A TWISTED killer laughed and hugged pals while tucking into pizza after bludgeoning a tragic teen to death with a claw hammer.
Cody Ackland was described as looking "happier than usual" as he enjoyed a pub lock-in and the late-night meal.
The Indie guitarist, 24, even attended a practice session with his rock band Rakuda.
His pals later said the only time they had ever seen Ackland looking so happy before was at one of the group's gigs.
It comes as…
- Bobbi-Anne's heartbroken family slammed her killer for 'torturing' her in her final moments
- Ackland led a twisted double life where he obsessed over serial killers like Ted Bundy
- Bobbi-Anne told the killer she was 'scared' as he hit her 12 times over the head
Chillingly, no one was aware of the gruesome reason behind his smile.
Just hours before, Ackland had bludgeoned Bobbi-Anne McLeod to death with a claw hammer as she stood at a bus stop.
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The serial killer-obsessed fiend then bundled the stranger into the footwell of his Ford Fiesta and drove 19 miles to Dartmoor.
After making sure Bobbi-Anne was dead, he burned her handbag and disposed of her clothes.
Ackland then drove back to his family home and slept peacefully as Bobbi-Anne's family were frantic with worry at the missing teen's whereabouts.
He then slapped on a smirk and lived it up with pals while the teen's naked body rotted in the forest for three days.
The sicko even shared images of Bobbi-Anne after she was reported missing and called in sick to work as her disappearance was "close to home".
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The monster later strolled into the police station and told officers: “I did it. I was responsible for it.”
It was then officers discovered the guitarist had been living a "morbid" double life.
Ackland owned a macabre stash of almost 3,000 gruesome images of mutilated bodies.
He also painstakingly researched bloody crimes carried out by serial killers and swotted up on post-mortems and clothing worn by his twisted idols.
The creep aspired to be just like Ted Bundy – even “modelling” Bobbi-Anne’s brutal murder on the mass-murderer's own sickening crimes.
Det Supt Mike West, head of major crime for Devon and Cornwall Police, said Ackland appeared to have led a “secret life operated clandestinely”.
The officer said “no one could have recognised the level of risk that Ackland presented” and loved ones were left in “significant shock”.
Ackland told police the killing was not "on his mind" because it was “so out there” and extreme.
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The musician, who was found to have no mental health issues and no prior police involvement, said "he did not know how he felt about the murder".
He has never once shown any remorse for the brutal crime.
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