Rokop testified through the afternoon offering a detailed, graphic account of a boy who studied serial killlers; who told of binges on vodka and “cannabis cocktails;” and who had a growing obsession with sexually violent and macabre images scoured from the Internet. For Marsh, Rokop said, anger was a primary emotion directed at his family and strangers.
“His worldview was that everyone was a cockroach or a parasite,” Rokop testified. Marsh, in his courtroom uniform, a pressed white dress shirt and striped tie, stared at Rokop, scarcely blinking. “He had a general hate of everybody. He said he thought about (killing) a lot,” Rokop said. “He had a buildup of anger.”
He had dreams of killing every night after the savage deaths of the elderly couple selected at random in their south Davis condominium, a thrill Rokop said Marsh described as “good as opium, if not better.” After more than a year in juvenile custody, Marsh “still thinks about this,” the psychologist testified.
