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the following program contains adult themes some scenes may be too intense for some viewers viewer discretion is advised what happens when a man trained as a police officer the very person sworn to protect us takes Justice into his own hands and how do we know where Justice end and evil begins when a good man goes [Music] bad anybody that will get in his way he would eliminate uh and this guy had no feelings he was cold and calculated he is Charles Bronson he's not Manny Paro he's Charles the real Charles Bronson Death Wish of course I felt good I felt great like I was doing a service to mankind they have no right to be alive cops they're human beings being like everyone else part good part bad we give them a badge and a gun and plunge them into the brutal world of the streets but what happens when a man schooled in Justice begins to administer his own law perhaps an evil law I'm Teresa salana and this is confessions of crime tonight we will explore the mind of exop Manuel Paro using his incredible videotaped admission of his own crime we'll interview Paro in his death row cell where he breaks raisly states that he would commit his terrible crimes again date County Florida was the Hub of cocaine trafficking in the mid 80s the county was glorified on television in Miami Vice portrayed as a town overrun with seedy and Sinister characters sporting fast cars and easy women then in 1986 over a 3-month period dead bodies began turning up six men and three women the victims of dramatic execution style murders were found sprawled in their Apartments stuffed into trunks of cars dumped in fields one woman was beaten with an aluminum baseball bat and shot repeatedly at Point Blank Range another man was so scared he tried furiously to claw his way through a solid wall before he too was blown away it was a classic case of Overkill there was 52 shots used for nine victims and a lot of these were head shot the kind of of a person who can not only murder people but over over murder them if there if there is such a thing uh is a twisted mind it's an evil mind the victims all appear to be drug dealers and police suspected a Turf War then came the surprise Manuel Paro an ex cop and decorated soldier was named by an informant as a prime suspect in the murders when I heard that he was actually arrested for the for the commission of these homicides I was shocked I could didn't believe that it was one of our people who had committed these crimes he loved us so much and he loved his daughter so much that no man and not the kind of man that I knew would have destroyed our lives the way he did it all seemed a terrible mistake Manny Paro a loving family man grew up pledging his Allegiance in a series of uniforms from the Boy Scouts to the US Navy there were decorations as a marine paratrooper a degree in criminal justice honors in his Highway Patrol class and commendations as a SWAT team officer on the Sweetwater Florida police force if he was guilty what made him go wrong there is discipline associated with uniforms but there's also status and Mr poto likely enjoyed the status and the authority that goes with a uniform especially uh even beyond the military a police uniform a Florida Highway Patrol uniform gives you very unusual Authority police officers are vested with il legal authority to detain to arrest and to shoot to kill Manny's career with the police department with our Police Department covered a great deal of territory he uh he did work undercover for us he was involved in shootouts uh he worked in uniform Patrol and um he saw the sey side of society if you would I had a child die in my hands of Overdose and uh people that s her drugs nothing ever happened to them so what what are you supposed to do in in in this kind of environment where where crime is very is very prevalent with victimization is on the increase uh the officer is faced with trying to resolve uh problems for society that he himself cannot do by by himself he has to you know depend on the justice system the court system the prosecutorial system these kind of systems uh sometimes fail I think that's an interesting thing this one piece will make 52 layers watch on mobile devices or the big screen all for free no subscription required Manuel Paro uh started out his career as an exemplary officer but for whatever character flaw that surfaced he could not keep up the standards that he had set for himself or that the patrol maintains for its members Manny loved being a police officer uh uh when they fired him in his mind he was still a police officer he was still the good guys against the bad guys and Manny is the type of an individual who is an authoritative assertive type individual so that had to hurt a lot I was born to be a police officer you know cuz L is a bunch of Hypocrites you know same thing with the assistant the judges that got that's trash dur in effect of him as police began uncovering Clues it became clear that these were No Ordinary murders why would Manny Paro go against everything his life had stood for was this just the story of a vigilante who had given up on the law or was Paro protecting a much deeper secret stay with us Manny Paro put up a strong defense at his trial he claimed the daily horror of his job had made him snap he'd seen the terror in the eyes of victims and he'd watched while drug dealers ruled the BOS and made a mockery of the courts Manny Paro claimed that he knew how to make a difference and so he embarked on a one-man campaign to sweep the streets of criminals I killed each and every one of these individuals cuz they were drug dealers they are element and I I I object to the word kill these people because when you say kill you're denoting a human being and these to me were not human beings these were people that live off the misery of other people their parasites and their leeches and they have no right to be alive he is Charles Bronson he's not Manny Paro he's Charles the real Charles Bronson Death Wish everybody you know what amazes me everybody watches that film and they and they love it when is Death Wish 2 coming when is Death Wish 3 coming because they think the guy's fabulous his family gets raped he goes out he takes care of his problem that's so Manny did the only regret that I have is that instead of nine I wish I could have been up here for 99 but at least 9 is substantial message here is UN sense of justice the good guys versus the bad guys we're not talking about traffic violators here we're talking about trafficking in drug violators drugs ruin people's lives they make them slaves they kill people they take children and destroy their lives forever this was very important to Manny his he had his own code and that was if they can't get rid of him I will that's what frustrated me the most was seeing the our so-call system as a revolving door to these individuals that are arrested Time After Time After Time Again by play plead bargaining to L offenses getting parole and probation and never actually serving any sentence or any something that would hurt them that would stop them as a deterrent to continue selling drugs Paro was determined to rid Society of drugs and the dealers who supplied them so he took drastic measures to make all of his enemies fear him he wanted them to feel the pain that they inflicted upon Society he wanted to punish them it was too easy to just snuff them out with one second one bullet he wanted them to be in fear he wanted them to know what was about to happen to them that was his psyche 10 a pie of bull so I killed the first two two first two guys I killed it cost like a130 and that's prosecutor try to make me like feel bad say you know it cost you a130 to kill the first two guys I said yeah that's pretty good investment what you think it only makes sense that he would if he went in there to kill somebody that he would he would kill him he would not leave a wounded person behind and in fact he did leave no wounded behind uh he went in there on a mission I suppose and he carried out the mission like any military man would until it was completely over and there was no chance of it being reverted I want to have the opportunity to express to yourself to you for you to understand my motive what I did cuz I want my daughter order to be proud of of her father and my family to be proud of my father cuz the same way that the kamakazi pilots would crash their Jets into aircraft carriers to take out the enemy they had families too but they were fighting their enemy and if that if that's what it is I advocate their ideology and I took out nine of these elements people that will never sell drugs to any of your children sell drugs to anybody else and this is called absolute Justice which was my mission he didn't even scratch the surface of of the drug problem what he did was very uh self-centered and all it did was cre a great deal of of misery and pain for the victim's families and a great deal of embarrassment for law enforcement when the media got word that an ex cop had become a vigilante paro's name made headlines everywhere his story clearly touched a nerve with the public many of whom demanded he' be turned loose and given back his gun I was somewhat concerned that this JY might say yeah Manny's a vigilante Manny's cleaning up the system let's come out and give him a medal if there was one person person one person out there who felt Manuel Paro was right in what he did the only thing I could say to that person is you're totally off base no one has the right to take a human life and no one has the right to make up the rules and change the laws then investigators began uncovering bizarre Clues to paro's state of mind he had a secret obsession with Hitler and the Nazi party and took part in rituals inspired by Nazi beliefs the purpose of the photographs is twofold after I shot the victims I will photograph them with the polar camera cuz as I shot them all I'm doing is taking away their physical life that's not enough as I photo the spirit stays within the body 3 to 5 minutes after the person dies as I photograph them I would capture their Spirit on film I would then take the film home to my house and I would burn the picture the PO right I would set it on I have a special as at home Alabaster as that I would burn them and as I burned them I dictated and I sent their their souls to the Eternal fires and Damnation of hell for the misery they caused in the earth while they were alive but he told the jury that uh he agreed with Adolf some of Adolf Hitler's views not all of them but uh that sort of turned off the Jews and the blacks on the jury when he said that there was a lot of types of people that Manny didn't like he didn't like gay people he didn't like people even if they casually used narcotics uh he didn't like black people he didn't like Jews uh and he believed that Hitler was correct uh by killing all of those people that he did uh in the Holocaust the Affinity or any person's affinity for a person as monstrous as Adolf Hitler would strongly suggest that person being out of step with normal procedures Democratic procedures freedom freedom of choice freedom of religion or any freedom other than the freedom to arbitrarily do what you want to do to anybody you want to do it to was it wrong to kill these people no it was not wrong to kill these people somebody had to do kill these people when you go to cocktail parties and say well the drug uh situation in Miami is terrible yeah I wish they would kill the drug dealers but who does it Nobody Does it everybody talks about it the problems keep going about the drugs are being sold to our children in school but who does anything about it not the judicial system if I'm guilty of murder they're guilty of murder and the judicial system is guilty of murder not me Manny Paro had argued a forceful defense at his trial but was he telling the truth was Paro playing out a movie in his head in which he was a vengeful character dispensing Justice or was there a different reason an evil motive behind his gruesome murders stay with [Music] us Paro insisted he was sacrificing his own life to eliminate drug dealers a sacrifice he said he would gladly make again but at the trial police brought brought forward evidence that made paro's self-righteous claims ring Hollow they said that he was involved in drug dealing himself the police even suggested he was a drug abuser exactly the kind of person he said he wanted to rid Society [Applause] of Manny Paro is either a sociopathic Lone Ranger who believes truly in his Twisted mind that he's made the world a better place to live or he is simply a calculated killer motivated by greed and aest and I'm not sure I know which and I look at him and I see a liar I see a person who's trying to pull a scam on the community and on the victim's families and I don't believe him for a moment and I don't think that he believes himself when he's saying these things when the evidence was presented in court both his testimony and the physical evidence it became rather apparent that he was not a vigilante there was an entry in his diary book which was found in his apartment pursuant to a search warrant which had an uh indication that he had sold one block for $2,000 which he kept 10,000 and he gave a partner of his 10,000 when he took the stand and said that he was not a dope dealer and that he hated dope dealers and that they deserve to die I asked him why this entry was in his book a block is one of the many slang terms for a kilo and I said this entry sort of indicates that you sold a kilo of cocaine for $20,000 and his answer I believe just blew his whole uh defense out of the water he said uh I didn't sell a kilo he said I sold three kilos for $20,000 are you a drug dealer no I'm not a drug dealer none of I have been have you been in involved in drug transactions with any of the victims in this case not drug transactions to benefit myself no I think Manny started out as a gopher or a worker for Ramon alvero delivering drugs and or delivering money to conclude transactions that Albero had set up uh then for some reason known only to Manny he uh decided to kill these people and steal their property which led to his major dispute with his boss Alo which eventually led to him killing Alo and the woman who was with him at the time many of Manny's victims were clearly dope dealers who he went to do a dope deal with when they happened to be with another person Manny without investigating whether they were a dope dealer or an innocent house guest or or acquaintance for the evening would kill them too because they were a witness to his original killing I know when they when my sister at the autopsy there's no no drugs in her system none at all it's there for the records I say I don't care for me it's yesterday when I find my daughter because I find my daughter when I see my daughter I want to go crazy because they got five five show G chop and the and no have a tee the mouth is one whole black and remember I take it out I said Sarita Sarita please talk to me I had no doubt in my mind I would never kill an innocent person that I couldn't live with you know but one of these people I go to sleep great I go shoot for 20 bullets and and go to bed like a baby the jury did not believe paro's vigilante defense they found the evidence of his drug involvement overwhelming and their verdict was guilty of murder uel poo was a um uh dishonest police officer who became a drug dealer and a killer it's as simple as that why he turned bad I don't think we'll ever know uh many times the policemen who do turn bad uh do it out of greed they see all the money around them especially in the narcotics trade how could Manny parlo be so convincing how could he lie with such Authority in order to cover the tracks of his murders for profit was it simp greed or did Paro fall prey to the demons he once fought was he an abuser of cocaine himself just looking at any person who admits to and boasts about uh killing that many people and they're all uh drug dealers when you think about such violence you've got to think about cocaine first cocaine abusers tend to become grandiose they tend to believe that they can outra speeding trains they can jump over buildings with a single leap uh they can run fast than a speeding bullet they are smarter than other people they are better than other people uh qualities that Mr parto has shown uh some inclination toward I'm not saying that he was addicted to cocaine but that certainly would be one explanation you're not dealing with a rational individual at the time that he did this it's like dealing with a schizophrenic one minute they're one way and the next minute you can't believe it they were different from personality I don't think Manny's insane now I think he was temporarily insane Mr poto did not snap suddenly did not have Insanity temporary or otherwise but basically was an angry person a self-centered person a selfish person who became more Angry as time went by and more bold and arrogant and daring and aggressive as time went by and crossed the line and once having crossed the line crossed it again and again and again what he did stands against everything that that we fight against Manny took it upon himself to be the Executioner the judge and the jury um it's the thin Gray Line Between sanity and Insanity I believe manelo is just as sane as everybody else he's just a criminal and a murderer Z said I was crazy that was my attorney who said he didn't think I I was right in the head but I never ever had said I was crazy but the shocking climax of the trial was still to come apparently you missed in my opinion the motive behind what I did so be it you found me guilty fine what I'm begging you begging you is to allow me to have a glorious ending to this and I condemn me to some State Institution for the rest of my life that to me would be a deg degradation I'm not a criminal I am a soldier and as a soldier I ask to be given the death penalty and I hope you give me the glory to at least end my days in a proper fashion not being condemned to a state institution there are some guys that go sniveling to the electric chair I can guarantee it won't be Manny parter Manny parter will smile before they throw the switch he's one tough cookie did Manny Paro go out and blow away some King Pins did Manny Paro make a deep discernable dent and the problem of drug abuse in Miami Florida no The Message is I'm going to do anything it takes to do what I want and get what I want get it because you better get it I mean business that's the message I mean business and I suppose that uh that became part of Mr pto's message I'm going to do what I want and I mean business and it was quite a nasty business in the end Manny paro's Allegiance was not to the law with his warped vision of Justice he became a feared and Savage killer Manuel Paro now awaits execution at the Florida State Penitentiary I'm Teresa salana join me again next time for a unique look inside the Criminal Mind on confessions of crime the following program contains adult themes some scenes may be too intense for some viewers viewer discretion is advised [Music] why would a father sexually abuse his own daughter can a mother live in the same house and not know and can those unspeakable acts lead to something far [Music] worse [Music] he's cold blooded he's heartless John shows No Remorse and probably never will I just didn't want to believe that someone I married could do something like that I wanted to satisfy my own sexual desires and I didn't care who it hurt even though it was my own [Music] daughter how can a father commit incest with his own child merely to fulfill his sexual needs how can he betray the love and Trust of his own daughter in such a callous and selfish way I'm Teresa salana and this is confessions of crime tonight we'll explore the mind of John Ren using a startling videotaped confession recorded at the time of his arrest and we'll also have a unique interview with Ren who talks candidly about his abuse and why he couldn't stop a rare Glimpse Inside the Mind of an actual abuser incest is a secretive and terrifying crime that strikes hundreds of thousands of families in America each year hidden away and outwardly normal homes it damages children's lives forever but John Ren a seemingly normal truck mechanic who lived on a farm outside the small town of Underwood Minnesota was not thinking of his daughter's welfare he had married for a second time and had a large family of 11 children but his eye was on his first daughter Sarah Sarah was only 8 years old when she first became the target of Ren sexual appetite and for five long years Ren continually abused his daughter now an exclusive encounter with John Ren at first it was like uh once every three or four months it was like not a real common thing but then uh as she got older and as as my perversions kept getting worse it would become like a once a month occurrence or twice a month and it just was unsatisfiable I don't know I don't think she told anyone this was going on she wanted to portray that that her family was normal and especially her dad my daddy loves me my daddy loves me sometimes love is unexplainable it's it it was a perverted love and yet I still had the natural affection for her and it was all mixed up the reason that that I always thought that John had turned to Sarah to meet his sexual needs was that the family environment he was living in was so dis functional his relationship with Maryland was just you know terrible in terms of family sexual abuse I see that issue more of a need for emotional intimacy that the perpetrator cannot achieve with an adult and only with a child and this is part of their emotional shortcomings I think he turned to her for the nurturing that that he wasn't getting anywhere else in the family and he exploited you know what should have been a normal parental love into something that was really aberant and terrible perpetrator will will resort to any mode of behavior from blackmailing the victim uh with a threat of divorce that it will be her fault or to victimizing the younger sibling if she stopped in cooperating with the sexual abuse to blackmailing or bribery did you pay her for those sexual favors um in the beginning I did towards the last she made her own money baby said she didn't want money John Ren knew what he was doing was wrong but he didn't seem to care and he couldn't stop he was obsessed with sex he went to Great Lengths to hide his dark secret what I would do is I'd try to uh pick times when the other children were involved in uh activities either at school or their mother was taking them someplace so I I Tred to wait till the times when there was the fewest number of people there and either that or it would be late at night when everybody was sleeping and it would happen like in the bathroom area or some place like that where where I could close the door and people couldn't actually walk in and and and uh catch me in the act and that's one reason why I was never really discovered because uh I would I would make sure that it was in an area where I could hear other people how was it possible for John Ren's wife Marilyn to be unaware of what was going on month after month under her own roof were there no telltale signs sexual abuse isn't something that people do and let people know about it they're they're not going to they don't want it known they want it kept a secret and I know that people are going to condemn me and say you can't live in a house and not know but I lived in that house and I did not know we as investigators felt that it had to be known by other members of the family uh later uh it did come out that uh possibly the mother had been told by a daughter one bizarre aspect of John Ren's incest with his daughter is that many people now believe he was attracted to Sarah because she looked like her mother Ren's first wife was he reliving some warped sexual fantasy for a love gone wrong Sarah he found as the apple of his eye that he viewed her as being very attractive and reminded him immensely of his first wife that he still considered him himself in love with his first wife and that Sarah seemed to trigger the and the intensity seemed to increase as she reached the age of pubescence the more I got involved with this incest relationship the more hardened my heart became towards it it I didn't really feel any shame or guilt after a period of several years uh that didn't really bother me that much I believe John feels that U that it was okay for him to to have sex with his daughter it was his daughter and and he could do anything that he wanted to do I think Sarah always believed that someday her dad would change for the better she always had that hope and I don't believe that Sarah was afraid of me physically she wanted to end the relation relationship sexual relationship and she was afraid of that as to where it was leading but I don't think she was afraid of me personally she knew that I wouldn't harm her physically John must have threatened her got her so scared that she wouldn't H and she'd seen his temper many times so she probably was scared of him as Sarah approached the age of 13 she was growing up and she wanted to be free of her father's sexual impulses John Wen was now confronted with his daughter's constant complaints repeatedly they bickered and argued but still he fought to keep her from escaping his sexual tyranny in a moment we'll see what happened when Sarah finally said no and John Wen was about to lose everything stay with [Music] us John Ren would not stop his terrible Behavior would not stop his sexual abuse of his daughter he used every trick to keep Sarah in his power but eventually he failed Sarah had a lot of uh gumption I guess you could call it and confronted me with the fact that I was ruining her future she did confront me with that she said she wanted to grow up to be a normal little girl and she didn't want to do those things that you what was your response to that child I agreed with him you knew it was wrong yes when they reach the age of pre-adolescent 12 13 typically this is the age that we refer to as the age of establishing autonomy and Independence this is the time they begin to Rebel this is the time they begin to assert their sense of uh individuality and because of that they will be a form of trying to escape their own dilemma I told her she was right I said Sarah you're right I said we got to and I always tried to make it seem like she was guilty I'd say we have to continue this even though I knew she wasn't guilty in any respect it was all on my part I bear the guilt for whatever happened to her John Wen controlled Sarah's life and she couldn't see a way out then on May 20th 1985 Sarah disappeared on her way home from school she set off to walk the 3 and 1 half miles home but she never arrived had Sarah run away or had she met with a killer I remember the the night of May 20th when she disappeared it was about 10:30 at night and I got a call from Maryland and she said is is Sarah there and I said no she said oh I I thought probably she was there because she's not home yet John wasn't very worried that's what it seemed to me he just thought he just said well maybe she's with a friend or went home with another classmate or something it was very frustrating because I didn't know where to look I didn't know what to do and you just you you go about your normal life but it's always there in the back of your mind as to what happened to her and where she was you if she was alive it's very hard to go through something like that over the next 5 weeks an exhaustive search was launched for the missing girl the entire town joined in and searched the surrounding area day after day night after night Flyers with pictures of Sarah were circulated all over the country John Ren a man who had secretly spent five years sexually abusing Sarah was a very visible leader of the search he talked tirelessly to local TV and radio news crews he implored Sarah to come home he pleaded with the public to phone in tips and leads the perfect picture of a loving father yet after more than a month of searching not one clue was uncovered law enforcement usually searches just immediate area like uh 3 4 miles or surrounding where they think the person disappeared what we we would like to do is search at least a 25 to a 50 mile radius John made himself look very good to people and he did a very good job of it he had the news people believe that he was a very loving and caring father he manipulated a lot of people in his community and the news media and the reporters 6 and A2 weeks after Sarah disappeared July 6th her body was discovered by a farmer she had been brutally murdered and dumped in a drainage ditch 25 miles outside of town I'll never forget the day of July 6th we were staying at at the cabin and my mom and dad came in and they said they found Sarah she's dead I couldn't believe it all of us officers and there was four of us that worked on the case primarily shared the same same thoughts uh first thoughts of disbelief then then s thoughts of sadness and uh yes it got to us it was probably the worst night I've ever gone through in my whole life to admit that she I guess it's just like all of her hope of finding her alive was gone that we knew that there was no more hope of ever finding her alive again the community mourned Sarah's death but there were also outraged who would kill a young girl in such a brutal manner what they didn't know was that the killer lurked among them stay with us the investig ation into Sarah's murder was based on the theory that a random stranger had killed the girl but no leads were discovered all the information LED nowhere suddenly the police stumbled on what would become the biggest break in the case one of John Ren's stepdaughters revealed for the first time that her father may have been molesting Sarah the focus immediately shifted to John Ren and it was the beginning of the end once John be became the suspect uh the investigation naturally focused on him because everything else that had been developed in the first two months or three months prior to his becoming a suspect had been run into the ground and and had hadn't proven fruitful at all it actually got around to a point where I just looked at John and I said John you've been having sex with with your daughter Sarah don't you tell me about that I startled him a little uh but but not a lot he looked at me and he said said dick and he used my name dick he said I've only had sex with her one time I said well tell me about it and uh he told me about it and continued toh talk with me and one thing led to another and the whole thing kind of unraveled the afternoon of the crime John Ren followed Sarah home from school he was cruising in his truck when he saw her walking home unaware of what lay in store Ren demanded to have sex with his daughter Sarah refused and the police believed she started to run away to escape from her father's nauseating insistence Ren angered by this rejection followed her chased her down and killed her next thing that I can remember is holding Sarah either by the hair or the throat with what what hand with my left hand okay and then U hitting her with a sharp B I stabbed her in a lower stomach with a just above the belt Lan the next thing I can see is her laying on the ground and blood all over where was the blood the blood was all over her stomach from from the top of her neck all the way down blood on her arms and on the ground did you hit her with anything besides that all that you had in your right hand yes I figured I might have hit her in the throat with with my left arm how would have you done that like a forearm can you show me how you would do it like this like this where would where would have you hit her right in the Adam's after you hit her that way where did how did she fall or how did she end up on the ground she ended up on her back just spread off and she was dead then to sit there and talk to John Ren and how he described how he killed his daughter uh there was no remorse none whatsoever zero there was no tears there was no I'm sorries or uh nothing like that I think it was a a violent response to what he perceived as a rejection of the only meaningful female relationship at least that he had in his life at that moment John's life would have been over if Sarah would have come forth and told someone and I think the anger and and the frustration in her running which she probably hadn't done before uh put him over the edge and in that Fury and stabbed her and killed her he killed her to stopped her from telling that's what I believe he thought that she was going to tell someone me or someone else and and he killed her to stop her from telling the whole Community felt raged we couldn't believe it this man had Stood Beside us we had you know during the funeral we had comforted him and his wife and we had been right there we had brought food down to them we had offered any kind of assistance that they needed and then it comes out that he killed his daughter the community was angry uh the community uh want a law enforcement to turn John Ren loose on the streets of Underwood and they would take care of uh of the problem most people have have an idea a basic idea in the in their mind what's right what's wrong they were sent out uh from their homes with with morals uh criminals have no morals they could care less about what's right or what's wrong I don't know if you'd call him a human being normal human beings do not do what John Ren has done normal people do not have sex with their children and normal people do not kill their children joh Ren did all of that he showed no discomfort no embarrassment no regret no shame uh no grief attached to any of these um events that he relayed I think initially John uh didn't think he'd get away with it I think he thought he'd be caught fairly quickly I think as time went by and and the focus wasn't on him and it appeared that maybe he had an alibi that was going to stand up he started to feel that hey maybe I can beat this everything that John did was a a game uh John would try to match uh wits with everyone uh with the investigators the the psychologists the psychiatrists uh it was a game uh it was a mind game that he thought he could beat each and every one of us John RAR in that trial was the most interesting uh observation I've ever had of human behavior his behavior was very unemotional he seemed to Relish in what was happening seemed to enjoy the attention he was getting it's hard to explain his demeanor and approach but I think that demeanor was as significant in securing his conviction ultimately as the evidence we had I don't really think of Sarah very often I really don't but I just can't change the past and so I don't I choose CH not to really think about her very much I miss her more than a lot of people even know I think I think of her very often yes I miss Sarah a lot I was so self-centered um I didn't worry about what might happen I just took advantage of her and uh did not worry about the results but I I I think in the back of my mind there was was always I knew that there would be a Day of Reckoning that I would have to answer someday John Wen is currently serving a life sentence in Minnesota State Prison he has since married a woman preacher who visited the prison and he will be eligible for perole in the year 2010 Marilyn Nagel Sarah's stepmother was convicted of knowing and allowing physical abuse of a minor and was sentenced to 8 years probation what is truly sad about this awful crime is is that if someone on the outside had known it might never have happened if Sarah had told just one person a school friend a teacher or even her own mother if Sarah's family and friends had been more alert to Clues and signs of what was going on inside the ren home Sarah might be alive today I'm Teresa salana join me again next time for another unique look inside the Criminal Mind on confessions of crime [Music]

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