Real Life Psychopaths (Crime Psychology Documentary) | Real Stories 

The fun part for the rest of us is that functioning psychopaths and sociopaths can rise to high levels and many become politicians or CEOs of large companies.

Over the course of my 30 plus corporate career, I worked with industrial psychopaths who were promoted due to high performance but who were also ruthless, manipulative, narcissistic, etc. Many companies turn a blind eye to behaviour in favour of performance. Sad but true. 🇨🇦

Don't forget, just because they aren't engaging in direct person-to-person violence, doesn't mean they aren't actively hurting people through business practices, policy-making, manipulation, and other methods.

As an Exec Coach and having worked with senior leaders my entire life, I can attest to this. Some of them are very charismatic, inspiring and charming with an ability to destroy people and cause an immense amount of trauma to people and organizations.

If you look in their eyes while they are speaking and you start to look for the emotional being living inside, you’ll soon realize nobody’s home.

I don’t think psychopaths can be rehabilitated because I think they are intelligent,charming and manipulative and say whatever it takes to get out of prison!

I have seen people who were excellent parents - provided love, security etc. and their kid grows up to be a not-so-good human being. I have seen bad or absent parents who have a child grow up to be a much better person than their parent. It has to be something in the brain. The Dr. In one scene described it perfectly - they are like someone who is colorblind. They are blind to emotion and empathy.

Be careful of people who are overly charming and/or charismatic

I have a female relative who is one. Where ever she goes, she will find a way to psychologically/emotionally damage someone she meets-like its her 'hobby'. She is scary, I,ve hid from her for years. AND -when they know that you know-then you are in more danger.

Not every murderer is a psychopath, and not all psychopaths are murderers. They ALL destroy lives, though....

My cousin was both born and made. She was highly abused and took that experience into her adult life and built a mannerism to attract a specific type of man , then destroys them financially and emotionally. It's as if she seeks her revenge on all men. She is extremely skilled at her game. One husband was put in prison. And she got the old family money. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Children abusing and destroying animals is a sign of psychopathy.

I used to watch these old documentaries years ago when this channel was still called Barcroft Docs. So many of them got deleted for copyright and are now impossible to find. I wish there was a broader online library of these 1980s-early 2000s documentaries, they are fascinating. Some of my favorites were the one about British single fathers, the I Married a Maasai, the breast implant one, the gynocomastia one, the one about crossdressers in marriages, and the one about young girls with eating disorders.

Treatment only makes them worse because they can pretend to have empathy and care about people and pretend to be sensitive. Give up, it's a waste of time and money. They cannot and will not change. Ever.

Documentary released in 2000 for anyone who cares.

Severe childhood trauma/neglect shrinks the Amygdala in children

dude is comparing touching the stove to feeling empathy- brah, no, those are literally the opposite of one another. one is learning to avoid hurting yourself, the other is about not wanting to hurt others

One of the biggest disservices RU-vid does is not put a date on the original content. When did first air and where?

Psychopaths don't believe they're damaged. Empathy and kindness are a waste of time.

No matter what you do, they just can’t be “rehabilitated.”

What happens if you show psychopaths pictures of themselves suffering? What brain patterns are we seeing then? The same as when they look at others suffering?

Please! You must NEVER ALLOW Wayne to get out of prison!!!

That part when the guy walks by and says "this programs a sham"...

If the psychopath is manipulative, can't they easily manipulate the psychopathy test?

Looks like that guy with the long, curly blond hair wears his skull on the outside.

If a psychopath knows not to commit a crime if there is a police officer present, they then know full well they should not commit the crime. In other words, they know full well exactly what they are doing is wrong. They CHOOSE to follow their desire to do wrong. Can't pity them when it is a choice.

Money and time should be spent on these abused children NOT these perverts!

There’s no curing people who have absolutely no insight into their own behavior. Even non psychopaths have this issue. Sometimes people are just evil.

For everyone who’s asking: there are no current new discoveries, prof. Hare is still main authority in the field.

As a neuroscientist specializing in addiction I'd argue that psychopathy has a limbic system element that not only includes the amygdala & the PFC/OFC but also the nucleus accumbens (NAc) which functions in pleasure seeking & habit formation. Psychopaths often report feeling less pleasure from typically pleasant things than non-psychopaths n therefore feel the need to participate in extreme behaviors in order to feel "average/normal" pleasure/excitement. Also similar to addictive disorders psychopaths often escalate their extreme behaviors as time progesses. Gauging the extent of this deficit as well as how it escalates towards habit formation in psychopaths could definitely reveal some potential avenues for intervention.

My sister is a psychopath, my father and mother were both narcissists. I seem pretty well adjusted considering what I grew up in. I will say I don’t get attached very easily.. ❤

My ex boyfriend is a psychopath. He used me, treated me terribly, and had absolutely no awareness of what an a-hole he is

Constantly trying to understand how and why human being are capable of such evil?

If you can determine if someone is a psychopath using brain scans I wonder if you can find if someone is an empath using the same method.

He said what about the successful psychopaths that might still be out there? *SUCCESSFUL* that is so scary to think of☹️

I wonder if they ever let Wayne out after his time served? I really hope not because he will always be very deadly.

I also might add that when they're fixed on 1 person. It doesn't matter how many years it takes to achieve what they're trying to achieve. Even if that is just to make the person fearful of them. Literally they will stalk them for years

Narcissists and psychopaths are ruining society, sometimes quietly, sometimes loudly. They infiltrate social movements, the narcissists charm the crowd and the psychopaths bully the opposition. It's really an awful dance.

Police need to be able to recognise the charming psychopath who is acting like the "normal one" while their crying victim is often immediately determined to be the aggressor. Look at the stupid cops who believed Brian Laundrie was the.victim despite that being the opposite of what the witness who called them had reported. That mistake cost Gabby Petito her life.

that psychopath played those doctors like a fiddle

Dr Hare should do a case study on my Ex. He is not a criminal but he has tendencies. He is a retired police detective with a Masters in Psychology. He is very smart - just ask him. He doesn't think behavioral norms, laws or even civility apply to him. He is a master narcissist and, in my opinion, a psychopath. He has zero compassion or empathy and he doesnt have any trouble sleeping at night after destroying someone - it doesn't matter who. Just bloody thankful, I got out alive but he cost me everything.

They will never change 😢

one of my very good friends in highschool had a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, many called him a psychopath. I liked him, he said he liked us too "in the sense that it was more fun to be with us than it was to be alone" but that was kind of just his best way of expressing affection.. he had no desire to cause somebody physical harm, but he didn't have a lot of respect for rules or authority that he deemed unnecessary and acted accordingly. he did hurt our feelings sometimes and didn't really understand why we were upset, One time he even asked if I was making it up when I told him something he said hurt my feelings. But he was a good friend, a funny and smart guy, he helped me not fail trigonometry lol.

Fantastic documentary, really insightful and informative. I never had a social upbringing and made me ponder my and my family life. I believe that people lower on the psychopathic scale can become better human beings. I'll do all i can to raise my kids better equipped with empathy and kindness. Love the older documentary styles too ✨️

So, in a word, Politicians.

Guy passing by him says, “The program’s a sham. Quit lying to these people.”

I found the ginger psycpath in prison’s thoughts about conscience very interesting. It made it utterly clear he hadn’t understood the concept, at all. Even if they destroy the lives of the people around them they themselves lead very sad lives, it must be totally empty and pointless to not be able to connect to other people, and to never be able to experience selfless and generous love. I pity them.

The most bizare thing about Wayne is that he casually recounted his crimes with no sense of shame.

Psychopath? He sure looks it. Best therapy is being an actor playing out the evil in them. Suits their vanity and need for attention.Keeps them out of trouble. Encourage creativity.

My ex is a carbon copy of his dad and I don’t know who’s more psychopathic. Both disregard people unless an important person id around, then they grovel. I have never seen a smile, tears or laughter from either. If someone doesn’t entertain them, or fawn over them there will be trouble.

I think approximate filming date and/or original release date should be stated in the title of these reposted documentaries. At minimum in the description. We need this info for context. I saw this years ago. Good documentary.

"Organic Portal".....souless human being who attaches itself to another and depletes,.usually for material gain and/or power. It only survives by this method.

The idea of stopping and asking "IS THIS A GOOD IDEA??" NO "STOP" BUTTON.

The best material I’ve seen on the topic

This part from the 45th minute onwards, where he starts talking about microchips for psychopaths in order to change their brains, really hit me hard. I asked myself the question, should this whole documentary be there to ultimately introduce us to the brain chip "for everyone" because it does good things!?

There are 4 personality disorders in the cluster B family. Psychopathy (ASPD) is one and borderline is another. I have borderline and I had enough traits by age 12 for diagnosis, but because we cannot diagnose children, my doctors just did this number: 🤷🏻‍♀️, so now I’m 43 and just found out this is my diagnosis- meaning I’ve suffered my entire life because they wouldn’t diagnose me at 12. Not helpful.

Congress is filled with these subhumans. Both parties.

I was a victim of a few Psychopaths at work who worked alongside each other. The bullying and manipulation I endured after getting transferred left me with elevated anxiety and depression. Most people today have psychopath tendencies nowadays they have no remorse for the pain and anguish they might inflict on the other because of avarice or jealousy.

I like the idea of "the 'emergency brake" not working.

I have met a few in my life, scary stuff

He is 40 ( top) on the check list, and he can get out in 5 to 20 years !( possibly 10 more year to go) WHAT? He needs life, in my opinion! 🤷‍♀️

I did not know that John Lenon has survived and become a psychopath.

Excellent documentary. Thank you.

Love the older documentaries.

*It’s antisocial personality disorder.* Psychopath is *not* a clinical diagnosis. It’s a term used to describe antisocial personality disorder. ASPD is *not* a mental illness, it’s a character/personality disorder. People with mental illness can learn ways to cope. Individuals with ASPD cannot learn ways to have empathy. They are in many ways, very inhuman.

My sister married a guy that had a psychopathic ex-wife. She caused so much grief for my sister that it stole the better part of the start of her marriage. His ex-wife was extremely manipulative and charming and ugly inside at the same time. She manipulated men to kill a guy for her and she got away with it. She did spend time in prison though for something eventually. It is crazy how much damage psychopaths can cause.

I've seen this interview. Still haunting how aware he is to this day.

This documentary is like walking through a small town museum

I have ASPD (anti-social personality disorder) and I don't share all the same traits as others with the same condition has, but it's been a challenge to be a good, moral person in some aspects of my life. For example: I have empathy for people, but I didn't realize how it was different than others. I don't feel hate....because I have to care enough about something to hate it. If I don't love you and I don't like you....I don't care about you and can't really feel hatred for you 🤷‍♂️ Indifference, is more of what it feels like. As I grew up, I forced myself to have empathy for those that I don't know by, essentially, running a conscious algorithm in my brain. That helps me determine if I should be having sympathy or empathy. I don't have to do this with my family. I love them endlessly. Strangers.... 🤷‍♂️ ....I have to try and I wish it were embarrassing to say that, but it's not. it's just... the truth. I have to set a standard of radical honesty for myself. That is to say: no lies, even white lies. If I don't do this, I find myself lying for no reason. I used to get in trouble for lying when I had no clue why I lied in the first place. 🤦‍♂️ So, I have to act like a child and tell on myself. After awhile, it's easier to just not get into situations where I would have to lie than it is to lie. That makes lying more work and effort for less reward than being honest...even if it means so sudden gratification or gratification at all. I am not violent, in general, but... yeah, I could go on and on. That ☝ was me catching myself being egocentric (when my initial goal was to make it easier for others with ASPD to talk about the disorder) in real-time. 🤦‍♂️ The point is: we are there among you. Some of us, however, are "pro-social psychopaths" .....meaning: *we get it and it's hard, but we are actually trying to get better or at least don't want to be this way anymore. not sure how many of us there are.... but 🙋‍♂️ "Here!"

So educational , thank you. I am a mental health worker in Australia. I will definately look at that approach. Thank you

This story broke my heart and at the same time opened my eyes as a reminder to measure the depth before diving in and that includes your devotion and beliefs.. This man deserves the answers he's looked for all these yrs.

Absolutely amazing

The most successful psychopaths rarely end up behind bars, but instead are overrepresented in positions of power, ie: corporation heads and politicians. POLITICAL PONEROLOGY.

this is a brilliant film. these researchers have given so much . they are also ethical ! thank you

According to the guidelines of speech, I'm not allowed to articulate what I really believe should be done with these people. Which is why we are unable to remove them from society. My mother being one of them. I told her one time that she is like a skunk. She "comes in, stinks up the place and leaves." She disturbs everyone psychologically and emotionally for decades and never pays the price. It's always...poor me....I'm treated so badly....I never get what I need....no body loves me. I have estranged myself from her and am much better for it.

"As you like it", "All the worlds a stage" Shakespeare, and Jung would say he's putting on his "persona". "The aspect of someones character that is presented to and perceived by others." First guy says they can see the change. NOO they see what you can so expertly portray! HA! lets see, charming, manipulative, conning, etc, etc.

Very insightful show... Having experienced the harm these people can cause first hand (and their intelligence and how most people can’t see what’s going on) I am just a bit worried about the industrial/political/medical psychopaths that hijack the micro chip implant system and use it for their agenda on healthy people building psychopath armies...

Dude looks like Howard Stern, the Psychopathic Version Anyway.

It starts with family... It ends how the family made it. you can point fingers and make intellectual definitions. But, it starts and ends with the family dynamic

So Wayne is basically the real life sideshow Bob 😂

Very interesting!

Good documentary i learned from it.

I'm dying to know what's with Wayne now, couldn't find anything about him, i guess it will remain mystery forever(

FBI lady: most of the people we deal with are psychopaths... yeah, and half of them are in uniform lol

What disturbed me the most about this crime. Is the sheriffs indifference to Naomis brother taking fast action about his missing sister. Rip Naomi

I have a daughter who quietly leaves a trail of emotional and psychological destruction wherever she goes. I’ve seen her once in 7 years. Happy for me I’ve learned to not respond to her manipulation. She was disappointed she couldn’t get any money, property, or response from me anymore.

Why do people say their ex are pyschopaths 😂

Here's a prediction. If there ever is a treatment for psychopathy that we, as a society can dictate, the wealthiest psychopaths (who are inflicting the most widespread harm on the rest of us,) will take care to not only avoid the diagnosis and treatment for themselves, but also for their psychopathic children. People who lack empathy tend to see that as a strength, and the rest of us as inferior and weak for caring about others. So naturally, they will not want to lose what they see as their super power. However, they will be delighted to have this treatment applied to others. Obviously, they would want to preserve their own "strength," but weaken everyone else.

That's a very scary man!

You cannot reform someone that is like this no. I lived with one. I've known many. And I'm sorry but anybody who has taken it to the level of going after children, And killing just to kill is not reformable

Why are psychopaths allowed to be glorified on you tube...and when someone normal expresses their opinion they are censored on you tube?

13:11 "I'm ready to go now."😄

Talk about an opener! WOW😮

The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson: Wikipedia This is a good counterpoint to Dr. Hare's work. In short, the subject is still very controversial, and two things that stand out by looking it over are that there is a significant medical industry that governments rely on that has sprung up around these diagnoses and an approach to it by the global media industry that requires some caution as sociopathic itself. Do these people exist? is not the point I’d suggest, but rather how best to deal with them. Remember, we once thought burning people, but mostly women, at the stake was a way of helping them by cleansing their souls in order for them to enter heaven? Social media provides a powerful contemporary intersection of many of those same sorts of forces. Watching this through, I'm a little concerned about the lack of objectivity from the prison industry, which appears to have had a significant input into this. That context is important if we understand that there is a tendency to universalise and normalise their specific aggregated points of view.

I am very curious what ever happened to this guy (the first man featured). Does anyone have an update? I am also wondering what ever happened to this program.

There might not be that many sociopaths but it’s like some people attack them like magnets.

Thank you so much for talking about the Hare test, I didn't know it and it has given me light in the behavior of a person I know. I don't know what this person is exactly, with all those definitions fluctuating: sociopath, psychopath, narcissist, etc. I always thought his behaviour was due to ADHD, but recently and suddenly he has done terrible things that do not completely match ADHD. I thought he had comorbidity with narcissistic traits that could have develop under stress, the father is a dictatorial narcissist, tells him what to do, and he admires him. However, the horrible things he has been doing last year don't seem to correlate exactly to stress. He gets 30 in the Hare test, he just doesn't have the last criminal features. So this at least tells me that he is someone to avoid completely. I wish I had known this test years ago to help me to see this people earlier instead of suffering terrible consequences.

I've noticed a lot of serial killers have eyes that are more close together than normal

I've wondered about the nature and nurture debate for years. Mainly because I had a terrific and happy childhood because I was raised by loving grandparents, while my widowed mother did her own thing, working, dating and spending time with friends. My father died when I was three, or six - depending on who asks my mother that question. I have no memory of the man, so I believe he died when I was three. When I was eleven she got married to a horrible man in a different country, whom she met while on holiday, which meant that the rest of my childhood was very unpleasant and kept me far away from all other family members. I had never really developed a connection to my mother and my stepfather made it clear that he would look only after his son, and that my mother would only look after me. He referred to me as, "Good for nothing." So he basically saw me as someone who was living in his house eating his food. I always thought that I was lucky to have had a good childhood, a good foundation for my first couple of years of life, which had made me a happy, confident little girl, because the next nineteen years or so were negative, to say the least. I survived because I read lots of books, had lots of hobbies and kept out of the way of these two, by spending a lot of time in my room. I did make a lot of decisions for my future while I was very young, such as never getting married and therefore never having children, after seeing first hand what marrying the wrong man can lead to. I never regretted this decision, it actually suits my personality. I like to be alone, since I enjoy reading, writing and working as a graphic artist. I always wondered though how I would have turned out differently if I had stayed with my grandparents instead of going away with my mother. I found out that this option had been discussed, when I came across a letter my mother had written to her then fiancé. I never thought about the father I never had because he was never spoken about, it's like he never existed. There were only two wedding photos of him, which I didn't see until I was an adult, so I never gave the fact that I didn't have a father a second thought. It wasn't until I was much older that I wondered what it would have been like if he had not died? This is also when it occurred to me that I had never met any of my father's family members, they were never part of our lives. I believe this was down to my mother not wanting to have anything to do with them. Anyway, I ended up having five dogs in my life, all of them Bouviers. All five dogs had many of the same characteristics in common, but each one had their very own personality. I treated all five dogs the same way, especially the last three, who lived in my house with me over the next thirty years. I noticed that each puppy, I got them each individually at eight weeks old, already had certain behaviors. For example Levi at eight weeks did not like to have his collar removed at night and put back on in the morning. He liked it to just stay on or stay off. He is seven years old now but still hates to have his collar touched. Thinking back I realized that whatever my dogs liked or disliked when they were puppies stayed with them throughout their adult years. You can train a dog to sit, lie down, etc., but some things will stick with them for life. I had my dogs for about ten and a half years each, until they died. I spent a lot of time with them because I worked from home, so I was very close to each dog and learned a lot about them. I started to wonder if the first eight weeks of their lives with the breeders I got them from, had already shaped their likes and dislikes and possibly their personalities. Noah for example was raised by a breeder who kept the puppies separated from their mothers, except for feeding times, in a fenced in enclosure. When I got him home it was obvious that he had never been in a house before because he was scared of everything, furniture, stairs, the TV, etc. He was even scared to go outside for a walk for the first couple of weeks. I also had to earn his trust. Levi came from a different breeder, where he was with his mother and siblings in a house and he wasn't scared of anything. He was lively, social, friendly, loving and cuddly when we went to pick him up and he is still that way to this day. Elsa was dropped off at my house on a rainy Saturday morning by Noah's breeder, but the puppies were from a breeder who had just separated from his wife and he was no longer able to take care of them. She was in a cage in the back of a truck with two of her brothers, also in cages on either side of her. She looked depressed after a very long trip the night before. I took her inside. Noah was still alive at the time and when she saw him she perked up. I fed her and the three of us got in my bed to rest. All three of us fell asleep and when we woke up we went for a walk around the block. During the walk we ran into a fellow dog owner who bent over to pet Elsa who backed away because she was terrified of him. Over the next ten and a half years Elsa backed away from any man who went to touch her. She was the best dog ever though with me, she loved cats and kittens and was an incredible watchdog. I believe that like dogs, humans to a certain extent, are what happens to us during our childhoods, it shapes us in many ways, but that just like dogs we already have our personality traits baked in. So someone who had loving parents will still end up becoming a murderer. I suppose you can learn to change some of the traits your childhood instilled in you, you might be lucky to marry someone who makes you a better person, but you could also end up with someone who has had a terrible upbringing as well and together you will be that couple that nobody wants to have around. My cousin and I often joke about the dysfunctional family we have come from, she being the daughter of my mother's brother, who according to my cousin was no picnic as a father. So the same grandparents who loved and doted on me, raised a son and daughter who both went on to be terrible parents. Both of their children moved as far away from them as possible as soon as they could, in my Uncle's case when he was 19. I'll never forget talking to my mother over lunch one day at my house, when she told me that she had always hated her parents. I was shocked. It turns out that my stepfather had grown up hating his mother, he mentioned this fact quite often. She died when she was quite young, on the other hand he adored his father. It's a wonder that any of us function at all on any level.

45:44 The issue is that I personally do not feel like my brain is broken or dysfunctional. I do not believe that I require any kind of fixing. How do you plan to convince psychopaths to use the chip?