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[theme music playing]

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MAN: There's this thing inside
of me, it's like...

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the appetite.

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It's like a wolf that's...

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filling...the hunger.

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MAN: Deafening music coming from
this Joppa townhouse on

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the same day that

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a boarder renting a room inside,
37-year-old Kujoe Agyei-Kodie,

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was last seen alive.

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Uh, I heard loud music, like,
really loud, and that's unusual.

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MAN: Police flooded
the neighborhood, searching for

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evidence that Kodie had
been murdered.

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BERRILL: Out of state.

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Why did he choose
out of state?

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He's play acting.

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He's playing the card of,
you know,

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I don't know what
you want from me.

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Misdirection can sometimes
be useful,

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but it comes across as lame
in a way.

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He's not
particularly believable.

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He's detached, his facial
expression and voice are

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not appropriate for what's

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happened, and that's
also true of his body.

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He's stiff, he's cold,
and he's numb.

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MORGAN:
His story isn't plausible.

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I just can't believe for
a minute that the brother would

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come down the stairs

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and mistake a human skull
and hands in baking trays

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for road kill.

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The officer didn't ask him
about skulls.

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So he chose to interject
the notion of a skull.

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And there's your tell.

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BERRILL: Why do you say
a prayer for him?

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One suspects that, you know,
references to angels of death

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and saying prayers, that
somewhere in his head

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is this kind of
religious delusion.

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This is highly ritualized
and reflects a lot of very...

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discombobulated thinking
and perverse thinking.

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In order for you to commit
such a violent crime

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um, and then to continue
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you have to completely
dehumanize the victim.

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The callousness, that's
the core of psychopathy.

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I'm sure,
from his perspective,

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the heart is symbolic
of something.

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It's kind of in a perverse way,
like a mythological power move

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and sort of like from
a warrior's perspective,

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which is what I -- I think he
likens himself to on some level.

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You are robbing
your victim of his essence.

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It's certainly not
anything that

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people believe in
contemporary societies.

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I don't know why
these rituals would

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be important to him, but that's
typically anthropologically

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and historically what
these things signify.

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[Kinyua chuckles]

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MORGAN: I believe there is
a religious aspect to him

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consuming Kujoe's heart -- in
the history of cannibalism,

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in these religious practices
where people were consumed,

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it was really important to
assimilate the life, the soul,

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the energy
from the other person.

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But what we're seeing here is
a contemporary manifestation of

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it in a person who's --
who's delusional.

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RAGHAVAN: Criminal cannibalism
is extremely rare.

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One of the biggest
taboos in modern life

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is the consumption of
human flesh.

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And this is pathological,
meaning

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it's linked to something
that's not part of a ritual,

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that's not part of a system,
that's not part of a society.

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[Kinyua laughing]

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BERRILL: He laughs
when he's talking about it.

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It's grotesque in a way
that leads

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one to thinking that
he really is psychotic.

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Kinyua is amused and smug,

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and there are
two explanations for this.

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It's actually very common
for schizophrenics

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to laugh heartily while
describing something

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not at all funny,
and part of it, of course,

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could be attributed to
the callousness that you see

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in psychopathy, so perhaps
it's a blend of both.

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He's not disturbed
by the killing.

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That's
the psychopathic element.

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The driving force
for that may be delusional.

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In his mind,
it all makes sense.

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They're still shocked by it, as
we are when we learn about what

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he did, but in his mind,
that's what was necessary to do.

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The guy's paranoid,
and that's the message

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that he's broadcasting is that
no one is really safe.

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So that must mean

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he thinks things
can happen to him, too.

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This is a social media post
that Alex Kinyua

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posted about six months before
he committed the crime.

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"Never forget the Virginia
Tech massacre students.

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"Take note of a problem,
solve that [bleep].

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"Event for Spring 2012
coming up.

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Prevent another
university shooting."

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He would view us
as the problem,

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that we who don't take action
are the problem.

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He is the solution.

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He was in Maryland, and that's
right next door to Virginia.

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So I think, you know,
there's certainly a proximity,

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maybe a fear,

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but if you're paranoid,
that proximity gets closer

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than it really is.

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You get a sense
of Mr. Kinyua's life

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that there was always some
kind of threat lurking.

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Mr. Kinyua was diagnosed
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paranoid schizophrenic.

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It's important to note that
most paranoid schizophrenics

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are not remotely violent,

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but paranoid schizophrenia
with psychopathic features

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and violence are an extremely
dangerous combination.

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BERRILL: Let's not forget
that he's already dead.

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It's really not
consistent with --

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with anything that
we typically think of

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in Western culture

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after, you know,
someone has died,

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that parts of their body
pose a threat.

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It can seem pretty demented
if you're a normal person.

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If you happen to be paranoid,
it absolutely makes sense.

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He's seeing plots and evil
intent in things that

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you or I might look at and say,
"Wait a minute.

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They're not
necessarily connected."

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This is part of the delusion
and worsening that he --

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the family's under threat,

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they're being annihilated by
an outsider -- as the delusions

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get deeper, so does
the psychopathic process.

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BERRILL: He seems

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proud of what he did, it was
like a feather in his cap

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that -- that, you know,
he could, uh,

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wield this much power.

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This isn't about
having a trophy.

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Like, look what I've got --
this has a much deeper meaning,

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perhaps something of
a religious significance.

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There is
a ritualistic component,

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uh, to what
he's describing.

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So he would fall into
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a visionary psychopath.

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He's completing a mission that
he believes in, and this gives

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him permission to do all these
things and feel no remorse.

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BERRILL: Bringing
this dismembered body to

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a church ties into
his delusional system.

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You know, this kind of
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Ancient justice.

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This can feel pretty cold
to the rest of us.

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This view of the other person
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and not having feelings
or remorse is a sign of being

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a psychopath.

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BERRILL: It's funny to me that
he says, "I'm not insane."

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But the truth is, there's
no really good reason

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for this crime to have been
committed other than paranoia.

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WOMAN:
21-year-old Alexander Kinyua,

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who was indicted in June
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has been undergoing
a competency evaluation at

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a maximum security
psychiatric hospital

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in Jessup -- the court recently
received the report from

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the hospital stating

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the Joppatowne man should be
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trial without a hearing.

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