- (FBE) Society has long been fascinated
with serial killers, down to the detail
of their last meal request. What do you think of that?
- I mean, I understand because it's a morbid fascination
of just wanting to know what motivates these people
to be like this.
- (FBE) We're going to look at several serial killers
and what they chose for their last meal.
- I mean, I understand their last meal,
why it's significant, because it is their last meal
and I think we romanticize it more than it is.
But at the same time, why are we so fascinated
that we need to know every detail?
- It seems like the people who get the death penalty
honestly just need a lot of mental rehabilitation.
They're more just very, very sick individuals
that originates from a really abusive childhood.
- I'm not a huge fan of the whole death penalty,
but there's some cases where I'm like, okay,
you're a psychopath and you killed tons of people.
The world is better without you.
- There's a book or an article or something that I read
not too long ago that was kind of sharing
all of these criminals' last meals, the last meal requests,
and some of them are super extravagant,
and some of them are super basic.
So that, to me, is really interesting to see,
what people would want as their last meal.
- (FBE) Let me show you this first guy.
Let me see if you recognize him. - Not off the top of my head.
He's from Illinois though.
- He looks like he dealt coke in the '70s,
but I feel like that's not enough for the death penalty.
- I don't remember his first name, but I know it's "Gacy" something
and he would dress up as a clown.
- (FBE) Okay, so this is John Wayne Gacy.
Gacy was an American serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted,
tortured, and murdered 33 teenage boys and young men.
- That's so [bleep] scary. Oh, my god.
- (FBE) Prior to his conviction, he was the manager of three KFCs
and held a side job as a party clown.
This led to him being known as the Killer Clown.
- The Killer Clown?
Okay, I could see this guy being a killer clown.
Like, he looks like a clown gone wild.
- I already [bleep] hate clowns. I'm not a fan.
- I'm not personally afraid of clowns, but that's now someone
can be like, look, I have a legitimate fear.
There was a serial killer who was a clown.
- (FBE) For his last meal, Gacy requested 12 fried shrimp,
a bucket of KFC, french fries, and a pound of strawberries.
- Wow. Very classy.
See, this is interesting because the amount he gave them.
It was a set amount.
- I haven't eaten today yet, so that looks [bleep] phenomenal.
- That looks delicious.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I think the thing that makes me the most uncomfortable
about this is that all the food's touching,
and that's probably not what I should be
the most uncomfortable about.
- The strawberries also go in.
I don't know, but that's making me think clown,
like cheery and happy.
It's like the two different sides of him,
the KFC dude and the clown.
- He didn't understand what was healthy for him necessarily
because even in his last meal, it was very indulgent.
- (FBE) His last words were "kiss my ass."
- (laughing)
- (FBE) Now let's talk about this next person here.
- Oh, wow. A woman? What?
- It's gonna be hard, just pulling a picture up
and knowing a serial killer's name.
- That is Aileen.
I'm blanking on her last name.
- This is Eileen or Aileen?
- (FBE) This is Aileen Wuornos.
She was an American serial killer who murdered seven men
in Florida between 1989 and 1990 by shooting them at pointblank range.
She claimed that her victims had either raped
or attempted to rape her while she was working
as a prostitute. - Yeah.
That's murder, all right.
- I believe that the first kill was in self-defense
after reading stuff about it, but I think kind of after that
is when she got a taste for, ooh, this is--
I like killing people.
So I think after that, that's when she purposely
led men in and then killed them.
- I remember watching her documentary on Netflix
and just watching the way she thought was just really, really strange.
She seemed really normal and she was admitting to her crimes,
then the next moment, she's like, "No, no, no. It wasn't me."
- (FBE) This was her decision for the final meal.
- (snorting) Wow, really? Just straight black coffee?
That's hardcore.
She didn't even want food.
- That was a waste.
You probably get coffee in prison anyway,
and it's probably not a good cup of coffee.
- They do say if you drink coffee black,
you're a [bleep] serial killer.
- (FBE) Her last words were "I'll be back, like, Independence Day
with Jesus on June 6." - Coming back June 6?
That's my birthday.
- June 6 already happened. Did she come back?
- It's also scary to think about. It's 2002-- you know,
it feels like forever ago, but it really wasn't.
- I don't think she was a sociopath at all.
I just think she was kinda a regular person
who just, from circumstances of growing up and, you know,
probably some chemical imbalances in her head, just, you know,
kinda went off the rails.
- (FBE) Here our next. - They just look like normal people.
- He's got a serial killer mustache.
- All male serial killers had long hair and mustaches
and they look like they led a cult.
- If you look into his eyes, to me, he just looks soulless.
He doesn't look all there.
- (FBE) This is William George Bonin.
He was responsible for the deaths, assault, and torture
of 21 young men and boys between 1979 and 1980
in Southern California.
Because he repeatedly would dump bodies
along California freeways, he was known as the Freeway Killer.
- Oh, did you say Southern California?
Man, see, it gets so strange too because you're talking about this
and it's like this just happened where you live,
just so you know.
- (FBE) He grew up in a dysfunctional family
with an alcoholic father and a grandfather
who was a convicted child molester. - Gosh. Yeah.
It just makes you think, like, if he was molested as a young boy
and stuff like that, how that can warp
a person's perception of life and then it's just so [bleep] up.
- I don't think it's a coincidence that his grandfather
was a child molester and then he became one, too.
You don't have to be the person that your parents
or your relatives were, but I think it kind of starts you
at a disadvantage.
- (FBE) This is what he chose for his final meal.
- He chose a high school lunch?
- Oh! Damn!
Yes, he has a damn buffet.
Two pizzas, chocolate ice cream, coke.
- This is very basic.
- (FBE) It was also said that Bonin wanted to die
of diabetes before the lethal injection,
so he consumed 18 servings of Coca-Cola and Pepsi
right before his execution. - (laughing)
Can you imagine you're about to get executed
and you're like, "I have a stomach ache."
- That's cool.
If I'm gonna go out, I'm going out with a bang.
I'm banging diabetes and sugar.
That's how you should go out.
- It's kind of like a kid fantasy.
You know, like, oh, I want to eat all the pizza
and soda and ice cream I can, but my parents won't let me.
- To me, it seems very childlike.
I'm guessing these were the only good things
in his childhood, like these were his go-to comfort items.
- (FBE) Here is another.
- Wow. So weird.
The first thought in my mind was he could be an attorney.
- He looks like someone's dad.
If you saw a guy like this, you would trust him
pretty much immediately because he looks like
a pretty trustworthy guy.
- He has very big, expressive eyes, and I feel like he's hiding
murder behind them.
- (FBE) This is Danny Rolling, AKA the Gainesville Ripper.
- The Gainesville Ripper?
- (FBE) He was responsible for the death of five students
in Florida during a four-day robbery and murder spree
in last August, 1990.
- We need to just cut Florida off. That's where it all starts.
- I feel like he would have requested a nice meal.
- (FBE) His last meal consisted of lobster tail,
served with drawn butter, butterfly shrimp with cocktail sauce,
a baked potato with sour cream and butter,
a strawberry cheesecake, and sweet tea.
- Wow.
- That's booshie. He is an expensive date.
- Honestly, that's a pretty great last meal.
- (FBE) He eventually confessed to the murders in a written statement
and died singing a gospel hymn. - Ah.
He's like, "I'm sorry I killed a bunch of people.
Is that cool?"
- (FBE) All right, here is our next. - You can see how [bleep] crazy
she is in her eyes.
- She definitely looks like a grandma.
- Oh, god!
I know who this is.
I've definitely seen this face before, but I can't think of their name.
- (FBE) This is Velma Barfield, AKA the Death Row Granny,
whose victims were all close to her, and they all died mysteriously.
- What do you mean "close to her"? Like family?
- (FBE) Her mother , on-and-off fiancé,
second husband, two elderly people she was hired to care for
were all done in by arsenic that she added to their food or drink.
- That's absolutely terrifying because it's someone
you wouldn't expect.
That's insane.
It's scary to think you never really know someone.
- Sounds like the plot of an M. Night Shyamalan movie.
- I'm not eating any of her cookies.
If she has a bake sale or anything, just stay away.
- She would definitely like something like a grandma make--
I don't know, like a pot pie.
- (FBE) So this was her request. - Cheese puffs?
- Everyone likes a Coke.
Is that the drink of serial killers?
- (FBE) She declined her final meal and instead opted for a bag
of cheese doodles and a Coke.
- I mean, if it's your last meal, you gotta get what you like, I guess.
- I honestly don't get the people denying their last meals though.
Come on!
- (FBE) So her motive in these killings was money.
She'd become addicted to prescription drugs
after having had a nervous breakdown, and her behavior became really erratic.
- Interesting. Okay.
So drug addict murderer. That's a new spin.
- Addiction is a disease. People don't understand
or know that but it is. It takes over the mind.
It takes over them physically.
- Money is the big root of evil.
It's just something everyone wants. It's something people
will do anything for.
You hear it on the news all the time.
People kill for it all the time.
They'll kill you for a pair of shoes.
It's so, so sad.
- (FBE) Here is your last. - Is that Ted Bundy?
- (all) Is this Ted Bundy?
- (FBE) Correct. - Yeah!
- Everyone gets this now because they have Zach Efron
playing him and then they have the actual Ted Bundy tapes
that were on Netflix.
I know Hulu's doing something with Ted Bundy as well.
- (FBE) So Ted Bundy was an American serial killer,
kidnapper, racist, burglar, and necrophile
who assaulted and murdered over 30 people across seven states
between 1974 and 1978. - Yeah.
It's crazy the amount of people they think he killed
because they can't even prove all of it.
- His eyes are terrifying.
He's staring into my soul and I don't like it.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
- He's really charismatic as a guy and people were very surprised to hear
that he did all the crimes.
He looks just like a normal white guy.
You look at this guy, you're like, oh, he doesn't look crazy or anything.
- He had a cast on and stuff like that when he kidnapped a girl,
and then there was one where he was acting like a cop,
saying someone-- your car's being broken into
and then they'd go. Ah, [bleep]!
- He actually gave up a lot of locations
about his victims.
I mean, I don't know if he gave up all of them.
I'm so fascinated by him because it's just why?
Everyone wants to know the why.
- (FBE) This is what he ate. - Ah! That's a nice breakfast though.
He got milk and orange juice? That costs extra.
- (FBE) He actually refused the last meal and this
was the standard meal that they served him--
a steak cooked medium rare, eggs over easy, hash browns,
toast with butter and jelly, milk and juice.
- What jail is that?
I want to go there.
- How many people are murdering people and then refusing meals?
Why do they have a standard?
- To me, this seems like if you were to say
what is the cliche American country breakfast,
this is it.
- I feel like this kind of suits him.
You can get this at [bleep] IHOP.
No one really thought he was a serial killer
because he looked normal and didn't act crazy.
This kind of suits him.
- It seems like the through line between all of them is they had
a really rough childhood upbringing, whether they were abused or molested,
so I think it really starts at home.
It depends on how you raise your kid.
It's a big responsibility and if you're a [bleep],
you're gonna make a [bleep].
- We really need to bring it back to the reality
that these people did horrible things, very, very atrocious, horrible crimes
and that we need to realize that when we're watching
these documentaries or looking at their last meals.
I don't think there's ever going to be a way
to stomp out all the evil.
- (FBE) So ending on a lighter note, if you could choose your last meal,
what would it be? - Yeah, I mean, people--
this is a normal question, honestly.
My last meal would be either sushi, or ramen, or pho.
Any Vietnamese dish-- and then some kind of gelato.
Oh, yeah, and some champagne.
- If I could have just a last meal in general,
yeah, it'd be my dad's tacos.
- My last meal would definitely be filet mignon,
crab cake-- I love crab cakes.
And I would have a strawberry daiquiri.
That's one of my favorite drinks.
- Eggplant parmesan because it's just something
I really love.
Now I feel really bad about eating those things.
I'm like, oh gosh, no.
- Cereal. I'd be a "cereal" not killer,
but I'd be a cereal eater. Nah, a steak.
- A steak seems good, medium-rare, filet mignon,
maybe tender greens, a steak sandwich, too.
Eggs sound good. Hash browns are really--
I'm gonna go with a smorgasbord and a waffle.
Why not? And a waffle. And french toast.
[Bleep] it. (laughing)
It's my last meal. I'm balling out. (laughing)
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