The Darker side of the Dark Tetrad: Sadism versus Violence
In 1886, the sexologist Kraft-Ebbing treated the Marquis de Sade’s work as a compendium of sexual pathologies and gave the term ‘sadism’ its clinical…
In 1886, the sexologist Kraft-Ebbing treated the Marquis de Sade’s work as a compendium of sexual pathologies and gave the term ‘sadism’ its clinical…
On 26 June 2024, 26-year-old Josephine Owino, a hairdresser from Mukuru Kwa Njenga, in Nairobi the capital of Kenya, went missing after receiving an…
In the previous two articles of this trilogy I explained how serial killers’ fixations in Freud’s psychosexual developmental phases led to the acting out…
This article is the second of a trilogy series on my signature theory on the origin of serial killers. In brief, in the first…
Attending a murder scene, a detective usually asks the question: Who had the means, motive and opportunity to commit this crime and once that…
During the Middle Ages, the gruesome discovery of sporadic mutilated corpses of villagers, and the telltale footprints of a hound on the scene, raised…
Some old classmates remember serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer as the one who was clowning around at school. Dahmer was referred to as…
Imagine you are a member of a Neanderthal tribe, but for some reason, you have been ostracised – you no longer have access to…