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I wish I could share with you guys what he told us.

But it's unspeakable. It's unspeakable.

MALE REPORTER: Shore is now charged with four sex murders,

dating back 17 years.

MAN: He is not remorseful. He is an evil man.

What he did is unspeakable.

SHORE: People are defined by their actions.

Well, I have done a lot of good things in my life,

but I've also done a lot of bad things.

[theme music playing]

MAN: There's this thing inside of me, it's like...

the appetite.

It's like a wolf that's...

filling...the hunger.

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MAN: Each victim was strangled with a ligature wire,

sexually assaulted.

It was new technology at a DNA lab in Dallas

that one week ago linked Anthony Shore to one slaying.

BERRILL: He starts off by providing his credentials

as kind of Joe Citizen, you know, with a wife and kids.

And then says, on the other hand,

I'm cultivating a relationship with a minor.

The notion that they became friends,

or more than friends, is kind of ludicrous.

SAHNI: Shore is engaging in grooming behavior,

what we think of classically with pedophiles, where they are

courting their victims, and they're building

a sense of security and trust with their victims so that

they can go on to victimize them.

SAHNI: This description about his injured finger is really

a very blunt and obvious example of how

narcissistic Anthony Shore is.

This is not a surprising trait to see

in individuals who are psychopathic.

RAGHAVAN: He suggests that he did it because he panicked.

But there's something that doesn't sit quite right

in his narrative, because he had something

to strangle her with, and so I don't buy it.

I think he was fantasizing about killing

this poor young woman,

and that part of his sexual thrill

is befriending the women.

He recognizes that he could be

accused of rape and kidnapping.

He doesn't want to have this nice guy image blown.

The fact that they never came looking

for him was probably a more powerful reinforcer

for it to happen again, because gee,

if he can get away with this kind of thing,

maybe he'll give it another shot.

SAHNI: Because there was no fear,

there was no need to overtake and prey on his victim,

he wasn't aroused.

His sexual arousal may be linked to the thrill of

the chase, the thrill of pinning down victims

who are scared, who are fighting.

And the more they fight, the more

he both becomes sexually charged and aroused,

but the more angry he becomes, also.

SHORE: I had a song

that was played on the prison show recently,

uh, "Funk It Up" by Saint Vitus Dance.

That was -- that was a band that I was in for several years

- back in the '90s. - Oh, really?

You're a music kinda guy?

- Yeah, a musician, I was -- - Play [indistinct]?

a keyboardist -- the basic gist

of the poem that I wrote when I first got to death row,

and it still applies today is that, uh,

you know, there should be a rockin' band.

Um, dying is easy, it's living that's hard.

Everyone gets a one-way card.

So when I'm dead and on my way, tomorrow is just another day.

And it is, for all of us.

SAHNI: Anthony Shore has distorted his sense of self.

His private, um, narrative of himself is that he is a man

who struggled with fidelity issues,

when, in fact, the reality is, he's a pedophile.

He's a psychopath, and he's kidnapping and beating

and raping these women and goes on to then kill them.

His detachment from reality is disturbing.

So why does he target young Latina girls?

He very intentionally is targeting someone who's

vulnerable, and we all know that

if you don't speak good English,

you're much more vulnerable.

You're much less likely to seek help.

Psychopaths go after vulnerable people because

they don't want to be caught.

He responds the way a psychopath responds,

the way a sex offender responds.

He locks the door and keeps her in the car, and no doubt,

her drive to fight, her drive to survive, likely was more of

an arousal for him,

and that is really a marker of sadism.

RAGHAVAN: This is hyper predation and manipulation.

His story is that it's about rejection, but he's setting up

the rejection carefully by befriending them, and when he's

pretty sure that they've been groomed to trust him,

he launches a provoked attack so that they will reject him.

They're very mapped out executions,

very carefully controlled

and they give him deep pleasure throughout the whole thing.

SAHNI: Anthony Shore was known as the Tourniquet Killer.

And he had the instruments he needed

to make this more sophisticated ligature.

Shore's choice to strangle the victim with a tourniquet

allowed him to prolong

the victim's death to ensure that

she was tortured, to ensure that the death was as slow

or as fast as he wanted it to be.

It makes him a very sophisticated,

dangerous psychopath.

SHORE: Probably the hardest thing in life

is to forgive oneself -- forgiving others

is pretty hard, believe me, I know,

but to forgive yourself is a hard role to hold,

and I finally have come to the point where I've reached

that peace in myself.

BERRILL: Well, aren't you lucky?

You've forgiven yourself for killing innocent girls because

they didn't want to have sex with you?

It's a kind of laughable statement,

and he's saying it in a serious manner.

SAHNI: To assume that he's forgiven himself

would be to assume that he ever felt bad.

He's not bothered by it.

He feels good about who he is as a person.

You see escalation -- what could be more invasive than

entering her own home,

and then violently raping her while she's tied up?

He's taking more risks,

and typically, this kind of killer,

when they take more risks,

it's because it gives them more thrill.

He's a sexual psychopath -- befriending them

and raping them is no longer exciting.

I would even hazard a guess that he gets

a thrill that he was able to control himself.

This means he's really superior.

SHORE: Even though we live back here

on death row or behind these walls,

there's still a quality of life to be had.

It is beautiful.

I'm not saying there isn't a lot of chaos and despair,

but I'm saying that ultimately, it has

to do with the choices you make.

I make good choices.

SAHNI: He's getting more impulsive,

but he's also getting more bold in the crimes

that he's committing, because now he's just

snatching children off the street.

He's not even trying to engage in grooming behavior.

And he's also given into the idea

that he's going to kill the victims.

He's gotten comfortable killing.

BERRILL: His sexual perversion runs

deeper than is suggested by the previous victims.

This is really a pre-teen, a latency-age kid,

so it really reflects the depravity.

SHORE: Know this --

I would love to get a stay.

I would. That would be awesome.

But at the same time, I'm ready for what happens next.

It's kind of like when you get to the front of the line

at the roller coaster ride.

I'm excited to find out what happens.

Most of us don't have

the privilege of knowing when it's gonna happen,

so they don't prepare.

I've had time to prepare and think about this.

This is a killer who likes watching

his very young victims give up,

lose hope, suffer, and watches the light

fade from their eyes. This is a very, very cruel man.

His impulsivity was starting to spiral out of control.

I think he was worried that he was losing control of himself.

MAN: Dana was discovered naked

and dead, having vanished eight days earlier.

SANCHEZ: She was my friend.

She was something very, very special,

and, uh, and she's gone.

One of his daughters finally got up

the courage to talk about the molesting history.

He would feed his daughters

hot chocolate and was drugging them.

Shore never really had an attachment for his children

that wasn't self-focused.

Drugging them to assure that it went undetected all these

years, that he could continue to molest them,

and they would never fight back.

MAN: The man now charged with the crime --

41-year-old Anthony Allen Shore.

Investigators say he confessed to carrying out

four sex slayings.

MAN: Anthony Allen Shore for the first time

walked into the courtroom that's likely to be

the scene of his capital murder trial.

The killings occurred over a nine-year span.

SHORE: It puts things in a different perspective

when you're facing your impending demise.

I don't want anyone to cry on my behalf.

If anything, throw a party.

Dying's easy -- dying is the easiest thing

any of us get to do. Everybody has, uh, this --

I mean, everybody gets a shot at it.

Everybody's got a death sentence.