GILLIS, SEAN VINCENT: Serial Killer Profile - crime about online - Born to Kill? TV - World’s Most Evil Killers 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.
GILMORE, GARY: Timeshift: Crime & Punishment TV - Great Crimes & Trials TV - Biography online - Gary Gilmore -
Gary Gilmore became the first person to be executed in the US for ten years … by a firing squad in Utah. Timeshift: Crime and Punishment: The Story of Capital Punishment, BBC 2018
By 1976 there had been no executions for 10 years in the United States. Great Crimes & Trials s1e13: Gary Gilmore, BBC 1993
In and out of jail at age 22 he was sentenced to 15 years for armed robbery. ibid.
He was a graphic artist of real talent. ibid.
And walked into this gas station with the gun ... He shot twice saying, This one’s for me, this one’s for Nicole ... He accidentally shot himself in the hand. ibid.
The Civil Liberties Union stepped in. ibid.
He was rushed to hospital to have his stomach pumped. ibid.
He went on a hunger strike that lasted 25 days. ibid.
A condemned man pleaded not to live but to die. ibid.
The Board of Pardons also heard pleas to keep him alive. ibid.
Gilmore’s body was taken away to have transplant organs removed. His lawyers and his uncle gave a press conference. ibid.
Gary Gilmore was born on December 4, 1940, into a household with an abusive and alcoholic father. Gilmore was sent to reform school for stealing and by the age of 35 spent half his life in prison. Released for college, he committed a robbery and was imprisoned again. He was released on parole three years later. In 1976, he shot two men, was caught and sentenced to death by firing squad. Biography online profile
I don’t deserve anything either. Gary Gilmore
They always want to get in on the act they sell you. I don’t think they’ve done anything effective in their lives ... Butt out. This is my life and this is my death. It’s been sanctioned by the courts that I die, and I accept that. Gary Gilmore
GILMOUR, RAYMOND [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Gilmour, Raymond]: Trial & Error TV - Evidence-Based Justice Lab online
Some decisions are poised on the finest of balances. It takes skill and dexterity to maintain the illusion of stability. This is the story of a case which even the judge said was knife-edged. The evidence always teetered on the very edge of truth. And under the scrutiny that Trial & Error has brought to bear, the case collapses. Trial & Error: Raymond Gilmour, Channel 4 1994
The rape and murder of a Scottish schoolgirl … The murder of Pamela Hastie … What eventually got Raymond Gilmour convicted were two alleged confessions. ibid.
Those admissions that Gilmour claimed, though the police denied it in court, were forced out of him. ibid.
A guilty verdict on the narrowest of margins: eight to six. ibid.
There was no forensic evidence to link Gilmour to the murder. ibid.
Raymond Gilmour confessed to the murder of 16 year old Pamela Hastie twice, but then retracted his confession. He claims this was the result of the pressure of interrogation and that he was attacked and threatened and began to question whether he had actually carried out the crime. His conviction was quashed on appeal when psychological evidence was introduced to suggest he was vulnerable and susceptible to falsely confessing and forensic evidence suggested the use of a knife or sharp object that was not mentioned in the confessions. Evidence-Based Justice Lab online article