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When did you first begin
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to think about killing people?
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That's a good question.
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The bomb parts for the first two bombs
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were purchased a week or two
before they were constructed.
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My idea at that point was…
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to have those materials
to keep my options open.
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So probably the same day
I made that purchase
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is when I first considered taking life,
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uh, to get myself out
of the jam that I felt I was in.
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I felt at that time like
drastic measures were called for.
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Someone would have to die.
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But I didn't know who.
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-Do you understand that?
- Yes.
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Are you frightened, Mark?
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Not really. Pretty calm.
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Mr. Hofmann is assigned…
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US Pin Number 18186. Is that correct?
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-I believe so.
- Okay.
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Mr. Hofmann, first of all,
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I'll ask questions
based on each of the crimes.
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Then I'll go on to a discussion
of your background,
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and there will be
some questions related to that.
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All right?
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Go ahead with the questions.
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You've been
deceiving people for some time.
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Essentially, what I would describe
as a life of deception.
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More harmless experimentation,
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rather than criminal.
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Do you feel proud of yourself
at the moment?
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As far back as I can remember,
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I have liked to impress people
through my deceptions.
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Fooling people gave me
a sense of power and superiority.
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When I was about 12 years old,
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I began collecting coins.
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Soon afterwards,
I figured out some crude ways
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to fool other collectors by altering coins
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and make them appear more desirable.
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By the time I was 14,
I had developed a forgery technique
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which I felt was undetectable.
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Anyway, it ended up
going to the Treasury Department,
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where it was pronounced genuine.
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In my view
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if the Treasury Department
pronounces it genuine,
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then it is genuine by definition.
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It's not so much
what is genuine and what isn't,
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as what people believe is genuine.
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Marital information,
you married Doralee Olds Hofmann.
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You have four children,
and the indication is that your marriage
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is likely to stay intact.
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Is that correct?
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I think so.
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And nothing indicates that she had
any notion of what was going on
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relative to the forgeries.
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That's right.
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You staged
the discovery of the Anthon Transcript
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in front of your wife. Is that correct?
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That's correct.
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Did you feel any compunction
about using your wife in that fashion?
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Well, as strange as it sounds,
I didn't feel like I was using her.
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You know,
she didn't ask me about my business,
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and I didn't volunteer information.
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You know, she was always very supportive,
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and no one would have guessed that…
You know, the kind of man I was.
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She was useful to you in that way?
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- That's correct.
-Okay.
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You kept a room locked
with all of your paraphernalia in it.
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Is that how that happened?
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-Yes.
-Okay.
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And moved the paraphernalia
when she entered the room.
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Mr. Ashworth,
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is the reason you don't wanna
go into details of where you got it
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to protect your sources?
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Can you tell us
about the authenticity of it, or perhaps--
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It seems strange that a lot
of what you did was made to order.
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Someone would say,
"It'd be great to find,"
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and suddenly you would've found it.
I--
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I can't believe
that people didn't catch on.
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I'm sure, neither can they.
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Neither can I.
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Do you have a set of beliefs,
Mr. Hofmann,
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that serves as your anchor
in determining your behavior?
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Yes, I have a philosophy of life.
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As far as their development,
it's hard for me to say
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if my actions sprang out of them,
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or if I have developed them
in order to justify my actions.
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The reason I ask you that
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is that I think most people
do have a set of beliefs,
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and one of the things that…
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that impacted me about this
is that you seem to be so willing to toy,
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if you will, with the beliefs of others.
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I've always been
fascinated with the idea of…
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why people believe what they do…
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Toying with them, I guess, would be
more of an experimentation on my part…
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…a way to analyze or try to figure out
why people do believe what they do.
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I was always fascinated
with how the documents were believed
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or the impact they had.
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People tend to ignore anything
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that does not fit
within their own beliefs.
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They reject the facts
because it means giving up their beliefs,
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for which they've sacrificed so much.
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I wouldn't go as far to say
I wanted to change Mormon history.
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Let me take that back.
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Maybe I did.
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Mr. Hofmann, I've read
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a great deal of information
about the forgeries.
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I was…
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I was quite affected by the sophistication
that was involved there.
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There's been a lot of stories
to the effect that
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I was some sort of a genius forger
or something.
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Which I don't think is accurate.
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I think that,
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to make themselves
look like the experts they are,
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they have to try to build me up.
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Since I fooled them.
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Although I don't really
consider myself artistic,
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I think I have the ability
to look at handwriting and copy it.
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When I finally decided
to sit down and write it,
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I would've composed it
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and forged it all within a day or two.
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It'd be aged on a metal screen,
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with suction pulling down
from the front of the document to the back
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with an old vacuum cleaner.
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The purpose is to bring the brown
of the ink through to the back side.
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This was a simple apparatus,
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a five-gallon aquarium.
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A piece of glass
is covering the top of it.
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A plug goes into a 110-volt outlet.
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One of the pieces of wire is going
into the aquarium.
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The other is going into a jar
filled with water and salt.
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The spark in the oxygen atmosphere
forms ozone,
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and the ozone comes in contact
with the paper.
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As far as the ink,
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this was just a simple recipe
consisting of tannic acid, ferric sulfate,
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and gum arabic.
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I bought them from hobby shops.
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These are experts
who are quite schooled,
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and that by making them appear to be…
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not so smart, you've…
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made yourself appear
to look smarter than the rest of them.
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I guess, looking back on it…
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I'm proud of some of the techniques
that I developed.
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In terms of employment,
you are a dealer in antiques,
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particularly historic documents.
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You listed your salary
during your peak years
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as being in six figures.
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What happened to all that money?
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I traveled quite a bit.
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I bought a lot of things.
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Easy come, easy go.
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What was your salary,
exclusive of the forgeries?
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They were so intertwined
that that's hard to say.
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Basically, the only reason why
I would buy or sell genuine documents
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was as a cover.
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Interesting.
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I had the impression
that you were initially
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a dealer of authentic documents,
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and the forgery was something
that slipped in afterwards,
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but you make it sound
as if you were primarily a forger
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and authentic things
were just useful to you.
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- That's correct.
- Okay.
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[female interviewer sighs] Okay, you…
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You indicated,
as you constructed the bombs
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the night before the killings,
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you decided at that point
who would get them,
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where they would be placed.
Is that correct?
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That's when I made the final decision.
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Okay.
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It-it sounds so callous
to be sitting there,
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putting together these lethal
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instrumentalities,
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and to have not yet even decided
who was going to receive them.
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My thoughts are
that's no great harm done,
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might have died in a car accident.
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You know, the worthlessness of life,
or whatever.
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The whole idea was protection
of my family, or whatever,
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from that knowledge.
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As far as being identified
with certainty as the forger that I was.
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The timed…
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This is hard to explain because…
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Well, I don't even understand fully, but…
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I had a lot of thoughts
in my mind, obviously.
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I knew what my teachings were.
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As far as my religious teachings, I knew.
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Even though I tried to justify
the taking of life as my own survival,
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and that that was,
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philosophically,
not an inappropriate thing to do.
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I had feelings of,
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not guilt so much as…
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…feelings of wondering, as far as,
you know, what happens if I'm wrong?
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Or what happens if there really is a God?
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You know?
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You said that the detonator on the bomb
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you placed at the Sheets' home
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was supposed to be defective,
that you didn't believe it would go off.
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I figured
there was a 50% chance it would go off,
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50% chance that it wouldn't.
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If it didn't,
it wouldn't frustrate your purpose?
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That's true.
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It seems to me
that a man who creates
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the kinds of documents you've created,
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with the kind
of technical know-how and ability,
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could ensure that that detonator
had not gone off,
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and you could have served your purpose
without killing Mrs. Sheets.
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Was that even…
Was that an option?
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Well, it was certainly an option. Uh…
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It was almost…
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Well, as strange as it sounds,
it was almost a game.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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You claim that the Sheets bomb
was a diversion.
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My thoughts were,
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it didn't matter if…
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it was Mr. Sheets, a child,
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a dog, you know, whoever.
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Yeah.
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Do you consider
yourself a violently dangerous person?
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No.
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Although, I'm sure a lot of people
would disagree with that,
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given the nature of my crimes.
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You've tried to tell
us the third bomb was a suicide attempt.
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- That's right.
-If you intended to commit suicide,
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why was it necessary
to kill Mr. Christensen and Mrs. Sheets?
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I didn't decide to commit suicide
until after…
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uh, Mr. Christensen and Mrs. Sheets
were killed.
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Then, was it in response to the…
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feelings that came as a consequence
of having killed those people
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that you decided to commit suicide?
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It wasn't so much feelings of guilt
as feelings of protection.
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- Okay. I--
- For me.
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I didn't suggest guilt.
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The reason
I'm pressing about the suicide attempt
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is that I'm not sure
it's going to do any good to ask you
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the question that's really
in the back of my mind, that is
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what were you going to do
with that third bomb?
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Lot of thoughts
went through my mind at the time.
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I even thought of the possibility
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of killing people
who were associates with me.
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The whole idea
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was to delay getting caught on the fraud.
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Opinion seems to be split.
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Some folks say
that you express genuine remorse.
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The prosecutor and the psychologist
see no remorse at all.
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Which is the true story?
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Well, definitely I feel remorse.
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For yourself
and your family, or for your victims?
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Part of my philosophy of life,
we were talking about earlier,
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is that the victims
are not suffering at this point.
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It strikes me, as I look
at this case, I can't help but feel,
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that there are so many victims,
the Sheets family, the Christensen family,
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including some people
you've called a friend.
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How do you feel about your own family?
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You have a spouse, now who will be alone.
254
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You have four children,
who will not have a father.
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Fifteen minutes old, huh?
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Aw, I wonder what he'll be like
in 20 minutes.
257
00:46:35,375 --> 00:46:38,670
It's obviously harder on them
than it is on me,
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the same with any of the victims.
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I figure that I-- I deserve what I get.
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Given the offenses you have committed,
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do you think you should
ever be free again?
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I'm not asking whether you want to be.
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I'm sure you want to be.
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00:50:16,722 --> 00:50:18,849
Do you think you should
ever be free again?
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That's a good question.
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00:50:25,355 --> 00:50:27,566
I think that someday, I should be free.
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Just explain
that he was very good at what he did,
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possibly the best ever.
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