehicle and the victims,

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and he started shooting them.

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What we see is somebody
who's titillated by his actions.

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He's excited by them.

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He's reliving an entirely
second adrenaline rush.

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And this is that thrill-seeking
behavior that we talk about

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with psychopathic individuals.

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What we don't hear
from Villarreal is regret.

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We don't hear remorse.

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We don't see a stress response.

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We don't see anything but
callousness and grandiosity.

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So when we take a look
at his description of

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what James Dobson could be
doing in terms of,

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"Well, maybe he has a gun."

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Could there be a sort
of self-defense motive

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associated with that,

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that "I needed to shoot Dobson
because I knew he had a gun?"

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Maybe.

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But I think it was more that
he understood that

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there was a way in which

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you have to take out
your targets.

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It was more about
recognizing the threat level.

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He wanted these investigators
to believe that the sign,

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the Marines on his T-shirt,
was more indicative with how

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he saw the world.

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The truth is, is that
he didn't have to engage

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in any of these behaviors.
He just wanted to.

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He's playing out this fantasy.

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I mean, you could see
he's had this, he's imagined,

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you know, what it would be like
to do this so-called

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wet extraction.

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He's thought through these
kind of, some of them being

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mundane details,
like a spy in a movie.

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There's definitely a fantasy
there about killing.

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Villarreal is really showing us
the depths of his confusion

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of what's real
and what's fantasy.

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He's just going through
the motions as if he's been

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in training as special forces
in how to do an extraction

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of a high-value asset.

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And yet, this is a 22-year-old
scrawny kid who's struggling

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in a man's body to be an adult.

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He's patronizing,
he's grandiose.

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What we're seeing is
his psychopathic narcissism.

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He doesn't even

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recognize the ridiculousness
of what he's saying

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and who his audience is.

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It's all just a facade
that he wants other people,

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but more importantly, himself,
to believe about who he is.

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But it wouldn't have taken
very long for him to plan out

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another kill.

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It was never going to be
the wet extraction

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that he planned.
It was never going to be that.

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Because that takes a level
of effort that he is not

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capable of engaging in.

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It always needed to be
a startle response.

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[Dr. de la Torre]
So he says the quiet part
out loud, right?

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That's what every psychopath
thinks when they enter

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into the interrogation room.

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Got a 50-50 chance
of getting away with this.

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He thought he could get
away with it.

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And if it weren't
for these police officers,

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he never would have
admitted to it.

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There's nothing about him
that is actually contrite.

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He doesn't actually believe

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in the deity that is God.

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All he believes is in the rote,
mechanistic jingoisms that

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he reads online, and he will
use whatever one that he needs

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to use in whatever situation
he finds himself in.

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A hitchhiker will spend life in
prison for a series of crimes,

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including a deadly shooting
on the side of Interstate 85.

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[Judge] How do you plead
to the offense of murder?

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Guilty.

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[reporter] In addition
to the life sentence,

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the judge also sentenced him
to 60 years

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for attempted murder
and carjacking

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and five years
for a weapons charge.