AN EVIL serial killer confessed that murdering young women was his life's passion and revealed how one woman escaped from being butchered and to this day doesn't even know it.

Bernard Giles sat down with Piers Morgan and without hesitation admitted to killing five young women, saying the vile killings made him feel "extraordinarily hyped".

4 Bernard Giles sat down with Piers Morgan and without hesitation admitted to killing five young women Credit: Info

On Thursday's upcoming Confessions Of A Serial Killer episode, Piers Morgan pays a visit to one of America's most notorious serial killers.

Over a frenzied three-month period in the early 1970s, Giles embarked on a killing spree of unimaginable horror, reports the Mail on Sunday.

His victims were all hitchhikers whom he picked up and drove at gunpoint to remote orange groves where he sexually abused and shot them.

They were Paula Hamric, a 22-year-old mother-of-two, Nancy Gerry, 18, Carolyn Bennett, 17, Sharon Wimer and Krista Melton, both just 14.

Anything that I saw or read that had anything to do with sexual violence against a woman was a sexual impulse. As a child growing up, I became obsessed with this. Bernard Giles

Unlike previous killers Piers had interviewed, he said that Giles was the first one who didn't attempt to prove his innocence.

At the start of the episode, Piers said: "You are serving five life sentences for killing five young women.

"So my first question is, did you kill those women?"

A question to which Giles responded with a simple, yet haunting answer: "Yes sir, I did."

Giles's background was an ordinary one; he was one of four children from a stable family who enjoyed a perfectly happy, loving childhood with no abuse.



SINISTER CRAVING

At the time he began his murderous rampage aged 20, Giles was working as an electrician and did not have a criminal record.

He was also in a healthy marriage with 18-year-old wife Leslie, and had a five-month-old daughter Heather.

However he claims he knew he had a sinister craving for sexual violence against women since the early age of six.

His first vile act was during a game of witch-hunt with a young girl neighbour of similar age, when he caught up with her in a back bedroom of her house and pinned her down.

He told Piers: "I remember straddling her and strangling her. Playing… but that was my initial sexual imprint.

"From that point on, anything that I saw or read that had anything to do with sexual violence against a woman was a sexual impulse. As a child growing up, I became obsessed with this."

Giles went on to describe his motives of murdering these young women, saying that his criterion for selection was simply "access".

'I SAW THESE WOMEN AS OBJECTS'

Most of the young women he butchered were hitchhikers, which was a regular activity for American women in 1970s.

He claimed to not have remembered any of their names, and said: "Why would someone embrace the names of their victims? I saw these women as objects."

He revealed that he decided not to kill at least another three young women he held at gunpoint because they talked to him, thus "humanised" themselves to him.

He explained: "Some women actually spared their lives by engaging me in conversations."

Why would someone embrace the names of their victims? I saw these women as objects. Bernard Giles

Piers asked him if he ever got an urge to kill his wife, to which Giles replied: "No, I knew her. I never killed anyone I knew.

"The objectification of the victims, for me, was an important element."

Towards the end of the chilling interview, Piers showed Giles a photo of his daughter as an adult, as he had never seen her or heard from her since he was locked up.

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Piers asked him: "When you look at your own daughter at that age. Smiling, innocent, and happy, what do you feel about the young women you killed?"

The killer responded: "I don’t put those together."

When asked why he committed the heinous crimes, he said: "If you like chocolate, you like chocolate. You cannot eat chocolate, but you can’t deny that you like chocolate."

ITV’s Confessions Of A Serial Killer With Piers Morgan airs on Thursday at 9pm

4 Carolyn Bennett, 17, was one of brutal killer Giles' victims Credit: Ci

4 Giles murdered Nancy Gerry, 18, along with four other women

4 Giles is escorted to court for sentencing over Nancy's 1974 slaying Credit: AP:Associated Press