By Chuck Hustmyre

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'I WAS HAPPY THEN'

After raping and murdering Ann Bryan, Gillis didn't kill again for four years. He spent that time working the graveyard shift at the Circle K convenience store directly across the street from the St. James Place retirement community where he killed Mrs. Bryan.

Gillis lived with his girlfriend in a small ranch-style house on Burgin Avenue, less than a mile from the store. The house, which his mother owned, sat under the shade of a big magnolia tree in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood.

Gillis had lived there with his mother since he was a teenager. When she moved to Atlanta in the mid-1980s, she left him the house.

Gillis's neighbors left him alone. Some of them were scared of him.

One neighbor told The Associated Press: "He's strange. He's always been strange. The girls in the neighborhood were afraid of him."

Another neighbor said, "He gave me the willies."

During a jailhouse interview in July 2004, Gillis told reporter Josh Noel, a staff writer for The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge, that he didn't kill again until January 1999, nearly five years after he murdered Ann Bryan. Noel asked why he waited so long.

"I was happy then," Gillis said.

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Contact Chuck Hustmyre at chuck3174@yahoo.com

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