Itzcoatl Ocampo said he felt he needed to kill to be a "real Marine"

Transcript: Suspect killed to become 'real Marine'
When his desire to kill at war was dashed by a tour of duty as a truck driver in Iraq, the young Marine returned home to wage combat in affluent Orange County.

By AMY TAXIN
Associated Press
SANTA ANA, Calif. —
When his desire to kill at war was dashed by a tour of duty as a truck driver in Iraq, the young Marine returned home to wage combat in affluent Orange County.

Itzcoatl Ocampo said he felt he needed to kill to be a "real Marine" and he told police he set out to murder 16 people, carefully selecting victims from homeless men sleeping on the street and those he believed had wronged him.

While Ocampo's killing spree was stopped at six, the slender 30-year-old spilled the details of his grander plans and chilling accounts of his slayings to detectives, who recounted them to an Orange County grand jury that indicted Ocampo on six counts of murder last month.

Ocampo told investigators he researched human anatomy, looked at Penthouse magazine to "pump himself up," then stalked and stabbed each of his victims more than 30 times with a roughly seven-inch long military style blade hoping he'd sever their esophagus or strike their heart.
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