[sirens wailing]
[theme music playing]
MAN: There's this thing inside of me, it's like...
the appetite.
It's like a wolf that's...
filling...the hunger.
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MAN: A deadly rampage that crisscrossed
the picturesque Matanuska Valley in Eastern Ontario.
Early in the morning, a gunman drove to three
different communities, killing three women.
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This is a guy who likes to think that he is a good Christian
and that he is a good person, and these people who wrong him
are bad people.
It's a very, I think, unconvincing,
"I'm a good guy, I'm the victim" presentation.
One thing that approaches psychopathy with it is it's
really lacking an awareness
that no one's really gonna buy his sob story.
He's just trying to rationalize and justify
his actions in a way that make moral sense,
but it's not at all believable.
MUNDY: "It felt as if God was telling me."
So it's -- it's kind of distancing language.
He's not really coming close to
taking responsibility and certainly not feeling remorse.
SAHNI: He believes he has a special relationship with God.
It's his ego talking, that he is special,
he's a chosen one, that he is above the rest of us
in his ability to decide who dies and who lives.
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SAHNI: He talks about watching himself on camera --
I think that's also part of his own narcissism.
You know, "Look at what I did."
Particularly the more psychopathic somebody is
and the more narcissistic somebody is,
watching themselves is really an ultimate honor.
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Basil Borutski, when you pay attention to his crimes
and what he's done, is very classically a chronic domestic
violence perpetrator.
He's a misogynist, and he's a psychopath.
He has a difficult time not getting his way.
He has a complete lack of respect
for women and sees them as objects.
He is devoid of typical emotion
and attachment to people.
He has a history of stalking Carol, of showing up
at her home unannounced,
showing up to do work on her property
that she didn't ask for, and while she's not there.
Here's an excerpt from a letter
that Borutski wrote Carol.
"I'm a deep thinker.
"I worry about the world, the planet, the people,
"the pollution.
"That's me. I can't change me.
"I am a loving, caring human being.
I am a good person."
He's trying to convince her
that he's this horribly misunderstood person.
And you see that time and time again with domestic violence.
Perpetrators justify their own rage.
If you would just behave,
I wouldn't need to do this to you.
MUNDY: Certainly, knowing that people are joking about him,
it's very challenging to his ego.
It's a challenge to his masculinity,
his role as a provider,
his sexual potency.
He's not a competitor anymore.
He's not a romantic competitor.
He's your old BF. He's your friend.
He is not somebody to be threatened by.
I can imagine that being intensely threatening to him.
And so that's that kind of egotistical, self-centered
component that you might see in psychopathy.
My guess would be when he killed Carol,
he actually felt good.
He felt a release of the rage, humiliation, shame.
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MAN: Borutski was convicted back in 2014
of assault and for attempting to choke,
suffocate, or strangle Anastasia Kuzyk, along with
a charge of mischief for burning her property.
He spent nearly two years in prison.
He believes every woman in his life is bipolar.
That's what he's talking about with the three victims,
and ultimately, what he's really doing is trying to
discredit them.
He's trying to say, "Don't believe them.
They're irrational."
Borutski's blaming the victim.
Things that he's responsible for, actions that
he ultimately was proven in a court of law to have done,
he now assigns to her.
His narrative of his history is that he was
wrongfully convicted.
He was wrongfully sent to jail.
What we know in public record is that Borutski
served two years in prison for seriously
assaulting Anastasia.
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[gunshot blasts]
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[distant sirens]
RAGHAVAN: One thing that abusers often do that
terrifies women is they threaten their children.
They try to figure out the best way to
manipulate, control, and get obedience and submission
from the women.
So it's about control,
and if he's not getting enough control,
then you hit where it hurts the most.
And for mothers, it's the child.
So he threatens the safety of her son.
Ultimately, his narrative of this, once again, is that
he's misunderstood and that Nathalie is actually to blame.
She's the manipulative person. Nathalie made the decision that
any protective parent would,
which was to pursue charges, to use the legal system
to help protect her.
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He's full of self-pity and consistent deflection
of responsibility and blaming everyone else for his actions.
He's always the victim.
This kind of manipulation
and minimization and denial
and twisting of reality is very,
very common in domestic abusers.
But it is also a psychopathic trait.
SAHNI: Borutski is a psychopath,
and that's what you expect to see
in somebody who's a psychopath.
He doesn't spend a lot of time taking responsibility
for his own behavior, affect and emotions are shallow.
He's impulsive, and he doesn't lose
a whole lot of sleep over that.
He likes to view himself, I think, as being a good person,
even though all the evidence is to the contrary.
And when that's questioned, he responds really angrily.
He likes to kind of drink his own Kool-Aid.
His Kool-Aid is, "I'm a good person,
and I'm the victim here."
WOMAN: A guilty verdict was handed down
in the brutal murders of
Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk,
and Nathalie Warmerdam.
that had so many warning signs.
Borutski represented himself during the trial, refusing to
utter a single word or ask
a single question, despite being given multiple opportunities.
Then, on the final day,
with the jury absent, Borutski called the judge a liar.
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