

When he was finished, he dismembered her, and left her body underneath a "dead end" sign as a cruel joke. After he captured her, he strangled her to death with a zip-tie (which he would use on all of his victims) and proceeded to have sex with her corpse. When he found his second victim, Katherine Hall, he watched her every move and waited for the perfect opportunity to strike. He often stalked his victims for several days, looking for someone who wouldn't put up a fight. Ann Brian was 81-years-old when, after a failed rape attempt, Sean stabbed her 50 times.Īfter Ann Brian, Sean's violent tendencies led to more horrific crimes. Despite worsening addictions, Sean Vincent Gillis found a caring wife in bartender Terri Lemoine, though even marital bliss couldn't keep him from committing his first murder. Sean lived in his mother's home until she moved to Atlanta in 1992, leaving her son to his own devices.

By his late teens, he'd developed a taste for petty crime, booze, dead bodies, and internet pornography-an obsession that frequently interfered with his jobs. Prone to violent outbursts, Sean could be heard loudly banging on garbage cans late at night. But while his mother turned a blind eye to his flaws, his neighbors couldn't help but notice that there was something strange about him. It wasn't an ideal start for a kid, but Yvonne insisted Sean Vincent Gillis was nothing but a happy, blue-eyed angel. Sean Vincent Gillis is still serving a life sentence at Louisiana State Penitentiary. Following a stint in a Louisiana mental hospital, his father announced that he never wanted to see Yvonne-his wife-or Sean Vincent Gillis ever again. His father's struggles “with drinking, with coping” and “serious mental problems” often led to destructive altercations-even one that nearly cost 12-month-old Sean's life. His victims were raped, strangled, stabbed, and mutilated-sometimes dismembered sometimes partially eaten.īut to understand Sean Vincent Gillis, one has to look at his early years, which were complicated by an unhealthy relationship between his parents.

Over the course of those ten years, Sean Vincent Gillis killed eight women in the Baton Rouge area, shocking local law enforcement with the depravity of his crimes. I’ve been there many times in the past ten years.” “No love, no compassion, no faith, no mercy, no hope. I was pure evil,” writes Sean Vincent Gillis in a letter to another inmate.
