see you, little buddy. hairy little dude, ain t he, for a little one. after aaron had gaia for a little while, he seemed to start thinking outside himself. he actually started to become much more involved with other people. everywhere aaron went he took gaia. that opened the door for him. he suddenly started engaging with other people, talking to staff, being more open. he had a softer, more nurturing side that emerged after gaia came into his life. aaron and i never had an overt conversation about the fact he killed his parents and now he was parenting a kitten. it was obvious to me though that whatever he couldn t feel for his own family and certainly the people he killed, he seemed to transfer all of these emotions over to this cat, which was interesting to observe, and we spent weeks there and i would check in with him periodically, and we were filming aaron looking at family photographs, and he started to pause and he
killed, as much as i would like to say i killed for a righteous and solid reason in people s eyes, the truth is i believe i was mistaken. i believe that it was a bitter custody dispute. one of the ladies had manipulated us all and got family and got me to believe that he was molesting his 8-year-old daughter. i would like for that to be true so all this isn t in vain, but the truth is that i just may have been mistaken. and i may have done all this for no reason at all. even this twist wasn t the last of the bizarre ironies in brian s life. he testified against the two women who hired him. the two women received life sentences. in return for his testimony, brian got 25 to life and immunity for his father. but the deal came with a price. he was labeled a snitch by other inmates and forced into protective custody on corcoran s
he is an inmate preacher at the prison s chapel and can trace the ugliest of his sins to a bizarre series of events that began with the loss of his arm. after the air force medically retired me, i retired to little rock, arkansas, started selling clothes in the mall. all i thought about all day long was having one arm, being in the big city where i didn t know anybody, and i already had like self-confidence issues before that. so finally one day i decided, the only way i m going to get over this and not miss out on the best years of my life is just to do everything i wanted to do before. i learned how to talk to girls. i learned how to build confidence and i did what i wanted to do. but the benefits of his newfound confidence revealed a new problem, a lack of cash. eventually i went to the club. i was only 19 years old and i got in, and for the first time i was around people that i always wanted to be around, and part of that scenery was doing cocaine, and i couldn t afford to
hairy little dude, ain t he, for a little one. after aaron had gaia for a little while, he seemed to start thinking outside himself. he actually started to become much more involved with other people. everywhere aaron went he took gaia. that opened the door for him. he suddenly started engaging with other people, talking to staff, being more open. he had a softer, more nurturing side that emerged after gaia came into his life. aaron and i never had an overt conversation about the fact he killed his parents and now he was parenting a kitten. it was obvious to me though that whatever he couldn t feel for his own family and certainly the people he killed, he seemed to transfer all of these emotions over to this cat, which was interesting to observe, and we spent weeks there and i would check in with him periodically, and we were filming aaron looking at family photographs, and he started to pause and he seemed to almost be reminiscing
it sounds like a lot, yeah. though only two of the eight victims were homicides, the others were robbed and in some cases badly beaten. when he was telling us the story of his crimes, it was almost like listening to somebody describe playing a video game. he was that detached. one of them was lost her eyesight in one of her eyes and punctured a lung accidentally, but she survived. she was found in time before she bled out, basically. we wondered if his experience in iraq played a role in his behavior. no, that s the thing. i don t want to blame it that s what all these guys try to come home and say, oh, shame on you know, boo me, i got problems. i saw somebody die so i should [ bleep ] get off. i should have total immunity. i m not saying that. he did not seem to have been bothered by the military experience at all. if anything, i feel like he got a little bit of a charge from it. to an extent it was fun. i guess every kid s dream is to blow stuff up and shoot peopl