True Crime Documentary - International Manhunt

When someone kills the mother of their child, then, in my opinion, they can harm anybody.

He's very much controlling the narrative to set the story of how he wishes it had happened.

The way the journal's written speaks to his ability to change the facts in his own mind.

He is the hero in his own fantasy.

He wanted to control her until her last breath, and that's what he did.

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Why do you think someone got killed there? Because I met up with my brother earlier.

And he gave me a suicide note indicating that his girlfriend, he got into some dispute.

What's his name?

James Ray.

On October 22nd, 2018, the Montclair Police Department received a 911 call. The caller said, was a robber, Ray, who reported receiving a concerning note from his brother, James Ray, which indicated there could possibly have been violence caused upon someone. At the house there, he decided to call the police department so that we could investigate. Within approximately six minutes of the initial call going out, I was notified as investigative supervisor. And I did respond, along with several officers that night.

We have officers at the house, but they haven't, you know, made entry yet. Because there are weapons involved, they're taking every single precaution.

When the Montclair Police Department arrived at that location, it was dark. There were no lights on. It didn't appear that there was any activity going on in the house.

Hello, you've reached James.

I'm not available at the moment.

Phone's off.

I'll give it to a standby. Take the radio as well.

Eventually, after not being able to make contact with Mr. James Ray, the decision was made to make entry. And once we got to the rear and we knew that we had medics and ambulance on standby, from the outside of the house through a sliding glass door, one of the officers was able to observe what he described as a silhouette of a body.

They were able to see an individual's legs protruding out from an area of the kitchen. and what appeared to be a blood trail. At that point, they made entry into the rear of the home, and they observed a female on the floor, and she was mortally wounded from what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds.

Obviously, we have a homicide victim at that point, so their priority was to find James Rain.

Hi, sir. I need you to give me the.

Best description you can of your brother, including clothing that he was wearing today at dinner.

He is about 5'8. Dark skin. Dark skin, black male, right? Yes. Okay. Any facial hair?

No.

Okay.

What color hair does he have and what kind of style?

He's bald. He was trying to give them as much detail as he could about his brother and about any details that he could give that would potentially lead law enforcement to at least have a starting point on where to look for James Ray.

You know what kind of vehicle he drives? I think it's a black BMW. Do you know where your brother is now?

I do not.

We're going to be putting him in the end of a felony vehicle. You know, considered armed and dangerous.

Use caution.

Our biggest concern is how do we locate James Ray? We're afraid that he could harm somebody else. At this current time, he was in the wind and we didn't know where he was.

While James was on the run, he kept an 18-page journal. It read a little bit like a thriller type of novel.

This writing is an account of what might be either my last days upon the earth or my journey, travels, and experiences before the outcome of a trial for self-defense. Any actions I may have taken during my final days was out of pure necessity.

The journal is incredibly fascinating. I don't think anyone in this office has any recollection of a similar journal being prepared by a killer. The way the journal's written speaks to his ability to change the facts in his own mind.

Names in this book are both fictitious and real.

Jack is a pseudonym.

He wrote it in the third person. He identified himself as Jack.

This journal is, in a way, his psychological defenses kicking in.

It's very, very grandiose. It's very self-serving. Delusional, in a way.

I think that he's got carried away with the romanticism of being a fugitive.

What's clear here is he's very much controlling the narrative to set the story of how he wishes it had happened. Maybe he also thinks that his writing is so good that people are going to believe his version of events.

After the tragic course of events, a road trip was underway to arrive at my planned destination of obscurity.

For investigators, the urgent questions were, who is James Ray and where is he? James Ray was born in Brooklyn in 1963. He was very driven, even from an early age. In high school, he played football and wrestling. When James Ray graduated from high school, the very next day he went into the Marines.

I think his time in the Marine Corps really molded who he was and how he tried to live his life. James Ray was a black belt in martial arts. He was successful, he was smart, he was a go-getter, and he wanted to succeed in life, and he did.

After he came out of the Marines, he spent two years as a New York City police officer. Then he went on to get his MBA, and in addition, he went on to law school, opened up his own law practice, and even had an insurance brokerage.

Jack's mind drifted into thoughts about how one single morning changed Jack's life forever. The value of the MBA, the law training diminished in value. all that he'd worked for for the last 20 years, it's gone.

James Ray is atypical of the people that I would normally see as a forensic psychologist. He comes from a very stable background. There's no obvious trauma. And he's a success story. He's highly driven, very, very ambitious. And he's really got the attributes that you would need in order to make something of yourself and your life. But sometimes those attributes can be problematic as well.

James Ray was very concerned about his social status. He wanted to play golf with people that mattered. He wanted to go to social events where people mattered. He wanted to be at black tie events. He cared about what people thought of him.

Wondering during his waking moments about how close the police were on his trail... Jack has never been so nervous about people with suspicions that everyone was trying to get him.

James Ray and Angela Bledsoe met around 2009 in Brooklyn when she was working as a financial consultant. They started a romantic relationship and they continued it long distance between Brooklyn and Montclair.

Angela Bledsoe was extremely ambitious She was super intelligent, well-educated, very successful.

Angela grew up in Maryland and she went to Florida A & M University. She graduated with 11 job offers and decided to take one in New York. She became a financial consultant. and was so successful, she was able to buy a brownstone in Brooklyn when she was in her 20s. James was a very charismatic person. He was somebody who could achieve what he wanted to achieve. For Angela, it seemed she had found the perfect man.

Anxious to keep moving, not knowing if the police were closing in on him, Jack never remained in the same place for more than four or five hours.

In Angela's mind, things were going really well. James Ray was making Angela happy. They did a lot of things socially that they both enjoyed, and Angela became pregnant.

What Angela didn't know when she met James was that he was married and had two children.

James Ray was married over 20 years. He had two adult children, and they lived in the home in Montclair. He was living a double life. Both women didn't know about each other, and then obviously that changed when Angela became pregnant. She had expectations that he would contribute and help raise the child.

For long-running affairs where you are married and sleeping with somebody else, to not tell them that you're married is evidence both of a really severe form of lying and also of being really good at keeping that complete other life secret. For someone who is so, well, on the surface at least, rule-oriented and law-abiding, to then be so duplicitous when it comes to his own relationships, that's quite shocking.

In 2012, James and Angela had a baby girl. Once the baby came along, the dynamics of the relationship got very difficult. Angela was in Brooklyn with the baby, and James was in Montclair with his wife. James was not a very supportive father, and he was not very much help to Angela. When she had business meetings she had to attend, she could not count on him to provide any sort of support or childcare.

I am doing work.

Which requires me to focus.

I have timelines.

I have deadlines. I did everything.

That I could possibly do.

I went to.

Costco and got two of those.

Huge cartons of Pam, two of them, you name it.

I was often so tired from staying out late at night visiting her and the baby.

Where I was getting maybe one.

Two hours of sleep. I can't support you financially if I'm not making money.

I cannot be there with.

You every day.

In 2013, there was a lawsuit against him for sexual harassment in the workplace, and this involved a 27-year-old that he'd employed. And he'd taken her out to dinner on one occasion and he'd insisted that in front of the whole restaurant, she would feed him with chopsticks. So clearly he is involved in some sort of fantasy here about having a woman.

To serve him.

In the sexual harassment suit against James, there's a statement which says that he was talking about polygamy. There's a huge community of people who agree with their partners to open their relationships and to see other people together or separately. That if you are in a serious relationship and you haven't talked to your partner about this, what you're actually saying is, I want to cheat on my partner. The problem is that he is systematically lying to the people he loves, who trust him, who are the mothers of his children. And he's sort of seeing this as this game.

James Ray decided that he was going to divorce his wife and maintain the home, so that's what he did. He kicked his wife out of the house, and when James Ray and Angela Bledsoe's child was three years old, Angela and the child moved into James Ray's home.

Jack began to mentally drift with thoughts of his ex-wife, whom he loved dearly, but their lack of communication and insufficient quality time spent together romantically caused the commitment of the marriage to wane. Jack felt so bad about his transition from ex-wife to Angela, he was embarrassed.

After Angela moved into the house, she started to see who James was. And she did not like who he was revealing himself to be. He became very controlling. He was manipulative.

He started checking her phone. He called her lazy.

She said that I called her lazy. And I told her she was very lazy. I said, you don't take care of this house. You don't do any dishes. Everything is sloppy.

The bathrooms don't get cleaned. If I don't get them cleaned or.

Call in a lady, nothing happens.

But also culminated in how he would speak to her. He would speak down to her. He would disrespect her. He would do it in front of other people.

She wanted to tell me that I don't talk to her nicely because, listen to this, because I question her on everything. And I say that's conversation. If I don't understand something, why can't I ask you? The who, the what, the why, to get understanding. James went to some extremes.

He put surveillance cameras in the home, and he even went so far as to send Bible verses that would underscore the idea that women should be submissive.

To their partners.

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man. For the husband is the head of the wife.

This is not the kind of relationship that Angela had envisioned.

Angela Bledsoe kept a journal.

The life that I desire, to live in a house that I feel comfortable in, a man that shows grace and mercy, that speaks to me in a loving voice.

Is not a dictator.

Angela is really living with coercive control at this time. She describes him in her diary as a dictator. Now, that's a very strong word. That's clearly how she sees this man that she shares her life with. Coercive control is the biggest red flag to potentially fatal violence in a relationship.

When Angela went back to Florida for her homecoming event, she met a college classmate, Bakari Burns, and she started a relationship with him.

They had an intimate relationship. They mostly talked to each other via text message. James Ray took screenshots of her cell phone, and based on the nature of the text messages that he could see in her cell phone, it took a turn. for him at that point. Angela woke up one day, like 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, and he was sitting on the edge of the bed, like shaking his leg and just staring at her. She texts her sister. He's basically accusing her of demonstrating behavior of somebody who cheats. Her sister was very concerned about it, and she said, you know, you got to get out of there. You know, it's time to go.

When James Ray finds that Angela has cheated on him, he sees this as a massive transgression, and it's a really big deal.

There's the double standard, which is that.

He wants to be able to have multiple women in his life, and his woman, however, should not have any other men.

Stay committed. Never cheat on your partner. keep your head in the marriage at home.

In October of 2018, James Ray, in a moment of desperation, types up a prenuptial agreement. There was a paragraph in there that read, if either party cheats, then that offending party has to pay $ 300, 000 per act. Now, What's interesting about that is James Ray, he already knows that Angela had stepped out of the relationship. And we also know that he presented it to Angela because Angela texted her cousin, you know, look at this nonsense, you know, we're not even engaged to be married and he wants me to sign some prenuptial agreement.

In James Ray's mind, Angela was humiliating him, belittling him even. The threat that that caused to his core self was overwhelming for him.

On October 20th, James Ray asks Angela to call Bakari Burns. The initial conversation with Bakari is like, hey, how about you and I can confront Angela? And Bakari says, well, I don't have anything to confront her about.

James ended the call with a veiled threat. I may be coming down there to visit you in Florida.

Angela's mindset is like, oh, grow up. Like, she didn't take it seriously at After that conversation with James Ray, Bakari Burns took it as a threat and he filed a police report. Angela just had enough. And at that point, she had sent him a text message basically saying that she was done and made it known to him that she was going to start making plans to actually move out on her own.

She said, as soon as I get my house, I'm out. I'm buying a house.

I'm out.

As soon as I get it. And she's gone. We're gone.

It got to the point for Angela where living with James Ray just wasn't an option for her anymore. And the last text message that basically she sent her sister was that she was getting out.

Angela is planning to leave.

She feels that she can extradite herself from him safely. But this is going to be like a red rag to a bull. When somebody who is highly controlling feels that that is slipping from their hands... that's when they start to consider taking very drastic measures.

On October 22nd, 2018, James and Angela take their six-year-old daughter to school and drop her off. Angela has an appointment with a real estate agent that morning.

Angela never made the meeting.

When our 911 call came in, it came from Robert Ray, who was the brother of James Ray, and he indicated that he had met with his brother James earlier today, and his behavior was very concerning. They met up earlier that day at the request of James Ray at a Longhorn Steakhouse in Piscataway, New Jersey.

We had dinner.

It was about 6 o'clock.

I think.

James Ray had his minor daughter with him. She was six years old at the time. And he had asked his brother Robert if he could keep an eye on the child for a period of time.

He left his daughter with you?

Yes.

James Ray had provided Robert with a couple of suitcases that belonged to the daughter, and he indicated that Robert would know everything in about 24 hours. James Ray asked Robert to take a picture of him and the daughter, which Robert did. And then James Ray indicated he was going to use the men's room. And Robert watched him as he walked out the door of the restaurant. James Ray had gotten into his BMW, and he just drove away.

The letter that James Ray left for his brother Robert gave his version of the story.

The letter says, I was about to clean my guns, and Angela picked up one, and she was going to.

I reacted in the.

Heat of the moment.

And I couldn't stop firing. I am scared and don't want the.

Long burden of the trial to prove my point, and I want to face jail time.

And you had no contact with your brother since you read the note?

None since then.

All right. This man, who lives at North Mountain? The girlfriend or the outbrother? Your brother lives on North Mountain, right? That's his house?

They both live there.

His girlfriend.

They.

Made entry into the rear of the home. They went directly to the kitchen. There was a significant amount of blood on the kitchen floor. There was a partial blood trail leading from the living room into the kitchen.

As we make entry, I can see the body. I couldn't tell exactly what her injuries were, but we did notice weapons lying around the house.

There was a shell casing in the kitchen, a spent. 45 caliber shell casing. There was a handgun in a puddle of blood, as well as a bloody cell phone on top of a stool. There was an additional handgun in the living room, a couple of gun cases, as well as three spent. 45 caliber shell casings, along with a cleaning kit for a rifle.

Once we were able to make the scene safe, we were able to confirm that the victim that was there was 44-year-old Angela Bledsoe.

Our units are going to be tied up for a little while. This just turned into a homicide investigation.

With James Ray, we felt comfortable that he was the person who committed the murder of Angela Bledsoe. When someone kills the mother of their child, then, in my opinion, they can harm anybody. So we need to latch on to him as soon as possible.

Hey, Sergeant.

I just want to give you guys some information. We had a homicide in our town. The actor is first name James, last name Ray.

His vehicle is 2007 BMW.

He is a 55-year-old, dark-skinned black male, about 5'8, 205 pounds. He was last seen in the scat away wearing black. a gray hoodie, jeans, and dark sunglasses. And now we know where he is.

He left his cell phone also in the belongings.

I had no cell phone, no credit cards, no laptop. It appeared as if the hours were ticking away extremely fast. So I bedded down for the night in the lounge chairs of the hotel.

And we put out a bolo on his vehicle. Port Authority was contacted. Interpol was contacted. A lot of national, international agencies were contacted. We needed to find him as soon as possible.

This was a huge story, not only in Montclair, but throughout New Jersey. First, because murders are very unusual in this place. And second, because of this disappearance of the suspect in the murder.

Jack's thoughts of what his encounter would be like with the police was on a pendulum. I knew that my return would lead to handcuffs.

If you commit a crime in the state of New Jersey, we will not forget, we will not forgive, and we will find you.

James Ray had not been captured. He was on the run. The federal authorities were coming up empty at that point. They had no idea where he might be. And then two days later, the Red Notice hits. And we find out that he's on his way to Cuba. James R. Ray III is in custody after FBI agents had to go to Cuba to retrieve him.

The United States had to move very quickly, very expeditiously because of the very tense relationships between the two countries.

James Ray was arrested in Cuba. They detained him pursuant to a red notice that was issued by Interpol. With him was a duffel bag containing his personal belongings, and one of the items in the duffel bag was a handwritten journal that he spent considerable time writing while he was on the run for this homicide. MUSIC He started by saying, you know, October 22nd, 2018 started like any other day in the Ray household.

I arose with my morning routine of stretching. On our way back from dropping our daughter off at school, we spoke about us working to improve our relationship. Upon arrival at home, she said that there were a few errands that she was going to run. Since I was home alone, I decided to clean my weapons. Came out of the bathroom...

Angela had one of the weapons in her hand. Angela's conversation went from going to run errands to reflecting about her frustrations of our relationship, on what she called the worst years of her life. As she continued to rant about all the dysfunctional things in our relationship with a weapon pointed at me, i remember feeling nervous and scared and out of.

Options he says angela started to confront him about their relationship and how unhappy.

She was.

I quickly picked up one of the weapons on the table i then fired in angela's direction She lifted her arm and pointed at me again. Out of reaction, I fired in her direction, and it seemed like I couldn't stop firing. I honestly believe there was no other choice that she would have shot first. If you really were acting in self-defense, why didn't you just call the cops?

If you really were acting in self-defense, why did you leave the house at all? No, he said go to Cuba.

Here is a man who can't take his rejection. This was not somebody who snapped. This is not somebody losing control. It's somebody taking control.

He types out a letter to his brother filled with lies. He types out his last will and testament, goes to the bank, gets some cashier's checks made out to the daughter and his brother. After James Ray killed Angela Bledsoe, he had to go pick up his daughter from school. And on his way, he calls a woman, and he records it.

My only concern is about my daughter and her well-being. You know, sometimes you have to protect people in a way that's unconventional. It may sometimes even.

What he's talking about.

When he says that is he killed his daughter's mother to protect his daughter.

How disturbing.

All this is is him trying to set up a victim-blaming narrative.

In the future if he needs it.

So this telephone call is a little bit of insurance and it's a little bit of scene setting. If you truly care about the welfare of your daughter and that is paramount to you, you don't take away their mother.

James Ray outlines in his journal how he started his road trip to Cuba and he starts to tell the story of what for him seemed like, you know, an adventure.

First stop was at Newark Airport to park the vehicle police were looking for.

He details in his journal how he went to Newark Airport and he left his car in short-term parking. We were able to find his car. We know exactly what time he checked in because he left the ticket on his dashboard. He took a taxi to Pennsylvania and We found the taxi driver that took him to Pennsylvania. He paid in cash.

The taxi dropped Jack off in Philadelphia, Chinatown, at 2 a.m. The streets were empty. Jack sought cover of police by blending in with the homeless to get some sleep.

He tried to hide himself in a homeless encampment, but realized he can't do that long term. It's not for him.

Jack's first night in Philadelphia didn't fare well. he began to quickly realize that escaping to the streets to forever become homeless was not a part of his DNA.

He finds like a truck stop and he meets a trucker who takes him from Pennsylvania to Ohio.

Jack awakens to a bright, sunny, but rather chilly morning in Ohio. Shaking from pure nervousness, Jack asked a man for a ride and they began a road trip to Memphis.

From Memphis into Texas, he boards a Greyhound bus from one section of Texas to another.

It was the bathroom stall that provided an opportunity to strip the H & K 45 and dispose of the different parts into numerous trash cans during his travels.

In his journal, he said that he had disassembled the. 45 caliber handgun that he used to kill Angela and discarded it in various garbage cans along the way. We never did find the. 45 caliber.

Jack's anxiety multiplied tenfold in Longview, Texas. Each hour Jack sat in the bus station seemed like an unplanned disaster waiting to occur.

He gets another bus from Laredo, Texas into Monterey, Mexico.

Riding the bus into Monterey caused Jack's mind to drift into how one single morning changed Jack's life forever.

And when he's in Monterey, Mexico, he ends up purchasing a plane ticket.

Jack purchased an airline ticket from Monterey to Cuba. This was the easiest part of the trip.

The fact that he made his way down to Cuba, I think he would believe that's a place where he could evade detection and capture for perhaps the rest of his life.

His journal is him trying to create a narrative that he will later use in his defense. But I think that he's got a little bit carried away with it.

He is romanticizing it.

He's turning this into a big adventure where he is surviving against the odds. He's on his way to Cuba, but it's really not quite as dramatic as he makes out in his journal. This is just a very macho man who has taken away a mother from her child and turned this into something that is heroic and manly.

When you look at what he wrote in his journal and you compare it to the crime scene, it contradicted it completely. Unfortunately for James Ray, he didn't account for the bullet trajectories that were in Angela's body that were discovered by the medical examiner. The autopsy report revealed that Angela Bledsoe was shot once in the chest. She was struck in the heart. She was struck in the lungs.

That bullet went through her, and the projectile ended up in the seat cushion of the love seat. Angela Bledsoe stood up. She placed her palm on the white sofa. He shot her at that point once in the back. Angela Bledsoe made her way to the kitchen, and there was a trail of blood that led from the living room into the kitchen, and she ends up falling on her back.

She was initially sitting up with a gun towards her side. She lifted her arm and pointed it at me again.

James Ray then took another shot at her, but he missed. It caused a ricochet in the granite tile floor. The casing from that projectile burst apart and cut through her clothing and caused abrasions on her back. And James Ray then walked over to Angela Bledsoe, stood over her, and delivered one final gunshot wound to her face. The medical examiner and the autopsy revealed that The trajectory of that gunshot wound to her face was steeply downward, indicating that James Ray was standing right over her when he delivered that final gunshot wound.

I honestly believed there was no other choice that she would have shot first.

He claims that Angela picked up the gun and was going to shoot him. There was a gun that was found on the kitchen floor in a puddle of blood. There wasn't any blood on that gun. It was clean. It was clean as a whistle. Yet he claims that Angela held it in her hand and she was going to shoot him with it. He had no choice but to shoot her first. When the medical examiner examined Angela's body, she clearly had blood on her hands, but there was no blood on the gun, no blood on any part of the surface of the weapon. It was clearly placed in a pool of blood.

As our investigators delved into the scene and got experts, To really look at it, it could not have happened the way that James Ray indicated that it did.

It took almost five years for the case to come to trial. That was partly because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also just because sometimes the wheels of justice move slowly.

I was the lead prosecutor in charge of prosecuting State v. James Ray. This defendant took his loaded.

45 caliber.

Semi-automatic handgun and shot at Angela four times.

We shot her in the face.

We knew that we had great evidence. We wanted to make sure that it was presented for the jury to really come to what we thought was the inevitable conclusion, undeniable conclusion that James Ray was guilty of murder.

James Ray carried himself almost as if he were a lawyer representing someone else. He dressed well. He showed no expression on his face. He came in, sat down, took notes, conferred with the lawyers, but there was never any show of emotion at all.

Angela bled so on October 22, 2018, picked up a 9mm and pointed it at James Ray.

Period.

He had no choice but to shoot.

Defense's strategy was simply self-defense, saying that he killed her, but he had to do that to save his own life.

Ray's brother took the stand.

Immediately I cried because the letter indicated that.

Angela had been killed. James Ray brutally, in cold blood, murdered Angela Bledsoe simply because she made a decision that she didn't need him in her life anymore. and that she was going to move on and start a new chapter, and that new chapter did not include him. And he was going to be left behind, and he did not want that to happen. He wanted to control her until her last breath, and that's what he did.

After a six-week trial, the jury seemed to have no doubt. They came back in three hours with a guilty verdict. As the verdict was read in court, James Ray showed no emotion at all. He simply stood up, allowed the officers to put the handcuffs on him, said something to his lawyer, and then he was taken away.

It was a verdict of guilty on all counts, which was just incredible. Angela's family was there, her parents were there, they were able to hear the verdict. Everybody was really happy and ecstatic that Angela could hopefully begin her rest in peace. We then scheduled a sentencing date for James Ray to be sentenced on the murder charge and the weapon charge. And it was scheduled for June.

We have an update on the case of a New Jersey lawyer convicted of killing his girlfriend. James Ray III died in jail after he was awaiting sentencing. On June 18th, 2023... James Ray was in the Essex County prison waiting to be sentenced for his murder conviction. An officer found him unresponsive in his cell and tried to administer Narcan to him.

He was taken to a hospital, but he was not revived and was declared dead. Ironically, James Ray died on Father's Day.

The family was never able to deliver their victim impact statements, and now this little girl... lost her mother in a really brutal, tragic way at the hands of her own father. And then her father dies on Father's Day. And, you know, whatever questions she may have had for him that she may have wanted to ask him as an adult, she was never going to be able to confront him or ask him about and never get the answers that maybe she could have coaxed out of him. It was devastating.

For somebody like James Ray, who had enjoyed all of the trappings of this really quite fantastic life that he had for himself, that he just can't face the humiliation, really, and the loss of status that is going to come from being incarcerated.

So it's a.

Final act, which is a desperate, and sad act in many respects. That's not lost on me, but it's also a final act of control.

Unfortunately, under New Jersey law, because he was never sentenced, the case cannot remain open, so it was dismissed. I mean, obviously, everybody knows he was convicted. He didn't go to his grave an innocent man. Prosecutors who prosecuted the case know the truth, and the family knows the truth, that James Ray was guilty of killing Angela Bledsoe.

James Ray had both ambition but also overconfidence. He seemed to be intelligent but also controlling. He had these multiplicities within him, these double standards, almost cherry-picking the rules that he should live by and applying other rules to other people.

James Ray is a man who does what he sets his mind to, and he does it very strategically. This is a man who has... very set ideas about masculinity. And this is a man with certain personality traits that could have and should have catapulted him to success but stopped there. Ultimately, I think that his need to control women and his sense of entitlement and narcissism and his sense of outrage that a woman could assert herself is what led to his downfall and becoming a killer.

James Ray was an egomaniac who was totally unprepared to accept that the mother of his child was going to leave him.

Angela Bledsoe was very successful. She lived in an affluent neighborhood. She had money. She was beautiful, she was talented, and domestic violence came to her. If you're in a relationship with a man or a woman who is domineering and controlling and wants to know your every move, you should think about Angela Bledsoe and how she ended up. You should listen to your gut and get out when you can.

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