Rex Heuermann killed women in the same room where he grew up. The same room where he went through puberty. The same room where, according to the FBI's John Douglas, the violent fantasies that would eventually consume him first took root. He never left that room — not psychologically, not physically. He converted his childhood bedroom into a space his own wife was forbidden to enter, filled it with his childhood belongings, and used it to carry out the most brutal acts imaginable over the course of nearly two decades. 

That overlap is not a coincidence. The Peacock documentary gave us unprecedented access to what was happening inside Rex Heuermann's mind — through the therapist who sat with him for months inside the jail, through his own words, and through the assessment of John Douglas, the criminal profiler who literally invented the FBI's behavioral analysis of serial killers. Rex described dark thoughts beginning in high school. He consumed books about death and mutilation. Sex and violence merged in his mind during adolescence and never separated. He said he couldn't put the brakes on it — that one thought fed another fed another, deeper and darker until it consumed him. He said his outlet was to kill. 

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me to analyze everything the documentary exposed about Rex Heuermann's psychology — the significance of the kill room being his childhood bedroom, what the ritualized four-day cycle reveals about what was actually driving him, and whether the man who says he can't connect himself to the crime scene photos is experiencing genuine dissociation or performing control for one more audience.

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