Dennis Nilsen

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Dennis Nilsen


Born
in Fraserburgh, The United Kingdom
November 23, 1945

Died
May 12, 2018

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Dennis Nilsen was a serial killer who was born on November 23, 1945, in Fraserburgh, Scotland. Though Nilsen recognized his homosexual desires, he was never comfortable with them and began acting on them through murder and dismemberment. Nilsen's first victim was in 1978, he went on to kill, according to his confession, twelve young men and dissect their bodies. When police finally arrested him in 1983, it quickly became apparent that, had they linked a series of reported incidents from lucky escapees over the previous five years, they might well have halted his ghoulish killing spree considerably sooner. ...more

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“I did it all for me. Purely selfish. I worshiped the art and the act of
death, over and over. It’s as simple as that. Afterwards it was all
sexual confusion, symbolism, honoring the “fallen.” I was honoring
myself. I hated the decay and the dissection. There was no
sadistic pleasure in the killing. I killed them as I would like to be
killed myself, enjoying the extremity of the death act itself. If I did
it to myself I could only experience it once. If I did it to others, I
could experience the death act over and over again.
—Dennis Nilsen”
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“why he became one of Britain’s most infamous”
Dennis Nilsen, History of a Drowning Boy: The Autobiography

“He may have been a paedophile but I didn’t remember him as threatening or oppressive.”
Dennis Nilsen, History of a Drowning Boy: Inside the mind of a serial killer