The oxygen of publicity

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering five prostitutes. All the nationals are naming him as a supermarket worker from Felixstowe, and are doing their best to dish the dirt before he's either released or any charges are brought and reporting restrictions come into force.
What is interesting about it all is that the man apparently gave an interview to the Sunday Mirror yesterday, in which he spoke of how he knew the victims and knew he fitted the profile of the murderer. I can't find it on the Mirror's website but according to the Liverpool Daily Post site, he actually said (while sobbing uncontrollably):

"I would have complete opportunity, the girls would have trusted me so much. If I had blindfolded them and taken them to the edge of a cliff and said take two steps but take three and you'll go over - they would have taken the two steps.
"From the police profiling it does look like me - white male between 25 and 40, knows the area, works strange hours. The bodies have got close to my house. I know that I'm innocent. But I don't have alibis for some of the times - actually I'm not entirely sure I have tight alibis for any of the times."

All a bit strange. Maybe he's innocent and cashing into the macabre situation, as are plenty of ex-boyfriends and former friends of those poor women, who seem to be selling their souls to the tabloids in exchange for cash and publicity. If there genuinely is more to it, it feels suspiciously like Ian Huntley's cynical plea to the cameras while police were still investigating the deaths of the little girls from Soham.