- 09/07/2024
Teenage film reviewer Trey is building an online empire, attracting hundreds of thousands of views; but, it can't last, and soon, he finds himself dragged into a world of guns, abuse and revenge.
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00:00Hello, everyone. I'm Mr. Anime, and boy, do I have a show for you.
00:15You could say that he was one of the first influencers.
00:18I've hit 1,000 subscribers.
00:21Becoming a filmmaker, it's a big idea for a small town.
00:24This is just one of those little one-minute videos that will make you smile.
00:28YouTube began, and now you can share your opinions with complete strangers.
00:34I think there was so much darker lurking below the surface.
00:42We had no idea what we were walking into.
00:45You think it won't happen to me, but sometimes it does.
00:57There was a sense in the air that something was wrong, majorly wrong.
01:15I was chief of police in Waller, Texas.
01:17We received a call, do a welfare check.
01:23Put on my bulletproof vest and looked around the house.
01:30That's when I saw a person inside on the floor covered with blood, and I knew we had a real problem.
01:38The sleepy little community of Waller, Texas had woken up and realized that something horrible had happened.
01:53Everybody knew the Sessler family.
01:57They were members of the local church in Waller and loved by a lot of people.
02:03There was Lawton, the father, Rhonda, the mother, Mark, the older brother, and Trey, the baby brother.
02:13They were very close.
02:15Lawton was a teacher in the community and seemed to be very loved, not only by the students, but the students' families.
02:23Rhonda Sessler worked at the Waller Times.
02:26She was out meeting people, delivering papers, and just interacting with her community every day.
02:34Rhonda and Lawton did feel it was very important for their sons to have a good career and a good life.
02:40Rhonda was a valedictorian herself during her time at school, and I believe that that really motivated Mark to have a great education.
02:49Mark was progressing nicely on the path that most people want to see their kids go down.
02:57Education, career, about to go out into the world.
03:02Trey had dreams and aspirations that were maybe more unique.
03:09He wanted to make movies.
03:15Trey was unusual in that he, like, had a camera and was already shooting things before people really had these things.
03:22I began teaching video technology back in 2005.
03:26He started hanging out in my class and making films and working with me.
03:30I don't know what kind of rumors you've heard.
03:32I even acted in some of his films.
03:35You're kind.
03:37That's actually how I met Trey's mother and I think his brother.
03:41Please enjoy your stay. However, the rooms are pretty messy.
03:44Oh, don't worry about that. I just need a place for the night.
03:47She was supporting him, actually helping him with the films.
03:51This is just one of those little one-minute videos that will make you smile.
03:55Trey was into making funny videos, slapstick stuff.
04:01Slapstick stuff and horror films.
04:06I told him, paying more attention to the story than special effects.
04:12Of course, the high school kid, he wants to do the special effects.
04:20I never saw Trey more excited than when he had an idea of something to film.
04:25It's all this element of fantasy and kind of just living in this other reality for a moment.
04:30Fools! How dare you say my name?
04:33Grandmaster!
04:35A lot of people in our friend group were probably what you'd call more on the nerdy side of things.
04:41A lot of people liked the anime thing, the magic cards, Dungeons and Dragons.
04:46Making his little films and skits was just a great form of entertainment that didn't get you in trouble.
04:52Prepare to die.
04:54I'm going to slay them!
04:56Filming became Trey's main thing.
05:00It was a good way for him to kind of come out of his shell with that camera.
05:04It's like now you have a reason to speak to somebody.
05:10In junior high, I met Trey at a dance towards the end of the school year.
05:17I actually asked him to dance.
05:20I hadn't danced a lot at many prior dances and we were kind of awkward together.
05:27Towards the end of the night, he said, does this mean we're boyfriend and girlfriend?
05:31And I thought, well, okay, sure.
05:34So we sort of made it official that night that we were going to be boyfriend and girlfriend.
05:43In junior high, Trey was very charming and humorous.
05:46He was light.
05:49He gave me a Valentine's gift.
05:50It was this heart he had made with lights.
05:54It was so nice and unexpected.
05:59I thought that he was a very sweet guy.
06:04Once I got to high school, I started going over to his house.
06:08I met his family.
06:10He was a little, I guess, spoiled by his parents, but very loved.
06:15And they just wanted the best for him.
06:19Trey did seem to look up to his older brother, Mark.
06:22He seemed more serious than Trey, but still, he had a sense of humor.
06:28They acted more like best friends.
06:31Mark was an influence for Trey to become interested in anime and film projects.
06:38They were often working on films together.
06:41Trey wanted people to see his films.
06:44But becoming a filmmaker, I can only imagine, would come across as extremely challenging
06:49and almost, like, might seem impossible.
06:54It's a big idea for a small town.
07:03YouTube began in 2005.
07:06Social media was just starting to become a part of our lives.
07:12We were sort of the first ones to really get exposed to this brand new technology.
07:23I created my YouTube channel, and my username was called Aiko Arisaka 420.
07:30Even though I didn't know what 420 meant at the time.
07:41I didn't know much about YouTube at all.
07:44I didn't know at the time that he was on YouTube.
07:50Everybody can do it and get yourself out there and get seen, and that's why YouTube worked for him.
08:00You could share it with like-minded people from different parts of the world.
08:05And that was what made it very exciting.
08:11Thanks for Trey Sessler.
08:14Initially, Trey's channel had a fairly slow start.
08:19But over time, it was building up.
08:22And gradually, he was getting more and more views.
08:25But some of Trey's earlier videos, some of his skits, some of his attempts at comedy,
08:30were actually getting quite a lot of negative comments.
08:33Being the target of hateful comments would be upsetting for anybody.
08:37Are you tired of always being depressed?
08:40Always letting the enemy get you down?
08:42But I think arguably even more so for a teenager,
08:45because they're still developing their self-confidence and their self-esteem.
08:54Because we were all new to this, some of us handled it better than others.
08:57Because we were all new to this, some of us handled it better than others.
09:01Some people did not take it very well.
09:04I'm sure there were some trolling comments that may have gotten to him.
09:12But Trey didn't allow this negativity to prevent him to continue making more and more content.
09:20I was about 15 years old when I started doing projects after school with him.
09:25And I was in his room and he would be editing videos.
09:30This would have been the first time that we were alone together.
09:34I didn't know he had started a YouTube channel.
09:38But he would mention scenes he was going to do that involved prop swords or prop guns.
09:47When I would watch them, I noticed sometimes they were darker and more violent.
09:52One time I was watching Trey edit a video and he said,
09:57I want to try this out.
10:00He got out ropes.
10:03I thought were for maybe scenes and he was testing them out on me.
10:09But he just said, you know, we're going to try this and see how bad it hurts you.
10:23I was tied up.
10:26Just like my hands behind my back.
10:29It wasn't common for him to test anything out with me.
10:36I wasn't into it and I did kind of notice it was a little odd.
10:43But he said it was completely normal and it was fine.
10:47My first impression I ever had of him was like he was generous and giving and kind.
10:52And I wanted to think that he was still a nice guy.
11:03Hello, everyone. I'm Mr. Anime and boy, do I have a show for you.
11:07Over time, Trey's channel became focused on anime reviews.
11:12There you go.
11:13He developed a character called Mr. Anime.
11:16They were going to be reviewing a show that had a very large impact on audiences all around the world.
11:21Trey was one of the very first people to review anime in the US.
11:26Today's review is Cyber Tomb in Akihabara.
11:30He was silly, he was funny, but it didn't seem forced.
11:33It seemed like you were seeing the real him.
11:35Hi, everybody. I'm Mr. Anime.
11:37And I'm Mark Sessler.
11:38Hi, everybody. I'm Mr. Anime.
11:40And I'm Mark Sessler.
11:42Trey clearly had a passion for anime and whether he intended to or not in the beginning,
11:47eventually he found this untapped community on the internet.
11:52And today, I'm going to be talking about some of the best and most influential faces and anime reviewers on YouTube.
11:59Next on the list, Akiharasaki420.
12:02I don't think anyone does anime like him.
12:05I do remember him saying that about me.
12:06The guy cheers me up and makes me laugh with each anime review.
12:12His style of reviewing was actually kind of similar to my own.
12:17We were both very analytical.
12:20I gotta say, this show was beautifully directed.
12:22It was written kind of confusing, but if you were able to follow it, then it was pretty good.
12:29Aside from contacting each other through YouTube's messaging system,
12:34the other way that I got in contact with Trey was through Skype.
12:38Most of the time, it was group chats.
12:41We would just get into all sorts of fun little group discussions.
12:46Trey was one of us. He was a geek like us.
12:50He was into the same things as us.
12:53The anime community was very supportive.
12:59He had more of a presence than I did.
13:01His videos were definitely of better quality.
13:05He uploaded more frequently.
13:07Consistency and quality are what help you grow in YouTube.
13:24He definitely had quite a following.
13:27His popularity and his reach was growing.
13:30I'm very, very happy.
13:34Trey was starting to thrive in terms of his YouTube channel.
13:38But offline and behind closed doors, his behavior was becoming more troubling.
13:47During the several years that I dated Trey,
13:50he did a lot of really things that I should have taken as a red flag.
13:55I made excuses in my head for all of those things.
14:00There was a point when I was 16
14:03that he'd ask me to do things that were sexual.
14:10He would say, you know, people play all kinds of weird games and things
14:14behind closed doors and experiment.
14:18One time, I do remember being on the floor.
14:21My hands were above my head, duct taped together,
14:25and he had duct tape over my mouth.
14:30Then he had his body over me where, you know, I didn't feel like I could move.
14:36His eyes were darker, and he wasn't smiling or anything.
14:40This was not just a game.
14:44That was the first time I even considered he might do something
14:47That was the first time I even considered he might do something violent to me.
14:54That was the point that, you know, I felt that we couldn't really be together.
15:00And when Trey and I separated, he never said anything about that.
15:07I don't think that he really questioned it verbally to me.
15:12I did fall into a depression.
15:14Looking back, that was the motivator to switch schools.
15:19I remember that specifically being the complete cutoff with Trey and me.
15:33I lost touch with Trey after high school.
15:37The group did naturally kind of just disperse,
15:40and, you know, everybody kind of went their own ways for the most part.
15:42and, you know, everybody kind of went their own ways for the most part.
15:46Trey really didn't have any jobs. He worked for the grocery store a little while.
15:50And I understand that he went to Bling College, which is a small, like, community college.
15:55But he dropped out of Bling College.
15:58I think that was a source of some contention in the family.
16:03Them having a more traditional plan and outlook for his future than maybe he had for himself.
16:09Being a YouTube personality or an influencer hadn't become part of the mainstream yet.
16:17And so probably if I had been a parent at that time, I would have been like, he's just wasting his time.
16:23He needed to get a community of people, and he found this from online.
16:29And he found it a thousand times over, because he had, like, thousands of people listening to him.
16:33Little did I know. I knew nothing about this at the time.
16:36You've reached 2,000 subscribers.
16:402,000 subscribers? That's incredible.
16:44He had quite a reach in the anime community.
16:48I want to thank you for staying with me through all these years.
16:51I love your support, and it's actually opened up the ability for Google to monetize my videos.
16:57He's definitely one of the only ones that spoke of YouTube monetization at the time.
17:01He seemed happy with where he was going, because being approved was definitely a huge thing.
17:07You made money based on how many views you got.
17:10Now I can make money so I can get a high-definition camera.
17:14Today, he absolutely would be considered an influencer.
17:17Endless Cat Productions has many more in store for you for this great year.
17:20He wasn't going anywhere in his real life. He was going somewhere on the Internet.
17:24With most of his friends moving on and leaving town,
17:29and him being stuck behind in this small town in his family home,
17:33the tone of Trey's videos has shifted.
17:37Today, I'm ranting on something a little bit anime-unrelated.
17:40I'm ranting on all the shootings that have been happening.
17:42It is a little bit disturbing to know that you could be a victim in something like this at these times.
17:47All the people that were victims, you think, it won't happen to me.
17:49But sometimes it does.
17:52This concern, this anxiety he has about gun violence,
17:56I think it is quite natural to be worried about it and to want to talk about it.
18:01But just two months later, the tone has changed again.
18:05Personally, if an army invades and starts walking down the city blowing people up,
18:10I will be firing at them.
18:14And I imagine that everyone else with a gun would be too.
18:16One of the most glaring contradictions is that in the first video,
18:20he is very much against gun violence,
18:24whereas in the second video, he's holding a huge gun
18:27and he's almost advocating ownership of guns.
18:30I didn't really think much of it because he was living in Texas,
18:34but I did wonder why he was saying these sorts of things.
18:39Countries that ban citizens from having guns,
18:43In a relatively short space of time, we're seeing paranoia creep in.
18:53I think the rest of the family, they didn't know about his YouTube channel.
18:58Maybe he wasn't able to share with them because they might criticize it.
19:03But I think that was when he decided,
19:07I'm going to be real Trey now.
19:09I'm going to be real Trey now.
19:15My grandmother passed away a while ago, and now I've moved in.
19:20When Trey was 21, his grandmother had passed away,
19:23so he moved into her empty house in a neighboring town.
19:27This would be the first time that Trey had independence, autonomy.
19:32The first time that he was living away from home.
19:35This is it behind me. The house is actually featured in my new film.
19:40That's where we have a darker turn in his life.
19:45Whatever supervision he was having in Waller with his family,
19:51it did help him to some degree stay on the right path.
19:55Now, that was gone.
20:00At that point, one of Trey's brother Mark's friends
20:04needed a place to stay for a short period of time,
20:06and Trey kindly offered up his home.
20:11He was very paranoid while he was staying at that home.
20:15Because actually one time I knocked on his door,
20:18I peek in and I see Trey, he's holding a gun,
20:21and he's just like, oh, okay, it's Ryan.
20:23And he goes and walks and puts it back in his room.
20:26He was just afraid, just in case somebody broke in.
20:29He was always trying to be prepared. He was real nervous and scared.
20:33Every night I went to sleep, he gave me a loaded gun to keep.
20:39I just kind of took it and I just kind of spun it and kept it away from myself.
20:43To me, I wonder whether some sort of mental illness is developing,
20:47something like depression or bipolar.
20:50After spending just four nights there, I go, okay, it's time to get out of there.
20:54Because he was just keeping guns way too close.
20:57The very fact that he's freaking out his friends,
20:59people that know him really well, is a huge red flag.
21:03And things start getting even darker.
21:08Oh, how you doing, everyone? It's Mr. Anime.
21:12Or you can call me Trey.
21:14You can call me the guy that does the video game reviews.
21:16You can call me the guy that does all the gun stuff now.
21:19What I have here today to show you is a high point.
21:22Now, for those of you that are familiar with high point,
21:24you might have a very low opinion of them,
21:27or you might have a high opinion of them.
21:30He's drunk.
21:38Was he reviewing the gun?
21:41No.
21:43Was he reviewing the gun?
21:46Was he doing this to test the pros and cons or like that?
21:52No, it was just him shooting stuff while under the influence.
21:57As Trey is posting more and more videos about guns,
22:01as he's appearing inebriated,
22:04you can see a level of concern from his fans
22:08in the comment sections of his videos.
22:10People would definitely be asking, what is going on?
22:14Like, are you okay?
22:16And not just that, why do you have a gun while you're drunk?
22:20I wouldn't want to be sitting on that couch right now.
22:23But despite this, he is still growing in popularity on YouTube.
22:28People didn't seem to want to look away.
22:31People didn't seem to want to look away.
22:33Five out of ten.
22:35Living by himself without parental supervision,
22:38his alcohol and drug use slowly starts to rise.
22:42There seems to be both meth and cannabis use.
22:45Different substances have different effects on the human psyche,
22:49but both cannabis and methamphetamine are renowned
22:52for increasing agitation and paranoia.
22:55He's also been a victim of drug abuse.
22:58He's been a victim of drug abuse.
23:00They're increasing agitation and paranoia.
23:03My favorite part of the day,
23:05comparing my ratings to other anime reviewers.
23:11Cracks are starting to appear.
23:13People are starting to notice.
23:18As time went on, we did see less videos from him.
23:25But we were more concerned about your health.
23:27Take care of yourself first.
23:29Worry about the videos later.
23:31It's quite tragic to see somebody decline like this
23:34right in front of our very eyes.
23:36This is somebody that's at a pretty high risk of harming themselves.
23:40Plus, he's got access to guns.
23:45After living by himself for over a year,
23:48all these social issues, all these difficulties
23:51that Trey is facing build up.
23:53He's had enough. He calls his parents, sobbing.
23:57He begged them to come around and help him.
24:00I don't think they had a real knowledge of YouTube.
24:04They had no clue Trey was putting this kind of thing online.
24:08His parents are clearly concerned about him,
24:11given that he's alone.
24:13He's got guns all over the house.
24:16That was the turning point for when Ronda and Lawton
24:21agreed for Trey to come back and live in the family home.
24:24For them to bring him back into their home
24:29could show many things.
24:31There's a vicious monster over there in the woods.
24:34Could you take care of it?
24:36Of course.
24:38Maybe as long as they could keep him in the home,
24:40keep him under wraps, things wouldn't get worse.
24:43They were trying to love him the only way they knew how.
24:47So once again, you had the four members of the family
24:51under the same roof.
24:52Mark was working.
24:55He finished his education,
24:57but he was still living at home for a while.
25:00We know that around this time, 2011,
25:03Trey was regularly seeing a psychiatrist.
25:06He's being prescribed medication.
25:09This helped him to a degree because his father eased off him.
25:13There was less pressure for him to try and find a job
25:16as Trey was recovering.
25:18But that's not how Trey saw things.
25:19He felt that his father had almost given up on him.
25:23So after watching Welcome to the NHK
25:27and learning about the N-E-E-T, NEETs,
25:31which are people that are not in employment, education, or training,
25:36I don't know where the line is between NEET and f***ing hobo.
25:41Some of them may be,
25:43but I think there's a large majority of NEETs
25:45that is out there.
25:47They're working from home like I am.
25:49They're trying to make it.
25:51They're trying to do something with the talent that they want to do.
25:54So you know what?
25:56To hell with whoever says
25:58that not in employment or training or whatever,
26:01or status zero, f*** that s***.
26:05The first thing I see is probably intoxicated.
26:09And secondly, Trey was really letting his views
26:12in on the fact that whether or not he felt that way about himself,
26:18he realized that society felt that way about him.
26:22NEETs are looked upon as the lower ranks of society.
26:26People like myself are wasting time on YouTube.
26:31He probably had a bit of an inferiority complex
26:34because he was struggling in life
26:36and his friends and his brother were moving on.
26:38He was taking a cocktail of drugs
26:39He was isolated.
26:41He was marginalized.
26:43So all of these things would massively increase the risk
26:46of deliberate self-harm or suicide as well as violence.
26:532011, I decided to reach out to Trey on Facebook
26:57and I personally believed that, you know,
27:00I would ask Trey about our prior relationship.
27:03I did sort of want to talk about that myself.
27:06I'm not sure if he wanted to.
27:16We actually made plans and exchanged numbers.
27:20There's definitely a part of me that didn't know what to expect.
27:23So I felt a little anxious about meeting Trey.
27:29Right before we were about to meet,
27:31Trey called.
27:32He just sort of said,
27:34by the way, I'm sorry for being a monster to you.
27:38And I'm sorry.
27:40I don't know if any of that was consensual.
27:42It just sort of surprised me
27:45because it was a question that kind of popped up out of nowhere.
27:48I don't think I had any doubts that it was sincere at the time.
27:53He did seem remorseful.
27:55It did seem different, surprisingly different
27:59from what I was used to.
28:00Surprisingly different from the previous Trey.
28:04But then he said,
28:06he's not good for people and we can't meet.
28:09Then we didn't really talk after that.
28:23Well, hi everybody.
28:25It's Mr. Anime here.
28:27I got more subscribers than ever.
28:28I have more views than ever.
28:30Trey had 4,000 subscribers on YouTube.
28:34Pretty big numbers for that time.
28:36But we all know that in the background,
28:38there's a lot going on with Trey.
28:40This is just an update video to let you guys know
28:43that I'm going to reward myself
28:46with probably a two or three week break.
28:49Mr. Anime is planning something.
28:52Planning what exactly?
28:55It's very vague.
28:56So you'll have to bear with me.
28:58It was very telling.
29:00Looking back at it now,
29:02something big was going to happen
29:05and none of us were prepared for it.
29:09Thanks for watching my channel.
29:20Shortly after lunch,
29:22two members of the Sessler family
29:24came by the Waller Police Department
29:26and informed one of my officers
29:29that they were unable to make contact
29:31with the Sessler family.
29:35For the second day now,
29:37there's no answer on any of the cell phones.
29:39I requested that one of the officers
29:42that knew the family come to the house.
29:46As soon as I stepped out of my vehicle,
29:49there was a sense in the air
29:51that something was wrong.
29:53Majorly wrong.
29:55You couldn't see in the house
29:57because all the blinds were drawn.
29:59In the back of the house,
30:01there was a small window
30:03and the blinds on that particular window
30:05were slightly open.
30:07I crawled up on a bench and looked in
30:09and that's when I saw
30:11a person inside on the floor
30:13covered with blood
30:15and I knew we had a real problem.
30:20The first thought that I had
30:22was that maybe we were dealing
30:24with a terrorist.
30:26We just knew we had a body
30:28and there was a lot of blood.
30:30A lot of blood.
30:33It was shocking what we found
30:35when we made the entry into the house.
30:41We had no idea
30:43what we were walking into.
30:47The house looked like a bomb
30:49had gone off in it
30:51and it was just totally destroyed.
30:52As we went down the hall
30:54and we found the bathroom
30:56where I had seen the body
30:58through the window,
31:00the officer was able to identify
31:02who that person was on the floor.
31:04He said, this is Mark.
31:06This is a Mark Sessler.
31:08It became pretty apparent
31:10pretty quick that there was
31:12some type of struggle
31:14that had ensued here
31:16because there's bullet holes everywhere.
31:18We went from a possible suicide
31:20to now we may actually
31:22have a suicide.
31:24And then as we made our way
31:26through the house,
31:28we discovered a man's body
31:30on the bed.
31:32The officer was able to
31:34specifically say that
31:36that was Lawton Sessler.
31:38We went out in the garage
31:40and there was kind of
31:42a blue plastic tarp
31:44and I lifted it up
31:46and it turned out to be Rhonda.
31:50Shot multiple times.
31:52We went back in the house.
31:54That's when we started realizing
31:56the knife stuck in the cabinet
32:00or the countertop with the apple
32:03and all the different things
32:05written on the cabinet doors.
32:07That's when we realized
32:09we're not just looking for a killer.
32:11We're dealing with something evil here.
32:14By the writings we were starting to read
32:17that were etched in the walls,
32:19we're building a pretty strong case
32:20that he could be a definite
32:22person of interest.
32:24The final thing
32:26that led me to firmly believe
32:28that he needed to be located
32:30as soon as possible
32:32was the inquiry about the body armor.
32:34My officer at that time
32:36had said he had received
32:38a phone call from Trey
32:40a few weeks prior to that
32:42that was inquiring about
32:44whether a civilian could buy body armor.
32:46You add that to what we see
32:48in front of us,
32:51there was a very strong possibility
32:53for further violence.
32:55It was an urgency in locating Trey.
32:58When news broke
33:00that the Sesslers had been murdered,
33:03everybody was scared.
33:05Everybody was talking about it.
33:07Where is Trey?
33:09Is he lurking somewhere?
33:11Is there going to be worse things that happen?
33:13All hands were on deck
33:15to find Trey
33:17and make sure that the community was safe.
33:20We located Trey's car
33:22which was not in Waller County
33:24but in the county next to it.
33:26The local sheriff's department
33:28sent out their tactical team.
33:30We don't know what we're dealing with.
33:33He may possibly be armed and dangerous.
33:37Arrived on location
33:39and surrounded the house.
33:42When Trey stepped out on the front porch
33:44he had his Glock in his hand.
33:51He had his Glock in his hand.
33:53He just threw the pistol on the ground
33:55and surrendered.
34:04I have more than a G.I.D. right here.
34:06Okay, turn.
34:14The thing about my family is
34:16I would protect them
34:17with my life.
34:19At the same time
34:22if anyone was going to hurt them
34:24it was going to be me.
34:27He leveled with the investigators
34:29with the rangers
34:31and told them what he had done.
34:33I've fired her about four times
34:35and I don't know
34:39where she gets hit
34:41but I know it's somewhere
34:43in this course of area.
34:44And she falls like a ton of bricks.
34:47It's very disturbing
34:49of the lack of remorse
34:51as you're recounting
34:53how you've just murdered
34:55the woman that gave birth to you,
34:57your father
34:59and your big brother.
35:04While Trey was in custody
35:06there were so many things
35:08that we were discovering
35:10at the crime scene.
35:11Handwritten notes.
35:13Some journals that he had made.
35:15We found this ammo
35:17in the trunk of the car.
35:19Rounds and rounds
35:21of different caliber ammunition.
35:23Now there was the realization
35:25that he had a much bigger plan.
35:27Do you really not know
35:29why you did it?
35:31I couldn't bear it.
35:34To then see
35:36the consequences
35:38of what I was going to do
35:40it was something
35:42that I didn't want him to see.
35:45What could be so horrible
35:47for you to take the actions
35:49you did with your family?
35:51The curtains were ripped back
35:53and you could have
35:55a better glimpse
35:57into the mind of Trey Sesler.
35:59It was truly terrifying.
36:02I started having
36:04lots of fantasies.
36:06I started having
36:07lots of fantasies
36:09about
36:11things like Columbine.
36:15Then Virginia Tech happened.
36:21I know their actions.
36:23I know what weapons they used.
36:26He explained how he was going to use
36:28these different caliber weapons
36:30should he ever commit a mass shooting like this.
36:33I was just trying to figure out
36:35whose act was the most evil.
36:39I wanted to be like him.
36:42His intention was to do
36:44the biggest mass shooting at a school
36:46that had occurred
36:48thus far in history.
36:50I could
36:52creep across the field
36:54and open up on the
36:56homestands
36:58and
37:00probably
37:01cause more mayhem
37:03with people trying to get away.
37:08We prevented a horrific act.
37:10We arrested him that night.
37:12He couldn't do it the next day.
37:14That's a fact.
37:18These are the notes I made
37:20the very first time
37:22I watched Trey's confession.
37:24I wrote down two words
37:26and I put them in quotes.
37:28Desires, attention.
37:29Desires, attention.
37:32I was a
37:35YouTube star.
37:37You're a YouTube star?
37:40That was
37:42realization that he had quite a
37:44life that we didn't know anything about.
37:46I think I have about 300 videos
37:48from the cumulative views
37:50or about a million and a half.
37:52No kidding.
37:54He made a specific point
37:56to let the Rangers know
37:57they could see his videos
37:59all over YouTube.
38:01Was there a name or something
38:03that you were under
38:05under Google or anything?
38:07Mr. Animate.
38:09Mr. Animate?
38:11Mr. Animate.
38:13If you type that in on Google
38:15you can find my face all over the web.
38:17Most people who commit
38:19horrific offenses can be
38:21pigeonholed in some ways.
38:23Either they have a clear
38:25psychiatric diagnosis
38:27or it's extremely unusual
38:29because it's just really hard
38:31to fit him into any box.
38:33But I do think that there
38:35were numerous risk factors.
38:37He was young.
38:39He was male.
38:41He was clearly quite paranoid.
38:43He probably had a relative
38:45degree of mental illness.
38:47He's got an obsession with guns.
38:49He's taken a cocktail of drugs.
38:51He's already quite marginalized
38:53and socially isolated.
38:55Dig deep with me today
38:57and you'll find
38:59So all of these things
39:01would increase the risk factor
39:03of somebody acting out violently.
39:05He is charged with
39:07gunning down his school teacher father
39:09his mother and his older brother.
39:18I'm reading on here
39:20saying that he
39:22that not only did he
39:24I can't even say this stuff.
39:25Nobody wants to believe
39:27that the people
39:29they're friends with
39:31the people they know
39:33the people they love
39:35could ever turn out
39:37to be a monster.
39:39To hear that someone
39:41who inspired me to be
39:43where I am now did this
39:45it just leaves me
39:47with a really bad feeling.
39:53No matter how much
39:55you look online
39:57you only see
39:59a certain part of them.
40:01I remember just being shocked
40:03just completely shocked
40:05that it was him.
40:07And knowing that
40:09it could have been so much worse too
40:11in such a small town
40:13that we were all well familiar with.
40:15I mean it was
40:17I think it was
40:19I think it hit hard.
40:21I think everybody believed
40:23at school
40:26he had a lot of people fooled.
40:47I try to think of
40:49all the events that occurred
40:51and was there ever any
40:53anything that we could have done
40:55to prevent this
40:57and protect them.
40:59Because I felt a real responsibility
41:01as the chief of police of that town
41:03to protect the people who live there.
41:05Of course
41:07there's no answers.
41:09I live with it.
41:11I live with it.
41:13I've got the questions
41:15that can't be answered.
41:19I just wish somebody
41:21would have brought
41:23Trey's YouTube channel
41:25because he's here.
41:27He's among you.
41:29Watch out.
41:31If we're going to live
41:33in an online world
41:35then the world is going to have to
41:37take on greater responsibility
41:39for the things that they see online.
41:44Trey's responsible for what he did
41:46but
41:48I became a teacher
41:50to make a difference.
41:53I am gratified
41:55by
41:57the opportunity to help the kids
41:59I was able to help.
42:03I feel bad
42:05about
42:07this one going away
42:09and this one.
42:14I couldn't help him.
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