An American serial killer sentenced to death for the murder and mutilation of three women claims to have slaughtered dozens more victims without police finding out.
William Clyde Gibson, 60, who is currently on death row in Indiana State Prison, made the disturbing claim to British broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald in a chilling new ITV documentary.
Gibson was arrested in 2012 after the body of his late mother’s friend Christine Whitis, 75, was discovered in his garage – he later admitted to strangling her to death after she found him ‘cutting up’ a different victim.
Questioned by Sir Trevor about the extent of his crimes on the show, Gibson, who has been tried and convicted for three murders, says: ‘They [police] might have a tenth of it, I’ll put it that way.’
Probing further on the number of victims, Sir Trevor asks: ‘What, around 29 or 30?’
The killer replies: ‘Yep.’
William Clyde Gibson, 60, is currently on death row in Indiana State Prison after being convicted of killing three women
Gibson strangled his late mother’s friend Christine Whitis, 75, in April 2012 for which he was arrested in the same month. The body of Stephanie Kirk, 35, was also discovered on his property who he had killed a month earlier, in March 2012
Gibson was also charged in the 2002 stabbing death of Karen Hodella, 44, whose body was found near the Ohio River in January 2003
Police found the bodies of 35-year-old Stephanie Kirk, and 70-year-old Christine Whitis – who had been a friend of his elderly mother’s – on Gibson’s property in 2012.
He had mutilated and sexually assaulted them both.
Gibson later confessed to the murder of Karen Hodella, 44, whose body was found in 2002 near the Ohio River in Clarksville. She had been stabbed.
He was sentenced to death in June 2014 for both Whitis and Kirk and given 65 years for Hodella.
During a face-to-face interview with Sir Trevor McDonald, who first visited prisoners on death row at Indiana State Prison five years ago, a remorseless Gibson smiled and gloated about the crimes he claims to have gotten away with.
Asked by Sir Trevor if he got an adrenaline rush from the murders he said: ‘I guess it was that too, I got a kick out of cutting them up. Seem like after the first one it just got good to me.
‘At first I was kind of nervous about it, but then after the first one… It wasn’t just women, there were men too. They just didn’t find them, I didn’t say anything about them.’
Gibson didn’t show a ounce of remorse over his crimes, telling Sir Trevor that the reason he killed his first victim Hodella was because he ‘felt like it’.
He added: ‘I didn’t have to have a reason.’
Of murdering his elderly mother’s friend Christine Whitis, he said: ‘She caught me cutting up another woman. She said was going to call the police. I strangled her.’
William Clyde Gibson is the only serial killer on death row of the Indiana State Prison where he is awaiting execution for the murder of three women – he is seen laughing while speaking of the brutal slayings in a new ITV documentary
The murderer sat down with presenter Sir Trevor McDonald to discuss his crimes. He showed no remorse, and even laughed as he said he didn’t care about the killings
When asked about whether he possessed any humanity by Sir Trevor, a matter-of-face Gibson replied: ‘I don’t believe I’ve got any humanity. I don’t think I do. It just doesn’t seem to affect me.
He shrugged and laughed: ‘I could kill a person and then just go out for dinner. I don’t care.
‘Everybody thinks when you do the type of stuff I did, cutting people up, the egregious stuff – people automatically think it’s because you had a bad childhood.
‘They think you were molested, or ask you if you started fires – I didn’t do any of that.
‘I had a perfectly normal childhood.’
Death Row 2018 sees Sir Trevor talk to both new arrivals at the prison, and some familiar faces
Gibson’s chilling remarks contrasted with Sir Trevor’s conversation with another prisoner, Ronald Sanford, whom he first met on his previous visit to the jail in 2012.
Sanford was sentenced to 170 years in prison for murdering two elderly women when he was just 13 years old.
Their original meeting left the broadcaster pondering how it was that a boy who was barely a teenager could carry out such a heinous crime.
During their latest meeting, Sanford opens up about the troubled childhood that, he says, left him primed to kill.
Death Row 2018 with Trevor McDonald airs tonight at 9pm on ITV