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WOMAN: Those who knew her
say Makia Coney

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had an infectious smile
and a huge heart.

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This is the area where the body
was located on Wednesday night.

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MAN: I cannot emphasize
enough -- anyone who would

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commit such a crime

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across from
a police substation

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with a couple hundred
police cars...

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I am very, very concerned.

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MAN: The thing inside of me,
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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WOMAN: Parents at
University Christian School

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can't imagine who could be
responsible for

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the brutal murder of
17-year-old Makia Coney.

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WOMAN: Detectives spent
much of the day

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here talking with students
and teachers.

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You can see
their crime scene van,

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and they looked at every truck
in the parking lot.

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Here we are in a murder
investigation of someone

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who Charles Southern had

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an on-and-off-again
relationship with, and he has

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virtually no emotional
reaction to it.

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It certainly would
raise questions of

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how could somebody be so calm?

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Southern is giving a timeline

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and a story that doesn't
make a lot of sense.

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He's essentially throwing
his friend Connor under the bus.

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But he doesn't spend much time
thinking about

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is how those two realities
can't coexist.

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FOX: Even though police
are suspicious,

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because those contradictory
statements that are being made,

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it's not enough for them
to make an arrest.

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It's just enough for them to
keep watching him and try to

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find out if there's any validity
behind what he's saying.

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PRIDGEN: Mm-hmm.

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He's distancing himself
from the crime.

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He's distancing himself
from the victim.

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Detectives are using their own
experience and common sense to

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realize that either one
or both of these suspects,

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Southern, Pridgen,
maybe both,

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are somehow either involved in

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the crime or they know more
than they're letting on.

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And so now they're challenging
him, and Pridgen's got some

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decisions to make about how
far he goes with these lies.

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SAHNI:
Teenagers sometimes lie.

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Their impulse control is poor.

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But what we also see
in psychopathic

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individuals is this pattern
of pathological lying.

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There's a compulsive need to
lie, filling in the blanks.

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It's clear that Makia
was shot twice.

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She was shot at close range
by highly destructive bullets.

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The only thing Pridgen
comes up with is,

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"I only got about four hours
of sleep."

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Most of us, if we were
in this situation

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and witnessed
something that horrific,

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might not have slept at all.

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[dial tone]

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SOUTHERN: Um...

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SAHNI: The two of them are
so rapidly and desperately

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and impulsively trying
to explain away their guilt

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that they don't
really think about

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the consequences of what
they're saying, that they're

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going to now have to address

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the fact that
they were each there.

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Um...

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Yeah.

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For no reason.

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The thing that he was most
upset about wasn't that they

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were accusing him of murder,

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wasn't the fact that he would
be going to prison for the rest

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of his life,
it's that the detective,

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probably accurately,
referred to him as a sociopath.

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A lot of people will use
psychopath and sociopath

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interchangeably --
impugning his honor

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is almost the thing
that got him most upset.

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So the story changes again
when the two defendants are in

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the room together,
and you almost get the sense

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that they're trying to watch
each other and see what

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they should be saying
and take cues from one another,

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but they really fail at that.

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They can't quite
figure out what

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to say after the one
just spoke.

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And in the end,
you know,

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they're still trying to point
fingers at the other one.

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But there are some slippages --
for instance,

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whenever he stated that
he didn't shoot her first.

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So acknowledging, in fact,
that somebody shot her,

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obviously, a second time.

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DET: The second shot killed her.

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DET: Mm-hmm.

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To the fact that Southern is
waving around a loaded firearm,

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per his account here,
and pointing it at a victim,

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a girl that he dated on
and off, just shows how he has

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no value in human life, and
it's rather cold and callous.

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It's also very telling, because
Pridgen then, immediately

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after she's shot, decides
to just shoot her again.

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Most individuals would check
to see if the person would

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still be alive,
especially if they thought

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it was an accidental shooting.

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Most individuals wouldn't just
shoot the person again,

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and the way he described it
was with zero remorse.

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TUSSEY: If these statements
are accurate,

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and that was really Southern's
impetus for choosing her,

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it makes it clear that he was
really objectifying her,

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that she was really
an object for him upon --

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you know, for him to use

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and do what he wanted to
when he wanted to.

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But he expected to be free
to date whoever he wanted to.

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FOX: People with psychopathic
traits tend to

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be more possessive
and jealous than others.

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One,
because they have this

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insatiable need
for power and control.

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The motive for Southern is
starting to shape up here where

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we understand this is about
jealousy and power

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and control over Makia.

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He has apparently lost this,
and that makes him angry.

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But why Pridgen would cooperate
and go along with this?

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That's still unclear.

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DET: So just --
just straight talk.

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Both of them had
expressed this desire to

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kill someone
to see what it was like.

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It's possible,
given their shared interest

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in killing someone
that there was really

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a synergy between
the two of them,

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and they just fed off
of one another.

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DET: Mm-hmm.

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FOX: He's trying to still
downplay his culpability

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while letting his true colors
show through.

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He's admitting that
he's just a natural liar.

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It's what he does
over and over.

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Criminal versatility,
which means committing multiple

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different types of crime and
having a juvenile delinquency,

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which means committing crimes
as a young person under the age

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of 18, both are red flags
when it comes to psychopathy.

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Southern was asked to leave
Missouri after he got in trouble

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with the law.

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He relocated to Florida
with extended relatives.

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Once he came to Florida,
he ended up in a good crowd.

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He was on the football team.

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He was doing well
at this private school.

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He had good family support.

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But one of the things
that we oftentime find with

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psychopathic individuals
is that they crave a high.

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They crave stimulation,
they get bored very easily.

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What Southern missed
was that thrill-seeking

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sensation that oftentimes
psychopathic individuals get.

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And so it was only a matter of
time before he was going to

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return to
his criminal activity,

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but he had already
done robbing.

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He needed something more,

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and killing was the next thing
on the list.

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So Southern felt that
his ego was challenged,

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his masculinity was challenged,
and so to preserve his own ego,

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he uses that as justification
for why he shot her,

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like he had to rise
up to the occasion to

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prove how manly he was.

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Shooting her simply
because he didn't

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want to be teased or his
masculinity to be threatened

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speaks to his callousness

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and his narcissism.