Rachel Shannon

Investigators stated, "...he appears to have led a secret life, operated clandestinely, and his offending has come as a major shock to those who knew him best."

He continued saying that Cody carried out the quote,

He went on to say that they have yet to see any remorse being shown on Ackland's part, despite numerous opportunities for him to convey how sorry he is around the killing of Bobbie Ann, and nothing has been made clear to the family around what remorse he might or might not feel.

At this point, investigators were still very confused about the entire thing.

Yes, he had committed the murder.

Yes, he had a sick fascination with serial killers.

But it was very, very rare for people with absolutely no criminal history to escalate to murder so quickly.

According to friends and family, there was no trigger that caused this.

People around him all said that he acted completely normally and showed no signs that he could snap like that.

Everyone in Cody's life is shocked at what he did.

They did also ask that members of the public come forward if they know of any other incidents that Cody may have been involved with when it comes to assaults to other women.

He could have committed other crimes and nobody has connected him to it and obviously he hasn't confessed to those ones.

But otherwise, as far as police know, he went from 0 to 100 real quick.

So, after making his confession to the police, he did actually plead guilty.

Because of that, there was no trial.

However, they did have a sentencing hearing where the prosecution and defense made their arguments regarding Cody's motive and

the brutality of his crime, what led to it, and his background that could have contributed to the crimes.

Obviously, the prosecution talked about this sick, disturbing obsession with serial killers, the fact that he chose Bobby so randomly with no warning, and how brutal the entire attack was.

It was a prolonged, torturous attack.

They wanted the maximum sentence for this sick, twisted monster.