LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. – You don't have to take the word of police and prosecutors in the disturbing sex abuse case against wealthy developer Louis Bianculli. You can hear details of the chilling crimes he allegedly committed on a 12-year-old girl over a six-year period from his own mouth in audiotapes obtained by Local 10 News from the state attorney's office.
"I was hungry for some kind of physical touching thing and she was right there and she was at that age," Bianculli said in the recordings made secretly by the girl's mother on the instructions of Lighthouse Point police. "I took advantage of that opportunity, because I knew she was vulnerable to paying attention to her and I liked being with her. ... It blossomed and it kept developing and developing."
The tapes provide a unique look into the mind of Bianculli, who admits to using chloroform, sleeping pills and pressure points to render the girl unconscious before molesting her. He also talks of a "game" they were playing in which he would use insulin needles to suck the fat from the girl's stomach and inject it into her breasts. He claims in the tapes he never really did her harm during those so-called surgeries, but also admits to placing plastic bags over her head, nearly suffocating her, in what he called "breathing s**t."
The victim, now an adult, told police Bianculli brainwashed her. She complained of health problems -- including bleeding from her ears -- she believed was caused by so many years of being subjected to chloroform. In the recordings, Bianculli disputes that he exposed the girl to too much chloroform.
"It was chloroform and it was momentary," he said. "I have enough experience I could have been an anesthesiologist. ... I think she did chloroform maybe 15 or 20 times."
He said the girl sometimes would stop breathing altogether after he rendered her unconscious.
"She used to pass out so fast it was weird," he said. "I checked if her heart was still beating -- that neck pressure point thing. A lot of people get off on it sexually. You get a rush from it."
The victim went to therapists, who used a technique called eye movement desensitization reprocessing to reconstruct memories of what happened while she was unconscious with Bianculli.
At one point, according to police reports, she told a therapist, "He is the devil and I'm in hell."
In the tapes Bianculli, a second-generation South Florida developer whose family boasts $157 million in real estate sales and who reputedly has a net worth of $30 million, tries to downplay the sexual nature of the crimes, though he admitted fondling and digitally penetrating her while gratifying himself during the abuse, much of which allegedly occurred in the theater room of his Lighthouse Point mansion on the Intracoastal Waterway.
"I never did have sex with her unless you me having sex with myself but I would never do that with her ever," he said. "There was no passionate moment of sex. It was sadly as if you were sitting in bed at night watching a porn movie. The only thing was that instead of it being a TV set, it was a human being. ... Everything I was doing was for my benefit in my mind."
He said the behavior became an "addiction," saying he wanted to stop but couldn't.
"It's about power. It's about control. It's a game. It's a mind game," he said. "I got off track and once you get off track, I don't know if you get back on track or not. I mean, it's a very strange thing. Sex is a very strange thing. If you have a desire to enjoy a human body, then in your mind it's enjoyable, but the act of actually having sex can be very frustrating."
But despite the fact that the abuse began when the girl 12, he claimed he was no pedophile.
"How could I be such a f**king sleazy piece of s**t to do that?" he asked rhetorically. "What the f**k is wrong with me? I don't have a thing for children. I have no interest in children."
At one point, he tells the woman's mother to go to the police, unaware that she already had and was recording him for the Lighthouse Point Police Department.
"Go to the police station, file a report and have me arrested please," he said.
When asked if he will confess what he'd done, he answers that he will, saying, "Have I denied anything?"
PRODUCER'S NOTE: Bianculli might make that claim, but a Bob Norman investigation has found numerous complaints filed with police and prosecutors with similar claims made against him, involving chloroform and pseudo medical procedures, dating back 50 years, with alleged victims as young as 9 and 10 years old. Watch Local 10 News at 6 p.m. Tuesday for that story.
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