Ostracism: Sowing the Seeds for Spree Killers
Imagine you are a member of a Neanderthal tribe, but for some reason, you have been ostracised – you no longer have access to…
Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana: A Match Made in Prison
If a talented team of scriptwriters had stretched their imagination and came up with the plot for a top-of-the-list crime tv series, they may…
Anti-Stalking Laws – Lightweight Deterrents?
The series Baby Reindeer spotlights the predicament of thousands of victims of stalkers, who find themselves helpless against an unsolicited onslaught of a stalker.…
Up and Coming Serial Killers -Does the system fail the community?
Detectives can be commended for investigating and arresting serial killers, but in some cases, communities were being dismally failed by the system and innocent…
Why do Serial Killers return to the Scene of a Crime?
The aphorism that a criminal always ‘returns to a crime scene’ features in literature in Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment of 1866, Arthur Conan Doyle’s…
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…
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,…