it was the confession of the murders. it was the night eddie ray routh was arrested, and he was being questioned, interrogated by a texas ranger. and it was very strange watching that video because at times he seemed to make no sense at all. and he was rambling. he was not really making coheernt sentences. but then there were times when he was completely lily lily lucid. and he was able to communicate effectively at times and other times he wasn t. but that s when he said he took two souls, he kept referring to their lives as souls and he had taken two souls. and that he was sorry for that. the texas ranger flat-out came out and asked him, what would you say to the family members if you had an opportunity to tell them something? and he said i m sorry for what i ve done. and i would tell them that if i had the chance to do it all over again, i would. i m paraphrasing there. it was a very damning tape for jurors to be looking up on the
not mentally competent, that is the wrong use of words there but that he was insane. his mom testified that he wasn t quite right after he got out of the marines. you mentioned eddie ray routh s reaction himself, that there was little to none and that s not at all surprising. because i have watched him a lot during the course of the last nine days. and there seems to be virtually no reaction from him at all. in fact, most of the time he has spent scribbling stuff down on a notepad in front of him. he doesn t really seem to make eye contact with the witnesses. when he comes in and out of the courtroom, after breaks and each morning, at the end of the day, he does not make any eye contact whatsoever with his mom, and his father and his sister and other family members who have been in the courtroom to support them. a very stoic eddie ray routh tonight. that is the exact type of behavior he s exhibited throughout this whole duration.
smelling weird things on that truck ride there, and that he had this perception that the two men, kyle and littlefield, were not talking to him on this long truck ride. and that he was getting intimidated. and that he was feeling that something wasn t quite right. and so that was the argument that they tried making, is that once they got to the range, that routh perceived chris kyle and chad littlefield as a threat. and that is why he acted the way he acted. but the prosecution did a very good job of pointing out inconsistencies in some of his stories. because all of that information that i just said was according to what routh told a psychiatrist that was hired by the defense. but the prosecution said that there were a lot of holes in his story, that he didn t initially admit to smoking marijuana at the the morning of the murders. but then he later admitted that
but on the prosecution side as well. the ptsd thing seemed to disappear. but the defense brought up a psychiatrist that said routh was suffering from schizophrenia. and that in the weeks and months leading up to these murders, that he was seeing and he was hearing things. his girlfriend described him as in catatonic states at times inexplicably he would be fine one minute and the next minute he would be sitting on the couch sort of staring at the wall staring at the space and nothing in the room. someone would walk by nothing would seem to faze him. the defense really played that up. saying that he had no idea what what he was doing at the time in fact they even argued that he felt threatened, that routh felt threatened on that february day, that he perceived that chris kyle and chad littlefield were going to kill him. so in routh s own words he had to take care of them before they took care of him.
routh apparently got drunk at a fish fry and threatened his whole family, threatened to kill them. and the family was so afraid that they had all of the guns removed from their home. and the prosecution said, jody routh, that is his mother, did you ever think about telling chris kyle about these violent outbreaks before? do you think that could have saved chris kyle s life? and that was very powerful. she said that it did not occur to her to disclose that information. that he had also been sent to a mental hospital after he apparently held his girlfriend and her roommate at knife point in their apartment. this was all in the years and the months and the weeks leading up to the murders itself. and the prosecution really pressed, why did you not tell chris kyle about these violent tendencies, and that he had threatened to kill your family that he had been in and out of these psychiatric hospitals? jody routh didn t have a good answer for that, sean. chris, we also saw i had