Born to Kill? (TV Series)

David Carpenter: The Trailside Killer (2014)

Richard T. Wood: Self - Former Probation Officer

Quotes 

• [police contact David's probation officer] 

  Himself - Former Probation Officer : I was very apprehensive. It's never good for a guy with his kind of record to be the last person to see a young woman who disappears.

• Himself - Former Probation Officer : He was sent to a-a youth facility for, uh, sex offenses as a child; so, he had a long history of aberrant behavior.

• Himself - Former Probation Officer : The David that went out hunting drove a red car, wore different clothes, and didn't stutter, and this David was the hunter, he hunted people; and, the David that everyone saw - his parents, his kids, his brothers and sisters... me - was this bumbling guy.

• Narrator : [during a police interview]  As they discussed Carpenter's childhood, there was an alarming change in his demeanor.

  Himself - Former San Jose Police Dept Detective : He said that "I was forced to take ballet lessons, and I really resented that," and I-I interrupted him for a second when he made that comment. I said, "You know, David, um, when I was nine years old I took ballet lessons, too," and he cocked his head a little bit, and he stood up. He rose above us and he went through some basic ballet positions and started doing somewhat of a dance.

  Himself - Former Probation Officer : And telling us the number of the positions - one, two, three. He didn't do them well, but he remembered them.

  Himself - Former San Jose Police Dept Detective : And as he stood up above us, talking, he didn't stutter one time. Everything that he said was in a natural, uh, cadence of speech. There was... the stutter was gone. The contortion of face was all gone. He was actually in a happy, uh, comfortable space

  Himself - Former Probation Officer : This is one of the things that just completely and totally amazed us.

  Himself - Former Detective, San Jose Police Dept : It was dramatic. It was absolutely dramatic.

• Himself - Former Probation Officer : [on David's detainment for questioning]  Bumbling, stuttering, uhhh... tried to charm everybody; but, you know, homicide detectives aren't easily charmed.

• Himself - Former Probation Officer : I think he had some problems, and his mother's manner of dealing with them probably wasn't as constructive as it should have been.