Dr. Phil Interviews Zachary Davis — Transcript
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- 0:00you know there are all kinds of people
- 0:01in this world you know we all know that
- 0:05I've talked today about
- 0:07um
- 0:09the fact that we have all sorts of
- 0:10diagnoses for people is Candace was
- 0:13talking about
- 0:15anti-social personality something we
- 0:18call Psychopaths sociopaths
- 0:21and
- 0:22from time to time in the last 45 years
- 0:25I've encountered people that I thought
- 0:27transcended
- 0:28you know all the labels that we had and
- 0:31Rose to the level of just being Pure
- 0:33Evil
- 0:35I haven't seen them very often
- 0:37but there are times that I've
- 0:39encountered those that I thought yeah
- 0:42this goes to a whole other level
- 0:45and I'm going to show you an example
- 0:48of one of those people
- 0:51that
- 0:52I was asked to interview in Tennessee
- 0:56I was asked to interview this person by
- 0:58his lawyer
- 1:00and when I arrived at the jail
- 1:04to interview a Zachary Davis
- 1:10the guards there
- 1:13really didn't want to be in the same
- 1:16room with him
- 1:17he was Shackled hands and feet around
- 1:20his waist
- 1:23but they seriously didn't want to be in
- 1:27his physical space
- 1:29because they sensed such a
- 1:35evil energy around this individual
- 1:40I'm going to tell you it's
- 1:43you may not want to watch it so it's
- 1:45it's very brief but if you want to look
- 1:47away and just listen you can do that
- 1:51um I'll just tell you ahead of time did
- 1:53you kill your mother
- 1:56yeah
- 1:59and why did you kill her
- 2:02she wasn't taking care of my family
- 2:06and so because she wasn't taking care of
- 2:09you and your family
- 2:12you decided to kill her
- 2:17and where did you hit her and had where
- 2:21was she when you did this
- 2:22she always sleep you've got a
- 2:26sledgehammer in one hand and you open
- 2:28that door what's going through your head
- 2:31at that moment
- 2:33my mind was pretty much blank
- 2:37and when you swung that hammer
- 2:40the first time did you swing it hard
- 2:44did she make a noise
- 2:46I couldn't just hear the hammer hitting
- 2:49her head
- 2:50and what did it sound like
- 2:52there was this uh what thumping sound
- 2:59and you hit her again
- 3:02and again
- 3:04yeah you said maybe 20 times about
- 3:09why so many
- 3:11I haven't wanted to make sure she was
- 3:14dead
- 3:15did you laugh when you were hitting her
- 3:17yeah
- 3:19why did you laugh
- 3:21I just uh thought she deserved it
- 3:29I heard when I said did it make a sound
- 3:31you heard him laugh
- 3:34when I said that
- 3:38um
- 3:40I asked him if they came in and said hey
- 3:43there's been a technical error and
- 3:46we're going to have to release you
- 3:49do you think you would be okay to go
- 3:51back out into society
- 3:54and he said yeah sure
- 3:59and I said you
- 4:03don't like criticism
- 4:07what if you had a job at a grocery store
- 4:10and the manager came by and criticized
- 4:14what you were doing
- 4:17what would be your response
- 4:22he said I would probably take a can of
- 4:26green beans and smash his head until he
- 4:29was dead
- 4:32and
- 4:35said but you think you're good to go he
- 4:38said yeah
- 4:41I'm good do you have a story or a
- 4:43question for me click the link in the
- 4:46description and tell me what in the
- 4:48world is going on
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