DR. MICKI PISTORIUS

Psychologist, Author & Profiler

Tag: serial killers

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

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 […]

by
Read More
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
Articles

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 […]

by
Read More
Why do some serial killers enter an insanity defense plea? Inside Bedlam, scene from William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress (1735) (Public Domain)
Feb 3
Articles

Why do some serial killers enter an insanity defense plea?

In my YouTube channel, Micki Pistorius Profiler on Record, (episode 3) I discuss why some serial killers – and other criminals – enter an insanity plea, claiming not to be of sound mind, or to suffer from a mental illness in order to escape prosecution. The secondary gain of escaping criminal liability is a common […]

by
Read More
My New Best Friend – Serial Killers combating loneliness by keeping bodies in their homes Odd Nerdrum's painting Cannibals (Public Domain)
Feb 3
Articles

My New Best Friend – Serial Killers combating loneliness by keeping bodies in their homes

I have often over and over emphasized that serial killers are normal human beings and underneath their bizarre behaviour lie very normal human needs. Permit me as a profiler and psychologist to explain one of the most disturbing behaviours that some of them exhibit – Why do serial killers keep bodies of their victims in […]

by
Read More