Criminal Profiling Archives - DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

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 […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

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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Historical Female Criminality – Feeble-mind or Mastermind?

Jan 31 2025

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Historical Female Criminality – Feeble-mind or Mastermind?

Why are people so shocked when women commit violent crimes? Before and during the Victorian era women were regarded as paragons of virtue who would never stoop to commit crime, or they were considered too ‘feeble-minded’ to execute a crime. Those who did were regarded as exceptions to the rule and punished – or not […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Profiling Lizzie Borden- A Case Study of Patricide

Jan 24 2025

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Profiling Lizzie Borden- A Case Study of Patricide

In 1892, American socialite and debutante Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted for killing her father and stepmother with a hatchet. If I had been a criminal profiler in 1892 and had been requested to profile Lizzie Borden, perhaps there would have been a different outcome in the trial – you decide. The defendant is […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Gisele Pelicot, Triumphant in the Landmark Rape Case of Ex-Husband Dominique

Jan 10 2025

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Gisele Pelicot, Triumphant in the Landmark Rape Case of Ex-Husband Dominique

“I wanted to open the doors of this trial last September so that society can see what was happening. I have confidence in our capacity, collectively, to find a better future, in which men and women alike can live harmlessly together with mutual respect.” This statement of 72-year-old Madame Gisèle Pelicot, delivered at the end […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

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 […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

Oct 16 2024

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Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

Some time after Stewart Wilken, the cannibal serial killer of South Africa was imprisoned, I received a call from St Albans Correctional Facility summoning me since Stewart was out of control in his cell and he called for me. While I was at St Albans, my colleague, detective Derick Norsworthy, who had secured the confession […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

The Science of Decay at Body Farms – Forensic Taphonomy in the Flesh

Oct 9 2024

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The Science of Decay at Body Farms – Forensic Taphonomy in the Flesh

In the early 19th century, two serial killers, William Burke and William Hare, set up an illustrious business by killing 16 people in Edinburgh, selling the bodies to anatomists since there was a shortage of cadavers. With Edinburgh being a leading European centre of anatomical study, Scottish law prescribed that corpses used for medical research […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Tag: Criminal Profiling

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

Differences between Male and Female Serial killers

Historical Female Criminality – Feeble-mind or Mastermind?

Profiling Lizzie Borden- A Case Study of Patricide

Familicide: Bloodlines stained red with blood-feuds

Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

The Science of Decay at Body Farms – Forensic Taphonomy in the Flesh

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