What the Ezra McCandless Trial Didn't Show: Lead Investigator on Case Speaks Out | Court TV 

No, not a sociopath. As they said in the video, Ezra wanted to resurrect her relationship with Jason and she felt she needed to get Alex out of the picture. I actually don't think she originally intended to kill Alex, when she went to his apartment she left her car running, and when Jason showed up there was nothing horrible occurring, just a heated conversation. Unfortunately the police arrived (because a neighbor thought Jason looked suspicious), and then Jason told Ezra and Alex they should go somewhere to continue their discussion. I wonder if Ezra and Alex had been able to have their conversation privately in Alex's apartment, with no interruptions from Jason or the police, Alex might be alive today. Alex's mental state cannot be dismissed either, he was in love with Ezra and he had at one time slashed his wrists over her, and I might be wrong about this but I think I recall that he said he would commit suicide if Ezra did not break off her relations with Jason.

@@musicloverchicago437both had serious borderline features and when these types pair up, it’s an instant disaster. She’s a psychopath, IMO

​@@musicloverchicago437There's zero evidence (despite all his journals & their messaged being in evidence) that he ever implied his suicide attempt was tied to her being with him or not. It's just her story. Which we know is false on many, many other counts. Even in the journal passages her own defense chose to try to make him look dangerous or abusive towards her, if you just read them yourself (and w/just the context that's visible onscreen), there's only evidence of him being very thoughtful and kind towards her. Call it psychopathy, sociopathy or whatever, but there's something different about a person who can stab someone in the head, leave them to bleed out, lie to everyone, and show zero signs of remorse. That's a lot more than BPD.

@@Suzanne4415 I'm pretty sure there IS evidence in the trial that Alex threatened suicide because he thought he was going to lose Ezra but I don't have time to watch hours of testimony again. But there was the documented suicide attempt for which Jason was called to assist, and then in Ezra's final visit to Alex at his apartment when Jason showed up he heard Ezra tell Alex that "Jason might be able to help" or something to that effect, which makes me think Alex threatened self harm then too. Ezra is very pretty and has a talent for art and writing, thinks more deeply than most young people, and had a sexual relationship with Alex. Alex was in love with her, and I can see why. He probably wanted to have her as his girlfriend, and I can see why. Losing her would be painful. But please don't misread my comments like so many others have done, I am in no way saying Ezra was justified in taking that horrible action that she did. She was rightly convicted of murder and is rightly imprisoned. But I do have sympathy for her that she was in an awful personal relationship situation that would be difficult for even a more mature adult to handle.

​@@musicloverchicago437all "evidence " is from Ezra. She can say whatever she want, because Alex is dead and she murdered him

I mean, it the same thing with Ted Bundy. He seemed so regular, Someone you wouldn’t fear passing at park or the mall. That’s the craziest part about killers. She seriously looks like your average friend.

And how Alex looks normal but could of been a wacko when it comes to sex and how he treats his girlfriend.

Her psychopath weirdo bf Alex looked angelic too...

Jayla Ro wow, that was an intelligent come back. I’m impressed haha

@@JustJo-sg8xo I didn't watch the whole trial. Is there a lot of evidence Alex was a weirdo? Like in her journals or other people who dated Alex? If you believe her defense attorneys narrative that's cool--I'm just wondering if there was corroborating evidence.

😂🤣👍

Lol just about anything is more satisfying than a snickers bar.

Sometimes it does work.

Yesssss!!!!! 👌

It's not a Snickers.. It's a Marathon! 😂

If you watched the original sentencing video - it felt absolutely… McEndless 😓

@@whynottalklikeapiratoh really?

@@katrinat.3032 “Really” as “in real life”? You betcha …

YEP !!!! I THOUGHT THE SAME

Absolute same! People like her don’t understand empathy, so they try faking it without realizing that people see right through it. Empathy is not a facial expression, it’s a vibe, a feeling that is either there or not. Contrary to what Ezra seemed to believe, people aren’t stupid, they pick up on these things. She looked like an absolute freakshow and even the words she spoke were still all about her. Going on the stand was her biggest mistake, she locked that conviction down all by herself. Who’s the idiot now?!

If she breaths, it's used against her. If she cries too hard or too much, shes a fake. If she doesn't cry enough, she's heartless. If she smiles, she's not taking it seriously. If she keeps a calm face, she has no emotions. No matter what she does... she'd be judged.

​@@ashleyk.8828lol you quoted from Ezra's own writing? She never took responsibility for her actions, she sexually mutilated her ex boyfriend and stabbed him to death in order to win back Jason. The same Jason who went looking for her on the day of her crime because he believed she was in a rage and was going to do something dangerous. It's people like Ezra who who make it hard for real victims of abuse to get justice. She hurts survivors with her lies and false allegations. It's true that people noticed she never showed any emotion, never cried and only came to life when Jason testified. She even removed her pink coat to reveal a sweater that Jason had given her. So glad she will spend 50 years in jail.

@@ashleyk.8828she cracked a man’s skull open with a knife, if he’d done this to her you’d never have written this diarrhea. Everybody is dumber for having read your opinion please keep it to yourself next time

May I ask what your pfp is a picture of?

Her one mistake in court not using her craziness.

She totally tried using it. Dressed up like an innocent clean young librarian. Acted naive during her testimony. She played every card in her collection. People just see through b.s. Plain and simple. No matter how intelligent you think you are people pick up on b.s.all of the time. Her biggest mistake was thinking she was the smartest person in the room playing the complete opposite.

@@scentlessapprentice88 na....she dis not use pure crazy. I am talking crazy look for bugs crawling on someone scream for no reason I am talking crazy crazy

She has a serious personality disorder.

Lovey Except that her personality disorder caused her to collect boyfriends and pit them against each other. Her internal turmoil made her dangerous.

Isn’t narcissism the same thing as self centeredness? Her narcissism was combined with not having any feelings whatsoever and being a pathological liar.

Well said.

I second that, but sorry, not hard to look at. Quite pleasing actually (but I know what you mean ;) )

@@yogioto Cringe cuck soyboy incel cringe. She's a 5/10 that any dude with a normal social life has seen millions of times.

​@@yogioto Do you still feel the same way after seeing the REAL Monica at her sentencing? Because there is nothing pleasing about looking at Monica Key. She is pure evil, and hideous to look at, in my opinion. (I refuse to call her some exotic name she gave to herself, Her mother named her Monica, That's her name.)

I once drank wayyyy too much at a party and blacked out for 6 hours. I remember checking my watch at 7pm. nothing after that. not unconscious. Just no memory. My friends tell me i didn't leave until 1am. i woke up at my apartment at 4am.

GoonerHill happened to me too after drinking with friends. I have Little blurs of memory but nothing concrete after a certain point. Never drank that much again.

I've blacked out before. I mean didnt kill anyone but it has actually happened. Theres a night of my life my husband constantly refers to that I honestly can't remember because I drank too much. Broke my "hers" mug by accident that night and everything, found it the next morning and couldnt figure out wtf happened!

@@nadaleenatasha Same, only had to happen once!

Yeah... It depends honestly. I was totally disassociated and barely remember a thing unless I try _really_ hard. I didn’t have any control but I did become aware at certain points where I remembering making the choice. Never anything this serious though. Disassociating can also make you lie I think. It was definitely on purpose. Even if she wasn’t aware at first, after the first or second strike I KNOW she knew what she was doing.

Maybe after it happened she got scared. Maybe after, she realised, she didn't have to do what she did. Maybe she was questioning herself if she overreacted. Maybe she thought: Maybe he wouldn't kill me, he would just rape me and I killed him. What have I done. Maybe that's why she got scared with what she has done. Maybe thats why she was scared to tell what happened in the first place.

​@@boheeatelier6681girl she is guilty af you sound and look so foolish why would you want to back up this person? Go help actual victims.

@@boheeatelier6681nah she killed him dummdumm

@@boheeatelier6681Oh brother! Maybe, maybe, maybe…. You know what’s not a maybe, the fact that she brutally stabbed Alex to death.

You're right. Darlie routier, Diane downs, Darlene gentry, Chris watts, the guy who just killed the pilot girl last year in colorado. There are a ton of people who could easily be your co-worker and neighbor and get they are murderous selfish dangerous people.

Exactly

But what is this doing to us and our perceptions. I"'ll tell you one thing, after all these real life murders and investigations and especially the interrogations in you tube I can never go back to all that NCIS bullshit. It's real, and we're watching. Except "Goodfellas," I've seen that a hundred times and I'll watch it 100 more.

She has nothing figured out, thats always been her problem. I think in this case you can blame the parents. (all 4 of them).

Right! She figured that even though her lame story against John Hansen failed, this time she'd fortify the tale with plenty of additional fabricated evidence.and frame it in the context of a hate crime/jilted crazy ex.

@@LittleLouieLagazza BPD gonna BPD

Pretty sure this happened way before the “believe all women” thing

Its Phil McCandless

Please explain

What explanation do you need? He’s the guy who died

@@SanguineYoru You are being very cryptic because I do not know what you are talking about

Bathe and relax in my shit, who’s being cryptic? They’re saying Rest In Peace to Alex, the person who Ezra killed. Go review the case and then you’ll be like, “ooooh, now I get it!”

@@chriswhalley that makes no sense

I wish we had it in Australia!

@@moviemad56 you have RU-vid so you get a lot of the good cases and other content from court TV

@@juniorcosio8873 correct! All these women have a sad case of insecurity.

Yes my first conclusion also.

You got that right, they have one thing in common, ALL PSYCHOPATHS!!!

This investigator seems very lame and not too bright, i dont think he should be an investigator, at least i dont think he is a very good one! Avoids answering questions as if he doesnt know the answers!

Poor Alex, he seemed like a very nice guy who would help anybody! The other two cases Jodi"sicko" Arias and Shayna"demented" Hubers , both of their victims were very nice guys too that everyone loved!!! SICK PSYCHO JEALOUS WOMEN THAT ARE SO INSECURE, WHY DONT THEY JUST KILL THEMSELVES AND DO SOCIETY A FAVOR...INSTEAD THEY KILL GOOD GUYS THAT WOUKD HAVE BEEN VERY BENEFICIAL TO SOCIETY!!!! ROT IN PRISON YOU SICK SOB'S!!!!

So we're in for good content then?

this was before the pandemic

@@haleyt3754 I think they are saying after this lockdown there will be a lot of cases going on. Due to the fact many people are now constantly stuck with their abusers.

Please share the statistics.

@@darksol99darkwizard there are articles about it you can just type in domestic violence pandemic. The numbers of domestic violence has rissen world wide. So much I think that the numbers you can call were overwhelmed cause so many women called after the lockdown came in place, but I dont remember exactly what the article said.

Scary

Lala: I just saw this on t.v.

Right?! The timeline is insane. None of them had full time jobs.

ITR Photo and creative Co. Sarah Diane I haven’t seen it. What did you like about it?

@@tmeservey2723 It was almost like watching a TV series, the evidence stacking up, the lying, the strange "poet" romance they try to explain through out it all. It's almost like she really thought if she didn't kill him, she could never fully serve the older gentleman she had been seeing because Alex was everything she wanted but having both wasn't an option. I recommend watching the part of the trial where her ex enters the stand, containing her excitement was almost impossible for her. It was fascinating.

where did you watch it? I can't find the entire trial, only bit & pieces.

i’m just as enamored with this case. update me if you write a book, i’d love to buy!

@@Yourmom-wn6uz Now I want to watch it also. Please write a book!

@Smile Big you are a bigoted asshole. So... Fuck you .

@Smile Big no it's true. I'm white. It's true.

@Smile Big your comment makes no sense. Ezra McCandless is white and was convicted. And Lori Vallow is white and is still in jail, as is her husband, also white. Why do people like you have to bring race into absolutely everything? Not saying there is not racial inequality in this country, because there definitely is. But people like you CONSTANTLY trying to find it where it doesn't exist is never going to help solve the true problem of it. You're only perpetuating it.

@Aquarian baby They were too quick to believe the story they were told. Though Tylee was there and sort of made him out to have deserved being killed. I bet they listened to her....kids aren't very good liars, generally. But so far I haven't seen her comments on camera.

Best analysis I've heard yet of how it went down. Both these people were very comfortable with engaging in highly controlled cutting prior to the homicide as a way of "draining off" rage. The victim supposedly had some history as an adolescent of being violent but it sounds like he outgrew all or most of it. Though clearly still a very troubled, angry man, he was pretty harmless to anybody but himself; he sounds like he had an extremely elevated potential for suicide. The defendant appears to be a person with a very long history history of complicated sex games; she toyed with Alex this way and he never knew what hit him. Jason, on the other hand, was apparently a stable guy, a medic, a rescuer and protector in a very positive sense who perhaps chalked up her instability to her youth and trauma. When she realized that her side games cost her this meal ticket, she became enraged at Alex. Her history - habit of cutting, obsession with knives and related items ("claws") led her perhaps to initially believe she could control the magnitude of the attack, leaving Alex very cut up but alive. She was too dependant to just leave a bad situation - notice she was still basically living at home? She may have only been capable of destroying an object on who she is dependent in order to leave them but not in touch with that. Alex, in her mind, cost her Jason, so literally " cutting Alex out of her life", as well as revenge for that boiled over. The final straw was the fact that she, like you are pointing out, was enjoying the stabbing itself. I don't think it was a well planned crime but sooner or later she would have killed somebody. I feel sorry for the staff who will have to manage her behind bars....that new haircut she got after being convicted tells us she's already prepping for or playing new games with other inmate's heads.

@cubomania3 Pardonnez moi mon chou chou, I did not mean to confuse you. I meant to say, her "character type" . Also, that with the same color and haircut as Casey Anthony, she could be her twin. Stay safe toots ~

YouMe UsWe but hair colour isn’t a personality trait lol it’s just not a sensical comment

MissDroplette it’s an adjective, meaning “makes sense”. you could have typed that into google instead of under my comment lol

MissDroplette I know that one too! lol and actually I had to google when sensical was first used and it says 18th century. so not that new, but I get you lol

MsYogaGrrrl I agree.

You sound as bad as her.. Mind your own business.. We're you there 24/7?? Maybe he refused to go to hospital!! Stop gossiping and clean up your mouth!!!

Darlie suffered immense blood loss. Sorry don’t believe she is a killer. Wasn’t that bright of a woman to be able to stab herself 2mm from her carotid artery , as well as embed the necklace. Victims do get amnesia, plenty of cases to reflect that . But I agree with you regarding this bimbo

I also think Darlie may be innocent. I hope she gets a new trial. At the very least, a fresh look of all the evidence should be conducted.

So you think a stranger had incentive to murder her boys savagely? And you think the medical staff at the hospital, the detectives, the forensic experts, and the cops on the scene were all orchestrating a conspiracy against her? Wow.

People don't get amnesia. That's a crock. What is well documented though are the lying jussie smollets of the world who claim to have been victimized for sympathy. And wow is that in keeping with darlie routers character. Did you know she also falsely claimed to be a victim of sexual assault while dating Darin because she felt she wasn't getting enough male attention? And so what about her carotid artery? She missed. She isn't a doctor or surgeon and so of course she didn't have a clue where she was slicing herself. She had sense enough to make the slice shallow enough to not matter though. And honestly the human body is full of nerves and vains. Every cut is going to be close to SOMETHING. I don't believe the mass conspiracy theory that you do. I also don't believe a stranger had any motive to slaughter her kids but spare her. Darlie is a liar, cut from the same cloth as this Monica ezra tall tale teller.

And darlie was not stabbed in the neck. She was superficially sliced.

Alex wanted her to kill him, he was the sicko, she met a control freak . All he talked about was cannibalism .

He was out of her life. She ordered her out over a month previously then she comes to where he was and killed him the same day.

Alex was a supreme deviant just like she was and wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't have the mental capacity to deal with it normally and felt she couldn't make him go away and he kept threatening her with his own suicide. And because he wouldn't leave her alone, she felt he was in the way of her and Jason getting back together. So she flipped and killed him thinking there was no other way. Too many emotions tied with the emotions of sex at that level at THAT age would make many go crazy and it definitely did both her and Alex. They both moved too fast. Normally that situation would just go down as a "crazy and wonderful time in my youth" but it ended up something else entirely. But remember something, Alex was NOT A SAINT. That dude dug his own grave by being a total jerk and not leaving her alone. Not saying her killing him was justified but he "kept poking the bear" and got bit for it, real hard. His death should be a lesson to dudes who get too hung up on a girl when you find someone who's on your sexual wavelength - it will turn your world upside down in crazy and wonderful ways. But when it's taken away from you (they split from you) that high you've been riding will plummet and you will do whatever you can to retain it. Hence his threatening of wanting to suicide if she didn't go back to him. Don't be like Ezra, don't be like Alex. That's the lesson here.

@@phyrr2 you sound like a professional victim

@@sallybardin6564found the kid who can’t read lmao

She took the stand?!

Cavity search

I stumbled upon the cross expecting it to be sensational but it was actually boring. The DA brought up some details about the texts and interviews to discredit her story and label her a liar. His closing arguments were better, but the Jury really didn’t need any help to get the job done. Ezra’s sloppiness was her own undoing

@@BrianGreeneRADThanks! Good to know. I'm glad the jury got it right.

Miss Drake are you aged 25-35?

@@stevechristie2569 She's underage, she's my daughter back the f off.

😂 that made me laugh, she is gormless . Your right about the men she attracted, I couldn’t imagine my son sticking around listening to the poetry/garbage they read out in court!

It’s infuriating how they kept engaging with her. Jason said it was over then texted with her 600 times in one night?! If these dudes had any sense they would have cut her out of their lives when she false accused John to police. She wielded the victim card mercilessly. That is not a safe person to be around.

She's a disgrace to 80s fashion

I have seen that first hand and I thought it was odd. I was thinking that you killed him you said how much you hated him all the time & now you're saying "he's my angle" like what?

How?

Have you seen that movie? I liked it

@@antoniamills3000 Ezra was born Monica Kay, later Monica Karlin. Ezra McCandless took her name from Chris McCandless - there were a book and a film written about him. He was an American hiker, a traveler. He hiked North America, living off the land as he went. He found his way to a long-abandoned van in a remote area of Alaska that's nearly impossible to reach during seasons when the waters in the rivers rise. Cut off from any hope of reaching civilization, during the winter, he began to starve. He ate poisonous berries and eventually died. He left behind photos that were later found, undeveloped in his camera along with his body. Chris McCandless has become an American folk hero. It fit well with the type of image Ezra/Monica wanted to portray and people she wanted to emulate. Ezra seems to have a personality disorder, without a solid identity of her own, she is compelled to want to assume whatever qualities she admires in others. She comes off as "fake" to a lot of people. A poser. She's manipulative, she'll give you what she thinks you want. .

@@reagan9293 wow... thank you for that info x

I thought she was born male and transitioned and that was why she changed her name..... I was wrong. She's non-binary.

Agree, 1000%.

don't buy her borderline lies

She got the knife from her parents. Her father said he gave it to her in case there way a car wreck and she needed to gut her seat belt or other stuff.

na, she wanted everyone to believe she had murdered him in self defence and get her douchebag army ex-boyfriend's attention/sympathy

Yes! She went to court looking like a combination of Jon Bon Jovi and rod stewart. Both back in the day of course 😊

It's called the Portland, Oregon.

She's odd, so it totally works.

Jason definitely is covering something. He was super nervous and shifty in court. He “wanted nothing more to do with Ezra” yet was talking to her on Instagram about loving her and wanting children with her, and he followed her around town on his bike. He was there with them right before the two went to the dirt road where Alex was murdered.

She probably doesn’t shower everyday and sleeps around

@@BrianGreeneRAD I think he had some involvement too.

Every one was quick to prosecute her because she's a woman to make an example of her for the men who cry equal rights. She probably didn't get a fair trial.

Jason is definitely suspicious. Anyone who is that much of a hipster has serious problems too. Have you seen his interviews on 48 hours... Creepy!

Megan Langreck she is not like the slender man girls at all! They are seriously mentally ill and believe their delusions. The courts agreed they are mentally ill and have hallucinations but said they are a danger to society because of those hallucinations. Jodie Arias is not near insane, she just wanted him out of the way just like McCandless did. There is a big difference between someone who will kill for their hallucinations and someone who just wants to get rid of you.

@@mandapaige1 Nah Jodi killed her ex because he dumped her but she thought he was going to marry her, she became enraged and murdered him.

Genius Time not according to the prosecution. She planned it! She got the knife, set up a meeting with him, waited until his back was turn and shot him. While bleeding on the floor she took pictures, stabbed him multiple times in multiple different ways, taunted him and when he tried to crawl away she dragged him back to the bathroom to watch him die; all after having sex with him. Then she tried to cover it up! It was proven by detectives that she had to spent a long time watching him bleed out and torture him while she did so with not only large stabs but also little cuts all over his legs and arms. She was found guilty of 1st degree premeditated murder and barely missed the death penalty. If it was in an enraged state she would have gotten 2nd degree. The slender man girls are not even in a prison, they are in a mental health facility, meaning padded cells, doctors and hard core medication for probly the rest of their lives which means the court recognizes if they were not mentally ill and had hallucinations, they would not have carried out their plan. If you actually look at the two cases from a profiler’s point of view, they are two completely different cases.

Agree..Her whole getup was giving me Lifetime movie 80s vibes..very weird.

@@mandapaige1 Oh she was enraged she was just sick enough to enjoy her revenge

5:35

Self defence

A “horrible decision” is when I eat Denny’s at 1 am.

Jane March was a pretty kitty

I thunk thats the more likely scenario unfortunately

Bingo

The Jodi Arias ‘fog’.....🌬

Really...where have you been all your life, drunk in a wisc bar?? Lol or too busy eating cheese curds? Lol.....lol only kidding, im from wisc too!!!!

Haha well, I do eat cheese curds, but only at Culver’s

@@lindseystein9676 hell yes. Culvers is the best.

The boy with a vagina is a girl. This delusion was most likely part of the problem. She can't except what she actually is. Cold, callous, lying,manipulator.

She was 19 when she met Jason (33 yrs old) in July. Turned 20 in Oct when she had the abortion. Killed Alex in March. It all happened in less than a year. She was 22 at the trial.