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

Jan 10

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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

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

Dec 12

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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 […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Killer-Cops, When Heroes Become Villains: Uyselen Nel killed his family in cold-blood

Nov 7

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Killer-Cops, When Heroes Become Villains: Uyselen Nel killed his family in cold-blood

In 1996 South African police sergeant Uyselen Nel killed his wife and two toddler sons in cold-blood, much like the Greek hero committed familicide when in a fit of rage and madness he killed his wife and sons with arrows. Apollo demanded Hercules to master several tribulations before his spirit could be cleansed of the […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Sep 18

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True Crime: The Gorgoneion of Medusa

According to Greek mythology, Medusa, a Gorgon, was a beautiful maiden who was raped by the Greek god Poseidon, in a temple of the goddess Athena. Athena punished Medusa by turning her hair into snakes and anyone looking at her was petrified and turned into stone. Theseus, a Greek hero, managed to trick Medusa by […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Unmasking Aficionados Posing as Experts on Serial Killers

Aug 29

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Unmasking Aficionados Posing as Experts on Serial Killers

The sensational reporting of Jack the Ripper terrorising Whitechapel London in the late 19th century, can serve as an archetypical portrayal of the dichotomous troubling relationship between the press and serial killers. The public craved all the details of the murders of the prostitutes and the press complied with gory descriptions, accompanied by a sketch […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

The Darker side of the Dark Tetrad: Sadism versus Violence

Aug 17

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The Darker side of the Dark Tetrad: Sadism versus Violence

In 1886, the sexologist Kraft-Ebbing treated the Marquis de Sade’s work as a compendium of sexual pathologies and gave the term ‘sadism’ its clinical definition. The Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740 – 1814) was an 18th century French nobleman and author, who wrote several books when he was imprisoned for […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Alleged Nairobi Serial Killer Confesses to killing more than 40 women – Questions Asked

Aug 9

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Alleged Nairobi Serial Killer Confesses to killing more than 40 women – Questions Asked

On 26 June 2024, 26-year-old Josephine Owino, a hairdresser from Mukuru Kwa Njenga, in Nairobi the capital of Kenya, went missing after receiving an unexpected phone call and leaving her home at short notice to meet someone. She was never seen again. In the weeks that followed, Josephine’s younger sister, Peris Keya, visited three different […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of serial killers: Part III

Aug 1

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Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of serial killers: Part III

In the previous two articles of this trilogy I explained how serial killers’ fixations in Freud’s psychosexual developmental phases led to the acting out of their fantasies on crime scenes. Yet the serial killers are not unique in developing subconscious sexual and aggressive fantasies, as Melanie Klein theorizes that all children could have them. Childhood […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

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

Killer-Cops, When Heroes Become Villains: Uyselen Nel killed his family in cold-blood

True Crime: The Gorgoneion of Medusa

Unmasking Aficionados Posing as Experts on Serial Killers

The Darker side of the Dark Tetrad: Sadism versus Violence

Alleged Nairobi Serial Killer Confesses to killing more than 40 women – Questions Asked

Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of serial killers: Part III

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