20 Disturbing Interviews with Killers

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That sounds like a compelling and chilling list! Here are some of the most disturbing interviews with notorious killers that you could include:  1. **Jeffrey Dahmer** - Known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, Dahmer's interviews reveal his unsettling calmness and lack of remorse as he describes his horrific crimes. 2. **Dennis Rader (BTK Killer)** - In his interviews, Rader's matter-of-fact recounting of his murders contrasts sharply with the terror he inflicted on his victims. 3. **Samuel Little** - The most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, Little's interviews provide a chilling look into his methodical and remorseless approach to his crimes. 4. **Ted Bundy** - Bundy's interviews, especially his final one before execution, show his manipulative charm and chilling lack of empathy. 5. **Charles Manson** - Manson's interviews are notorious for his erratic behavior and disturbing rhetoric, reflecting the chaotic mind that led his followers to commit murder. 6. **Richard Ramirez (Night Stalker)** - His interviews display a chilling lack of remorse and a disturbing fascination with Satanism and violence. 7. **David Berkowitz (Son of Sam)** - Berkowitz's interviews reveal the mind of a man who claimed to be driven by demonic voices. 8. **Edmund Kemper** - Kemper's interviews are particularly unsettling due to his articulate and calm demeanor while discussing his brutal murders.  These interviews not only provide insight into the minds of these killers but also leave a lasting impression due to their disturbing nature. Including these in your list will certainly engage and horrify viewers.

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00:00They tell you to kill someone, did you think of saying no?

00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 20 disturbing interviews with killers.

00:09I don't know if I have any feelings, I don't think any, I mean, uh, maybe that's my birth defect.

00:15For this video, we're looking at the most troubling interview footage with accused or convicted killers.

00:21Have you seen any of these? Let us know in the comments.

00:25Richard Kuklinski.

00:26How many people have you killed?

00:32I have an approximate guess.

00:41Approximate, we'll go with more than a hundred.

00:44Richard Kuklinski, aka The Iceman, has been the subject of multiple documentaries over the years,

00:50and even a feature film. The validity of his claims has been questioned,

00:54specifically the large number of contract killings in which Kuklinski had reportedly taken part.

01:00Are there any murders that you committed that haunt you, that you just sort of, you feel?

01:08Nothing haunts me.

01:10Still, this doesn't change the fact that Kuklinski was a startling interview,

01:14one that gave credence to his chilling namesake.

01:17I then took him and put him in a 50-gallon drum, put it on the side of a motel.

01:25Kuklinski does indeed come across as icy and detached within both The Iceman tapes

01:30and The Iceman Confesses, describing his double life as a devoted family man and cold-hearted killer.

01:36Did you like to look them in the eye?

01:38I wanted them looking straight at me.

01:40Although The Iceman passed away in 2006,

01:42his reputation lives on within this disturbing footage.

01:45What did you want him to think as they died?

01:48Just see my pretty face.

01:50Stephen McDaniel.

01:51This interview with convicted murderer Stephen McDaniel is chilling for a number of reasons.

01:56Yeah, Lauren was my neighbor. We're just trying to find out where she is at this point.

02:01I mean, no one has seen her since Saturday.

02:04For starters, it's not often that local news audiences get to witness a killer

02:09speaking to the press prior to their arrest.

02:12McDaniel's demeanor seems busy and energetic,

02:15as the wheels appear set in motion within his head.

02:18The only thing we can think is that maybe she went out running and someone snatched her.

02:21He attempts to set up an alibi for himself,

02:24although he's soon caught off guard when he learns on camera

02:27that part of his victim's remains have been recovered.

02:29I think that's where they have recovered the body or whatever they recovered from there.

02:34Body?

02:35Had you heard, had you seen anything there?

02:37At this point, McDaniel stops dead in his tracks,

02:40his eyes glaze over, and his reactions say it all.

02:43He knows he's been caught.

02:45It is surreal to see it all play out in real time.

02:48Are you okay, sir?

02:50I think I need to sit down.

02:51Dennis Rader.

02:52You know, something drove me to do this.

02:54You know, the normal people just don't do this.

02:56You can't stop it.

02:57I can't stop it.

02:58It's just, it controls me.

03:00It is the brazen and nonchalant attitude emanating from Dennis Rader

03:04that makes this interview with the BTK killer so disturbing.

03:08The piece was conducted by Massachusetts psychologist Robert Mendoza,

03:11and it took place almost immediately after Rader pled guilty

03:14to 10 counts of first-degree murder.

03:16I got this fantasy.

03:18I started working out this fantasy online,

03:20and once that person became a fantasy,

03:23I could just loop it over.

03:25I'd lay in bed at night.

03:27To hear Rader describe his methodology in such laissez-faire terms is chilling,

03:32as BTK details how he would stalk and learn about his potential victims before striking.

03:37Stalking stage is when you start learning more about your victims,

03:40potential victims.

03:42Went to the library.

03:43I looked up their names, address, cross-reference,

03:46and called them a couple of times.

03:47He even describes a kit of tools that he would use during the proceedings.

03:51Plastic bags, rope, tape, knife, gun.

03:55Rader also tells Mendoza that he, quote,

03:58couldn't help but commit these crimes.

04:00And he muses as to whether or not being dropped on his head as a child

04:03resulted in some form of demonic possession.

04:06I actually think I may be possessed with demons.

04:09I was dropped on my head when I was a kid.

04:11David Berkowitz.

04:12When you see somebody radically changed by the power of God,

04:17it excites you.

04:19Full disclosure,

04:20the purpose behind this interview with the son of Sam, David Berkowitz,

04:23is a vehicle to showcase the killer's born-again beliefs.

04:26Still, the source details are there.

04:29I met some guys at a party on the block on Barnes Avenue.

04:34Well, they seemed like nice people,

04:35but they went into some kinky stuff with witchcraft and so forth.

04:39Berkowitz is interviewed with soft acoustic guitar music in the background

04:43and flattering lighting,

04:44the exact opposite of what we normally expect from these sorts of interviews.

04:48I've become convinced over time that my job was to be a soldier for the devil

04:55and to bring destruction.

04:57It's a bit unsettling, this humanizing of the .44 caliber killer

05:00who held New York City in the grip of fear back in the 1970s.

05:04The bad things that were being done were actually going to be good,

05:09but it was just a trick of the enemy.

05:12Around the time of this interview,

05:13Berkowitz also tried to insinuate that a satanic cult

05:16had used him as a pawn in these killings,

05:19but a new investigation could not corroborate these claims.

05:22They took me out of the car,

05:24and one of the officers, he said to me,

05:28are you glad this is over?

05:30And I looked at him and I always said,

05:32yeah, I'm very glad.

05:34And they were all like taken aback.

05:35Peter Sutcliffe.

05:37Jack wasn't the only ripper in England.

05:39Could it be then that the man that you're looking for is a maniac?

05:42It could be so.

05:43Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire ripper,

05:46terrorized the areas of Manchester and West Yorkshire between 1975 and 1980.

05:51Quite certain that this man hates prostitution.

05:54Sutcliffe targeted sex workers,

05:56or women he perceived as being involved in such business.

06:00Although his criteria for such assumptions

06:02could be something as innocuous as a woman being out in the early morning.

06:18Sutcliffe's various phone interviews with officials and the media

06:21lean into the ripper's violent and misogynist views,

06:24to the point where he callously labels one of his victims

06:28as being in quote,

06:29the wrong place at the wrong time.

06:31Did you have a lot of regrets when you killed Jane MacDonald, a 16-year-old?

06:37Yes I did, yeah.

06:38She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

06:40Sutcliffe even went so far as to refer to his victims as quote,

06:44filth during his confession to police.

06:46On the night you were arrested,

06:48were you going to attack the girl you was with?

06:51Course I was, that was the whole point.

06:53Peter Curtin.

06:54Peter Curtin was dubbed the Vampire of Dusseldorf,

06:57due to the killer's reputation for savagery,

06:59as well as his fixation on blood.

07:02Although this interview report dates all the way back to Curtin's execution on July 1st, 1931,

07:08and has admittedly fallen into the realm of nebulous urban legend,

07:12the legacy is no less chilling.

07:14Curtin was speaking with a prison psychologist while awaiting the guillotine,

07:18when he asked whether or not he would shortly thereafter

07:20be able to hear the sound of his own blood.

07:23His head currently resides at Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in Wisconsin

07:27as an exhibit attraction.

07:29Samuel Little.

07:31It's infuriating to think that a serial killer can go on killing for so long

07:36that they can eventually just slow down due to old age.

07:48Samuel Little possessed the largest confirmed victims list in U.S. history,

07:53beginning way back in 1970, if not sooner.

07:56Little continued his murderous ways for over 30 years,

08:00until he was finally apprehended,

08:02thanks to advances in modern forensic pathology.

08:15This career criminal never showed remorse for his behavior either.

08:19The official FBI YouTube account has a wealth of confessions from Little,

08:23all of which feature the killer's relaxed, almost self-satisfied attitude.

08:37Sammy Gravano.

08:38They tell you to kill someone, did you think of saying no?

08:42So many true crime aficionados study the interviews of serial killers,

08:46but the stories from the underworld of organized crime can be equally chilling.

08:50I was doing loan shopping, stealing cars, doing burglaries.

08:56Break an arm here, break a leg there.

08:59Take, for example, the story of Sammy the Bull Gravano.

09:02The Bull was a notorious Gambino family underboss

09:05who broke the organization's code of silence in speaking to officials

09:09and testifying as a government witness against mob boss John Gotti.

09:12I was betrayed, I betrayed him. That's what the mob is.

09:17Gravano's own demeanor during this 1997 interview with Diane Sawyer

09:21is a mix of frankness and arrogance as he describes a life of contract killing.

09:26The next day when we met, they were told, don't back off, don't run.

09:32Even if there's cops, kill them.

09:35The Bull's story feels just as cinematic as The Godfather,

09:38a stranger-than-fiction story of true organized crime.

09:42I remember something that surprised me that I had no remorse at all.

09:47The case of Diane Downs is one steeped in trauma and violence,

09:52a situation of loss for everyone involved.

09:55Downs was convicted for killing one of her children

09:58and making attempt on the other two on May 19th, 1983.

10:02I'm going to remember that night for the rest of my life,

10:04whether I want to or not. I don't think I was very lucky.

10:06I think my kids were lucky.

10:08Downs has claimed in interviews, such as this 1984 piece from KEZI Eyewitness News,

10:14that she was herself the victim of abuse as a child.

10:17How did your childhood affect you?

10:19Everything that happens to you as a child contributes to how you turn out as an adult.

10:25To be honest, it made me a better person because I know all the mistakes.

10:29I know what not to do to my kids.

10:31However, Downs also attempted to play off her attack

10:34as a random crime perpetrated by a carjacker.

10:37I was on the driver's side of the car when I was shot,

10:39and that's why it was so, I'm going, it was planted.

10:43Additionally, her demeanor in this interview exudes the sense of calm,

10:47with plenty of smiles and very specific recollections about the incident.

10:52It's chilling stuff.

10:53A lot of people, when something traumatic happens to them,

10:56they suppress it immediately.

10:58I kept those memories because I knew that I was the only person

11:03that was going to be able to tell them what happened when we got to the hospital.

11:06Wesley Allen Dodd.

11:07Well, I wrote when I filed the case on this guy, locked this guy up forever.

11:11There is a shocking matter of factness within almost every interview

11:15containing soundbites from Wesley Allen Dodd.

11:17Moved to Seattle on June 13th, 1987.

11:21I tried to kidnap a boy.

11:23The convicted killer and predator was known for saying point-blank

11:26that he would kill again if set free.

11:28They suggested that I get counseling,

11:30but didn't think anything was serious enough to press charges.

11:33Dodd was so intent on underlying his crimes and behavior

11:36that he even stressed on multiple occasions that he deserved the death penalty.

11:41Why do you want to be executed?

11:44Uh, I have to be.

11:47Uh, because I will kill again.

11:49Dodd never shied away from detailing his criminal past,

11:52recounting how he'd been committing horrible crimes of violence

11:55since he was very young.

11:57Eventually, Dodd got his wish as he was executed on January 5th, 1993.

12:03One thing wasn't exciting anymore.

12:04I had to do something else to get that old feeling of excitement back.

12:09John Wayne Gacy.

12:10The Netflix documentary The John Wayne Gacy Tapes did a lot to point out

12:14the notorious serial killer's sociopathic tendencies

12:16when it came to shifting blame for his accused crimes.

12:19Shoelaces, huh? You're in trouble now.

12:22Aren't you afraid sitting that close to me?

12:24This wasn't the first time evidence to that end has come out, however,

12:27as documented by this piece from CBS News to Chicago back in 1992.

12:32I don't believe in hitting children.

12:35I don't believe in spoiling a child either.

12:40My values are such that if you've given enough love to the children...

12:43You're accused of murdering 33 kids and you say you didn't believe in hitting.

12:49Interviewer Walter Jacobson doesn't need to do much talking

12:52in his encounter with Gacy,

12:53as it quickly becomes clear that the former Pogo the Clown

12:56is trying his best to present alibi after alibi for his innocence.

13:00Buckabitch is not one that I killed, so I don't know nothing about him.

13:03Gacy himself is composed for the most part,

13:06although there is a moment where he demonstrates his infamous

13:09rope trick with a shoelace that echoes the methodology of his horrible crimes.

13:14And you just turn this, and I says it causes a tourniquet.

13:18I said that's the only knot I ever learned.

13:19Precisely the kind of knot found on the ropes.

13:22Ted Bundy.

13:23Time can change many things about a person,

13:26including how they behave while being interviewed.

13:28The Ted Bundy featured in a 1977 jailhouse interview from KUTV News

13:33appears more in line with the suave yet cold-blooded reputation

13:37Bundy had among other notorious serial killers.

13:40You feel that everything will turn out all right, that you are innocent.

13:44Do you still feel that?

13:46Yeah, more than ever.

13:47He smiles a lot during the piece,

13:49and displays body language that appears relaxed and almost happy.

13:54I'm not guilty.

13:58Does that include the time I stole a comic book when I was five years old?

14:01Bundy keeps eye contact with his interview throughout most of their conversation,

14:05and it's easy to become lulled into a false sense of security,

14:08which was exactly Ted's intention.

14:12If someone's crazy enough and nutty enough to do something like that,

14:15I can't stop them.

14:17There's nothing I can do.

14:18Fast forward to the night before his execution,

14:21and we see a fearful and pensive Ted Bundy,

14:24a man seeking to shift blame for his crimes during his interview

14:27with Christian conservative evangelist James Dobson.

14:31There are forces at loose in this country,

14:33particularly, again, this kind of violent pornography.

14:37Richard Ramirez

14:38The Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez,

14:40may be one of the most frightening serial killers of all time,

14:44not only due to the brutality of his crimes,

14:46but also the projected aura of what many perceive to be pure evil.

14:51Yes, I am evil.

14:53Not 100%, but I am evil.

14:55It's easy to see why during some of Ramirez's more notable interviews over the years,

15:00including one conducted with author Mike Watkiss.

15:03Serial killers do on a small scale what governments do on a large one.

15:08They are a product of the times, and these are bloodthirsty times.

15:12Ramirez's somewhat tense responses to Watkiss's questioning

15:15imply a coiled rage,

15:17an anger that's also exemplified by the Night Stalker's breathing

15:21as he seems to become annoyed with Watkiss.

15:23I'll tell you what, I gave up on love and happiness a long time ago.

15:28Why?

15:31I don't care to explain that.

15:34Let the quote stand for itself.

15:36Ramirez is comparatively more relaxed during a piece with Inside Edition,

15:40although that interview also hammers home

15:42the Night Stalker's obsession with Satanism, evil, and the occult.

15:46I believe in the evil in human nature.

15:49This is a wicked, wicked world,

15:52and in a wicked world, wicked people are born.

15:56Edmund Kemper

15:57There's something truly bone-chilling about the matter-of-fact way

16:00in which the co-ed killer, Edmund Kemper,

16:02describes his past in the 1981 documentary, The Killing of America.

16:06Everything went towards killing him, and I didn't.

16:10But I'm saying, wow, it's uncanny.

16:11It was almost like it was meant to be that way,

16:13and I said, wow, I've got, this gotta stop.

16:16Kemper's impressive intellect and well-spoken nature

16:19belie the brutality of a man who committed his first murder at the age of 15.

16:23And if it'd been in a city, I would have been a mass murderer at age 15.

16:27I would have killed until they gunned me down.

16:29I wouldn't have been able to reason my way out of it.

16:31The killer even makes a self-referential joke to his modus operandi

16:35of picking up hitchhikers by putting on a pair of glasses

16:38and asking the camera whether they would get into a car with him.

16:41Now, would you get in the car with this man, huh?

16:48Kemper's mental state comes across as perpetually active,

16:52like a bubbling pot of water about to boil over,

16:54while the documentary's exploitative narration

16:57pushes the creep factor of this one over the top.

17:00I am an American, and I killed Americans.

17:05I am a human being, and I killed human beings.

17:09And I did it in my society.

17:10Jeffrey Dahmer.

17:12There's no barely repressed rage within the demeanor of Jeffrey Dahmer

17:15as he discusses his history with interviewer Stone Phillips.

17:18And I acted on my fantasies, and that's where everything went wrong.

17:23Nor are there any wild, headline-grabbing theatrics.

17:26Instead, Dahmer's quiet and soft-spoken recounting of his horrible crimes

17:30lends the piece that much more power.

17:32The only motive that there ever was, was to completely control a person,

17:38a person that I found physically attractive.

17:41There's the power of shock as he discusses the failed attempts

17:44at creating, quote,

17:45living zombies with the remains of his victims.

17:47Killing wasn't the objective.

17:49I just wanted to have the person under my complete control.

17:54There's also the power of how Dahmer's moments of shocking violence

17:57are undercut by the killer's regret for the decisions he made,

18:00and the futility of what seemed to be a date with infamy and destiny.

18:05Once it happened the first time,

18:10it just seemed like it had control of my life from there on in.

18:13Gary Ridgway.

18:14Gary Ridgway, aka the Green River Killer,

18:17was one of the most prolific of all American serial murderers.

18:21I whipped out my ID, and my ID would be my...

18:24I'd put my finger over my driver's license to hide my name.

18:28Ridgway was also perhaps one of the most unrepentant,

18:31a sentiment that's placed front and center during any of his interviews.

18:35A picture of my son, they would know I was a probably normal person.

18:40Take for example one he did with FBI psychopathy profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole,

18:45where he very calmly describes how he would gain the trust of his victims.

18:49The only thing that would be better than that would be

18:51to have your son in the car with you.

18:54That would be an incredible ruse.

18:57That happened once.

18:58O'Toole manages to get Ridgway talking in-depth about his past,

19:02his upbringing,

19:02and the dozens of victims attributed to the Green River Killer's rampage.

19:07Charles Manson.

19:08There has been a wealth of interview footage of Charles Manson released over the years,

19:12much of which can be used as evidence for the man's often unhinged persona.

19:17Do you feel blame?

19:19Are you mad?

19:20Do you feel like...

19:23And there's a lot of that here from this 1987 interview

19:26with Today correspondent Heidi Schulman.

19:29I wouldn't do anything that I felt guilty about.

19:33You don't feel guilty at all?

19:34There's no need to feel guilty.

19:36I haven't done anything I'm ashamed of.

19:37However, there's also this intent to shatter the myth of Manson as a leader,

19:42and this is aided by the visual of Manson's

19:44scattershot presence during the interview.

19:47Maybe I should have killed four or five hundred people,

19:50then I would have felt better.

19:52Then when I felt like I really offered society something.

19:55Although the occasionally violent outbursts by Manson

19:58have been well documented in this piece,

20:00it's the more soft-spoken soundbites that reveal

20:02more about the man's own admitted failures and shortcomings.

20:06My awareness and my consciousness is not the same as

20:09somebody that goes to school and has a mom and dad.

20:12See, not having parents have left me in another dimension, so to say.

20:17Ottis Toole

20:18I'd like to see a whole city burned down.

20:22This interview with Ottis Toole is the stuff of nightmares.

20:26There are a lot of reasons for this too,

20:28not the least of which is Toole's explosive bursts of laughter

20:32and absolutely chilling smile.

20:35What do you prefer in life, sex or fire?

20:40Additionally, there's the explicit nature of how

20:43Toole describes his past crimes,

20:45and how he and former associate and fellow killer Henry Lee Lucas

20:49seemed to easily disassociate the value of human life.

20:52It's just like butchin' a hog to a cow.

20:55People do this.

20:58The grainy and blown-out AV quality of this interview footage

21:02only seems to add to the feeling of grime and filth

21:05left over by Toole's past.

21:07Ain't nothin' to it.

21:09You just gotta enjoy the top of the top.

21:12It's nothin' to save you.

21:14Once you get into the habit, you do it more and more.

21:16Ise Sagawa

21:18Ise Sagawa is the husband and wife of a butcher.

21:22He was a chubby and funny old man.

21:26He taught me how to disassemble animals and how to cut meat in detail.

21:30Unlike the rest of the family,

21:32Ise Sagawa isn't technically a serial killer.

21:35However, this interview footage from Vice's

21:38interview with a cannibal is too disturbing not to make our list.

21:42But thanks to him, Ise Sagawa was able to

21:45express his feelings of hatred and sexism.

21:49Sagawa's history of murder is detailed in the documentary,

21:52while Ise himself describes the premeditated shooting of his classmate

21:56while living in a house in the city.

21:59Sagawa's obsessions are also detailed in the piece,

22:02as well as the legal loopholes that allowed the killer

22:04to escape prison time for his actions.

22:07Sagawa's quiet and fragile demeanor undercuts his words,

22:10all spoken in equally hushed and inoffensive tones.

22:14It is a frankly horrifying and unbearable experience.

22:17Sagawa is also known for being a serial killer.

22:20He was a serial killer in the past,

22:22but now he's a serial killer in the future.

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22:41Aileen Wuornos

22:43This interview with Aileen Wuornos was shot on the same day

22:46as the death of her husband,

22:48who died of a heart attack in the United States.

22:51Aileen Wuornos

22:53This interview with Aileen Wuornos on the eve of her execution

22:56is disturbing for a number of reasons.

22:58I'm okay, I'm okay.

22:59God is gonna be there, Jesus Christ is gonna be there,

23:02all the angels and everything.

23:04For starters, there are the crimes for which Wuornos was convicted,

23:08but there are also the stories Aileen tells about her treatment in prison.

23:11They had the intercom on in the room,

23:15and they kept lying that it wasn't on,

23:19and they were using sonic pressure on my head since 1997.

23:24Her accusations of sonic torment and food tampering

23:27speak to her paranoia and mental state during this time.

23:30And then one day I didn't wash my food off

23:32and I was sick for three weeks, almost died.

23:34A state that gradually reaches a fever pitch during the interview.

23:37Yeah, thanks a lot.

23:38I lost f***ing life because of it.

23:40Couldn't even get a fair trial.

23:42Wuornos's face as she directly addresses the camera is chilling,

23:46and the audience can only stare back into her eyes

23:48as the condemned killer accuses society of, quote,

23:51railroading and, quote,

23:53sabotage.

23:542019, a rock's supposed to hit you anyhow.

23:57You're all gonna get nuked.

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