At just 2-years-old, he had already been through a lot. Sky Metalwala's short life was tragically sad.
I hope you enjoy it.īellevue, Washington. Thanks so much to Joe for featuring one of my episodes on his podcast. Hi everyone, this is Natalie from Talk Murder With Me. She turned the letters over to the prosecution and some of Gillis's words. Years later, after he had been rested and convicted for some of the murders, a friend of one of the victims wrote to him. He hung his head and said I'm sorry, honey bunny. His girlfriend visited him in prison where she asked him if he was actually guilty of those crimes. In court, he played guilty to all charges and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Once in custody, Sean Vincent Gillis confessed police searched his home, where they found photos of Johnston and other victims, as well as body parts from victims that he said he used to stimulate himself when he remembered the murders. Gillis's DNA turned out to be a match to hairs found on several of the victims. They didn't have a search warrant for his car at the time, but after those statements that tried to get one. He said it looked like a massacre took place in his front seat. mentioning if they found any blood in his car, it would be because his girlfriend had a very heavy period. Police brought him in for questioning, where he said some pretty suspicious things, like.
They created a list of suspects based on that and requested DNA samples from those people, which included seawn Gillis. Investigators match the tired tracks from the scene to a certain make and model car. They were trying to determine which murders were from the active serial killer Gillis versus Derek Todd Lee, who had finally been captured a couple months after the murder of Donna Johnston. A task force was assembled to look into the murder of Johnston, along with other Gillis murder victims. He posed the body where he dumped it, not far from Louisiana State University campus. He killed her before cutting off her nipple, cutting off a tattoo from her thigh and cutting off her left arm. Gillis went on killing and on February twenty six, two thousand and four killed his eighth and final victim, forty three year old Donna Johnston.
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Once inside, he tried to strangle her with a zip tie, but it didn't work out well, so so he stabbed her to death before undressing and mutilating her body. In January of Nineteen Ninety nine, he lured a prostitute into his car, telling her that he wanted to pay her for oral sex. It wasn't for another almost five years that Shawn Gillis killed again. Their relationship continued to be relatively good. She thought it was weird, but seemed to be okay with it. She would later say that she and Gillis never had sex. His girlfriend knew about his porn addiction and ignored it, but she didn't know some of the vile things I mentioned before that he was into, despite him showing her photos of dead women. To make her stop screaming, he quickly slit her throat and then proceeded to stab her fifty more times, nearly disemboweling and decapitating her in the process. As soon as he started to touch her, she screamed. He liked porn that depicted rape, dismemberment and death. He spent every moment he could watching porn, and not just your garden variety porn. Once he got that, he was pretty much useless at work. He made enough money to afford a new computer. After graduating high school, he got a job working for seven eleven, the convenience store. It horrified Shawn and he cut off communications. Their new found close relationship only lasted a year when he discovered that his father was now living as a gay man. It just so happens that his father popped back into his life when Gillis was seventeen. When he was seventeen years old, he was arrested for minor and fractions, later for traffic citations, Dui, possession of marijuana and contempt of court. His trouble didn't start showing up on official police records until nineteen eighty. In High School, he and two of his friends became interested in satanic worship and enjoyed going to and watching the rituals performed by other local members.