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HENRY LOUIS WALLACE: It was like the switch was flipped.
And I was choking her.
And I couldn't stop.
CHARISSE COSTON: Serial killers have an ability
to be very charismatic.
And Henry Louis Wallace was very good at what he did
because he'd be your friend.
You don't expect to lose your life at the hands of someone
that you trust.
GARY BRUCATO: Even after the first murder,
there was a need to go out and keep
doing it over and over again.
Because that Henry, that doesn't go away.
HENRY LOUIS WALLACE: There's the good Henry and the bad Henry.
So I felt invincible.
GARY BRUCATO: Henry Wallace was born to a single mother.
Henry's father essentially leaves her
because she becomes pregnant.
From then on, there was a kind of a constant resentment
of Henry that he was essentially the cause of this abandonment.
HENRY LOUIS WALLACE: The arguments, the fights,
that's what I was used to.
CHARISSE COSTON: Henry was never shown love from his mother.
He was beaten.
And he was always trying to win her love.
But he was always being rejected.
HENRY LOUIS WALLACE: There was a whole bunch of older guys.
And there was a girl.
And she was only about 16.
They took her into the woods.
And I followed them into the woods.
It was, like, five or six guys.
And I got turned on by it.
GARY BRUCATO: It's almost impossible to believe
that this particular experience didn't leave a mark in terms
of the fantasies it would go on to develop
about domination, violence towards women, over time.
Just before the transition into murder,
Henry has become involved with a young female.
HENRY LOUIS WALLACE: Tashanda, she was 18.
So I was 25.
It was a nonverbal agreement that we were seeing each other.
There was a lot of kissing and touching.
And now, I'm thinking why she just used me.
I get angry.
And I've got to find some place to put this anger.
I just got on the street.
And all of a sudden, I saw her walking by herself.
And I picked her up.
And it was like I felt that rush.
And I took her out of the city limits.
And I turned off into this wooded area.
And I got out and went into the trunk of the car
and got a 0.357.
I opened that door and told her to get out.
And I told her to get undressed.
She got undressed.
And I laid her on the hood of the car.
GARY BRUCATO: You have somebody who
is filled with fury, misogynistic anger, feelings of
disappointment and abandonment.
And he's with somebody that he can play out all of that rage
as if something takes him over.
HENRY LOUIS WALLACE: I grabbed her by her neck.
I could hear her gasping for air.
I knew that it was going to happen.
But I couldn't prevent it from happening.
That's when the switch was flipped.
And I just started choking, and just choking,
and choking, and choking.
And she passed out.
Put her in the backseat of the car.
We drove further out of town where they had a small pond
called Henderson's Pond.
I had a utility knife.
And I cut her throat and I cut her wrists.
She was gasping for air.
I rolled her over into the pond.
She sunk right away.
I could hear the bubbles.
She was trying to breathe.
In this first murder, we see the culmination
of a very long, decades old resentment,
feelings of rejection and emasculation from his mother.
Tashanda becomes a focus of all of his rage
because she seems to him to be what happens when you foolishly
trust and then are burned.
This is someone who will use serial sexual homicide
as an expression of control and domination and power
to right the wrong that they feel they have experienced.
The trouble, of course, is that even after the first murder,
Bad Henry doesn't go away.
So there is a need to go out and keep doing it over and over
again with different women.
A lot of experts weighed in about what
might have created this.
But the jurors didn't care.
Lots of people have backgrounds where mama's whooped them.
Lots of kids have unfortunate first sexual experiences.
But they don't make choices that lead to harming other people.
GARY BRUCATO: Well, Henry Wallace says that there
is Bad Henry and Good Henry.
And now, Bad Henry is given total control.
This what most people mean when they talk about the impulses
being led out to play.
But ultimately, he is in control of himself.
CHARISSE COSTON: I really believe
that serial murderers are made.
They're not born.
Childhood trauma, sexual abuse, physical abuse,
extreme poverty, malnourishment, all of those things,
they will impact a child.
And that's the story of Henry Louis Wallace.
Henry Louis Wallace knew each of his victims.
All of his victims would consider him a good associate
or even a friend.
I remember talking to Carolina Love's family.
And Henry was sitting there listening
to us talk to the family.
And it is said that he may have even attended the funerals
of a couple of the victims.
You're killing your friends.
And it absolutely makes me mad.
That was the scariest part, that idea that the devil
could live amongst you.
The devil could be someone right here in the room with you.