(SIRENS BLARING)
(CHILLING MUSIC)
(STATIC CRACKLING)
The thing inside of me, it's like, the appetite.
It's like a wolf that's...
..feeling...the hunger.
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
REPORTER: A deadly rampage that crisscrossed
the picturesque Madawaska Valley in Eastern Ontario.
Early in the morning,
a gunman drove to three different communities,
killing three women.
(CHILLING MUSIC)
(HAUNTING MUSIC)
This is a guy who likes to think that he is a good Christian,
he is a good person and these people who wronged 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
in awareness 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.
(CHILLING MUSIC)
So, he's also showing this kind of, very, I think,
superficial anguish, this emotion.
He reminds me of any number of men who've been kicked out of their
girlfriend or wives' houses, usually girlfriends,
where they have a little parasitic relationship with a girlfriend.
The girlfriend finally kicks them out
and they show up in a psychiatric emergency room,
saying they're suicidal,
trying to basically get out of trouble.
And they, they present in this real, like,
'I'm such a victim, things are so hard for me.'
And it's usually pretty transparent.
It usually does not evoke sympathy.
And I think that's one of the interesting things of, for him,
is he's, he's kind of out of touch with his audience.
He's not a very good psychopath,
in that he's not able to manipulate people well.
He's, it's hard to watch him and not feel anger towards him.
Or if you've been doing this for a while,
almost, like, amusement at how poorly he's executing it.
'It felt as if God was telling me.' So it's kind of distancing language.
He's not really coming close to taking responsibility.
(LAUGHS) And certainly not feeling remorse!
DR 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.
DR 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.'
The more psychopathic somebody is, the more narcissistic somebody is,
watching themselves is really an ultimate honour.
(CHILLING MUSIC)
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.'
(SINISTER MUSIC)
No doubt in his mind, he felt he was being mocked.
And I think that absolutely was one of the straws
that broke the camel's back for him.
It was an insult to his narcissism.
And narcissists and psychopaths do not tolerate being rejected well.
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 any more. 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-centred 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.
2 00:13:21.560 -- 00:13:25.760 align:middle line:81% position:50% REPORTER: 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 is 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.
(CHILLING MUSIC)
(GUNSHOT)
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 woman.
So it's about control.
And if he's not getting enough control,
then you hit where it hurts the most.
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.
That Natalie is actually to blame. She's the manipulative person.
Natalie made the decision that any protective parent would,
which was to pursue charges.
To use the legal system to help protect her.
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.
Borutski is a psychopath,
and that's what you'd expect to see in somebody who's a psychopath.
He doesn't spend a lot of time taking responsibility for his own behaviour.
Affect and emotions are shallow.
He's impulsive, and he doesn't lose a whole lot of sleep over that.
(CHILLING MUSIC)
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.'
REPORTER #1: A guilty verdict was handed down in the brutal murders
of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Natalie Warmardam,
that had so many warning signs.
REPORTER #2: 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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