Condoned Cruelty: Prolonged capital punishments over the ages
Capital punishment was abolished on 6 June 1995 in South Africa. Norman Simons, the Station Strangler was sentenced on 14 June 1995 to 25…
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…
Alleged Nairobi Serial Killer Confesses to killing more than 40 women – Questions Asked
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…
Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of serial killers: Part III
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…
Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of Serial Killers (Part 2)
This article is the second of a trilogy series on my signature theory on the origin of serial killers. In brief, in the first…
Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of Serial Killers (Part 1)
Attending a murder scene, a detective usually asks the question: Who had the means, motive and opportunity to commit this crime and once that…
Evolution on the Origin of Serial Killers
During the Middle Ages, the gruesome discovery of sporadic mutilated corpses of villagers, and the telltale footprints of a hound on the scene, raised…
Rejection: When the Odd-Ones-Out Murder
Some old classmates remember serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer as the one who was clowning around at school. Dahmer was referred to as…