Danny Rolling, the son of a Shreveport, Lousiana, USA, police officer, was executed on October 25, 2006 for killing five college students in Gainesville, Florida, in a ghastly string of slayings in 1990.

Shortly before he was executed, this son of a police officer and a serial killer handed his spiritual adviser a handwritten confession to three more murders.

He admitted to a grisly triple murder 17 years ago in his hometown of Shreveport, Loisiana.

"I, and I alone am guilty," said the one-page note.

"It was my hand that took those precious lights out of this ole dark world," the note continued. "With all my heart & soul would I could bring them back."

Police had long suspected that Rolling stabbed 55-year-old William T. Grissom, his 24-year-old daughter Julie and 8-year-old grandson Sean as they got ready for dinner on November 4, 1989, in Grissom's home.

Rolling had said that he had killed one student for each year that he was in prison. He also said that he committed the crimes because of sexual abuse he endured when he was a child and also due to his harsh experiences in the prison.