By Chuck Hustmyre
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Hello, Norman Bates.
"He gave me the willies," a neighbor said.
In high school, Gillis's classmates thought he was a geek. He wore nerdy clothes and obsessed over sci-fi television programs.
One classmate described Gillis to The Advocate newspaper this way: "He was a weird guy, always talking about Star Trek."
Another classmate said: "He was kind of in the Star Trek group, and you couldn't really hold a decent conversation with him. You could never fit on the same wavelength with him. He was always off on another tangent."
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| Sean Vincent Gillis |
According to sheriff's officials, Gillis held a series of low-level, low-paying jobs and had relatively minor brushes with the law. His arrests included trespassing, driving while intoxicated, and possession of marijuana.
Somehow Gillis managed to find a girlfriend. They lived together for eight years, until sheriff's deputies arrested him for murder.
According to his girlfriend, Gillis spent 15 hours a day at his computer. When cops seized it, they found files with names like "Beheadings and Hangings," "Best of Snuff," "Manson Murders," "Russian Necro World." He also had a computer file about Baton Rouge serial killer Derrick Todd Lee, who was arrested in May, 2003.
A college student who lived across the street said Gillis only came outside at night.
A long-time neighbor who lived around the corner from Gillis said that shortly after she moved into her house he knocked on her door and told her she needed new drapes. He said he could see inside her windows.
The neighbor told The Advocate, "At first I thought it was sweet." Then after learning about Gillis's arrest, she changed her mind. "I'm thinking, what the hell was he doing looking in my windows?"
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