Scottish Murderers of Children - Kenny Richey, Dennis Nilsen, Robert Black, Murder of Jodi Jones, Peter Manuel (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kenny Richey, Dennis Nilsen, Robert Black, Murder of Jodi Jones, Peter Manuel, Thomas Watt Hamilton. Excerpt: Dennis Nilsen For the similarly named American politician, see Dennis Nielsen Dennis Andrew Nilsen (born 23 November 1945, Fraserburgh, Scotland ) also known as the Muswell Hill Murderer and the Kindly Killer is a British serial killer who lived in London . Nilsen killed at least fifteen men and boys in gruesome circumstances between 1978 and 1983, and was known to retain corpses for sex acts. He was eventually caught after his disposal of dismembered human entrails blocked his household drains: the drain cleaning company found that the drains were congested with human flesh and contacted the police. Due to the similarities between their crimes, sexuality and lifestyle, Nilsen has been referred to as the "British Jeffrey Dahmer ." Early life Nilsen was born at 10 High Street, Strichen, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire to a Scottish mother, Betty White, and a Norwegian father, Olav Magnus Moksheim, who adopted the surname Nilsen . His father was an alcoholic and his parents divorced when he was four years old. His mother remarried and sent her son to his grandparents, but after a couple of years he was sent back to his mother again. Nilsen claimed the first traumatic event to shape his life came about when he was a small child, when his beloved grandfather died of a heart attack in October, 1951. His strict Roman Catholic mother insisted that he should view the body before burial. During Nilsen's childhood, his mother and stepfather frequently lectured him about the "impurities of the flesh." Army service and move to London In 1961, Nilsen left school and enlisted in the British Army where he became a cook in South Yemen, Cyprus, Berlin, Germany and the Shetland Islands . ...