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From chilling confessions to disturbing denials, we're examining the most unsettling conversations ever recorded with convicted murderers. Watch as these criminals reveal their darkest thoughts and showcase their disturbing personalities through various media interviews, police interrogations, and documentary footage.
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00:00So now, he seems everything is great, you know, and he looks like the all-American boy.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 30 highly disturbing interviews that were
00:10conducted with murderers and serial killers. If you're guilty, you are a despicable axe murderer.
00:17How do you convince me? Andre Chikatilo.
00:23I'm nothing but an actor who's performed a role to earn an Oscar and to get into the
00:28Guinness Book of Records, that's all. Considered one of the most depraved serial killers in Russian
00:32history, Andre Chikatilo boasts a macabre story. Known by names like the Rostov Ripper and the
00:38Butcher of Rostov, Chikatilo was convicted of murdering 52 people between 1978 and 1990.
00:44He was known to lure his victims into secluded areas, and his murders were often sexually
00:48motivated and extremely brutal. He's a monster, and seemed to harbor a chilling detachment to his
00:54crimes. A number of interviews were conducted with Chikatilo while he was on death row awaiting
00:59execution, and he recounts his horrific crimes with a calm voice and a creepy, dispassionate method.
01:04They are the key hallmarks of a true psychopath.
01:07They have water and soap there, so I took off my trousers and started washing.
01:12Well, it wasn't proper washing, it was just to clean off the dirt that happened to be there.
01:16Well, not dirt, but blood that was spilled.
01:18David Parker Ray.
01:19I get my excitement from making a woman happy.
01:27While he was never officially convicted of murder, authorities believe that David Parker
01:32Ray may have killed up to 60 women between the late 50s and the late 90s. Ray lived for
01:36decades as a free and unassuming man, working maintenance with the New Mexico Parks Department.
01:41But, in secret, Ray was abducting, assaulting, and likely killing dozens of women.
01:46He later became known as the Toy Box Killer, named for the soundproofed semi-trailer in which
01:51he kept his victims. Just one week after he was convicted of kidnapping, KOB-4 landed a short
01:57interview with Ray, his friendly, almost grandfatherly demeanor clashing heavily with
02:01the disgusting things that he says. That smile is enough to chill your blood.
02:05I got pleasure out of the woman getting pleasure. I did what they wanted me to do.
02:12Ward Weaver.
02:13So, if you didn't kill Ashley and Miranda, then how did they wind up in your backyard?
02:18Public property. Who knows?
02:20Back in 2003, Portland's K-2 was granted an interview with Ward Weaver. Weaver followed
02:26in the depraved footsteps of his father, who was convicted of a double murder back in 1984.
02:31In January 2002, Weaver kidnapped Ashley Pond as she was walking to her school bus stop.
02:36Two months later, Pond's classmate Miranda Gaddis also disappeared.
02:39The remains of both girls were found on Weaver's property the following August, resulting in
02:44a life sentence. During the interview with K-2, Weaver is constantly spitting out lies, maintaining
02:50his innocence throughout, and even callously laughing as if he didn't have a care in the
02:54world. He even seems to show disdain towards his victims, a bizarre trait which many viewers
02:59have noticed, much to their annoyance.
03:01To Miranda, or actually to Michelle and her family, yeah, I'm sorry, but this, you know,
03:06everybody's barking up the wrong tree on me.
03:08Kenneth Bianchi.
03:09I plea bargained to primarily and basically and pretty much solely escape the death penalty.
03:16The death penalty was very much a reality.
03:18The Hillside Strangler terrorized the Los Angeles area between October 1977 and February 1978,
03:25killing 10 people and often leaving their bodies in public.
03:28Following an investigation, it was discovered that the Hillside Strangler was actually two
03:32people, cousins Angelo Buono Jr. and Kenneth Bianchi. Aside from the 10 Hillside Strangler
03:38victims, Bianchi also murdered at least two more people by himself in the state of Washington.
03:42Bianchi later became one of the subjects of the documentary Death Diploma, and what's most scary
03:47is just how normal he appears. He doesn't look frightening. He is friendly and well-spoken,
03:52and he constantly denies his many atrocious crimes. This is the work of a master manipulator.
03:58I feel that the motivation may have been, for whoever committed these crimes,
04:05may have been simply to remove evidence.
04:09Bernard Giles.
04:10Were you aware that there was now a hunt for what police began to realize was a serial killer?
04:17Not really until, you know, I had known that they had found a body.
04:23In 2018 and 2019, Pierce Morgan sat down with a number of serial killers,
04:29delving into their crimes, motives, and psychologies. The creepiest interview was with Bernard Giles,
04:34a man who murdered four teenage girls and one woman throughout 1973. Giles would pick up his young
04:40victims as they were hitchhiking, murder them, and ditch their bodies in the wooded areas around
04:44Brevard County, Florida. He was finally caught when two potential victims escaped and called
04:49the police, and he was given life in prison. Unlike the others so far, Giles' interview is
04:54surprisingly candid and open, with the killer outwardly admitting his crimes and recounting
04:59them in extensive, albeit highly disturbing detail. We don't know what's creepier, the lying and
05:04manipulation, or the truth. What was your criteria for a victim?
05:10Access.
05:11To any woman?
05:12Yes, sir.
05:14Did it matter how old they were, or what they looked like, or?
05:19Generally speaking, no.
05:21Arthur Shawcross.
05:22More or less after they just relax.
05:25The body relaxes. It doesn't fight no more.
05:29That one takes about four minutes, probably.
05:31Known as the Genesee River Killer, Arthur Shawcross killed two people in Watertown,
05:36New York in 1972. But, under the terms of a controversial plea bargain, he only served
05:4114 years in prison. He was considered no longer dangerous and released in 1987.
05:47Unfortunately, Shawcross almost immediately began killing again, and throughout 88 and 89,
05:53he murdered at least 11 more victims. He served his life sentence in New York's Sullivan Correctional
05:58facility, which is where this interview was conducted. Shawcross looks like a lovable
06:02grandfather, but his appearance betrays his nightmarish speech, in which he recounts his
06:07crimes in a clinical manner, without a single ounce of passion or remorse. He appears normal,
06:12but there is nothing behind those eyes.
06:14Do you have any comprehension of the suffering that you've brought the families of the people
06:20that you've killed?
06:21I don't have any remorse, for some reason.
06:25Gary Hilton
06:25At what point did you spot the two octogenarians?
06:31When they got out of their car at the trailhead.
06:34In the parking lot?
06:35Yeah. It was just a little parking lot.
06:37And why then? Were there no lone girls out there that day to pick on?
06:42Court TV has a great series on YouTube called Interview with a Killer, in which a journalist
06:46sits down with various murderers and, well, interviews them. In one notable episode, David
06:51Scott sits down with Gary Hilton, one of the oldest serial killers in America. Hilton murdered at least
06:57four people between 2007 and 2008, when he was in his early 60s. Hilton comes across as annoyingly
07:03boastful, showing a huge degree of pride and amusement in his murders. It's truly sickening watching his
07:09eyes glint every time he recounts taking a life. However, Scott proves a commendable interviewer and often
07:15pushes back on Hilton's warped stories, resulting in a fantastic and highly entertaining game
07:20of mental cat and mouse.
07:21And she just proceeded to grab my dog and took that out of my head.
07:26So now you're getting your ass kicked by a girl in the woods?
07:28No, no.
07:30Sounds like it.
07:32Not at all.
07:33Christopher Porco.
07:35Right. It's a personal thing. By somebody who hated your parents so much, they wanted to obliterate
07:41them.
07:42I agree. I'm not sure about hate. I don't know. But I know anger. There's no doubt there was anger
07:48and what happened." On November 15, 2004, Christopher Porco entered the home of his parents, Peter and
07:54Joan, in Del Mar, New York. He then attacked his parents with a fireman's axe as they slept.
07:59Joan suffered extensive injuries to her head, but somehow managed to survive. Peter was also
08:04bludgeoned, but he got up in the morning and went about his daily routine before collapsing and dying
08:08in the foyer. While Porco was found guilty, some ambiguity still surrounds the case, and Porco pounces
08:14on it in this interview with Pierce Morgan. In fact, Porco is so manipulative and believable that
08:19Morgan himself seems to fall for it. It's scenes like this that remind us of how persuasive and
08:24likable the average psychopath can be.
08:26I'm finding it very difficult to reconcile what you're here for with the person that I'm talking
08:31to. Are you a mad axe killer?
08:34No, I had nothing to do with this.
08:37Ian Huntley.
08:38How do we know they were here at 6.15? Well, we have an eyewitness.
08:41Ian Huntley here is a familiar figure. Evening in.
08:45On October 4, 2002, two schoolchildren, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, disappeared from
08:51Soem, Cambridgeshire. An extensive search effort was undertaken to find the missing girls,
08:55and news crews came out to Soem to interview locals and follow the search.
08:59Jeremy Thompson of Sky News found the school caretaker Ian Huntley. Huntley reports that the
09:04girls walked by his house and that they briefly shared words about his girlfriend Maxine Carr,
09:08who was the girls' teaching assistant. On August 17, their bodies were found in a ditch in nearby
09:13Suffolk. Following an investigation, it was discovered that the perpetrator was Ian Huntley,
09:18who lured the girls into his house, the same house he's standing in front of throughout the
09:23interview.
09:23They just came across and asked how Miss Carr was, as she used to teach them at St. Andrews.
09:28I just said she weren't very good, as she hadn't got the job. And they just said,
09:31please tell her that we're very sorry. And off the walk in the direction of the library over there.
09:36Mark David Chapman
09:37I was standing there with a gun in my pocket.
09:40Knew you were going to shoot him?
09:42Sorry?
09:43Knew you were going to shoot him?
09:45Absolutely.
09:45When someone kills a major celebrity, they themselves become something of a celebrity.
09:50Such is the case with Mark David Chapman, one of the most famous killers in American history.
09:55On the night of December 8, 1980, Chapman shot John Lennon as he was entering his apartment complex,
10:01then calmly sat and waited for the police to arrive.
10:03It must have been a very surreal sight. Perhaps even more surreal was seeing Chapman
10:08on primetime TV, interviewed by none other than Larry King. Chapman comes across as both
10:14calm and articulate, a killer hiding in plain sight. He almost sounds bored recalling one of
10:19the most pivotal moments in modern history. And he walked past me. I took five steps toward the street,
10:30turned, withdrew my charter arms, 38, and fired five shots into his back.
10:39Richard Kuklinski.
10:41How many people have you killed?
10:47I'm an approximate guess.
10:56Approximately, we'll go with more than a hundred.
10:59Richard Kuklinski, a.k.a. The Iceman, has been the subject of multiple documentaries over the years,
11:05and even a feature film. The validity of his claims has been questioned,
11:09specifically, the large number of contract killings in which Kuklinski had reportedly taken part.
11:15Are there any murders that you committed that haunt you, that you just sort of, you feel and you do?
11:20Nothing haunts me.
11:25Still, this doesn't change the fact that Kuklinski was a startling interview,
11:29one that gave credence to his chilling namesake.
11:32I then took him and put him in a 50-gallon drum, put it on the side of a motel.
11:40Kuklinski does indeed come across as icy and detached within both the Iceman tapes and the Iceman
11:46confesses, describing his double life as a devoted family man and cold-hearted killer.
11:51Did you like to look them in the eye?
11:53I wanted them looking straight at me.
11:55Although the Iceman passed away in 2006, his reputation lives on within this disturbing footage.
12:01What did you want him to think as they died?
12:03Just see my pretty face.
12:05Stephen McDaniel.
12:06Like the interview with Ian Huntley, this one depicts a killer feigning ignorance
12:10and giving an interview to a local news station while posing as an innocent bystander.
12:15Yeah, Lauren was my neighbor.
12:17We're just trying to find out where she is at this point.
12:19I mean, no one has seen her since Saturday.
12:23McDaniel's demeanor seems busy and energetic as the wheels appear set in motion within his head.
12:29The only thing we can think is that maybe she went out running and someone snatched her.
12:32He attempts to set up an alibi for himself,
12:35although he's soon caught off guard when he learns on camera that part of his victim's remains have been recovered.
12:40I think that's where they have recovered the body or whatever they recovered from there.
12:45At this point, McDaniel stops dead in his tracks, his eyes glaze over, and his reactions say it all.
12:54He knows he's been caught.
12:56It is surreal to see it all play out in real time.
12:59Are you okay, sir?
13:01I think I need to sit down.
13:02Dennis Rader.
13:03You know, something drove me to do this.
13:05You know, the normal people just don't do this.
13:07You can't stop it.
13:08I can't stop it.
13:09It's just, it controls me.
13:11It is the brazen and nonchalant attitude emanating from Dennis Rader that makes this interview with the BTK killer so disturbing.
13:19The piece was conducted by Massachusetts psychologist Robert Mendoza,
13:22and it took place almost immediately after Rader pled guilty to 10 counts of first-degree murder.
13:27I got this fantasy.
13:29I started working out this fantasy in my mind, and once that person become a fantasy, I can just loop it over and lay up in bed at night.
13:38To hear Rader describe his methodology in such laissez-faire terms is chilling,
13:43as BTK details how he would stalk and learn about his potential victims before striking.
13:48The stalking stage is when you start learning more about your victims, potential victims.
13:52I went to the library, I looked up their names, their address, cross-reference, and called them a couple of times.
13:59He even describes a kit of tools that he would use during the proceedings.
14:02Plastic bags, rope, tape, knife, gun.
14:06Rader also tells Mendoza that he, quote, couldn't help but commit these crimes.
14:11And he muses as to whether or not being dropped on his head as a child resulted in some form of demonic possession.
14:17I actually think I'm maybe possessed with demons.
14:20I was dropped on my head when I was a kid.
14:22David Berkowitz.
14:23When you see somebody radically changed by the power of God, it excites you.
14:30Full disclosure, the purpose behind this interview with the son of Sam, David Berkowitz,
14:34is a vehicle to showcase the killer's born-again beliefs.
14:38Still, the source details are there.
14:40I met some guys at a party on the block on Barnes Avenue.
14:45Well, they seem like nice people, but they were into some kinky stuff with witchcraft and so forth.
14:50Berkowitz is interviewed with soft acoustic guitar music in the background and flattering lighting,
14:55the exact opposite of what we normally expect from these sorts of interviews.
14:59I've become convinced over time that my job was to be a soldier for the devil and to bring destruction.
15:07It's a bit unsettling, this humanizing of the .44 caliber killer who held New York City in the grip of fear back in the 1970s.
15:15The bad things that were being done were actually going to be good, but it was just a trick of the enemy.
15:23Around the time of this interview, Berkowitz also tried to insinuate that a satanic cult had used him as a pawn in these killings.
15:30But a new investigation could not corroborate these claims.
15:33They took me out of the car and one of the officers, he said to me,
15:39are you glad this is over?
15:41And I looked at him and I said, yeah, I'm very glad.
15:45And they were all like taken aback.
15:46Peter Sutcliffe.
15:47Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, terrorized the areas of Manchester and West Yorkshire between 1975 and 1980.
16:06Sutcliffe targeted sex workers or women he perceived as being involved in such business.
16:11Although his criteria for such assumptions could be something as innocuous as a woman being out in the early morning.
16:17I hit her with a branch or something, threw her over a wall.
16:21And I climbed over the wall and I was thinking of bumping her off and this voice said, stop, stop.
16:29Sutcliffe's various phone interviews with officials and the media lean into the Ripper's violent and misogynist views.
16:35To the point where he callously labels one of his victims as being in, quote, the wrong place at the wrong time.
16:42Did you have a lot of regrets when you killed Jane MacDonald, a 16-year-old?
16:47Yes, I did, yeah.
16:49She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
16:52Sutcliffe even went so far as to refer to his victims as, quote, filth during his confession to police.
16:58On the night you were arrested, were you going to attack the girl you was with?
17:02Of course I was.
17:02That was the whole point.
17:04Peter Curtin.
17:04Peter Curtin was dubbed the Vampire of Dusseldorf due to the killer's reputation for savagery, as well as his fixation on blood.
17:13Although this interview report dates all the way back to Curtin's execution on July 1st, 1931, and has admittedly fallen into the realm of nebulous urban legend, the legacy is no less chilling.
17:25Curtin was speaking with a prison psychologist while awaiting the guillotine when he asked whether or not he would shortly thereafter be able to hear the sound of his own blood.
17:33His head currently resides at Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in Wisconsin as an exhibit attraction.
17:41Samuel Little.
17:42It's infuriating to think that a serial killer can go on killing for so long that they can eventually just slow down due to old age.
17:50So then this opportunity popped up, take her to the store.
17:54Right.
17:55She didn't bring it back to the apartment.
17:58I went down to a cell to see.
18:00Samuel Little possessed the largest confirmed victims list in U.S. history, beginning way back in 1970, if not sooner.
18:08Little continued his murderous ways for over 30 years until he was finally apprehended, thanks to advances in modern forensic pathology.
18:15So you basically rolled her into a pretty big ditch that's got a bunch of...
18:19Well, it wasn't a ditch, it was a little slope.
18:22Okay.
18:22That didn't look like a slope because it was a vegetable, vegetation.
18:26This career criminal never showed remorse for his behavior either.
18:30The official FBI YouTube account has a wealth of confessions from Little, all of which feature the killer's relaxed, almost self-satisfied attitude.
18:39So I pulled her out of the car, she's too big for me to carry her, so I just pulled her out of the car and laid on that trash that was lit.
18:48Sammy Gravano.
18:50They tell you to kill someone.
18:51Did you think of saying no?
18:53So many true crime aficionados study the interviews of serial killers, but the stories from the underworld of organized crime can be equally chilling.
19:01I was doing loan shopping, stealing cars, doing burglaries, breaking arm here, breaking leg there.
19:10Take, for example, the story of Sammy the Bull Gravano.
19:13The Bull was a notorious Gambino family underboss who broke the organization's code of silence in speaking to officials and testifying as a government witness against mob boss John Gotti.
19:23I was betrayed.
19:25I betrayed him.
19:27That's what the mob is.
19:28Gravano's own demeanor during this 1997 interview with Diane Sawyer is a mix of frankness and arrogance as he describes a life of contract killing.
19:37The next day when we met, they were told, don't back off, don't run, even if there's cops, kill them.
19:46The Bull's story feels just as cinematic as The Godfather, a stranger-than-fiction story of true organized crime.
19:53I remember something that surprised me that I had no remorse at all.
19:56The case of Diane Downs is one steeped in trauma and violence, a situation of loss for everyone involved.
20:06Downs was convicted for killing one of her children and making an attempt on the other two on May 19, 1983.
20:12I'm going to remember that night for the rest of my life, whether I want to or not.
20:16I don't think I was very lucky.
20:18I think my kids were lucky.
20:19Downs has claimed in interviews, such as this 1984 piece from KEZI Eyewitness News, that she was herself the victim of abuse as a child.
20:28How did your childhood affect you?
20:30Everything that happens to you as a child contributes to how you turn out as an adult.
20:34To be honest, it made me a better person because I know all the mistakes.
20:40I know what not to do to my kids.
20:42However, Downs also attempted to play off her attack as a random crime perpetrated by a carjacker.
20:48I was on the driver's side of the car when I was shot, and that's why it was so, I'm going, it was planted.
20:54Additionally, her demeanor in this interview exudes the sense of calm, with plenty of smiles and very specific recollections about the incident.
21:03It's chilling stuff.
21:05A lot of people, when something traumatic happens to them, they suppress it immediately.
21:09I kept those memories because I knew that I was the only person that was going to be able to tell them what happened when we got to the hospital.
21:17Wesley Allen Dodd.
21:18Well, I wrote when I filed the case on this guy, locked this guy up forever.
21:22There is a shocking matter-of-factness within almost every interview containing soundbites from Wesley Allen Dodd.
21:29I moved to Seattle on June 13, 1987.
21:32I tried to kidnap a boy.
21:34The convicted killer and predator was known for saying point-blank that he would kill again if set free.
21:40They suggested that I get counseling but didn't think anything was serious enough to press charges.
21:43Dodd was so intent on underlying his crimes and behavior that he even stressed on multiple occasions that he deserved the death penalty.
21:52Dodd never shied away from detailing his criminal past, recounting how he'd been committing horrible crimes of violence since he was very young.
22:08Eventually, Dodd got his wish as he was executed on January 5, 1993.
22:14The Netflix documentary The John Wayne Gacy Tapes did a lot to point out the notorious serial killer's sociopathic tendencies when it came to shifting blame for his accused crimes.
22:30Shoelaces, huh? You're in trouble now.
22:32Yeah, right.
22:33Aren't you afraid of sitting that close to me?
22:35This wasn't the first time evidence to that end has come out, however, as documented by this piece from CBS News 2 Chicago back in 1992.
22:43I don't believe in hitting children. I don't believe in spoiling a child either.
22:51My values are such that if you give enough love to a child...
22:54You're accused of murdering 33 kids and you say you didn't believe in hitting.
23:00Interviewer Walter Jacobson doesn't need to do much talking in his encounter with Gacy,
23:04as it quickly becomes clear that the former Pogo the Clown is trying his best to present alibi after alibi for his innocence.
23:11Buckovich is not one that I killed, so I don't know nothing about him.
23:14Gacy himself is composed for the most part,
23:17although there is a moment where he demonstrates his infamous rope trick with a shoelace
23:22that echoes the methodology of his horrible crimes.
23:25And you just turn this, and I says it causes it in a tourniquet.
23:29I said that's the only knot I ever learned.
23:31Precisely the kind of knot found on the ropes.
23:33Ted Bundy.
23:34Time can change many things about a person, including how they behave while being interviewed.
23:40The Ted Bundy featured in a 1977 jailhouse interview from KUTV News
23:44appears more in line with the suave yet cold-blooded reputation Bundy had among other notorious serial killers.
23:51You feel that everything will turn out alright, that you are innocent.
23:55Do you still feel that?
23:57Yeah, more than ever.
23:59He smiles a lot during the piece,
24:01and displays body language that appears relaxed and almost happy.
24:05I'm not guilty.
24:08Does that include the time I stole a comic book when I was five years old?
24:12Bundy keeps eye contact with his interview throughout most of their conversation,
24:16and it's easy to become lulled into a false sense of security, which was exactly Ted's intention.
24:22If someone's crazy enough and nutty enough to do something like that, I can't stop them.
24:28There's nothing I can do.
24:29Fast forward to the night before his execution,
24:32and we see a fearful and pensive Ted Bundy,
24:35a man seeking to shift blame for his crimes during his interview with Christian conservative evangelist James Dobson.
24:41There are forces at loose in this country, particularly, again, this kind of violent pornography.
24:48Richard Ramirez
24:49The night stalker Richard Ramirez may be one of the most frightening serial killers of all time,
24:55not only due to the brutality of his crimes,
24:57but also the projected aura of what many perceive to be pure evil.
25:02Yes, I am evil.
25:04Not 100%, but I am evil.
25:06It's easy to see why during some of Ramirez's more notable interviews over the years,
25:11including one conducted with author Mike Watkiss.
25:14Serial killers do on a small scale what governments do on a large one.
25:19They are a product of the times, and these are bloodthirsty times.
25:23Ramirez's somewhat tense responses to Watkiss's questioning imply a coiled rage,
25:28an anger that's also exemplified by the night stalker's breathing as he seems to become annoyed with Watkiss.
25:34I'll tell you what, I gave up on love and happiness a long time ago.
25:39Why?
25:39I don't care to explain that.
25:45Let the quote stand for itself.
25:47Ramirez is comparatively more relaxed during a piece with Inside Edition,
25:51although that interview also hammers home the night stalker's obsession with Satanism, evil, and the occult.
25:57I believe in the evil in human nature.
26:01This is a wicked, wicked world, and in a wicked world, wicked people are born.
26:07Edmund Kemper
26:08There's something truly bone-chilling about the matter-of-fact way in which the co-ed killer,
26:13Edmund Kemper, describes his past in the 1981 documentary, The Killing of America.
26:17Everything went towards killing him, and I didn't.
26:21But I'm saying, wow, it's uncanny.
26:22It was almost like it was meant to be that way.
26:24And I said, wow, I've got, this gotta stop.
26:27Kemper's impressive intellect and well-spoken nature belie the brutality of a man who committed his first murder at the age of 15.
26:34And if it had been in a city, I would have been a mass murderer at age 15.
26:38I would have killed until they gunned me down.
26:40I wouldn't have been able to reason my way out of it.
26:42The killer even makes a self-referential joke to his modus operandi of picking up hitchhikers by putting on a pair of glasses
26:49and asking the camera whether they would get into a car with him.
26:52Now, would you get in the car with this man, huh?
26:54Kemper's mental state comes across as perpetually active, like a bubbling pot of water about to boil over,
27:06while the documentary's exploitative narration pushes the creep factor of this one over the top.
27:11I am an American, and I killed Americans.
27:16I am a human being, and I killed human beings.
27:19And I did it in my society.
27:21Jeffrey Dahmer
27:22There's no barely repressed rage within the demeanor of Jeffrey Dahmer
27:26as he discusses his history with interviewer Stone Phillips.
27:30And I acted on my fantasies, and that's where everything went wrong.
27:34Nor are there any wild, headline-grabbing theatrics.
27:37Instead, Dahmer's quiet and soft-spoken recounting of his horrible crimes lends the piece that much more power.
27:43The only motive that there ever was, was to completely control a person,
27:49a person that I found physically attractive.
27:51There's the power of shock, as he discusses the failed attempts at creating, quote,
27:56living zombies with the remains of his victims.
27:58The killing wasn't the objective.
28:00I just wanted to have the person under my complete control.
28:05There's also the power of how Dahmer's moments of shocking violence are undercut by the killer's regret for the decisions he made.
28:11And the futility of what seemed to be a date with infamy and destiny.
28:15Once it happened the first time, it just seemed like it had control of my life from there on in.
28:24Gary Ridgway
28:25Gary Ridgway, a.k.a. the Green River Killer, was one of the most prolific of all American serial murderers.
28:32Well, I whipped out my ID, and with my ID would be my, I'd put my finger over my driver's license to hide my name.
28:39Ridgway was also perhaps one of the most unrepentant, a sentiment that's placed front and center during any of his interviews.
28:46A picture of my son, they would know I was a probably normal person.
28:51Take, for example, one he did with FBI psychopathy profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole, where he very calmly describes how he would gain the trust of his victims.
29:00The only thing that would be better than that would be to have your son in the car with you.
29:04That would be an incredible ruse.
29:08That happened once.
29:09O'Toole manages to get Ridgway talking in-depth about his past, his upbringing, and the dozens of victims attributed to the Green River Killer's rampage.
29:18Charles Manson
29:19There has been a wealth of interview footage of Charles Manson released over the years,
29:24much of which can be used as evidence for the man's often unhinged persona.
29:28Do you feel blamed? Are you mad? Do you feel like wolves?
29:34And there's a lot of that here from this 1987 interview with Today correspondent Heidi Shulman.
29:40I wouldn't do anything that I felt guilty about.
29:43You don't feel guilty at all?
29:45There's no need to feel guilty. I haven't done anything I'm ashamed of.
29:48However, there's also this intent to shatter the myth of Manson as a leader.
29:53And this is aided by the visual of Manson's scattershot presence during the interview.
29:57Maybe I should have killed four or five hundred people, then I would have felt better than when I felt like I really offered society something.
30:06Although the occasionally violent outbursts by Manson have been well documented in this piece,
30:11it's the more soft-spoken soundbites that reveal more about the man's own admitted failures and shortcomings.
30:16My awareness and my consciousness is not the same as somebody that goes to school and has a mom and dad.
30:23See, not having parents have left me in another dimension, so to say.
30:28Otis Toole.
30:29I'd like to see a whole city learn that.
30:33This interview with Otis Toole is the stuff of nightmares.
30:38There are a lot of reasons for this, too.
30:40Not the least of which is Toole's explosive bursts of laughter and absolutely chilling smile.
30:45What do you prefer in life?
30:48Sex or fire?
30:51Additionally, there's the explicit nature of how Toole describes his past crimes
30:59and how he and former associate and fellow killer Henry Lee Lucas
31:04seemed to easily disassociate the value of human life.
31:07It's just that butch and hog to see a cow.
31:12The grainy and blown-out AV quality of this interview footage
31:17only seems to add to the feeling of grime and filth left over by Toole's gleeful accounts and delivery.
31:23It ain't nothing to do.
31:25It's like the drinking cup of coffee, smoking sale.
31:30Once you get into the habit, you do it more and more.
31:33Issei Sagawa.
31:47It's not often that a known cannibal is allowed to walk the streets,
31:51but that was the case with Issei Sagawa.
32:00Sagawa's history of murder is detailed in the documentary,
32:04while Issei himself describes the premeditated shooting of his classmate
32:07while living and studying in France.
32:09Sagawa's obsessions are also detailed in the piece,
32:20as well as the legal loopholes that allowed the killer to escape prison time for his actions.
32:25Sagawa's quiet and fragile demeanor undercuts his words,
32:28all spoken in equally hushed and inoffensive tones.
32:32It is a frankly horrifying and unbelievable story.
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32:58Aileen Wuornos
32:59This interview with Aileen Wuornos on the eve of her execution
33:02is disturbing for a number of reasons.
33:04I'm okay. I'm okay.
33:06God is going to be there.
33:07Jesus Christ is going to be there.
33:09All the angels and everything.
33:11For starters, there are the crimes for which Wuornos was convicted.
33:14But there are also the stories Aileen tells about her treatment in prison.
33:18They had the intercom on in the room.
33:22And they kept lying that it wasn't on.
33:24And they were using sonic pressure on my head since 1997.
33:30Her accusations of sonic torment and food tampering
33:33speak to her paranoia and mental state during this time.
33:36And then one day I didn't wash my food off and I was sick for three weeks, almost died.
33:40A state that gradually reaches a fever pitch during the interview.
33:43Yeah, thanks a lot. I lost my life because of it.
33:46Couldn't even get a fair trial.
33:48Wuornos' face as she directly addresses the camera is chilling.
33:52And the audience can only stare back into her eyes
33:54as the condemned killer accuses society of, quote,
33:57railroading and, quote, sabotage.
34:002019, Iraq's supposed to hit you anyhow.
34:02You're all going to get nuked.
34:03Which of these creeped you out the most?
34:06Let us know in the comments below.
34:08And I don't mean to be so clinical about this,
34:09but I've told it a number of times.
34:11I hope you understand.
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