Dale Hausner was fascinated with serial killers.
The Mesa man, now accused of being one himself, said as much in a videotaped police interrogation that took place just hours after his August 2006 arrest.
“I find it interesting,” Hausner said in the interrogation, talking about reading lots about American serial killers nicknamed things like the Son of Sam and BTK. “It’s very fascinating.”
“I would like to sit down with a real-life Jeffrey Dahmer, and say, ‘Why the hell would you eat all those people?’ ” Hausner said.
Jurors on Thursday in Hausner’s eightcount murder trial in Maricopa County Superior Court were shown several hours of his videotaped interrogation by Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf and other investigators.
The grainy black-and-white video showed Hausner vehemently denying that he had killed anyone and even saying that he sympathized with the families of the victims.
“I didn’t shoot anybody,” said Hausner, who has pleaded not guilty to the 87 charges against him. “But the person who did probably should be given the needle.”
Tribune file photo. Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner, center, answers media questions at a jail news conference following his August 2006 arrest.
