True Crime: The Gorgoneion of Medusa
According to Greek mythology, Medusa, a Gorgon, was a beautiful maiden who was raped by the Greek god Poseidon, in a temple of the…
High Treason: The Boeremag – Ordinary Men
In October 2002, Soweto, a township designated predominantly for Black people during the Apartheid era, located south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa, was rocked as…
Unmasking Aficionados Posing as Experts on Serial Killers
The sensational reporting of Jack the Ripper terrorising Whitechapel London in the late 19th century, can serve as an archetypical portrayal of the dichotomous…
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…