LMAO wrote:Phil71 wrote:LMAO wrote:The Ripper
Never knew y'all had another notorious serial killer. Been a pretty interesting docuseries so far.
We've had several.
Look up:
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley
Fred & Rose West
Dennis Nilsen
Harold Shipman
Robert Black
That's all I can think of for now.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it seems like medical serial killers are common in many countries. Makes sense though—access to drugs and/or vulnerable people. I already knew of Germany's Högel. Our most lethal known one is Donald Harvey who's been proven to have murdered 37 people; he died in prison, killed by an inmate.
The weirdest one was Nilsen. Wtf was up with the rituals with his victims' bodies? Weird.
I thought you had serial killers with more victims than that. What about Gary Ridgeway? I read Ann Rule's book on him. I think he had 70+ victims.
In regard to Nilsen and the rituals with the bodies - I read his official biography (Killing for Company) written by Brian Masters, who had full access to Nilsen while he was awaiting trial. There was an incident in Nilsen's childhood that Masters believed may have been behind his fascination with dead bodies. His father had left when he was a toddler, and he became extremely close to his grandfather. Aged six his grandfather died, and the family laid him out in a coffin in the lounge. They brought Nilsen to see him, but didn't tell him that he was dead. So the last time he saw his grandfather he was a dead body, and he formed some sort of association between love and death. That combined with his psychopathy and loneliness made him keep the bodies of his victims as long as possible - sleeping with them beside him in bed, then getting up in the morning, dressing them and sitting them in front of the TV whilst he went to work. When he came home he would make two dinners, put one in front of them and talk to them whilst eating. Eventually of course they would start to decompose, so he would use the butchery skills he learned in the army to cut them into small pieces and in the case of his home in Melrose Avenue he would burn them in the garden, or at his flat in Cranley Gardens he would chop them into tiny pieces and flush them down the toilet. The bones he would put into bin bags and leave out for the garbage collectors.
He was caught when neighbours complained that the drains were blocked and smelly. A drain guy came out and made the grim discovery under a man hole in the front garden. When police arrived he had two or three bodies half cut up in bin bags in his bedroom wardrobe.
