Friday, 2 August 2013

Sentence Of The Day: On Dennis Nilsen

Nilsen, who cut up his victims, boiled their heads and kept organs wrapped in bin bags in the wardrobe of his North London bedsit, appeared to regard his young fan as an oddball...

The Times.

There is a new play - Killers by Glenn Chandler - about people who write "fan mail" to mass murderers, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Sounds right up my dark alley.

1 comment:

  1. One gets the impression that female psychiatrists/social workers/counsellors are especially liable to marry violent male prisoners...

    Perhaps I'm just generalising from this case: http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/she-taught-me-how-to-love-she-absolutely-taught-me-how-to-love-jimmy-boyle-faces-life-after-marriage-1.185430

    But I seem to have read about others.

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