10-minute murder contains depictions of actual crimes.

What you are about to hear is real and violent in nature.

Discretion is advised.

This is 10-minute murder.

Welcome to 10-minute murder, the brief and bingeable true crime podcast. I'm Joe, the host,

and thank you for being here. Before we get going today, let me take a quick second to genuinely

thank you for listening. Of all the weird podcasts that you could be tuning into right now,

you chose to give me your time,

and I appreciate that more than I can possibly explain. I can't ask for any more than that.

Okay, that's a lie. I can't ask you to subscribe to 10-minute murder if you haven't already.

Look, I know that you don't want to miss an episode, and I don't want you to miss an episode,

so when you subscribe, you're probably not going to miss an episode. Now, today, we're talking about a serial killer that was a bit of a bully growing up,

he wanted to sleep with his mother, and when the internet became a thing, you couldn't drag him away from computer porn.

He was a stalker, a peeping Tom, serial rapist, and a cannibalistic killer.

He watched the TV show Criminal Minds.

He inspired not one, but two different episodes, the Hollow Man and the Mill Creek Killer.

Today we're talking about a killer that described himself as pure evil, Sean Vincent Gillis.

Sean Vincent Gillis was born in 1962 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Yvonne and Norman Gillis.

Not long after his birth, Norman abandoned the family. He was dealing with alcoholism and mental illness. Over the years of growing up, his father would continue to bounce in and out of mental health institutions. The relationship

was strained, to put it mildly. Gillis's mother, who worked at a local TV station, had helped

raising him from his grandparents. He was a very well-taking care of and well-loved boy.

His mother called him her little blue-eyed angel.

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