DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

Psychologist, Author & Profiler
Angels of Death- Tipping the Scales of Themis
Mar 6 2025
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Angels of Death- Tipping the Scales of Themis

Themis is the Greek goddess of justice, divine order, law, and custom and her symbol is the Scales of Justice. Her Roman equivalent is Justitia.   She personifies divine law – “that which is put in place”.  Judges were often referred to as “themistopóloi” – the servants of Themis.  Many defence lawyers in Angel-of-Death nursing […]

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Mask of Tragedy – Munchausen by Proxy 
Feb 27 2025
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Mask of Tragedy – Munchausen by Proxy 

Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen would entertain the 18th-century Germain aristocrats with stories about his escapades during the1735-1739 Russian-Turkish War, exaggerating to such an extent in 1785 it inspired the German author Rudolf Erich Raspe to write a book, titled Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, with a […]

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Filling the Empty Emotional Piggybank, South Africa’s Black Widow Killers  – Daisy de Melker and Rosemary Ndlovu
Feb 14 2025
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Filling the Empty Emotional Piggybank, South Africa’s Black Widow Killers  – Daisy de Melker and Rosemary Ndlovu

General research on Black Widow killers concur they commence their criminal careers at the age of 25 years, and target spouses, partners, family members, their children and anyone they might have formed a personal relationship with.  They may kill someone threatening to expose them.  They are quiet killers and go undetected for long periods because […]

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Differences between Male and Female Serial killers
Feb 7 2025
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Differences between Male and Female Serial killers

I am often asked: How do male and female serial killers differ? Without getting lost down the rabbit hole, leading into the Pandora’s box of the current discourse on gender and the sexes, I noted that since the 20th century criminologists and forensic profilers have identified distinct differences between male and female serial killers. In […]

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