DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

Psychologist, Author & Profiler

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Why do Serial Killers return to the Scene of a Crime?
May 8 2024
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Why do Serial Killers return to the Scene of a Crime?

The aphorism that a criminal always ‘returns to a crime scene’ features in literature in Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment  of 1866, Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet 1887 and in Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Links 1923.  Do serial killers return to their crime scenes? Yes, in my experience they do, for various different […]

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History repeats itself with South African serial killers The rustic peaceful ambience of Wynberg in Cape Town was brutalised in the 1940’s by Salie Lingevelt, a serial killer who randomly bludgeoned women to death in their homes (Public Domain)
May 8 2024
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History repeats itself with South African serial killers

Revisiting historical South African serial killer cases, it seems as if someone discovered the script of an old case and re-enacted it out 50 – 60 years later.  Episode 6 of the television series Catch me a Killer, depicts the Cape Town Prostitute whom I profiled in 1996 and it is uncanny how many similarities […]

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Serial killers and Parole Open Breakwater Prison Door in Cape Town. (Lennon Fletcher/ CC BY-SA 3.0)
Mar 27 2024
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Serial killers and Parole

To any Police Department, the cost of launching a serial killer investigation is excessive and often not budgeted for. It comprises extra manpower, overtime, setting up an operational room, vehicles, helicopters and gasoline, processing multiple crime scenes, deployment of alternative resources such as profilers, artists for reconstructing faces of unidentified victims, expensive DNA tests and […]

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Jul 16 2023
Academic And Skills Developer

ACADEMIC AND SKILLS DEVELOPER

Knowledge is wealth and power and should be shared. Micki Pistorius matriculated at Hoërskool Menlo Park, Pretoria in 1978.  The following year she enrolled for a BA majoring in Psychology and Languages at the University of Pretoria and upon qualifying, she embarked upon a career in journalism, working in diverse media. Ten years later, she […]

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Jun 16 2023
Psychologist

PSYCHOLOGIST

In 1994 Micki Pistorius obtained her Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a psychologist. Her thesis covered the clinical topic: “A cross evaluation of theories regarding the Oedipus complex by example of a case study”. Upon registration, she was immediately appointed as the first psychological […]

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Jun 16 2023
Author

AUTHOR

As a child Micki Pistorius’ natural curiosity was cultivated by both her parents and developed into an insatiable interest in history, art and literature. She enrolled for a BA degree, majoring in Psychology and Languages at the University of Pretoria. She has studied German in school and French at university. Her very first appointment was […]

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Jun 16 2023
Curriculum Vitae, Personal

PERSONAL

Micki Pistorius was born on 19 March 1961 in Pretoria to her parents Carl Wilhelm Irene Pistorius and Iolanthe Tancred.  Both her parents cultivated an interest in history and encouraged their children to read.  As a child Micki always wanted to be a writer.  Her childhood was nomadic and she attended several primary schools and […]

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