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Goodell spent several months in the medical unit. his caretakers have vivid recollections of his time there. >> he heard everything, everything. his phone calls, he would read your lips, that's the scariest. so we would have to talk with our backs to him. >> diagnostically, david goodell is an anti-social personality disorder. part of that is this superficial charm, transactional, manipulative. that's his style. >> medical staff recommended that goodell once again be housed in the maximum security general population unit, but this time they suggested he be assigned a cellmate. >> mr. gonzalez ...

Hearing. >> for 45, you would do 38, minus the three i have in already, that's 35. that would make me about 68 when i go home. >> at the time of the murder, goodell was living in a halfway house as part of his parole. he had just been released from prison where he was serving a two-year sentence for assaulting another girlfriend. according to her family, viviana was distancing herself from goodell. >> i knew i was going to kill her, but i didn't know how. before i left the halfway house, i told one of my roommates, i said watch the news, bro, i'm going to be on it tomorrow, i'm going to kill t...

Admitted member of the gang, david goodell. >> did you know each other on the streets? >> no. but we're from the same hood, but just different parts. >> goodell agreed to plead guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a maximum sentence of 45 years. with his final sentencing hearing only days away, he has written an apology but admits he did so in hopes of receiving a shorter sentence. now he questions whether it's even worth reading. >> so for me to expect anything less than that 45, you know what i'm saying, my last words ain't going to be sitting there groveling to somebody's family an...

>> once he commits the infraction, i need to take control of the situation immediately because there's potentially 64 other inmates surrounding me at that time. it could potentially go very wrong at any given time. >> jumping on my co-defendant for no apparent reason. >> what we're doing with him is none of your business. it has no concern for you. >> it has everything to do with me. >> no, it's not. you were given an order to do something, you do it. just like when he's given an order to do something, he's got to do it. my advice to you is to return to your cell right now or we're going to ha...

Some hope that would help him get through this. >> would you like to say anything today? >> yeah, absolutely. i'd just like, you know -- what i did was unforgivable. i'm not asking for forgiveness. i just hope what happens here today brings them some type of closure and i really am sorry about what happened. >> okay. prosecutor? >> thank you, your honor. viviana tulli was young. she was beautiful. david goodell took her life because he could. because she simply dared to want a life apart from him. there is no good in this man. there is no remorse in this man. he strangled her. when he strangle...