This case isn’t suitable for kids, and if you dislike murder, necroplia, homosexuals, incest, and other topics please leave now. I wish no disrespect on the victims and their families, I just found this interesting and hope you guys do too. Some of my sources may be wrong and if you wish to correct me please do, I would love some criticism. Not everything maybe correct things change over time since everything didn’t get as well documented.

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Dennis Andrew Nilsen was born on November 23, 1945 in Fraserburgh Scotland a small fishing town. To Bettty Duthie Whyte and Olav Mangus Moksheim who adopted the surname Nilsen. Moksheim was a Norgein soldier that came to Scotland in the 1940’s and married Betty in 1942 after a brief courtship. They moved into Betty’s parents house together even though her parents disapproved of the couple being together. They were together for seven years and had three kids. Olav Jr., Dennis, and Sylvia. Moksheim worked for the Free the Norgian Soldiers Movement, which was pro Nazis. He would come home rarely and basically have intercourse with Betty then leave to work or drink again. So in 1948 Betty decided to divorce Moksheim and said she “rushed into marriage without thinking” her parents were supportive of this decision. Nilsen’s was either 3 or 4 at the time of the divorce.

Fraserburgh a town in Aberdeenshire a tiny isolated island that had a small population of 100,000. Which means the people in the town would date and marry people they are related to. This would lead to mental illness at a higher outcome because of incest. It wasn’t a brother and sister, but more of cousin and cousin that married each other till the soldiers showed up and finally added to the gene pool and dating pool on the island. During the trial that was used as evidence to help prove Dennis wasn’t fully guilty because of insanity that ran in his family.

Betty and her three kids are still living with her parents Andrew Whyte and Lily Whyte, till later on when she could afford a flat. Nilsen would go on long walks with his grandfather along the shore sometimes alone or with his siblings. Nilsen would wait hours at the shoreline for his grandfather to return from fishing trips. Some sources say that on walks Andrew asked Nilsen to pull out his penis and wanted to watch him pee. Nilsen did admit he was molested by an older boy, but didn’t say whom he was. He may or may not have done this I don’t know, though it does indicate it. Whyte was a strict man, sullen, proud, disapproved of such things as alcohol, the radio, and working on the Sabbath (working on Sundays.) Whyte seemed to find real contemptment and joy, in his relationship with Nilsen, he would tell stories of the sea to Nilsen which he listened to for hours on end. When Nilsen was six his grandfather went out for a fishing trip and didn’t return alive. On October 31, 1951 his grandfather was 62 when he died as a hero, a father figure, and the one person who he connected to the most died of a heart attack at sea. He came home from school a few days after Whyte died since he had to be brought back in and saw his mother crying and was asked if he wanted to see his grandfather. Nilsen said yes and walked into the kitchen only to find a wooden box on the kitchen table. He looks into the box and sees his grandfather asleep as he was told, he thought Whyte would wake up any moment and hug him and take him on walks with him on his shoulders once more, but he didn’t. He was told his grandfather went to a better place and asked why Whyte didn’t take him with. After a few weeks to months later he realized that his grandfather wasn’t coming back and was dead. Nilsen claims this is his most vivid childhood memory and maybe when his thoughts of love and death collided.

After the death of his grandfather, he was more distant and took walks by himself on the same path he and grandfather did. The only person he didn’t really push away was Sylvia his little sister. He was more lonely, didn’t do anything with family, anything he would do before was a no go. Once he was happy as a child then he wasn’t, never until the military. He resented his older brother for basically being everything he wasn’t and pushed Olav Jr. away more than before. Never Sylvia though was it because she was younger, a girl, or some other reason that only he knows. Though his weird childhood wasn’t over and if you like to tick off serial killer bingo there are many more cards to play.

Dennis Nilsen

He took a solo trip down to the beach at Inverallochy either in 1954 or 1955 and he was submerged under the water and almost taken out to sea. He started to panic and failing his limbs and gasping for a breath that wasn’t there when he swears he could see his grandfather was coming to pulling him out of the water. It wasn’t his grandfather that saved him though. Another young kid or teenager saved him and dragged him out of the water where he awoke on land and had a sticky white substance on his stomach. Again some sources say this kid saved Nilsen and then masturbated over the unconscious body of Nilsen. Is this what triggered his love of corpses, or was his grandfather’s death the cause, or was his strict parents the cause, or another cause overall we don’t know, or was no trigger needed and he was born this way. Was this white sticky substance on his stomach seaman or was it something else?

A short time after this Betty found a flat and the small family moved into it, in 1955. Soon after she married Andrew Scott and had four more children together. Nilsen resented Scott because he was the disciplinary of the household, but grew to tolerate him. Olav Jr. and Sylvia were treated better in his eyes and therefore it was unfair and I agree, but he wasn’t the easiest kid to have no kid is easy to have. One thing his parents who could be strict liked to say was “impurities of the flesh.” Which could be a cause of some of tendencies, but no one really knows not even Nilsen, or does he? Did they say this all along because they knew he was gay? Anyways back to childhood the happy couple hopefully, had seven kids Nilsen never had a bedroom to himself thanks to large family in our stranders today. He fondled his younger sister Sylvia and his older brother Olav Jr. He may have fondled them more than once some sources say once some say more. This all started because of impure thoughts he had been having of his male classmates. He was changing thanks to purburty right and he saw that he was attratived to males at school and he of course kept this to himself it wasn’t a time to be gay. So he explored this at home, but most of the boys he liked were more femine and looked like his younger sister Sylvia so he thought maybe he was bisexual. Of course he tried to foundle Sylvia after this thought and he wasn’t, but he wanted to see for sure if he was truely gay. Which lead to the fondling of Olav Jr. whom woke up as he was being fondled. He should never of done that to explore his sexualitly but before this he had never seen a naked body besides when younger and now more mature he saw their bodies in a different light.

After that night Olav Jr. went around calling his brother a hen and other such slurs back then he was thinking his brother was gay and bullied Nilsen for it. When Nilsen was at school he never acted on feelings and just loved or admired from afar. He finished school early at the age of 15 and worked at a cannery for a few weeks before he found out what to do next in life. His next step was signing up for the military. When he took the test as he entered the military he got the highest score for culinary core. He told his mother before he left of course and trained for three years before being in the military for nine more years. He was in the military all together for eleven years and three months.

He for once was happy mainly because of the men in uniform, yummy right? While in the military he became an alcoholic and would drink as he cooked, you always need wine as you cook right? This was to relax and be a normal human he had no social skills and alcohol loosened him up, but he had to make sure not to drink too much or too little. While these cooks did, but anyway these practices came in handy later on. Nilsen would never shower with anyone else and would find some solo time to masturbate and eventually his sick fantasies came out as he was in the military. He enjoyed this time because of the hard work, discipline, and the comradeship. He revealed in the feeling of no longer being an outsider, though he still was attracted to a few of his fellow comrades.

In these eleven years many things happened to him and others. He got a private room finally but not for all the eleven years. He would position himself in front of the mirror so he could see the penis in the mirror and not his head while standing or lying. From this he basically disassociated with the body in the mirror and got turned on by this and once that stopped working for him he started getting talc powder, fake blood and other make-up to make himself look dead. His fantasies went from unconscious bodies to dead bodies. So while traveling with the military he would see dead bodies.

Nilsen while in the military

He would walk the battlegrounds sometimes to find new inspiration for his fantasies. He didn’t need to walk the battle grounds for once though, he got inspiration from the picture The Raft of the Medusa. A depiction of crash and he liked the left lower corner showing an older man holding a dead young boy in his arms and Nilsen remembered this in his brain for later. This formed into different fantasies. He first thought of the young boy with the old man and from there this twisted memory turned to old man finding Nilsen and dragging him back to his home and this old man got turned on by Nilsen being dead. As the old man climax so did the corpse only the penis came back to life spurting cum onto the stomach as while as the old man’s. The old man buried Nilsen and then dug him up and and masturbated again to the corpse of Nilsen. This was only one of Nilsen’s sick fantasies he masturbated to in the mirror as a cook for the military.

The Raft of Medusa

So you would think that be it that happened in the military no, not all. He would act way drunker than he was to maybe get touched, or molested. He just wanted to be touched so he acted as he acted as passive as he could since he wasn’t drunk just tipsy. One time Nilsen got into an Arab taxi the driver knocked him out and Nilsen had a near death experience. Nilsen got into the taxi then was knocked out and placed into the trunk where he woke up and waited for the car to stop and when the trunk opened he grabbed the jack and hit the Arab in the head with it. Who knows if this is fully true, since only Nilsen witnesses it, and he does love to manipulative things and stories.

He did try sex with a woman, he paid for a prostitute and it was overrated and just ot much vagina and not enough penis for his liking or was it because she was still alive? She was in Berlin and he bragged that he shagged a women finally to his colleges. He also had intercourse with a young Arab boy, many times I don’t know if he paid for it, or if it was consensual, and all that but he did shag that fella.

Well traveling with the military he gained a new hobby and that was photography and filming. When NIlsen was finishing his service he made a friend and fell in love with him, but this friend was straight. Brian Masters wrote many biographies on serial killers and one is on Dennis Nilsen, he calls this friend “Terry Finch.” Finch was only 18 and straight, as there friendship grew Finch pretended to be dead for Nilsen as he filmed him for minutes on end. The parting put a major pain on Nilsen and he didn’t admit to Finch he loved him and just burned the films they made together, which was hours on end and surprised there colleges they were with. He gave Finch the projector and left him never seeing him again still in love and became a bitter man. During the military he had cooked for the Queen’s guard, West Germany, Ayden, The Gulf, Trucial Oman Scouts an Arab regiment, Cyprus, Sutherland Highlander, Bala, Northern Ireland, and maybe other places. He started off as a private and left as a Corporal.

After he left the military he came home and stayed with his family for a few months while home his mother Betty fretted over him not having a women next to his side yet. Though I believe it was on Christmas a few couples including his brother Olav Jr. and his wife were watching a documentary about homosexuals. After they watched it Olav Jr. told Betty that Dennis was gay and they had big fight it lead to where Olav Jr. and Nilsen never talked again. Betty only wrote a few letters to him and Nilsen did reply, basically after that day he was disowned by his family.

Eventually he moved out and headed to London where he became a police officer for the Metropolitan Police, for an underwhelming period. He started training in 1972 and joined the force in 1973, his number was Q287. When training one of his tasks was to go down to the morgue and see the bodies. When down there he saw a young girl that died and older man the Pathologist. This girl to him looked like a young boy and that provided to his fastanties. He only made a few arrests while working on force none required any force, but nothing more than that, and some police officers say he figerianted the morgure more than normal officers. Some sorcerers think this is why he resigned so soon, even saying he was found over a corpse masturbating and was forced to resign after that. This is where he learned abouth the gay pubs, but he didn’t find what he was looking for while on the force, the same bond he found in the military. What put him over the edge to resign was he on patrol one night and found a couple having intercourse in their car, but they were homosexuals and that wasn’t allowed back then and he couldn’t bring himself to arrest them. Two parts of him collided so he within the same year resigned from the police force.

Nilsen as a police officer or as Brits call them Bobbies.

After that he worked for a security team from December 1973 to May 1974. This job didn’t last long, probably for the same reason because he wasn’t built for it sure he was tall, but he wasn’t built to hurt people unless drunk. So after that he became unemployed and lived off the money he had until he had to sell his service meld from the military which wasn’t much money. The service medal was only £8. It was a little bit after that he gave in and went to sign up for unemployment, but that changed from signing up for unemployment to getting a job as a civil servant. This job as a civil servant he would have until he would be arrested in 1978. His job was to assign jobs to the untalented and others who couldn’t find one.

The pubs he found out about were frecented by gay men and other LGBT+ comminty members. Though from the outside it looked like any other pub to non locals. These pubs where The King William IX, Colerne Cabar (which was later exploited by another serial killer), Colin Ireland, The Golden Lion, The Black Cap, The Salishary, and Cricklewood Arms. He would frequent each of these pubs and do many pub crawls getting drunker as the years past on.

Nilsen was just living life as a civil servant before anything really happened. One day at work he met David Painter, but later saw him on the street. Painter came home with Nilsen after seeing on the street, Painter fell asleep on the bed once comfortable with Nilsen. He awoke to the sight of Nilsen over top of him taking photos of him asleep. Painter fought so much he had to be taken to the hospital. Nilsen was questioned and released no charges were pressed. [red flag]

One day he felt lonely and went down to a local pub in Soho and found a youth being made fun of by two other men, he was weaker and had some lipstick on. So Nilsen mustered his biggest voice he could and walked over to them and got in the middle of the fight basically recusing the boy. This boy was his first boyfriend and last long term alive one. They entered the pub together and sat in a cozy booth and talked for hours exchanging names and why they were there. The youth was David Gallichan a 20 year old homeless youth, he was gay, and staying in a local hostel. So they left the bar together and went to the hostel and spent the night there both of them and decide to get a flat together within a few short hours. So with the inheritance from his father’s death £1,000 or $1,284.84 in today’s money it is £4,152.15 and $5,325.96. Together they found a place in Cricklewood at 195 Melrose Avenue they bargained with the landlord for private access to the garden and to have the place furinced, which it was but barely.

Bleep

So Nilsen and Gallichen now living together and Gallichen never went out to find work, so he assumed the “wife” position job of the flat. He would take care of the flat and cook for Nilsen who went out and worked for them. Nilsen gave Gallihen an affectionate nickname “Twinkle” and he did say he did find Gallichaen sexually attractive. They had a good relationship for about a year and may have had intercourse in that first year they were together. During that first year they got Bleep a mutt from a shelter, and a stray cat named Dee-Dee. Because unlike most serial killers Nilsen didn’t like hurting animals nor did he hurt them as a child, besides one cat at age nine. He hung the cat by the throat with barbed wire and he was afterwards repulsed by the sight.

So the four of them together in the ground floor flat and eventually Nilsen started to be abusive to Gallichen verbally. He yelled at him for the slightest wrong thing, mostly when drunk and when making home movies. Because he was the director, the star, everything, and if Gallichen did one wrong thing he would know. As they drifted apart they brought home different men to their shared flat and slept in separate beds and one time to both of their surprises Nilsen brought home a women. Everything just bubbled to breaking point and Nilsen yelled at Gallichen and told him to leave and Gallichen did, because there two different personalities weren’t working together. Though after he told Gallichen to leave he was afraid of the world and that he would end up alone. “Loneliness is a long unbearable pain,” he wrote. The two year relationship was over as soon as it started in a day. Nilsen was very impulsive and rarely thought things through till it was too late. Gallichan being out of his life, a dead body in his flat, or the toilets not working he never thought and just did. After his love left him he threw himself into his work, alcohol, became increasingly more political, and he watched a lot of television. He became depressed like the rest of us, go team!

Between the time of now and the murders he tried to date another three more men but these three men didn’t stick around. He was either to strict or the man he tried dating didn’t fit within his ideals so after the fourth rejection he decided he wasn’t meant for love and companionship. The killings of 12-15 men and young boys started eighteen months after Gallichen left. He would also take long walks with Bleep through graveyards to indulge in his fantasies and his hero Karl Marx. During these times he tried to keep the depressing thoughts away with his fantasies again he sank into their embrace they were comforting like a home. But eventually they weren’t enough, he needed more he needed love, he needed a companion, a lover, someone who won’t leave him like Gallichen, Whyte, his father, and many others that have before. He needed someone to control and someone who give into him to fully and never say no to him, he wanted to feel powerful. He achieved that in the sickest way possible if you ask most of humanity.

So on December 30, 1978 he went out to a gay pub looking for another one stand like he has been doing for the past eighteen months since his beloved Gallichen has left. Though this would be the night that changed everything, he spotted a youth at the pub and believed he was 16 or 17 and he invited the kid home. The kid accepted, since the kid wanted beer and he wasn’t getting any at the pub he looked to young. They went back to 195 Melrose Avenue together there they drank and talked and eventually the youth fell asleep and so did Nilsen. Though Nilsen eventually awoke before the youth in the morning. As Nilsen was looking over kid he thought he was staying with Nilsen for New Years Eve whether he wanted to or not, since he spent Christmas alone. Nilsen stoke his face as he stared at how peaceful he looked before. Nilsen decided to kill him then and there. He grabbed a tie and put it around the youth’s neck and strangled him. The youth did wake up and try to fight off Nilsen and they fell to the floor as they fought, but was unsuccessful and he spilled into unconscious. Nilsen noticed that and went to the kitchen to get a bowl of water and submerged his head into the water the youth didn’t struggle this time. Nilsen just waited till the bubbles stopped and then pulled his head out of the water. The youth was never identified until January 12, 2006 and he wasn’t 16 or 17 he was only 14 and his name was Stephen Dean Holmes, he was born on March 22, 1964. He was at the pub after a pop concert on the way home.

He used water to kill the person to maybe bring his grandfather closer to each death and maybe incorporate that with each death, he can’t simulate a heart attack but he can use water what his grandfather loved most to kill. Nilsen did love the water himself, but he loved his grandfather more. I wouldn’t be surprised if he used water because of grandfather. His grandfather his first corpse love was what sparked his love for the dead and made him kill, then used what they both loved the most to kill his victims.

195 Mulerose Avenue Cricklewood

After Holmes was dead he got and erection from the site of the corpse the perfect person so complaint and willing to obey as he says. He didn’t touch it that time instead took Holmes to bathe him in the bathtub and placed the corpse in and washed it up and shaved it, then put on makeup to cover up the corpses blemishes, sometimes he’d put talc powder on their bodies. Before he would dress it up in a new pair of underwear. Nilsen would then take Holmes back to his bed and try to have intercourse, but his penis wouldn’t stay up. After a few tries he put the body on the ground and covered it with a curtain and went to bed.

Later on he would try and place the body under the floorboards but it didn’t work because rigor mortis set in so he propped Holmes up against the wall for the time being. Holmes was still standing later on so Nilsen started to massage and work on getting Holmes under the floorboards and proceed as if life was normal, but knew this was beginning to a different kind flatmate. He would take out the corpse of Holmes a week later and found it was dirty so he was washed off. He then bathed in the bath water after him. Once Holmes’ corpse was cleaned Nilsen got an erection and started to masturbate right there in the kitchen as he putting the body away. He didn’t place Holmes away gently instead pushed him in by the ankles back under the floorboards, Holmes’ grave. He did eventually get rid of the body seven and a half months later in August.

Nilsen never did say which corpse he used as just for a companion or as more. He did use them as a sex doll if you wish say that, but he admittedly said he never penetrated them, just masturbation, thigh fucking if you wish not to get to complicated, though he did admit he hotdogged it once. By that he means he puts penis in between one of his chosen companion corpses butt crack and had intercourse with the butt cheeks not the asshole. He said penetration was to far and would ruin the perfectness that his companions had, plus he couldn’t keep his dick up for that, erectile dysfunction with a corpse how sad Nilsen, hopefully you can keep it up with an alive person.

This process was longer than anyone knew until he admitted he take the body or bodies out from the floorboards and chop them up on the stone floor in the kitchen since it was close to a sink for vomiting he would get sick as he dissected his lovers and dead companions. Nilsen would remove the organs and put them in a separate bags, cut the body into parts to burn easier then placed it back under the floorboards or in the shed. Sometimes he would boil body parts on the stove to remove flesh in a cooking pot he bought the day he murder Holmes. Sometimes this process took ages and he would do it in stages till he was ready for the next step. After he killed then dissected his victims he would build a bonfire in the garden to burn the larger pieces of the bodies and put the organs in between the wall and the fence for the foxes, vultures and other animals to come pick at eat till it was gone. So he built up a bonfire in the garden which he had private access to and then add a tire onto it to hide the smell of burning flesh and the bonfire would burn all day. Normally it would get rid of the bones to if not he would rake through them and crush them with his rake.

His flat now empty of a corpse and hopefully the flies diminishing over time the killing stopped he promises to himself because he limited his alcohol intake and he tried to commit sucied but couldn’t. Tried to bring himself to do it, but when Bleep walked into the room he couldn’t because of her. So he looked into the mirror and spat on his reflection in disgust. He couldn’t kill himself because of Bleep that day, but if he did imagine how many lives would be saved? Though we can’t say anything about that since he didn’t die and killed twelve to fifteen men and young boys. Imagine what Bleep’s life would’ve been through Nilsen was a strong man for sticking it out, he should’ve known killing for company wasn’t normal though.

Bodies were kept everywhere he forgot where he put some.

Next he would try and kill a student from Hong Kong in October, who managed to escape on this fortunate night. Andrew Ho met Nilsen on the West End and Nilsen asked Ho if he wished to be shown around the sights Ho declined. Though Nilsen didn’t stop there, he asked if Ho wanted to come back to his and try some bondage play or just a drink. Ho for some reason agreed but I think for some for money. So back at Nilsen’s place at Cricklewood they drank together to get into the mood before Nilsen started to “play.” Nilsen started by grabbing a tie and putting it around Ho’s neck, as he did telling Ho he was playing a dangerous game, then tighten it. Ho told him stop, Nilsen didn’t want to he had intent that night to kill Ho. He finally stopped the strangulation of Ho, who went to the police and told them what went on there, but he didn’t press charges. The police did ask Nilsen questions though he was released without charge. [red flag]

So him promising not to kill again was broken on that night or was it, since Ho wasn’t dead. That didn’t last though Kennth Ockendon was the next victim that died in his Cricklewood flat and was one of the few reported missing. He was a Canadian student that was in London to visit family and due home the next day. On December 3, 1979 Ockendon was at pub and Nilsen noticed he wasn’t a local and asked him if he wished to be shown around. Ockendon agreed to be shown around and eventually went back to Nilsen’s place. They listened to music together and Nilsen said music influenced most of his killings. He then asked Ockonden to listen something and handed Ockonden the headphones. He stands behind Ockonden and then grabs the headphone cord and uses it to strangle Ockonden. This song was from London Symphony Rock Classic album.

Nilsen’s favorite pair of headphones to listen to music and to kill with.

Afterward he finished listening to the music and smoked a cigarette and drank some rum and coke his favorite. Ockonden had his clothes removed and stuffed under the kitchen cupboard, where he doubled over and stiffen up thanks to rigor mortis. Nilsen would take him out a day later once he a polaroid camera with him, unstiffened and got him cleaned before he used the camera. Once cleaned Nilsen would put Ockonden into various positions and took many photos of Ockonden in these suggestive positions. Afterwards he took Ockonden to bed and put Ockonden on top of him spread eagle, and spoke to him as if he were alive. Once done talking Nilsen crossed Ockonden legs and had intercourse between his thighs. Nilsen eventually put Ockonden under the floorboards only removing the corpse a few times to watch tv. Ockonden used a map to get around the city and apperenty Nilsen didn’t throw everything away of his companions since that very map was found in Nilsen’s flat and in it had a partial finger fingerprint of Ockonden’s linking them together.

Nilsen would destroy all the music him and Ockonden listened too. Any time the music came on he would get into a weird mood. One time a song he and Ockonden listened to came on at the Christmas party he helped plan. Nilsen dropped his drink and left the party. He eventually went home and tried to sleep, but couldn’t and pulled up the floorboards and yelled “If you want to listen than listen.”

Five months went by before he had the urge to kill again. On May 13, 1980 Martyn Duffey who was 16 was his next victim or was it a new dead companion? Duffey was homeless and accepted the invitation to spend the night, since he hasn’t slept in a few days. At Cricklewood they had two beers and decided to hit the hay. Nilsen woke up before Duffey and of coursed strangled him then drowned him in the kitchen sink. After Duffey was killed he took the corpse to the bathroom to be cleaned. As Nilsen cleaned Duffey he told him how beautiful he was. After the bath Nilsen took him to the bed and laid him down, and started to kiss him all over. Eventually he sat on Duffey’s stomach and started to masturbate. Nilsen placed his newest companion in the cupboard for two weeks, then he was retried to the floorboards. Duffey was more than a corpse to him and told him he was the most beautiful person he had ever seen. Duffey was the person that lasted the longest in Nilsen’s fantasies, maybe because he was the most beautiful person to Nilsen overall.

Billy Sutherland he was 27 and a prostitute. Sutherland wasn’t gay, he did have a girlfriend and a daughter in Scotland. He went to London to find work and became a prostitute, normally going after richer older men. He went on a pub crawl with Nilsen and wouldn’t leave him alone, Nilsen only let him come home with him because Sutherland said he had no place to go. So Nilsen let him come home with him. Nilsen barely recalls killing Sutherland. Billy Sutherland was one of the few who was reported missing, but since forty other Billy Sutherland went missing in London not a surprise another one went missing.

The next few victims Nilsen doesn’t remember that much about them, to our dismay. One day hopefully we will get closure for them and their families. His fifth victim was another prostitute, he was never identified all we know is that he was from the Philippines or Thailand. Nilsen’s sixth victim was an Irish laborer he met in the pub. Number seven was a “starving hippy type” Nilsen found him sleeping in a doorway in Charing Cross. His eighth victim he sadly can recall nothing about. Victims nine and ten were Scottish men he picked up in pubs.

His other weapons the tie, knives, and his pot to boil off skin. All these are kept at The Black museum in Britain.

“The most exciting part was when I lifted a body and carried it, it was an expression of my power to have control the dangling elements of limp limbs was an expression of passivity the more passive the more powerful I was.”

So to get rid of some of these flies by now he would get rid of the bodies, though he can’t can’t get them all. Everybody between Ockonden and “the starving hippy type” were disposed of. So he put his dog Bleep and his cat Dee-Dee in the garden as he started cutting. In his underwear on the stone floor once again he was cutting the bodies apart. Some parts were put into his lovely plastic bags, others into carpets, and some into suitcases. Once again after everyone was chopped up and organs put between the fence and wall, the fire was started for the day. This time though three kids watched Nilsen told them to stay back because toxic smoke. Nilsen thought it right that the kids were dancing around the fire a mass burning of his companions. No one questions about the day long fire they probably were grateful when he moved out.

Victim eleven has no name and hasn’t been identified yet. Though this victim was as the sources say a skinhead, Nilsen picked him up at Piccadilly Circus. What makes this person stand out he had a tattoo around his neck saying “cut here.” He boasted to Nilsen how tough he was. Though once he was intoxicated he was proven to be no match for Nilsen. Nilsen once again killed him and then hung his toros in his bedroom for 24 hours before he was buried underneath the floorboards.

At some point between murder six and murder eleven on November 11, 1980 Douglas Stewart was the one that got away. He was brought back to Nilsen’s flat and got him drunk a recurring theme huh? Apparently a lot of people go to strangers flats to get drunk, food, and intercourse. So Nilsen tied him up and was getting ready to kill him when Stewart woke up. Finding himself tied to a chair, being throttled. Stewart put up such a good fight that he managed to escape the wrath of Nilsen. Stewart once safe called the police though once again the police dismissed it as a tiff between gay lovers having a domestic quarrel. [red flag]

Malcolm Barlow was 24 years old an epelthic, orphan, and a pathological logical lair. Nilsen took him home and called an ambulance for him, he was being a good person for once right on. Though the next day Barlow came back to thank his savior, Nilsen cooked for him and offered alcohol to the man. Barlow fell asleep after a bit and Nilsen found Barlow’s presence a nuisance so he killed Barlow. He stuffed Barlow under the kitchen sink in a cupboard. Now with five bodies around him in his flat the flies and smell are overwhelming. He placed deodorant under the floorboards. He would also spray air freshener twice a day to try and get rid of the flies. One of the tenants asked him about the smell and cheeky old Nilsen said it was decay of the building.

He would use these bodies for sexual purposes for as long as a week. Nilsen found having a control over the men thrilled him and the mystery of the dead body not responding fascinated him. Nilsen thought he appreciated them more than they were ever appericated before in life. Around this time his flat was vandalized and the cops who came to investigate didn’t know they were on top of bodies. [red flag]

Some sources say these vandals were sent by his landlord who wanted him out and thought he was weird. So the landlord helped him find a place to live well a few places, gave him badisposiosition and another £1,000 on top of that. Though he still had bodies in his flat so he had to get rid of them, once again. He called off of work and cut up the bodies and burned the bodies once again. He did this all within a few days before moving to his new flat, which was an attic flat.

What his garden looked like when police came.

After moving he didn’t kill for a while till Paul Nobbs was brought home to 23 Cranley Gardens. Nobbs was probably lured in by drinks and maybe intercourse and from the alcohol he fell asleep on Nilsen’s bed. When he woke in the morning he woke up with little memory of the night before. He had bruising around the neck, bloodshot eyes, and other signs of severe stangletion. Nilsen looked him over as Nobbs walks into the kitchen and said “gosh you look terrible.” Nobbs got dressed quickly and went to class refusing Nilsen breakfast offer, but he was having trouble focusing in class. So his tutor took him to a University doctor, the doctor looked over Nobbs and give him meds for his bloodshot eyes. He suggested Nobbs go to the police, but didn’t he was scared to be outed for being a homosexual.

Carl Stotter

Finally John Howlett was killed in his new flat, yay. He was an ex-guardsman that he picked up and took home in December 1981. Howlett is said to be a friend, they could’ve worked together when Nilsen was a guard. Nilsen took a disliking to Howlet since he fell asleep in his bed. Howlet was one of the very few who fought back, that didn’t discourage him though since he knew Howlett must die. There was a struggle all over the flat and even at one point Howlet tried to strangle Nilsen back. Howlet was eventually drowned his head held underwater for five minutes or more. Howlet was the first body dismembered in his flat. He flushed the heart and lungs down the toilet, probably boiled them first. He did throw away the larger bones anything he didn’t get rid of he kept. Heads, hands, ribs, and feet were boiled to get rid of flesh. Torsos was kept in a plastic bag in his wardrobe. Some of the bigger parts like spinal column and legs might of been chucked into his neighbor’s yard or to trash which was a common practice. No one reported the weird shaped bags with bones in it, these bags just disappeared within a few days.

Carl Stotter who was Drag Queen met Nilsen at one of his favorite pubs he brought home Stotter and was pre warned about the sleeping bag and it might strangle him, neither man had an interest in, intercourse that night. Stotter because he had just gotten out of an abusive relationship and Nilsen respected that. Once asleep Nilsen took his offer of a sleeping Stotter, a new companion if he killed. “I fell asleep and I woke up and he was strangling me. I passed out after a short time of thinking I actually I thought that I’d caught up in the sleeping bag, but he warned me about it. Anyway, I passed out from that and I remember vaguely hearing water running and being carried and I felt very cold and I realized I was in the bath and he was trying to drown me.” He also says that remembers hearing Nilsen telling him to stay still as he was strangled. You think this is the end for Stotter no, Bleep saw something Nilsen didn’t and licked Stotter’s face. Nilsen started to do CRP on Stotter, rubbed his limbs to get the currulation back, covered him with layers of blankets to keep him warm, and spoon fed him. After Stotter was ok enough to stand Nilsen told him a perfectly planned out lie. Stotter was strangled by the sleeping bag and Nilsen put him the tub because he went into shock, then nursed him back to health. He walked Stotter to the train station and gave him money for a train ticket and told him he wished to see him again, they never met again till the courtroom.

Graham Allen was another homeless man who met Nilsen in Shaftesbury Avenue. Nilsen got Allen to Cranley Gardens on the promise of food. Nilsen cooked an omelet for him and he blacked out as he killed Allen. Since Allen died and he couldn’t remember killing him even though Allen had red marks on his neck and omelet sticking out of his mouth. Nilsen deduced that the omelet didn’t leave the red marks, nor did Allen choke on the omelet , so the red marks must of been from him. Once Nilsen used Allen for his purposes Allen was left in the bath for three days since Nilsen didn’t know how to dismember him, he was dismembered the same way as the Howlet.

Stephen Sinclair was a drug addict who was mentally disabbled that loitered around Leicester Square, he was killed January 23, 1983. They met on Oxford Street and SInclair was asking for money to pay for a cheap hostel. Nilsen suggested he come home with him and Sinclair accepted. Sinclair shot up heroin and drank alcohol till he was in a stupor as Nilsen listen to music. Nilsen grabbed a string and said “Stephen here we go again” it was to short so he tied the string to a tie. As Sinclair was strangled Nilsen told him “Nothing can hurt you now.” Once Sinclair was dead Nilsen removed bandages on his arms and discovered recent self harm marks, and an attempt at sucide with a razor. Before he was disposed of Sinclair was cleaned and placed in bed. Nilsen put two mirrors around the bed, before he removed his own clothes and got into bed. As they lay in bed together he felt oneness and and thought this surely was the meaning of life and death. He once again talks to the victim as if they were still alive and eventually Bleep jumps on the bed and sniffs Sinclair. Nilsen then turns Sinclair’s head and kisses Sinclair. Nilsen later wrote this “this was something I had to do, I thought of all potential all that beauty and all that pain that is in his life it will soon be over.”

Once this dream date or is this nightmare fuel is over Nilsen flushes and disposed of the body the same way as he did with Howlett and Allen. This caused a problem though and blocked the drains and sewers for all the six tenants in Cranley Gardens. So Nilsen stopped flushing his companions, to unblock the drains, while at least not make it worse. He was a strange man and made a petition to get the drains unblocked, having fellow tenants sign it, before giving the papers to the landlord. Was this a white flag, an intentional move, or no? A drain cleaner company was called and Dyno Rod came to clean the drains. Their engineer Mike Cattran came on February 5, 1983. Cattran got suited up and removed the manhole cover before he went down to investigate, because the blackage wasn’t a simple fix of wiggle a poop out. So he went down to the sewers besides the house. So he got down there and found a substance that looked subsciously like human flesh. This slugly substance that was eight inches thick and composed of thirty to forty pieces of human flesh. After his findings, Cattran called his supervisor and informed him of the maybe human flesh. His supervisor told Cattran they would come back tomorrow at first light. Nilsen made a comment that maybe somebody was flushing fried chicken. During the middle of the night Nilsen ponder sucide, but didn’t go through with it once again, after a midnight cleaning.

23 Carnley Gardrns

So in the middle of the night Nilsen got up and emptied the sewer of the flesh, maybe he changed his heart he doesn’t want to go to jail. His neighbors saw his going up and down the stairs at 2-3am which he had a weird alibi for. Later that morning, he went to work and joked with a co-worker “If I’m not here tomorrow I’m ill, in jail, or dead.” He was foreshadowing himself wasn’t he? By tomorrow he was in jail.

During that day the Dyno Rod company returned and found the manhole cover was in a different place than yesterday. Cattran and his supervirouser went down and when they came upon no pounds of flesh only a little bit and some bone fragments. No fried chicken in the drain, they were both undeniably human so they called the police. The skin they found was part of the neck and showed signs of strangulation and was confirmed by a Pathologist to be human.

When Nilsen got home from work that day there were three officers waiting in his hallway for him. Nilsen looks at them and asks why their there Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay replied, “We are here to inspect your drains.” Nilsen being a smart man or not so much ask “since when do cops inspect drains?” Detective Jay replies “when dead people are in them.” Nilsen tries to act surprised that they were dead people in the drains, when he was the one putting them there. Detective Jay eventually says “stop messing around.” After some hesitation Nilsen tells Detective Jay where the plastic bags were in the wardrobe. Detective Jay checks the bags and arrested Nilsen on the spot and on the ride to police station asked him how many bodies. Nilsen replied originally as he say “12-13”, but the media somehow screwed it up to “14-15” so will go with 12-15 murders for this case. This was in February 1978. There was also questions about going down to the drains at 2-3 am in the morning his reason. He was cutting out the middle man he was peeing directly into the drains, but later was confirmed that was a lie.

Some of his unidentified victims are at the Black Museum.

The police officers found the torsos in the wardrobe, Sinclair’s head in a chest warped in news paper, legs were stuffed under the cupboard in the bathroom. Nelson forgot a lot of the times where he put bodies so it was a miracle he remembered all the killings to since he blacked out into a killing rage most of the time. What evidence was found besides loads of bodies was a map of Ockonden’s map, Duffey’s knives, the cooking pot, headphones, and more.

Nilsen then was questioned for a while and he knew his rights, and spoke about every murder in gursome detail. He told the police about the other flat and went there with the officers to help find the bodies. What the police found wasn’t really bodies, they there found over one thousand bone fragments at Melrose Avenue in Cricklewood. The largest archaeologist dig in modern history. In one week he told over thirty hours of his murders to the police. Nilsen was held in jail for Sinclair’s murder otherwise he would of been released after twenty four hours. After finding so many bone fragments the Hansie Police Station formed a special unit that was estabishlied to trace as many of the victims as they could. They did get Scotland yard’s cooperation to get access to their missing person Bureau, still only seven victims were identified, by the time of trail. The Medical College of London Hospital joined the task of identifying the victims remains they survived the attempts of Nilsen’s attempt to destroy the evidence. The college managed to put together a jigsaw of bones, teeth, and fragments scoring a success. This victim was Graham Allen he was identified by his dental records. Though his identification came too late to charge Nilsen with at trail. He was confined to his jail cell besides for thirty minutes a day, those thirty minutes were for exercise.

This is how his flat was once laid out.

8Nilsen was represented by a local solicitor Ronald Moss, then dispensed with his legal aid, then reinstated him. Though nearing the trial he fried Moss and hired Ralph Haeems the lawyer of his then lover David Martin. Daivd Martin was a crossdressing robber who was exclutlent at escaping. He also against wearing the prison uniform and the magistrate’s were sympathetic. Nilsen thought his cooperation should’ve earned some preaks and privagles, which it doesn’t unless you go the extra mile, maybe become a snitch or have intercourse with guards. When they didn’t come he threw his camber pot or slop bucket at a guard and got a fifty six day plenty for assaulting an officer. Haeems went with “diminished responsibility” defense citing a mental abnormality in Nilsen. Thanks to his family’s past.

As the trail went on he was to be charged with six counts of murder and two counts of appemted murder. There were two psychiatrists for the defense team that definitely thought he had some mental disorder like a personality disorder or schizoid. But the prosecutor psychiatric thought otherwise. He spent the most time with Nilsen fourteen hours overall and found Nilsen to just be manipulative, with some mental abnormalities, but no mental illness. Three out four attempted murdered victims took the stand, Carl Stotter, Douglas Stewart, and Paul Nobbs. Nilsen sold his story to the press and he would tell Haeems anything that was different from each witness story when they didn’t fit with Nilsen memory and story, and then watch them fumble and try to explain on the stand. Some of the evidence used in court was the cooking pot, cutting board, Duffey’s knives, and his interviews which they crammed into four hours. Nilsen said maybe to get a lighter punishment or he did mean it “I have judged myself more harshly than any court ever could.” You ask why only six counts of muder and two counts of attempted murder because Garham Allen was identified to late to inclue in the stencing. Though they brought up Allen case and Nobbs case was dropped. During the summoning up the judge said “that a mind can be evil without being abnormal.” The jury left and deliberated and found him guilty on all accounts, which Nilsen plead innocent to, when the trail began.

Nilsen was taken back to jail where he was injured by a fellow jailer who cut his face and torso making Nilsen get eighty nine stitches after. Nilsen looking slimmer thanks to the stress of the trial, but that was over. He did many things behind bars that the guards are probably happy he is dead now. He translated books to braille, played the piano, wrote about him, talked about himself, anything to do with him was his favorite. He did try and get gay porn into prison, but they didn’t allow that in. So he was back to being a social justice warrior, this time not in the picket lines. He went around naked till he got his porn darn it, give him porn now! Though his last victim wasn’t a human in fact she was his fuzzy side kick, Bleep. The police department didn’t think anyone would want a serial killer’s dog, so they had their vet put her down, she was only six, poor Bleep. If I was alive then I would of taken Bleep, she seemed sweet and shy, but loveable. Why put her down when she was just loving her human?

Nilsen was allowed to give an interview from prison in 1992 and while he had alone time probably had more fantasies, but wrote a four hundred page book called A History of a Drowning Boy. He wasn’t allowed to publish the book, but if you look hard you’ll find it. He has inspired many songs and books and here are just some: “You’re Dying To Be With Me,” he influenced Poppy Z. Brite’s Exquisite Corpse, “Killing for Company,” “Cranley Gardens,” and “Turnabout.”

8Nilsen did just die in prison on May 12, 2018. He rushed into emergency surgery, but died because of a blood clot at the age of 72. Now some might say Nilsen was a monster and killed for no reason, I don’t sympathize with him, but the 70’s and 80’s were a rough time to be gay. He was disowned and had a rough childhood, and saw his favorite person dead at the age of six. I myself dealt with death young but I am no killer or neophile. Maybe Nilsen did just kill for company because he didn’t find the right person and he wanted too. He gave up on love to fast. Yes everybody compares him Jeferry Damher, who wanted his victims in a zombie like state more so than dead. So would they be a perfect couple no, they both wanted the perfect passive partner, maybe for killing yes perfect couple for that. I listened to a podcast that saw similtiers within other serial killers than Dahmer, he isn’t the only famous killer oh my! BTK for how he would bind and then kill. Nilsen liked to sometimes bind his victims up and then kill them not often though. He also had two worlds he lived in the “real world” and his “fantasy world.” For the last serial killer Nilsen is like John Wayne Gacy because Gacy kept his kills in the basement and Nilsen kept his corpses under floorboards. Apparently if you can’t decide what to keep as souvenirs keep the whole body.

Nilsen after the attack

I do believe Nilsen had some personality disorders like BPD, but I am not educated in psychology so I can’t profile him like that. Nilsen was the most prolific serial in London for many years, till his title was taken. He is now buried and his trusted friends if you wish to call them that have what he left behind. Maybe one day in the future his autobiography will be published. Till then we will have to see. His Cricklewood flat still stands today and has a lovely forgein couple living there. For Carnley Gardens it still stands but is unoccupied. Some say his Cricklewood flat has an uneasiness about it still that someone still lurks there, maybe Nilsen is looking for his perfect lover.

David Martin

Thank you for reading this far, even if yu didn’t let me know. I hope to see you next time have a great time.

Dennis Nilsen music

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