10 Twisted Confessions From History's Most EVIL Villains

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Peer into the darkest corners of human depravity as we examine the chilling final words and confessions of history's most notorious villains. From the calculated banality of Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann to the disturbing detachment of Jeffrey Dahmer, these twisted testimonies reveal how evil justifies itself. Which confession sends the most chills down your spine?

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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're going over our picks for the creepiest confessions ever

00:10uttered by history's most wicked minds. This would have been a whodunit if Jeffrey Dahmer

00:15hadn't confessed to everything. Jacques Clément. By 1589, France was tearing itself apart in the

00:22wars of religion, and King Henry III had lost nearly everyone's loyalty. Catholics despised

00:27him for killing the Duke of Guise while Protestants mistrusted his shifting alliances.

00:31Enter Jacques Clément, a Dominican friar convinced he was on a mission from God. He had become

00:35increasingly radicalized in the wake of the violence between Catholics and Protestants and

00:39spoke of exterminating heretics. He formulated a plan to assassinate the king. He was promised

00:44eternal bliss if he didn't survive. Disguised as a messenger, he approached Henry and stabbed him

00:48with a dagger. He was immediately killed by the king's guard. John Wayne Gacy. To his neighbors,

00:53John Wayne Gacy was the friendly contractor who dressed up as Pogo the Clown for children's

00:57parties. But beneath the grease paint was a sadist who murdered at least 33 young men.

01:09Police eventually uncovered a nightmare, bodies buried beneath his suburban home. After his arrest,

01:14Gacy's confession was an exercise in manipulation.

01:16And he seemed to be pretty proud of that. We used that to our advantage to keep him talking.

01:22He tried to convince authorities that he had multiple personality disorder. Gacy would claim

01:26that most of his victims were runaways and liars as if to deny their humanity. Gacy laughed through

01:30interrogations while he matter-of-factly detailed his crimes. His confession became a performance almost

01:35as grotesque as his crimes. Gacy shows his own importance. And he's the cool guy now. So he's the

01:43friend of these other males. And again, this gives him this sense of importance and prominence.

01:50Ion Antonescu. Ion Antonescu ruled Romania with an iron fist. He aligned the country with Nazi

01:55Germany and oversaw the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jewish and Roma people. However,

01:59he was overthrown and eventually tried for war crimes. Yet at his trial and execution,

02:04Antonescu showed no remorse. His final confession was an act of pure defiance. He declared that he

02:09had served his country faithfully and would die for Romania, insisting he had acted in his nation's

02:13best interests. Facing the firing squad, he refused a blindfold. To the end, Antonescu's calm

02:18self-righteousness twisted cruelty into some kind of evil patriotism. Andrei Chikatilo.

02:24For over a decade, Andrei Chikatilo terrorized the Soviet Union, murdering more than 50 people.

02:29Detectives desperately needed proof of his guilt. They needed a confession.

02:34A mild-mannered teacher by day, he became known as the Butcher of Rostov once his atrocities came

02:39to light. When finally captured, his confession was one of the most horrifying ever recorded.

02:43Chikatilo described his crimes in vivid clinical detail, explaining how killing gave him satisfaction.

02:49He probably, in some respects, wanted to be caught. I can't imagine somebody doing that for all those

02:56many years and not realizing that he was living in a hell of his own creation.

03:03I couldn't help myself, he said. At times he laughed, at others he wept, insisting that he was

03:07the mistake of nature society had created. Chikatilo's confession was so graphic that even

03:11hardened investigators were left sickened by his chilling self-awareness.

03:15Chikatilo was more than willing to show how he disarmed people, how he tricked them.

03:21Antti Pavelic. As the founder of Croatia's fascist Ustasi movement,

03:26Antti Pavelic ruled his Nazi-aligned puppet state with unimaginable cruelty.

03:30At the time, Croatia was an ally of the Nazis, and its leader, Ant Pavelic,

03:35modeled himself on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

03:38Under his command, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Roma were exterminated.

03:42When the Axis was defeated, Pavelic escaped through so-called rat lines. While in exile in

03:47Argentina and later Spain, Pavelic gave interviews and wrote statements defending his actions.

03:51Then in 1958, Pavelic made a rare appearance on television, justifying his past as Croatia's

03:58wartime fascist dictator. He claimed he had served God and Croatia, dismissing evidence of mass murder

04:03as allied and communist lies. Even after surviving a 1957 assassination attempt in Buenos Aires,

04:09he defended his atrocities as a struggle for independence. Two years later, he died of his

04:14wounds, convinced he was a patriot, not a monster.

04:16A year later, Pavelic was murdered, the victim of an assassin.

04:21Jeffrey Dahmer. When police entered Jeffrey Dahmer's Milwaukee apartment in 1991,

04:25they found something out of a nightmare. Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for killing more than a dozen

04:30people. The majority of those murders happened in an apartment near the Marquette campus.

04:35What chilled investigators most wasn't the scene, it was his confession. Dahmer calmly described his

04:40murders as though recounting daily chores, admitting to killing 17 people. He explained his

04:50grotesque acts with a detached honesty that made it all so much worse. His actions were motivated by

04:55his need to have his victims stay with him. Dahmer knew what he was doing was wrong, but he couldn't

04:59overcome his urges. His emotionless honesty made his confession one of the most terrifying glimpses into

05:04a murderer's mind ever recorded. And he carefully went about his killings under the radar of the

05:09police and the people of Milwaukee. Herman Goering. Hitler's designated successor,

05:15Herman Goering, rose higher than almost anyone in the Nazi hierarchy. His status made his trial

05:19at Nuremberg a worldwide spectacle. But Goering does not look contrite or ashamed. At the Nuremberg trial,

05:28Goering shows his true colors. He's laughing, he's dismissive, he's arrogant, and he shows no remorse.

05:33When confronted with evidence of genocide and war crimes, he showed no trace of remorse.

05:38He downplayed his involvement with regards to the Holocaust, stating that others were

05:41in charge of concentration camps. He is nervous, yet he smiles and smirks when

05:46the prosecution lawyers are making their case, scoffing at the evidence brought forward.

05:51He did, however, boast about his loyalty to Hitler, rearming Germany and regaining lost territory. Even

05:56when condemned to hang, he refused to let anyone else dictate his fate. The night before his

06:00scheduled execution, Goering bit down on a hidden cyanide capsule.

06:03Conceited and deluded to the end.

06:06Gilles Duray Once a celebrated knight and comrade

06:08of Joan of Arc, Gilles Duray is now remembered for his horrific legacy. After his military glory

06:13faded, he turned his wealth and power toward depravity. Duray abducted and murdered dozens,

06:18possibly hundreds, of miners in his castle. When finally arrested, his confession shocked the

06:22consciences. Even for those living in an age of constant death and violence, Duray admitted he was

06:27driven by pleasure. At trial, he alternated between weeping and boasting, begging forgiveness one

06:32moment and describing his crimes in chilling detail the next. Before his execution, he repented,

06:37but his eerie calm left witnesses unsure if they'd seen redemption or performance.

06:41H.H. Holmes Described as one of America's first documented serial killers, H.H. Holmes

06:46lived inside a monument to death and deceit. In Chicago, it's been claimed he built a labyrinthine

07:01hotel filled with soundproof rooms, hidden corridors and gas chambers. It would later be dubbed his murder

07:06castle. When finally caught, Holmes admitted he had killed 27 people. Though given his tendency

07:22for fabricating details, it's hard to pin down an exact number. In his own words, I was born with the

07:26devil in me, explaining that he felt no remorse and no ability to stop. Even on the gallows, Holmes remained calm

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08:02Adolf Eichmann When the Nazi regime collapsed,

08:05its surviving leaders were hunted down and forced to answer for the unthinkable.

08:08Adolf Eichmann is the senior Nazi administrator who organized the Holocaust.

08:14Some, like Rudolf Haas, the commandant of Auschwitz, described their crimes with chilling precision.

08:19Others, like Albert Speer, cloaked themselves in remorse while quietly deflecting blame.

08:23But none embodied the machinery of genocide quite like Adolf Eichmann. At his trial in Jerusalem,

08:28Eichmann didn't rant or gloat. Instead, he spoke clinically like an accountant.

08:32Eichmann argued he was rather a low-ranking bureaucrat. He was a cog and a much wider and

08:38more powerful machine. Therefore, it was unjust that he was on trial in the first place.

08:44He claimed he had followed orders, insisting he bore no personal guilt for the millions

08:47murdered under his watch. That was the true horror, not monstrous rage, but meek obedience.

08:52His calm defense revealed how evil could hide behind routine,

08:56how a system could carry the sins so its servants didn't have to.

08:59What was evil about Eichmann was the banality with which he sat in his office day after day

09:05and consigned millions of people to their deaths. He was an armchair murderer. He was a bureaucrat

09:13who facilitated the murder of millions, and yet to him, it was just a job.

09:18Did we miss any other monstrous confessions from history? Let us know in the comments.

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