It's been a while since we had a serial killer post,hasn't it?
Obviously mentions of death and murder to follow.
Often referred to as “The Muswell
Hill Murderer” and dubbed by the media as “The British Jeffrey Dahmer”, Dennis
Nilsen was a serial killer and necrophiliac who killed between 12-15 men during
1978-1983.
Much like the
notorious cannibal-serial killer Jeffery Dahmer, Nilsen struggled with his
sexuality at an early age and did not confide in anyone around him. He also
joined the army and drank in excess to combat his social anxieties.
Another similarity
they shared was morbid sexual fantasies involving dead bodies.
Nilsen’s fuel for these macabre erotic scenarios were memories from his time in
the army and various classical paintings portraying dismemberment and death.
Eventually Dennis
Nilsen drifted away from his family and left his rural beginnings to train as a
police officer in London. The city had more to offer him in the way of a gay
community, and he was able to socialize at various bars and clubs in the area;
however he was never able to develop a meaningful, long term relationship. Flings
and casual encounters left him feeling empty and he changed jobs often.
Nilsen did manage to
move in with a young man that he had saved from a beating outside of a pub one
night, but it lacked in attraction and eventually dissolved. He started killing
after the breakup.
His victims were
typically young men down on their luck, such as the homeless, or men he met and
lured to his abode with the promise of alcohol.
One of the flats he lived in,in Cranley Gardens
(image source:murderpedia)
Nilsen’s modus operandi was strangling or
drowning his victims. He would clean and shave their corpses and pleasure
himself at the sight. Nilsen would keep the bodies with them for as long as he
could stave off the inevitable decay, sometimes months would pass by and they’d
still be there in his flat under the floor. In his mind, these were the longest
relationships he had ever had; he had been unable to have a relationship with
such longevity as the men he had affairs with had always left. His new
housemates couldn’t leave, and he would prop them up in his apartment and chat
to them as if they were still alive. Sometimes he would have them embrace him
and partake in non-penetrive sex with their lifeless bodies.
Police photo of Nilsen's closet containing black bags filled with organs and body parts.
(image source: Murderpedia)
He concealed his
victims beneath the floorboards, battling the stench of decay with air
fresheners and gassing the maggots and insects that writhed in and out of his
decomposing paramours.
When he decided that they
had expired beyond saving, he would burn the remains on a bonfire near his flat.
He would take out their organs and dispose of them around the perimeter of his
garden or the nearest park. He boiled the heads so the flesh would slide off
the skull and cut up the rest.
An example of the tools used on his victims.
(image source: murderpedia)
Decapitation allowed him to dispose of the
corpse piece by piece by flushing small parts down the toilet- a process that
would eventually attract the attention of his neighbors and lead to his arrest.
Nilsen attempted to
act shocked at the news that the drains were blocked with human remains, as
well as attempting to suggest that the bones were that of leftover chicken meat
and nothing to do with him, but he eventually admitted to the murders and went
into detail when recalling his doings.
Dennis Nilsen claimed
that he never premeditated the murders, and that he suddenly found himself
strangling or drowning his acquaintances.
He was convicted for
his crimes and is spending the remainder of his life in HMP Full Sutton.
Apparently his flat in Muswell hill was made over and sold in 2014.
You can read an article about it here [X]
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