Doing what I did was my way of feeling
in complete control, creating my
own little world where I had the final say.
Jeffrey Dahmer seduced, murdered
and dismembered 17 young men
from 1978 to 1991.
When you de-personalise another
person and view them as an object
for pleasure instead of a living, breathing human being,
it seems to make it easier.
As the killings escalated, Dahmer would
photograph his victims and would often
cannibalise their flesh.
I was branching out.
That's when the cannibalism started.
Eating of the heart and the arm muscle.
It was a way of making me feel
that they were a part of me.
He would also keep body parts as mementos
and perform experiments, attempting to turn his victims
into what he effectively referred to
as obedient zombies.
If I couldn't keep them there with me whole,
I at least I felt that I could
keep their skeletons.
Then I tried to keep the person
alive by inducing
a zombie-like state,
and it never did completely work.
After he was finally caught, he was
sentenced to 16 life sentences in 1992
before being brutally beaten to death in
prison by another inmate in 1994.
My dad always said I was dumb and stupid,
would never amount to anything.
So anything that I've gotten involved with
I always put 110 percent into it.
John Wayne Gacy was known for being active
in local politics and performing at
birthday parties as Pogo the Clown.
I always felt that service to community
and community service to others.
You know, in my religious background,
I felt if you serve other people, it'll
come back to serve you.
He also lured 33 young men
into his suburban Illinois home between
1972 and 1978.
He strangled them to death and buried their
bodies in the crawlspace under his house.
I still find it hard to believe.
I've known the man four and a half years
and I thought the world of him.
When this whole thing is over,
you might be witnessing
one of the most horrible crimes
perhaps in a century.
He was sentenced to death in 1980 and
finally executed in 1994.
And besides the dead won't bother you.
It's the living you got to worry about.
Between 1973 and 1986,
DeAngelo was responsible for at least three
crime sprees throughout California, which
included 120 burglaries,
50 rapes and 13 murders.
He raped a 29-year-old housewife near the
Ignacio Valley Shopping Centre at 5:30 this morning
Her husband was tied up
nearby and had to listen.
Her eight-year-old daughter was locked in the bathroom.
We'll call him a rapist, which he certainly is.
He's also a burglar.
People reporting prowler calls,
suspicious circumstances.
Some people even turning in their
neighbours because they think that he
might be the rapist.
Despite all their locked doors and bolted
windows, they are all still very much afraid tonight.
And that makes them all
in a sense, his victims.
DeAngelo is believed to have taunted and
threatened both victims and police in
obscene phone calls.
After remaining a mystery for 40 years,
DNA was traced to DeAngelo's family tree
and he was charged for his crimes.
In 2020, DeAngelo received multiple consecutive life
sentences without the possibility of parole
after finally pleading guilty to his crimes.
Murder in the first degree.
To that charge, how do you plead?
Guilty.