Jurors hear the chilling confession tape in drifter re-trial

The jury in the murder re-trial for a drifter heard the chilling confession tapes Thursday, the second day of the trial.

WARNING: GRAPHIC

"I reached around and stabbed him in the heart, in the lungs, in the chest, in the throat. He went down on the ground and I slit his throat. Why? I do not know,” Gary Sampson told State Police back in 2001.

For about 90 minutes, Sampson detailed exactly what he did to Philip McCloskey, Jonathan Rizzo and Robert "Eli" Whitney, and it was all replayed to the jury.

"I don't want a lawyer. I confess to the crimes I committed,” he said in 2001.

His case is back in federal court 13 years later after his death sentence was thrown out on a technicality. The families of his three victims have to sit through the testimony all over again. His new defense team says is arguing the killer fell down a flight of stairs when he was 4 -- and that turned into a serious brain injury as an adult.  In July of 2001 -- he carjacked and stabbed McCloskey and Rizzo to death on the South Shore.  He then made his way to New Hampshire where he strangled Whitney.

"He tried to show me a picture of his girlfriend and I wouldn't let him,” said Sampson on tape.

Jonathan Rizzo's parents were in court Thursday, hearing how their 19-year-old son was murdered.

"I gagged him with his own sock. And then I slit his throat. Stabbed him in the chest, in the neck and killed him quickly,” Sampson said on tape.

Sampson sat looking forward the entire time his voice went on and on about what he did.

"I'm still having problems with killing that man. I have no remorse at this time for that but I'm still having problems with it,” he in regards to killing McCloskey, his first victim.

The judge had to have a private meeting with both sides Thursday after Sampson asked for a break. It is unclear why he asked for the break.

Cox Media Group