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Unmasking Aficionados Posing as Experts on Serial Killers

Aug 29 2024

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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

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 Dr. Micki Pistorius

The Devil Made Me Do It – are serial killers possessed?

There is a misconception that serial killers are possessed by demons. A probable reason for this conception is that normal people cannot conceptualize that other normal people are capable of the atrocities that serial killers commit. When asked what the most despicable act of a serial killer could be, (besides the obvious of killing, raping […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

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Unmasking Aficionados Posing as Experts on Serial Killers

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

The Devil Made Me Do It – are serial killers possessed?

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