This week, in a special series of interviews, Local 10's Rad Berky is continuing his conversation with Kathy and Manny Hernandez, whose son Michael is accused of stabbing his classmate to death in a middle school bathroom in February.

The Hernandezes talked to Berky about trying to reconcile the child they knew with the 14-year-old who is now behind bars.

The Hernandezes remember Michael growing up as a happy baby and later a boy who loved his family and his friends.

"He enjoyed playing baseball," Kathy Hernandez said. "He enjoyed bowling with his dad."

"He was never a child that sat and watched a lot of TV or sat and played a lot of video games," she said. "He was more active than that."

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The Hernandezes say it is the Michael who is now in handcuffs and accused of killing Jaime Gough at Southwood Middle School who they don't know.

Berky asked the parents, "Do you, either of you, think you missed something?"

"Well, obviously you feel that way," Kathy Hernandez said. "But you go back over it and over it and I still don't see it."

Berky said when you look through the pictures in the family album you see Michael smiling in every picture as he matures into a young teenager. His parents said nothing seemed abnormal.

"What we saw was what we thought was typical teenage behavior," Kathy Hernandez said. "Not as talkative to his parents, more time to himself in his room.

Berky said, "He didn't want you to come in there?"

"Oh, no. No," Kathy Hernandez answered.

Manny Hernandez said, "I walked into his room, as a matter of fact, it was sometime in January, because again he wasn't being as talkative to us and I just asked him, 'Are you happy?' And he said, 'Yes. I may not show it,' he said, 'But I've got my computer and I've got my music and I've got my exercising,' and he was perfectly happy."

Looking in Michael's room, Berky says you notice an interest in cars and something else: on a wall plaque, the Ten Commandments are listed, and there is a dresser where Michael kept nearly a dozen Bibles.

Kathy Hernandez said, "Well, I think he has a deep belief in God. And you know, although he had a Bible collection, it was not that he read every one of those Bibles. But, you know, he went to a Christian elementary school, a private school. You know that's part of our lives."

Police have taken the hard drive from Michael's computer.

They say he used it to download information on mass murderers that was part of a strange journal Michael kept -- a journal that appears to chronicle a tug of war between good and evil.

It is hard for his mother to look at it much less explain it.

When looking at the journal with Berky, Kathy Hernandez said, "I see, disturbed ... I see a child who is disturbed."

Berky said, "When I look at it, the handwriting starts out seemingly very normal and towards the end, it looks like this (very disjoined and scrawling). When you see that ... ?"

Manny Hernandez said, "It seems like he was mixed up or just not, I won't use the word 'coherent,' but just like all over the place with his thoughts."

The parents refused only one question -- about the hit list in the journal that listed Christina Hernandez, Michael's older sister, as the first potential target for death.

This is as far as they would go.

Berky asked, "Do you have any idea why he put together the list of the three people that he did?"

Both parents responded, "No."

"Not at all. Not at all," Kathy Hernandez said. "Like I say, we're just as dumbfounded and stunned when we saw the journal."

As they struggle to try and understand Michael, the journal and the murder of Jaime Gough, there is one person the Hernandezes have not discussed it with -- Michael himself.

Berky asked, "Have you spoken to him at all about the incident, Kathy?"

Kathy Hernandez said, "No, not really. It's just so alien to us -- so surreal. I don't even know how I would bring it up."

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Part I of the Hernandezes Interview