Serial murder suspect claims he needed to kill

Court documents show an Iraq war veteran indicted in the murders of six people in Orange County told a police detective after his arrest that he joined the Marine Corps because he needed to kill.

A transcript of a secret hearing of the Orange County grand jury obtained by the Orange County Register revealed Itzcoatl "Izzy'' Ocampo said he was disappointed when he did not see any combat during a six-month tour of duty in Iraq.

According to the transcript, Ocampo told the detective he planned to continue killing people and hoped to build a kill list with 16 names before he was finished.

Ocampo was charged in an amended complaint in February with the murders of four homeless men and a mother and her son in Yorba Linda.