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Dennis Nielsen

Birthday November 23, 1945 – British serial killer. For five years of his criminal activities, he killed 15 people.

Dennis Nielsen’s mother was a Scot, father of a Norwegian soldier. Family life was unsuccessful: my father drank a lot and often left the house for a long time. When Nielsen was 4 years old, my parents divorced. The event, which, according to Nielsen, had been extremely influential throughout his life, occurred when he was six years old – the boy, without explanation of reasons, was forced to sit for several hours alone along with the dead body of the grandfather before the funeral. The contemplation of the human corpse, which he loved very much, caused Nielsen, in his words, a kind of “emotional death”. Two years later, another incident occurred, leaving traumatic and contradictory memories.

While swimming in the sea, Nielsen began to sink, but another older boy rescued him, after which the “rescuer” apparently committed an act of masturbation, because, waking up, Nielsen discovered that his stomach was splashed with a strange white sticky liquid. An autobiography written in prison, Nielsen will call “The story of a drowning boy”.

Unlike many serial killers, Dennis was not aggressive when he was a child, he did not experience attacks of sudden uncontrolled fury and did not show any inclination to harsh treatment of animals, on the contrary, alien aggressiveness scared him somewhat. In 1961, Dennis Nielsen entered the military service in the Armed Forces of Great Britain, where he became an army chef. In this position he will master the skills and abilities of the butcher, which he will improve already in the course of his future criminal activity.

In the army, Nielsen avoided communicating with other people and abused alcohol. In his private room, he occasionally masturbated in front of a mirror, imagining himself looking at the corpse. In the last months of service, he had a close friend (not a homosexual), who allowed himself to be shot on a movie camera. At the request of Nielsen during the filming, he lay motionless and portrayed a dead man. Their parting Nilsen obviously took painfully – he destroyed all the cassettes shot, and gave the camera to a friend. After retiring from the army in 1972, Nielsen worked as a policeman for a year, but quickly realized that this work was not for him.

After retiring from the police, he gets a job at the employment office, where he will work until his arrest. In 1974, Nielsen met David Gallichen, whom they had lived together for two years. Their break was a severe test for Nielsen, and in order to somehow escape from heavy thoughts, he plunged headlong into work, abusing alcohol.

In 1978, Nielsen was in a state of deep depression. Particularly depressing was the Christmas holidays, which he spent all alone in his apartment. Hidden dreams, associated with lust for the dead body, again began to take possession of it. On December 30, 1978 he went out into the street with a desperate desire to meet someone at least. As a result, he brings home a young man with whom they drink beer all evening.

Waking up at night, Nielsen, according to his own words, was afraid that the young man would leave him, as all the former lovers had left. First he strangles the young stranger with a tie, then drops his head into a bucket of water. Recently, thanks to a team of detectives who decided to reveal all the hopeless cases, the identity of the first victim was established. It was Stephen Dinholm, he was 14 years old. A year later Nielsen tries to kill Andrew Ho, a young man with whom he met in a gay bar, but he gives him resistance and escapes. December 3, 1979 Nielsen commits a second murder, his victim is the 23-year-old Canadian student Kenneth Oakendon. His Nielsen is strangled with a cord from the headphones, then starts playing with a corpse – he undresses him, washes, clothes, photographs in different poses, paints his face with make-up and even “drinks tea with him” and “watches TV.”