"It was my life’s passion to murder women” says one of America’s most notorious murderers in an interview with Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan with Bernard Giles

Bernard Giles' mugshot

According to Dailymail, Piers Morgan recently interviewed a prisoner at the Okeechobee Correctional Institution in Florida  who is in prison for a 3-month killing spree that he indulged in in the early 1970s. The news report said that over the course of 3 months, prisoner Bernard Giles “embarked on a killing spree of unimaginable horror”. His victims were all hitchhikers he picked up at gunpoint. Then he drove them to remote places before sexually abusing them and shooting them.

The most surprising thing about this American most notorious killer is that when the killings started he was leading a perfectly normal life as a 20-year-old electrician married to an 18-year-old woman and father to a five-month-old daughter. But he admits to having a desire to kill women since playfully straddling and strangling a six-year-old neighbours daughter while playing witch-hunt game in her house as a child.

In the 3 month killing period, Giles killed a 22-year-old mother of two and four teenagers with the youngest aged just 14. Now, 45 years later still serving his life imprisonment,  when asked why he killed them, he replied in a matter of fact way “it is my life’s passion to murder…to murder women”.