When I first met him, I thought he was really insane, there was no question about it. I went back andforth in my own mind of whether he was evil or just insane. Could he just be conniving? You keep going to different places when you review the evidence, but all in all, I reached my ultimate conclusion that he was clinically insane, but not legally insane.

Chuck Peruto

Basically, she's a tough judge and any defendant would want a judge other than Brinkley to hear their case.

If you’re met with deadly force, you can use deadly force, we will argue in this case that my client was getting choked out.

There’s no question in my mind he’s going to pay the penalty for carrying an illegal firearm.

He believed the world was evil, he wanted to have a race of people with a Black mother and a White father where they would have no contact with the outside world and solely rely on his teachings. He literally would have church services when the girls were tied up in his basement.

They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity.

He wanted to be executed, he firmly believed in his religion. He firmly believed he was going to get out of this evil world and into the next. He was not scared of being executed. He wasn’t afraid of death, not in the least bit.

The Silence of the Lambs.