These disturbing interviews with criminals will send a chill down your spine. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’ll be looking at the most troubling interviews given by criminals either before or after their conviction.
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00:00 - You feel like (indistinct)
00:05 - Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:10 And today we're looking at the most troubling interviews
00:12 given by criminals either before or after their conviction.
00:15 - Shoelaces, huh?
00:16 You're in trouble now.
00:17 (shoes clattering)
00:18 - Yeah, right.
00:19 - Aren't you afraid sitting that close to me?
00:20 - Gerard Baden-Clay.
00:23 It's always creepy watching a killer play innocent.
00:26 In the early morning of April 20th, 2012,
00:29 an Australian man named Gerard Baden-Clay
00:31 reported his wife, Alison, missing.
00:33 A few days later,
00:34 he appeared in this television interview with Nine News.
00:37 Baden-Clay fights back tears
00:39 as he speaks with the reporter about his missing wife.
00:42 - I'm trying to look after my children at the moment.
00:44 They've got three young girls and we really trust
00:48 that the police are doing everything they can
00:50 to find my wife.
00:50 And we just hope that she'll come home soon.
00:54 - It's a decent performance with the crocodile tears,
00:56 but a performance nonetheless.
00:58 It wasn't long after this interview was given
01:00 that a canoeist found the body of Alison
01:02 lying on the bank of a creek.
01:03 Baden-Clay was questioned by police
01:05 and later charged with his wife's murder
01:07 and the disposal of her remains.
01:09 - After a two-month investigation on the 13th of June, 2012,
01:14 police arrested 41-year-old Gerard Robert Baden-Clay
01:19 and charged him with the murder
01:20 of his 43-year-old wife, Alison.
01:23 - He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
01:26 - It's a supreme arrogance
01:30 and feeling that he could just pull the wool
01:35 over everybody's eyes and they'd buy it.
01:37 - Ian Huntley, two girls named Holly Wells
01:40 and Jessica Chapman disappeared
01:42 on the evening of August 4th, 2002.
01:44 They had left a family barbecue to buy some candy,
01:46 but never returned home,
01:48 prompting a widespread search and much media attention.
01:51 - For two weeks, police and locals
01:53 desperately scoured the area.
01:55 - It was every parent's worst nightmare.
01:59 - There was a sense of real fear and dread in the village.
02:04 People were starting to get more and more desperate
02:06 as to what might've happened to these two little girls.
02:10 - One interview was given with a man named Ian Huntley,
02:13 who claimed to have seen the girls walking by
02:15 the evening they disappeared.
02:16 However, police were not buying his story
02:19 and he was quietly made a suspect.
02:21 - You may, as it turned out,
02:23 have been the last person to actually chat to them
02:25 before they vanished.
02:26 - Yeah, that's what it seems like.
02:28 - The girls' bodies were found
02:29 on the afternoon of August 17th
02:31 and Huntley was arrested for their deaths.
02:33 It was later discovered that he had lured the girls
02:36 inside of his house, where he ended their lives
02:38 before dumping their bodies in an irrigation ditch.
02:41 - Huntley is currently being held
02:43 at Franklin High Security Prison.
02:45 - It can be no doubt in my mind
02:47 that Huntley really enjoyed the notoriety.
02:51 He liked being a focus of attention
02:54 and he loved being interviewed.
02:56 It also underlines his utter lack of remorse.
03:00 - Issei Sagawa.
03:01 The story of Issei Sagawa
03:09 is both a difficult and controversial one.
03:12 Sagawa was studying literature
03:13 at the Sorbonne University in Paris
03:15 when he befriended a classmate named René Hartevelt.
03:22 In June of 1981, Sagawa invited Hartevelt to his apartment
03:26 where he tragically murdered her
03:27 and committed unspeakable acts on her body.
03:30 He was arrested while disposing of her remains
03:32 but only spent a brief period in a mental health hospital
03:35 after being found unfit to stand trial.
03:38 (speaking in foreign language)
03:42 Later in life, Sagawa gave numerous interviews
03:58 in which he spoke freely on his encounter with Hartevelt
04:01 including a prolonged piece with Vice
04:03 entitled "Interview with a Cannibal."
04:05 Needless to say, the contents and the calm demeanor
04:08 of Sagawa himself are incredibly disturbing.
04:11 - Christy Abrahams.
04:24 In this seemingly heartbreaking interview,
04:26 we see a distraught mother desperately pleading
04:28 for the safe return of her daughter.
04:35 - This is Christy Abrahams,
04:37 who can barely squeak out a single word
04:39 about her missing child, Kaisha.
04:41 Rather, she hides behind sunglasses and a tissue
04:43 periodically unleashing sounds of pain and grief.
04:46 - She is beautiful.
04:48 - Unfortunately, Kaisha was already dead
04:54 and it was her mother, Christy, who had taken her life.
04:57 Later, investigations proved
04:59 that Kaisha had endured horrible treatment from Christy
05:01 and that she had died after getting kicked
05:03 and hitting her head on a bed.
05:05 Her body was then torched.
05:07 Abrahams was eventually convicted of the crime
05:09 and sentenced to at least 16 years in prison.
05:12 - Responsibilities of parents is to look after your kids
05:16 and give them a chance.
05:18 And this little girl didn't have a chance.
05:20 - Edward Edwards.
05:21 There's something incredibly eerie
05:23 about watching a serial killer
05:24 so calmly discuss their crimes,
05:26 as if they were recalling an old childhood memory.
05:28 This elderly man is Edward Edwards,
05:31 a serial killer who at one time
05:32 was on the FBI's most wanted list.
05:34 - There was no evidence.
05:36 I left no evidence.
05:37 I brought it about by admitting it myself.
05:42 - After serving time in prison for robbing gas stations,
05:45 Edwards killed at least five individuals,
05:47 including his adult foster son.
05:50 In this chilling interview,
05:51 Edwards is clad in prison orange
05:53 and recounts his crime spree
05:55 with eerie precision and detachment.
05:57 - Well, he didn't know it was coming.
05:59 - Following his arrest in 2009,
06:01 one of his neighbors called Edwards, quote,
06:03 "A real soft, pleasant guy."
06:05 Judging by this interview,
06:07 we can see how easy it was to be fooled.
06:09 - I'm sorry and everything,
06:10 but I'm not gonna stand up and beat myself on the chest.
06:13 And certainly I'm not gonna, you know,
06:16 I'm not gonna get up in court and apologize
06:19 and things like this.
06:20 It's already, that there is,
06:23 I believe that would be an insult to injury.
06:25 - The Gladbach hostage crisis.
06:27 There are few criminal events as bizarre
06:30 as the Gladbach hostage crisis.
06:32 On the morning of August 16th, 1988,
06:34 German men Hans-Jürgen Roessner and Dieter Dugovsky
06:37 robbed a bank and took two employees hostage.
06:40 They proceeded to hijack a public bus
06:42 with a total of 27 people on board.
06:44 Three individuals died in the ordeal
06:47 and the criminals were finally apprehended
06:49 during an attempted escape in a getaway car.
06:51 This hostage crisis became a live media circus
06:54 with reporters directly engaging with the abductors
06:56 during the ordeal,
06:57 providing them with warnings and directions.
07:00 The media's conduct was widely criticized afterwards,
07:03 resulting in the enactment of a law
07:05 that prevented future reporters
07:06 from speaking to hostage takers.
07:08 Dennis Rader.
07:09 You never truly know who you're talking to.
07:12 That man on the street could very well be a serial killer.
07:15 - In my mind, there was two people in that body.
07:18 One of them was a husband and father, the Boy Scout leader.
07:23 The other one was an absolute animal.
07:25 - Maybe one of the most infamous serial killers of all time.
07:29 Dennis Rader is better known
07:30 by his self-imposed nickname, BTK,
07:32 which stands for bind, torture, kill, his signature method.
07:37 Rader murdered 10 people between 1974 and 1991
07:40 and would often taunt the police and media
07:43 with threatening letters.
07:44 - BTK began today's letter with a question.
07:47 How many do I have to kill before I get a name in the paper
07:50 or some national attention?
07:52 - Later in life, he found work as a compliance officer
07:54 and gave an interview with a local Kansas station
07:57 about animal attacks.
07:58 - Dogs are somewhat territorial as well as vicious,
08:01 and we've been trying to round them up
08:03 and corral them as best as we can.
08:05 - Little did everyone know
08:06 that they were speaking to a despicable criminal.
08:09 It wasn't until 2005 that Rader was apprehended
08:12 and given 10 life sentences.
08:14 - He remains in solitary confinement
08:17 where he will stay for the rest of his life.
08:20 - John Wayne Gacy.
08:21 And speaking of serial killers,
08:23 it doesn't get more notorious than John Wayne Gacy.
08:26 Gacy's name is synonymous with American crime
08:28 as he killed at least 33 males
08:30 throughout the late '60s and '70s.
08:32 - Well, anybody that knows, you see, first of all,
08:34 you're basing this garbage on what you've heard of me.
08:38 - In May of 1992, Gacy sat down with CBS reporter
08:41 Walter Jacobson for a prolonged interview about his crimes.
08:45 What resulted is one of the most infamous
08:47 and confounding interviews ever given by an American criminal.
08:50 - That one mother that gets on television all the time
08:52 who thinks I should be given 33 injections.
08:55 I think she ought to take 33 Valiums and go lay down.
08:58 - Gacy continuously deflects blame
09:00 and insists that he never killed anyone,
09:02 despite having already admitted to doing so.
09:05 - Just take it that I didn't.
09:07 Buckovich is not one that I killed,
09:08 so I don't know nothing about him.
09:10 - His motives for lying remain unclear,
09:12 but the interview depicts a conniving killer
09:14 working hard to clear his name.
09:16 It just goes to show how he got away with it for so long.
09:19 - To me, clowning was a way of relaxation for me.
09:23 You regressed into childhood, you were able to relax,
09:26 and you could be goofy if you wanted to.
09:29 - Stephen McDaniel.
09:30 You know that feeling when your stomach drops
09:32 and you realize you're in serious trouble?
09:34 It is perfectly visualized in this interview
09:36 with Stephen McDaniel.
09:37 McDaniel killed his former classmate
09:39 and neighbor, Lauren Giddings,
09:41 and disposed of a body part in their apartment dumpster.
09:44 He gave an interview with WGXA a few days later
09:47 and pretended to be concerned about the missing Giddings.
09:49 - No, no, no one has seen her since Saturday.
09:52 I haven't seen anything.
09:53 I mean, I've always heard noise outside,
09:56 but it's just people walking by pretty much.
09:59 - But when the reporter mentions
10:00 that her discarded remains had been found,
10:02 McDaniel completely shuts down.
10:05 - Howdy.
10:06 - Had you heard, had you seen anything there?
10:08 - He may still be playing the concerned friend
10:12 to some degree, but he's also realizing
10:14 that his perfect crime wasn't so perfect after all.
10:18 - Are you okay, sir?
10:19 - I think I need to sit down.
10:21 - Okay.
10:21 - McDaniel was later nailed for her murder
10:24 and is now serving life in prison.
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10:40 Charles Manson.
10:43 There are few, if any, American criminals
10:46 as mythical as Charles Manson.
10:48 - He never heard you express remorse.
10:50 Have you never felt it?
10:51 - Remorse for what?
10:53 You people have done everything in the world to me.
10:56 Doesn't that give me equal right?
10:58 - The infamous leader of the Manson family
11:00 spoke to today's Heidi Schulman in 1987
11:03 while inside San Quentin State Prison.
11:05 It's a fascinating interview as Manson alternates
11:08 between unhinged comic book villain
11:10 and charming intellectual capable
11:12 of swaying a legion of followers.
11:14 - Maybe I haven't done enough.
11:15 I might be ashamed of that for not doing enough,
11:18 for not giving enough, for not being more perceptive,
11:22 for not being aware enough.
11:24 - The interview includes moments of pure terror,
11:26 like when Manson threatens Schulman with violence.
11:29 There are also times when he talks literal gibberish
11:32 and moments when he just laughs, relaxes on the table
11:34 and jokes about his incompetence.
11:36 - Well, I say that, I say that.
11:38 There's nothing wrong with being incompetent
11:40 'cause you don't have to do as much.
11:41 - We don't know which side is the true Manson
11:45 and despite its intention,
11:47 the interview only added to the mythical nature
11:49 of his character.
11:50 Did any of these videos chill your blood?
11:52 Let us know in the comments below.
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