I don’t think it was actually the person that I was after, I think it was the dream. I know that’s not really nice to say about a person, but they were basically an object. They were just an object. That’s all they were. I had more satisfaction building up to it and afterwards than I did the actual killing of the person.

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On Friday, Aug. 12 2005 at 8 PM/ET with  NBC “Dateline’s” Edie Magnus. 

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