DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

Psychologist, Author & Profiler

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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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Quaint Knysna tainted by Killers
Dec 24 2024
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Quaint Knysna tainted by Killers

Before man invaded, a vast stretch of land along the southern coast of Africa, was once a lush green forest, now called the Knysna Forest. This mystical, magical forest was once home to great herds of Knysna elephants, who existed peacefully in this green sanctuary for hundreds of years. Everything changed by 1763, when the […]

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The Slums of Spitalfields – ‘A human sewer clearing itself’ at the time of Jack the Ripper
Dec 12 2024
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The Slums of Spitalfields – ‘A human sewer clearing itself’ at the time of Jack the Ripper

During the late 1800’s Whitechapel and neighbouring Spitalfields in East-End London was a terrible place to live. It seems as if all of society’s outcasts; the beggars, thieves, unemployed immigrants, prostitutes, orphans, mentally ill and crippled washed out into this gigantic slum, where crime, vice, violence and drunkenness were almost Endemic. A French visitor described […]

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