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Breaking news in Mathews County, where a couple has been

found brutally murdered in their New Point home.

The bodies of 51- and 49-year-old Adam

and Melissa Moore were discovered by first responders

after they had been violently murdered

from multiple stab wounds.

Police say the victim's 24-year-old son,

who is currently at large, is a person of interest in

the case after investigators found his initials,

"JTM," written in blood on the wall their home.

I would kill again.

They're dead, I'm alive.

I don't think it was wrong.

The thing inside of me is like...

the appetite, it's like a wolf that's...

feeling... hunger.

A double homicide investigation in Mathews County,

police charged this man, Jonathan Moore.

They say he stabbed his own parents to death,

Adam and Melissa Moore.

Deputies found their bodies at their home on

White Point Lane on Monday.

Police say they found Jonathan Moore in Lynchburg yesterday

though, after driving off in his father's truck,

and arrested him.

So right out of the gate he's wanting a lawyer

and what does that say about him?

I think it goes back to that old saying where, "A lawyer

who represents himself has a fool for a client."

And I think that gives us our first glimpse

into who he thinks he is.

He thinks he's much smarter than what he actually is.

He thinks he's much more sophisticated than what

he actually is.

There is a shocking level of grandiosity I find

in his presentation.

When you think about all of the data points-- so his hand

is lacerated and wrapped.

We know that they found evidence at the scene of

the murders with his initials in blood written on the wall.

He's being investigated for this, but yet has no emotional

response to the fact that he's been told his parents

have been murdered.

And he just sits there really calmly, I think, trying to fish

for a little information to find out what they know,

but also perhaps a little uncertain of

where he wants to go with this.

He gets really antsy, a little uncomfortable,

because he wants to share his story.

He wants to control the narrative here.

He cannot sit still and let so much time go by, because

it's just very boring for him.

And, you know, typical of psychopaths is they do need

some sort of arousal.

They have a propensity towards getting the attention because

if they don't, then there's nothing to them,

and they're gonna, you know, just be bored and fall apart,

so he wants to engage them.

He's really trying to get as much information as he can

from detectives so he can plan out

the rest of what he's gonna tell them.

And also, that is because he wants to see what he can get

down the road in terms of sentencing,

in terms of the punishment.

When it comes to his description

of the release and the blackout,

he can kind of control this narrative that

he wants them to believe that he's not a bad person.

That there, again, that there was some kind of

unresolved trauma.

If he had a release, it was because he was aware

of what he was doing. He enjoyed what he was doing.

Was he blacked out?

I mean, he was blacked out from his sense of normalcy

and decency, but he wasn't blacked out in what

we think of as being blacked out.

Moore describes his parents as overbearing or controlling,

and that's very damaging to a psychopath.

It's undercutting their-- their emotions, their control.

He doesn't want them around because they really chipped

at his ego by telling him what to do when to do it.

Moore is approaching this like a quid pro quo.

Like, you know, I gave you something.

I gave you a confession. Now you give me something.

And now he just wants to move on to the next transaction,

and to basically get his own instrumental needs met.

So that in and of itself, by the way, is callous.

There's clearly no remorse for killing his parents,

and he doesn't really want to tell the truth.

He's basically just saying, "Yeah, I just told the truth

because I want a better outcome for my case."

And then he takes it a step further and unbelievably is now

asking for concessions.

He seems far more concerned about the cats than he does

his remaining family and friends in the community.

And that's the thing with psychopathy is that we now

think of psychopathy on a continuum.

And we know that there are people,

for example, who harm animals.

On another side of that aspect of psychopathy, there are

people who actually form bonds with animals.

And one theory is that they form bonds with pets

or animals because animals can't reject them.

He doesn't want her to see him in a bad way.

And that mimics or mirrors what he was trying to do

with detectives.

He's controlling how others are seeing him.

Again, if he's looked at as this murderous person,

this horrible person, that's gonna hurt his ego.

He doesn't want to be seen that way.

It's very pejorative to psychopaths.

He wants to be seen as the victim here.

He has a huge sense of entitlement.

He believes that he should be getting all of the stuff

that he wants when he wants it.

He wasn't able to get it from the detectives.

He expects to get it from his grandmother.

And never does he ever think about how is she feeling,

given everything that's going on.

The psychopath often is so detached from another person's

emotional state, it's called alexithymia,

when you can't interpret your emotions and you can't

interpret the emotions of other people.

So I think at this point, Moore is trying

to spell out his motive here.

He mentions that his parents have been talking about a life

insurance policy, and we know from records from before that

he was talking to a friend while intoxicated about,

you know, killing his parents for money.

It does fit his narrative to kill his parents for the money.

He still wants what they have, which is money.

Not emotion, not love, but money.

So how does he get what he wants without having them

in the picture? He kills them.

There is a high level of narcissism that's happening.

All he's thinking about is how people don't want to let him

live the life that he wants, and he's upset about it.

A Mathews County man will spend 50 years behind bars

for killing his parents.

Jonathan Moore was convicted in the stabbing deaths of Adam

and Melissa Moore. He pleaded guilty in October.