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(MAN SOBBING)

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(CHILLING MUSIC)

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(HAUNTING MUSIC)

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(STATIC CRACKLING)

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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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REPORTER: Around 2.30 Monday morning

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first responders
are called to a car fire

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near the 22 mile marker of I-96.

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The body of a 37-year-old woman,
identified as Lori Marie Vargas,

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trapped and badly burned inside.

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(SOMBRE MUSIC)

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At first, it seemed like
a deadly, fiery crash.

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But evidence at the scene,

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along with the man officers
found walking near the crash,

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quickly led detectives to believe
this case was something else.

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REPORTER 2:
Police online records show

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45-year-old Donald Spice
is being held.

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(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC)

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(CHILLING MUSIC)

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(SPICE EXHALES HEAVILY)

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Mm... Um...

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(PENSIVE MUSIC)

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(MOBILE BUZZING)

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So, from a psychological
defences perspective,

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we would say that is projection.

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Because he's attributing to her
attitudes he, in fact, holds himself.

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I don't think he really was totally
happy in the relationship at all.

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He's very calm.

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He refers to it in the past tense,
that 'I WAS her fiance.'

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And he's beginning to
set the stage that,

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'Things were kind of fine with me,
but something was wrong with her.'

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I didn't believe it,
not because he said he cried.

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I didn't believe it because he,
he presents Lori Vargas as this

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crazy woman who was out of control
with her emotions.

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He says she's irrational,
which many abusive men do.

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DR MORGAN: The technique of blaming
somebody else for what's going on

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is very common in people
who have psychopathy.

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This behaviour is definitely related
to power and control,

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and it's related to
obtaining their objective.

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(DOOR OPENS)
MALE OFFICER: OK.

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(CHILLING MUSIC)

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(OMINOUS MUSIC)

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(GASPING SOB)

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He just says,
'I didn't want to hurt her.'

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I believe that part,
but I think he wanted to kill her.

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His own thinking was,
'I want to get rid of her.'

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'But maybe I didn't
want to make her suffer.'

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That's what we would call
a Freudian slip.

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That, I believe, indicates

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he knew she's already dead,
he's already killed her.

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Little phrases and lines
make it sound like,

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in the eye of the investigator,
that this was hurtful to him.

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(SPICE SOBS)

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(CHILLING MUSIC)

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DR RAGHAVAN: I'm a bit speechless
at the pointlessness of this detail.

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The story as is told,
makes no sense.

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A woman with no history of violence,
no history of volatility,

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would not pick up a knife
and threaten a dog.

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Sometimes people say things
that they actually thought,

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and they attribute it
to the other person.

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So, I wonder if he picked up Chico
to kill the dog...

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..to show her that
he meant business.

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Psychopaths often do.
They torture animals.

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They, they keep pets,
and they torture them.

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It's, it's horrific.

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And perhaps he threatened
to kill the dog,

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which abusive men often do,
to show that they mean business.

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DR MORGAN: This is an appeal to pity.

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There is a cultural norm
in our society that,

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you're a good person
if you're good to a dog.

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Dogs are our friends. Dogs are,
are wonderful, and it's only...

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It's a bad person who would threaten
to kill a dog or mistreat a dog.

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(SINISTER MUSIC)

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Donald's Spice's
presentation of the story,

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it adds to the element that
she's evil, he's good.

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She's an evil person.

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He's essentially saying
she picks up the dog and says,

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'I'm gonna kill this thing'
and, and then the murder happens.

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I think it's all setting the stage
for what's about to come.

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I think it is manipulative.

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You usually say it's love
that sweeps you off your feet.

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But in this case, it's a hammer.
There is an element of the dramatic.

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But I, I do think that
that's part of what happens

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when people are telling a story
that's just not true.

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In reality, it's very likely
she was asleep in the bed

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or in a position of helplessness
at the time.

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But it's implied,
he's saving the dog from her.

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Blood makes a lot of people
with core psychopathic features,
feel alive.

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While he's not visibly
showing a lot of emotion,

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the kind of details he provides

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really makes you feel like
he's enjoying describing it.

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(SOBBING HYSTERICALLY)

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(MUMBLING)

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(SNIFFS)

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(CHILLING MUSIC)

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SPICE: Uh...

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(SPICE SNIFFS LOUDLY)

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Why on earth he would put her in
the passenger seat and drive around?

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A polite way to put it,
is it's downright peculiar.

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Perhaps he wanted to have
a corpse next to him

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and get the thrill of
driving around with a dead body,

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that would have been no thrill
if he put her in the trunk.

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He enjoyed deceiving
everybody along the way.

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He was able to do that.

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He didn't seem terribly
emotionally distressed over that.

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He's describing it
with relative calm,

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which is all not normal.

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Psychopaths don't have the same
connectivity to other people.

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Other people are objects,
they're things,

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and they can depersonalize them
rather quickly.

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And so, now that she's dead...

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Um, she's gone.

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Uh, I think in his mind,
at that particular point,

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this was on the way
to achieving his ultimate goal.

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REPORTER: Donald Spice
is so comfortable in a courtroom

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he actually stopped
for a chat about his case,

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the third of his criminal career.

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Actually, it's...the...

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..third time of being really stupid.

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It was desperation.

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Apparently,
Spice is a pretty desperate person.

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He's been here before.

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Though he was a bit shyer
six years ago.

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This video is from his 1991 case.

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Spice was actually on a tether
for a previous B&E

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when he burglarized
the Profile Salon on Alpine.

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That same night,
Spice hit the Alpine Super Wash,

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ended up back behind bars,
and yes, the cycle began again.

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Spice served five years
before getting out last July,

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and immediately tried to break in
to another business.

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Having problems getting money,
uh, borrowing money.

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But police say it's not about money.

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Spice is just addicted
to breaking and entering.

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No, I am not that.

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The police are trying to make me out
to be an, uh, obsessive person.

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DR MORGAN: I think he is obsessive.

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I think he plans
and plots and schemes.

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It's a pattern that he will engage in
over and over and over again.
He's not going to stop.

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What Donald Spice is obsessed with,
is the excitement and the winning.

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It's, it's setting out a plan,

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and beating other people
at something.

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There's a progression
of the intensity of the crime,

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so that he could have more of
a thrill and a bigger gain.

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(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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(SOBBING)

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(CHILLING MUSIC)

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DR RAGHAVAN: Spice was not
interested in Lori Vargas

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as a beautiful, sensual woman.

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I believe he was setting up
the murder from the start.

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Psychopaths are frequently
predators.

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And so, he likely looked for someone
he thought he could fool,

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he thought he could con,

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he thought he could seduce,
importantly.

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And then later on, murder in a way
he thought he could get away with.

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DR MORGAN: Lori Vargas
was a mother of two.

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She would fall potentially
into a category of people
who'd be more vulnerable,

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especially she's working
as a single mother.

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That pattern fits a targeting pattern

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that many psychopaths
and sociopaths have.

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The irony is that
although they don't attach

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as profoundly to other people
as healthy people do,

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they know who needs
to feel an attachment.

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DR MORGAN: I don't think
he's sorry at all.

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Donald Spice is framing his actions
as something that are kind.

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'I'm really not a monster.
I do kind things.'

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I see that as the selfish
manipulation of his,

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of the image he's trying
to convey to the police officer

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to try and get maybe
a little empathy.

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The problem is,
is that he sucks at it.

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DR RAGHAVAN: So he's progressing
to the end goal.

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But along that progress,
are all of these little things

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that are horrific for us,
but that gives him pleasure.

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So, the seduction, the killing,
then the staging of the killing.

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And then he explodes the car

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and he gets a pleasure from
probably the sheer violence of it.

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But also, that's part of
the storyline that he's
created for himself.

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REPORTER: Today, prosecutors
lay down evidence suggesting
the murder was pre-planned.

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They say months before the murder,

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someone used Spice's credit card
and his computer

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to purchase a life insurance policy
on Lori Vargas.

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They say Spice was listed as
the sole beneficiary.

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Spice refuted the evidence
presented today.

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They don't have proof of that.
They have to allege it!

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That's it. That's good enough.
I'm guilty until proven innocent!

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I'm standing here
in cuffs and shackles!

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DR MORGAN: He sounds annoyed,
he sounds angry,

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which is probably the most genuine
emotion that we have seen from him.

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He's even lower on empathy
than I imagined.

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What we see now
is the ruthless planning.

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Lori Vargas's murder
is part of a long continuum

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of criminal behaviour
and using other people

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and taking other people's things.

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DR RAGHAVAN: And then it escalated
to a predatory crime

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where he planned a murder,
and he wanted a big pay-out

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where he could idly
and parasitically live off,

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um, you know, this insurance.

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The thrill of planning the murder,

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and the thrill of
disposing of the body

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and the thrill of
fooling the police,

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all of that is part of the fantasy.

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Mr Spice has all the characteristics
of a classic psychopath.

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REPORTER: Donald Spice
was sentenced to life in prison

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for killing his girlfriend
and mother of two, Lori Vargas.

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Today, in court,
her two children spoke.

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CHILD: I call him monster because
he took my mum away from me.

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This will affect my life because
I'm not going to grow up with a mum.

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(MAN EXCLAIMS IN DISGUST)

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(SOMBRE MUSIC)

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