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00:00Good evening, a break today in a high profile cold case murder more than 30 years ago.
00:30In June of 1988, 21-year-old UNM student Althea Oakley was walking home from a party when she was attacked by a man with a knife near CNM, stabbed multiple times before her assailant ran off.
00:45Then in September of 1988, 13-year-old Stella Gonzalez was shot and killed.
00:51The following summer, July 16, 1989, 18-year-old UNM student Caitlin Arquette was shot to death as she was driving home.
01:01UNM police.
01:20Hi, this is the hospital security.
01:22We have a gentleman outside who is saying that he killed somebody.
01:27Okay, so Paul Apodaca, he's on probation.
01:33Probation violation, aggravated assault, police officer weapon, armed and dangerous.
01:38He is a sex offender.
01:47I would kill again.
01:49Good day.
01:50I'm alive.
01:51That'll think it was wrong.
01:52The thing inside of me, it's like, the appetite.
01:57Take a look, it's gone longer.
02:1053-year-old Paul Apodaca showed up to the UNM police station claiming he had found God
02:16and wanted to confess to crimes he says he committed decades ago.
02:22So, the first one, you said a Katelyn or a Katelyn?
02:41Katelyn.
02:42Okay.
02:45Okay.
02:46And then, what was the second person that you said?
02:55Okay.
02:56Who else?
02:57This is not somebody who just sauntered into a police station and said, I've got to unburden myself.
03:19This is somebody who's picked up on a probation violation.
03:23He is homeless, has no money.
03:26He's disconnected from his family.
03:29And I think those were the driving forces behind Apodaca confessing.
03:33He has been in prison before.
03:35One of the things we see in individuals who are psychopaths is sometimes what we call a parasitic lifestyle,
03:42meaning that they're looking for ways to live off of other people.
03:48And his options, I think, outside of prison are very slim, if none.
03:53But it's a choice he's willing to make to not have to take care of himself anymore.
03:57What we know about Apodaca is that he has this long history of violent and sexual offenses.
04:04He raped a 13-year-old.
04:06So, that early offense behavior, followed by more assaults and rapes,
04:10indicate that this is a person that has a history of predatory behavior,
04:15along with a lack of remorse for his actions.
04:18And, in fact, he recently assaulted his aunt.
04:21He has a profound disregard for the well-being and rights of others.
04:27So, how many times did you stab her?
04:54Why did you do that?
04:57Why did you do that?
05:27I understand the whole pain that I've caused, and I feel it.
05:33So, where did you shoot Caitlyn?
05:37I hit her.
05:46So, we have Athea, and we have Caitlyn,
05:50and you said there was a girl crossing the bridge on Central.
05:54Central in what?
05:59Okay.
06:00What did she look like?
06:03I couldn't tell that that range.
06:05Okay.
06:06How did you kill her?
06:07I shot her.
06:08He goes on this rant about how he's seen women treated badly,
06:17how he had anger in his heart, and he had resentment towards women.
06:20But he's still putting on the mask.
06:21I don't think that that's the real reason why he committed these crimes.
06:27When we think of ritualistic killings, we think that someone has to do this particular behavior in this specific way in order to achieve whatever satisfaction they're looking for.
06:36We have assault histories, but then it graduates to a knife, and then it graduates to a rifle.
06:42He did this thing because he wanted to do it.
06:47Did something happen that prompted you to come in to talk today?
06:52What brought you to this point?
06:54What brought you to this point?
06:55I had an assault.
06:56I had an assault in this room.
06:58It's not.
07:00I'm trying to hold what I've done.
07:22I saw Althea walking south on one of these stuff, I saw that she was wearing a denim
07:35skirt and I wanted to go and help her, but what happened was that I was sitting there
07:46and she walked up, she smiled at me, she was hit high and she smiled at me, and that's the worst part.
08:05That's the worst part.
08:07Have you heard someone that smiles at you?
08:10This smile that Althea Oakley gives to Paul Badaka really triggers him.
08:19Now he says that it's because of his hatred to women, how can you kill someone who smiles at you?
08:25But when we look at why sex offenders commit the acts that they commit,
08:30there's often a misinterpretation of behaviors being done by the victim.
08:37And I think that the smile gave Apodaka the belief that he was free to do whatever he wanted.
08:46When I thought about it, what made me do it, what made me attack her was all the hatred that I had for women.
08:56And I just released it on Althea, and I didn't think my short little knife would be able to do that much damage.
09:05I didn't think I had killed her.
09:08I used to think that as long as I had never killed anybody, that was the ultimate sin.
09:17Everything else was okay.
09:20But once, once I did that, it seemed like nothing mattered anymore.
09:25And every once in a while, I don't know, when that anger would rise again, I'd go out.
09:35Just drive around with a raffle like a, like a hunter.
09:42Not a hunter, an animal.
09:46That's the first time I ever did that.
09:50I think he was seeking revenge in his mind on all these women who had not been receptive to his overtures.
09:59This is somebody who has been, you know, exploiting women, raping women before.
10:05And for him, it's just the next step.
10:07He's followed the path that so many other sexual psychopaths have followed in the past,
10:12which is starting out with sex crimes and progressing to murder.
10:16How did you first make contact with her, and then where did you stab her?
10:21What kind of service were you on?
10:23The second one.
10:26She walked past me, and I came up behind her and stabbed her from behind me.
10:32Mm-hmm.
10:33And then I think I circled back because I don't think she turned around.
10:38And then I stabbed her in the side.
10:42She didn't really have time to try to defend herself.
10:47Okay.
10:49And then after you stabbed her, did you see what she did?
10:53She told me, I don't have anyone.
10:56I said, I don't have anyone.
10:58And she just started to walk up the side of the pathway.
11:09What was your intent?
11:11The psychology of it is kind of complex.
11:17My intention was just to take her at my point to rape her.
11:23I haven't been thinking about doing anything exactly like that, no.
11:32I had raped women before, but never,
11:36never, like, lay an ambush or anything like that before.
11:42He says the psychology of why he did what he did is complex,
11:46and that he had never actually thought about engaging in this behavior.
11:51But when we look at him, arms crossed, sitting back,
11:55he's comfortable with describing what it is that he did.
12:00He wants us to believe that it is more complex
12:03because he believes that it's more complex.
12:06But the notion that he hadn't considered doing this
12:10and that this is the first time he has ever done this
12:14without ever having fantasized about this,
12:17I think is just another lie
12:19because the psychopath refuses to ever tell the truth about anything.
12:23Let's go to Caitlin's case.
12:32It was late at night. I've been driving around the whole city with a rifle just looking for a target of opportunity. I was a sick man.
12:51Caitlin pulled up next to me. It was a red light. And I raised the rifle and I shot at her. She crossed the median, came back and hit a light pole.
13:20So I hid the rifle under the seat and I drove back. I parked in front of her. And I began to go see what condition she was in. And as bright as I approached the window and looked in, I saw that her head had begun to swell.
13:45The vehicle pulled up. The vehicle pulled up in front of me. And officer came and asked what had happened.
13:54I told him that I had seen the car there and that I was going to investigate. And we both looked in. I took my license plate on the car, took my name and number, and then I drove away.
14:17When Apodaca is talking about the murder of Caitlin Arquette, he's describing himself going back to see his own handiwork. By doing that, that just gives him more of a sense of power and control.
14:35Like, he's seeing the actual damage he's done to somebody after the fact. And I think that really highlights his ability as a psychopath to camouflage himself and sort of put on this mask of an innocent person and be somebody he's not. And that in turn could also be feeding his ego.
14:53Do you remember what phone number you gave to the officer at the time? Did you give him the correct house phone number to the best of your palate?
15:03Yes. I saw that some people had turned themselves in. And then I remember seeing that three people had confessed to the crime. Then it was shown that they were false confessions. I couldn't understand why anybody would do that.
15:24The idea that someone would give false confession is about notoriety. He's trying to escape notoriety. He's the psychopath that doesn't want his name in the paper. I think in the moment, he's just doing whatever feels right. So he gives the number thinking that eventually they're going to come get me. And when they never do, well, I guess I got away with it.
15:54You had mentioned something about a girl that you had shot on the bridge. You want to tell me about it?
16:16Okay. There's a central street bridge crosses the street to Tingley. There's a bike path underneath the bridge. There were two girls walking eastbound on the bridge. And I had seen them walking. I must have been doing the same thing I had done before.
16:40I parked. I parked. And I shot at them. And one of them fell to the ground. And the other one screamed. And I threw the right back in the trunk and drove away.
16:58From that back in the back of the back in the back of the進icator.
17:03You recall any description?
17:07No. No. The armor might be 15-20.
17:11What did you do after this year?
17:13I just drove home, I guess. I remember less about this than any other.
17:20In correlation to the other cases that we've talked about already, was this after or before?
17:26before. This was after Althea and before Kira. Kira was the last person I ever harmed like that.
17:38Apodaca's second murder isn't as great of a story for him to tell. You know, he shot her from a
17:44distance. He didn't really have the details in mind. So he can't really relive that experience,
17:49which when a psychopath is confessing to a murder to police, part of the excitement there
17:56is just them reliving the event in their mind as they're going through it with detectives. And he
18:01can't do that with Stella.
18:05I'm tired of, you know,
18:10it's hard. It's hard to just accept everything. It's not so much about relieving myself of that as it
18:19is to bring closure to the people I've learned. The last year I was in jail for a year.
18:26Over assaulting my auntie. I was living with my grandma and my auntie got all my nerves and I was,
18:31I was on drugs and I had a booster.
18:38I don't blame the drugs, but I, they do have a lowering effect on your threshold for cognitive
18:45control and all that. But I spent the last year in jail and just crying and crying over all the
18:54things I've done. I think this is the element of positive impression management that we often see
19:16with psychopathy. He wants to come across as someone whose, you know, shame and guilt for everything that
19:21they did. Right. It's finally come to fruition and they're here for, uh, for penance.
19:28I don't think so. But if this really was about accepting responsibility for what you did,
19:37you wouldn't have waited until after you abused your auntie to get to that point. From strangers to
19:46family members. It's not a far leap for the psychopath because they only see the relationship
19:53in which they can get something because of the parasitic lifestyle that the psychopath leads.
19:58When anyone, in this case women, somehow challenge Apodaca, he'll do what he has to do to maintain his
20:06masculinity.
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