<p>A man accused of raping and killing four women in the Augusta area testified that he killed them all.</p><p>And Ill do it again if they ever let me out, Reinaldo Rivera said Wednesday in his trial for one of the killings.</p><p>Rivera and his lawyers are seeking a verdict of guilty but mentally ill in the September 2000 death of 21-year-old Fort Gordon soldier Sgt. Marni Glista.</p><p>He also has been charged in the deaths of another woman in Richmond County and two in Aiken County, S.C.</p><p>Were trying to get everyone to accept the idea that I have a mental illness, Rivera said. Weve got to figure out why I do the things that I do.</p><p>The 40-year-old former North Augusta, S.C., resident faces 14 charges in the Glista case, including rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault and murder.</p><p>The state is seeking the death penalty.</p><p>Over the past two days, the 12-member jury heard hours of testimony from three separate medical experts speaking to Riveras mental illness. They claim he is obsessive compulsive, a sexual deviant, a psychopath, and a sex addict.</p><p>Virtually every waking moment of his life, he was feeling anger and sexual arousal, Geral Blanchard, a sex addiction expert from Wyoming, testified Wednesday.</p><p>Rivera testified that pornography had been a major influence in his life.</p><p>He claims to have raped more than 175 prostitutes while working in Washington D.C., as a Naval officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.</p><p>After moving to the South in the mid 90s, he said he scoured shopping strips and malls for hours for women that fit his type _ typically pretty white teenagers. He steered their conversations toward sexual topics so he could masturbate while talking with them.</p><p>Occasionally, Rivera and his victims would go to a secluded spot. He admitted raping and killing four of them, and trying to kill a fifth, then resuming his normal life.</p><p>He said there were other predators like him.</p><p>Weve got to figure something out. Weve got to be able to do something to get us before we do the things that we do, Rivera said.</p><p>Rivera also is accused in the death of Tabitha L. Bosdell, 18, and a non-fatal attack on an Augusta teenager Oct. 10, 2000. The teenager lived to describe her attackers face and the car he drove and to tell detectives what happened during the attack, investigators said.</p><p>In addition, Rivera also is accused in the 1999 slayings of Melissa Dingess and Tiffaney Wilson, both 17, in Aiken County.</p>
