Narcissist Lies Directly To Cops, Doesn't Realize They Have Evidence

The man sitting in the police interview room had already confessed to stabbing his girlfriend to death in an RV parked behind a Walmart. But when the detective stepped out to verify details, the suspect—a man with a long history of bipolar disorder, manic episodes, and a string of burglary and arson charges—kept talking. He described the argument that led to the killing, the knife with the rainbow handle, and how he had cut the body into pieces and tried to burn them. Then, when the detective returned, he did something strange: he started lying about it.

The confession that contradicted itself

The suspect had just finished telling the detective that he stabbed his girlfriend three or four times in the neck after she dared him to do it. He described how she had been screaming, how he felt trapped because they were violating a no-contact order from a previous arrest, and how he pulled her toward him by her collar and stabbed her as she fell. He said he cut off her head and tried to burn the remains. But when the detective came back into the room, the suspect changed his story. He claimed he had only hit her, that she fell and hit her head, and that he panicked. The detective, who had just confirmed the evidence—the knife, the body, the blood—listened calmly and then began pressing him on the inconsistencies.