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Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

Oct 16 2024

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Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

Some time after Stewart Wilken, the cannibal serial killer of South Africa was imprisoned, I received a call from St Albans Correctional Facility summoning me since Stewart was out of control in his cell and he called for me. While I was at St Albans, my colleague, detective Derick Norsworthy, who had secured the confession […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of Serial Killers (Part 1)

Jul 22 2024

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Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of Serial Killers (Part 1)

Attending a murder scene, a detective usually asks the question: Who had the means, motive and opportunity to commit this crime and once that is figured out, it narrows down the suspect list, usually to a single suspect, or no more than a few. The motive could be greed, lust, revenge, or rage and is […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

Up and Coming Serial Killers -Does the system fail the community?

May 16 2024

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Up and Coming Serial Killers -Does the system fail the community?

Detectives can be commended for investigating and arresting serial killers, but in some cases, communities were being dismally failed by the system and innocent people were brutally killed. These deaths could have been prevented, had the killers not been considered too young! The case of Jeffrey Dahmer poses a good example on how the system […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

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 […]

by Dr. Micki Pistorius

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Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

Pistorius’ Theory on the Origin of Serial Killers (Part 1)

Up and Coming Serial Killers -Does the system fail the community?

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

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