New crime series coming soon | Catch Me A Killer
Follow South Africa’s first forensic and investigative psychologist, Micki Pistorius (played by Charlotte Hope), as she studies the minds of South Africa’s serial killers.…
A person killing more than two people is not necessarily a serial killer
Many people automatically assume when someone kills more than two people, he / she is a serial killer. This is usually not the case,…
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome – Even the Assyrians had it in 3500 BC
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was first classified as a mental disorder in 1980 in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of…
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…