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…
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…