00:00:03
[music playing] NARRATOR: February
2004, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. 43-year-old sex
worker Donna Bennett
00:00:14
Johnston was walking the
streets looking for business. The friendly man driving
a white Chevy Cavalier
00:00:21
seemed like a safe customer. He stalked this victim. He'd got his mind set on her.
00:00:29
NARRATOR: The man was
41-year-old Sean Vincent Gillis, and he was out hunting. Because the minute he saw the
women that he killed, to him,
00:00:40
they were already
dead in his mind. But what he was to do to
her in the wake of the killing
00:00:47
is utterly grotesque SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: He raped her. He beat her he cut off her arm.
00:00:54
And then he saw a
tattoo on her thigh, so he cut out the tattoo. NARRATOR: This quiet,
shy, ordinary man
00:01:05
lived a double life, devoted
partner by day, monster by night. And the policeman looked at
me and said, didn't you know?
00:01:15
You're living with
a serial killer. And I basically
laughed out loud. I said, boy, do you
have the wrong house.
00:01:39
NARRATOR: For 10
years, Gillis indulged his depraved sexual needs
and got away with it.
00:01:45
He wasn't clever. He wasn't careful. He discarded his
victims like garbage and enjoyed every
minute of it, making
00:01:54
Sean Vincent Gillis one of
the world's most evil killers. [music playing] 1994 Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
00:02:27
32-year-old Sean
Vincent Gillis was a nerdy geek who loved computers
and all things "Star Trek."
00:02:36
He told me he had never
had any past relationships. He had a female
friends, but that
00:02:43
was as far as it ever went. NARRATOR: For Gillis, finding
a girlfriend wasn't enough.
00:02:49
He had darker desires and
started to explore them, beginning with an easy target.
00:02:56
ELIZABETH YARDLEY: This first
murder is his warm-up murder. This is the one where he knows
he has that distinct advantage
00:03:03
over his victim. He knows that she's
elderly, that she's quite vulnerable, that she's
quite easily overpowered.
00:03:09
And this is the one that is
the gateway to the murders that he goes on to commit.
00:03:15
NARRATOR: Over the next five
years, he honed his skills and found the information
he needed on the dark web.
00:03:23
SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: Sean
began to understand himself a little bit more. And he began to
understand what he
00:03:30
actually wanted from killing. And it wasn't killing. It was he wanted the
dead bodies of women.
00:03:37
NARRATOR: And Sean
Vincent Gillis knew where he could find women to prey on. It would take police a couple
of more murders before they
00:03:46
started connecting
everything and realizing, we have a serial killer
operating in Baton Rouge.
00:03:54
NARRATOR: With every victim,
the depth of his depravity escalated. So you now have a man
who's a rapist, a murderer,
00:04:04
a necrophilie, and a cannibal,
all in this inconsequential little man called Sean Gillis
living with his partner
00:04:15
in a house in Baton Rouge. NARRATOR: This killer's story
begins on June 24, 1962.
00:04:35
Sean Vincent Gillis was born
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Yvonne and Norman Gillis.
00:04:43
SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: When
he was very young, maybe three years
old, his father tried
00:04:49
to kill him and his mother. Yvonne left Norman
when this happened and became a single mother.
00:04:55
And she raised Sean by
herself from the time he was three years old on. GEOFFREY WANSELL:
In fact, Norman
00:05:03
spent a great part of his
life in mental institutions and had almost no impact on
Sean Gillis' early years.
00:05:12
It was Yvonne, his mother, that
was the decisive influence. [music playing] ELIZABETH YARDLEY: His
father is a figure of fear.
00:05:23
He's somebody who is not giving
those feelings of safety, and stability, and security.
00:05:29
Those are things that
he gets from his mother. And the centrality of his
mother in those early years
00:05:35
of his life becomes
very, very important in terms of his
later relationships and in terms of his crimes.
00:05:42
SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: She
worked at a department store in Baton Rouge. She worked for Channel 2,
a television station here.
00:05:51
And she doted on her son. She spoiled him. She thought he was the
best baby in the world.
00:05:58
And as he grew, she thought
he was really smart. Although, his
teachers thought he
00:06:05
was maybe average intelligence. He was known to smoke
marijuana with his friends.
00:06:11
But neighbors reported
that sometimes, he would go out in the
middle of the night
00:06:16
in the front yard
or the backyard and be howling like a wolf. He had some very strange
behaviors, even as a teenager.
00:06:26
But the thing was that he was
so preoccupied by his mother, that he really had
no girlfriends.
00:06:35
He went through his
adolescence and early 20s barely having a girlfriend. I mean, I think he might
have wanted a girlfriend,
00:06:43
but I don't think he knew
what to do to get one. SUSAN D. MUSTAFA:
Sean was like a nerd.
00:06:50
He was a geek. He loved computers. He loved things like
"Star Trek," Nintendo. Even early on, when computers
were just coming out,
00:07:00
he was already studying them,
and learning how to operate them, and learning
that computers
00:07:08
could be used to fulfill
your fantasies or whatever. He used to the computers
for pornography
00:07:17
long before most people did. NARRATOR: In 1991, when
Gillis was 29 years old, his mother accepted a new
job in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:07:30
ELIZABETH YARDLEY: His mother
asks him to go with her. And he refuses. And just looking at this,
what you've got here
00:07:36
is a petulant teenager. I'm not going to go. And I think he believes that by
refusing to go, she won't go.
00:07:44
But of course, she does. She goes and she
takes up this new job. But she sends him
money, so that he can
00:07:49
keep up payments on the house. She provides for him. But he would have
taken it almost
00:07:54
as a kind of bereavement, as
a kind of grief because he's been left on his own. He sees himself as
this abandoned child.
00:08:03
GEOFFREY WANSELL: He's been
fascinated by computers since he was very young. Early days of the
internet, of course,
00:08:09
he's addicted to pornography. It almost goes without saying. NARRATOR: In 1994, Gillis met
a young woman who was the night
00:08:33
shift manager at a
local convenience store called Terri Lemoine. My first impression of Sean
was comfortable, safe, someone
00:08:44
you would want to visit or
see every day, someone who could be your friend easily.
00:08:52
We spent at least six
hours talking all night long in that convenience store. We liked the same books.
00:09:00
We liked the same movies. We liked the same actors. We got along fine. NARRATOR: Sean and Terri's
relationship flourished.
00:09:13
The store where
Terri worked nights was only a short walk
from Sean's house and down the road from
a retirement community
00:09:21
called St. James Place. One night, Gillis was
walking through the grounds of the facility's
residential area
00:09:29
and stopped at the home
of 82-year-old Ann Bryan She left her door cracked a
little bit in the retirement
00:09:36
home, so that the
nurse could come in if she needed to
that night and bring in medication for her.
00:10:16
[music playing] He decides he's going to
kill her, not just kill her, but to absolutely destroy
this elderly lady.
00:10:25
I mean, he stabs her 47 times. She has got wounds
all over her body. Her throat is cut.
00:10:32
It is a grotesque killing. For a first kill
of a serial killer, this was a frenzied attack.
00:10:42
It was brutal. It was bloody and I
think Sean surprised himself with how
gruesome that scene got
00:10:53
and what he was capable of. No one knew that it was Sean
Gillis that had killed her.
00:11:16
There was no connection
between Gillis and Ann. He wasn't the gardener or
somebody who came around
00:11:25
to do a bit of clearing up. As far as anyone knew, there
was no connection whatever.
00:11:32
NARRATOR: Six months
after killing Ann, Terri and Sean moved in together. Sean was probably
one of the best kind
00:11:44
of boyfriends you could have. He was polite. He was nice. He always thought of you first.
00:11:54
And Sean was going to be the
person I was going to spend the rest of my life with.
00:12:12
[music playing] 1994 Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sean Vincent Gillis and his
girlfriend, Terri Lemoine,
00:12:25
settle into their new
life together, living in Sean's childhood home. Sean was a quiet,
geeky little guy.
00:12:45
He never made loud noises. He never yelled. He stayed at home a lot. Sean was the type of person that
you can leave your kids with.
00:12:58
That was a type of
person he came across as. He could be your babysitter,
and you trust him.
00:13:06
When he's in
this relationship, he is essentially trying to
be the perfect boyfriend.
00:13:11
He is on his best behavior. He wants her approval. He wants her validation. He has essentially replaced
his mother with her.
00:13:24
One of Sean's main
loves was his computer. Sean would get on his
computer from the time
00:13:33
he woke up in the morning. And way into the night, he
would stay on that computer.
00:13:42
I usually went to bed by myself. Sometimes I woke up
by myself because Sean was on his computer.
00:13:54
NARRATOR: Terri secured Sean
a day job at the same store where she worked nights.
00:14:01
Well, I wanted him to not
rely on his mother so much and to make his own
money, pay his own bills
00:14:08
because she paid all the bills. She paid the electric bill,
everything at the house.
00:14:13
And I wanted him to kind of
learn how to fend for himself, how to take care of himself.
00:14:22
I mean, he was a man by then. NARRATOR: Gillis lasted three
weeks in his new job then quit.
00:14:32
He pretty much wanted
to stay on his own. And you had to
interact with people. And Sean didn't like
interacting with people.
00:14:40
That would mean you
have to talk to them. And Sean didn't like
talking, not to other people.
00:14:46
He could sit there and carry
on a wonderful conversation and talk your head off.
00:14:51
But to talk to someone
he didn't know, that wasn't something
he was good at. NARRATOR: For the
next five years,
00:15:14
Sean and Terri appeared to
live happily ever after. His girlfriend
works the night shift,
00:15:21
so this gives him these periods
of time when he is on his own. And he starts driving around
at night looking for victims.
00:15:29
He's ruminating. He's thinking. He is unsupervised for the
first time in his life.
00:15:34
And I think this comes as
quite as a surprise to him. Nobody's checking up on him.
00:15:40
He has all of these
hours to play with. He began to practice using
an industrial zip tie, which
00:15:50
is a very big plastic tie. And when you pull
it, it's tight, and it locks, and
you can't unlock it.
00:15:58
And he chose that as
his weapon of death and began practicing with it. And so for those five years,
he sunk deeper and deeper
00:16:08
into depravity and
began honing his skills, so that when he began
killing again, he was ready.
00:16:15
NARRATOR: On the night
of January the 4th, 1999, 30-year-old sex worker Katherine
Hall was working the streets
00:16:24
in North Baton Rouge. SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: And Sean
Gillis drove up beside her and offered her money.
00:16:31
And she got into his vehicle. Sean took her to a deserted
area on River Road. And he put a zip
tie around her neck.
00:16:45
When she realized what was
happening, she fought him. And she jumped out of
the car, and she ran.
00:16:52
And he caught up with her. And he begins stabbing her. He stabbed her 16 times,
perimortem, and another 21
00:17:05
times after she was gone. She was located in the
Southeast part of the parish in a kind of a rural area.
00:17:25
But a new subdivision
development was taking place. Katherine's remains
were left nude.
00:17:33
None of our personal
items were located there. And she had been laid out
in a kind of a pose position
00:17:40
beneath a dead end sign. The theme that
was relevant to him was the connection with
a dead female body.
00:17:50
Horrifying, though, it may
be to say, what really made Gillis' juices flow
was a possibility
00:17:57
of sex with a dead female body. Where did that come from? I can't say. All I can say is that
it's one of the few cases
00:18:11
I've come across
in which this is a truly necrophiliac tendency. NARRATOR: Four
months later in May,
00:18:22
Gillis was again out driving. He saw 52-year-old
Hardee Moseley Schmidt. She was a well-to-do
mother of three.
00:19:04
She was married to an attorney. She was from a prominent
Baton Rouge family. Her father was a
judge in Baton Rouge.
00:19:12
And every morning,
Hardee would take a jog. She loved exercise. And she loved jogging through
her beautiful neighborhood.
00:19:21
NARRATOR: On the
morning of May 30, Gillis went out looking for her. SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: And
when Sean saw her,
00:19:40
he struck her with his vehicle
and knocked her into a ditch. He jumped out of his car,
he grabbed the zip tie,
00:19:48
and he strangled her
right there and put her in the trunk of his vehicle. NARRATOR: Gillis drove the dead
body to a park in Baton Rouge.
00:19:57
After Sean finished
raping Hardee, he put her back in
the trunk of the car, and he went to go pick his
girlfriend up from work
00:20:05
at the convenience store. I remember a smell in the
car and asked him what it was.
00:20:13
And he said he had hit an
animal on the way to pick me up. And that was
probably-- the smell
00:20:20
of the animal was still on
the tires coming into the car. And I was so tired from
getting off of work,
00:20:30
that I told him just
please clean the car. I'm going to bed. And I didn't think
about it again.
00:20:41
NARRATOR: A few days later near
a bayou South of Baton Rouge, the body of Hardee
Moseley Schmidt was found.
00:20:49
ELIZABETH YARDLEY: So these
are places that are really not of any use to anybody.
00:20:54
They are these in-between
spaces that don't appear to have a function. And that is how he
saw his victims.
00:21:00
He saw them as having expired. I've got what I wanted from you. You don't serve any purpose
anymore, like the area
00:21:07
in which I'm dumping you. [music playing] NARRATOR: November 12, 1999,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
00:21:32
Six months after killing
Hardee Moseley Schmidt, Sean Vincent Gillis was
hunting down his next target.
00:21:40
[music playing] It really isn't until
his fourth victim, a girl called Joyce Williams,
that the full extent
00:21:55
of Gillis'
extraordinary tendencies begins to become clear. It may sound
extraordinary to hear,
00:22:08
but Gillis was becoming,
and probably had by now, become a proper fully
fledged necrophiliac.
00:22:19
He saw sexual relationships with
dead women as more important than any kind of sexual
relationship with a live one.
00:22:29
NARRATOR: 36-year-old
Joyce Williams was a drug addict who turned
to sex work to feed her habit.
00:22:36
On the night of November 12,
she got in the car with Gillis. TODD MORRIS: And they were
driving, and listening
00:22:43
to the music, and singing. And Joyce made
the comment to him that if I wasn't
with anyone else,
00:22:50
I'd be feeling
nervous right now. And Sean said to himself-- he thought, you have no idea.
00:23:00
NARRATOR: Gillis drove to a
remote area in West Baton Rouge and stopped by a
sugar cane field.
00:23:07
And anybody that's
ever lived in Louisiana knows if you walk through
a sugar cane field,
00:23:12
sound is muted. You can't hear anything. So this was the perfect
place for Sean to bring her.
00:23:20
NARRATOR: Gillis
strangled Joyce to death. SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: He put
her back into the vehicle.
00:23:29
And Joyce was the
first victim that he brought back to the house
he shared with Terri.
00:23:36
TODD MORRIS: Sean described how
beautiful Joyce's legs were. He became very
obsessed with her legs
00:23:46
and began removing her legs. He utilized a
knife and a hacksaw to begin dismembering Joyce.
00:23:58
After Sean dismembered
Joyce Williams' body, he delved into cannibalism
for the first time
00:24:04
and decided to see
what she tasted like. NARRATOR: Sean
cleaned up quickly, putting the dismembered
remains of Joyce
00:24:14
into large plastic
bags and stuffed them in the trunk of his car. He then went to pick
Terri up at work.
00:24:23
He dropped Terri at home,
then drove to a levee and dumped Joyce's body. GEOFFREY WANSELL:
He didn't distribute
00:24:30
them across state lines. He wanted them to be found. But that's his signature. He wanted people to
know what he'd done.
00:24:38
And then even more terrifying,
he wanted to get away with it. NARRATOR: In October
2000, Sean was
00:24:48
driving through
Lafayette when he saw 38-year-old Marilyn Nevils. He hadn't planned
to kill that night.
00:24:55
He just couldn't help himself. SUSAN D. MUSTAFA:
After Sean killed Marilyn Nevils in
October of 2000,
00:25:33
he stopped killing for a while. He would not kill again
for almost three years. The reason Sean
stopped killing was
00:25:43
because another serial killer
was operating in Baton Rouge, and he began to get a
lot more media coverage
00:25:51
and cause a lot of terror
in the city of Baton Rouge and its surrounding areas. NARRATOR: The other
killer was Derrick
00:26:01
Todd Lee, a predator who
targeted women in their homes. There's no doubt at all that
Gillis became increasingly
00:26:10
obsessed with Derrick Todd
Lee, this other serial killer operating in Baton Rouge
at the same time as Gillis.
00:26:18
And Gillis kept a file
on him in his computer. He was very interested, indeed. I've always seen that as
a kind of competitiveness.
00:26:27
I think he thought, well,
I'm going to be every bit as dangerous, and as difficult,
and as frightening
00:26:33
as Derrick Todd Lee. NARRATOR: On the
27th of May 2003, Derrick Todd Lee was arrested.
00:26:41
And Sean Vincent Gillis started
thinking about killing again. By October, he was
on the prowl in North
00:26:49
Baton Rouge, when he saw
45-year-old Johnnie Mae Williams. SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: He was
friends with Johnie Mae.
00:26:58
They liked each other. He had met Johnnie
Mae years before. And she cleaned
his house for him.
00:27:06
They partied together. They smoked weed together. He even spent one Thanksgiving
at Johnnie Mae's house
00:27:13
with her family. And when his friend, Johnnie
Mae got into his vehicle, they drove around for a while.
00:27:43
And he drove her to an
area behind Mason's Grill, which is a popular
restaurant in Baton Rouge.
00:27:52
And it's a secluded field
with woods around it right behind the restaurant. And there, he beat her.
00:28:01
He stabbed her. He mutilated her body. And he also cut off her hands. NARRATOR: In February
2004, Gillis struck again.
00:28:26
He picked up 43-year-old
Donna Bennett Johnston in North Baton Rouge. Donna was a sex
worker and an addict.
00:28:35
She was also a mother
to five children. Sean took Donna to a deserted
area off of Scenic Highway.
00:29:31
SUSAN D. MUSTAFA: He raped her. He beat her. He cut off her arm. And then he saw a
tattoo on her thigh,
00:29:41
so he cut out the tattoo. NARRATOR: Gillis posed
Donna's mutilated body and photographed the scene.
00:29:49
He then placed her in
the trunk of his car and continued taking pictures. He drove off and tossed the
tattooed flesh from Donna's
00:29:58
body out of the car window. He had wrapped her
arm in a bloody towel, and he threw that in a ditch.
00:30:07
So he got rid of
Donna's body parts all over in different
areas around Baton Rouge.
00:30:15
GEOFFREY WANSELL:
I think he wanted recognition for his handiwork. I don't think he
was ashamed of it.
00:30:19
I also don't think that
he thought he would get caught because by now-- and we're in February 2004--
00:30:27
he's killed eight
women ruthlessly. He's attacked their bodies. He has done everything he
can to destroy their lives
00:30:41
and what anyone would
remember of them. [music playing] NARRATOR: 2004 Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
00:31:09
On February 26, the mutilated
body of Donna Bennett Johnston was found. Donna Bennett Johnston.
00:31:23
Had helped the police
numerous times over the years as a police informant. So when the police
found her, they
00:31:31
knew who she was,
and they were shocked to see the condition
of her body and what
00:31:37
this killer had done to her. NARRATOR: DNA evidence
connected the murder of Donna Bennett
Johnston to Katherine
00:31:45
Hall and Johnnie Mae Williams. Police had to face the
fact that Baton Rouge had another serial killer.
00:31:54
In March 2004, a task
force was formed. There was a lot of going
back through the evidence,
00:32:02
going back through
the cold cases, reviewing witness statements,
evidence that had been
00:32:09
recovered, and looking at
the crime scene photographs, trying to determine whom
we were looking for.
00:32:16
NARRATOR: While processing the
crime scene of Donna Bennett Johnston, police focused on a
tire imprint left at the scene.
00:32:24
A tire casting was
obtained of that. And research was done with
local tire dealerships, which
00:32:30
identified that potentially,
that that tread pattern matched the Goodyear Aquatred 3 tire.
00:32:38
GEOFFREY WANSELL:
The Louisiana police take great interest
in this tire track because it's a very rare one.
00:32:46
Good old fashioned police work. They identify the fact
that only 90 of these tires
00:32:54
have been sold in Louisiana. And they go through meticulously
tracking whose tires they were.
00:33:02
And that's how they begin to
find the trail that leads them to Sean Vincent Gillis' door.
00:33:11
TERRI LEMOINE: I had
just gotten off of work. And they wanted
to bring Sean down
00:33:17
to the station to talk to him. They were interviewing everyone
that had a Chevy Cavalier
00:33:26
because evidently,
tire tracks were found at one of the crime scenes. NARRATOR: Gillis agreed to
go to the police station
00:33:34
for questioning. Sean said, I
want Terri to know where I'm at in case it gets
dark and I'm not back home.
00:33:40
I thought that was very
interesting that he was worried about not coming back home.
00:33:47
As we were walking
out the residence and standing in the driveway
talking to Sean for a minute,
00:33:51
he said, do you if I
smoke a cigarette-- Sean dropped the
cigarette on his driveway,
00:33:56
extinguished it with
his foot, and said, quote, "let's go get
this shit over with."
00:34:04
And right then, I said,
man, this is the guy. NARRATOR: At the police station,
Gillis voluntarily provided
00:34:14
a DNA swab. They questioned him
about the tire tracks at the Donna Bennett
Johnston crime scene.
00:35:48
Gillis had placed himself
at the crime scene with an unconvincing story of
needing to relieve himself.
00:35:56
Later that afternoon, Sean was
returned back to his residence once we had all the
surveillance in place.
00:36:02
His vehicle had been told to
the state police crime lab while we continued to
wait for his DNA profile
00:36:09
to be obtained by the crime lab. TERRI LEMOINE: Like
I said, normally, he never got off his computer.
00:36:14
He actually turned the computer
off and sat and watched TV with me that evening and then
came to bed at the same time
00:36:23
I did. You're actually spending
the evening with me. I said, so what did you do?
00:36:31
NARRATOR: The police waited
anxiously for the DNA results from the crime lab. The buccal swab which had
been obtained from Sean Gillis
00:36:43
produced a DNA profile which
matched the profiles left at the crime scenes of Katherine
Hall, Johnnie Mae Williams,
00:36:51
and Donna Bennett Johnston. [music playing] And about the same time
that we laid our head down
00:37:03
on the pillow in
the bed, that's when the police broke through
the door and arrested him.
00:37:13
When they told me they had
come to arrest a serial killer, I laughed at them. I actually laughed out loud
and said, boy, have you
00:37:24
got the wrong house. NARRATOR: Sean was
brought back to the police station accompanied by Terri.
00:38:26
And I asked him straight up,
did you do everything they're telling me that you did?
00:38:36
And this geeky
little guy that I had just adored all these years-- he's kind of hung his head,
and turned it to the side,
00:38:45
and looked at me with those
big blue eyes and said, yeah, honey-bunny,
I did all that.
00:38:52
[music playing] And I-- I turned
around and left. He was very
forthcoming, but he wanted
00:39:13
to tell a story also too. He wanted to enjoy the
limelight describing everything he had done.
00:40:31
As the police sat
here and listened to him recount everything he had done-- he knew details of those
murders that had not
00:40:40
been released to the public. And so while they thought they
were arresting him for three
00:40:45
murders, he confessed to eight. The next day prior
to interviewing Sean, we had contacted the
public defender's office,
00:40:56
requested a public defender
to come and speak with Sean just to make sure Sean
understood that he
00:41:03
had the right to remain silent. He just keeps talking
and goes on and on. And the confession tapes are
around 40 hours in total.
00:42:00
But what we've
got to remember is for the first time in his life,
Gillis is being listened to.
00:42:05
He has an audience. And he wants to
keep that audience. When police sprayed luminol
in the kitchen of Sean Vincent
00:42:52
Gillis where he had taken
several of his victims and dismembered their
bodies, the floor
00:43:01
lit up like a Christmas tree. It was unbelievable how much
blood he had tried to clean
00:43:07
up out of that kitchen. But more telling, 45
photographs of Donna Johnston, endless pictures of the
other victims often naked,
00:43:19
often in the back of
his car, paraphernalia, zip ties that he's used to kill,
endless amounts of absolutely
00:43:28
critical evidence. NARRATOR: Gillis was
eventually charged with several counts of both
first and second-degree murder.
00:43:38
He faced years of
multi-jurisdictional litigation. He escaped the death penalty
and was sentenced to serve three
00:43:45
consecutive life sentences. I think that what they
heard in that courtroom was so inhumane and so unable to
be comprehended by any normal
00:44:01
human being, that the only
alternative was this person cannot be sane because although
he was perfectly fine with
00:44:10
killing all of
these other people, he didn't want to die himself. It's hard to believe that
it was occurring here in Baton
00:44:17
Rouge, and we had Sean living
in our society and him not being on anyone's radar.
00:44:24
TERRI LEMOINE: It was almost
a year later that I found out everything he had done.
00:44:31
And sometimes I still can't
fathom that because that is just not the person I knew.
00:44:40
That's not the Sean I knew. NARRATOR: When Sean Vincent
Gillis selected a victim,
00:45:00
they were already dead to him. He didn't see them as human. He went beyond killing.
00:45:06
He destroyed women in the
most depraved way possible, making Sean Vincent
Gillis one of the world's
00:45:13
most evil killers. [music playing]