When a Genius Teen Snaps

Hey everyone! We wanted to correct an error. At around 18 minutes, we state that the reason the gun stopped working was unknown, but that was before we interviewed Sonny's parents. Thank you as always for watching and we have many more videos on the way for you!

The way the stepfather talked about Sonny and Ashley is so beautiful. They are not his biological children but he treats them as such. Brings tears to my eyes.

I’m shocked you managed to get interviews with both the victims and the killer; this is extremely impressive! This channel never fails to deliver!

My career was repairing computers and electro-mechanical devices. When he was alone in the interrogation room and people thought, he was talking to himself, he was actually just reciting tech procedures and recollections of the changes in hardware and software within the PC industry. I used to do this also but I never did this out loud. I believe he had a dissociative break from reality for whatever reason and this was a soothing action.

Something that stands out to me about this interrogation is he can very vividly tell the events in explicit detail, because he did it and isn’t hiding the fact, but the second he gets to a point in the story where he has to recollect his thought process he instantly freezes. He can’t recollect his thought process and he’s very clearly not acting based on the quickness in his speech and then immediately being derailed. That strongly signifies that he was very dissociated during the attack to the point where he was almost blacked out. He did say the attack was purely impulsive. I think this case is a prime example of how fragile our minds are. As someone who has struggled with severe dissociation most of my life this really is what it’s like. You go through the motions of your life without thinking about it or really much of anything. Things just get done and you can’t recall how or why they got done.

first found it a bit uncanny to see the parents speaking so matter of factly but later it really shows how they've managed to give their daughter a place in their memory and not wear themselves down by this tragedy

"Because she babysat him, he holds so many characters of her, and I know other people want him destroyed, but he's all I have left of her." This is absolutely heartbreaking and strong.

As someone who has dealt with psychosis, I couldn't fathom my parents being this forgiving and loving

It broke my heart when he said he never wants to be released because he's so scared it might happen again. So sad for all involved as they all truly love each other. God bless them

That’s about the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. He killed his loved and loving sister, put his parents through sheer hell and destroyed his own life, and he doesn’t even know why. He’s also intelligent enough to know that if he did it once for no reason at all, he could possibly do it again. So sad.

I used to work with people with schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder. One had killed someone during an episode of psychosis. He had been living in a "supervised" independent living apartment but they hadn't been monitoring his meds and be decompensated. He swore he had no memory of the killing. He walked into a Target in bloody clothes and started shopping for completely normal things - groceries, hygiene items, the things anyone would buy. But just sort of in a fugue state. By the time I worked with him, he'd been committed to a residential facility for 12 years. He was about to be released but CHOSE to stay in the facility. Said that if it happened once, it could happen again and it was terrifying to not trust himself. He wasn't evil. He wasn't a bad man. I didn't fear him. He was very self aware. It almost made be believe in demonic possession, or at least ABSOLUTELY understand how serious mental illness/psychosis was assumed to be possession.

27:52 “Are they abusive to you, physically?” “Not anymore.” A shame the detective completely misheard his answer and moved on.

When he speaks to himself it actually sounds like there is another person talking to him. He sounds like 2 people.

Hearing thr mom say "he's all I have left of her" knowing he's who took her life was heartbreaking to me 😢

If this guy wasn't insane, I don't know who is. He had full crazy conversations with no one (or someone only in his mind), expressed that his sister and parents were great people, didn't say he was provoked, or abused, or pressured for grades. He admitted everything freely and answered every question asked. He just couldn't explain why. The loss of taste, the detachment was like he had sudden on-set psychosis.

"I don't know if I want to be around my loved ones.." Ok I'm crying...

Man. I’ve been subscribed to this channel for ages and it’s so strange to see a crime committed in my home town. RIP Ashley. This kid got two life sentences.

Not to make this about me, but Ashley was a friend of mine from school. She was loved by all and kind to every single person she encountered. Such a gentle, radiant soul. I just want everyone to know that about her. I am subscribed to this channel and it was surreal to have this video pop up for me.

This is one of the most interesting murder documentaries I've ever seen. You can genuinely tell how the person in the interrogation room and the person being interviewed towards the end are not the same personality.

Most clear cut asberger I have ever seen. Sad that he didnt get help years before this happened.