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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[eronanke]

There was a 3-part UK miniseries staying David's Tennant a few years back I think. I remember that it felt a bit rushed as a story bc it only focused on a narrow time period of his "confession" to his trial.

[ahkna]

It was 2020!

[eronanke]

Ugh, jesus, what is time :(

[skekzok]

That was the first thing I thought of, how creepy Tennant was playing him.

[sister]

i love the super hip trendy design and overall aesthetic of this. really makes me feel like being a serial killer

[spankmypirate]

Do I need to call the police

[sister]

n-no dear FBI agents i was just being critical of design trends in modern media, i swear!!

[greatljname]

Sounds like something a serial killer would say.

[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.

[spankmypirate]

The ITV series about this was so good yet disturbing. David Tennant freaked me out

[ahkna]

ITV does really good true crime dramas, I never feel like I'm supposed to be sympathizing with the murderer.

[lokiyan]

I love a murder mystery/detective novel but honestly can't get into true crime.

[mangomuch]

Same, I wish this trend would pass. There are interesting real-life cases, sure, but it's all too much now. Not every killer needs to be heard, I don't care if it's "for the first time".

[elderpricely]

It's never going to pass. It's been a thing for as long as people have been a thing.

[complisult]

Yep. The nineteenth century in particular really loved a great true crime pamphlet.