Suspect in serial killings allegedly confesses to three more
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By BRETT TROXLER 2theadvocate.com staff
In addition to the five murders Sean Vincent Gillis has been charged with in East Baton Rouge Parish, the suspect in the serial killer has confessed to three more, according to sources familiar with the investigation. The latest alleged victims of Gillis are 52-year-old Lillian Robinson, 36-year-old Joyce Williams and 38-year-old Marilyn Nevils.
Robinson disappeared from Baton Rouge's Melrose East neighborhood in January 2000. A month later a fisherman discovered Robinson's badly decomposed body four miles west of Whiskey Bay.
Hunters found Joyce Williams' body January 22, 2000, near the ferry landing on Highway 75 in Iberville Parish. Williams was last seen alive in Baton Rouge in November 1999.
Sources also said Gillis has confessed to Nevils' murder in November 2000. Her body was found along River Road in Baton Rouge, but she was from Lafayette.
Terri Lemoine, Gillis' girlfriend, said investigators have taken two home computers as well as two vehicles from their residence. She also said they wrote on an inventory list that they took an antique dagger that was hanging on the wall.
Another development in the Gillis case was the appointment of Judge Anthony Marabella today. According to prosecutor Prem Burns the earliest murder -- that of Ann Bryan -- falls under Marabella's section. Burns said by law that means the other ones will be handled by Marabella as well.
Burns will also handle the prosecution of Gillis. Today Burns met with the homicide task force to discuss the case. The assistant district attorney has 60 days from Gillis' arrest to take the case to the grand jury.
Burns said he expects to do that in early June, and added that Gillis will be arraigned after an indictment.
Defense attorney Bert Garraway also said today he is no longer representing the suspect in the serial killings. Garraway said he was told by Mike Mitchell of the Public Defender's Office that the Gillis case falls under another section