“She had beautiful legs. I wanted to keep those legs.” One by one, investigators found the women’s bodies. Each one carefully posed. Each one brutally mutilated. An arm here. A leg there. ... The killer was cutting his victims to pieces…
“At that point, I pretty much went for the head.”
For ten years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the killings went on. Women of slight stature were hunted down, bludgeoned and strangled. And what the killer did with their bodies in the privacy of his car, his home, his kitchen, and his shower—was beyond anything police could imagine.
“I was pure evil.”
When investigators finally caught mild-mannered, Star Trek fan Sean Vincent Gillis, he couldn’t wait to tell his story. In the presence of shocked veteran detectives, Sean told them every detail of his killings, everything he did with the bodies.... And he smiled the whole time…
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| Susan D. Mustafa |
Dismembered, the chilling true story of Baton Rouge serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis, will be in bookstores July 5. Gillis confessed to killing and mutilating eight women in the Baton Rouge area and is currently serving three life sentences at Angola. Written by Susan D. Mustafa and Sue Israel, authors of Blood Bath , which is the true story of serial killer Derrick Todd Lee story, this book is so disturbing that its publisher (Kensington Books) placed a warning label for readers on the back cover.
A book signing with Susan D. Mustafa and Sue Israel will be held July 30 at 6:00 p.m. at Barnes & Noble at Citiplace in Baton Rouge. The authors will present their thoughts on this killer, along with detectives who worked the case.
Read The Redman Writing Project interview with Susan here.
Purchase Dismembered online here.
