Those prints were subsequently matched to those found on a beer can at the scene of Sylvia Cobb’s 2001 murder. He was taken into custody in September 2006, after he was pulled over for a traffic stop in Baton Rouge and his fingerprints were taken, according to WAFB. Guillory was the last of the suspected Baton Rouge serial killers to be arrested.
He is 60 years old and currently detained at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Though prosecutors were unable to charge Gillis with all the murders he confessed to, they presented evidence at a sentencing hearing, according to WAFB.Ī jury eventually found him guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Johnston, a year after he pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Joyce Williams, for which he was sentenced to life in prison, reported WAFB. When arrested in April 2004, Gillis also confessed to strangling Katherine Hall, 29, Johnnie Mae Williams, 45, and Donna Bennett Johnston, 43. James Parish bayou two days after her murder. An affidavit revealed that Gillis told police he hit Schmidt with his vehicle, strangled her with plastic wrap, and took her to a nearby park, where he sexually assaulted her, WAFB reported.
She had been stabbed more than 50 times and her throat was slit, according to CBS affiliate WAFB.įive years later, Gillis said, he kidnapped and killed Hardee Schmidt, who was on a jog when she disappeared on the morning of May 30, 1999. James Place retirement home in March 1994.
Gillis’ killing spree began in the early ‘90s, starting with the murder of 82-year-old Ann Bryan, who was found dead in her residence at the St.
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