Kirkland told Detective Bill Hilbert that he'd picked up Rolison, who struggled with drug addiction, in Avondale and paid her $40 for sex, but he became convinced she knew some men who attacked and robbed him later that same night in December 2006.
"When we were sitting in the parking lot she was asking me why I didn't go to the hospital, and I was asking her who was those guys?" Kirkland told the detective.
He said Rolison produced a small knife she was carrying, and Kirkland told the detective he took it from her and stabbed her in the jugular vein.
"It was a lucky shot," Kirkland told the detective.
After she bled to death in his van, Kirkland said he drove to the dead end of Pulte Street in North Fairmount, where he burned her body.
Her skeletal remains weren't discovered for nearly 18 months and remained unidentified until Kirkland confessed to her slaying, shortly after confessing to the Crawford and Newton homicides.