Voyeurism
Moroney writes, “Nora told me that Jason had confessed to surreptitiously filming people, including me, going to the bathroom in our home on several occasions over an unknown period of time. Voyeurism. It was another heartbreaking revelation. For reasons yet to be understood, Jason had put the videotapes in the van before calling the police, so now they were in evidence.” The videos bid evidence of Jason’s pervert tendencies. He has the opportunity to viewing Moroney’s nude body because they are a couple. Resorting to secretly film her and their guests confirms that he has weird obsession with people’s nudities. Viewing his wife’s nudity and other people’s, on videotapes, offers him more utility than viewing her in person.
“Jason at Eighteen”
Moroney reports, "At eighteen years of age, Jason was intrigued by the concept of an older woman, he said that they had an agreement about casual sex, that one could invite the other or there would be a sign such as an open bedroom door late at night. Despite that, he described their living situation as stressful and disharmonious. I had a hard time imagining a mother leaving her teenage son, not even out of high school, to live with an older single woman he didn't know." Jason lacks a mother-figure because his mother leaves him an older roommate who becomes his lover. He is unconsciously yearning for the love of the woman whom he thinks would offer him the love that his mother cannot provide him. Their sexual intimacy bids them physical gratification but it does not reduce the stress which mars their lives. Jason yearns to own and control the older woman in a way that he would not own his mother.
Murder
Jason recounts, “I laid her body in the bathtub and turned on a cold shower. It sounds absurd, but I thought it would wake her up. Then I got dressed and walked out to the balcony and looked over the edge, but I couldn’t bring myself to jump. Someone in the building had heard the screaming and called the police, but when they arrived at the door, I told them the screaming was from another apartment, that I didn’t know anything. I thought they would actually shoot me on the spot if they saw what I had done.” The murder ensues after Jason has a conflict with his roommate regarding sex. Jason is hurt that his lover has denied him intimacy which he feels that he is entitled to. The scene is chaotic because Jason contemplates suicide; obviously, he is remorseful and petrified by the culmination of the conflict.
The Assault
Moroney recounts, “The assault involved Jason forcing the first woman onto her knees to perform fellatio and later involved penetration of some sort. He was vague. Another customer came in the store then and Jason held her at knifepoint as well. She struggled until he overpowered her by choking her to unconsciousness. At some point she was also sexually assaulted. Then Jason rented the van, returned to the store, and brought the women to our house." Jason is unusually aggressive. He executes the assault methodically as if he had planned it beforehand. He tortures his victims to find pleasure. He performs the assault when he is newly married; obviously, his bliss with his wife does not satisfy him. He projects his unconscious pain on the victims. Jason is utterly debauched; being married cannot alter his depravity.
