Dennis Nilsen wouldn't know a joke if it hit him in the nose. "One of the things they are all universally missing is a sense of humour. He has also worked with a number of murderers who, before they commit horrific crimes have charmed and lured their victims- but he said he has "never seen any redeemable qualities" in the killers he has studied. BLACK SERIAL KILLERS SERIALProf Wilson has interviewed serial killers which has demanded establishing a rapport with them in order to get answers. I didn't feel threatened, I was intrigued to work out why he did this."Īfter they met Nilsen, who was convicted of six murders but admitted he had killed more, continued to send Prof Wilson a number of documents detailing his philosophy about why he committed the killings. Everyone now is caught up in the Hollywood image of a serial killer, like Hannibal Lecter, they think this will be someone who will be powerful, sophisticated and malign. "And when I said no, I just have a PHD, he said 'OK we can talk then.' It was very interesting that he asked the first question. "One of the officers told Nilsen he would go and see Doctor Wilson. In my first week they brought in serial killer Dennis Nilsen. "I had just finished my PHD and had this memory of being at Cambridge and being on University Challenge. "I was recruited direct from university to be assistant governor at Wormwood Scrubs," he said. The criminologist said his first encounter with Nilsen still sticks in his memory. "You could rank it from one to 10 in terms of how interviews go but it is the people that go from one, where everything is fine to 10 where it is terrible, with no warning, that are worrying. You get this sixth sense of how an interview is going. But a man who was convicted of aggravated burglary scared me the most. "I've not been scared by a serial killer. He made history when he became the youngest governor of Wormwood Scrubs and later became an expert in serial killers.īut despite having interviewed dozens of murderers and paedophiles, Prof Wilson said there is only one person in his career who has made him nervous. Prof Wilson's work means he has come into contact with almost every modern serial killer - murderers driven by a warped sexual passion that would see them take trophies and choose jobs that allowed them to kill, all the time motivated by a need to keep on killing and recreate the feeling this gave them. He would later also send the criminologist extensive documents revealing his philosophy of why he had committed multiple murders, tapping into the need of serial killers to retain control even at the last - even in revealing information about their killings. In Prof Wilson's words Nilsen was simply "weedy and needy." Nilsen would later admit to having sex with some of the corpses.īut he was not the sophisticated man many would expect from a killer who had managed to slay so many without getting caught. He would then dismember them before burning their bodies, or simply boiling or setting fire to them. He had lured men back to two properties in London, drowning or strangling them before bathing and dressing their bodies which he would keep for extended periods of time. At just 24, and on his first week at Wormwood Scrubs prison, criminologist and serial killer expert Professor David Wilson still remembers the first multiple murderer he met.ĭennis Nilsen, a gay serial killer who had butchered at least 12 men, walked in to speak to the criminologist, checking out his credentials before he described in detail the brutal killings he carried out.
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