Behind You

S2 E22: Murdered 8 Women because he was “Curious”: Case of Sean Vincent Gillies

Behind You

Show Notes

Over time, the discussion of nature vs nurture has always been a hefty debate. Nature are things that you are born with, your genes, hereditary. While nurture is your environment and how that shapes you into he person you become. But as for Sean Vincent Gilles, he believes he was born to be a murderer. Ever since he was a young toddler he had urges and a fascination with death. As a kids, he enjoyed seeing others crying and felt happy when he was getting yelled at the bad things he did. And at 12 years old he would make an unsuccessful attempt at murdering his cousin just because “I wanted to feel up on her breasts”. Sean would then go on to discover the internet and people who were just like him. Dark web videos of people interested in necrophilia, blood, snuff films, etc. And it wasn’t until he was 37 years-old when Sean would claim his first victim, and that would mark the start of his killing spree of 8 more innocent woman. Murdering them in the most brutal and sickening of ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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