DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

Psychologist, Author & Profiler

Tag: Serial Killer

Killer-Cop, Unmasking Serial Killer Kobus Geldenhuys Invisible Identity
Nov 14 2024
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Killer-Cop, Unmasking Serial Killer Kobus Geldenhuys Invisible Identity

South African serial killer and rapist Kobus Geldenhuys’ criminal career began by stealing money from his mother’s purse when he was a 10-year-old child.  Geldenhuys developed no psychological inhibitors to prevent the “thing” as he called it from escalating from stealing his mother’s money to burglary, to rape and finally to murder.  Shocking as it […]

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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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A person killing more than two people is not necessarily a serial killer The body of Jack the Ripper’s las known victim, Mary Jane Kelly. Although she was eviscerated, the modus operandi shows planning, and concealment so Jack would have been an organized serial killer in my opinion. (Public Domain)
Feb 3 2024
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A person killing more than two people is not necessarily a serial killer

Many people automatically assume when someone kills more than two people, he / she is a serial killer.  This is usually not the case, but the press love to sensationalize headlines with ‘serial killer’ as clickbait. It is the deep subconscious psychological motivation that drives and defines a serial killer – not the number of […]

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