Dennis Nilsen
Dennis Nilsen was a serial killer who was born on November 23, 1945, in Fraserburgh, Scotland. Though Nilsen recognized his homosexual desires, he was never comfortable with them and began acting on them through murder and dismemberment. Nilsen's first victim was in 1978, he went on to kill, according to his confession, twelve young men and dissect their bodies. When police finally arrested him in 1983, it quickly became apparent that, had they linked a series of reported incidents from lucky escapees over the previous five years, they might well have halted his ghoulish killing spree considerably sooner.
“I did it all for me. Purely selfish. I worshiped the art and the act ofdeath, over and over. It’s as simple as that. Afterwards it was allsexual confusion, symbolism, honoring the “fallen.” I was honoringmyself. I hated the decay and the dissection. There was nosadistic pleasure in the killing. I killed them as I would like to bekilled myself, enjoying the extremity of the death act itself. If I didit to myself I could only experience it once. If I did it to others, Icould experience the death act over and over again.—Dennis Nilsen”
Dennis Nilsen