DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

Psychologist, Author & Profiler

Tag: Criminal Profiling

Smelling a Rat – Rodenticides, Female Rat Poisoners
Apr 10 2025
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Smelling a Rat – Rodenticides, Female Rat Poisoners

The standard answer “I bought the poison for rats” alerts experienced detectives to “smell a rat” and investigate female poisoners.  Rats are commensal, benefitting from human proximity.  They evolved millions of years ago in Asia and moved in with humans, for humans provided a readily available source of food, whether their crops, their granaries or […]

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Filling the Empty Emotional Piggybank, South Africa’s Black Widow Killers  – Daisy de Melker and Rosemary Ndlovu
Feb 14 2025
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Filling the Empty Emotional Piggybank, South Africa’s Black Widow Killers  – Daisy de Melker and Rosemary Ndlovu

General research on Black Widow killers concur they commence their criminal careers at the age of 25 years, and target spouses, partners, family members, their children and anyone they might have formed a personal relationship with.  They may kill someone threatening to expose them.  They are quiet killers and go undetected for long periods because […]

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Differences between Male and Female Serial killers
Feb 7 2025
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Differences between Male and Female Serial killers

I am often asked: How do male and female serial killers differ? Without getting lost down the rabbit hole, leading into the Pandora’s box of the current discourse on gender and the sexes, I noted that since the 20th century criminologists and forensic profilers have identified distinct differences between male and female serial killers. In […]

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Familicide: Bloodlines stained red with blood-feuds 
Jan 2 2025
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Familicide: Bloodlines stained red with blood-feuds 

Throughout history, familicide is a crime considered most heinous in any society and it draws media fascination almost to the scale that a serial killer trial does.  Many cannot decide which is worst – a stranger killing innocent strangers, or a parent killing their child, or children killing their parents.  During the last quarter of […]

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