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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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McAtasney may not have
expected the authorities

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to show up on his doorstep
as quickly as they did,

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and it was
the middle of the night.

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But he's got this
very scripted response

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that he's prepared
for the authorities,

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and he's not really
showing any emotion.

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Most people hearing that a dear
friend of theirs is missing,

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there would be a sense
of panic or worry.

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We don't see any of that
with McAtasney.

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What we also learn very quickly

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is that his phone is
conveniently missing.

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This is a lot of information
to be shared

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for someone who just
in the middle of the night

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had his door knocked on

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and has just supposedly learned

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that his friend is missing.

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I think there is
an element of victim blaming

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in some of the narrative
he creates for Sarah.

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I think he's still trying to
keep two narratives going.

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One is that Sarah
has committed suicide

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and/or that she's run off
to Canada.

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And he's gotta find motives
for those.

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In contrast to how
he criticizes Sarah

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and how he creates this
really false narrative

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about this strained relationship

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and horrible relationship
with her dad,

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he consistently tries to
portray himself

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as this really
nice and virtuous guy

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to the cops.

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He wants to be
a police officer.

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He is doing all these things
to manage

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their impression of him.

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When he's confronted about
one important detail,

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this trip to the bank,

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his answers suddenly
become limited,

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they're monosyllabic,
they're one word,

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and he doesn't really
provide any details.

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He actually rapidly
shuts it down by saying,

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"I don't know anything
about that."

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So he doesn't lie to them,

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he doesn't miss a beat,

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he acknowledges it,

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but he doesn't really account
for the fact

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that he left that
omission out

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when he was so detailed
and specific otherwise.

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There's nothing
about that question

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that seems normal
or usual or typical.

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It's got to raise flags for
law enforcement as to whether

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McAtasney is manipulating them,

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whether everything
he's been telling them

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is just a lie to try and throw
them off the investigation.

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And really, at a minimum,
what they're going to start

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to look more closely at
is his own motivations.

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And what he's really doing
is trying to kinda

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put the pieces together
for them.

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But what he's also trying to do
is see what they know

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and what they don't.

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He informs detectives that
he had had a conversation

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with Mr. McAtasney
about a week prior to

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um...
Sarah's disappearance.

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And in that conversation,

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Liam describes how he would

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choke her out
and then dispose of the body

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by throwing her off the bridge.

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A week later,
this person disappears,

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and her car is found
on the bridge.

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It's tremendously alarming,

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because it seems as if perhaps

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Mr. McAtasney was
sharing his plans.

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It speaks to somebody who is
far more calculated,

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premeditated, and manipulative.

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And while they may or may not
have assessed McAtasney

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in that manner, they now are
quite concerned.

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This speaks to not
a 19-year-old who just wants

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to find his friend,
but a 19-year-old

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who was calculating in every one
of his interactions

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with law enforcement.

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It's like he's in
his element now.

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He is coming in, he's kind of
smirking a little bit.

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He's kind of proud of himself,

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and I think he is
really, really eager

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to tell Anthony Curry
what he's done.

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On the one hand,
it's bragging

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a little bit
at the beginning.

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One of the things
that we see here

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is this kind of grandiosity,

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this sense that I'm so smart,

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I'm so important,

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I'm such a planner,

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that I can do these things
and get away with it.

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McAtasney is continuing to talk
freely with his friend, Curry,

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about what actually
happened in the crime.

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But what McAtasney also doesn't
care about is his codefendant.

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He now has implicated
an additional party,

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Preston Taylor,

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who was involved in the crime.

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And what we also see,

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classic to somebody with
very superficial emotions

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and connectedness
to human beings,

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is McAtasney has the audacity

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to not just talk about the crime
so freely and openly

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with his friend
and to implicate another party,

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but he actually has
the audacity to complain

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about the amount of money
he ultimately got.

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He thought this was gonna be
a big payout of a job,

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and it wasn't.

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It's absolutely
a dehumanizing description.

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The strongest emotion
I'm picking up

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is this sort of annoyance.

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The 30 minutes
struck me as, um,

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as something that I didn't
really fully understand.

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The idea that
he may have been

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sort of gathering information
for future crimes--

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this is not the first time that
he was gonna end up

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having to do
something like this.

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It's certainly possible.

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The common denominator between
McAtasney and Taylor

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seems to be
their interest in money.

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And there's certainly
an antisocial component of that,

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you know,
the focus on the money

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and an absolute absence of
focus on the person involved

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and the fact that it would
entail killing somebody.

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Hurting other people doesn't
seem to be a big reservation

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on either of their parts.

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OK.

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Monotone, even voice,
no emotion,

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just a flat description,
just a narrative.

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Truly falls, you know, kind of
in line with the way

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psychopaths experience
the world--

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devoid of emotion,
just facts, just a narrative.

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If you look at the entire
sort of crime as a whole,

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it was a means to an end.

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They needed money,
this was a way to get money.

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That money was going to
run out.

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This would have been repeated,
had they not been caught.

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One hundred percent.

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I'm going to sentence
Preston Taylor to 18 years

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in the Monmouth County,
in a state prison,

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and that's subject
to no early release act,

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meaning he will have to serve
at least 15 years

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before becoming
eligible for parole.

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I told you when we opened,

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weeks and weeks ago,

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that it was going to be shown
to you that it was fantasy,

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that it was an audition,

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that Liam McAtasney made it up

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for Anthony Curry,
the horror film director.

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Consistent with what we see in
psychopathic individuals,

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the failure to take
responsibility

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for his own behavior.

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McAtasney at this point
is grasping at straws.

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But what we don't see is any
humility or shame or discomfort

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about how outlandish
the story is.

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He has zero shame.

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He has zero discomfort
about this ongoing lie

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that he's perpetuating,

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and it really speaks to how much
he discounts and disregards

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other people
and their intelligence.