Dr. Gary Brucato
Appearances
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
If you're casting a fantasy, the only thing these people have to have in common is that they have the characteristics of who it is that you think rejected you. So they'd have to be popular, attractive, and female. It's a type of trolling behavior and getting stimulated by looking at people who in his mind have these characteristics and fuel the fantasy.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
If an individual is starting to notice that they're having a hard time having feelings towards other people, you might try to look it up and understand it to make sense out of it.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
Now, you do have somebody who is studying criminology, so it's entirely possible that he's reading about it because he's learning about offenders. But it's impossible to say.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
One imagines a predatory animal... in increasingly small loops around the victim, moving closer and closer, building up one's nerve.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
It's very typical of men who are motivated by sexual fantasy. It looks pretty motiveless and strange, like a random targeting of a house. But it has to do with the person that is living inside has caught your eye as filling the role perfectly of your fantasy.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
You'd expect that he went to the backyard, for example, and possibly looked through the window.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
The other possibility, of course, is that you're using things like TikTok videos, because for people like this, everything is Intel. You know, there's a door there. There's a lock. Look, there's a dog. The window is open. Look at what time of day it is. And there are people there, et cetera. And it's all about fact gathering.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
My sense is that it was a culmination of a life where over and over again you're being rejected and you're being knocked off a pedestal. You say, that's it. It's time to enact the fantasy.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
When you're dealing with crimes that are motivated by anger toward women, the men that are in the way are rapidly dispatched.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
If you view that person as having gotten in the way of what it is you're trying to play out, you might be overwhelmed with anger toward them and do something extra. And I think it's a clue that there was a sexualized component to this because this was about women. There was a special anger toward that male.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
People that commit mass murder don't anticipate the adrenal exhaustion that's going to overwhelm them when they do it.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
He talked about looking into the mirror and seeing himself as a nothing. And then after these crimes, he's giving a thumbs up, which implies now he's somebody. And notice it's a mirror. It's a reflection. I'm somebody in the eyes of other people.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
He's clearly trolling and getting stimulated by looking at people who in his mind fuel the fantasy.