Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Britain’s most notorious serial killer, Dennis Nilsen, confessed to killing 15 people in 1983. Over a five-year period, he picked up vulnerable young men, lured them back to his home and strangled them, before disposing of their bodies under the floorboards

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[yankeesarelove]

it's so wild to me that someone could kill one person.. and then continue doing it. like how insanely messed up are their brains??

[near_dark]

Usually pretty fucked up, pretty sure the majority of serial killers either had some real garbage fire childhoods or suffered some kind of brain injury at some point, like a large majority of them had one or the other or both.

[marywebgirl]

Learning about the Green River Killer was pretty staggering. He literally doesn’t know how many women he killed because there were so many, and he debated killing his own son because he thought the kid might have seen too much.

[ahkna]

Serial killers usually build to killing people, constantly desensitizing themselves to violence, depravity, and death.

I'm so puzzled by men who seem perfectly normal, they're 'good' husbands and fathers, regular healthy backgrounds, well-respected, then suddenly they murder their wife (and possibly kids) and go on with their lives. They go on tv and plead for her to come home, give interviews where they sob and cry, all the 'normal people' things. If they get away with it, they just move on to a new wife.

This is a weekly, daily occurrence all over the world and I just don't understand.

[rubyboots]

Chris Watts still just blows my mind

[ahkna]

That's just it, he's not unique. He's just a clear example with a lot of evidence.

[yankeesarelove]

exactly- he literally drove his daughters 45 minutes away and still killed them. how did nothing click in that drive to stop him??

[starsaregas]

And he said that when he put them to bed that night, he thought about how it was going to be the last time that he put them to bed. I can't even wrap my mind around that.

[numara]

i just listened to a podcast episode on karl karlsen, and serial killers basically just live on a different plane of existence tbh. they're so wrapped up in their own narcissism and the need to be in control (especially if the violence is something that they get off on sexually) it overrules everything.