The Chilling Story of Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen

Scottish-born Dennis Nilsen was murdering 15 men in England, all of them young, in interesting rituals. Sexual sadist and necrophiliac It is quite interesting that the murderer is very kind and helpful, apart from the “murderer identity”.

Thanks to the audio recordings he wrote in his diaries and recorded in prison, we can learn about his life, feelings and crimes from his mouth. Bride, Dennis Nilsen’s bloodcurdling Let’s look at his story together.

Dennis’ childhood abuse by his grandfather left lasting marks on him.

Born on September 23, 1945, Nilsen’s psychology began to deteriorate when her parents separated in 1948. yourself always she will feel lonely The foundations of the era were laid in these years.

After his parents separated, he moved in with his mother, grandmother, and grandfather in 1951, and, he said, at a young age. by grandparents was abused. Dennis describes those days as follows:

“The subject of my grandfather bled for years without being resolved on the screen of my subconscious. I vaguely remember that concrete blockhouse where strange things happened between my grandfather and me. The only tactile contact I had in my early years of development was that of a pedophile. painful and confusing It’s a terrible confession to say that he had a hug.”

“I realized that I was different somehow.”

After childhood traumas early adolescence realized he was gay. He felt ashamed and confused because homosexuality was something that was not accepted at the time.

on homosexuals social oppression As a result, we can see in many cases people start to commit crimes by hating themselves and other homosexuals and turn into murderers. Speaking of his thoughts on himself, Dennis says:

“Somehow i am different I got the feeling. Perhaps to be poor, weak and miserably dressed; It was the first attack on my waking self-confidence. Not having a father to brag about might have been something else. Before I entered my second decade, I was seen as a criminal, a stranger, a disgusting person… Of course, I’m gay, but I keep it to myself. The last thing anyone will admit is to be gay.”

The first step of the journey to necrophilia was taken when she put on the “dead make-up” during her adolescence.

During adolescence against his sister and brother He realized his sexual desire, but after a while he was able to suppress his orientation towards his sister and hid his homosexuality from all his circle, including his family, for years.

He spent his childhood and adolescence introverted, shy, obscure and constantly “dead makeup” started doing it. According to her diaries, this hobby gave her pleasure over time and she masturbated by looking at herself in the mirror after putting on make-up.

When he entered the military, urges to sexual sadism and necrophilia arose.

After graduating from school, Dennis joined the military in 1961, and during this period he pleasurable The only thing was alcohol.

During his years in the military, his fantasies of sexual sadism and “necrophilia”, that is, necrophilia, emerged. Spending years in a male-only environment led Dennis to have perverse fantasies about them. When he returned home after 11 years of military service relationship with his family was completely broken.

He committed his first murder with terrible rituals in his new home.

Later, between 1973-1983, he worked in various fields such as police, security guard, deputy general manager, executive officer. Your terrible murders started to operate in 1974.

In 1975, he moved to a magnificent house with his friend. This house would be where he began to commit his murders. With the kindness of the young people he met in the bars, by persuading He took her home and had sex with them.

He lived in the same room with a dead body for 8 months.

The first man he took home at night, when he wanted to go in the morning, strangled him and “she is someone who will never leave me anymore” he thought. Killing by strangulation was also a method used by many sexual sadists because they enjoyed the thought of dominating people.

After her first murder, she cleaned the dead body, put makeup on her wounds and put her to bed and raped her. dead body for 8 months this house stayed but after a while the smell became unbearable.

Dennis, in his diary: “I tucked him under the floor and a week later I wondered if his body had changed. His body was so dirty, I took him to the bathroom, cleaned it, he had hardly changed color, his skin it was cold and white” In his words, he was describing the remnants of his first murder.

If evidence had been found in his second murder, everything would have ended at that moment.

On October 11, 1979, he persuaded the student he met in a bar with his kind attitude and took him home, but this time the man escaped without being killed. The man immediately went to the police, but no evidence was found. Perhaps, if evidence had been found, the next 13 murders would have been prevented.

Two months after this incident, he took a student he met at the bar back to his house and killed him. sex that night after performing the rituals The next day he went to buy a camera. He posed and photographed the corpse, a ritual often performed by serial killers.

The desire to kill had become uncontrollable.

In his diary, he wrote that during these times he could not control his desire to kill. The corpses he had hidden under the floor no longer fit. For this, he sought another solution and tried to dismember the corpses and burn them. bury bones He began to get rid of dead bodies with his method.

First she helped him to live, then, unable to control his impulses, he killed again.

His next victim would be a teenager he had helped before. In front of Dennis’ house epilepsy crisis He helped the young man who was suffering and saved him by taking him to the hospital immediately. Later, when the unfortunate teenager went to Dennis’ house to thank him, the murderer could not control himself and performed the same rituals on this man.

As we can see from his actions and what he wrote in his diary, kind and helpful He was trying to be someone, but he was so overwhelmed by his impulses that he was killing people again.

The clogged drains betrayed him for the first time in years.

Moving into a new house on October 5, 1981, Nilsen began to think of new ways because this house was an apartment. They had no means to bury, cremate, and hide corpses for long periods of time. The solution is corpses breaking it into small pieces He found it boiled in pots and throwing bones down the toilet drain.

Of course, over time, the toilet drain got clogged. This would be the biggest factor in his capture. The residents of the apartment, who noticed the blockage, were shocked when they called the plumber. On top of the bone fragments coming out of the drain, Dennis it belongs to the chicken He claimed.

When police searched Dennis’ home, they found human body parts in his wardrobe.

Later, with the detailed investigations, the police stepped in and the bones were found. because it belongs to people they were sure. Now it was time to search the houses in order.

When Dennis’ house began to be ransacked, the bags in his wardrobe were torn apart. head, arm, leg They encountered many organs such as Of course, it was now known who was responsible for the bone fragments. This is how the murders he committed in cold blood for years came to light.

The motivation for the killing was never known.

On February 10, his interrogation began and he calmly confessed everything. Dennis, who is estimated to have killed almost 15 people, said he committed the murders with “grace”. Why did he kill and motivation to kill was never understood.

As a result of his confessions to life imprisonment sentenced. He died in 2018 at the age of 72 from a blood clot as a complication of stomach surgery.

Dennis Nilsen in popular culture:

A biography series called “DES” and a documentary called “Memoirs of a Murderer” were highly appreciated and sonorous took its place among the works.

Especially the documentary recorded in his prison cell It attracted a lot of attention because it consisted of audio recordings in which he told about his life and crimes through cassettes.