That is partly true.

As regarded others he was plainly without feeling--utterly cold and pitiless; but as regarded himself the case was different.

While he cared nothing for the future of the murdered men, he cared a great deal for his own.

It makes one's flesh creep to read the introduction to his confession.

The judge on the bench characterized it as "scandalously blasphemous," and it certainly reads so, but Burgess meant no blasphemy.
He was merely a brute, and whatever he said or wrote was sure to expose the fact.