Ezra McCandless (Alex Woodworth Homicide) | Mental Health & Personality 

Dr. Grande. Could you please do an analysis of the mental health and personality of people who watch your videos instead of getting prepared for work tomorrow.

I always felt like she was constantly acting as a character in her own movie. One day she's a transgender youth another she is a intelligent college student, or an artsy quirky girl. And she was a very bad actress at that, throughout her trial I found her to be arrogant and unlikable and self centered, as well as lacking in any sense of self awareness.

I listened to the 911 call, her police interviews, and her testimonies in court....she really thought she was smarter than everyone and would get away with this.

It's strange how a person will simultaneously try to appear highly aware/intelligent and niave/unaware.

I think the motive was rage. She had a sexual encounter with one of Mengel's friends. Mengel found out about it. Ezra didn't want Mengel knowing that she had cheated on him so she fabricated a story that the guy had raped her. She even went so far as to report it to the police and she seemed quite alright with sending the poor guy to prison for many years. Woodworth, the murder victim, had gone to the police and told them that McCandless had told him that the encounter was in fact consensual. The police investigated and did not end up charging the innocent guy with rape. The result of all this was that Mengel knew that she had cheated on him. She was not happy about that. This made her furious with Woodworth.

Not a psychologist, but everything about Ezra screams BPD and extreme narcissism. She acts like the court room is her own little reality show until that sentence hits home

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People who are quick to move the relationship forward with you are also often quick to have you fall out of favor with them. This is especially true in the case of Borderlines. Don't put much stock into such relationships. It always backfires and you'll be the one holding the bill while they run off with their new flavor of the month.

I watched her trial. She's a very manipulative person who loves attention and drama. Thanks, Doc.

My fascination with this case is McEndless! ... I'll show myself out.

I've never heard of an "ancient love so powerful" between two people that would allow one of those people to be cheating on the other one within TWO MONTHS of living together. Sounds more like an ancient excuse to me. In simpler terms, she cheated on her man and then regretted it. She spoke to everyone and anyone who would listen about her private life, much more like a teenage school girl relationship where she blabbed every detail to her friends.

“an ancient love so powerful it frightened both of them” I actually started laughing She tries so hard to be deep and intellectual

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She said _Into the Wild_ was written *by* Chris McCandless, having to be corrected by her lawyer. Makes me wonder how much she really knew about the person she named herself after. Ironic considering Chris actually rejected the name McCandless himself. Ezra Supertramp would have been more appropriate. But she seems to stay on the shallow end of deep subjects.

I watched her testimony (listened, really) while I painted last week. I actually had to turn it off because her fake intellect was so annoying. She is a talented artist. I think she killed that guy because of simple resentment and yes, foolish thinking that with him dead, she could have the older guy. I am a survivor of domestic violence. Her story of defending herself is bullshit. Another great one, thank you!

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Becoming a murderer generally changes one's opinion of said person.

Seems like she just couldn't face the consequences of her own actions so she just projected the blame...and then stabbed the blame.

How does this bloke churn out such marvellous vids every day? The Doc rocks.

Please do Chris McCandless and a general thought on many of us who feel pulled to just take off into the wilderness to test ourselves. Jon Krakauer (his bio author) has spoken how society now doesn't have the rites of passage for young people as past generations and this plays a role. I'd appreciate your insights.

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These videos help me relax and sleep at night instead of laying awake until the morning and stressing out. Despite the difficult topics, Dr. Grande’s calm, logical and confident demeanour helps my brain stop spinning. Always interesting and informative. I am so grateful to be able to access these videos. My favourite RU-vid channel by far.🙂

McCandless played the two (really three) men against each other. To commit the murder, she lured Woodworth to a remote area and stabbed him in the back of the head when he wasn’t looking. After being convicted, her mother set herself up as a distributor of McCandless’ artwork and promoted her daughter as wrongfully convicted. Ezra was glad to go along with the delusion; this, after having uttered a half-baked apology before sentencing. Woodworth and Mengle both ignored many warning signs that McCandless was emotionally unstable. Woodworth wrote many entries in his journal beseeching McCandless to just let him know whether she really wanted to be in a relationship with him. So as a witness in her own trial, she got to kill him again, painting him as a sex-crazed abuser. His family, which knew him to be a gentle soul who could hurt no one, had to sit through the trial listening to her kill the reputation of their slain relative (son, brother, uncle, cousin, etc.).

This is a very interesting case. I am excited to hear what Dr Grande has to offer. I found Ezra to be highly manipulative and pseudo intellectual. Frankly, people like her annoy me.. I think she manipulated the man she killed and grew frustrated when he didn't play her game.

“Maximus Decimus Meridius”🤣🤣🤣🤣 She would most certainly need the other arm to complete her writing. What a tragedy, Woodworth had his whole life ahead of him, he was only 24! Really sad.😔 Thank you for the analysis Dr. Grande, I hope you are having an enjoyable Sunday! 💚

I think it goes back to her inability to regulate her emotions with regard to her relationship to her guy she wanted. She was convinced that Woodworth was the reason she lost him but unwilling to accept that her own actions were the cause rather than Woodworth’s refusal to lie and incriminate himself for her. As a very young woman, he was her first real love and I think she fixated on him and the sabotaged herself. I don’t know what her plan was when she rolled back into town and she probably didn’t either but she was going to do something to get the man’s attention. I think it was just her rage at not being able to get what she wanted and Woodworth symbolized the reason for that. He symbolized her mistake and her inability to control things.

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I remember this story. This girl is just straight up WEIRD!

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The games she played, the deceit she did and the manipulation of others tells us everything we need to know about her.

The way she testified reminds me how smart I used to think I was in high school at like 15-16. 32 now and can’t believe I thought I had so much life experience. Lol she is super manipulative and confused.

Having a 14 year old mother probably wasn’t an optimal way for her to start out in life. Interesting video. 💕👍🏼 💕 Pink shirt was my fav so far but this chartreuse/lime green is great on you too. 💚🪴💚

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I watched this trial and Ms. Monica (Ezra) LOVED every minute of it! When Jason walked in to testify against her, she literally blushed like a teenager. I don't think she appreciated the fact that she killed someone, ended their life, and Woodworth's family and loved ones suffered an immense loss because of her actions. She is self indulging and immature, although she portrays herself as this deep thinking progressive person, she is simply a murderer. Just my humble opinion. You always do an amazing job Dr. of telling the facts, giving a professional analysis, and sprinkling in the perfect blend of your unique, deadpan humor in the process. Thank you! LOVE the shirt btw. 😉

I’d love to see Dr. Grande’s take on CHRIS McCandless. He starved to death in 1992 after isolating himself, in the rugged terrain of Alaska - completely unprepared and disillusioned with what it took to survive in that environment. Some say he did it on purpose - that he was suicidal. Some say he was just completely out of touch with reality. His severely underweight body was found by Moose Hunters in an abandoned bus in the middle of the Alaska with a journal detailing his slow, agonizing death.

I watched this trial. The way she acted when her ex walked into court was too creepy. My theory is that she killed Alex because he wouldn’t lie about the kind of relationship they had and she didn’t want Jason to have the truth.

I wonder if she said "im not like other girls hehe im quirky" while stabbing him

Her behavior during her trial is so strange, especially during Mengal’s testimony. She even put on a green sweater that he had given her while she was in the hospital under her blazer before his testimony and smirked and pulled back her blazer to show it while he was on the stand.

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An immature and self-absorbed drama queen with delusions of exceptionalism, is my take on McCandless. Thanks, Dr. Grande.

I watch Dr Grande’s videos all the time but never commented on either of them.....but somethings he said in this video about how the world 🌎 will move on without this person and her poor decisions made so much sense. A deeply meaningful lesson. Nothing is so much worth it than your life, your freedom, your sanity and your peace of mind. In all things let patience and your head lead you and not your emotions

_Maximum Decimus Meridius..._ 😂🤣😄 Stahhhpp. She just seems like another vapid narcissist to me and I don't buy the "boy" thing. Glad you're the doctor! Plus, you're funny as hell! Thank you Dr Grande. 👍🌹

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I think it's interesting that her counsel likely coached her on her physical appearance (use of over-large glasses that don't hide her eyes, pink and pastels, and the flowing hair imply a childlike innocence), but she continued to use inappropriate word choice. It would suggest that she either went against counsel or they didn't really try that hard.

It was really hard for me to keep up with all these people involved....

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I like to start my evening the same way I like my Starbucks... Grande!😁 To me this sounded heavily Borderline Personality Disorder. It seems like her "plan" (for lack of a better term) was in some way intended to manipulate the sympathies of the man she most desired. Although I'm not qualified to diagnose anything, for a long while now I have extraordinary suspensions that my sister has BPD, and I believe that the birth of my nephew (who I eventually adopted) was a plan to more or less trap her boyfriend into staying with her. (Obviously backfired.) I'm not saying that people with BPD are masterminds, just saying that the motivation (desperation) to hold on to people leads them to make poor decisions.

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So glad to see you released something on this case, thanks as always Dr. Grande! 🤍

Very clear this whacko should never be released from prison. Ty. Dr.Grande. Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤

Dr. Grande always provides an insightful case analysis synopsis with an incredible sense of humor; he never fails to make me chuckle, which is ironic given the typical subject matter/s.

Your channel is addictive. I remember what you say just like the biology teacher I had in 9th grade a hundred years ago. Your awesome, Dr. Grande!!!

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I've become so interested in your extremely well articulated and concise analysis of these cases Dr. Grande! As a mental health worker for many years I am so fascinated by people and their behaviours and there is a fine line sometimes in getting an analysis wrong. It takes a certain high level of interpersonal skill and intellect to read a person's behaviour, that possibly, no amount of academia can achieve. Even with your academic status, you appear to have this incredible ability. I am nowhere near as academically educated as you are yet and you are incredible to listen to partly for this reason - I am learning from you immensely! I am very experienced on an interpersonal level so feel I can relate to your analysis ability and its ridiculously exciting to hear when your ideas align with mine as I follow you through your descriptions and analysis. Throughout this particular case, whilst you touched on it not being mentioned almost as a nod to your own possible prediction, I felt this person was radiating behaviours aligned with BPD and possibly histrionic. One of my biggest intruiges at the moment is how the manifestation of nurodivergent types can blend and impact on the level of personality disorder type - or if they're simply commonly interlinked. Whilst currently doing a challenging social work degree (UK), I myself have recently been diagnosed with dyslexia with an uncommon assessed type due to extremely high IQ verbal comprehension so my reading and writing abilities are very good, if not advanced (when writing properly - please, I hope nobody judges my late night youtube comments for spelling and grammer 😆) and contrary to the typical perception of dyslexia. It's only when analysing the assessment criteria for dyslexia in detail we/I discovered that there are so many aspects to who I am that are affected by my dyslexia that do not show in my reading and writing, like my processing speed with certain things and my memory recall when reading - this area is poor. This all can affect how I socially communicate, prepare speech and socially present. When I consider that all nuero-divergent types are basically on their own spectrum dependent on the nature and nurture of the personality, I wonder; how much does nuerdivergence play a part in the worsening of personality disorders and does it go undetected because they are essentially 'high functioning/high maskers/high IQ in a particular aspect of mental abilities'. I want to waffle endlessly about stuff like this so apologies to anyone I've bored to sleep along the way but truly, for anyone who is fascinated by this stuff, I LOVE reading your views and opinions. Thank you for your fascinating insights Dr. Grande and your followers!

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I recently learned of this case. Thank you Dr. Grande for yet another great analysis and insights. Merry Christmas to you and Mrs. Grande!

Enjoyed your humor! Thank you! I find these videos very interesting to listen to while I work on my daily tasks. I’ve always been fascinated by psychology but haven’t studied it very deeply. Thank you for something enjoyable and thought provoking.

Been waiting a hot minute for this one. Insane story. Great work as always.

I’d love to see an analysis on Chris McCandless if that hasn’t been done already!

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Definitely seems like a Jodi Arias character. I’m surprised Dr Grande didn’t mention narcissistic personality disorder as a possibility. Indicators are her need for attention, her actions to control a situation, her propensity for lying, and her grandiose sense of self-importance in her letter detailing her plans to seek justice.

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Thank you for going over this case. This one was crazy!

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I'm so glad you did this one.

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Loving that green shirt color Dr Grande!Definitely a good color on you!💚💚Thank you for analysis of this strange case. Your insight is always appreciated!

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This is the scientific approach to a mental health topic I didn’t even know I needed in my life

Dr Grande, I love your new backdrop, mic, plants, and shirt. Excellent!!!! Thank you always, for your info and insights. McCandles was/is strange.

Thank you for another great video, Dr.Grande.

Don Sipple seems like such a sweet man. I watched some of the court proceedings, and felt so bad for him because he got upset on the stand. Ezra obviously has...issues.

I enjoyed hearing conclusions at the end, dr. Grande

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Great analysis Dr. Grande! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to all these cases! ♡ What an awful web of lies and deceit she created! Glad to see the cactus that wears his little purple hat back in the picture! :) ♡

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I stumbled upon Ezra McCandless' story and spent the afternoon watching videos about her, and then I saw Dr. Grande's video, so I watched that, too. I watched part of Ezra's testimony in her court trial, and it didn't take long to see the similarity between Ezra McCandless and Jodi Arias. They have the same steady gaze, the same low, precise way of speaking, and a cool detachment toward their trials and testimonies. If you watch them closely, eventually you will see a hint of arrogance, a smirk, the flicker of a secret smile. There are certain types of killers who do that. They are the dangerous ones, the ones who think they are smarter and better than everyone else. Ted Bundy comes to mind, as well as Anders Breivik, Aileen Wuornos, and Richard Ramirez. I don't think they are sorry for what they did, only that they got caught.

Hi Dr. Todd, nice to meet you. I must say, this just blew my mind, thank you for the video. I can tell this is gonna be one of my new favorite channels, I just subscribed and liked, and I am looking forward to the next video!

loved this video. love your humor bits. so fun

Mentally unstable people sometimes end up in prison for their entire lives. Thank you for the presentation and analysis

Hey I have a suggestion. I'm hoping you would be willing to do a video on Bodybuilders and competitive bodybuilding. Im a Bodybuilder and personal trainer and I can tell you that the personality profiles and reasons behind why people do this is very interesting. I think it would make a very good video. There is also a few cases you could review. A guy names Craig Titus and his wife Kelly Ryan killed their assistant and went to prison for it. Also more recent and also more popular a Guy named Rich piana died. He was a huge figure in the bodybuilding world and was definitely a very interesting person.

I enjoyed this insightful analysis, Dr. G. Very thorough. I really appreciate the juxtaposition of McCandless’ behavior with Arias and Hubers.

Thank you for another informative video Dr. Grande! 💖