Many of the murders took place before Guillory was sent to jail on the unrelated charge. So far, eight women in the town of just 10,546 people have been killed between 2005 and this past August. Though Guillory has been in jail since last year on unrelated charges, detectives are also investigating whether he could be involved in a series of murders in Jennings, Louisiana, where cops believe a serial killer is on the loose. Guillory is also mentioned as a potential suspect in the Jennings Louisiana Killings. What are they going to do to him if he agrees and then pleads the 5th? Give him a contempt of court charge? I doubt that Gillis will testify but there is a chance that he will ‘play along’ for the attention. If he pleads the Fifth, the question is why,’’ Franz Borghardt, one of Guillory’s court-appointed attorneys, said after a hearing in the case.Īuthorities have alleged that Guillory and Gillis targeted women who led high-risk lifestyles. Gillis needs to decide what he wants to do. 13 regarding Gillis’ “status as a witness in this case.’’ State District Judge Tony Marabella said Wednesday he will make a determination Sept. Guillory’s defense team contends Gillis associated with Renee Newman, the 46-year-old Baton Rouge woman Guillory is accused of killing in 2002. 19, remains to be seen because the defense cannot call Gillis to the stand if all he intends to do is assert his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Whether Gillis actually takes the witness stand at Guillory’s second-degree murder trial, set for Sept.
Guillory reportedly remains a suspect in several other unsolved killings of women in Baton Rouge that occurred in the late 1990s and early 2000s.Īn interesting twist in this case is that there is a chance that serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis might be called to testify.Īttorneys for suspected serial murderer Jeffery Lee Guillory have subpoenaed convicted serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis to testify at Guillory’s upcoming trial and have requested Gillis’ taped police interviews and interrogations, one of Guillory’s attorneys said Wednesday. Police have said Guillory has twice denied knowing Newman or Edwards, although his DNA matched evidence found at both women’s crime scenes.Īn East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury indicted Guillory in May 2010 only in the killing of Newman.
Guillory was arrested in December 2009 and booked in the deaths of Newman, Florida Edwards and Sylvia Cobb.
The 45-year-old Guillory is charged in the strangulation of 46-year-old Renee Newman of Baton Rouge. – Jury selection is set to begin Monday afternoon in the second-degree murder trial of suspected serial killer Jeffery Lee Guillory.
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