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WOMAN:
It doesn't make any sense.
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Randy was a mellow, mellow kid.
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I've never even heard him raise his voice.
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MAN:
Something was off about this case.
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MAN 2: Modern sleep science says that
you can kill in your sleep.
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It is real. [echoing]
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MAN 3:
This is not sleepwalking.
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It had a sexual overtone to it.
[echoing]
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MAN 4:
She came in my room.
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Next thing I remember,
I'm covered in blood.
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WOMAN 2:
It was clear cut.
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He even admitted, "I did it."
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MAN 4:
I know it was me.
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But I don't remember anything
that had just happened.
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[beep]
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OPERATOR: [over phone]
911 emergency.
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MAN: [over phone]
Yeah. There's‐‐
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You need to send police.
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OPERATOR:
Okay. And what's going on there?
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MAN:
Someone's been murdered.
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OPERATOR: Okay. Someone has been murdered.
Okay. In what way?
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Do you know if they're breathing,
or they've definitely passed away?
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MAN: I don't know.
OPERATOR: You don't know?
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Okay, well, what did you see, sir?
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MAN:
I'm at Haverhill Park.
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Just send the police.
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It was me.
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I'm sorry.
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[line disconnects]
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[indistinct police radio chatter]
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OFFICER 1:
We didn't get anything out of him.
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[indistinct chatter]
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OFFICER 2:
One person? Male or female?
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Girlfriend?
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OFFICER 1:
Stick him in the car.
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NEWSREADER: Now,
the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office
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investigating the death of a woman
in suburban West Palm Beach...
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NEWSREADER 2: They found the woman dead
and took that man
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who had called 911
in for questioning.
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NEWSREADER 3:
Randy Herman is in jail
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charged with the stabbing death
of 21‐year‐old Brooke Preston.
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NEWSREADER 4: We'll keep you updated
as we learn anything else
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in this investigation.
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Reporting live in...
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WOMAN:
Hold your hands out for me.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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And hold them upside down.
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JOE WALSH:
I met Randy in the jail.
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I went out to see him
the day that he was arrested.
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And then I was assigned
to handle his case.
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Uh, you know, I'd be
the lead counsel from that point on.
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My first impression was just that
he wasn't a very big guy.
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OFFICER:
You can turn around, Randy.
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WALSH:
Just a very meek person, physically.
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He definitely seemed different than,
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you know, a lot of
the people I represent.
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OFFICER: What I'm gonna do is just gonna
switch out your clothes, alright?
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WALSH:
He seemed very well‐mannered,
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very respectful.
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OFFICER:
You know what size you are?
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[Randy mumbling]
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OFFICER: Uh?
RANDY: Medium.
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OFFICER:
Medium? Okay.
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‐ But something was a little bit off
about, uh, this case.
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OFFICER:
You know what size jeans you wear?
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RANDY: 30:
OFFICER: Thirty‐two, 30?
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WALSH:
So he committed the crime.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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But he couldn't remember
what happened.
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[Randy sobbing]
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WALSH: And then of course
there was certainly a lack of motive
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because of how close, uh,
you know, Brooke was with him.
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[message notification chimes]
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OFFICER: And you have another roommate,
Brooke's sister, right? Jordie?
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RANDY:
Does she know what happened?
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OFFICER:
No. Nobody knows what happened.
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We don't even know
what happened.
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That's why we're sitting here
trying to, trying to get it from you.
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RANDY:
I don't know.
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‐ To me, it seemed like
a genuine lack of recollection.
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OFFICER:
Was it an argument? Was it‐‐
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RANDY:
I don't know, sir, I don't know.
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OFFICER: Okay.
[Randy sniffs]
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What do you remember?
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RANDY:
Blood.
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OFFICER: Okay.
[Randy cries]
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WALSH:
Yes, Randy does tell the police
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"I murdered" this person,
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because you're standing over them
holding a knife.
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RANDY: She came to say goodbye.
OFFICER: Okay.
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RANDY: She said goodbye,
and I just don't remember anything.
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I just‐‐
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OFFICER:
When did, when did she‐‐
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[Randy mumbling]
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I don't know what happened.
OFFICER: Okay.
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RANDY:
I just don't remember‐‐
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OFFICER:
Okay, not a problem. Let me‐‐
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Let me ask you‐‐
[Randy crying]
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OFFICER: Were you guys
ever romantically involved?
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No?
RANDY: They're like my sisters.
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OFFICER: Okay.
RANDY: I don't know what I did.
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OFFICER: Okay.
[Randy crying]
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WALSH:
But to wake up
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over someone who you consider
your sister
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stabbed a number of times
with a knife in your hand
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covered in blood
and not know what happened,
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I could imagine it being
a very scary proposition
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for a guy like Randy.
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CORBIN BURGER:
Brooke's smile was gorgeous.
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Just the personality.
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And she was really
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just always happy.
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She was beautiful, inspiring,
and going places.
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She had a sense of drive
to be better.
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And she worked hard.
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MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ:
People who knew Brooke
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in her high school days said
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Brooke was very much someone who was
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the life of the party.
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Brooke was this explosive ball of energy.
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She was lively.
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She was bubbly.
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She was athletic.
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And, you know, she had
a lot of close friends.
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BURGER:
And she was always cool.
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We'd all hang out, go swimming.
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We'd play games.
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Go bowling.
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[girl laughs]
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BURGER:
It was always having fun.
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[squeals]
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[laughter]
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BURGER:
We grew up on Instagram, Snapchat.
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She was always on Facebook.
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And Brooke taught me
how to use Tinder.
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That's for real, dawg.
Like, that‐‐ like, like‐‐
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I was like,
"Brooke, how do I do Tinder?"
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And Brooke was like, "Nah,
let me pick the pictures for you."
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They were always laughing,
playing, having fun.
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Brooke, Randy, and Jordan.
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They were like family.
Brother and sister.
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They were two of his best friends
that he grew up with.
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Moved down here in Florida with them
to start a new life.
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REPORTER: Officers found 21‐year‐old
Brooke Preston dead on the floor
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stabbed multiple times.
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Meanwhile, he remains
behind bars without bond.
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The question here tonight remains why?
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Because even he says
he can't remember.
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AUTOMATED VOICE:
Hello, this is prepaid collect call
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from an inmate at Palm Beach
Everglades Detention Center.
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This call is subject
to recording and monitoring.
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KATHI ADAMS:
Hello.
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RANDY:
Hello. How are you?
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ADAMS:
Oh, okay, How are you?
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RANDY: Doing alright, you know.
Hope you're okay.
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Did you talk to the lawyer?
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ADAMS: He called me.
But it still don't make sense.
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RANDY:
Why? What's the matter?
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ADAMS: Uh‐‐
RANDY: Why?
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ADAMS: Well, because
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they didn't really tell me why
or what made you do it.
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RANDY: I don't even know
the reason, you know.
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ADAMS:
Yeah, I know.
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RANDY: I just wish
I'd know how I did it.
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I was just confused.
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I didn't know what was happening,
you know, I‐‐
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That's why I called 911.
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If I wanted to, I could have ran.
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But that wasn't what was
on my mind.
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I didn't do this intentionally,
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and this was a person
I cared about.
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This was a close friend
so, I mean, my mind was just‐‐
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I was just in shock.
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‐ The one thing
that was definitely clear
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in kind of discussing it
with colleagues is
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none of us could figure out
what happened.
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I definitely felt that Randy
was being truthful with me
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and that he had profound amnesia
for the event.
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And so, then the challenge upfront was
how to defend him.
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So we called a psychologist
that specializes in trauma
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to try to explain why maybe Randy
had that amnesia.
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‐ I was trying to find out what happened
just as much as he was.
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From the very beginning,
I cooperated with Dr. Ewing.
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DR. CHARLES EWING:
I've looked high and low
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why he did what he did.
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I was truly puzzled.
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Because there didn't seem to be
any logical basis
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for this crime.
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RANDY: We went through hours
of interviews of him just asking me
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question after question after question.
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DR. EWING:
Basically, what I was looking for was
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did he have a mental illness.
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Do you hear voices?
See things?
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Are you paranoid?
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‐ We went through everything
he could think of.
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DR. EWING: Did he have,
uh, background of oppression
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or other abuse?
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RANDY:
But nothing fits.
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Nothing made sense.
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DR. EWING:
Nothing.
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And so I focused in
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on questions I consider to be
neurologically related.
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Have you ever had
a head injury?
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Have you ever had seizures?
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Sometimes,
people with seizure disorders
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can act out violently.
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But again,
his answers were no.
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‐ I mean, we didn't really know
where to go.
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Uh, he was just as confused as I was.
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DR. EWING:
I would have walked away saying
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there's nothing
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had I not asked
that last question
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just as a matter of thoroughness:
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"Have you ever sleepwalked?"
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RANDY: When Dr. Ewing
first said sleepwalking,
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he really, you know, made the hair
stand up on the back of my neck.
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Sleepwalking to me
at the time was,
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you know, going out to the,
to the kitchen to get a drink of water.
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But it was a big jump
to stabbing somebody 20 times.
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‐ As a sleep specialist,
and I understand.
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I've seen, you know,
hundreds of cases of sleepwalking.
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So I know sleepwalking is involuntary.
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You're not consciously aware
of what you're doing.
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[indistinct singing]
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But public ideas about sleepwalking,
generally not accurate.
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Until 1964,
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the general idea was that
the sleepwalkers were acting out
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their dreams.
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I mean, literally getting up
and acting out their dreams.
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This idea that the sleepwalker is
out of bed, got his arms out
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like Frankenstein.
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We still see it,
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if you watch something like
The Simpsons.
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But the reality is
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sleepwalking is a set
of related behaviors
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that comes out of sleep,
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most often following partial arousal
out of deep sleep.
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[man screams]
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DR. PRESSMAN:
And it usually occurs in a state
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that's not really awake or asleep.
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There's no difference between people
who sleepwalk at home every night
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and people who commit
sleepwalking violence,
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known as violent parasomnia.
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Sleepwalkers are not consciously aware
of what they're doing.
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And these days, it is understood that
someone can kill somebody in their sleep
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under the right circumstances.
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REPORTER: We're here on Sarazen Drive
off of Belvedere Road.
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Deputies have been out here all day
blocking off the street.
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Deputies tell us they got
a 911 call this morning
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from a man who told them
a woman was dead
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inside her home here on Sarazen.
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ANNA COX:
As a bloodstain analyst,
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one of the things
I'm attempting to do is
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try to figure out where
the actual crime happened
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within the scene.
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In this case, I'm analyzing
and interpreting throughout the residence
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the bloodstains
and the movements of Brooke
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and its incredible sensory overload.
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The smells,
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the blood just dripping down the walls.
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I've been doing this
for 21 years.
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I've probably seen
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more incidents
than any human being should.
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This was one of
the more vicious crime scenes
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that I had to document.
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I still admit that this case
really bothers me.
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ALEATHEA McROBERTS:
This was totally violent.
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Brooke was stabbed 25 times.
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We know that
after she is dead and down,
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he gets a quilt to‐to wrap her.
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There are psychological experts
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that say sometimes if a person
is known to you,
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they're want to cover them
to conceal their face from you
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to preserve her dignity.
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But it might be actually to assist him
in dragging her out.
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People don't realize how heavy
a, a dead‐weight body is.
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REID SCOTT: You know,
we have a beautiful young woman
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who is absolutely brutally murdered.
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I mean, this was a prolonged attack
that most likely took a couple of minutes.
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You think about doing this 25 times.
[striking palm]
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It's a brutal, violent struggle
that's taking place.
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The murder weapon is still
in the bathroom
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covered in Randy's fingerprints
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depressed in the blood.
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At the time of the crime,
nobody else was in the house.
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‐ It was clear cut.
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He even admitted that she's been murdered
and I did it.
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On the face of it,
there was not really a viable defense.
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OFFICER: Can I get you guys anything
as far as water or anything like that?
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[indistinct chatter]
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OFFICER: Give me one second
to just make this phone call,
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and I'll be right back.
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‐ This is not good.
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Because it says Homicide.
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‐ What?
‐ It says Homicide.
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That means somebody killed her.
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How did she die?
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OFFICER:
I can tell you that for right now
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it appears that she was stabbed.
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BROOKE'S MOTHER: [crying]
Oh my god, no!
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[sniffles]
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I've known Randy
since he was, like, ten.
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He was a mellow, mellow kid.
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I've never even heard him raise his voice.
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I mean, god,
the kid was at my house.
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He's been to pool parties.
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I mean...
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he's always quiet.
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Everybody always liked him.
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Nice guy,
always a nice guy.
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‐ Doesn't make sense.
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BROOKE'S MOTHER: It doesn't,
it doesn't make any sense.
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Never in a million years.
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♪
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ADAMS:
What are you doing? Come here.
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You can come.
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You a good boy.
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I have pictures of Randy.
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Lot of pictures of Randy,
'cause I like surrounding myself
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with... the kids and family.
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And that's all the different Randys
growing up.
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Him and his sister
were always close.
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And my mom
gets upset once in a while,
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and Randy would always make her smile.
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He was the only one
that could make her smile.
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When Randy was little,
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if I wanted him to do something,
I just pretended I was crying,
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and he'd do it
just so I didn't cry.
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And even when he got
older enough to know
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that I was pretending
and I was faking,
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he'd still do it
because he didn't want to see me sad.
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00:17:01,605 --> 00:17:04,149
"Alright, fine, just get that look
off your face and I'll do it."
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BOY: Hey, mom.
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ADAMS: He's always been
a very good kid, very supportive,
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very respectful.
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‐ He's very kind, friendly.
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Growing up,
we really just rode bikes,
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hiking,
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exploring the woods.
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WOMAN:
Push hard.
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♪
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ADAMS: I remember he went down the creek
the one time with his friends.
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Randy's like, look at the flowers.
Aren't they pretty?
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And they laughed at him.
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Men don't do that, you know.
You're not supposed to notice flowers.
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Must act like a man.
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But it was from being
with me and his sister,
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and we loved nature and stuff.
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But it would bother Randy.
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DR. PAULA BRUCE:
I haven't met him.
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But as a clinical
and forensic psychologist,
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I find the case of Randy Herman
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is fascinating.
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This dynamic of Randy growing up
with the two women in his life
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and not experiencing
traditional masculinity.
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And so his relationship with women
is really tied up
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with a lot of emotionality.
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And there may be something about
the present dynamic
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with Brooke and Jordan
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that was somewhat emotionally similar
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to what he had
with his mother and his sister.
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OFFICER:
Jordan?
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Okay.
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Uh, first off,
I'm very sorry, okay.
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There's nothing I can say
that would ever
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help you at all,
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but, um... I just kind of want
to start from the beginning.
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I guess you were out of town.
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‐ Yeah, I flew out Thursday night.
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‐ Okay. Did you talk
to your sister on Friday?
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‐ Yeah, I talked to her every day.
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‐ Okay.
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‐ She's my sister,
but she's like my best friend too.
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‐ Brooke Preston was about
two years younger
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than her older sister Jordan Preston.
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But they were always together.
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‐ Brooke and Jordan
were childhood best friends
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surrounded by really supportive parents.
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‐ Brooke spent a lot of time
on social media.
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She posted a lot,
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especially about her family.
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McROBERTS:
Brooke was close with her family
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and, you know, family that close,
they did things together,
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WOMAN:
Okay.
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‐ It's time to take you down
to the dirty dungeon
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so that nobody'll ever find you.
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00:19:43,892 --> 00:19:47,938
MAJCHROWICZ: Once a week or so,
Prestons had these family dinners
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to just hang out
and bond with their daughters.
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McROBERTS:
With Brooke's strong family relationships,
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00:20:01,159 --> 00:20:04,913
it's not surprising
that she was well‐liked by everybody.
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00:20:09,376 --> 00:20:12,796
‐ Between Brooke and Randy,
was there ever any issues with them?
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00:20:12,796 --> 00:20:14,840
‐ Never.
‐ Never at all?
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00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,758
‐ I've never even seen him violent.
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00:20:16,758 --> 00:20:17,885
I don't understand.
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00:20:17,885 --> 00:20:20,387
We've lived together
since the day he came down here,
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'cause we were really good friends
in Pennsylvania
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00:20:22,848 --> 00:20:24,641
since as long as I can remember.
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00:20:24,641 --> 00:20:28,353
‐ Was there ever any sort of relationship
between them other than friends?
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Did it ever seem like he tried
to express anything more than that?
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‐ Not to me.
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00:20:35,110 --> 00:20:38,322
‐ I was just making sure
there is not like some underlying
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weird relationship thing that I'm missing
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or anything that anybody was‐‐
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‐ I wish there was
some explanation.
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ADAMS:
I know my son.
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I know that he's not capable
of doing something like that.
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The only possible way
he could have done it was sleepwalking
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where he wasn't conscious,
he didn't know what was going on.
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When he was younger,
one night,
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me and Amanda were up
and he had already gone to bed
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00:21:09,811 --> 00:21:12,064
and we were in the kitchen,
and he came out
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00:21:12,064 --> 00:21:13,565
and climbed on the counter.
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00:21:14,274 --> 00:21:16,276
He has that look,
like a dazed look.
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And Amanda asks him,
"What are you doing?"
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He'd just look at you,
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00:21:21,281 --> 00:21:23,200
and he wouldn't say anything.
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00:21:25,077 --> 00:21:26,453
He was getting a drink,
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and he gets pancake mix
out of the cupboard.
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00:21:29,706 --> 00:21:32,417
By then, we realized
he was sleepwalking.
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I'd guide him back to bed,
and he'd go right with me
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00:21:35,963 --> 00:21:38,423
and he'd lay right down
and he was out like a light.
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00:21:40,092 --> 00:21:42,678
‐ When we were younger,
we had plastic on the windows
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to keep the heat in
in the wintertime.
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He would get up
in the middle of the night sleepwalking
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and just start scratching
at the windows,
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and he would say
he was trying to get out.
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ADAMS:
My Randy was around ten.
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I was working at the bar
right next door.
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00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,410
One night, it was light
and I had one customer,
446
00:22:06,410 --> 00:22:07,828
and I was closing up
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00:22:09,162 --> 00:22:11,331
when Randy rode his bike
to the bar.
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00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,960
And he just walked up to the bar,
he laid his head on it.
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00:22:16,044 --> 00:22:18,255
I asked him, what are you
doing out this late?
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00:22:18,255 --> 00:22:20,340
And he turned around
and walked back out the door.
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00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:22,467
And he got on his bike
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and rode home.
453
00:22:25,679 --> 00:22:29,057
We knew he was sleepwalking
because he didn't speak to me.
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Because it was just across the street,
he'd ride to the bar every day.
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00:22:35,731 --> 00:22:38,317
So he was very familiar
with the road.
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He could ride over there
with his eyes closed.
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00:22:43,030 --> 00:22:45,240
‐ Sleepwalking is complex.
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It's more likely to occur in adults
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who had a history of sleepwalking
as a child.
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00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,708
Certainly there are sleepwalkers
who seem to do
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00:22:54,708 --> 00:22:58,337
very coordinated, scary things.
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00:22:59,755 --> 00:23:01,131
Something like driving a car.
463
00:23:01,131 --> 00:23:02,549
[engine starts]
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Often automatic.
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00:23:05,052 --> 00:23:07,429
It's a behavior which is over‐learned.
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00:23:07,429 --> 00:23:08,347
[engine starts]
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00:23:09,181 --> 00:23:12,392
Something done dozens,
hundreds of times.
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00:23:13,143 --> 00:23:13,894
[engine starts]
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00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,483
It's one of these, "I did it so many
times, I could do it in my sleep."
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♪
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NEWSREADER 1:
Breaking story today,
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a killer's unusual defense
of sleepwalking.
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NEWSREADER 2: Randy Herman, now 26,
is charged with the first‐degree murder
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00:23:35,582 --> 00:23:36,959
in Preston's stabbing death.
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00:23:36,959 --> 00:23:39,670
NEWSREADER 3: Herman told him
about his sleepwalking history
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corroborated by family.
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00:23:41,004 --> 00:23:43,382
NEWSREADER 4:
Meantime, Randy Herman will remain
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behind bars
at the Palm Beach County Jail.
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00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:48,387
‐ Mr. Walsh told me that he was going
to ask for a continuance
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00:23:48,387 --> 00:23:52,182
because he had discovered that there was
a legitimate potential defense
481
00:23:52,182 --> 00:23:53,684
that he wanted to explore.
482
00:23:53,684 --> 00:23:55,644
It was the sleepwalking defense.
483
00:23:55,644 --> 00:23:57,396
I was very much taken aback
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00:23:57,396 --> 00:24:00,065
because in all my years,
I'd never seen it.
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00:24:01,275 --> 00:24:04,278
WALSH: When Dr. Ewing
first brought up sleepwalking,
486
00:24:04,278 --> 00:24:06,029
it seemed logical.
487
00:24:06,530 --> 00:24:09,575
But there's really not a defense
for that here in Florida.
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00:24:10,534 --> 00:24:12,619
In other states,
sleepwalking would seem
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00:24:12,619 --> 00:24:15,747
to kind of fold
into diminished capacity.
490
00:24:15,747 --> 00:24:18,792
But we don't have a diminished capacity
defense here in Florida.
491
00:24:19,168 --> 00:24:22,921
So we had to find some way
to defend Randy's case.
492
00:24:24,089 --> 00:24:27,467
The DSM is like an encyclopedia
for psychologists.
493
00:24:28,427 --> 00:24:31,889
And the DSM recognizes sleepwalking
494
00:24:31,889 --> 00:24:34,516
as a mental disease or infirmity.
495
00:24:35,058 --> 00:24:38,562
So the DSM became
the basis for our case.
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00:24:41,356 --> 00:24:43,192
OFFICER:
Things happen, alright.
497
00:24:44,610 --> 00:24:46,904
Sometimes things happen, Randy.
498
00:24:47,446 --> 00:24:49,364
And we just need to figure it out.
499
00:24:49,823 --> 00:24:52,367
WALSH:
When the police questioned Randy,
500
00:24:52,367 --> 00:24:55,495
he was clearly remorseful
about what had happened.
501
00:24:55,495 --> 00:24:57,039
[Randy crying]
502
00:24:57,039 --> 00:24:58,790
RANDY:
Is she okay?
503
00:24:58,790 --> 00:25:00,250
Please tell me.
504
00:25:01,210 --> 00:25:02,377
Please tell me.
505
00:25:03,712 --> 00:25:06,715
‐ We like to follow our common sense
and follow the evidence,
506
00:25:06,715 --> 00:25:10,844
and‐and this appeared to be simply,
you know, an act of rage,
507
00:25:10,844 --> 00:25:14,223
an act of hatred,
an act of, you know, lover scorned,
508
00:25:14,223 --> 00:25:15,516
you know, whatever happened.
509
00:25:17,476 --> 00:25:19,269
On its face,
that's what it appeared to be.
510
00:25:20,646 --> 00:25:23,732
But then, you know, you just know
that what you're going to have to explain
511
00:25:23,732 --> 00:25:24,858
is, well, where's the motive?
512
00:25:26,568 --> 00:25:29,780
Randy said he had no sexual interest
in Brooke Preston
513
00:25:30,572 --> 00:25:34,451
and that there was no infatuation
between the two of them.
514
00:25:36,203 --> 00:25:37,454
OFFICER:
Randy, it seems like
515
00:25:38,121 --> 00:25:39,957
that you had some feelings
for Brooke.
516
00:25:41,124 --> 00:25:43,502
You hadn't been boyfriend‐girlfriend
with her, right?
517
00:25:44,837 --> 00:25:46,672
RANDY:
No, she was like my sister.
518
00:25:46,672 --> 00:25:48,674
OFFICER: Okay.
RANDY: Sister.
519
00:25:49,842 --> 00:25:51,927
‐ But when you looked
at the dynamic of the three of them,
520
00:25:51,927 --> 00:25:55,556
he's a, he's a young man,
he wasn't terribly attractive,
521
00:25:55,556 --> 00:25:57,432
kind of smaller,
little bit heavier,
522
00:25:57,432 --> 00:26:00,519
and living in a home with
these two very attractive ladies.
523
00:26:01,103 --> 00:26:05,148
The vibe that I got was just like, okay,
Randy was in love with Brooke Preston.
524
00:26:06,441 --> 00:26:08,402
McROBERTS:
Maybe he attempted something sexual.
525
00:26:09,403 --> 00:26:12,322
And she may have rebuffed him,
she may have been cruel about it.
526
00:26:12,781 --> 00:26:15,284
You know,
some people react violently
527
00:26:15,284 --> 00:26:16,952
when they're rebuffed.
528
00:26:16,952 --> 00:26:18,704
Or laughed at.
529
00:26:20,122 --> 00:26:21,999
And that's maybe what set him off.
530
00:26:23,375 --> 00:26:25,586
‐ I feel like Randy really liked Brooke.
531
00:26:25,586 --> 00:26:28,922
I do feel like
Brooke liked Randy as well.
532
00:26:30,048 --> 00:26:31,592
Yeah.
INTERVIEWER: In a romantic way?
533
00:26:32,050 --> 00:26:33,427
‐ In every way.
534
00:26:33,427 --> 00:26:36,305
♪
535
00:26:36,305 --> 00:26:40,434
Then Brooke started getting serious
with this other guy, I guess.
536
00:26:42,603 --> 00:26:46,857
And if Randy started getting feelings
for, for Brooke‐‐
537
00:26:49,026 --> 00:26:50,235
Love kills.
538
00:26:50,986 --> 00:26:53,947
♪
539
00:26:53,947 --> 00:26:56,033
♪
540
00:26:56,033 --> 00:26:59,077
OFFICER: Were you ever aware of them
maybe having any kind of relationship?
541
00:26:59,077 --> 00:27:00,329
BROOKE'S MOTHER: Randy‐‐
OFFICER: Brooke and Randy.
542
00:27:00,329 --> 00:27:03,582
BROOKE'S MOTHER: No. No,
Brooke has a guy that she's been with
543
00:27:03,582 --> 00:27:05,542
on and off for three or four years.
544
00:27:07,044 --> 00:27:08,003
Bryan.
545
00:27:10,047 --> 00:27:11,882
MAJCHROWICZ:
Brooke was in a really committed
546
00:27:11,882 --> 00:27:14,468
and very public relationship
at the time.
547
00:27:15,260 --> 00:27:17,387
She posted stuff online
548
00:27:17,387 --> 00:27:19,640
and talked about it all the time.
549
00:27:21,225 --> 00:27:24,645
Her boyfriend gets, like,
a promising job opportunity,
550
00:27:24,645 --> 00:27:25,854
um, up north.
551
00:27:26,522 --> 00:27:28,565
And so, they're pretty serious.
552
00:27:30,108 --> 00:27:33,153
Brooke had recently
disclosed to her mother
553
00:27:33,153 --> 00:27:36,198
that her and this guy were,
were the real deal.
554
00:27:36,198 --> 00:27:37,824
OFFICER:
Is that the guy who's in New York?
555
00:27:37,824 --> 00:27:40,410
BROOKE'S MOTHER:
Yes, they're together now.
556
00:27:41,036 --> 00:27:42,538
They're very happy,
557
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:44,790
talking about getting engaged.
558
00:27:45,457 --> 00:27:48,168
In fact, she was only here
to pick up her car
559
00:27:48,168 --> 00:27:49,962
to drive back to Buffalo.
560
00:27:49,962 --> 00:27:51,421
She's starting a new‐‐
561
00:27:52,422 --> 00:27:54,049
[crying]
562
00:27:54,967 --> 00:27:56,009
No!
563
00:27:59,513 --> 00:28:02,057
‐ Are you friendly with Randy
or were you friendly?
564
00:28:02,057 --> 00:28:03,809
‐ I was‐‐ Yes,
I was friendly with Randy.
565
00:28:03,809 --> 00:28:05,435
OFFICER: Okay.
‐ I mean,
566
00:28:05,435 --> 00:28:06,937
you know, I didn't go out of my way
to hang out with him,
567
00:28:06,937 --> 00:28:09,147
but anytime I was hanging out
with Jordan and Brooke,
568
00:28:09,147 --> 00:28:12,442
you know, he was always there,
so we would always hang out.
569
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:16,905
This is as much of a shock to me
as it is to everybody else.
570
00:28:16,905 --> 00:28:19,449
Randy never, to me,
showed anything weird
571
00:28:19,449 --> 00:28:20,993
except for Friday night.
572
00:28:22,744 --> 00:28:25,414
SCOTT:
The day before she was killed,
573
00:28:25,414 --> 00:28:28,750
Brooke and Randy
had been drinking all day.
574
00:28:28,750 --> 00:28:32,504
And that night, Randy exhibited
very odd behaviors
575
00:28:32,504 --> 00:28:34,047
that made her feel uncomfortable.
576
00:28:34,047 --> 00:28:36,383
And she communicated that
to her friend Kyle McGregor.
577
00:28:37,092 --> 00:28:38,552
‐ Brooke had sent me a text.
578
00:28:39,261 --> 00:28:42,431
She said, "Please pick me up
and take me somewhere."
579
00:28:42,431 --> 00:28:43,307
[message notification chimes]
580
00:28:43,974 --> 00:28:46,894
And I said why, and she said,
"He's being belligerent and stumbling.
581
00:28:46,894 --> 00:28:48,187
Pissing me off."
582
00:28:49,730 --> 00:28:51,857
Right when she texted me that,
I was right around the corner
583
00:28:51,857 --> 00:28:53,066
about to turn into the neighborhood.
584
00:28:53,066 --> 00:28:56,612
I knocked on the door, he was just
stumbling around, uh, you know.
585
00:28:56,612 --> 00:28:58,405
Basically, he looked like
he was drunk to me.
586
00:28:59,990 --> 00:29:02,618
McROBERTS: Kyle went to the kitchen
to get something to drink
587
00:29:02,618 --> 00:29:05,621
and didn't remember seeing
where Randy went.
588
00:29:06,455 --> 00:29:09,791
And then all of a sudden,
Brooke came busting out of the bedroom
589
00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:10,918
very upset.
590
00:29:13,337 --> 00:29:18,383
And told Kyle that Randy just was
in my bedroom closet naked.
591
00:29:20,219 --> 00:29:23,514
‐ She said Randy was butt‐ass naked
doing this to me.
592
00:29:26,642 --> 00:29:28,227
OFFICER:
Totally naked?
593
00:29:28,227 --> 00:29:30,062
‐ Totally naked.
That's what she said.
594
00:29:30,062 --> 00:29:31,688
And that,
obviously that freaked her out.
595
00:29:31,688 --> 00:29:34,441
I mean, I'd be freaked out
if there was a naked man in my closet.
596
00:29:36,485 --> 00:29:38,987
She grabbed me by the arm
and she said, "We gotta go, you know.
597
00:29:38,987 --> 00:29:41,573
Can we leave now?
He's freaking me out."
598
00:29:43,367 --> 00:29:45,494
SCOTT:
Really, really scared her.
599
00:29:45,494 --> 00:29:48,622
And it just reeks
of some sort of sexual interest.
600
00:29:49,164 --> 00:29:52,876
And there's other key pieces of evidence
that suggested that this was
601
00:29:52,876 --> 00:29:54,837
sexually motivated.
602
00:29:54,837 --> 00:29:57,339
For example,
he had a pair of fuzzy handcuffs
603
00:29:57,339 --> 00:29:59,091
next to his bed
604
00:29:59,091 --> 00:30:01,260
as well as the murder weapon,
a knife.
605
00:30:01,927 --> 00:30:05,013
‐ He claimed that women liked
to be tied down,
606
00:30:05,013 --> 00:30:07,516
and they actually enjoyed it
when he's done it before.
607
00:30:08,016 --> 00:30:11,562
‐ Our theory in the case was that
Randy Herman was absolutely in love
608
00:30:11,562 --> 00:30:12,688
with Brooke Preston.
609
00:30:14,022 --> 00:30:15,524
Him being nude in the closet
610
00:30:16,191 --> 00:30:18,402
and some of his behaviors that night
611
00:30:18,402 --> 00:30:20,863
maybe he saw
as a way to win her over,
612
00:30:21,905 --> 00:30:24,992
to show her how much he loved her.
613
00:30:25,576 --> 00:30:28,036
Ultimately, she was not interested.
614
00:30:28,036 --> 00:30:29,496
He was sort of in the friend zone.
615
00:30:30,747 --> 00:30:34,376
And given that this case had
a sexual overtone to it,
616
00:30:34,376 --> 00:30:37,754
I just said to myself,
this is not sleepwalking.
617
00:30:38,422 --> 00:30:42,259
♪
618
00:30:43,927 --> 00:30:47,389
DR. PRESSMAN: If Randy Herman
was in a state of sleepwalking
619
00:30:47,389 --> 00:30:49,349
at the time he stabbed,
620
00:30:49,349 --> 00:30:51,018
uh, the victim,
621
00:30:51,018 --> 00:30:53,854
then I believe this is an explanation,
622
00:30:53,854 --> 00:30:55,397
an excuse for what he did.
623
00:30:56,148 --> 00:30:58,650
And we know that
modern brain science says
624
00:30:58,650 --> 00:31:01,069
that there are reptilian instincts,
625
00:31:02,446 --> 00:31:04,156
certain primitive behaviors
626
00:31:06,158 --> 00:31:08,493
that, uh, served our predecessors.
627
00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:11,538
Eat, sleep, hunting,
628
00:31:12,247 --> 00:31:13,040
sex,
629
00:31:13,999 --> 00:31:15,125
protection.
630
00:31:15,834 --> 00:31:18,378
And they were still
in there somewhere.
631
00:31:19,713 --> 00:31:23,217
When you're awake,
all these primitive instincts
632
00:31:23,217 --> 00:31:25,928
are inhibited
by the part of the brain
633
00:31:25,928 --> 00:31:28,472
that developed to stop us
634
00:31:28,472 --> 00:31:31,350
from acting out,
you know, these behaviors.
635
00:31:31,350 --> 00:31:34,770
♪
636
00:31:34,770 --> 00:31:36,772
But when you're sleeping,
637
00:31:36,772 --> 00:31:40,734
the part of the brain that controls
these primitive behaviors
638
00:31:40,734 --> 00:31:41,777
is turned off.
639
00:31:43,153 --> 00:31:47,616
So sleepwalkers are acting
out of primitive instinct.
640
00:31:47,616 --> 00:31:49,993
It's not that the sleepwalker gets up
641
00:31:49,993 --> 00:31:52,037
and goes hunting
642
00:31:52,037 --> 00:31:54,122
or goes looking for a victim.
643
00:31:54,122 --> 00:31:57,417
This person is just
a potential danger
644
00:31:57,417 --> 00:31:59,753
who is approaching them.
645
00:32:02,089 --> 00:32:04,299
And they would not know
who that person was.
646
00:32:04,299 --> 00:32:06,218
[man moaning]
647
00:32:08,887 --> 00:32:11,014
DR. PRESSMAN:
They are reacting
648
00:32:11,014 --> 00:32:13,016
to a trigger.
649
00:32:14,601 --> 00:32:18,856
Something that could cause
a brief arousal in your sleep.
650
00:32:19,356 --> 00:32:20,983
That could be a sound,
651
00:32:21,650 --> 00:32:22,693
touch.
652
00:32:23,193 --> 00:32:25,445
They wouldn't stab someone once
and say, "Oh, you're dead."
653
00:32:25,988 --> 00:32:28,907
They would just keep going
until at some level
654
00:32:28,907 --> 00:32:31,827
they're satisfied there's no longer
a risk in front of them.
655
00:32:32,411 --> 00:32:35,247
And it's usually triggered
by the victim.
656
00:32:35,247 --> 00:32:38,250
So in the case of Randy
and his roommate,
657
00:32:38,250 --> 00:32:40,794
we should be asking,
on that morning,
658
00:32:40,794 --> 00:32:43,964
did he perform
those violent behaviors
659
00:32:43,964 --> 00:32:46,175
while he was in a state
of sleepwalking?
660
00:32:51,889 --> 00:32:54,099
ADAMS:
When Randy was a little kid,
661
00:32:54,099 --> 00:32:56,727
I didn't take him to the doctor
for sleepwalking.
662
00:32:56,727 --> 00:32:58,395
Because it's a normal thing, you know.
663
00:32:58,395 --> 00:33:01,190
I sleepwalked, my daughter sleepwalked.
We grew out of it.
664
00:33:01,190 --> 00:33:03,692
I didn't know it was a medical thing.
665
00:33:03,692 --> 00:33:04,776
I never heard that.
666
00:33:05,402 --> 00:33:08,030
And anyways, you have to pay,
like, a lot of money
667
00:33:08,030 --> 00:33:11,158
if you actually want to take them
to the doctor for sleepwalking.
668
00:33:12,618 --> 00:33:14,453
AMANDA CONA: Growing up,
we didn't have a lot of money.
669
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,622
It was kind of rough.
670
00:33:16,622 --> 00:33:19,249
My mom, she was always working
all the time,
671
00:33:19,249 --> 00:33:21,668
and me and my brother
672
00:33:21,668 --> 00:33:24,046
were always at babysitters.
673
00:33:26,089 --> 00:33:29,009
ADAMS:
It was when they were younger that
674
00:33:30,969 --> 00:33:32,304
their father and I split up.
675
00:33:39,561 --> 00:33:42,856
CONA: Growing up, I thought my dad,
like, lived so far away.
676
00:33:42,856 --> 00:33:46,485
And then, as I got older, I'm like,
you know, it was only 40 minutes away,
677
00:33:46,485 --> 00:33:47,861
an hour away.
678
00:33:47,861 --> 00:33:50,822
But he always said that he‐‐
it was too far for him to come drive.
679
00:33:52,783 --> 00:33:55,577
ADAMS: And he never really tried
to take the kids,
680
00:33:55,577 --> 00:33:57,663
except for when Amanda got older,
681
00:33:57,663 --> 00:34:00,332
like, old enough to, like, clean
682
00:34:00,332 --> 00:34:03,043
and, you know,
take care of herself.
683
00:34:03,043 --> 00:34:05,087
He told her
she could come live with him.
684
00:34:07,422 --> 00:34:09,466
That hurt Randy's feelings.
685
00:34:10,342 --> 00:34:12,594
And Randy just totally devastated
686
00:34:12,594 --> 00:34:14,221
thinking Dad didn't love him.
687
00:34:15,514 --> 00:34:18,433
RANDY: Growing up,
my father wasn't really in the picture,
688
00:34:18,433 --> 00:34:21,270
and we kind of got
more and more separate.
689
00:34:21,270 --> 00:34:23,897
The weekends together would get
longer and longer apart.
690
00:34:25,899 --> 00:34:27,401
MAN: Ah!
[Randy yelps]
691
00:34:30,404 --> 00:34:34,992
[indistinct chatter]
692
00:34:36,201 --> 00:34:39,037
CONA:
Uh, my dad has always drank a lot.
693
00:34:40,873 --> 00:34:43,500
Uh... he drank all the time.
694
00:34:45,252 --> 00:34:47,171
Before my dad and mom split up,
695
00:34:47,171 --> 00:34:49,548
they used to get
into pretty big fights.
696
00:34:53,385 --> 00:34:56,972
I remember one time my dad was drunk
and he locked us outside the house,
697
00:34:56,972 --> 00:34:58,515
and I ended up peeing my pants.
698
00:34:58,515 --> 00:35:00,726
I was only like five, I think.
699
00:35:00,726 --> 00:35:02,936
And then finally
when he let us in,
700
00:35:02,936 --> 00:35:04,771
my mom and him got
in a huge fight.
701
00:35:07,065 --> 00:35:09,109
[Adams laughs]
702
00:35:09,109 --> 00:35:10,485
ADAMS:
That was a bad argument.
703
00:35:11,069 --> 00:35:12,362
He was drinking.
704
00:35:14,406 --> 00:35:15,991
He opened the door
705
00:35:18,243 --> 00:35:19,828
and pulled me in by my hair.
706
00:35:19,828 --> 00:35:20,621
Ow!
707
00:35:21,038 --> 00:35:23,498
He kept pushing your head
when you argued the push.
708
00:35:24,333 --> 00:35:27,753
And he kept doing that
and I didn't like it,
709
00:35:27,753 --> 00:35:29,796
so I turned around
and I punched him in the face.
710
00:35:32,925 --> 00:35:34,301
Well, then he hit me back.
711
00:35:34,301 --> 00:35:36,637
♪
712
00:35:36,637 --> 00:35:37,429
So...
713
00:35:44,311 --> 00:35:48,315
♪
714
00:35:49,233 --> 00:35:53,278
‐ Toxic masculinity
is a relatively new term.
715
00:35:54,279 --> 00:35:57,824
But it's really a term
that's describing an old idea.
716
00:35:57,824 --> 00:35:59,368
‐ You're going to the moon!
717
00:36:00,285 --> 00:36:01,787
‐ Dink, say goodbye to Felix.
718
00:36:01,787 --> 00:36:03,830
‐ Hmm?
‐ Uh, man talk.
719
00:36:04,581 --> 00:36:05,499
[slaps]
720
00:36:06,416 --> 00:36:10,546
‐ And it's a way of exploiting
male privilege
721
00:36:10,546 --> 00:36:13,966
in a way to create dominance
and power.
722
00:36:15,092 --> 00:36:20,055
Randy is a small guy
living in a situation with two women
723
00:36:20,055 --> 00:36:24,017
who are by all accounts probably
in a stronger position than he is.
724
00:36:25,143 --> 00:36:27,145
They've got financial security.
725
00:36:27,855 --> 00:36:31,316
And I think there is something
to be said
726
00:36:31,316 --> 00:36:34,862
about the pressures
of our current time.
727
00:36:36,655 --> 00:36:38,615
That we live in a society
728
00:36:38,615 --> 00:36:41,493
where everything is open
729
00:36:41,493 --> 00:36:43,495
for public consumption.
730
00:36:43,495 --> 00:36:47,082
And so, people's envies
can be easily served
731
00:36:47,082 --> 00:36:52,087
because instead of comparing themselves
to the two or three kids in their class,
732
00:36:52,087 --> 00:36:54,631
they've got, like, 40,000
733
00:36:54,631 --> 00:36:57,718
on the internet that
they're measuring themselves against.
734
00:36:57,718 --> 00:37:01,805
And for those that have a history
of trauma, neglect,
735
00:37:01,805 --> 00:37:05,559
a history of feeling insufficient
in some way,
736
00:37:06,351 --> 00:37:09,938
they are more vulnerable
to being impacted
737
00:37:09,938 --> 00:37:12,441
by those feelings
of envy and longing,
738
00:37:12,441 --> 00:37:15,903
and they end up driving sometimes
some of their behaviors,
739
00:37:15,903 --> 00:37:17,613
some of their choices.
740
00:37:17,613 --> 00:37:20,991
♪
741
00:37:20,991 --> 00:37:23,368
♪
742
00:37:23,368 --> 00:37:25,204
NEWSREADER:
Now at 3, shocking new details
743
00:37:25,204 --> 00:37:28,373
in the murder of a 21‐year‐old woman
whose body was found stabbed
744
00:37:28,373 --> 00:37:31,210
more than a dozen times
inside a West Palm Beach home.
745
00:37:31,210 --> 00:37:32,753
Here's the big twist in all of this.
746
00:37:32,753 --> 00:37:35,088
A TV station in Pennsylvania
now reporting
747
00:37:35,088 --> 00:37:38,509
that Randy Herman Sr.,
the father of the suspected killer,
748
00:37:38,509 --> 00:37:41,678
he too was charged with murder,
accused of killing his girlfriend
749
00:37:41,678 --> 00:37:43,972
in February 2015.
750
00:37:43,972 --> 00:37:45,682
Now, this case was later dropped
against him
751
00:37:45,682 --> 00:37:48,185
because he committed suicide.
752
00:37:48,936 --> 00:37:51,396
‐ The woman had been murdered,
and they were looking
753
00:37:51,396 --> 00:37:53,690
for, uh, my dad.
754
00:37:56,485 --> 00:37:59,238
I think there was some
kind of argument or fight.
755
00:38:00,489 --> 00:38:02,533
And, um, he killed her.
756
00:38:04,910 --> 00:38:06,411
And then he shot himself.
757
00:38:10,499 --> 00:38:14,169
RANDY: When I found out
my father shot and killed
758
00:38:14,169 --> 00:38:15,921
his girlfriend at the time,
759
00:38:16,839 --> 00:38:18,757
I was definitely conflicted.
760
00:38:18,757 --> 00:38:21,552
I mean, obviously, this was a person
that wasn't really in my life.
761
00:38:23,053 --> 00:38:25,639
And part of me felt like
I shouldn't really care.
762
00:38:26,765 --> 00:38:30,936
But another part of me also felt like,
you know, this is still my father.
763
00:38:33,605 --> 00:38:38,193
‐ I think that Randy Sr.'s homicide
and later suicide
764
00:38:38,193 --> 00:38:41,655
must have had a significant impact
on Randy Jr.
765
00:38:43,073 --> 00:38:46,785
Throughout his life,
he has been searching for this
766
00:38:46,785 --> 00:38:49,788
loving father,
father he can connect with.
767
00:38:50,789 --> 00:38:53,834
And it's a father
he never really finds.
768
00:38:54,543 --> 00:38:57,421
And when he next hears
about his father,
769
00:38:57,421 --> 00:39:01,800
it's in this devastating, ugly,
shameful kind of experience
770
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,302
that reflects on him.
771
00:39:03,302 --> 00:39:04,887
They have the same name.
772
00:39:05,429 --> 00:39:07,514
Right? He can't get away from it.
773
00:39:07,973 --> 00:39:10,559
And that for a young guy like him
774
00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:13,061
who's already struggling
with his identity,
775
00:39:13,061 --> 00:39:15,272
that would have been
quite impactful.
776
00:39:17,608 --> 00:39:20,569
CONA: My brother had to go
and clean out my dad's house.
777
00:39:20,569 --> 00:39:23,739
And at the time, I was,
778
00:39:23,739 --> 00:39:26,408
I was so upset,
I was the one crying,
779
00:39:26,408 --> 00:39:30,537
and he had to go in there and clean up
the mess from the shooting.
780
00:39:31,788 --> 00:39:34,249
So he had to clean up the carpets
781
00:39:34,249 --> 00:39:35,876
and the walls.
782
00:39:37,252 --> 00:39:40,172
And I think that probably
wasn't good for him.
783
00:39:40,172 --> 00:39:43,300
That probably did some damage.
784
00:39:44,801 --> 00:39:48,847
McROBERTS: When I learned that his dad
had killed his own girlfriend,
785
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:51,767
I thought they would run with that
786
00:39:51,767 --> 00:39:55,270
as some kind of an explanation
for some mental defense.
787
00:39:56,855 --> 00:39:58,482
You know, like father like son.
788
00:40:03,529 --> 00:40:05,906
RANDY:
After my father had passed away,
789
00:40:05,906 --> 00:40:08,200
I moved back in with my mother,
790
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,245
and I was working
at a meat processing plant
791
00:40:11,245 --> 00:40:12,704
in the head room.
792
00:40:13,413 --> 00:40:16,959
I used a air knife,
and my job was removing meat
793
00:40:16,959 --> 00:40:18,293
from a jawbone.
794
00:40:19,044 --> 00:40:21,588
I just stand
in a stationary position
795
00:40:21,588 --> 00:40:24,508
and just take meat off a jawbone
796
00:40:24,508 --> 00:40:26,844
and put it on a conveyor belt,
and that was it.
797
00:40:26,844 --> 00:40:28,303
It really was a dead‐end job.
798
00:40:29,429 --> 00:40:30,764
CONA:
I was worried.
799
00:40:30,764 --> 00:40:33,225
I think he was struggling
with Dad's death.
800
00:40:33,225 --> 00:40:35,018
I just think it all just got to him.
801
00:40:36,144 --> 00:40:38,397
RANDY:
Things just weren't going well.
802
00:40:38,397 --> 00:40:40,065
I wasn't really going anywhere.
803
00:40:41,024 --> 00:40:43,735
I was just doing
the same thing every day.
804
00:40:44,862 --> 00:40:46,488
Take meat off a jawbone,
805
00:40:47,114 --> 00:40:48,490
put it on a conveyor belt.
806
00:40:48,991 --> 00:40:50,868
You know, I just felt kind of stuck.
807
00:40:51,827 --> 00:40:54,580
I realized how much
I had taken for granted
808
00:40:54,580 --> 00:40:56,582
and how many chances I was given.
809
00:40:58,458 --> 00:41:01,837
And, you know, I really went into
a depressed cycle.
810
00:41:07,634 --> 00:41:11,180
♪
811
00:41:11,180 --> 00:41:12,055
‐ Hey, Jordan.
812
00:41:12,055 --> 00:41:14,641
RANDY: And at the time,
my close friend Jordan,
813
00:41:14,641 --> 00:41:17,936
she had got a job opportunity
in West Palm Beach.
814
00:41:18,770 --> 00:41:20,022
She was moving down there,
815
00:41:20,022 --> 00:41:23,108
and we'd make jokes about me
moving down there with her.
816
00:41:25,527 --> 00:41:28,155
The more we talked about
me moving down there with them,
817
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:30,908
the more it kinda became serious.
818
00:41:30,908 --> 00:41:31,992
[message notification chimes]
819
00:41:34,077 --> 00:41:35,704
Eventually, over time, I thought that,
820
00:41:35,704 --> 00:41:37,456
you know, maybe this
would be a good idea.
821
00:41:38,415 --> 00:41:41,043
To get out of this, you know,
dead‐end cycle that I'm in
822
00:41:41,043 --> 00:41:43,462
and to move to West Palm Beach
and start fresh
823
00:41:43,462 --> 00:41:45,297
and get a career
824
00:41:45,297 --> 00:41:48,300
and really, you know,
help my life get back on the right track.
825
00:41:52,137 --> 00:41:55,682
ADAMS: He's got lots of money
because he had his father's inheritance.
826
00:41:55,682 --> 00:41:57,851
I didn't blame him for wanting
to go to Florida.
827
00:41:57,851 --> 00:42:00,479
I figured, um,
what are you gonna do, you know.
828
00:42:00,479 --> 00:42:01,730
It's like, he has his reasons.
829
00:42:02,397 --> 00:42:05,150
He wanted to go down
and make something of himself.
830
00:42:05,150 --> 00:42:07,861
He used to always tell me
that he was gonna make lots of money
831
00:42:07,861 --> 00:42:09,905
and buy me a house down there.
832
00:42:09,905 --> 00:42:12,991
So he went
to West Palm Beach with his friends.
833
00:42:14,201 --> 00:42:17,538
♪
834
00:42:17,538 --> 00:42:20,290
♪
835
00:42:20,290 --> 00:42:22,751
♪
836
00:42:22,751 --> 00:42:26,797
‐ Jordan and me and Brooke decided
to ultimately look for a house together.
837
00:42:27,506 --> 00:42:29,591
We were looking around
at different places,
838
00:42:29,591 --> 00:42:32,636
and we found the house
at Sarazen Drive.
839
00:42:34,888 --> 00:42:38,517
It was a nice three‐bedroom house
just west of, uh, West Palm Beach.
840
00:42:38,517 --> 00:42:40,310
That would be the house
we would move into.
841
00:42:41,353 --> 00:42:42,688
It was exciting.
842
00:42:43,438 --> 00:42:44,481
It was positive, you know.
843
00:42:44,481 --> 00:42:47,109
It was three young adults
moving down.
844
00:42:48,110 --> 00:42:50,779
BURGER: We first met Brooke,
Randy, and Jordan,
845
00:42:50,779 --> 00:42:53,031
they were always joking around
with each other.
846
00:42:53,740 --> 00:42:55,784
Me and Randy... [snaps fingers]
we clicked instantly.
847
00:42:55,784 --> 00:42:59,204
It clicked even better when we found out
that we both just moved to Florida
848
00:42:59,204 --> 00:43:02,082
from small little country states.
849
00:43:03,375 --> 00:43:05,961
He's a country boy.
Like, he's country.
850
00:43:05,961 --> 00:43:09,298
I mean, the dude kept
a buck knife next to his bed.
851
00:43:09,298 --> 00:43:11,884
I don't know how much more country
you can get than that.
852
00:43:11,884 --> 00:43:14,386
Like, it was there
every single day.
853
00:43:15,220 --> 00:43:16,722
But we were making good money.
854
00:43:16,722 --> 00:43:18,640
We were making good money
at the business we were doing,
855
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,767
selling internet and cable at Walmart.
856
00:43:20,767 --> 00:43:22,060
That's what we did.
857
00:43:22,060 --> 00:43:24,438
‐ [chuckles] So the day is finally over,
858
00:43:24,438 --> 00:43:26,023
and I get my beer.
859
00:43:26,023 --> 00:43:27,983
RANDY: I'm working,
we're having a good time.
860
00:43:27,983 --> 00:43:29,693
It's obviously a fun environment.
861
00:43:29,693 --> 00:43:31,695
It's a party lifestyle.
862
00:43:33,739 --> 00:43:36,491
Drinking a lot of times,
having friends over a lot.
863
00:43:38,744 --> 00:43:40,495
BURGER:
And Randy was the life of the party.
864
00:43:41,163 --> 00:43:43,832
Because when he walks
into a room, it's crazy.
865
00:43:43,832 --> 00:43:47,377
He just brings this smile and this energy
and this everything.
866
00:43:49,630 --> 00:43:51,757
‐ This thing is so slow.
867
00:43:53,175 --> 00:43:55,052
RANDY: I mean,
I was surrounded by close friends.
868
00:43:55,969 --> 00:43:57,638
We get along great.
869
00:43:57,638 --> 00:43:58,639
It was just a good time.
870
00:43:58,639 --> 00:44:01,308
♪
871
00:44:01,308 --> 00:44:04,645
♪
872
00:44:04,645 --> 00:44:06,396
♪
873
00:44:06,396 --> 00:44:10,025
[wind whooshing]
874
00:44:11,485 --> 00:44:13,904
DR. BRUCE:
Consistent with their generation,
875
00:44:13,904 --> 00:44:18,116
Randy and Brooke both seemed
to be actively engaged
876
00:44:18,116 --> 00:44:19,451
in social media.
877
00:44:20,536 --> 00:44:24,039
And the reward system
that one gets in social media.
878
00:44:24,581 --> 00:44:27,376
Posting. Getting recognition.
879
00:44:30,212 --> 00:44:33,882
And Randy is posting
at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning
880
00:44:34,591 --> 00:44:37,678
obviously having, um, not slept.
881
00:44:38,929 --> 00:44:42,432
We know that sleep is really important
for a lot of things,
882
00:44:42,432 --> 00:44:44,852
including consolidation of memory,
883
00:44:45,561 --> 00:44:46,770
cognition,
884
00:44:46,770 --> 00:44:48,146
learning,
885
00:44:48,856 --> 00:44:50,274
and mood regulation,
886
00:44:50,274 --> 00:44:52,860
affect regulation,
emotional regulation.
887
00:44:52,860 --> 00:44:56,780
♪
888
00:45:00,242 --> 00:45:03,287
CONA: I was reading
about Randy's case online,
889
00:45:03,287 --> 00:45:06,665
and there was a whole bunch of comments
about my brother being a monster
890
00:45:06,665 --> 00:45:10,711
and he deserves way worse
than life in prison.
891
00:45:11,295 --> 00:45:14,214
♪
892
00:45:14,214 --> 00:45:17,259
♪
893
00:45:17,259 --> 00:45:18,802
It's upsetting
894
00:45:18,802 --> 00:45:21,680
because I know
he's not a monster.
895
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,349
But it's a small town.
896
00:45:24,349 --> 00:45:26,518
Everybody judges everybody.
897
00:45:26,518 --> 00:45:29,396
♪
898
00:45:29,396 --> 00:45:31,773
I know my mom was worried
about seeing people
899
00:45:31,773 --> 00:45:33,609
from around here.
900
00:45:34,776 --> 00:45:36,778
It took a toll on her.
901
00:45:37,696 --> 00:45:42,034
NEWSREADER: A stabbing in Florida
involved two people from Wyalusing,
902
00:45:42,034 --> 00:45:45,454
one is now dead,
and the other is behind bars.
903
00:45:45,454 --> 00:45:46,914
‐ I mean,
just knowing the family,
904
00:45:46,914 --> 00:45:48,707
it's heartbreaking.
905
00:45:48,707 --> 00:45:52,503
‐ It was two years
before the trial even started.
906
00:45:52,503 --> 00:45:54,213
Two very long years.
907
00:45:56,173 --> 00:45:59,510
Around Wyalusing
where the Prestons were from,
908
00:45:59,510 --> 00:46:00,761
they know who I am.
909
00:46:03,639 --> 00:46:06,808
I'm afraid I'm gonna run
into the father, Mr. Preston,
910
00:46:06,808 --> 00:46:08,769
who is a very nice man.
911
00:46:09,311 --> 00:46:10,938
And I don't want to. I‐‐
912
00:46:10,938 --> 00:46:12,648
You know, what do you say?
913
00:46:13,315 --> 00:46:15,901
There's nothing to say.
I don't know what to say.
914
00:46:16,527 --> 00:46:18,487
But there's two sides
to every story.
915
00:46:20,864 --> 00:46:23,200
‐ Everybody knew that it was BS
from the beginning.
916
00:46:24,826 --> 00:46:26,703
You take someone's life like that,
917
00:46:26,703 --> 00:46:28,956
I think you should lose yours too.
918
00:46:33,627 --> 00:46:36,296
SCOTT: Randy claims he didn't remember
what happened at the moment.
919
00:46:37,506 --> 00:46:39,007
For a case like this,
920
00:46:39,007 --> 00:46:41,426
when the defendant says
"I don't remember,"
921
00:46:41,426 --> 00:46:43,929
my mind immediately goes to,
okay, what are the facts.
922
00:46:44,513 --> 00:46:47,140
What does Randy remember?
What led up to this?
923
00:46:47,808 --> 00:46:51,436
♪
924
00:46:52,521 --> 00:46:54,606
Randy Herman, Brooke Preston,
925
00:46:54,606 --> 00:46:58,318
and her older sister, Jordan Preston,
were living together
926
00:46:58,318 --> 00:47:01,738
in a single‐family residence
on Sarazen Drive.
927
00:47:03,532 --> 00:47:06,910
But Jordan had left
for a couple of days
928
00:47:06,910 --> 00:47:08,829
to spend some time
with her boyfriend in Colorado.
929
00:47:10,122 --> 00:47:12,666
McROBERTS:
Meanwhile, Brooke had made the decision
930
00:47:12,666 --> 00:47:16,170
to move to live with her
longtime boyfriend up in New York.
931
00:47:16,170 --> 00:47:19,756
So she had come to that house
to pack up her things
932
00:47:19,756 --> 00:47:20,924
and drive north
933
00:47:22,092 --> 00:47:23,594
and say goodbye to Randy.
934
00:47:28,932 --> 00:47:31,685
RANDY:
Thursday morning, I woke up at 3:00
935
00:47:31,685 --> 00:47:35,314
and picked her up
at the Fort Lauderdale Airport.
936
00:47:36,231 --> 00:47:39,318
We drove back to the house.
I ended up dropping her off.
937
00:47:39,318 --> 00:47:43,322
It was still fairly early,
so at that time I went to the beach.
938
00:47:45,532 --> 00:47:47,367
And I was able to catch the sunrise.
939
00:47:51,246 --> 00:47:53,957
Later that morning, we decided
to go out to the beach.
940
00:47:55,918 --> 00:47:58,378
‐ Brooke had spent the whole day
at the beach with Randy.
941
00:47:59,213 --> 00:48:01,340
They'd been drinking
quite a bit at the time.
942
00:48:02,382 --> 00:48:04,343
Later, that afternoon,
943
00:48:04,343 --> 00:48:06,345
they went back to the house
944
00:48:06,345 --> 00:48:07,804
where they continued drinking.
945
00:48:12,601 --> 00:48:15,437
‐ From then on,
I was just heavily intoxicated.
946
00:48:16,188 --> 00:48:20,484
Me and Brooke drinking on the back porch
was, you know, my last clear memory.
947
00:48:22,277 --> 00:48:23,529
‐ Randy continued to drink.
948
00:48:24,363 --> 00:48:26,031
That's when Brooke texted Kyle,
949
00:48:26,031 --> 00:48:28,116
you know, Randy's acting strange.
950
00:48:28,116 --> 00:48:31,161
McROBERTS:
So we know that Kyle came to the house.
951
00:48:31,161 --> 00:48:34,540
And then, uh, the naked‐in‐the‐closet
event had happened.
952
00:48:35,832 --> 00:48:37,584
She was very shaken.
953
00:48:38,377 --> 00:48:40,045
Brooke said to Kyle,
954
00:48:40,045 --> 00:48:42,256
"Get me out of here,
I can't stay here tonight.
955
00:48:42,256 --> 00:48:44,258
I need to stay over at your house."
956
00:48:44,258 --> 00:48:45,467
And she did.
957
00:48:52,099 --> 00:48:54,017
RANDY:
Waking up the next morning,
958
00:48:54,017 --> 00:48:55,811
I was half hungover.
959
00:48:55,811 --> 00:48:57,938
I was really dehydrated, thirsty.
960
00:48:57,938 --> 00:48:59,022
I went to get some water.
961
00:49:00,232 --> 00:49:01,817
That's when I ran into Brooke.
962
00:49:03,193 --> 00:49:05,362
She had come back
and was kind of gathering
963
00:49:05,362 --> 00:49:06,655
the last of her belongings.
964
00:49:07,614 --> 00:49:09,157
I decided to go back to bed.
965
00:49:10,492 --> 00:49:12,911
‐ Meanwhile, Kyle and Brooke
go to breakfast.
966
00:49:13,787 --> 00:49:16,290
A few minutes later,
Randy texted her
967
00:49:16,290 --> 00:49:17,499
to see where she is.
968
00:49:18,250 --> 00:49:20,294
And she says, hey,
we're gonna go to breakfast
969
00:49:20,294 --> 00:49:21,420
if you wanna go.
970
00:49:22,546 --> 00:49:25,048
He said no,
he was in bed asleep.
971
00:49:26,758 --> 00:49:28,886
But he had something for her.
972
00:49:31,805 --> 00:49:35,601
I remembered I had a T‐shirt
I wanted to give to Brooke
973
00:49:35,601 --> 00:49:38,270
to take to her boyfriend
Bryan Brown.
974
00:49:38,270 --> 00:49:40,439
I wanted to give that to Brooke
before she left.
975
00:49:44,359 --> 00:49:47,112
‐ She said she would stop by
as soon as they had breakfast.
976
00:49:47,112 --> 00:49:50,574
♪
977
00:49:50,574 --> 00:49:53,702
♪
978
00:49:53,702 --> 00:49:55,829
♪
979
00:49:55,829 --> 00:49:58,957
RANDY: The next thing I remember
is her calling my name.
980
00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:02,336
I had sat up in bed.
She came in my room.
981
00:50:03,587 --> 00:50:05,380
I told her where the T‐shirt was.
982
00:50:06,632 --> 00:50:08,175
She picked up the T‐shirt.
983
00:50:09,009 --> 00:50:11,178
She was smiling,
saying thank you.
984
00:50:12,429 --> 00:50:15,140
She came over, gave me a hug,
and said goodbye.
985
00:50:17,226 --> 00:50:18,435
She shut the door.
986
00:50:20,312 --> 00:50:21,730
And I laid back down.
987
00:50:29,571 --> 00:50:31,823
‐ We know that 8:49 in the morning,
988
00:50:32,658 --> 00:50:36,203
a gentleman in the neighborhood
by the name of Mr. Childers
989
00:50:36,203 --> 00:50:39,581
walks by the house
and claims to have heard screams.
990
00:50:40,958 --> 00:50:45,045
So the attack likely occurred
somewhere within those 10 minutes.
991
00:50:48,715 --> 00:50:53,804
‐ I was able to place Brooke
in certain places and positions
992
00:50:53,804 --> 00:50:57,391
when she received
some of her stab wounds.
993
00:51:02,312 --> 00:51:05,607
It began at the end of the hall
where the bedrooms were located.
994
00:51:07,401 --> 00:51:09,236
It then proceeded
995
00:51:09,236 --> 00:51:10,821
down the hallway
996
00:51:10,821 --> 00:51:13,949
and into the living room
by the fireplace.
997
00:51:15,367 --> 00:51:18,579
There was some activity
at the fireplace.
998
00:51:23,625 --> 00:51:27,421
And then I believe ultimately
she was dragged back into the hallway.
999
00:51:30,549 --> 00:51:33,677
I can tell you
that she was still alive
1000
00:51:33,677 --> 00:51:37,181
when she was
in her final resting position.
1001
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,936
Because as she laid in the position
that we found her in,
1002
00:51:43,770 --> 00:51:46,648
she was expirating blood
from her nose and her mouth
1003
00:51:47,858 --> 00:51:49,443
until she finally just succumbed.
1004
00:51:55,199 --> 00:51:58,577
RANDY: And then I come
to standing over top of her
1005
00:51:58,577 --> 00:52:00,454
covered in blood,
1006
00:52:00,454 --> 00:52:02,372
and I'm holding a knife in my hand.
1007
00:52:04,708 --> 00:52:07,669
‐ We know that we see Randy
get into his car.
1008
00:52:08,879 --> 00:52:10,714
That's when he leaves
and calls 911.
1009
00:52:11,256 --> 00:52:12,382
[beep]
1010
00:52:13,425 --> 00:52:14,760
OPERATOR: [over phone]
911, emergency.
1011
00:52:14,760 --> 00:52:16,386
RANDY: [over phone]
You need to send police.
1012
00:52:17,721 --> 00:52:19,097
Someone's been murdered.
1013
00:52:20,516 --> 00:52:23,560
I'm at Haverhill Park.
Just send the police. It was me.
1014
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:24,520
I'm sorry.
1015
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:25,854
[line disconnects]
1016
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,486
McROBERTS:
She was stabbed 25 times.
1017
00:52:33,487 --> 00:52:35,197
She had defensive wounds.
1018
00:52:36,573 --> 00:52:41,119
It was clear from the scene
that she had struggled desperately.
1019
00:52:41,828 --> 00:52:44,456
We know that it's not easy
to stab a human body.
1020
00:52:44,456 --> 00:52:48,168
And then to do it repeatedly
when somebody's fighting back,
1021
00:52:48,168 --> 00:52:50,504
they're resisting,
and they're screaming
1022
00:52:50,504 --> 00:52:52,881
and they're scratching
and trying to get away.
1023
00:52:53,632 --> 00:52:56,385
And from what we know about Brooke,
she was feisty.
1024
00:52:57,636 --> 00:53:00,305
When you look at the degree
to which she fought back,
1025
00:53:00,973 --> 00:53:02,975
it‐it wasn't over in an instant.
1026
00:53:06,061 --> 00:53:08,689
His hands were injured pretty badly.
1027
00:53:09,690 --> 00:53:13,986
Those are all stimuli that would awaken
a person who's sleepwalking.
1028
00:53:14,570 --> 00:53:17,739
That all goes to show that clear intent
1029
00:53:17,739 --> 00:53:19,491
of wanting to kill somebody.
1030
00:53:24,621 --> 00:53:26,456
DR. PRESSMAN:
Sleepwalkers are well known to have
1031
00:53:26,456 --> 00:53:30,627
a very high threshold for pain
1032
00:53:30,627 --> 00:53:33,130
and for arousal.
1033
00:53:33,130 --> 00:53:35,924
It's very difficult
to wake up a sleepwalker.
1034
00:53:39,344 --> 00:53:42,514
WALSH: The research we did
about the sleepwalking showed
1035
00:53:42,514 --> 00:53:44,266
there are people that will sleepwalk
1036
00:53:44,266 --> 00:53:46,518
and walk out of, like,
a second story window,
1037
00:53:46,518 --> 00:53:50,314
and they're not gonna wake up
immediately after they hit the ground
1038
00:53:50,314 --> 00:53:52,691
even though they're going
to be injured, right?
1039
00:53:52,691 --> 00:53:55,652
So the cut to Randy's hand
1040
00:53:55,652 --> 00:53:58,322
wouldn't have been something
that would have necessarily startled him
1041
00:53:58,322 --> 00:54:00,991
out of his sleepwalking episode,
1042
00:54:00,991 --> 00:54:03,785
nor would have the physical nature
of the attack.
1043
00:54:11,126 --> 00:54:13,587
HANNAH WINSTON: As a journalist
with the Palm Beach Post newspaper,
1044
00:54:13,587 --> 00:54:16,715
I primarily focus
on criminal justice
1045
00:54:16,715 --> 00:54:18,133
and courts coverage.
1046
00:54:19,343 --> 00:54:22,137
When I first heard
about the Randy Herman trial,
1047
00:54:22,137 --> 00:54:24,139
I was speaking directly
to another journalist,
1048
00:54:24,139 --> 00:54:26,183
and it was very much
one of those, like,
1049
00:54:26,183 --> 00:54:28,227
"You'll never believe what I'm,
you know, covering today,
1050
00:54:28,227 --> 00:54:29,102
what's happening."
1051
00:54:30,479 --> 00:54:34,191
Covering courts for so long
and for just being in the news industry,
1052
00:54:34,191 --> 00:54:35,567
you think you've heard everything.
1053
00:54:36,652 --> 00:54:40,072
But the sleepwalking defense is one
of those things that doesn't happen a lot.
1054
00:54:40,739 --> 00:54:42,574
So my immediate thought was like,
1055
00:54:42,574 --> 00:54:45,744
okay, well, let me go find the documents,
see if, you know, this is legit.
1056
00:54:47,829 --> 00:54:49,831
How many other times
has this happened before?
1057
00:54:53,001 --> 00:54:56,004
There were a couple more
famous sleepwalking cases.
1058
00:54:57,047 --> 00:55:00,509
There was one with a 4‐year‐old boy
who the father killed.
1059
00:55:01,343 --> 00:55:04,304
And another one where a man
ended up killing his wife.
1060
00:55:05,639 --> 00:55:07,182
And both of them,
they were found not guilty.
1061
00:55:08,767 --> 00:55:10,352
WALSH: I do know
that sleepwalking has been used
1062
00:55:10,352 --> 00:55:11,937
in other states as a defense.
1063
00:55:13,272 --> 00:55:15,440
But this was the first case in Florida.
1064
00:55:18,402 --> 00:55:22,531
It's a big hurdle to jump when you have
a burden to prove that something happened.
1065
00:55:22,531 --> 00:55:24,241
You're basically telling the jury,
1066
00:55:24,241 --> 00:55:27,411
yeah, this happened, but it's because,
you know, Randy sleepwalks.
1067
00:55:29,246 --> 00:55:31,540
And when you go back
to kind of the empathy
1068
00:55:31,540 --> 00:55:35,878
that people may feel for Brooke
and her family and the situation,
1069
00:55:35,878 --> 00:55:38,839
that also is another big hurdle
to, to jump.
1070
00:55:41,425 --> 00:55:43,177
RANDY: [over phone]
Did you talk to the lawyer?
1071
00:55:43,177 --> 00:55:46,555
Did he tell you how much time
I could be looking at?
1072
00:55:47,181 --> 00:55:48,724
ADAMS: [over phone]
Well, he's not sure.
1073
00:55:49,474 --> 00:55:51,810
RANDY: Hopefully, you know,
within the next couple weeks,
1074
00:55:51,810 --> 00:55:53,020
I'll hear something.
1075
00:55:53,020 --> 00:55:54,229
I don't know.
1076
00:55:55,397 --> 00:55:58,150
‐ In cases like this
where the evidence is overwhelming,
1077
00:55:58,150 --> 00:56:02,571
we fully expected that there would be,
you know, an attempt to negotiate
1078
00:56:02,571 --> 00:56:04,573
a resolution
that everybody could live with.
1079
00:56:06,950 --> 00:56:09,703
WALSH: Most cases obviously
end up in a plea bargain.
1080
00:56:09,703 --> 00:56:12,164
Usually, the plea offers
are also pretty high.
1081
00:56:12,831 --> 00:56:15,042
They mentioned
a plea of 50 years.
1082
00:56:15,042 --> 00:56:18,003
But it was just really
too high for us.
1083
00:56:18,003 --> 00:56:20,964
If you're 20 years old
or if you're 60 years old,
1084
00:56:20,964 --> 00:56:22,674
you'll spend the rest
of your life in prison.
1085
00:56:23,383 --> 00:56:25,344
McROBERTS:
The defense was unwilling to negotiate it
1086
00:56:25,344 --> 00:56:27,554
to anything that would be acceptable
1087
00:56:27,554 --> 00:56:29,348
in light of what had happened.
1088
00:56:29,932 --> 00:56:31,642
And so we were
sort of at an impasse.
1089
00:56:32,559 --> 00:56:35,020
RANDY: [over phone]
Fifty. Fifty years. Five‐zero.
1090
00:56:35,020 --> 00:56:36,730
ADAMS: [over phone]
Is that what he told you?
1091
00:56:36,730 --> 00:56:38,148
RANDY: Yeah, I mean,
there's no way, you know.
1092
00:56:38,148 --> 00:56:41,276
What do they have
as evidence of premeditation?
1093
00:56:41,276 --> 00:56:42,945
You know, it's outrageous.
1094
00:56:42,945 --> 00:56:44,029
ADAMS:
I know.
1095
00:56:44,029 --> 00:56:46,740
RANDY: In my eyes,
I figure if I take it to trial,
1096
00:56:46,740 --> 00:56:50,953
there's no way I'm going to get convicted
of first‐degree premeditated murder.
1097
00:56:50,953 --> 00:56:52,955
If I got second‐degree murder,
1098
00:56:52,955 --> 00:56:55,958
I'd probably be taking
somewhere around 50 anyway,
1099
00:56:55,958 --> 00:56:58,836
so why not take my chances at trial.
1100
00:56:58,836 --> 00:57:00,671
ADAMS:
I love you, honey.
1101
00:57:01,713 --> 00:57:03,173
MAJCHROWICZ:
You know, when I sat down with Randy,
1102
00:57:03,173 --> 00:57:05,342
at some point in the interview,
1103
00:57:06,051 --> 00:57:07,719
you know, I said,
"Tell me a little bit about yourself."
1104
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,098
You know, he indicated he had never read
the Harry Potter books before,
1105
00:57:11,098 --> 00:57:14,977
and so he was making this way
through the series.
1106
00:57:15,519 --> 00:57:19,273
And he described parallels
in the Harry Potter books.
1107
00:57:19,815 --> 00:57:23,694
You know, anyone who is sentenced
to Azkaban,
1108
00:57:23,694 --> 00:57:26,071
they're basically forced to relive
1109
00:57:26,071 --> 00:57:29,241
their life's worst moments.
1110
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,370
You have Randy standing
over Brooke's body,
1111
00:57:35,330 --> 00:57:37,374
both of them covered in blood,
1112
00:57:37,374 --> 00:57:40,335
and he described his time in prison
1113
00:57:40,335 --> 00:57:42,629
to be his own Azkaban.
1114
00:57:43,755 --> 00:57:46,091
ADAMS: I wanted to get him
the best lawyer I could.
1115
00:57:46,091 --> 00:57:49,303
You're talking about thousands of dollars,
and there's no way we‐‐
1116
00:57:49,303 --> 00:57:50,596
we don't have it.
1117
00:57:50,596 --> 00:57:53,974
We knew we had no choice
but to go with a public defender.
1118
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,728
I trusted Joe Walsh
and his investigator.
1119
00:57:58,896 --> 00:58:02,232
‐ Before the trial,
I was nervous, but I was hopeful
1120
00:58:02,232 --> 00:58:06,403
because I felt that, uh,
they would see Randy
1121
00:58:06,403 --> 00:58:07,613
for who he is.
1122
00:58:15,579 --> 00:58:18,582
‐ Randy Herman's trial was actually
my first trial
1123
00:58:18,582 --> 00:58:20,375
that I ever sat on.
1124
00:58:20,375 --> 00:58:22,669
And I was sitting in the selection of it.
1125
00:58:22,669 --> 00:58:24,546
They were asking questions,
1126
00:58:24,546 --> 00:58:27,382
and people were raising their hands
saying, "Hey, I can't be in this."
1127
00:58:28,634 --> 00:58:31,929
But I ended up making it
through the whole process.
1128
00:58:31,929 --> 00:58:33,931
JUROR 2:
When you're on a jury,
1129
00:58:33,931 --> 00:58:37,142
you see stuff that you
normally would see on crime shows.
1130
00:58:39,770 --> 00:58:42,314
And then to see it in real life,
it is different.
1131
00:58:42,314 --> 00:58:43,357
It's not the same.
1132
00:58:43,815 --> 00:58:47,152
TV is gonna have actors.
This is real life.
1133
00:58:47,152 --> 00:58:48,695
MAN: If however,
there is no reasonable doubt...
1134
00:58:48,695 --> 00:58:51,448
‐ And the person sitting there,
you're deciding their fate.
1135
00:58:51,448 --> 00:58:54,034
‐ You're faced
with a grave responsibility.
1136
00:58:54,034 --> 00:58:55,369
Thank you, gentlemen.
1137
00:58:55,369 --> 00:58:57,621
JUROR 2:
And that's a big responsibility.
1138
00:58:58,664 --> 00:59:00,332
You have their family there
1139
00:59:00,332 --> 00:59:02,835
and if you get it wrong,
now you might have somebody
1140
00:59:02,835 --> 00:59:07,422
who's... holding you responsible
for not letting them go free.
1141
00:59:08,423 --> 00:59:12,386
Something very unusual was the fact
that he did admit it.
1142
00:59:12,386 --> 00:59:15,305
He knew. The police knew.
He did murder her.
1143
00:59:15,305 --> 00:59:16,723
RANDY: [over phone]
Just send the police.
1144
00:59:16,723 --> 00:59:18,141
It was me.
1145
00:59:19,101 --> 00:59:21,478
JUROR 1: I think everyone's heard
of sleepwalking, right?
1146
00:59:21,478 --> 00:59:24,565
But as to murdering somebody?
1147
00:59:24,565 --> 00:59:26,275
I mean, you always hear
about sleepwalking,
1148
00:59:26,275 --> 00:59:28,944
somebody doing something silly,
1149
00:59:28,944 --> 00:59:32,114
and then they would just get
pushed back to their bedroom
1150
00:59:32,114 --> 00:59:33,699
and say, "Okay, go back to sleep."
1151
00:59:35,158 --> 00:59:38,036
Did he have
the intention of killing her
1152
00:59:38,036 --> 00:59:41,456
or did he kill her on accident?
1153
00:59:41,456 --> 00:59:44,042
That's what we were trying
to get at between the two.
1154
00:59:45,335 --> 00:59:48,547
JUROR 2: I remember thinking
I'm just going to keep my mind open
1155
00:59:48,547 --> 00:59:49,673
and listen to all the facts.
1156
00:59:49,673 --> 00:59:52,134
I wasn't making
a judgment either way.
1157
00:59:52,134 --> 00:59:54,887
It was for them
to give us the facts
1158
00:59:54,887 --> 00:59:58,348
and let us decide whether or not
we believed that it could be sleepwalking.
1159
01:00:02,060 --> 01:00:04,479
DR. BRUCE: There seemed
to be really three possibilities.
1160
01:00:04,980 --> 01:00:07,274
One, that Randy is lying.
1161
01:00:07,816 --> 01:00:12,529
He did this, he remembers everything,
and he's lying about it.
1162
01:00:12,529 --> 01:00:17,034
The second possibility is
the possibility posed by his defense,
1163
01:00:17,034 --> 01:00:21,455
which is that he experienced
a parasomnia,
1164
01:00:22,331 --> 01:00:26,251
and the result of that
was that he had no consciousness
1165
01:00:26,251 --> 01:00:28,212
of what he was doing
1166
01:00:28,212 --> 01:00:31,673
and has no conscious recollection
of having done it.
1167
01:00:31,673 --> 01:00:35,385
And then of course
there's the third possibility,
1168
01:00:35,385 --> 01:00:37,596
that he may have done this
1169
01:00:38,222 --> 01:00:40,182
in an act of rage
1170
01:00:40,724 --> 01:00:45,312
triggered by the traumatic experience
of rejection.
1171
01:00:47,523 --> 01:00:51,318
And so, he has either
dissociated from it
1172
01:00:51,318 --> 01:00:53,153
or can't allow himself to own
1173
01:00:53,153 --> 01:00:56,240
what he does actually remember
about it.
1174
01:00:56,240 --> 01:01:00,661
♪
1175
01:01:00,661 --> 01:01:04,373
♪
1176
01:01:07,251 --> 01:01:10,337
NEWSREADER: In court,
Randy Herman, now 26, is on trial
1177
01:01:10,337 --> 01:01:11,839
charged with
a first‐degree murder
1178
01:01:11,839 --> 01:01:13,924
in Preston's stabbing death.
1179
01:01:13,924 --> 01:01:14,925
[crowd chattering]
1180
01:01:14,925 --> 01:01:16,385
[gavel banging]
1181
01:01:17,094 --> 01:01:18,887
JUDGE:
Ladies and gentlemen of our jury,
1182
01:01:18,887 --> 01:01:21,223
I'm now going to turn
to the people of the state of Florida
1183
01:01:21,223 --> 01:01:23,058
to make opening statements.
1184
01:01:23,475 --> 01:01:25,435
Ms. McRoberts, you may proceed
when you're ready.
1185
01:01:26,562 --> 01:01:30,899
McROBERTS: The date as you know
was March 25th of 2017
1186
01:01:30,899 --> 01:01:33,777
where this defendant
in the early morning hours
1187
01:01:33,777 --> 01:01:36,029
ended the life of a young woman
1188
01:01:36,029 --> 01:01:38,824
who had done nothing
to deserve it.
1189
01:01:39,366 --> 01:01:41,451
McROBERTS: Our initial intent
is to show to the jury
1190
01:01:41,451 --> 01:01:44,288
that despite what
the psychological experts will say
1191
01:01:44,288 --> 01:01:47,082
and his history
of his potential sleepwalking,
1192
01:01:47,791 --> 01:01:51,712
Randy had developed
an unnatural liking to Brooke.
1193
01:01:51,712 --> 01:01:54,047
She did rebuff him.
She was over him.
1194
01:01:54,047 --> 01:01:56,216
And she was done
with his behavior.
1195
01:01:58,051 --> 01:02:00,345
It wasn't more complex than that.
1196
01:02:04,349 --> 01:02:08,020
‐ We knew the state's contention
really was to exploit
1197
01:02:08,020 --> 01:02:10,397
a sexual angle in the case.
1198
01:02:11,940 --> 01:02:13,942
We know the night
before this happened,
1199
01:02:13,942 --> 01:02:16,862
Randy apparently was
in the room naked
1200
01:02:16,862 --> 01:02:18,280
and, uh, in the closet,
1201
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,116
and that was something
that Brooke was not comfortable with.
1202
01:02:22,618 --> 01:02:23,827
[message notification chimes]
1203
01:02:27,539 --> 01:02:30,792
So we just kind of decided
to focus on the dynamics
1204
01:02:30,792 --> 01:02:33,086
of the relationship
between Randy and Brooke.
1205
01:02:34,505 --> 01:02:38,467
COURTNEY WILSON: Okay, Ms. Preston,
are you Brooke's sister?
1206
01:02:38,467 --> 01:02:39,426
‐ Yes.
1207
01:02:40,010 --> 01:02:43,931
‐ When Brooke's sister Jordan
took the stand for the defense,
1208
01:02:43,931 --> 01:02:45,766
it was kind of a surprise,
1209
01:02:45,766 --> 01:02:48,477
'cause normally you don't have
the family of the deceased
1210
01:02:48,477 --> 01:02:50,646
speaking in the defense's case.
1211
01:02:51,563 --> 01:02:53,565
‐ When did you meet Randy?
1212
01:02:53,565 --> 01:02:55,359
JORDAN: I was probably
around 15 years old.
1213
01:02:55,359 --> 01:02:58,695
‐ And was that down here
or somewhere else?
1214
01:02:58,695 --> 01:02:59,863
JORDAN:
In Pennsylvania.
1215
01:03:00,489 --> 01:03:01,865
‐ How did you meet?
1216
01:03:01,865 --> 01:03:04,117
‐ Uh, through mutual friends.
1217
01:03:05,494 --> 01:03:08,622
‐ She was very quiet.
1218
01:03:09,331 --> 01:03:12,960
Like she was hurt and afraid.
1219
01:03:14,503 --> 01:03:15,838
I mean, how could you not be?
1220
01:03:18,006 --> 01:03:21,593
WILSON: At this point, you've
known Mr. Herman for a few years.
1221
01:03:23,512 --> 01:03:24,346
‐ Yeah.
1222
01:03:25,264 --> 01:03:27,432
‐ Had he ever exhibited
1223
01:03:27,432 --> 01:03:30,561
any sort of romantic
or sexual interest in you?
1224
01:03:30,561 --> 01:03:31,645
‐ No.
1225
01:03:32,396 --> 01:03:36,024
WILSON: Any romantic or sexual interest
in your sister Brooke?
1226
01:03:36,650 --> 01:03:37,901
‐ No.
1227
01:03:37,901 --> 01:03:39,403
‐ And living together in the house,
1228
01:03:39,403 --> 01:03:42,447
you all were pretty close
and comfortable with each other,
1229
01:03:42,447 --> 01:03:43,866
is that accurate to say?
1230
01:03:43,866 --> 01:03:45,158
JORDAN: Yeah.
‐ Okay.
1231
01:03:45,158 --> 01:03:48,495
I'm going to publish, if I may,
what was printed in the evidence as‐‐
1232
01:03:48,495 --> 01:03:51,164
JUDGE: You may.
‐ Defense exhibit three.
1233
01:03:51,164 --> 01:03:52,165
Um...
1234
01:03:53,375 --> 01:03:55,127
do you recognize this picture?
1235
01:03:55,127 --> 01:03:56,628
JORDAN:
I don't remember it.
1236
01:03:56,628 --> 01:03:58,255
WILSON:
Okay. Are you in this picture?
1237
01:03:58,255 --> 01:03:59,506
JORDAN: Yes.
WILSON: Okay.
1238
01:03:59,506 --> 01:04:01,466
And who's the other person
in the picture?
1239
01:04:02,634 --> 01:04:03,468
JORDAN:
Randy.
1240
01:04:05,095 --> 01:04:06,972
WILSON: When you lived
with the one bathroom, were there times
1241
01:04:06,972 --> 01:04:09,099
when sometimes
you all would have to share
1242
01:04:09,099 --> 01:04:10,267
the bathroom like this,
1243
01:04:10,267 --> 01:04:12,269
maybe someone in the shower,
someone brushing their teeth,
1244
01:04:12,269 --> 01:04:13,896
things like that?
‐ Yes.
1245
01:04:13,896 --> 01:04:14,980
WILSON:
Was that pretty commonplace?
1246
01:04:14,980 --> 01:04:16,732
JORDAN:
Yeah, with courtesy to the other.
1247
01:04:16,732 --> 01:04:19,151
Like, knock and ask
if you can come in.
1248
01:04:19,151 --> 01:04:22,863
‐ Absolutely. And were there any incidents
where that courtesy wasn't respected?
1249
01:04:23,655 --> 01:04:24,823
JORDAN:
No.
1250
01:04:24,823 --> 01:04:28,535
‐ The photograph really just showed
the dynamics of living in a home,
1251
01:04:28,535 --> 01:04:31,997
two young women,
one young man, one bathroom.
1252
01:04:32,581 --> 01:04:34,958
It just showed
how comfortable they were
1253
01:04:34,958 --> 01:04:37,085
in different levels of dress.
1254
01:04:37,586 --> 01:04:40,214
They weren't like, you know,
strangers to each other.
1255
01:04:40,214 --> 01:04:41,548
They were all familiar
with each other.
1256
01:04:44,051 --> 01:04:47,137
‐ And now I'm going to turn
to Mr. Walsh
1257
01:04:47,137 --> 01:04:50,182
to call his next witness
on behalf of Mr. Herman.
1258
01:04:50,182 --> 01:04:51,725
WALSH:
I call Randy Herman.
1259
01:04:51,725 --> 01:04:53,810
‐ Alright, Mr. Herman,
why don't you come forward, sir.
1260
01:04:54,394 --> 01:04:56,647
WINSTON:
During a homicide trial, it is very rare
1261
01:04:56,647 --> 01:04:58,774
for a defendant to take the stand.
1262
01:04:58,774 --> 01:05:02,778
So when his attorneys announced
that he would be testifying,
1263
01:05:02,778 --> 01:05:06,198
it's definitely one of those
turning moments that juries hope for.
1264
01:05:07,074 --> 01:05:10,077
WALSH: I wanted the jury
to see Randy stand up
1265
01:05:10,661 --> 01:05:13,163
as, you know, small as he is,
tiny as he is,
1266
01:05:13,163 --> 01:05:16,250
walk up to the jury box,
and testify.
1267
01:05:16,250 --> 01:05:18,836
‐ My name is Randy Herman Jr.
1268
01:05:18,836 --> 01:05:21,964
My last name is spelled
H‐E‐R‐M‐A‐N.
1269
01:05:21,964 --> 01:05:23,340
WALSH:
Thank you.
1270
01:05:23,340 --> 01:05:24,842
How do you feel
this afternoon, Randy?
1271
01:05:24,842 --> 01:05:25,717
‐ I'm okay.
1272
01:05:26,885 --> 01:05:28,554
WINSTON:
You see this man,
1273
01:05:28,554 --> 01:05:30,806
who looks like
he could still be in high school.
1274
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:33,851
You look at him in this suit
that's too big for him
1275
01:05:33,851 --> 01:05:36,520
and you're like, okay,
this is completely jarring.
1276
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,231
'Cause you have other cases
where, you know, someone looks like
1277
01:05:39,231 --> 01:05:41,608
a stereotypical, you know, bad guy.
1278
01:05:43,193 --> 01:05:46,154
SCOTT: He was a little heavier set
at the time of the crime.
1279
01:05:47,573 --> 01:05:48,615
But he had lost weight.
1280
01:05:49,283 --> 01:05:51,076
He had a very boyish face.
1281
01:05:51,618 --> 01:05:54,371
Very small.
So with that type of defendant,
1282
01:05:54,371 --> 01:05:57,124
his attorney would want him
to get up there and speak to the jury
1283
01:05:57,124 --> 01:06:00,127
and‐and‐and sort of pull at the,
at the sympathy.
1284
01:06:01,753 --> 01:06:03,714
WALSH:
You called 911.
1285
01:06:04,214 --> 01:06:07,009
Did you tell them everything
you needed to tell them?
1286
01:06:09,219 --> 01:06:10,470
‐ Yes. Yeah.
1287
01:06:11,638 --> 01:06:14,433
‐ How do you feel about the fact
1288
01:06:14,433 --> 01:06:17,603
that Brooke Preston died that morning?
1289
01:06:19,229 --> 01:06:20,606
RANDY:
Terrible.
1290
01:06:22,649 --> 01:06:23,442
I don't know.
1291
01:06:24,067 --> 01:06:25,861
I don't know how to describe it.
1292
01:06:29,573 --> 01:06:30,616
That's all the questions I have.
1293
01:06:31,366 --> 01:06:33,452
JUDGE: Alright, Mr. Scott.
Cross‐examination.
1294
01:06:33,452 --> 01:06:34,536
SCOTT:
Thank you, Judge.
1295
01:06:35,370 --> 01:06:37,873
Me as a prosecutor,
I have to be very careful
1296
01:06:37,873 --> 01:06:39,833
as to not be too authoritarian.
1297
01:06:39,833 --> 01:06:41,752
Because then it's going to appear
as if I'm, you know,
1298
01:06:41,752 --> 01:06:42,836
beating up on this little boy.
1299
01:06:43,754 --> 01:06:47,174
But Randy Herman had
some difficult questions to answer.
1300
01:06:47,174 --> 01:06:49,635
You came to South Florida
from the city of Pennsylvania
1301
01:06:49,635 --> 01:06:52,054
because your life was
spiraling out of control.
1302
01:06:52,054 --> 01:06:53,388
Isn't that correct?
‐ That's correct.
1303
01:06:54,389 --> 01:06:58,018
‐ When you came to West Palm Beach
from late 2016
1304
01:06:58,477 --> 01:07:02,105
through March, uh, 2017,
the time of the murder,
1305
01:07:02,105 --> 01:07:04,399
you were still struggling
with addiction, correct?
1306
01:07:04,399 --> 01:07:06,109
RANDY:
That's correct.
1307
01:07:06,109 --> 01:07:08,195
‐ Your life was still
spiraling out of control?
1308
01:07:08,195 --> 01:07:09,446
RANDY:
It was.
1309
01:07:10,322 --> 01:07:11,823
CONA:
When Randy was in Florida,
1310
01:07:12,991 --> 01:07:15,661
he would call
every couple weeks or so.
1311
01:07:16,453 --> 01:07:17,871
He said he was happy.
1312
01:07:17,871 --> 01:07:20,707
He had a good job.
He loved it down there.
1313
01:07:20,707 --> 01:07:22,709
He was doing better
for himself.
1314
01:07:23,710 --> 01:07:26,588
But then I found out later
that he was just trying
1315
01:07:26,588 --> 01:07:28,549
to make it sound good
for me and Mom
1316
01:07:28,549 --> 01:07:31,844
because he didn't want
to let us down.
1317
01:07:32,511 --> 01:07:35,472
MAJCHROWICZ:
So, without that stabilizing presence
1318
01:07:35,472 --> 01:07:36,723
of his mother and sister,
1319
01:07:37,724 --> 01:07:41,603
you know, Randy, effectively was,
you know, left to his own devices.
1320
01:07:42,479 --> 01:07:44,356
RANDY:
Four months into my job,
1321
01:07:44,356 --> 01:07:47,985
I realized I wasn't really making
the pay I needed.
1322
01:07:47,985 --> 01:07:50,279
I was using a lot
of my inheritance
1323
01:07:51,613 --> 01:07:54,199
to kind of supplement my lifestyle.
1324
01:07:54,908 --> 01:07:56,410
So the day is finally over.
1325
01:07:57,035 --> 01:07:57,995
And I get my beer.
1326
01:07:57,995 --> 01:08:01,206
RANDY: I decided to take
some time off from work.
1327
01:08:01,623 --> 01:08:03,041
‐ I got to go back tomorrow.
1328
01:08:03,041 --> 01:08:05,669
‐ And that's when really
my drinking started to pick up.
1329
01:08:07,337 --> 01:08:12,801
‐ In terms of Randy's personal
and professional trajectory,
1330
01:08:14,052 --> 01:08:18,098
this is sort of where the train fell off
the tracks, so to speak.
1331
01:08:18,932 --> 01:08:22,060
RANDY: And I tended to take it
to the next level.
1332
01:08:22,769 --> 01:08:24,646
I was going out to bars nightly,
1333
01:08:24,646 --> 01:08:27,316
spending ridiculous sums of money,
1334
01:08:27,316 --> 01:08:30,986
and slowly my inheritance
started slipping away.
1335
01:08:34,072 --> 01:08:37,451
I got to the point where I'm partying
all night and sleeping all day.
1336
01:08:38,577 --> 01:08:41,580
‐ He told me, well, you know,
I'm straightening out now, Mom,
1337
01:08:41,580 --> 01:08:42,623
I'm going to get a job.
1338
01:08:44,708 --> 01:08:47,044
You know, I'll quit drinking.
1339
01:08:47,044 --> 01:08:48,587
I'm gonna, you know, get a job.
1340
01:08:48,587 --> 01:08:50,130
Okay, that's great.
1341
01:08:50,756 --> 01:08:53,300
So I let it go.
I didn't push it.
1342
01:08:53,967 --> 01:08:56,303
RANDY: It got to the point
where I wanted to stop
1343
01:08:56,303 --> 01:08:57,763
and I wanted to quit,
1344
01:08:57,763 --> 01:09:00,224
but I was kind of in this,
just like this cycle
1345
01:09:00,224 --> 01:09:02,893
where I was starting to get depressed
because of my drinking
1346
01:09:02,893 --> 01:09:04,436
and drug use
1347
01:09:04,436 --> 01:09:07,022
but at the same time,
I was drinking and using drugs
1348
01:09:07,022 --> 01:09:09,107
to kind of curb that depression.
1349
01:09:10,859 --> 01:09:12,819
SCOTT: After you awake
and you were talking to her,
1350
01:09:12,819 --> 01:09:14,112
she walked out of your room,
1351
01:09:14,112 --> 01:09:15,906
that's when you stabbed her
and killed her, right?
1352
01:09:17,241 --> 01:09:19,451
‐ I guess. I... I don't recall.
1353
01:09:26,416 --> 01:09:28,544
WALSH:
In murder cases like Randy's,
1354
01:09:28,544 --> 01:09:30,420
experts are very important,
1355
01:09:30,420 --> 01:09:33,215
because of the fact that it was
an insanity claim.
1356
01:09:33,757 --> 01:09:35,968
‐ Alright, Dr. Ewing,
please come forward, sir.
1357
01:09:37,344 --> 01:09:38,679
Hi, how are you?
1358
01:09:38,679 --> 01:09:39,847
‐ Good afternoon, Judge.
1359
01:09:39,847 --> 01:09:41,765
WALSH:
So, we hired Dr. Ewing.
1360
01:09:43,308 --> 01:09:45,936
Dr. Ewing, are you familiar
with what's known
1361
01:09:45,936 --> 01:09:48,021
as the Bonkalo Criteria?
1362
01:09:48,021 --> 01:09:52,359
‐ Yes. Uh,
a psychiatrist named Bonkalo
1363
01:09:52,359 --> 01:09:55,654
had done studies and reviews
1364
01:09:55,654 --> 01:09:58,949
of these sleepwalking cases
1365
01:09:58,949 --> 01:10:03,495
that eventuated in serious,
usually homicidal violence.
1366
01:10:05,289 --> 01:10:09,459
Dr. Bonkalo looked
at the characteristics
1367
01:10:09,459 --> 01:10:10,961
of those cases
1368
01:10:11,628 --> 01:10:16,216
and he came up
with 13, uh, criteria.
1369
01:10:16,216 --> 01:10:18,594
‐ The focus on the Bonkalo
was the most important thing
1370
01:10:18,594 --> 01:10:23,724
because it's the one
scientifically studied, objective thing
1371
01:10:23,724 --> 01:10:26,435
that we could get across
to the jury
1372
01:10:26,435 --> 01:10:29,479
that would prove
that Randy was sleepwalking.
1373
01:10:30,689 --> 01:10:32,191
DR. EWING:
The first criteria
1374
01:10:32,983 --> 01:10:36,069
is that the attack occurred
following an arousal
1375
01:10:36,069 --> 01:10:37,779
soon after sleep onset.
1376
01:10:37,779 --> 01:10:39,156
RANDY:
I went back to sleep.
1377
01:10:39,948 --> 01:10:42,701
Next thing I remember is, you know,
I'm standing over top of her
1378
01:10:42,701 --> 01:10:44,161
covered in blood,
1379
01:10:44,161 --> 01:10:46,163
and I'm holding a knife in my hand.
1380
01:10:46,163 --> 01:10:47,748
[camera shutter clicking]
1381
01:10:49,416 --> 01:10:51,793
McROBERTS:
She was stabbed over and over again.
1382
01:10:51,793 --> 01:10:55,047
In the face, in the neck,
in the stomach, in the back.
1383
01:10:56,673 --> 01:10:58,091
BURGER:
They were like family.
1384
01:10:58,926 --> 01:10:59,718
‐ Hey, Jordan.
1385
01:11:00,385 --> 01:11:02,304
BURGER:
They were like brother and sister.
1386
01:11:03,096 --> 01:11:05,557
DR. PRESSMAN:
The victim was not recognized at the time.
1387
01:11:05,557 --> 01:11:08,393
We know that sleepwalkers
don't recognize faces.
1388
01:11:09,561 --> 01:11:12,814
RANDY: I don't remember getting dressed,
I don't remember grabbing my keys.
1389
01:11:12,814 --> 01:11:14,525
You know,
everything was really hazy.
1390
01:11:16,193 --> 01:11:18,028
WALSH:
He had profound amnesia for the event.
1391
01:11:18,904 --> 01:11:21,740
RANDY:
I just don't remember anything. I just‐‐
1392
01:11:23,700 --> 01:11:25,285
CONA:
When we were younger,
1393
01:11:25,285 --> 01:11:27,746
I remember him getting up
in the middle of the night.
1394
01:11:28,205 --> 01:11:30,290
ADAMS: He has that look,
like a dazed look.
1395
01:11:30,999 --> 01:11:32,501
CONA:
I think he was sleepwalking.
1396
01:11:34,002 --> 01:11:35,879
DR. EWING:
The defendant actually called the police.
1397
01:11:35,879 --> 01:11:38,715
RANDY: [over phone] Just send the police.
It was me. I'm sorry.
1398
01:11:38,715 --> 01:11:42,052
DR. EWING: And reported not only
that there had been a homicide
1399
01:11:42,052 --> 01:11:43,470
but that he did it.
1400
01:11:44,555 --> 01:11:46,348
No sexual motive.
1401
01:11:46,348 --> 01:11:48,767
No financial motive
that I could discern.
1402
01:11:49,268 --> 01:11:50,727
RANDY:
Is she okay?
1403
01:11:50,727 --> 01:11:51,937
Please tell me.
1404
01:11:52,771 --> 01:11:54,189
RANDY:
Things were going downhill.
1405
01:11:56,692 --> 01:11:59,152
I would drink, you know,
almost nightly
1406
01:11:59,152 --> 01:12:01,697
to the point of, you know,
blacking out.
1407
01:12:01,697 --> 01:12:03,073
[engine revving]
1408
01:12:04,032 --> 01:12:07,119
WALSH: The night before this happened,
he had not gotten any sleep,
1409
01:12:07,119 --> 01:12:09,288
stayed up to watch the sunrise.
1410
01:12:10,747 --> 01:12:12,666
BROOKE'S MOTHER:
He was a mellow, mellow kid.
1411
01:12:13,166 --> 01:12:16,670
Never in a million years would think
he would be violent, no.
1412
01:12:17,254 --> 01:12:19,506
WALSH: We knew that
he had been using alcohol.
1413
01:12:19,506 --> 01:12:22,509
But what we learned was
the alcohol actually was something
1414
01:12:22,509 --> 01:12:25,137
that would put you
in a deeper sleep faster
1415
01:12:25,137 --> 01:12:28,015
so that you would be
more apt to sleepwalk
1416
01:12:28,015 --> 01:12:29,641
and do something like this.
1417
01:12:29,641 --> 01:12:33,729
‐ No question that he was drinking heavily
in the two days leading up to it.
1418
01:12:40,277 --> 01:12:42,029
JUROR 1:
It sat with me for a while.
1419
01:12:42,487 --> 01:12:45,032
I mean, I absolutely believed it.
1420
01:12:45,782 --> 01:12:48,952
This Bonkalo Criteria nailed it down
1421
01:12:48,952 --> 01:12:52,915
right to the T
of basically what he did,
1422
01:12:52,915 --> 01:12:55,209
you know, and the defense
did a great job
1423
01:12:55,209 --> 01:12:56,960
of showing that.
1424
01:13:01,381 --> 01:13:04,218
McROBERTS: We on the prosecution side
had one important thing
1425
01:13:04,218 --> 01:13:05,344
we wanted to talk about.
1426
01:13:06,512 --> 01:13:08,514
And that was the timeline.
1427
01:13:11,308 --> 01:13:13,352
SCOTT:
I want to narrow down my timeframe
1428
01:13:13,352 --> 01:13:17,272
from when she walked in
to when he leaves and calls 911.
1429
01:13:18,899 --> 01:13:22,444
We know that Brooke Preston
arrived at the home
1430
01:13:22,444 --> 01:13:25,155
based on the surveillance video
from across the street
1431
01:13:25,155 --> 01:13:27,241
at approximately 8:35 a. m.
1432
01:13:30,035 --> 01:13:33,121
We know that we see Randy
get into his car
1433
01:13:33,121 --> 01:13:36,583
at approximately 8:57,
and he drives away.
1434
01:13:37,835 --> 01:13:40,712
So based on that timeframe,
we know that Brooke was in the house
1435
01:13:40,712 --> 01:13:42,256
for approximately 22 minutes.
1436
01:13:45,425 --> 01:13:47,845
We knew that
he remembered her coming in
1437
01:13:48,554 --> 01:13:50,681
at approximately 8:35 a. m.
1438
01:13:50,681 --> 01:13:51,890
[clock ticking]
1439
01:13:52,349 --> 01:13:54,393
He said the shirt is over
in the drawer.
1440
01:13:55,227 --> 01:13:56,562
She got the shirt,
1441
01:13:57,271 --> 01:13:59,690
and they had a brief
back‐and‐forth discussion
1442
01:14:00,357 --> 01:14:02,317
that most likely took
a couple of minutes.
1443
01:14:05,612 --> 01:14:06,905
McROBERTS:
They hugged.
1444
01:14:08,365 --> 01:14:09,867
And she turned to leave.
1445
01:14:11,618 --> 01:14:13,579
And he said that's the last thing
he remembers.
1446
01:14:14,746 --> 01:14:18,709
SCOTT: We know from a gentleman
in the neighborhood who heard screams
1447
01:14:18,709 --> 01:14:21,837
that the attack takes place
approximately 8:49.
1448
01:14:22,379 --> 01:14:24,715
So sort of using that 22 minutes,
1449
01:14:24,715 --> 01:14:27,342
we just filtered back
and filtered back and filtered back.
1450
01:14:27,342 --> 01:14:30,429
He only had about five minutes
to go back to sleep.
1451
01:14:30,929 --> 01:14:33,182
So it seemed impossible to me
1452
01:14:33,182 --> 01:14:35,726
that he fell asleep in five minutes
1453
01:14:36,435 --> 01:14:37,853
and started sleepwalking.
1454
01:14:40,397 --> 01:14:42,441
McROBERTS:
The State will call Dr. Wade Myers.
1455
01:14:43,483 --> 01:14:45,861
SCOTT:
In this case, we need an expert
1456
01:14:45,861 --> 01:14:47,613
to help us explain to the jury
1457
01:14:47,613 --> 01:14:51,074
why the facts did not support
any type of sleepwalking defense.
1458
01:14:51,074 --> 01:14:52,159
They supported first‐degree murder.
1459
01:14:53,076 --> 01:14:56,079
‐ So you lay in bed
and then you fall asleep,
1460
01:14:56,079 --> 01:14:59,082
and then you go
into typically stage one.
1461
01:14:59,082 --> 01:15:02,419
Your brainwaves show a certain wavelength
called alpha waves.
1462
01:15:02,419 --> 01:15:05,923
And then you go
into stage two sleep,
1463
01:15:05,923 --> 01:15:07,799
which is a little bit deeper.
1464
01:15:07,799 --> 01:15:10,928
‐ Dr. Myers basically educated the jury
1465
01:15:10,928 --> 01:15:13,597
on the different stages of sleep.
1466
01:15:14,181 --> 01:15:16,850
‐ It's about an hour or two
after you go to bed
1467
01:15:16,850 --> 01:15:19,144
is when you go into deep sleep.
1468
01:15:19,144 --> 01:15:22,814
McROBERTS: And with regard to
the defendant's limited window of time,
1469
01:15:22,814 --> 01:15:25,567
could that have happened,
scientifically speaking?
1470
01:15:25,567 --> 01:15:28,153
‐ He's, uh, wide awake
1471
01:15:28,862 --> 01:15:30,781
minutes before the crime.
1472
01:15:31,573 --> 01:15:34,660
And you can't go from wide awake
to sleepwalking in,
1473
01:15:34,660 --> 01:15:35,953
in a matter of minutes.
1474
01:15:38,247 --> 01:15:40,958
McROBERTS: We know
that Randy admitted being awake
1475
01:15:40,958 --> 01:15:42,709
when Brooke got there.
1476
01:15:42,709 --> 01:15:46,255
He admitted speaking to her,
showing her where the shirt was
1477
01:15:46,255 --> 01:15:47,714
and giving her the hug.
1478
01:15:48,173 --> 01:15:50,926
So, if there's no minutes left
to get to sleep,
1479
01:15:51,927 --> 01:15:53,303
then he wasn't sleepwalking.
1480
01:15:57,140 --> 01:15:59,560
‐ Obviously the state is going
to use his statement
1481
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:02,938
that he was awake at the time
when she arrived at the house
1482
01:16:02,938 --> 01:16:05,649
and they could say,
"Well, it would have been unlikely
1483
01:16:05,649 --> 01:16:08,402
that he had fallen into
a deep enough sleep to sleepwalk."
1484
01:16:10,153 --> 01:16:13,740
‐ Sleepwalking generally occurs
in the deeper stages.
1485
01:16:13,740 --> 01:16:15,367
DR. EWING:
I don't know if I would agree with that.
1486
01:16:15,367 --> 01:16:18,662
I see where you're getting at,
but it can occur,
1487
01:16:18,662 --> 01:16:21,248
um, in early stages as well.
1488
01:16:21,248 --> 01:16:23,917
‐ In other words,
not in the first minute or two
1489
01:16:23,917 --> 01:16:25,752
or ten minutes, fifteen minutes?
1490
01:16:26,295 --> 01:16:27,629
DR. EWING:
It could be. That's what I'm saying.
1491
01:16:28,255 --> 01:16:31,466
WALSH: And when Randy said that
he had this interaction with Brooke,
1492
01:16:32,467 --> 01:16:35,262
we really didn't even know
whether that was something
1493
01:16:35,262 --> 01:16:36,638
that actually had happened
1494
01:16:38,098 --> 01:16:40,517
or whether he kind of
had dreamed that.
1495
01:16:40,934 --> 01:16:42,769
‐ It's not clear to me
1496
01:16:42,769 --> 01:16:47,482
whether he was asleep
at that point.
1497
01:16:47,482 --> 01:16:49,610
It's possible that
he could have been awake,
1498
01:16:49,610 --> 01:16:51,904
and then he went back
to sleep immediately.
1499
01:16:51,904 --> 01:16:54,406
Uh, that's the way he recalls it.
1500
01:16:54,406 --> 01:16:57,159
It's possible though
that he never awoke.
1501
01:16:57,618 --> 01:17:00,954
‐ In my experience,
it's fairly common for defendants
1502
01:17:00,954 --> 01:17:04,208
to try and fill in the blanks
about what happened.
1503
01:17:04,791 --> 01:17:09,296
And they often fill in things
from just before or just after
1504
01:17:09,296 --> 01:17:12,591
or add things
that seem reasonable to them.
1505
01:17:13,300 --> 01:17:17,221
So, if Randy Herman is remembering
that she arrived
1506
01:17:17,721 --> 01:17:20,557
and that he told her
where the shirt was,
1507
01:17:21,517 --> 01:17:25,312
then the question is,
is this what he actually remembers
1508
01:17:25,312 --> 01:17:28,857
or is this what he thinks
makes sense to him?
1509
01:17:30,484 --> 01:17:32,361
WALSH:
Dreaming that interaction with Brooke
1510
01:17:32,903 --> 01:17:36,615
would mean that he was still sleeping
when the incident happened.
1511
01:17:37,783 --> 01:17:40,536
And if you believe
that Randy was sleepwalking,
1512
01:17:40,536 --> 01:17:44,122
then certainly you wouldn't believe
that he intended to do anything,
1513
01:17:44,122 --> 01:17:48,919
then how could you put somebody
in prison for the rest of their life.
1514
01:17:53,882 --> 01:17:57,511
‐ Folks, each side has made,
um, an argument
1515
01:17:57,511 --> 01:18:00,055
on what they believe
the facts showed in this case
1516
01:18:00,055 --> 01:18:03,767
and as officers of the court, I'm sure
that everyone has done that in good faith.
1517
01:18:03,767 --> 01:18:07,187
However, it's up to our jury to decide
what the facts of this case are.
1518
01:18:07,938 --> 01:18:11,984
‐ Sleepwalking is a very tough pill
for a lot of people, I think, to swallow,
1519
01:18:11,984 --> 01:18:15,362
and it's very tough, I think,
to have 12 people agree to that.
1520
01:18:20,242 --> 01:18:22,828
‐ Folks, in just a few moments,
you'll be taken
1521
01:18:22,828 --> 01:18:24,454
to the jury room
by the courtroom deputy
1522
01:18:24,454 --> 01:18:26,206
for your deliberations.
1523
01:18:26,206 --> 01:18:28,584
Even if you do not like the laws
that must be applied,
1524
01:18:28,584 --> 01:18:30,127
you must use them.
1525
01:18:30,127 --> 01:18:32,588
And on behalf of both
the state of Florida
1526
01:18:32,588 --> 01:18:34,548
and on behalf of Mr. Herman,
I want to thank you
1527
01:18:34,548 --> 01:18:35,674
for those efforts.
1528
01:18:36,133 --> 01:18:38,760
‐ By the time
that the trial ended,
1529
01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:41,555
we got back
into the deliberation room,
1530
01:18:41,555 --> 01:18:43,182
we sat down,
1531
01:18:43,182 --> 01:18:46,059
it was almost just a,
not a sigh of relief
1532
01:18:46,059 --> 01:18:49,646
but a sigh of, wow,
let's get this information out
1533
01:18:49,646 --> 01:18:51,940
and start talking
about this right now
1534
01:18:51,940 --> 01:18:54,902
because we've all been holding it in
and we want to let it out.
1535
01:18:56,236 --> 01:18:59,448
So, we started blaring words out.
1536
01:19:05,287 --> 01:19:09,291
‐ Some of the men jurors
were very vocal
1537
01:19:09,291 --> 01:19:11,126
the minute we went back
to the room
1538
01:19:11,126 --> 01:19:13,253
and were saying things like, "Well,
1539
01:19:13,253 --> 01:19:15,589
if that was my daughter,
I would have killed him."
1540
01:19:15,589 --> 01:19:17,549
[all clamoring]
1541
01:19:21,136 --> 01:19:23,096
JUROR 1:
It seemed like it was split,
1542
01:19:23,972 --> 01:19:27,100
so then that's when we started
going through evidence.
1543
01:19:28,477 --> 01:19:31,271
So the hunting knife
by his bed,
1544
01:19:32,272 --> 01:19:33,774
something like that
1545
01:19:33,774 --> 01:19:36,527
is not out of the norm
here in Florida.
1546
01:19:37,945 --> 01:19:40,405
JUROR 2:
There were toy handcuffs,
1547
01:19:40,405 --> 01:19:42,533
but we didn't give it any weight.
1548
01:19:42,533 --> 01:19:44,993
The prosecution
was trying to tie it in to
1549
01:19:44,993 --> 01:19:48,205
that he had romantic feelings
towards her.
1550
01:19:48,622 --> 01:19:51,291
And there was the incident
where he was in the closet.
1551
01:19:51,291 --> 01:19:52,125
[message notification chimes]
1552
01:19:53,001 --> 01:19:54,586
I know that spooked her.
1553
01:19:55,087 --> 01:19:57,172
But they had been drinking all day.
1554
01:19:58,173 --> 01:20:01,260
It was a stretch for them to try to say
that there was some sexual feeling
1555
01:20:01,260 --> 01:20:03,846
between Randy and Brooke.
1556
01:20:05,597 --> 01:20:07,140
‐ We're five hours into this thing.
1557
01:20:08,267 --> 01:20:11,144
But there were still a few jurors
1558
01:20:11,144 --> 01:20:14,606
on the fence
about the sleepwalking.
1559
01:20:16,441 --> 01:20:18,944
We had multiple people saying,
1560
01:20:18,944 --> 01:20:21,989
"How long was it for him
to get in this deep sleep?"
1561
01:20:21,989 --> 01:20:25,534
So that's why we went
through the timeline
1562
01:20:25,534 --> 01:20:28,745
of when Randy Herman texted her
1563
01:20:30,414 --> 01:20:33,083
to the time when she pulled up
to the house
1564
01:20:34,418 --> 01:20:37,296
to the time that we thought
she got murdered.
1565
01:20:38,088 --> 01:20:41,216
RANDY: At the time, I'm waiting in a cell
underneath the courthouse.
1566
01:20:41,216 --> 01:20:43,343
Just waiting,
just watching the clock
1567
01:20:44,094 --> 01:20:46,388
till they come up with
what the verdict's going to be.
1568
01:20:47,389 --> 01:20:48,765
It felt like a lifetime.
1569
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:53,228
‐ When we get the call
from the bailiff
1570
01:20:53,228 --> 01:20:54,479
the jury has a verdict,
1571
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:55,898
that moment it really starts.
1572
01:20:56,398 --> 01:20:58,275
You get the nervous.
You get the butterflies.
1573
01:20:58,817 --> 01:21:00,652
So, when the verdict is read,
1574
01:21:00,652 --> 01:21:02,779
the courtroom is just silent.
1575
01:21:04,114 --> 01:21:05,073
[gavel bangs]
1576
01:21:05,073 --> 01:21:06,867
‐ I'm going to have
Mr. Herman please rise
1577
01:21:06,867 --> 01:21:08,243
to receive our jury's verdict.
1578
01:21:08,994 --> 01:21:10,996
JUROR 3:
We, the jury, find as follows:
1579
01:21:10,996 --> 01:21:13,916
as to count one,
we find the defendant
1580
01:21:13,916 --> 01:21:17,211
guilty of first‐degree murder
as charged in the indictment.
1581
01:21:22,090 --> 01:21:25,177
So say we all
this eighth day of May 2019
1582
01:21:25,177 --> 01:21:27,554
in West Palm Beach,
Palm Beach County, Florida,
1583
01:21:27,554 --> 01:21:28,805
signed jury foreperson.
1584
01:21:31,892 --> 01:21:35,270
‐ That timeline that we drew up,
and we drew it,
1585
01:21:35,270 --> 01:21:37,481
we had all the text messages.
1586
01:21:38,065 --> 01:21:40,484
We had time
when she pulled in,
1587
01:21:41,068 --> 01:21:42,319
when he pulled out.
1588
01:21:43,028 --> 01:21:47,407
And after that timeline,
everyone was on the same page.
1589
01:21:47,407 --> 01:21:51,578
Wasn't enough time for him to be
in this, this deep sleep
1590
01:21:51,578 --> 01:21:53,038
to cause sleepwalking.
1591
01:21:54,081 --> 01:21:55,082
‐ Alright.
1592
01:21:55,916 --> 01:21:57,167
[sighs]
1593
01:21:57,167 --> 01:21:58,961
Randy Allen Herman, Jr.,
1594
01:21:58,961 --> 01:22:01,964
a jury of your peers, having found you
guilty of first‐degree murder,
1595
01:22:01,964 --> 01:22:06,260
I sentence you to life imprisonment
without the possibility of parole.
1596
01:22:06,260 --> 01:22:09,847
♪
1597
01:22:09,847 --> 01:22:11,515
♪
1598
01:22:11,515 --> 01:22:14,351
REPORTER:
Tears and hugs among the victim's family
1599
01:22:14,351 --> 01:22:16,937
as the jury found
Randy Herman guilty
1600
01:22:16,937 --> 01:22:19,106
of first‐degree murder
in the stabbing death
1601
01:22:19,106 --> 01:22:21,608
of 21‐year‐old roommate
Brooke Preston.
1602
01:22:22,484 --> 01:22:25,237
Brooke's father, John Preston,
after the verdict.
1603
01:22:25,237 --> 01:22:27,114
‐ There's no winners
in this whole situation.
1604
01:22:27,656 --> 01:22:28,949
Everybody's losers.
1605
01:22:30,075 --> 01:22:31,827
ADAMS:
I feel bad for him, the father.
1606
01:22:32,327 --> 01:22:33,537
'Cause I know he's grieving.
1607
01:22:37,791 --> 01:22:40,294
I don't know
what to say about Randy.
1608
01:22:40,294 --> 01:22:43,130
But I'll stand by him till the day I die.
1609
01:22:48,510 --> 01:22:51,597
DR. PRESSMAN: Sleepwalking occurs
anywhere from one to four percent.
1610
01:22:52,055 --> 01:22:55,642
One percent of 300 million people,
that's still a lot of people.
1611
01:22:56,602 --> 01:23:00,272
And potentially anyone
can be a sleepwalker.
1612
01:23:01,648 --> 01:23:04,026
‐ There is, I think,
a growing concern
1613
01:23:04,026 --> 01:23:06,945
about the impact
of sleep disruption.
1614
01:23:08,906 --> 01:23:11,283
As we move into a society
1615
01:23:11,283 --> 01:23:14,077
riddled with interrupted sleep,
1616
01:23:14,077 --> 01:23:17,497
we're going to see more and more
of these kinds of problems emerge.
1617
01:23:17,497 --> 01:23:21,668
♪
1618
01:23:38,519 --> 01:23:39,394
[buzzer sounds]
1619
01:23:40,854 --> 01:23:43,941
‐ You know, I've‐‐
since I've been in, in jail
1620
01:23:43,941 --> 01:23:46,652
I've tried to sit down
numerous times
1621
01:23:46,652 --> 01:23:47,903
with a pen and piece of paper
1622
01:23:47,903 --> 01:23:50,489
to, to try to reach out,
1623
01:23:50,489 --> 01:23:53,825
to try to tell them how sorry I am.
1624
01:23:54,326 --> 01:23:55,202
But it's just,
1625
01:23:56,370 --> 01:23:57,579
you know, it's difficult.
1626
01:23:58,163 --> 01:24:00,082
You can't really write out in words.
1627
01:24:00,582 --> 01:24:04,127
You can't tell someone you're sorry
for, for something like that.
1628
01:24:04,586 --> 01:24:07,297
It just seems like
those words just don't‐‐
1629
01:24:07,965 --> 01:24:09,216
they're just not enough.
1630
01:24:09,216 --> 01:24:12,344
You can't say‐‐ you say sorry
if you make a mistake.
1631
01:24:12,344 --> 01:24:14,721
This is something far more.
1632
01:24:16,306 --> 01:24:18,392
So, you know, I've tried to reach out
but I don't know
1633
01:24:18,392 --> 01:24:20,853
how to quite put that into words.
1634
01:24:23,772 --> 01:24:26,817
♪
1635
01:24:26,817 --> 01:24:28,944
McROBERTS: Unfortunately,
in a lot of cases, we don't get to know
1636
01:24:28,944 --> 01:24:30,612
so much about the victims,
1637
01:24:32,281 --> 01:24:34,116
because they are silent now.
1638
01:24:37,202 --> 01:24:39,371
But the entire Preston family,
1639
01:24:42,291 --> 01:24:44,418
friends, extended family,
1640
01:24:45,043 --> 01:24:47,129
so many people reacted.
1641
01:24:49,131 --> 01:24:50,632
It was quite moving.
1642
01:24:52,885 --> 01:24:55,888
♪
1643
01:25:06,607 --> 01:25:09,610
♪
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