Why Didn't Rex Heuermann Look at the Courtroom Once During His Guilty Plea?

He faced the DA and answered every question in one or two words. Strangulation. Yes. Eight. He did not turn around to look at the families of the women he killed. He did not look at his own daughter. He stood with his hands shackled behind his back in a dark suit and gave the courtroom nothing.Rex Heuermann maintained a double life for seventeen years — suburban architect and father on one side, serial murderer on the other. He planned each killing for when his wife and children were out of town. His attorney described the plea as a huge relief. A friend said he was always respectful to women.Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for a conversation about what the courtroom presentation reveals about someone who has compartmentalized violence for that long. Whether the refusal to look at the gallery is control, indifference, or something the clinical literature has a name for. And whether a mind that walled itself off for two decades can provide useful information to the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, which Heuermann is now required to cooperate with as part of his plea deal.

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