GILES, BERNARD: Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan TV -
Are serial killers born or made? Confessions of a Serial Killer with Piers Morgan, ITV 2019
One summer in the early 1970s a couple moved into this trailer park on the east coast of Florida. Bernard Giles was just 20 … Giles was harbouring a deep compulsion to kill. ibid.
Bernard Giles has been in prison for 45 years … 5 life sentences for killing 5 young women. ibid.
‘The initial sexual imprinting was an act of violence against a girl … I became obsessed with this.’ ibid. Bernard
He terrorised an entire community. ibid.
GILFOYLE, EDDIE: Panorama TV - Trial & Error TV -
Eddie Gilfoyle: Another notorious murder case turned down by the CCRC. Eddie Gilfoyle spent 18 years inside and his case is one of the most bizarre in UK criminal history … ‘My brother has been convicted for a crime that didn’t happen.’ Panorama: Last Chance for Justice, BBC 2018
‘The prosecution’s case is that before Eddie went to work he asked his wife Paula into the garage. Somehow Eddie had persuaded Paula to write a suicide letter in her own handwriting and asked her to walk up the ladder, put a rope around her neck and without any struggle or intoxication allow herself to be hung.’ ibid. Eddie’s solicitor
Key evidence was not disclosed. ibid.
People who are going to commit suicide go to extraordinary lengths to ensure a death that’s neat, tidy, with no loose ends. Mind you, that could be said of murderers are well. Trial & Error: Eddie Gilfoyle, Channel 4 1996
On 4th June 1992 the body of Paula Gilfoyle was found in the garage of the home she shared with her husband Eddie … Paul was 33. She was also 8 and a half months pregnant. ibid.
‘Dear Eddie, I’ve decided to put an end to everything and in doing so ended a chapter in my life …’ ibid.
There were no signs of a struggle. ibid.
The Merseyside police investigation was so shoddy, idle and just plain wrong that they were themselves investigated by another police force … A Keystone comedy of errors. ibid.
GILLIS, SEAN VINCENT: Serial Killer Profile - crime about online - Born to Kill? TV - World’s Most Evil Killers TV - Sings of a Psychopath TV -
You could do things with a dead women you couldn’t even dream of doing with a live woman. Serial Killer Profile: Sean Vincent Gillis s1e6, Gillis, 2013
I’m just not a violent person. ibid.
The time between the first and second kill was five years; the time between the second and third kill was five months. ibid. expert
He eroticised the dismemberment of his victims. ibid. profiler
The paraphilia, the necrophilia, the cannibalism, the souvenirs, the preying, the hunter, the stalking ... ibid. expert
Sean Vincent Gillis was born on June 24, 1962, in Baton Rouge, LA to Norman and Yvonne Gillis. Struggling with alcoholism and mental illness, Norman Gillis left the family soon after Sean was born.
Yvonne Gillis struggled to raise Sean alone while maintaining a full-time job at a local television station. His grandparents also took an active role in his life, often caring for him when Yvonne had to work.
Gillis had all the characteristics of a normal child. It wasn't until his younger teen years that some of his peers and neighbors caught a glimpse of his darker side ...
But people were watching. His neighbors saw him late at night sometimes in his yard howling at the sky and cursing his mother for leaving. They caught him peeping into the window of a young woman who lived next door. They saw his friends coming and going and could sometimes smell the scent of marijuana from his house on hot summer nights.
Many of Gillis’ neighbors quietly wished that he would move away. Simply put, he gave them the creeps ...
Terri and Gillis began living together in 1995 soon after he murdered Ann Bryan and for the next five years the need to murder and butcher women seemed to go away. But then Gillis got bored and in January 1999 he once again started to stalk the streets of Baton Rouge looking for a victim.
Over the next five years he killed seven more women, mostly prostitutes, with the exception of Hardee Schmidt who came from an affluent area of the city and became his victim after he spotted her jogging in her neighborhood. crime about online article
In the mid-90s a decade of disturbing homicides would begin in the city of Baton Rouge. As the macabre discoveries accumulated, citizens were then scared to walk the streets. The hunt was on for a predator with a twisted desire for a fresh round of bloodshed. But what was driving the mind of this unlikely monster and was he born to kill? Born to Kill? s6e8: Sean Gillis, Really 2017
Investigators believed the victim to be the latest work of a serial killer who was snatching women from the streets of north Baton Rouge. ibid.
A man with a troubling family history. ibid.
Under questioning Gillis began to divulge the chilling details of his crimes. ibid.
February 2004, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 43-year-old Donna Bennett Johnston was walking the streets looking for business. The friendly man driving a white Chevy Cavalier seemed like a safe customer. The man was 41-year-old Sean Vincent Gillis and he was out hunting. This shy quiet ordinary man lived a double life: devoted partner by day, monster by night. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e3: Sean Vincent Gillis, Sky Crime 2021
‘A man who is a rapist, a murderer, a necrophile and a cannibal, all in this inconsequential little man.’ ibid.
April 29th 2004: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Does the word monster come to mind? One minute you’re a person like you are, the next minute you’re not. Signs of a Psychopath s3e3: Do Her Mortal Harm, suspect to rozzer
One minute I’m fine, the next minute I’m hunting wabbit. ibid.
DNA on her body matches that of 41-year-old Sean Vincent Gillis. But Donna’s not his only victim. Donna Bennett Johnston is Gillis’ 8th victim. ibid.