Rachel Shannon

His goal at first was to get the doctors to diagnose him with a severe mental impairment that would deem him unfit to stand trial.

He started telling one of them, Dr. Rajan Darji, about how he was experiencing visual hallucinations.

Specifically, he saw a figure that he called Isha, who he described as ugly with big ears, a big nose, and pointy teeth.

He said that the figure told him to be a criminal and was even in the car with him while he was driving to Celeste's

and it told him to end things.

But based on other things that Lu Wei told Dr. Darji in that interview, he did not buy that he was experiencing a psychosis or anything of the sort.

According to what he would later testify at his plea hearing, he believes that Lu Wei was making up this hallucination to garner sympathy and make himself less culpable for his actions.

He said though that he believed this hallucination represented the way trying to understand and describe the ugly side of himself that he didn't understand.

He went on to say, "...I think it's really his way of kind of explaining what's going on in different parts of himself, a part of him that absolutely hated the victim, but he won't be able to incorporate that with a part of him that was in love with the victim."

He tried to portray that as if it's a psychotic experience and I didn't think it was.

He goes on to say, he was exaggerating.

He was trying to persuade me that he had a mental impairment defense because he wanted to get sympathy and didn't want to be seen as being a monster.

He said that LeWay was using words that were very similar to the exact diagnostic criteria they would use to diagnose psychotic disorder.

meaning that LeWay had extensive knowledge of psychosis and he tried to use that to get himself diagnosed.

He said that he has never assessed someone with that level of knowledge and understanding of the criteria or who had used direct wording of a defense of mental impairment.

After his intensive examination of Loewe, Dr. Rajan wrote a 125-page long report, which is the longest he had ever written.

In the report, he diagnosed Loewe with an extreme personality disorder, depressive disorder, and body dysmorphia.

He said that Loewe felt increasingly persecuted by police and Celeste,

after that intervention order was taken out against him and when he was charged with breaching the order.

Then Celeste posting that photo of herself and another man is really what broke the camel's back.