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The thing inside of me,

it's like

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

feeling the hunger.

A heartbreaking story coming

out of Coldwater, Michigan.

42-year-old Julie Abbott was found murdered in her home

along with a family friend who had also sustained injuries

but is expected to recover.

The suspect, who is now in police custody,

is the victim's ex-husband, 43-year-old Randall Abbott,

who called police from a local VA hospital

to confess to the murder while he was

treating injuries he sustained.

Records show Abbott had recently been arrested

back in July of 2003 for threatening his wife,

and Indiana authorities say 20 years ago, Abbott had

previously stabbed an old girlfriend's husband

nearly 24 times.

The man lived, and Abbott spent

12 years in prison for attempted murder.

When we look at Abbott's past, what we start to see is

a pattern of

him not handling rejection, him turning to impulsivity

and violence to deal with that rejection.

And this is where it's important to realize

that some of Abbott's feelings about a breakup aren't

abnormal to how many people handle a breakup.

But where they diverge and it becomes

more psychopathic,

and not just narcissistic, and not just controlling

like some domestic violence perpetrators,

but actual psychopathy is how quickly he goes

to this impulsive place, how rageful he becomes

and how easily he can dispose of these people

or think about doing it,

despite the fact that he claims he was attached to them

and that's what the injury was about.

Everybody has a past, but for him,

he's unwilling to share that.

But she had better share it, because if not,

he's gonna take it out on her.

And that's an element of the anti-sociality portion

of his psychopathy, which is he's willing to be hypocritical

because for him, rules don't apply.

Rules only apply, norms only apply, laws and everything else

only apply to other people, not me as the psychopath.

So that person better adhere to all of the rules,

including all of mine,

whether or not I actually explicitly said them to.

Abbott definitely wants to portray that he's

this, you know, patriarchal figure,

you know, someone that can provide,

someone that has money, can take care of things,

but he's actually really struggling because he can't

get a job because of his criminal history,

and he's trying to keep that facade up,

and he's talking about spiraling out of control,

but it's not a panic of like,

"Oh, I should internally be this good person."

It's more of a, "I'm losing control

and I need to regain that somehow."

I think right here really highlights Abbott's

lack of responsibility-taking

and how he minimizes every situation,

including his own actions.

What we're seeing here is this sort of trajectory

of predatory behavior, and he's rehearsing right now.

And he enjoys the threats that he's giving to his wife

and how fearful she's probably feeling,

'cause he's seen that on her before.

So he continues to do that because in his mind,

it's escalating for him,

and he's getting stimulation out of it.

But that can only go on for so long,

before he has to up the ante

and actually act out on that fantasy.

I think his attachment to the movie "Secret Window"

is a quirk of timing and that he's already

convinced himself to engage in these behaviors.

He doesn't need a catalyst.

He needs a method with which he can compartmentalize

why he's doing what he's doing.

And so, he can only interpret art

through that lens of antisociality.

So again, missing the more larger themes

of the book and the movie

and seeing the ending the only way that he can see the ending,

which is as a killer,

because that's who he wants to be.

Abbott's still focused on how he's been wronged.

He's been rejected.

His life isn't working out the way it should,

and he's focused his blame on the victim.

"Julie is to blame for all of these things

that have gone wrong in my life."

And over that four hour drive from his mother's house

to her home, he's just becoming more and more enraged.

He's giving himself more and more permission to act out

the violence and the anger that he's feeling

as somebody who's made bad choices.

Fire needs fuel.

And so all of these excuses that he's using about having

limited visitation and all these other things,

those are just adding the fuel to the fire of him

wanting to engage in a violent act

as retribution towards Julie

for all of these things that are happening to him.

He's putting all of the blame for everything that's going on

in his life on her.

When in reality, he's the one to blame,

but he can't blame himself because he's a psychopath.

Abbott tells the detective that he wanna minimize

the crime, but by virtue of the fact that he's

detached himself from the facts and the level of violence

that he inflicted on Julie and her ex,

the only time we see him upset repeatedly

is talking about the house.

He's not upset about what's happened.

He's giving us a clear window into his callousness.

He's giving us a clear window into his shallow affect.

He's giving us a clear window into the fact that he doesn't

feel broken up by what he did.

I don't think Abbott is

actually truly remorseful.

You know, he makes a very shallow statement

that the scene is "pitiful."

But what I think he means is

he probably feels his actions are pitiful,

because his plans didn't go through as he wished.

He didn't end up killing the partner.

He killed Julie.

But his desire was to kill both of them.

So in essence, he's looking at his actions like he failed

and he's not good enough now.

So his ego is really bruised over this whole situation.