Louis police believe he killed between 12 and 20 women. Travis, a 36-year-old hotel waiter, hanged himself in jail before admitting to any of the murders, but St. 'They'll give you nightmares,' he told ABCNEWS' Primetime.
The scenes on the tape were so disturbing that Police Chief Joe Mokwa ordered psychological counseling for the officers who viewed them. One scene showed him apparently strangling one of his victims to death. The tape, labeled 'Your Wedding Day,' showed Travis tying women up and torturing and raping them. Louis searched the home of suspected serial killer Maury Travis last summer, they found a secret torture chamber in the basement, with bondage equipment, a stun gun and clippings about the slayings he was suspected of.īut, most chilling of all, they found a videotape containing footage of his crimes.
