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From unexpected courtroom confessions to chilling interrogation room revelations, these criminals couldn't keep their secrets. Join us as we explore the most shocking recorded admissions of guilt from notorious killers like Ted Bundy, Dennis Rader, and Samuel Little. Their own words sealed their fates and gave investigators the evidence they needed to bring justice to their victims.
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00:00That's where I dropped it. Pulled a verbiade out and rolled it down there.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we'll be looking at the most infamous people whose confessions to shocking crimes were caught on tape.
00:13Let me burn all the time inside here. Why don't you draw where the bloodstains would have been?
00:20Christopher Fattore.
00:21I didn't like Caleb Harrison. I didn't like the way he treated my kids. I didn't like hearing all the horrific stories.
00:30It was an awful family.
00:33Between 2009 and 2013, in the Canadian city of Mississauga, three members of the Harrison family, Bill, Bridget, and Caleb, were found dead inside the same home amid a bitter custody war involving Caleb's ex-wife, Melissa Merritt, and her partner Christopher Fattore.
00:53Early deaths were misread as medical or accidental. Caleb's 2013 homicide forced a re-examination and focused investigations on the couple.
01:02And I'm telling you right now that Melissa Merritt did not know anything until after it was done.
01:08What did you do?
01:09I killed Bridget Harrison and killed Harrison.
01:22In a recorded Peel Regional Police interview played for the jury, Fattore admits killing Bridget and Caleb.
01:29In January 2018, Fattore was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of Bridget and Caleb, acquitted in Bill's 2009 death, and received life with no parole eligibility for 25 years.
01:43That's not the plan. That's not what I wanted. I figured that someone would come home or Caleb would come home and find her.
01:50Nathan Matthews.
01:52So, Nathan, we've had a short break. Perhaps if I just flag up for the recording what this interview is about. It's about the kidnap and murder of Becky Watts.
02:03Becky Watts' disappearance in 2015 shook the city of Bristol, England. The 16-year-old was last seen at her family home before vanishing without a trace. Suspicion soon fell on her stepbrother Nathan Matthews, known for his withdrawn and troubled behavior. Under questioning, Matthews eventually admitted in a written statement that he killed Becky during what was described by the media as a kidnap plot gone wrong.
02:30I don't want that to be read to someone.
02:35I don't want to read this out in full again, Nathan, but what I wanted to do was get some more detail from you about things that you've said in it.
02:51His taped confession included details about how he planned the abduction and how it escalated fatally. Matthews was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of 33 years.
03:04The confession, combined with physical evidence, underscored the premeditated nature of the crime and left the community grappling with how violence could emerge within a family home.
03:15I came up with the idea to scare her because like to try and basically make her more appreciative of life so she'd be more appreciative for other people. She'd be grateful that, you know, she wasn't harmed or anything like that.
03:36Nathaniel Marcus Gann.
03:38This is the most important hour of your entire life. And you know what else? We told Bray the same thing. She made the right decision. She told us everything. Every single living and breathing detail.
03:59San Diego, July 2007. Siblings Nathaniel Marcus Gann and Bray F. Hanson plotted to make their stepfather Timothy McNeil's killing look like a home invasion.
04:11Gann drove from Arizona after a failed hitman plan. Zip ties, a duplicate key, and staging details were set to sell the robbery story. The on-camera admission in this case came from Gann.
04:24Gann.
04:30Gann.
04:31Mr. Bukני.
04:33K.
04:34Degam.
04:35After first placing a 911 call as a supposed victim, Hansen gave a recorded post-arrest
04:51interview confessing the conspiracy. The fake break-in, tying, demands for the safe combination,
04:58and Gan's masked role. Tried together with separate juries, Gan was convicted of first-degree
05:04murder and sentenced to 25 to life. Hansen was convicted with a true lying-in-wait finding
05:10and received life without parole.
05:12I remember him saying it like a thousand times.
05:14Yeah.
05:15Just, you killed me. You killed me. Why didn't you kill me?
05:20Cam McLeod and Briar Schmigelski.
05:23The Dees Lake area investigation into the disappearance of Cam McLeod and Briar Schmigelski, their vehicle
05:29recovery and the discovery of an unidentified deceased male continues. On July 19, 2019,
05:36the Dees Lake RCMP responded to a vehicle fire south of the Stikine River Bridge on Highway 37.
05:42A manhunt began after teenagers Cam McLeod and Briar Schmigelski were suspected of murdering
05:48three people in the summer of 2019. Their flight across remote northern Canada made international headlines.
05:55For the past few days, investigators have been focusing their efforts on locating Cam and Briar,
06:01given that their vehicle and camper had been located on fire and the two were considered missing.
06:07We have also been working to identify a man whose body was discovered deceased two kilometers south of the vehicle fire at a highway pullout.
06:17Before their self-inflicted deaths in the Manitoba wilderness, the teens recorded several cell phone videos.
06:23In these clips, they admitted to the killings, discussing their lack of escape option and even hinted at how they expected their story to end.
06:32The RCMP later described the recordings as confessions of guilt, though they withheld full release out of respect for the victims.
06:40Both bodies were discovered after weeks of searching. The videos provided investigators and grieving families confirmation of responsibility.
06:49We knew that we needed just to find that one piece of evidence that could move this search forward.
06:55On Friday, August 2nd, that one critical piece of evidence was found. Items directly linked to the suspects were located on the shoreline of the Nelson River.
07:05Jeremy Skibicki.
07:07These are the first few moments after Jeremy Skibicki was arrested. The early morning hours of May 17, 2022.
07:15The 37-year-old taken into a police interrogation room by two officers. Skibicki gets settled in.
07:21Police in Winnipeg, Manitoba linked Jeremy Skibicki to the murders of four indigenous women, Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Mercedes Myron, and Ashley Shingus.
07:33The killings, all within a few months in 2022, ignited grief in indigenous communities.
07:39During videotaped interrogations, Skibicki shared his belief that, quote, this was something that God called him to do, end quote.
07:47You know, this is how you meet most of your life.
07:49Skibicki appears at ease, sitting back in his seat, relaxed. At one point, he lays down to nap on the floor.
07:56Hours in, he makes a shocking confession.
07:59I killed four people, Karen.
08:02He described how he lured them, killed them, and disposed of their remains.
08:06The tapes captured not only the details of his crimes, but also his disturbing lack of remorse.
08:12His lawyers are arguing he shouldn't be held criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.
08:18The camera really, it was like, you know, like a lion, you know, with three heads off.
08:26He tells police he didn't know all the victims' names, but remembered Morgan Harris and her last moments.
08:32Skibicki pleaded not guilty, but his recorded admissions are expected to be central evidence.
08:38The case has become a flashpoint for discussion about systemic neglect of indigenous women, as well as failures of law enforcement to prevent serial violence.
08:46I was very overconfident by the last thought because I was like, sure, I would get away with it.
08:53Because the other times, like, they were, like, in the end for, like, four or five days.
08:58The Crown is arguing he was intentional with his killings, and they were racially motivated.
09:04Christopher Lee Watts.
09:05I don't want to protect her.
09:07What?
09:08I don't want to protect her.
09:10You don't want to protect her?
09:13I don't know what else to protect.
09:17You don't want to protect her?
09:19Huh?
09:20Sure.
09:21She hurt him?
09:22Yeah.
09:23I don't want to protect her.
09:28In 2018, Watts appeared on local news, pleading for the safe return of his pregnant wife, Shannon, and their two young daughters.
09:35The performance drew sympathy, but also suspicion.
09:38After hours of questioning, Watts finally broke down during videotaped interrogations, admitting he killed Shannon, and later, his children.
09:46I don't know, like, what else to say, but I freaked out.
09:52Not editing me, partner.
09:54I'm not editing me.
09:55I'm not editing me.
09:55I'm not editing me.
09:56I was in my kitchen.
09:58The contrast between his public facade and recorded confession shocked the nation.
10:03Watts received multiple life sentences without parole.
10:06The footage of his lies unraveling and eventual admission has since become a chilling example of how investigators extract truth in the face of deception.
10:15you know when you're doing all the bodies off or something
10:18i mean i didn't know what else to do
10:24i didn't know nothing else to do
10:27i didn't know what to do
10:29Joran van der Sloot
10:30I had her bij
10:32I had her helemaal geen
10:33geen slecht gevoel bij
10:34I had her geen
10:35nacht slaap over verloren
10:38how can you sleep
10:39I did this thing
10:42I had a lot of days
10:43I couldn't even sleep
10:44and I wasn't harming nobody.
10:47The disappearance of Natalie Holloway in Aruba in 2005
10:50became an international media storm.
10:53Joran Vandersloot was long considered a suspect,
10:56but hard evidence was elusive.
10:58Despite having no training,
10:59he posed as a dealer looking to set up an operation.
11:01And the key, he ignored any talk about Natalie Holloway.
11:06If the foundation laid,
11:07he called television journalist Peter DeVries,
11:09who hired him.
11:10I had my Range Rover waiting all that time
11:12with cameras, everything in it.
11:14Peter DeVries with people waiting outside filming.
11:18We were all ready for him.
11:20In 2008, Dutch journalist Peter DeVries
11:23aired undercover footage of Vandersloot
11:25apparently confessing to disposing of Holloway's body.
11:28We just took her to the boat.
11:31Get filtered.
11:32Yes, with his two just as fast.
11:34And nobody saw her then.
11:37An admission that now brings two strangers,
11:40a mother and an informant, together.
11:42I mean, Patrick Ewan did my nightmare.
11:44Though he later claimed he was lying,
11:46the tapes renewed global scrutiny.
11:49Years later, in an unrelated case,
11:52he confessed in Peru to the murder of Stephanie Flores.
11:55Vandersloot is now serving a 28-year sentence in Peru,
11:59with extradition to the US expected.
12:01His confessions, partial or otherwise,
12:04cemented his notoriety as a symbol of arrogance and evasion.
12:08But yeah, I played it well in the beginning,
12:10because in the beginning, I thought,
12:13you know, you can tell them what they want,
12:15you know, because if they don't have any evidence,
12:16then, yeah, you don't have any evidence.
12:19Samuel Little.
12:20I was still in my famous, yeah.
12:22Okay.
12:23But I was on the very outskirts.
12:25All right.
12:25The very outskirts.
12:27There was a couple of motels out there in there,
12:29a gas station in there.
12:30It was scattered, dot, dot, dot, dot,
12:32because it was getting thin,
12:35the population as you go further out.
12:37For decades, Samuel Little drifted across the US,
12:42living on the margins.
12:43By the time of his arrest in 2012,
12:45he was already a suspect in several unsolved murders.
12:49In 2018, Little sat for videotaped interviews with the FBI,
12:53where he calmly confessed to killing more than 90 women
12:57between 1970 and 2005.
13:00She was pretty light-skinned, brown, honey-colored skin.
13:03And she was about five, she was about tall,
13:10she was tall for a woman, about five, eight, five, nine.
13:16And it's a beautiful shape.
13:18He even sketched his victims from memory,
13:21lending chilling credibility to his accounts.
13:24The FBI later confirmed him as America's most prolific serial killer,
13:28linking his words to dozens of unsolved cases.
13:31Little died in prison in 2020,
13:34leaving behind a trail of victims finally acknowledged,
13:38but justice delayed for decades.
13:39I grabbed my legs and pulled her to the water.
13:46That's the only one that I ever killed by drowning.
13:49Describe the location where she's left.
13:52Okay, I left her head still in the water.
13:55Half her body in the underwater,
13:57and the thighs and legs on the back.
14:02Brendan Dassey.
14:03Now, let's be honest.
14:04What did he tell you?
14:05What did he show you?
14:06What did you see?
14:06And what did he tell you?
14:08Let's be honest, you're Brendan.
14:10Dassey was a Wisconsin teenager
14:12when his uncle, Stephen Avery,
14:13was accused of murdering Teresa Halbach in 2005.
14:17The case gained global attention
14:19through Netflix's Making a Murderer.
14:21During police interrogations,
14:23Dassey gave a halting, inconsistent confession,
14:26describing his role in the crime.
14:28What was it?
14:34That he punched her.
14:37What else?
14:40It's okay.
14:41What did he make you do?
14:47Cut her.
14:48Cut her where?
14:49Recorded on video,
14:51his statements raised serious concerns
14:53about coercion,
14:55comprehension,
14:55and the vulnerability of minors
14:57in interrogation settings.
14:59Though later recanting,
15:01Dassey was convicted of murder
15:02and sentenced to life in prison.
15:05Appeals courts wrestled with
15:06whether his confession was voluntary,
15:08but the U.S. Supreme Court
15:10declined to hear his case,
15:12leaving him incarcerated
15:13amid continuing debate
15:15about justice and fairness.
15:16We know we just need you to tell us.
15:25That's all I can remember.
15:27Ariel Castro.
15:29I took her to the master bedroom.
15:30Okay.
15:32And I chained her to the bed.
15:34I think it was...
15:35I chained her to...
15:37There's a steam radiator there.
15:42In 2013,
15:44the world was stunned
15:45when three women
15:46escaped Ariel Castro's Cleveland home
15:48after a decade in captivity.
15:50The house,
15:51once an unremarkable address,
15:53became a symbol
15:53of unimaginable horror.
15:55Once in custody,
15:57Castro sat down with police
15:58for hours of videotaped interviews.
16:01He admitted to the abductions,
16:03repeated assaults,
16:04and years of psychological manipulation.
16:07Did you threaten her at that point?
16:09No, I just told her to be quiet.
16:10You just told her to be quiet?
16:13Be quiet or what?
16:14Just to be quiet.
16:15Okay.
16:15I didn't want the neighbors
16:17to hear anything
16:18or to get in trouble.
16:20Okay.
16:21And did you bind her hands also?
16:25No.
16:25Did you put anything in her mouth?
16:27His confessions,
16:28later released,
16:29confirmed the women's accounts
16:31and revealed
16:32the calculated cruelty
16:33of his crimes.
16:35Castro pled guilty
16:36to over 900 charges
16:38and received a life sentence
16:39without parole,
16:40plus 1,000 years.
16:43Just weeks into his imprisonment,
16:45he was found dead in his cell,
16:47closing one of the darkest chapters
16:49in Ohio's history.
16:50Having four kids
16:52and now five,
16:55you know,
16:57I just,
16:58I don't understand
16:59how I did that.
17:00You know,
17:01I'm a father,
17:01I'm a grandfather
17:02and I still don't understand
17:03how I went through
17:04all these things.
17:05Mark Castellano
17:06Mark Castellano
17:10shared an apartment
17:11in Houston, Texas
17:12with his ex-girlfriend
17:13Michelle Warner
17:14and their young son,
17:15Caden.
17:16In September 2012,
17:17the former couple
17:18got into a heated argument
17:19that ended in Warner's death
17:21at Castellano's hands.
17:22I come home,
17:24she's in her room,
17:26the first thing she does
17:27is start yelling at me
17:28that Caden has made a big mess.
17:31The 31-year-old mother
17:32was reported missing
17:33by her family
17:34and all eyes soon turned
17:35to Castellano
17:36as the suspect.
17:37As the case gained traction,
17:39Castellano sat for an interview
17:40with Dr. Phil
17:41in which he insisted
17:42that Warner had left the apartment
17:44after the argument
17:45and never returned.
17:46Did she just walk away
17:48from the apartment,
17:49you think?
17:49I'm sure someone
17:50picked her up.
17:51She doesn't walk anywhere.
17:52So you think she called
17:53somebody to come get her?
17:54She had to.
17:55Just days later, however,
17:57Castellano turned himself in
17:58and owned up to the crime
18:00in a taped interrogation
18:01with the police.
18:02When I came back,
18:03I just got rid of her.
18:06Where did you get rid of her?
18:07He was later found
18:08guilty of Warner's murder
18:09and sentenced
18:10to 27 years in prison.
18:11Can't live with us anymore
18:12either, man.
18:13I know, I know.
18:14I wanted to tell Dr. Phil, but...
18:17Natavia Lowry.
18:17The 2007 murder
18:19of celebrity realtor
18:20and former music manager
18:22Linda Stein
18:23in her Manhattan apartment
18:24soon became the subject
18:25of a media frenzy.
18:27Upon close investigation,
18:28authorities narrowed in
18:29on Stein's personal assistant,
18:31Natavia Lowry,
18:32who was reported
18:33to have had a strained
18:34relationship with her boss.
18:35Why am I here?
18:36Like, what's going on?
18:37How did I get to this point?
18:39You know, I'm asking myself that.
18:41In her interrogation,
18:42Lowry seemingly confessed
18:43to her role in Stein's murder,
18:45claiming that the real estate broker
18:47had provoked her
18:47by blowing smoke in her face
18:49and uttering racially
18:50insensitive remarks.
18:51And, you know,
18:52her screaming and yelling,
18:54I just snatched it from her.
18:57My son had took it
18:58and it's like,
18:58I just hit her with it.
19:00Apparently, Lowry
19:01had stolen $30,000 from Stein
19:03and likely killed her
19:04when she was confronted about it.
19:06Although she later
19:07recanted her confession,
19:09Lowry was convicted
19:09and sentenced to 25 years
19:11to life in prison.
19:12I felt bad.
19:13I felt sorry.
19:19Jordy Brook
19:19In November of 2014,
19:22Peter Steer,
19:23an Australian cameraman
19:24for Seven News,
19:25was sent to the coastal town
19:26of Noosaheads in Queensland
19:28to cover a shooting.
19:29On his way there,
19:30he was hailed down
19:31by a man on a motorbike
19:33named Jordy Brook,
19:34who disclosed that
19:35he was the perpetrator
19:36of the incident in question.
19:37Steer then called the authorities
19:39as he filmed Brook
19:40making a teary confession
19:41to the crime.
19:43While waiting for police,
19:44Brook had a change of heart
19:46and stole the cameraman's car
19:47at gunpoint.
19:49He was eventually arrested
19:50after crashing into a gas station
19:51and brought up
19:52on multiple charges,
19:53including attempted murder
19:54and armed robbery.
19:56And he just walked up
19:57to me purposefully,
19:59looked me in the eyes
20:00and asked me
20:00for a cigarette lighter.
20:01Jared Murray
20:02Jared Murray
20:03and Gennaro Sanchez
20:05were both freshmen
20:06at East Central University
20:07in Oklahoma in 2012.
20:09On December 5th,
20:10Murray lured Sanchez
20:11into driving him to a Walmart
20:13by offering to pay him $20.
20:15He panicked,
20:16wanted to pull out his phone.
20:18I yanked the phone out of his hand
20:19and then he panicked some more,
20:23kept telling me not to kill him.
20:24This would be Sanchez's last ride
20:27as he was gunned down by Murray
20:29in his own car.
20:30Kept telling me not to kill him.
20:31To make him feel more comfortable,
20:32I unloaded the clip,
20:33unloaded the bullet from the chamber,
20:35handed them over to him
20:36and that eased his nerves.
20:39Murray fled the scene
20:40but was eventually arrested
20:41while attempting to hitchhike to Canada.
20:43During police interrogation,
20:44Murray quickly owned up to the crime,
20:46giving a chilling confession,
20:48seemingly devoid of any remorse.
20:50A shot once, missed.
20:52Shot a second time, hit.
20:53He was driving 10, 15 miles an hour,
20:55so it was rather slow.
20:56He admitted to planning the murder
20:58weeks ahead
20:58and believed he deserved
21:00the death penalty.
21:01Death sentence, sir.
21:03And why do you think
21:05he deserved death sentence?
21:06An eye for an eye, sir.
21:07Instead, he was found
21:09not guilty by reason of insanity
21:11and remanded to a mental health facility.
21:14Christian Romero
21:15Even before he became a teenager,
21:17Christian Romero
21:18had already committed murder.
21:20In November of 2008,
21:22Romero shot and killed
21:23his father Vincent
21:24and their tenant,
21:25Timothy Romans,
21:26after they got home from work.
21:27The crimes baffled investigators,
21:30who examined a bunch
21:30of other suspects
21:31before confronting
21:32the inevitable truth.
21:34Initially, Romero had stated
21:35that he returned home from school
21:37to find both men already dead.
21:43However, when police
21:44questioned him further,
21:46he admitted to committing
21:46the murders himself.
21:48In a deal with the prosecution,
21:50Romero pleaded guilty
21:51to the negligent homicide of Romans,
21:53but was spared from being charged
21:54with the death of his father.
21:56He was first committed
21:57to a treatment facility indefinitely,
21:59but gained his freedom
22:00when he turned 18.
22:02Russell Williams
22:03A woman was at home alone
22:05when she was surprised
22:06by a male intruder.
22:08She said he blindfolded her,
22:10tied her up.
22:11Having served in the Canadian Air Force
22:13for 23 years,
22:14Russell Williams rose
22:15to the rank of colonel
22:16and was commander
22:17of the largest military air base
22:19in Canada.
22:20In February 2010,
22:22Williams was linked
22:22to the assault and murder
22:24of Jessica Lloyd.
22:25Through the tire tracks
22:26found outside her home.
22:27Williams was informed
22:28the distinctive tires
22:30of his SUV
22:30matched the tracks
22:32in the field
22:33next to Jessica Lloyd's house.
22:34He was taken in
22:35for questioning
22:36and eventually broke,
22:37confessing to not only
22:38Lloyd's murder,
22:39but also to other assaults
22:41and burglaries in the area.
22:42Where am I going on this?
22:43Uh-oh, I'm here to get to her.
22:47In this block here.
22:49Okay.
22:49So you're pointing to
22:51a detailed map
22:52of that area
22:53and I'll show you where she is.
22:54Williams forcefully
22:55entered women's homes
22:56not to steal any valuables,
22:58but to collect their underwear,
23:00which he would then wear
23:01and take pictures
23:02of himself in.
23:03He was tried
23:04on multiple charges,
23:05including murder,
23:06assault,
23:06and 82 counts
23:07of breaking and entering,
23:09resulting in a life sentence.
23:10That's an involuntary reaction,
23:12we call,
23:12but that's indicative
23:14of what's going on internally.
23:15And what he's nodding to is,
23:17holy shit,
23:19it's my boot.
23:20Earl Valentine.
23:21And I don't feel
23:22no motherfucking remorse
23:23for what I did.
23:24While many individuals
23:25have confessed
23:26to their crimes
23:27in interviews
23:27or during police interrogations,
23:30Earl Valentine
23:30basically bragged
23:32about his on Facebook.
23:34She lied on me,
23:36had warrants taken out on me.
23:39She drugged me
23:41all the way down
23:41to nothing.
23:43In an eerie live stream
23:44in September 2016,
23:46Valentine admitted
23:47to shooting his ex-wife,
23:49Keisha,
23:49and their son,
23:50Earl Jr.
23:51Keisha had moved
23:52to Norlina, North Carolina
23:53with Earl Jr.
23:54in an attempt
23:55to escape Valentine
23:56after her restraining order
23:57against him had expired.
23:58In the video,
23:59Valentine accused
24:00his ex-wife
24:01of trying to tarnish his image
24:02and claims to have shot her
24:04in retribution.
24:04I loved my wife,
24:07but she deserved
24:09what she had coming.
24:11Police later tracked
24:12down Valentine
24:12to a motel
24:13in Columbia, South Carolina
24:14but found that he had already
24:16taken his own life.
24:18We're pretty angry about it
24:19and especially
24:21because of the way
24:22he's acting over it.
24:23Daniel Wozniak
24:24And you will be
24:26my true love.
24:29A community theater actor
24:30in Costa Mesa, California,
24:32Daniel Wozniak
24:33was arrested in May 2010
24:34after the body
24:35of Julie Kibuishi
24:36was discovered
24:37in his neighbor
24:38Sam Hare's apartment.
24:39At the time,
24:40police were on the hunt
24:41for Hare
24:41who was presumed
24:42to have fled
24:43after ending
24:44Kibuishi's life.
24:45He's like,
24:45I shot somebody
24:47I was not happy about it
24:48it was a fit of rage
24:50and honestly
24:51she had it coming.
24:53While in police custody,
24:55Wozniak initially denied
24:56having anything to do
24:57with the crime.
24:57So I'm staying there.
24:59I have a will here.
25:00You're arrested.
25:02For her.
25:03But after a few hours
25:04of questioning,
25:05he eventually confessed
25:06to killing
25:07Kibuishi and Hare
25:08who was a war veteran
25:09in a bid
25:10to collect
25:10his combat pay savings.
25:12I'm crazy
25:13and I did it.
25:14You did what?
25:16I killed Julie
25:17and I killed Sam.
25:18In 2016,
25:19Wozniak was found
25:20guilty of two counts
25:21of first degree murder
25:22and handed
25:23the death penalty.
25:24Israel Keys
25:25To describe Israel Keys
25:27as terrifying
25:28will be quite
25:28an understatement.
25:30There is no one
25:31who knows me
25:31or who has ever
25:33known me
25:33who knows
25:34anything about me, really.
25:36The Utah-born
25:37serial killer
25:38orchestrated multiple
25:39carefully planned murders
25:40across several states
25:42in the United States.
25:43After kidnapping
25:44and killing
25:44his last confirmed victim,
25:46Samantha Koenig,
25:47Keys was arrested
25:48in Alaska
25:49when he tried
25:50withdrawing money
25:50from an ATM
25:51with her debit card.
25:52While in police custody,
25:54Keys chillingly
25:55described his crimes,
25:57although leaving out
25:58just enough detail
25:59to avoid being
26:00directly linked
26:01with any confirmed case.
26:02When I was smart,
26:03I would let them
26:05come to me.
26:08Just a remote area.
26:10Still, he confessed
26:11to the murders
26:12of Koenig
26:12and a middle-aged
26:13couple named
26:14Bill and Lorraine Currier.
26:16You might not get
26:16exactly what you're,
26:18not as much
26:18to choose from
26:19in a manner of speaking,
26:20but there's also
26:22no witnesses, really.
26:24There's no deals around.
26:25Prosecutors were still
26:26putting their case
26:27against Keys together
26:28when he took
26:29his own life
26:29in his jail cell.
26:31Steve Stevens
26:3237-year-old
26:34Steve Stevens
26:35became the subject
26:35of an extensive
26:36police manhunt
26:37in April 2017
26:38when he uploaded
26:40a video to Facebook
26:41which showed him
26:42committing a murder.
26:43In the clip,
26:44recorded on his phone,
26:45Stevens randomly stops
26:47Robert Godwin,
26:48an elderly man
26:49walking down the street,
26:50who he briefly talks to
26:51before fatally shooting him.
26:53Can you say Joy Lane?
26:54Joy Lane?
26:55Yeah.
26:55The crime was reportedly
26:57motivated by problems
26:58Stevens was having
26:59with his girlfriend
27:00at the time.
27:01That same day,
27:02he uploaded another video
27:03in which he also admitted
27:04to killing more people,
27:05although those claims
27:06were not verified by police.
27:08Two days later,
27:09Stevens was spotted
27:10at a McDonald's drive-thru,
27:12but ended up taking
27:13his own life
27:13before police could arrest him.
27:15We told him
27:16he was waiting
27:16on his fries for a minute
27:17just to kind of
27:18buy some time
27:18for the cops
27:19if it actually was him.
27:21And he said
27:22he had no time to wait,
27:23he had to go.
27:24And at that point,
27:25he took his chicken McNuggets
27:26and left.
27:27Melissa Miller.
27:28Just start at the beginning.
27:29Okay, let me take
27:30a couple breaths.
27:31In February of 2013,
27:33colleagues of Annie Meyer
27:35filed a missing persons report
27:36after she was absent
27:37from work for several days.
27:39Over the next few months,
27:40police questioned
27:41those who were close to Meyer,
27:43but found it difficult
27:44to gain any substantial information
27:45from her roommate
27:46and former partner,
27:47Melissa Miller.
27:48Our Colorado mountains
27:49create a perfect burial ground
27:52until the snow melts.
27:55It wasn't until July
27:56when Meyer's remains
27:57were found
27:58that Miller decided
27:59to cooperate with police.
28:01In her taped interview
28:02with investigators,
28:03Miller painted
28:04a relationship with Meyer
28:05that was fraught
28:06with tension
28:06due to money problems.
28:08She then confessed
28:09to killing her
28:09while they were on a hike
28:11in the Colorado mountains.
28:12She poked at me
28:13and I just turned
28:14with the locking stick
28:16as a reaction
28:18and hit her.
28:19After pleading guilty
28:20to second-degree murder,
28:21Miller was sentenced
28:22to 20 years in prison.
28:23In court today,
28:24Melissa Miller
28:25is already making plans
28:26to see her friends
28:29and family next.
28:30Coward.
28:31Sean Vincent Gillis.
28:32Has the word monster
28:33come to mind?
28:36The crimes of Sean Vincent Gillis
28:38were so despicable
28:39that even he referred
28:40to himself as pure evil.
28:42Over a ten-year period,
28:44Gillis claimed
28:44the lives of eight women
28:45in and around
28:46the Baton Rouge area
28:47in Louisiana.
28:48Dubbed
28:49The Other Baton Rouge Killer,
28:51he was known
28:51to perform disturbing acts
28:52on the bodies
28:53of his victims.
28:54What kind of tools
28:55did you bring with you
28:56for the monster brain?
28:59In my case,
29:00it was a fishing knife.
29:02In 2004,
29:03he was arrested
29:03and charged with three murders
29:05and ended up confessing
29:06to all three,
29:07plus an additional five.
29:09Gillis went into detail
29:10about how he would hunt
29:12down his victims
29:13and the gruesome ways
29:14he ended their lives.
29:15There was a pipe
29:16on the ground.
29:17Not even a pipe,
29:18it was like a steel rod.
29:20Kind of like rebar,
29:21but smoother.
29:22He was, however,
29:23only convicted
29:24of the initial three murders
29:25and sentenced to life
29:27in prison
29:27without the possibility
29:28of parole.
29:30David Tarloff
29:31David Tarloff
29:32had struggled
29:32with mental illness
29:33from at least
29:34his early 20s.
29:35In 1991,
29:37he was diagnosed
29:37with schizophrenia
29:38by a psychiatrist
29:39named Kent Schenbach,
29:41who recommended
29:42his involuntary commitment
29:43to a psychiatric facility.
29:50Fast forward to 2008,
29:52Tarloff visited Schenbach's
29:53office once again,
29:55only this time,
29:55his goal was to rob the doctor
29:57and use his money
29:58to care for his ailing mother.
30:00Instead,
30:01Tarloff ended up killing
30:02Catherine Fahy,
30:03another psychiatrist
30:04who shared an office
30:05with Schenbach
30:06in what he claimed
30:07was self-defense.
30:08Police traced fingerprints
30:09from the crime
30:10to Tarloff,
30:11who rambled his way
30:12through a confession
30:13when questioned.
30:14Following two mistrials,
30:23he was eventually convicted
30:24and handed a life sentence
30:25in 2014.
30:27Mark Chopper Reid
30:29One of the most notorious
30:30criminals in Australian history,
30:32Mark Chopper Reid,
30:34had a long rap sheet
30:35that included crimes
30:36like armed robbery,
30:37kidnapping,
30:37and arson.
30:38You stand back
30:39and you go,
30:39smash to the back of the head.
30:42Reid's notorious activities
30:43led to him spending
30:44a large chunk
30:45of his adult life
30:46incarcerated.
30:47While in prison,
30:48the infamous gangster
30:49contracted Hepatitis C
30:51and was diagnosed
30:51with liver cancer
30:52years later.
30:53Just before his death,
30:59Reid sat for a televised
31:00interview with
31:0160 Minutes Australia,
31:02where he admitted
31:03to having been responsible
31:04for the deaths
31:05of four people.
31:12Perhaps the most shocking
31:13thing about the interview,
31:14which was granted
31:15just 16 days before his death,
31:17was the casual nature
31:18with which Reid
31:19described his graphic crimes.
31:21The pub's keg cellar
31:22became Des Costello's
31:24temporary tomb.
31:28And he's gone.
31:30When he threw,
31:31why are you laughing?
31:33And he goes.
31:34Robert Willie Pickton.
31:36Possibly one of Canada's
31:37most prolific serial killers,
31:39the crimes of Robert Willie Pickton
31:41sent shockwaves
31:42through the country
31:42when they were
31:43eventually discovered.
31:48Really?
31:51Pickton had inherited
31:57a large pig farm
31:58from his family
31:59and reportedly
32:00fed the corpses
32:01of his victims
32:01to his pigs.
32:03In 2002,
32:04police stormed
32:05Pickton's farm
32:06on an illegal
32:07firearms warrant,
32:08but ended up
32:08finding personal effects
32:10belonging to
32:10multiple missing women.
32:12He was charged
32:13with 26 counts of murder,
32:15but in a chilling
32:16jail cell surveillance video,
32:18Pickton confessed
32:19to an undercover officer
32:20that he had claimed
32:21the lives of 49 women
32:22and even, quote,
32:24wanted one more.
32:28For his despicable crimes,
32:31Pickton was sentenced
32:32to life in prison
32:33with no possibility
32:34of parole
32:34for 25 years.
32:37Gary Ridgway.
32:37My strategy was
32:38to get him talking
32:39and to have him
32:40do most of the talking.
32:41Dubbed the Green River Killer,
32:43Gary Ridgway
32:44terrorized girls and women
32:46in the states of
32:46Washington and Oregon
32:47in the 80s and 90s.
32:49While his victim count
32:50is believed to be
32:51as high as 90,
32:52Ridgway was convicted
32:53of 49 murders,
32:55the second highest number
32:56of confirmed killings
32:57in U.S. history.
32:58Ridgway sat for multiple
33:00interviews with authorities,
33:01most notably
33:02with FBI profiler
33:03Dr. Mary Ellen O'Toole,
33:05in which he confessed
33:06to more killings
33:07and detailed
33:08how he picked up
33:09his victims.
33:19Throughout these interviews,
33:20he owned up
33:21to the most murders
33:22for any American
33:23serial killer.
33:30Due to his plea agreement,
33:32Ridgway avoided execution
33:33and was instead
33:34sentenced to life in prison
33:36without the possibility
33:37of parole.
33:38Ed Kemper
33:39I was getting better at it.
33:41I was getting less detectable.
33:42I started flaunting
33:44that invisibility.
33:46A truly disturbing figure,
33:47Ed Kemper was responsible
33:49for the deaths
33:49of 10 people,
33:50including his own mother
33:52and paternal grandparents.
33:54After killing his mother
33:55and one of her friends
33:56on April 20, 1973,
33:58Kemper called the police
33:59and confessed to the crimes.
34:00One victim let me
34:01back in the car.
34:02I locked myself out.
34:04She opened the door for me.
34:06My gun was under the seat.
34:09Of the 10 murders,
34:10Kemper was charged with
34:11and convicted of 8,
34:13for which he was handed
34:148 consecutive life sentences.
34:16And I'm picking up young women
34:17and I'm going
34:18a little bit farther each time.
34:20It's a daring kind of a thing.
34:22Throughout his life in prison,
34:23Kemper granted
34:24multiple interviews,
34:26such as for the documentary
34:27Murder, No Apparent Motive,
34:29during which he opened up
34:30about his crimes
34:31in explicit details.
34:33So how come they get in a car
34:34with somebody at that time?
34:36She judged me not to be that guy.
34:39I didn't look like him.
34:41He was also profiled
34:42by agents of the FBI's
34:44Behavioral Science Unit,
34:45which was portrayed
34:46in the Netflix series
34:47Mindhunter.
34:49Robert Durst.
34:50I am going to go use
34:51the restroom,
34:52which is right here.
34:54The Jinx was a six-part
34:55true crime docu-series
34:57that aired on HBO in 2015.
34:59The critically acclaimed show
35:00was centered around
35:01real estate tycoon
35:02Robert Durst,
35:03who at the time
35:04was suspected of killing
35:05his wife, Kathleen McCormick,
35:07and friend, Susan Berman.
35:09In the final episode,
35:11Durst is shown
35:11a damning handwritten letter
35:13about Berman's murder
35:14that seemed to match
35:16his writing.
35:17But he flat out denies
35:18being the author.
35:19There it is.
35:21You're caught.
35:22Then,
35:23in what is arguably
35:24one of the most shocking
35:25moments in TV history,
35:27he goes to the bathroom
35:28and seemingly confesses
35:30to the crimes,
35:31while his mic is still recording.
35:32Kill them all.
35:34Of course.
35:36Durst was later given
35:37a life sentence
35:38for Berman's death,
35:39but he died of cardiac arrest
35:40just three months later.
35:42The BTK Killer
35:43The BTK Killer
35:45was the self-imposed nickname
35:47of American serial killer
35:48Dennis Rader.
35:49After you tied them up,
35:51what did they do?
35:51Well,
35:53they started complaining
35:54about being tied up,
35:56and I re-loosened
35:58their bonds
35:58a couple of times,
35:59tried to make Mr. Otero
36:00as comfortable as I could.
36:02Rader murdered
36:03ten people
36:03in the state of Kansas
36:04between 1974 and 1991,
36:07and sent letters
36:08to the authorities
36:08bragging about it.
36:10He was eventually
36:10caught in 2005
36:12after sending police
36:13a floppy disk
36:13with metadata
36:14that revealed his identity.
36:15I didn't have a mask
36:16on or anything.
36:17They already could ID me,
36:19and made a decision
36:23to go ahead
36:23and put them down,
36:26I guess,
36:26or strangling.
36:27On the day of his trial,
36:29Rader surprised the court
36:30by instead pleading guilty
36:32to all ten counts
36:33of first-degree murder,
36:35and vividly recounted
36:36how he carried them out.
36:38Tied his feet
36:39to the bedpost,
36:40on the bedpost,
36:41so he couldn't run.
36:42Kind of hide her
36:44in the other bedroom.
36:46Throughout the chilling,
36:47nearly one-hour-long confession,
36:49Rader offered
36:50no apologies
36:51for his actions,
36:52and was later handed
36:53to ten consecutive
36:54life sentences.
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37:11Ted Bundy
37:12You'd be hard-pressed
37:20to find an American adult
37:21who hasn't heard
37:22the name Ted Bundy.
37:24The infamous serial killer
37:25claimed at least 30 lives
37:27over a four-year period,
37:28although that number
37:29is believed to be much higher.
37:31After he was caught
37:32and sentenced to death
37:33for three of the murders,
37:34Bundy appealed the decision
37:36up to the U.S. Supreme Court
37:37to no avail.
37:38On the eve of his execution,
37:40Bundy sat for a taped
37:41interview in which
37:43he admitted guilt
37:43to the crimes
37:44and described
37:45the true nature
37:46of his murderous tendencies.
37:48For the record,
37:49you are guilty
37:50of killing many women
37:53and girls.
37:55Yes.
37:56Yes, that's true.
37:58A few hours later,
37:59Bundy's reign of terror
38:00came to an end
38:01when he was executed
38:02in the electric chair
38:03on January 24th, 1989.
38:05That I can't begin
38:06to understand the pain
38:08that the parents
38:10of these children
38:13and these young women
38:16that I have harmed
38:17feel.
38:17Which true crime confession
38:19on our list shocked you the most?
38:21Be sure to let us know
38:21in the comments below.
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