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These chilling interviews with notorious serial killers are certain to unsettle you! In this compilation, we will examine the most peculiar and chilling conversations with well-known killers prior to their demise. Our compilation of disturbing discussions with serial killers features Michael Bruce Ross, Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, Andrei Chikatilo, and others! Which of these encounters left you the most disturbed? Share your thoughts in the comments below..
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00:00A person said one time, he said,
00:02that's a horrible way of dying.
00:05I said, what is a good way?
00:08Could you tell me what a good way is to die?
00:10Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:12And today we're looking at 20 disturbing interviews
00:14with serial killers before being executed.
00:17Do you think you're a hero to those hate groups?
00:20Well, that's what they tell me, you know.
00:23For this list, we're analyzing the most bizarre
00:26and harrowing discussions with famous killers
00:28before they died or were supposed to be put to death.
00:31If they weren't actually executed,
00:33they could still be eligible
00:35as long as they were sentenced to be.
00:37Which of these unnerved you the most?
00:39Let us know in the comments below.
00:42Michael Bruce Ross.
00:43Over the course of three years in the early 1980s,
00:47Michael Bruce Ross claimed the lives of eight girls
00:49and women in Connecticut and New York.
00:51Ross had endured a troubled childhood
00:53and began his vicious crime spree
00:55in his senior year of college.
00:57I just felt like I was right on the edge
00:59and like I could, it was just gonna be,
01:01wouldn't take much to push me over.
01:03I just, and it was very frightening back then.
01:06I'm not like that now.
01:08I'm just such a lovable guy now.
01:10After he was captured in 1984,
01:12Ross confessed to all eight murders
01:14and was sentenced to death in Connecticut.
01:16In an interview given while awaiting execution,
01:19the roadside strangler, as he came to be known,
01:21casually recounted his heinous crimes.
01:23It was 3.30 in the afternoon
01:26on a fairly well-driven road.
01:30She was walking alongside the road
01:33and I just stopped the car, get out of the car.
01:37At one point, he even bragged about the strength
01:40with which he strangled his victims.
01:41It was an insane strength or something,
01:45because I got a kick out of it because the prosecutor,
01:47I knew, had no idea that was coming.
01:49Ross was executed in 2005,
01:52the last person to face that penalty
01:54in the state of Connecticut.
01:55For some of us, death is not a punishment.
01:57Edward Wayne Edwards.
01:59Right from his childhood,
02:00Edward Wayne Edwards lived a life of crime,
02:03even once appearing on the FBI's
02:0510 Most Wanted Fugitives list.
02:06It was a female who identifies herself as April.
02:09She said, I think my dad could be responsible
02:12for Tim and Kelly.
02:13I think he killed them.
02:15And she said his name is Edward Wayne Edwards.
02:17Edwards began killing after being granted parole in 1967
02:21and was responsible for at least five deaths.
02:24There was some cigarettes in the bottom of the duffel bag.
02:30I said, go ahead and get them out.
02:32Edwards lived as a free man for decades
02:35before being arrested in 2009
02:37and sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes.
02:39I felt bad, but apparently not bad enough
02:43that I kept from doing it.
02:45Seeking a quick punishment,
02:47Edwards sat for an interview with the Associated Press,
02:50during which he confessed to killing his foster son,
02:52Danny Boy Edwards, for a life insurance payout.
02:55He was stealing from my children,
02:57and I'm very close to my family in that respect.
03:02And so I just let my mind, I'm not new to crime.
03:06In 2011, Edwards was handed the death penalty
03:09for Danny's murder.
03:10However, he died of natural causes just one month later.
03:15Bobby Joe Long.
03:16For more than three decades,
03:18Bobby Joe Long sat on death row in Florida
03:20before he was executed in 2019.
03:23Long was not only a serial killer,
03:25with at least 10 victims to his name,
03:27he was also a serial predator,
03:29having assaulted more than 50 women in around three years.
03:33As soon as I opened my eyes from being asleep,
03:36that's what I was thinking about.
03:39That didn't let up until I did it.
03:41He was arrested in November 1984
03:44after one of his victims, Lisa McVeigh,
03:46led the authorities to him.
03:48Long claims in this interview with Miami's WPLG
03:51that his compulsions were triggered
03:53by a motorcycle accident that left him with head injuries.
03:56The first time I did it,
03:58I couldn't really believe I did it.
03:59With a piercing stare and a creepy half smile,
04:02he talks about being an average Joe
04:04who just happened to go off the edge every once in a while.
04:07Probably 99.9% of the time,
04:09I'm as normal as he is or he is or anybody else is.
04:14But, there's that 1% of the time.
04:19Andrei Chikatilo.
04:20He was in a large iron cage in the courtroom.
04:24The cage was to protect him from the rage
04:26of the parents of the victims.
04:29One of the most infamous killers in Soviet history,
04:31Andrei Chikatilo terrorized the Rostov Oblast
04:34in Soviet Russia between 1978 and 1990.
04:38Chikatilo claimed to have taken the lives of 56 people
04:41and was convicted of 52 murders.
04:44Referred to as the Butcher of Rostov,
04:46Chikatilo was known for his erratic behavior in court,
04:49but appeared a lot more restrained in this interview
04:51he granted before his execution.
04:54He rambles on about his troubled childhood
04:56and growing up during the Great Famine
04:57of the early 1930s in Soviet Ukraine.
05:12When asked about the afterlife, Chikatilo brushes it off
05:15and expresses his readiness for whatever comes next.
05:28Perhaps most disturbing was his past desire
05:30to become a dictator from as early as the ninth grade.
05:42Danny Rowling.
05:44Like some of the other individuals on this list,
05:46Danny Rowling was the product of a sadistic upbringing.
05:49In his adulthood, Rowling became a serial killer,
05:52murdering three people in his hometown
05:54of Shreveport, Louisiana,
05:55and five others in the student community
05:57of Gainesville, Florida.
05:59In 2004, Rowling appeared in this episode
06:01of the Canadian true crime TV show, Forensic Factor.
06:12And it was like when the sun would go down,
06:15I couldn't resist it.
06:17Rowling seems to express some remorse for his crimes
06:20and concedes that he deserves to die.
06:22But his demeanor throughout the interview
06:24appears to be that of someone
06:25needing to be the center of attention.
06:27When the morning would come up,
06:28it was just like I would hate myself.
06:31It was like I was like, my God, what have I become?
06:35That comes as no surprise,
06:37as he previously admitted his desire
06:39to be a well-known criminal,
06:41like fellow serial killer, Ted Bundy.
06:43I don't even know how much longer
06:44I'm gonna be on this earth.
06:47But when I die, I hope I'm ready.
06:50I hope I die half as bravely
06:53as the people who perished at my hand.
06:57Peter Kilton.
06:58In the early 20th century,
07:00Peter Kilton reigned terror
07:01on the German city of Dusseldorf,
07:03assaulting and killing at least nine people.
07:06He was known as the Vampire of Dusseldorf
07:08due to his disturbing fascination with blood.
07:10After his arrest in May of 1930,
07:13Kilton was analyzed by psychiatrist,
07:15Dr. Karl Berg over a series of interviews.
07:18The infamous killer claimed
07:19that although there was a sexual nature to his crimes,
07:22he was primarily motivated by the sight of blood.
07:25He also stated that the very act of attacking his victims
07:28brought him intense relief.
07:30Just before his execution by guillotine,
07:32Kilton asked his psychiatrist
07:34if he would be able to hear the sound of his own blood
07:36gushing out after his decapitation.
07:38Tommy Lynn Sells.
07:40California-born Tommy Lynn Sells
07:42claims to have committed over 70 murders.
07:44If true, that would make him
07:46one of the most prolific serial killers in US history.
07:49Every time I did it,
07:53it was that rush again,
07:55and I started chasing that high.
07:57Despite his claims,
07:59Sells was convicted of only one murder
08:01and sentenced to die in September of 2000.
08:03In a jailhouse interview with Martin Bashir
08:05for ABC's Nightline,
08:07Sells described himself as an emotionless person,
08:10and that comes across quite clearly in the recorded clip.
08:13When you look at me, you know what hate is,
08:16but I don't know what love is.
08:17With no remorse whatsoever,
08:19he recounted his killings,
08:20detailing the rush he got from taking innocent lives.
08:23It's a rare glimpse into the mind of a heartless killer
08:26and one capable of sending chills down any spine.
08:30Why would that happen?
08:32I didn't want him to live through the pain I lived through.
08:35Angel Maturino Resendiz.
08:37Dubbed the Railroad Killer,
08:38Angel Maturino Resendiz was known to illegally hop trains
08:42as he traveled across the US.
08:44He would then invade homes close to the railroads,
08:47rob them, and murder the occupants.
08:49This offender, unlike a lot of others,
08:52spent an incredible amount of time in that house
08:54going through everything.
08:56In total, authorities believe Resendiz killed
08:58at least 15 people in this manner.
09:01His calm and reserved behavior throughout this interview
09:04with renowned journalist Jacqueline Cacho
09:06heavily contrasts the vicious nature of his crimes.
09:09Given entirely in Spanish,
09:11Resendiz doesn't necessarily go into explicit detail
09:14about the murders in this interview.
09:15Instead, he seemingly alludes to the motivation behind them.
09:19Although he described himself as an eternal being
09:22who was incapable of dying,
09:24Resendiz was executed by lethal injection
09:26on June 27th, 2006.
09:29Earl Forrest.
09:30Back in December 2002,
09:32a drug dispute between longtime friends Earl Forrest
09:35and Harriet Smith resulted in the former
09:37murdering the latter in her home.
09:39I asked her, you know,
09:42all I wanted was a f***ing lawnmower.
09:46She said, Earl, I'll get you a lawnmower.
09:49I felt, I guess, maybe I felt like I was being lied to.
09:52Forrest also killed another friend of theirs,
09:54Michael Wells, who was visiting Smith at the time,
09:57as well as a deputy sheriff
09:59during a police shootout afterwards.
10:01Why'd you shoot him?
10:03I don't know.
10:04I, uh, she looked at me funny, I guess.
10:09For his crimes, he was put to death by lethal injection
10:12on May 11th, 2016.
10:15The first season of the A&E docuseries,
10:17The Killer Speaks, features an interview with Forrest,
10:20who is completely devoid of any remorse.
10:22Did you feel bad?
10:25I don't know what I felt.
10:26Instead, he puts the responsibility of his actions on Smith
10:29for not fulfilling a promise she made him.
10:32Watching the clip, you'd think he was the victim of the crime.
10:35I did something for her.
10:36She was supposed to do something for me.
10:38Why did she, you know, have to put us both in that position?
10:44Joseph Paul Franklin was a notorious serial killer
10:47and white supremacist who is believed
10:49to have been responsible for at least 20 murders.
10:51I mean, I can't go back and think about the cases,
10:54you know, individually.
10:56I have too much other problems, too much other things.
10:59I have to focus on them.
11:00Franklin mostly targeted interracial couples,
11:03African-Americans and Jewish people in his attacks.
11:06He also famously shot adult magazine publisher
11:08Larry Flint in March 1978.
11:11Although this interview Franklin granted to CNN
11:13before his 2013 execution provides little information
11:16about his depraved crimes,
11:18it gives some insight into his state of mind.
11:20And what was your mission?
11:22Well, to try to get a race war started.
11:25At the time of the murders,
11:26he genuinely believed that he was doing the will of God.
11:29As misguided as I was, I was doing the will of God.
11:33You know, I thought I was actually doing right.
11:35This is what God wanted me to do.
11:38While his mindset about that may have changed,
11:40Franklin still seems to relish in the fact
11:42that he is viewed as a hero by certain extremist groups.
11:45Do you think you're a hero to those hate groups?
11:48Well, that's what they tell me, you know.
11:52Gary Ray Bowles, also featured on the A&E docuseries
11:56The Killer Speaks, was Gary Ray Bowles.
11:58Bowles' victims were largely gay men
12:00who lived along the Interstate 95 highway,
12:03earning him the nickname I-95 Killer.
12:05Why'd you get onto that off course?
12:09Well, I just got a bad vibe from the guy.
12:11In this taped interview for the TV show,
12:14Bowles seems to revel in the memories of his crimes
12:16as he recounts them.
12:17Not only is he amused when he recalls
12:19stealing a man's identity to evade capture,
12:22he also refers to one of his victims as, quote,
12:24"'crazy and creepy.'"
12:26There's not really a way to describe it, you know?
12:28It's just, I guess, relief.
12:30Throughout the interview,
12:32Bowles tries to justify the murders,
12:34claiming that his victims had done specific things
12:36that seemingly triggered him to kill.
12:38So I put one of the videos in.
12:42What came on the screen, it just, it shocked me.
12:46The apparent lack of accountability he shows
12:48only makes this much more uncomfortable to watch.
12:51I took the birth certificate and social security card.
12:55I took it down to the DMV
12:56and I told them I lost my driver's license
12:59and I basically became Timothy Ronald Whitfield.
13:07Billy Wayne Coble.
13:08Who is not going to leave this world?
13:11Aren't we all?
13:12Described by one prosecutor as having, quote,
13:15"'a heart full of scorpions,'
13:17Billy Wayne Coble killed his estranged wife's parents
13:19and brother.
13:20Coble remained on death row in Texas for nearly 30 years
13:23before he was executed by lethal injection
13:26in February of 2019.
13:28In the days leading up to his capital punishment,
13:30Coble sat down with Susanna Reid for his final interview.
13:33To you, it matters.
13:35To some people, it matters.
13:37To me, it really no longer matters.
13:42Without going into much detail about his crimes,
13:45Reid asks Coble if he regrets committing them.
13:47Coble cunningly evades the question
13:50and would only admit that he was behind the murders.
13:52I've already said that I regret what happened.
13:55Now, I truly regret what happened,
13:59but I also truly regret what happens
14:01to a lot of things in life.
14:02He repeats this trend,
14:04even when he's asked if he loved his former wife.
14:07This evasive behavior is just one more unsettling thing
14:10about this seemingly disturbed individual.
14:12Did you love her though?
14:16I met my Karen when she was about 16, 17 years old.
14:21Oscar Ray Bolin.
14:23In the mid-1980s, Oscar Ray Bolin killed three women
14:26throughout the Tampa area.
14:27Following his arrest, Bolin's cousin testified against him
14:31and implicated him in a fourth homicide.
14:33He received three death sentences
14:36and was executed on January 7th, 2016 at the age of 53.
14:41One day before his death,
14:43Bolin was interviewed by Tampa's Fox 13.
14:45How are you feeling this morning?
14:47A little numb.
14:53I mean, I don't know how you would expect someone to feel.
14:59I mean, they told you tomorrow you're dying.
15:01How would you feel?
15:02Bolin appears calm and courteous throughout the interview,
15:05even expressing fear and worry about his upcoming execution.
15:08He also professes his innocence,
15:11something he continuously maintained
15:13throughout his imprisonment.
15:14So you're saying you didn't murder these women?
15:17You didn't murder Natalie Hawley, Stephanie Collins,
15:22Terry Lynn Matthews?
15:27Bolin looks and sounds like a nice enough guy,
15:30which only makes the darkness underneath
15:32seem that much more sinister.
15:42Richard Ramirez.
15:43As far as Satan is concerned,
15:45I believe in a malevolent being.
15:49His description eludes me,
15:51but I have felt powers that are evil.
15:55A notorious serial killer known as the Night Stalker,
15:58Ramirez terrorized California with his violent burglaries,
16:01assaults, and killings.
16:03Ramirez took the lives of at least 15 people
16:06and was convicted of 13 homicides,
16:08leading to 19 separate death sentences.
16:11In 1993, Inside Edition aired an interview with Ramirez,
16:15who was then awaiting execution on death row.
16:25Among other discussion points,
16:27he explained his theories on the psychological development
16:30of serial killers like himself.
16:32Even more chilling, when asked why he killed his victims,
16:35Ramirez hides a smile and simply says,
16:41I cannot answer that at this time.
16:44Ramirez was still awaiting execution in 2013
16:47when he died of cancer.
16:49Carol Cole.
16:51A very prolific serial killer,
16:53Carol Cole claimed at least 16 victims throughout his life,
16:56although he confessed to killing 35.
16:59He was originally sentenced to life in prison in Texas,
17:02but was given the death penalty
17:03following his extradition to Nevada.
17:05Three days before his execution,
17:08Cole granted an interview to Las Vegas' KLAS-TV,
17:11While smoking a cigarette,
17:13Cole shows complete indifference for his own life,
17:16but expresses remorse for his crimes.
17:28In the end, he even claims
17:30that he deserves to die for what he did.
17:39Cole is very quiet and reserved,
17:41and aside from some brief flashes,
17:43doesn't show much emotion.
17:45It makes the interview all the more disturbing.
17:48And condemn myself for it for many years,
17:50because I can just imagine what her life might have been like.
17:55Wesley Allen Dodd.
17:56On January 5th, 1993, Wesley Allen Dodd
18:00was executed by hanging,
18:01making him the first American criminal
18:03to be legally hanged in nearly 30 years.
18:06Between September and November of 1989,
18:09Dodd assaulted and killed three,
18:11leading to his moniker, the Vancouver Child Killer.
18:14Dodd's final interview is absolutely bone-chilling.
18:17With complete confidence,
18:19Dodd states that he would kill again if set free,
18:22and that he, quote, liked what he did.
18:27He also claims that his execution
18:29would make a great example for future criminals.
18:31Throughout his interview,
18:33Dodd proves that he was fully self-aware,
18:36and a self-aware killer is a very scary thing.
18:39You can't afford to die?
18:45In a way, yeah, it could be a relief.
18:48I don't have to think about all these things anymore.
18:54I don't know, that's the only way I can guarantee
18:55I'm not gonna hurt anybody else.
18:57Velma Barfield.
18:58The first woman to be lethally injected,
19:01Velma Barfield killed six people between 1969 and 1978.
19:06She was convicted for just one homicide,
19:08and her ex-boyfriend, Roland Stewart Taylor.
19:11However, it was enough to ensure a death sentence,
19:15and Barfield was executed on November 2nd, 1984.
19:18Her interview with Raleigh's WBTV
19:21shows a woman in pain rather than one who causes it.
19:24She seemingly attempts to garner sympathy
19:26by speaking about her isolation in prison
19:28and her years-long battle with drugs.
19:30The last 10 years was just like that,
19:35a drug nightmare.
19:37She also credits God for getting her
19:40through the trials and tribulations of prison life.
19:42Living in prison every day is a struggle,
19:45even at its best.
19:48And I know that without him
19:53and his strength that has sustained me,
19:56I couldn't have made it even this far.
19:58While Barfield apologizes for her crimes,
20:00most of the interview is about her,
20:02and it may rub many viewers the wrong way.
20:05Today, if it were possible,
20:10I wish that I could take every bit of hurt on myself.
20:13John Wayne Gacy.
20:15Known widely as the Killer Clown,
20:17John Wayne Gacy claimed at least 33 lives
20:20inside his suburban Chicago home.
20:22At the time, Gacy set an American record
20:24for the most homicide convictions.
20:26In 1992, he spoke with Walter Jacobson of CBS2 Chicago
20:31as part of a television event.
20:33In a rather shocking and unnerving turn of events,
20:36Gacy played innocent.
20:37If they want to be convinced
20:39they're brainwashed into what they believe,
20:41then fine, then go ahead and kill me.
20:43But vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord,
20:46because you will have executed somebody
20:47that didn't commit the crime.
20:48He even claimed that he took a, quote, truth serum,
20:52and that that proved his innocence.
20:54I've taken three and a half hours of truth serum,
20:58and under sodium amytal, the maximum amount that I could have,
21:02it shows that I have no knowledge of the crime whatsoever.
21:05Like Barfield, Gacy also plays the sympathy card,
21:08portraying himself as a loving family man.
21:11I've always looked after my children, even now.
21:14Yet sometimes the veneer slips,
21:17and Jacobson is quick to notice the scheming man underneath.
21:20It's all quite eerie,
21:22and probably not at all what viewers were expecting.
21:26Ted Bundy.
21:27On January 23rd, 1989, Ted Bundy,
21:31perhaps the most notorious serial killer in American history,
21:34was visited by a psychologist named James Dobson,
21:37and it showcases his well-publicized powers of manipulation.
21:42Bundy appears clean and well-dressed,
21:44offering a friendly next-door-neighbor vibe.
21:47What's going through my mind right now
21:48is to use the minutes and hours that I have left
21:52as fruitfully as possible and see what happens.
21:56He's charismatic, charming, and well-spoken,
21:59not at all what one would expect from a serial killer.
22:02Finally, he latches on to Dobson's evangelical beliefs,
22:06blaming both the adult film industry
22:08and violence in the media for his crimes.
22:10This kind of literature contributed
22:13and helped mold and shape the kinds of violent behavior.
22:17It fueled your fantasies.
22:19Well, in the beginning, it fuels
22:21this kind of thought process.
22:24Biographers and historians argue
22:26that this is a prime example of classic Bundy's subterfuge.
22:30Knowing that, the footage comes across
22:33as deeply ominous and foreboding.
22:35The term psychopath is often bandied around too often,
22:39but in this case, many agree that the term fits.
22:42I couldn't control it anymore,
22:43that these barriers that I had learned as a child
22:48that had been instilled in me
22:50were not enough to hold me back
22:51with respect to seeking out and harming somebody.
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23:11Aileen Wuornos.
23:13The final interview with Aileen Wuornos
23:15is the complete antithesis of Ted Bundy's.
23:18Wuornos shot and killed seven men in a span of one year,
23:21and while she claimed self-defense,
23:23she was found guilty of six homicides
23:26and sentenced to death.
23:27Wuornos' final interview is deeply troubling.
23:30But you're okay now.
23:32I'm okay, I'm okay.
23:33God is gonna be there, Jesus Christ's gonna be there,
23:36all the angels and everything.
23:38She often widens her eyes
23:40and yells in a confrontational tone,
23:42and even verbally attacks the interviewer, Nick Broomfield.
23:46She makes bizarre claims like getting tortured
23:48by, quote, sonic pressure.
23:50And they were using sonic pressure on my head
23:53since 1997.
23:56Sonic pressure.
23:57And every time I was trying to write something,
23:59and I think they had some kind of eye in the cell,
24:02I'm not sure, but every time I started writing something,
24:05it went up higher.
24:06So I'm thinking that probably had the TV rigged.
24:09She states that dying will be like Star Trek
24:12and that she'll go on to colonize another planet.
24:14I think it's gonna be more like Star Trek
24:16beaming me up into a space vehicle, man.
24:18Then I move on, recolonize to another planet or whatever.
24:21But whatever's beyond, I know it's gonna be good
24:24because I didn't do anything as wrong as they said.
24:27Wuornos' violent past, her abrasive behavior,
24:31and her mental state all combine
24:33to create some truly uncomfortable viewing.
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