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,…
My New Best Friend – Serial Killers combating loneliness by keeping bodies in their homes
I have often over and over emphasized that serial killers are normal human beings and underneath their bizarre behaviour lie very normal human needs.…
Children are Children – Serial Killers were children too
Serial killers were not spawned by aliens, they are not an alien species, nor are they comic book superheroes, or superhumans or AI created…
Heroes & Warriors: Where Psychology Meets Mythology
A man with a quest is a man on a mission and woe to anyone who interferes! Dr. Micki Pistorius, psychologist and editor of…
The Hearts of Heroes
What can Odysseus teach us about relationships? How can Leonidas, the King Sparta, inspire captains of industry and high flying businessmen? What secrets can the…
Micki Pistorius to be portrayed in new True Crime series
Game of Thrones and The Nun actress Charlotte Hope is set to appear as Micki Pistorius, South Africa’s first-ever serial-killer profiler, in Catch Me a Killer, a new…