reginald mcfadden. i haven t took a shower, nothing. convicted rapist, guilty of three murders and the prime suspect in one more homicide. he will spend the rest of his life in prison. throughout a four-hour interview, retired fbi profiler mark safarik tries to peel away the complex layers of mcfadden s psyche. what does he find? a killer who preys on a particular type of victim. i think mcfadden is always on the lookout for vulnerable victims and that person then becomes the focus of his activities and his energy. they re all older than the offender, easily controlled, not going to put up much of a
kill her. he beats her, but at some point, he sort of had this change of heart. she told me she was a counselor. that s what saved her life. so, it s what she told you then, is that and she talked to me. she talked to me. i mean, she talked me down. is there any way that you would not have let her go? no. i would have let her go, because she had no there was no connection. she had no connection to robert silk. mcfadden pleads not guilty to charges that he raped and assaulted jeremy brown. during his trial, mcfadden represents himself and personally cross examines his victim. later, brown becomes an outspoken victims advocate. i am the only living victim of reginald mcfadden, a psychopath who was sentenced to
struggle. you don t see mcfadden taking on a 28-year-old male, in good shape. safarik believes there may be another reason why criminals like mcfadden choose certain female victims. i think that a lot of those offenders, they see the victim as a surrogate, as a symbolic victim that represents someone in their life, a controlling, dominant female in their life, whom they cannot act out against, their mother, grandmother, aunt, some individual who they have a lot of anger towards. the subject of mcfadden s mother appears to prompt a shift in his mood. i went to see my mother. my mother is my mother obviously, your mother is
homicide already in his past. well, we go into his background, we do find out that the woman he was convicted of murdering 26-some-odd years ago had been bound and had been brutalized and had been raped. we got enough of his background to realize what type of person we were dealing with. on october 6th, 1994, police arrest and charge mcfadden for jeremy brown s rape and margaret kierer s murder. he is also charged for robert silk s homicide. mcfadden is convicted in all three cases. he gets 75 years for the rape, and two life sentences for the murders, both to be served consecutively. i guess this is the opportunity for me to say i m remorseful, i m sorry. well, i m not remorseful.
i m not sorry, because i m not guilty. yeah, give me the maximum sentence. matter of fact, give me a thousand years, because it wouldn t make a difference. if it s possible for me to sign my own death warrant, i don t fear death because i ve seen death a thousand times over. it don t make a difference to me. i ve learned to hate white people. you mark your own fate. so, quite frankly, don t show me no mercy, because if i had the opportunity and i was where you were at, i wouldn t show you a bit of mercy. during mcfadden s 92 days of freedom, investigators think one more victim may have fallen by his hands, but the case is still unsolved. mcfadden remains the prime suspect. the grisly postscript begins