Dennis Nilsen: The Kindly Killer (Part 3)

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[01:45] Morbid. This is Morbid, and we're coming off the Super Bowl. We are, which we lost. Bummer that our team lost. Legendarily. I was so worried, because for so much of that game, here's the thing, I really thought I was getting out of it, because my husband doesn't care about sports. This man looks at me, I didn't even get to tell Debbie that she's sitting on the couch looking at me. This man tells me, [02:05] let's just watch for the commercials. Oh, no, that's the beginning. I said, okay. Oh, no, welcome. And then he said, there's really nothing else on. I was like, I could think of so many things. All right. Okay. But I was so worried. We were at zero points for so much of it that I was like, [02:20] are we going to lose this Super Bowl with zero points? We almost did. And that has never happened in history. So I was like, that would be... [02:28] horrible. And we had gone to the Celtics game earlier, which was also Love Our Seas, Love Our Seas, real bad game. Yeah, they didn't do great. I was like, it's not a banner day for Boston sports. No, I said that to John and he didn't think it was as funny as I did because I was like, whoa, Boston sports really shit the men today. And he was like, yeah. Yeah. [02:45] I was like, sorry. They did. [02:47] He said that [02:48] halfway through it, he said, this has to be the worst thing. [02:52] outing for a team in Super Bowl history. Yeah. [02:57] Yeah. [02:58] And... [02:59] he wasn't pleased. The score was just crazy. Like I was, you know what? We won't harp on it. Cause yeah, I mean, sports, cause sports, but what we will talk about is how fucking awesome that Superbowl halftime show was incredible. I just found out that the bushes were people. Yeah. And when she first said that, when she first, she said that out loud to me and I paused, I hesitated and I looked coagulating. I was that meme with the lady with all like the equations

[03:29] I thought she meant like the Bushes. The Bush family. Like the Bush family. And she was like, the Bushes are people. And I was like, was that a question? Like, did I miss a whole chapter in this nonsense that is what is the world right now? That like, were they like not people? They very much are people. I was very confused. And then you said the Bushes and the halftime show. The Bushes and the halftime show were people. And then I saw them leaving and I was like, that's incredible. That's really cool. A couple got married. It was beautiful. It was gorgeous. The whole thing was beautiful. [03:59] bad bunny is beautiful bad bunny is beautiful lady gaga lady gaga beautiful my entire tiktok now is bad bunny yep muse i saw a family who was um like watching the super bowl and they like were fans of big bunny and i literally cried at this family dan they because they were just so excited and they were actually finally like represented on a main stage i started crying oh i love that it was [04:29] up there at least, at the very least. It was big. We should make sure, but I know it's... [04:32] It's got a distinction. It squashed that other one. So it did. [04:36] Doesn't exist. Doesn't exist. But yeah, it was really cool to see. I thought that was a really cool halftime show. It was incredible. The message was beautiful. I loved the end. The only thing stronger than hate is love because we should all believe that. Yes. And togetherness. And together we are America. Together we're America. It was unity. It was all positivity. [04:55] If you happen to find something offensive about it, I can't really help you there. Can't really. It was all pretty fucking positive. Also, bad bunny.

[05:03] Oh, he's a handsome man. Benito. Benito. He is very handsome. Yeah. But yeah, it was great. It was awesome. And I really liked it. [05:12] And did you see that... [05:15] creature megan kelly being such a racist bitch about unfortunately i did it made me when she you know when she went into like like being like latinos oh yeah you're disgusting yeah it was just like gross it came across my feed and i was like [05:34] I think she mentioned that the halftime show is supposed to be all American. Meatloaf. Read a goddamn book. I fucking beg of you. And two, she wanted Meatloaf there. I don't know where that went. Not the singer. She said, yeah, that person's dead. Meatloaf. She said, Meatloaf, fried chicken, and an apple pie. I said none of those things were on my table, ma'am. It's also never... [05:57] what halftime show has had meatloaf, apple pie, and french chicken as part of it? But we do not condone Megyn Kelly at all. No. We think she's vile, racist, disgusting. Our opinions do not align with hers at all. No, they don't. We just wanted to say that. But you know what? Have the day you deserve, I guess. Bad Bunny forever. Bad Bunny forever. Bad Bunny goes hard. [06:21] I'm going to learn Spanish just so I can jam to those songs. I should know Spanish. I took it in high school, but I did not do well. So maybe I should relearn it. I know a tiny, tiny bit of Spanish. Like when he says bailar. Oh, yeah. You had a good pronunciation. I almost said personification. My Spanish teacher used to tell me that I had a really good pronunciation. I don't. I never got verbs and tenses and that whole thing. But you know what? Let's learn it. Babble.

[06:50] Let's go. [06:51] Rosetta Stone. [06:53] We'll learn it. And then we'll know exactly what Bad Bunny is saying. And we can jam even harder. Hell yeah. What's the one... [07:00] da da da da da da da da da da da da he's saying i should have gave you more kisses and hugs when i still had you oh and it makes me cry and dance at the same time when ash did that she danced while she did it salsa in place she did she salsa in her in her couch listen [07:22] I love it. Listen, there's white people and then there's white people. It's speaking of wildness. America's Next Top Model. Get ready for our bonus episode. This one, this one we're both wicked excited for. We are going to be covering, if you guys haven't seen it on Netflix, there's going to be a new documentary about America's Next Top Model, like the rise and fall. [07:52] Like, oh my God, it's already on and I went to watch it. No. I believe it's February 16th. Yeah. So we'll be covering it in our bonus episode. It's on Netflix. We're going to talk about it. That'll be out February 27th. The bonus episode, yeah. Might I suggest too, because I am actually wanting to read this, um... [08:08] Mr. J wrote a book all about it. Oh, shit. The wig, the bitch, and the meltdown. And then the little tagline is the devil also wears fake shoes. That's amazing. Or cheap shoes. I want to watch that. Yeah, I would order that book for sure because I want to read that. Yeah, I'm going to read the book. I'm going to watch the documentary. We'll be talking all about it.

[08:28] Because I've been actually watching old episodes of America's Next Top Model, and that shit will... [08:32] That'll change you watching that. So many misunderstood gals, I feel like, throughout their... Jade, the undiscovered supermodel. I always thought she was kind of misunderstood, though. Her and Camille. [08:45] I don't remember, Camille. She's from, like, an earlier season. If you look, there were times when she had, like, you know, moments. Yeah. But I thought they were, like, really hard on her confidence. Like, she was just a confident... [08:57] Bad bitch. Well, part of that show was that they didn't want you to be confident on that show. Everyone always thought she was mean, and I was like, no, I think she's just like... [09:06] It's funny, too, because I think you and I were watching one recently where it was, is it Melrose and Carrie D? Yeah. The final, like, two. Yeah. I thought Melrose was pretty misunderstood, too. I thought she was, too. Like, I remember watching it when I was little and being like, ew, Melrose is such a bitch. And then I watched as an adult and I was like, Melrose is just kind of funny and I think they don't get it. I think when you get older, you just watch it and you're like... [09:29] Wow, everybody's so fucking, like, up in their, have their panties in a wad over, like, the smallest things. It's like, I don't know. Yeah, it's funny. They were so mean to those girls. Do you remember Molly, who's, like, famously, they gave her that crazy, like, basically, like, they gave her a weave. Yeah. But it, like, pulled her hair out because her hair wasn't strong enough for it. She's on Southern Charm now. Oh, I did hear that. She is so fucking funny. I love that. She's hilarious. So here we go. We'll start talking about all that stuff.

[09:59] the weave she still has it on the weave she smelled it on live camera ew yeah [10:03] Uh, let's save that for the bonus episode. Yeah, let's talk about it. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, so stay tuned for that. We'll be talking about all the craziness behind that. Yeah, I think that's... [10:12] And yeah, I think that's all the business. Go buy the Butcher Legacy. ButcherLegacy.com. [10:17] You can get... [10:18] it anywhere you want uh more signed editions there i added more signed editions at barnes and noble you can order online you can get them and you know order them in the store whatever you want to do barnes and noble signed editions been signing them there's a box in front of me that i am currently signing oh also mikey added in tokara and eva [10:37] who are also misunderstood. Oh, fuck. I fully agree. I love them. Eva was famously on The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Yeah. But again, we'll talk about it then. Yeah. Other gals who are misunderstood. Yeah. But yeah, so go get the book. Go pre-order it. Sign copies if you want. Yep. All kinds of copies. Go get it. So, yeah, we've got to get back into Dennis here, unfortunately. But you know what? We're finishing today. Yeah, exactly. We're going to finish today. [11:07] That's coming to him. God. But man, he's going to get... [11:11] he's going to keep going down this weird path. You said he killed more people. Yeah, he wasn't done. So when we last talked to you in part two, he was starting to flush pieces of people down the toilet. [11:24] Yeah. [11:26] Yep. [11:27] Which is... [11:27] which is weird and like,

[11:29] Every way it could be weird. And it's also very like, what were you thinking? [11:34] I think at this point he was not. Yeah, I don't think he's thinking very straight. I think he's just like. [11:39] losing it. He's just trying to get out of it. So in May 1982, his trend of very erratic behavior and kind of increasing like the risks he was taking, like he didn't seem to be thinking things through very well. It continued. He met 21 year old Carl Stotter at a local pub and invited him back to his apartment. Like so many of his previous victims, Carl was very vulnerable at the time. [12:09] and was experiencing a lot of depression as a result. Back at the apartment, the two of them started drinking. And this seems to happen a lot at his apartment. He passed out. He passed out. Because he was definitely drugging people. He had to have been because all of them are passing out. And he passed out on an open sleeping bag on the floor. [12:31] Yeah. Yeah. And he later he survived. Oh, because he later told the court, I woke up feeling something around my neck. My head was hurting and I couldn't breathe properly. And I wondered what it was. Oh, God. So he could hear Dennis's voice. And this is so scary. When he woke up, he was kind of out of it. Sure. Couldn't breathe, like was kind of panicking a little. And he said he could just hear Dennis's voice almost in a whisper saying, stay still, stay still. [12:58] Over and over.

[13:00] as he fumbled with the zipper on the sleeping bag and it occurred to him he might have gotten tangled in the cord on the sleeping bag and maybe Dennis is trying to help him out of it. Because he wasn't saying it like he was saying it very like like nice calm. You know what I mean? So he passed out again a few moments later and when he came to he was cold and could hear the sound of water. [13:22] He woke up in the bathtub? He said, I knew I was in the water and he was trying to drown me. [13:27] He kept pushing me under the water. The third time I came up and I said, no more, please, no more. And he pushed me under again. Oh, wow. [13:35] So he's like begging him to stop. And that just makes you wonder what everybody else said, too. And that he didn't listen to any of them. Right. Yeah. [13:42] So, [13:43] Some amount of time passed. He's not sure how much when Carl woke up again. And he said when he woke up, he was laying on Dennis's couch. [13:50] And Dennis's dog, Bleep, remember Bleep? He's had Bleep there this whole time. He's had Bleep there the whole time. And Bleep is licking Carl's face. Poor Bleep is probably so stressed out. Yeah. And Carl was very weak, but was able to stand. And when he looked at himself in the mirror, he saw that he had a deep red mark around his neck and several blood vessels in his eyes had burst. Oh, God. Yeah. According to Dennis, Carl had become tangled in the sleeping bag and the cord wrapped around his neck, causing him to choke. [14:19] Yeah, for sure. I was like, well, were you thrashing around in there like a toddler? Yeah, no. And he had brought him in the bath, he said, as an effort to resuscitate him. [14:29] And since then, Dennis said he'd been trying to keep him warm with blankets and with heat from his own body. Ew, no thank you. Yeah.

[14:37] It was only later during the trial that Carl learned that Dennis had, in fact, thought he'd killed him in the bathtub and he'd taken him out to the living room and positioned him in on the couch to dry his body just as he done the other victims. Oh, my God. So he thought he was posing a dead body there. Yep. [14:54] Which also tells you how fucking faint his pulse must have been. Yeah, exactly. Wow. It was while he was drying him that he realized Carl was still alive. So he started rubbing his limbs and wrapping him in blankets to keep him warm. It's very unclear why Dennis chose not to kill Carl in that moment. Yeah. And I don't know if it's because... [15:14] He didn't think he could finish it. He was worried he was going to be able to say he tried to kill me. Right. Like this would be the end of him. So it's like, oh, no, I'm just trying to see. Yeah, he's got to use this story to be like, well, I was trying to help you. Right. But it's like, no, he as you pulled him out of the water, he said, please stop no more. And you pushed him back down. Obviously, you didn't think he was dead. Two months later in June, Dennis met 27 year old Graham Allen. Well, Graham was hailing a cab on the street. [15:41] Like some of the other murders, the details of this one are a little hazy. [15:46] Dennis is a bullshitter. Yeah, of course. He claims not to remember a lot of the specifics of this. He did say, and this really breaks my heart, he says the thing that Graham wanted more than anything else was something to eat. Oh. So he said he made him a big omelet. But after that... [16:04] all of a sudden, he can't really remember exactly how this happened. He just remembers the one nice thing that he did. It becomes a mix of reality and fantasy here, because he says, I noticed he was sitting there, and suddenly he appeared to be asleep or unconscious. Oh, that's crazy. I thought he must have been choking on it, but I didn't hear him choking. He was indeed deeply unconscious. That's nuts how he just got unconscious. Dennis claims he doesn't quite remember what happened next, only that he must have strangled Graham Allen. Whoa.

[16:34] I bent forward and I think I strangled him. I can't remember at this moment what I used. I remember going forward and I remember he was dead. If the omelet killed him, I don't know. But anyway, in going forward, I intended to kill him. An omelet doesn't leave red marks on a neck. I suppose it must have been me. [16:51] wow that's how flippant he is and to try to make it funny like an omelet doesn't leave red marks on this so i guess it was me [16:58] Go fuck yourself. Yeah. Get a fucking piece of shit. Also, he probably drugged the omelet. Yeah. That's what I think. Yeah. Now Dennis kept Graham Allen's body in the bathtub for three days. [17:09] before decomposition made it impossible, and he dismembered Graham Allen's remains and disposed of them as he had John Howell's body, hiding the larger body parts in various spaces around his apartment and flushing the smaller bones, organs, and flesh down the toilet. [17:26] more than six months would pass before he would commit his next and final murder okay [17:41] you [17:42] This is a paid ad by BetterHelp. There have been times in my life where I have been work, work, work, and nothing else, but that simply doesn't work for me. So I feel like the older I've gotten, I've really gotten much better at taking a step back, being able to prioritize a work-life balance that works for me. Not everybody thrives when life gets busy. You might catch yourself feeling drained even during things that you usually enjoy or realize that you've been pushing yourself more than you need to. It's important to take care of yourself when things get busy by resting,

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[19:52] Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. [20:00] Now, on the night of January 26th, 1983, Dennis met 20-year-old Stephen Sinclair, and he invited him back to his apartment. Sinclair had spent a lot of his time on the streets. He was a bit of a rogue most of his life, had a lot going on. Given that he had spent a lot of his young life on the streets and had... [20:18] Didn't have a fixed address, didn't have a job. It's easy to see how someone like Dennis could have lured him back to his apartment just with the promise of food, money, anything else. A place to stay. That night, Stephen's friends recalled seeing him walking towards the train station with, quote, a strange man who they later identified as Dennis Nilsen. [20:37] But they had assumed at the time that he was tricking for money. Sure. That's a quote. Yeah. And didn't want to disturb him. Yeah. You know, understandable. Months later, Dennis confessed that he had gone with Sinclair to McDonald's nearby where he bought him a hamburger. [20:51] Then they went back by train to Muswell Hill and walked to Dennis's apartment. Once there, they had a few drinks and they listened to the Who's Tommy on stereo. [21:01] until a little past 9 p.m. [21:04] At one point, Sinclair excused himself and went to the bathroom. And Dennis said that he assumed he was injecting drugs, which I was like, I think you're just covering for your own thing. Yeah, exactly. And when he came back, he sat down in a chair and passed out almost instantly. Everyone's passing out in Dennis's apartment. Yeah, it's just so nuts that that happens to everyone who goes there. Now, he gave a very brutal account of Sinclair's murder at the court hearing and at the time of his arrest. But he was...

[21:32] unusually cagey [21:34] about the crime at first. He didn't want to talk much about it. He said, I remember nothing else until I woke up the next morning. Stephen was still in the armchair and he was dead. On the floor was a piece of string with a tie attached to it. [21:47] He completely removes himself from actively hurting these men. Now, Dennis claimed that he had no intention of harming the young man and had only, quote, concern and affection for his future and the pain and plight of his life. I bet. Dennis sat in the living room with the body for several hours before finally carrying Sinclair to the bathroom and placing his body in the tub to begin his ritual cleaning. [22:17] Okay. [22:38] Wow. He just put him in a chair in his living room. He did this so several times. Yeah. Put... [22:45] men [22:46] in a chair, [22:48] In his living room, dead. [22:50] And just left them there for days at a time. Just walked in and went to work. Yeah. And then came home. Didn't think about it at all while he was at work. Nope. [22:59] Later, he would talk about how when he decided to kill Stephen, he had knelt in front of him as they listened to Tommy. And he said, oh, Stephen, here I go again.

[23:09] Oh. [23:10] That's what he said to this. Like what? Which also makes you wonder the like just eerie things he said to everybody else. He just said weird shit. And then he strangled him with a string and a necktie. And after that, now after that, what had happened, this is when he got into more detail during the court hearing. After he had killed Stephen, he put him in bed and then he arranged mirrors around the bed. [23:36] and just laid with him in the bed. [23:39] Looking at them at all different angles. [23:42] He is on another level. Like, this is... [23:48] Thank you. [23:49] psychosis yeah it's like the nth degree deeply deeply ill this is shit you see in horror movies that you're like wow they went too far yeah you're like that's wild like why would you do that god now later after his arrest uh dennis would become strangely like [24:05] Almost like philosophical about this murder. Speaking of it like in these weird, bizarre and kind of romantic terms almost. Like in his kind of romantic terms. He said, I believe he is me or part of me. How can you feel remorse for taking pains into yourself? I loved him much more than anyone else he had ever met in his 20 years. Don't know that. The image of the sleeping Stephen is and will be with me for all of my life. [24:34] Oh, that's so dark. And to say that knowing that he has family out there. Yeah. Like that's that's just another level of a predator. Yeah. And like stealing that from. Yeah. Saying I love you knew him for how many hours and then killed him. And you're saying that you loved him more than anyone in his life.

[24:55] And then saying, like, I'll always have that image. Yeah. Because that's also saying to his family, like, that's something you can't have back. And it's like, that is so deeply evil. It is evil. Now, Dennis's perspective on this particular murder is definitely unusual. He describes none of his other murders quite like this one. In fact, he went from having no recollection of the murder at all to being that... [25:22] like philosophical about it and that like weirdly cruel about it very strange he described it almost like a transcendent experience yeah transcendent excuse me yeah like with the mirrors and everything too yeah he treated it like a project yeah it's very strange now at this point when he was talking about it like that he was already arrested and he had confessed okay so it is possible that he was setting himself up further for an insanity defense yeah but it's also positive that there was something [25:52] than his other victims. Something that reminded Dennis of himself, maybe. Like, who knows? Like, there was something there that was different. To say that he felt like he was a part of him. Yeah, because it feels like he was really taking him as his own personality, almost in his own being. Because again, he'd only known him for a few hours, and he couldn't possibly have known anything about his life or the people in it. Right. It's very strange. Now, about a week later, [26:22] way that he had before. But this time, when he tried to flush pieces of his body down the toilet, it didn't go as smoothly as the previous disposal. And in the weeks after this, Dennis's neighbors started complaining about the drains in the apartment, saying they were all backed up and didn't seem to be draining properly.

[26:43] Yeah. In fact, it was Dennis himself who in early February wrote a letter to his landlord on behalf of himself and the other tenants of the building demanding that something be done about it as soon as possible. [26:58] He did it because he wanted the problem to go away. Yeah. Now, on the afternoon of February 5th, after hearing nothing from their landlord, one of the residents in Dennis's building, Jim Alcock, finally grew tired of waiting for a response. And he decided to call a plumber himself. He was like, we'll fucking do it. It took a few days, but on the evening of February 8th, a plumber from Dino Rod arrived at 23 Cranley Gardens to come help the problem. [27:28] didn't have a lot of experience, especially with like complex drainage problems. But after taking like a little bit of a look at the problem, I don't really sorry, I don't really know if anybody was equipped to deal with this issue, this particular problem. So he kind of took a look at the problem inside the building. And he knew enough to know the source of the problem was likely outside the house under the ground. Although it had already grown dark, he agreed to take a look. So with Jim Alcock holding a flashlight for him, he went to the side of the house and removed [27:58] providing access to the sewer. [28:00] And he descended the ladder into the manhole. Oh, my. As soon as they were down in the sewer, both of them were hit with a terrible odor. Now, a sewer does have a terrible odor. So that's not strange. But it's usually like a waste poop. Yeah. But Michael Katran said, I may not have been in the game for long, but I know this isn't shit.

[28:22] What a quote. That's what he said. That's a quote. There was also a pool of sludge on the floor about eight inches thick. Oh, fuck. Containing about 30 or 40 pieces of flesh, grayish white in color and of various sizes. Oh, my. Using the flashlight, Michael followed the pipes back to the ones connected to the house, which was leaking the same sludgy substance that was covering the floor. [28:45] Can you imagine finding this out? [28:48] That like your neighbor was flushing murdered victims down the toilet. And that your backed up dreams were containing pieces of people. That. And just knowing that this was all happening while you, like, I think I mentioned it in part one or two, like, we just go about our day. Yeah. And people are doing this. I can't imagine finding out I was in the same home. Sharing a wall. Sharing walls, potentially. Yeah. Or like I had like. Walking by him. You know, maybe he was your upstairs neighbor and you had to do the. Yeah. [29:18] The broom trick. Or you just held the door open for him. Yep. Yeah. Got his mail once. Yeah. Probably saw the victims and didn't realize it. Yep. Now, having found the source of the problem, Michael called his supervisor to report the discovery, saying that he thought it might have been a dead body. By then, most of the residents had crowded around as he was on the phone and overheard this conversation. Oh, shit. So after hanging up, Michael turned to Dennis Nilsen, who was there. [29:48] listening to the conversation and asked whether he had a dog [29:51] And Dennis said, yeah, he did. And the plumber asked whether he tried to flush dog meat down the drain, like food. Yeah. Yeah.

[29:59] Dennis said, no, I haven't. [30:01] So he didn't even try to lie about it. Yeah. It's unclear why, if he was the source of the problem, he would have reported the drain blockage to the landlord and insisted something be done about it because he had to know they were going to figure out it was human remains. Yeah. [30:15] Maybe he was just so far into this fantasy that he didn't... That didn't occur to him. That they would figure it out. Well... [30:21] And it's possible he was hoping that by joining in on the outrage, that suspicion wouldn't fall back on him. He might not have known how specifically that pipes would go directly to his like that they could trace it back. And I think probably he wanted the problem to be cleared up so that he could continue this. Yeah, he can't. He can't do anything anymore. Yeah. Because he doesn't have a way of disposing. Yeah. He already ran out of space in his apartment and realized he couldn't do that. Now the drain is resorting to this. [30:48] Now, around midnight that night, Dennis concocted a plan that he was hoping would [30:53] Take the heat off him. Carrying a flashlight in a garbage bag, he went down into the sewer... [30:59] at midnight, and collected the large pieces of flesh. This can't even be fucking real. No. No. [31:05] which he then brought to the surface and dumped over the garden wall into the hedge on the other side. [31:11] That's his big plan. Oh, there's more. He said, quote, I had planned to go to the supermarket or Kentucky fried chicken and purchase a few pounds weight of chicken pieces. These I would soak, cut up into smaller chunks as that removed, and then he would place them in the sewer.

[31:29] And just make everybody think that it's KFC? He figured that by replacing human flesh with raw chicken, he hoped the men from Dino Rod would quickly notice their mistake and not wanting to appear foolish wouldn't call the police. Like, babe, when somebody smells a dead body, they know what they've smelled and it doesn't smell like raw chicken. [31:47] Now, Dennis's plan was to wake up early in the morning and place the chicken in the sewer. But after removing the human remains, he went to his apartment and started drinking heavily. [31:58] The next morning he slept in. [32:01] Uh-oh. Oops. Oops. [32:02] So Michael returned to the property, the plumber, and he came with his supervisor, Gary Wheeler. And together, the two men went down into the sewer. And Michael noticed the manhole cover was in a different position than he'd left it the night before. And when they got to the bottom of the ladder, they found that the remains were gone. Uh-huh. [32:20] Convinced that someone had removed them, Wheeler called the police. Because you're also thinking all of these people were gathered around and heard me say it's a dead body. It's got to be one of them. In the meantime, Michael continued investigating the pipes and found that impacted into one of the pipes was more flesh and several pieces of small bone. Well, that was my other assumption, too, is it's like that whatever is collected had drained. Yeah. Like he didn't think of what was in the pipes. He clearly had no understanding. Something was blocking. [32:50] I understand this. You understand this kind of point. I do. Now, while the Dino Rod men were in the sewer, Dennis slipped out of the building and went to work, just as he did any other day.

[33:01] Wow. Just went to work. [33:03] No. Sitting at his desk, he arranged and rearranged the objects on the surface, and then he composed a letter that he tucked into a brown envelope and placed in his desk drawer. [33:13] He said, I was sure that I would be arrested when I came home or sometime that evening. [33:18] Among other things, the letter said that he should be arrested, and if he was found dead, it would not be from suicide. [33:24] Oh. [33:25] Which is interesting. [33:26] As Dennis sat at his desk writing, investigators were at the house on Cranley Gardens investigating the scene. [33:33] The remains found in the drain had been removed and sent to be examined at the University of London, where they were confirmed to be human. The flesh appeared to be from, quote, the region of the neck. [33:44] And the bones were from the hand and both were almost certainly male. OK, now Dennis returned home a little after 530 p.m. And as he expected, there was a detective waiting for him at the door. [33:56] The man at the door introduced himself as DCI Peter Jay and told Dennis he was there about the drains. Dennis acted surprised that a simple drain problem would warrant a call to the police. [34:07] All I can think is, like, you remember the feeling when you were younger and you were in trouble and, like, you knew you fucked up. So you were like... [34:13] oh shit, I'm gonna just deal with this. Do I do? Yeah. That must be on a galactic level when you are a serial killer. And they have found all your victims. Like... [34:24] Yeah. Yeah. What? Now, upstairs in his apartment, Jay told Dennis that the remains discovered in the sewer and in the drainpipe were human. And this prompted another feigned surprise reaction from Dennis. He said, oh, my goodness. Meanwhile, what human remains hidden around his home at this point in time? Yeah. Don't worry about that. It was immediately clear to Dennis that they suspected him.

[34:54] department. So when they asked where the rest of the body was, [34:58] Because they just flat out said it. Dennis didn't bother continuing the charade and just simply told them in plastic bags in the bedroom wardrobe. [35:08] Oh, my God. Yeah. Just... [35:12] drops the act so immediately. [35:15] And where's the rest of the body? Imagine it. Imagine asking that and him just being like in my plastic bags in the bedroom wardrobe. [35:23] You're just like, what? This is so wild. It sounds like fiction. Yeah, it does. [35:29] DCI Jay and his partner went with Dennis into the bedroom, but declined to open the wardrobe, saying the smell was confirmation enough. Instead, Jay turned to Dennis and asked if there was anything else he wanted to show them or anything he wanted to say. [35:43] And Dennis said, it's a long story. It goes back a long time. I'll tell you everything. I want to get it off my chest, not here, but at the police station. [35:52] What the fuck? So at the station, Jay sat down with Dennis in an interview room and began the interrogation. And it was obvious he was dealing with a murder, but he had... [36:02] No, no idea what was to come. So Jay just asked, [36:07] Are we talking about one body or two? [36:09] Oh, [36:11] And what did Dennis say? And he said at first he was expecting maybe this was a crime of passion or something of that nature. Yeah. [36:17] one body or two [36:19] And he was absolutely stunned when Dennis looked at him and said, [36:22] 15 or 16 since 1978. Holy shit. Yeah. Yeah.

[36:28] Like, that would be the shock of the century. Like a slap across your face. Truly. [36:33] Now, in the wake of his arrest, the shock and horror among the police, press and people in London could be felt everywhere. There were so many unbelievable aspects of the case, like we've been saying, that as soon as one had managed to process one thing, some new hideous detail would come out. Right. Not only had Dennis Nelson killed 15 people in five years, he had done so. [36:55] while being completely undetected. Yeah. And no one ever seemed to notice that his victims had even gone missing. Which is so heartbreaking. Then, of course, there was the specifics about the murders themselves. Brutal strangulations, drownings, the ages of the victims, the necrophilia, the awful dismemberments. I mean, it's, [37:16] grotesque. It is. It's a lot. Although he gave a full confession to 15 murders, the prosecutor's office faced a significant challenge in charging him for the full extent of his crimes because they couldn't identify all the victims. That happens so often. It does. So sad. In fact, even Dennis didn't know the names of everyone he killed. Well, even his answer, 15 or 16, he didn't even know. He would refer to some of them by nicknames that he'd given them before or after their deaths. Yeah. [37:42] In the end, only eight of his victims were identified. So half were still missing people. [37:48] Half. [37:49] Like essentially. By the following week, investigators had gathered enough info to charge him with the murder of Stephen Holmes. But the news of the charges was quickly followed by the public comment from DCIJ, who assured the public our inquiries are by no means complete. So they're like, we're not just charging him with one. When the charges were read aloud in court, Dennis simply looked up at the judge and said, thank you.

[38:13] Wow. The next day, February 13th, more charges were brought against Dennis, this time for the murders of Kenneth Aukenden, excuse me, Martin Duffy, William Sutherland and Malcolm Barlow. He was also charged with the attempted murders of Paul Nobbs and Douglas Stewart, who he had attempted to strangle in 1981 and 1980. Mm hmm. [38:33] Following the additional charges, Dennis was removed from the local jail where he was being held and he was brought to Brixton Prison. We've talked about that many times. [38:51] Sling is the live TV service that puts viewers in charge of their entertainment at an unmatched value. Streaming live sports, shows, and movies starts at just $4.99, and everything works instantly across your favorite devices. The best part? Total control over the channel lineup. No paying for tons of channels that never get watched or local channels that are already free. And there's also no long-term contract. Live TV is available when it's wanted, with flexible options like monthly subscriptions or one-day, three-day, or seven-day passes. [39:21] subscriptions can be paused at any time and entertainment doesn't stop over 600 free channels stay available even after pausing one thing that i love about sling is they have this thing called the cloud dvr and it includes 50 hours of storage but you can also upgrade that to 200 hours i love that that's awesome because i love to record my shows and watch them later and then fast forward through the commercials [39:42] Choose and customize your favorite channel lineup or pause and watch for free. Sling lets you do that. Visit sling.com to learn more.

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[43:38] guy. I'm just like you. I've met a lot of ordinary men. They sound nothing like you. Exactly. [43:42] Now, if Dennis had managed to hide any abnormality or symptoms of mental illness throughout his life, it's likely because... [43:49] No one ever really paid him much attention. [43:51] That was the problem. Now that he was locked up in Brixton and was a source of a lot of curiosity, certain aspects of his personality suddenly became noteworthy. In his early days at Brixton, Dennis was uncharacteristically defiant. He would refuse to wear his prison uniform and would become argumentative with the staff and his lawyers who were provided to him through the legal aid program. At one point in July, when his chamber pot was overflowing, [44:19] Dennis threw the contents through the bars, some of which splashed onto several guards. What followed was a violent exchange between Dennis and the guards, during which his glasses were broken, a tooth was knocked out, and he received a black eye. Maybe don't throw your shit on people. You throw your shit at me, that's happening. Yeah, shit gets gnarly when you throw shit. I'm not going to sit here and act like I'm above if you throw shit at me, punching you in the face. Yeah. In the weeks that followed, Dennis became increasingly destructive. [44:49] He tore up court documents that were sent to his cell. He destroyed his personal items. And he said this was in order to have something to do. [44:58] Read a fucking book. Yeah, at the same time, he was also becoming increasingly paranoid. He would accuse the governor of stealing his postage and being suspicious of other inmates. He was also developing this intense bitterness that in the wake of his arrest, all the good work he'd done in his life through the military and civil service had become completely overshadowed.

[45:20] By murder, doll, once you get to the point where you are... [45:24] defiling corpses by... [45:27] You're a necrophiliac. You're literally bathing people, chopping them up, either keeping parts of them in your home or all of them for days and then flushing them down your toilet. I don't give a fuck what you did for the military. Wait a minute. Pristine military record, though. Don't care. Don't. Pristine. How and that that just has to tell you that his brain works differently. Because how the fuck do you rationalize? Exactly. I was such a good person in the military. That feels very narcissistic. It does. [45:57] diagnosing him as narcissistic. I'm just saying it has a vibe of narcissist to me. Yeah, absolutely. Because he's like, well, look at all these amazing things I've done. And you're just like, I do think, and like, I'm going out on a whim here, but I do think most serial killers have at least narcissistic tendencies. Yeah. Because even to believe that you will get away with it is narcissistic in and of itself. And to think you have the right to take another person's life, you have a weird God complex. Yes, precisely. But you think you should be able to just task [46:27] Yes. And when they live and when they die. Yep. [46:30] And, [46:31] I just love that he's like... [46:32] It's like you commit necrophilia. I'm sorry, doll. Any good thing that you've done. That's going to become your defining characteristic. You're not going to get away from that. You could cure world hunger and people will still be stuck on the fact that you're a necrophilia. Exactly. No matter what good you do in your life, you're a necrophilia. It's like a pedophile. Yes. You're a pedophile no matter what.

[46:53] rank of office you tend to get to or what kind of success that you get to, you're always a pedophile. Yep. [47:00] You're always a fucking monster. Yep. And that's the way it is. Period. Ten toes down. Ten toes down. You're a pedophile, necrophiliac murderer. That's your defining characteristic. Now, he wrote letters to journalists like Brian Masters urging them to not just focus on the murders when you write about this case. He said, display the clean linen as well as the dirty. [47:21] No, no, you don't get to decide either at this point. Yeah, you made the choices, babe. Now, through all the post-arrest chaos of those early months in prison, Dennis had also come to develop several theories as to the reasons for his crimes. Oh, initially, he seemed as bewildered as anyone for how he could have done such terrible things. Then he placed the blame on society in general for marginalizing his victims and placing them in his path. [47:49] are you fucking kidding me? Yeah. He said, I wish I was, this was just like a universal. He said, well, fuck you put these marginalized people in my path. What was I supposed to do? Not murder them. [48:01] Like that is literally his argument. No, you're you're you put this person who didn't have a home or food and was what was I supposed to do? What was I supposed to do? Help them? [48:10] Not murder them? [48:12] Like, who do you, what do you expect of me? Hello? Like, that's some barbaric shit. Is to sit there and be like, what did you expect? The fact that they called him. I expected anything else than what you did, Dennis. The fact that he's still referred to as the kindly killer after he was like, ew, marginalized people on my path? Like, gross. What am I going to do with them? Just, I'm, you murder them. That's what you do. Like, what, he's bonkers. Bonkers. Truly bonkers. But finally, and almost certainly after speaking with a psychiatrist,

[48:42] would stick with pretty much for the rest of his life. He said, I believe my offenses are motivated by emotional disturbance under unique conditions of extreme mental pressure, which release areas in the subconscious when I have lost control. No, um, [48:55] I guarantee you he came up with that completely by himself and that a psychiatrist did not tell him that. Take the mental fucking pressure out of it. You didn't kill because you were pressured mentally. And you killed because you are disturbed mentally. Well, and in one breath. So before he sees a psychiatrist, he's like, I don't know. You put a marginalized person in my path. What am I supposed to do? And then he sees a psychiatrist and he's like, I believe my offenses were motivated by emotional disturbances under unique conditions of extreme mental pressure, which release in the subconscious. And I have lost control. [49:25] now. You're just parroting what they said at you. You had me on Emotionally Disturbed. You lost me on mental pressure. Because that's taking it off of himself. But then... [49:35] This is what's interesting. It's interesting that you landed on that because he said, mine is a disease peculiar to me, which I should have sought to cure or control. Yes. There is no excuse for taking the lives of 15 innocent people and trying to kill eight others. The buck stops here. Yes. Yes. [49:53] So it's like... [49:54] Which one is it? Which one is it? Now, although he had confessed to the murders, there was still the question of sanity and in sentencing. I get that. I totally get that. Dennis Nielsen's trial began at the Old Bailey. Hey, again, we're very familiar with. Why do I love the Old Bailey? Never been there in my life. Love the old. Love it. It began in late October with our Alan Green arguing on behalf of the Crown and Ivan Lawrence acting as the defense.

[50:24] a lot of the opening statement detailing the murders in Dennis's own words, including all the details of the crimes and the disposal of the bodies. Green noted that Dennis had confessed to feeling as though he was, quote, a quasi-god, a quasi-god [50:38] who, quote, could do anything I wanted. [50:41] Interesting. In that fantasy world, it does seem that way. Oh, he felt like a god. Yeah. Also, like, the washing of people feels like it weirdly aligns with that. Yeah. And the fact that he would... [50:53] Because that's what was so interesting with him saying, like, oh, you're just going to place these people in front of me who are marginalized and desperate? Like, he acted like he didn't care, but he would bring them in to feed them. Right. And in one case, he even called an ambulance for somebody and didn't kill them. And he killed them the next day. And that's the thing. He didn't kill everyone he came in contact with. So he did act like a quasi-god. Because he was determining who... [51:21] lived and who died. Right. Very weird. Also important to Green's argument was the fact that Dennis had a pattern and strategy for meeting, luring and murdering men, which he argued was evidence of sound mind when the crimes were committed, which I think so. I mean, the disposal in and of itself. Yeah. You know, it's wrong. You're disposing of the evidence. You're trying to get rid of it. And it's like you are luring them in and you clearly have. And you've said before, I intended to murder this man. So you've said it. Right. Now, he said [51:51] says he is guilty of manslaughter because they raised the defense of diminished responsibility. The Crown says that even if there was mental abnormality, that did not diminish substantially his mental responsibility for these killings. Absolutely. To call that manslaughter is a fucking travesty. Yeah, it really is. Now, in the early days of the trial, several key investigators were called to testify for the Crown, including Peter Jay, who read aloud several of the letters and notes sent to him by Dennis Nelson following Dennis's arrest.

[52:20] In one, Dennis attempted to explain his actions, writing, quote, at the subconscious root lies a sense of total social isolation, which he did have his whole life, and a desperate search for sexual identity. I felt repelled by myself, and as stated, I have no experience of sexual penetration for some years. In simple terms, his defense was that his sexual confusion and loneliness were triggers for committing murder. [52:46] Okay. No. Yeah. No. The defense's position was that Nilsson was only guilty of manslaughter because on some psychological level, he was unaware of what he was doing or at least unaware of the consequences of his actions. Then why did he hide the bodies? Exactly. [53:01] In a way, they had a kind of like head start on the prosecution in that whatever his motive, most people, including those on the jury, couldn't imagine a sane, rational person doing anything that he did. So they really did have a head start because they're already going in there being like, this guy sounds wild. Well, the tough thing with an insanity plea is a lot of people don't understand what it constitutes, like the minutia of it all. [53:31] sit there and go, wow, that's insane. And it's legally not insane. It's just insane to think about. There's so much more to the legality of that. Exactly. Now, in fact, even one of his victims who'd managed to escape testified that murder seemed entirely out of character for the man he'd met. Wow. He was like, it was like a switch. But so many, so many killers have that switch. Like Ted Bundy, we always go back to that example of women who did survive him say his eyes

[54:01] when he was representing himself. There's one clip that, [54:05] of him losing it when he was defending himself. And he becomes a monster. And you can see that face change. You see those eyes go dark. It's like, you know, that's what they saw. It's a trigger. Yeah. It's a trigger in their brain somewhere. Now, while most people had spent at least a little time trying to understand his violent behavior, most were eager to hear from the psychiatrists who'd evaluated him on various occasions. In his testimony for The Crown, Dr. James McKeith, a consultant for Broadmoor, told the jury that Dennis is, quote, [54:35] egocentric, grandiose in the way he talks about himself with a craving for attention. In his descriptions of his conversation with Dennis, McKees presented a very different person that had previously been described in court. According to the psychiatrist, Dennis hadn't killed out of loneliness, but out of rage. It was only when the men showed a lack of interest or a plan to leave, essentially defying Dennis's wishes that he became violent. And that is the truth. [55:05] a chance to live. [55:06] That's what he said. Wow. You have got to listen, but potential relationships broke down. [55:12] That's what he said. Okay. So he said, I was giving them a chance to live, but they wanted to leave. [55:18] Like he really does have a God complex. Yeah, that's their right, dude. Why don't you understand that? So Dr. McKeith diagnosed Dennis with, quote, a severe personality disorder of an unspecified type. Interesting. He couldn't even pinpoint it. I mean, there are so many. I think that we just don't have names for it yet. And I think it's just an amalgamation of a lot of them. Agreed. Totally. So he's like, I can't even pinpoint it. Yeah. Yeah.

[55:38] The defense had their own psychiatrist, of course, Dr. Patrick Galway, who more or less agreed with McKeith's diagnosis, telling the jury that Dennis was constantly under immense pressure that would periodically erupt into, quote, outbursts of irrational violence, often with bizarre or quasi-sexual features, always apparently motiveless. I'm just so interested to know what kind of pressure they were talking about. Like, is this internal pressure? I think it's internal pressure because he was... [56:06] unsure of how to act in public. He was socially incompetent. And I just feel like that's such a [56:12] A write-off. You know what I mean? It's a cop-out. Yeah. Where they differed was over whether Dennis was abnormal to the extent that he couldn't be held fully accountable for his crimes. Galway indicated that he believed Dennis, quote, suffered from mental abnormality and thus couldn't be held accountable. Disagree. But McKees felt that Dennis was not legally insane when he killed. He said, I think he hoodwinked himself, referring to his ability to justify his murders. Agreed. [56:42] Naturally, they both came to the same conclusion. While the facts spoke to the extent of his personality disorder and the accuracy of the diagnosis, it really didn't do a lot to settle the question of responsibility. In fact, if anything, it kind of caused more confusion. In an effort to provide clarity, the defense asked and were granted the opportunity to call a third expert witness, Dr. Paul Bowen. [57:02] Like McKeith and Galway, Dr. Bowen had spent several hours interviewing Dennis, but he rejected the final diagnosis and had considerably more clarity around the question of responsibility. According to Bowen, Dennis didn't kill because of a mental disorder. He killed because, quote, he enjoyed feeling the power over his victims.

[57:32] He said, [57:46] The jury came out to announce they had rejected Dennis's plea of guilty to six counts of manslaughter and instead found him guilty of five counts of six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder. [57:57] OK, so they gave him murder instead of manslaughter. Good. In considering his sentence, Justice Kroon Johnson put a lot of weight on the input from the three expert psychiatrists, all of whom had acknowledged that, quote, the severe personality disorder they had diagnosed in Nielsen was unlikely to be alleviated by treatment. [58:15] Because of that, the justice recommended a sentence of life in prison with a minimum of 25 years because they had said, I don't think he can be treated. No, I don't. Because you don't even know what he has. No. How do you treat what you don't know? When the verdict was given and the sentence announced, Dennis made no comment and barely seemed to register any emotion. At his mother's house in Scotland, on the other hand, Elizabeth Scott told reporters, it is the worst possible verdict. I did think they would give him the benefit of the doubt. I still think he is innocent of murder. [58:45] I dread thinking what he is thinking now. [58:48] I mean, that's his mom. At the time, the sentence was one of the most severe ever imposed in the United Kingdom. Wow. What was it? 25 years to life? Yeah. [58:57] That's crazy. Yeah. A minimum of 25 years. Now, [59:01] After his conviction, Dennis was sent to serve his sentence at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, a medium security prison in West London. Although he had the right to appeal the conviction, he chose not to.

[59:16] Oh, interesting. Accepting the jury's determination and the sentence from the crowd. I mean, I think with all the details and I mean, all the gory details of his case, he maybe was smart enough to know that he wasn't going to appeal. I guess, but most of them aren't. I know, it's true. Several years later, after the identification of two more victims, the sentence was upgraded to a whole life tariff, meaning he was required to serve out the entire sentence, which in this case was life. No more 25 years. Wow. Just one month after his sentence, [59:46] Nilsen was attacked by another inmate who cut his face and chest with a razor, resulting in several dozen stitches. The first of several conflicts with other inmates that would occur in the years that followed. According to one inmate, quote, when an inmate like Nilsen comes into a prison, it frightens everybody. With him having so long to serve, he has nothing to lose if he kills anyone in prison. Yeah, it's well, and it's like this hierarchy thing where they just got to get rid of him. Right. And when they have no nothing to lose, they're wily. Throughout the course of his [1:00:16] he struck up several friendships and correspondences with people outside of prison, including a relationship with Mark Austin, who helped Dennis collect and publish his memoir, History of a Drowning Boy. [1:00:28] austin said a lot of what's written is just through and through completely him when you get to the murders i just cannot connect it with the real person [1:00:37] But it is with a real person. Yeah. So you should connect that. The book was immediately banned in the UK. Wow. Until 2021 after Nilsson's death. Wow. When it was eventually released with the agreement that any profits would go to charity. Yeah. On May 10th, 2018, Dennis complained of severe stomach pains to prison staff. And soon after, he was removed and taken to York Hospital, where it was discovered he had an aortic aneurysm that had ruptured. What is an aortic aneurysm?

[1:01:07] surviving that usually um it's your aorta oh fuck why did i not put that together well gosh i feel so dumb asking that surgeons at your york were able to repair the rupture wow but complications arose and he died a short time later an autopsy was performed and it was determined that nelson's cause of death was a pulmonary embolism [1:01:26] His body was cremated and the ashes were given to a family member. [1:01:31] wow which like okay but that's the story of dennis nelson that was by far one of the gnarliest stories we've ever shared on the pod and so grotesque so that's what i'm saying mind [1:01:47] bending just like confusing and just his cavalier attitude toward the whole thing [1:01:52] Yeah, he's an anomaly of nature, I tell you. [1:01:55] His patterns are fascinating. That was a very fascinating story. Heartbreaking. But his mind is strange. He's not a lot like anybody we've really talked about before. His pathology. [1:02:13] He'll talk about the details of one murder and then claim he doesn't remember the next one. He's an odd duck. He's a very odd duck. [1:02:20] All right, so my fun fact, because we certainly need it right now. Yes. Deep sea male anglerfish are like way smaller, tiny, tiny, tiny, way smaller than the females. Obsessed. To mate, the male anglerfish bites onto the much larger female and then just dissolves into her body eventually. What? Leaving behind a living sack of sperm.

[1:02:42] That she can use whenever the fuck she decides to lay eggs. Are you kidding? And I say, good for her. They have really figured out sperm donation much better than we have. She just absorbs that little fucker. Wow. And then she says, when I'm financially, emotionally... [1:03:01] And psychologically ready. And when I've done my dancing, like Mikey said, around my purse at the club, enough that I feel like I am ready and responsible to give myself to my child. [1:03:14] Then I will become pregnant. I wonder. Good for her. Is it like a one time only on the sperm release there? [1:03:20] I mean, that's a great question. You mean like, do you get to like time release your pregnancy? That's exactly what I mean. I don't know. Like, does she get many pregnancies over the years or does she just get that one shot of sperm? Here's the thing. If I ever run into one, I will, that's the first question I'm going to ask. All right. I'm going to be like, girl, shout out. Tell me. Thank you. Yeah. I appreciate that. Now I'm curious. I'm about to research Angerfish. That's a super fun fact. Yeah. Thanks to Deb Deb for that fact. That was a good fact. All right, guys. Well, we hope that you keep listening. And we hope you keep it weird. [1:03:50] Keep it as weird as an anglerfish, baby. They figured it out. Keep it that weird. Yeah. Dance around the person. Your clurb. Your deep-sea clurb. Yeah. Oh! I want to go to a... Actually, I don't want to go to a deep-sea clurb. I've probably been to one, and I just didn't even know. [1:04:05] Woke up the next morning like, that was weird. That's where your lore started. Yeah, honestly. My lore started at the deep-sea clurb.

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