History repeats itself with South African serial killers
Revisiting historical South African serial killer cases, it seems as if someone discovered the script of an old case and re-enacted it out 50…
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The Devil Made Me Do It – are serial killers possessed?
There is a misconception that serial killers are possessed by demons. A probable reason for this conception is that normal people cannot conceptualize that…
Serial killers and Parole
To any Police Department, the cost of launching a serial killer investigation is excessive and often not budgeted for. It comprises extra manpower, overtime,…
A person killing more than two people is not necessarily a serial killer
Many people automatically assume when someone kills more than two people, he / she is a serial killer. This is usually not the case,…
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome – Even the Assyrians had it in 3500 BC
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was first classified as a mental disorder in 1980 in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of…
Why do some serial killers enter an insanity defence plea?
In my YouTube channel, Micki Pistorius Profiler on Record, (episode 3) I discuss why some serial killers – and other criminals – enter an…
I Understand Serial Killers
I have often been taken to task regarding my remark that I understand serial killers and this has often been interpreted by sensation-seeking journalists…
‘The Mentalist’ on a crime scene – hocus pocus or science?
The psychologist Carl Gustav Jung defined intuition as “perception via the unconscious”: using sense-perception only as a starting point, to bring forth ideas, images,…