Who Is Dennis Nilsen In The Hare Psychopath

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The Hare Psychopathy Checklist and Dennis Nilsen
Dennis Andrew Nilsen, sometimes referred to as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly murdered, dismembered, and sexually violated 15 young men in the course of his 5 year killing spree. He started murdering young homosexual men, which he generally met in bars and then invited back to his place, in 1978, with his final killing being in around 1983. All the crimes Dennis committed were in Muswell Hill, a small district in London, in both of his homes (Osborne, 2013).
Dennis Nilsen was born in Fraserburgh, Scotland on the 23rd of November in 1945, to Elizabeth Duthie Whyte and Olav Magnus Moksheim. Whenever he was just 4 years old, his father, who apparently suffered from alcoholism, left …show more content…

Even though the encounter enraged the friend to the point that he required hospitalization, upon questioning Dennis was released without any charges (“Dennis Nilsen,”n.d.). Nilsen took up alcoholism after his boyfriend of two years, David Gallichan, moved out; this triggered a downward spiral in Nilsen’s life which would lead to his first murder. His first victim was Stephen Holmes, a 14 year old he met at a bar, in December of 1978 (“The Serial Killer Next Door,” n.d.). Nilsen invited the young boy back to his aparment for dinner and drinks, whenever Holmes tried to leave in the morning, Nilsen became upset. He strangled the 14 year old with a neck tie and then drowned him in a bucket of water. In several interviews Nilsen claims he took the corpse into his bathroom to wash it and then placed it back into his bed because he found the corpse to be beautiful. He attempted to engage in necrophilia and after he was unsuccessful he just went to sleep next to the dead man. He later hid the corpse in the floorboards of his apartment, but later took the corpse to his backyard where he burnt

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