Serial killer 'confessed' before execution

Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy gave information about three more murders shortly before being executed in Louisiana. News reports suggested the note was a confession.

Just before his execution for the murder of five college students, Danny Rolling gave a minister a note about three 1989 murders in his hometown of Shreveport, US police said.

Police spokesman Kacee Hargrave would not say whether Rolling admitted stabbing 55-year-old William Grissom, his 24-year-old daughter Julie, and 8-year-old grandson Sean.

KTBS-TV reported that the note was a confession.

Rolling, the son of a Shreveport police officer, told a Florida television interviewer in 2000 that he accepted responsibility for the Grissoms' deaths, but stopped short of confessing.

He was executed on Wednesday for killing five college students in Gainesville, Florida in a shocking string of murders in 1990. The minister was with Rolling in the hours before his execution.

Rolling was Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, who was suspected in the deaths and disappearances of 36 women across the US.

Rolling was the prime suspect in the Grissoms' deaths. Because he pleaded guilty in Florida and his execution was expected, Louisiana authorities saw little reason to try him.