Two serial killers I know that were very honest with what and how they done things are both quite similar in traits one being Jeffrey Dahmer and the other being Dennis Nilsen. Both were gay killers who killed for company, Jeffrey Dahmer felt that he need to kill to keep the men he took home with him forever, cannibalising them in a bid to keep them as a part of himself. Dennis Nilsen often referred to as the British Jeffrey Dahmer earned the nickname 'The Kindly Killer' as he is said to have not liked the killing of his victims and that it was a necessary thing to do.
"London serial killer Dennis Nilsen speaks today about his first victim - a boy of 14.
In an extraordinary letter sent from his prison cell, Nilsen tells how he picked up Stephen Holmes in December 1978 in a Cricklewood pub. He took the boy to his home where he killed him. It was the beginning of a series of gruesome murders of young men that went on until his arrest in 1983 after human remains were found in a blocked drain at his Muswell Hill home.
In the letter sent to the Evening Standard Nilsen, 60, confesses: "Stephen Dean Holmes was the first of 12 homicide victims."
In fact it is known he killed at least 15 men, among them rent boys, students and the homeless he lured back to his homes in Cricklewood and Muswell Hill. At least seven victims remain unidentified.
Nilsen promises to help police identify the rest of his victims although Scotland Yard has ruled out ever knowing definitively the names of the other men he murdered, usually by strangulation. Nilsen, a civil servant who had previously worked in the Army and police, was never charged with the offence because at the time of his trial in 1983, Stephen could not be identified.
But a photograph of the boy, who was reported missing by his family, was shown to Nilsen last year by police visiting him at Full Sutton.
The killer confirmed to detectives that the boy in the photograph was his first victim. He said Stephen spent the night with him after drinking heavily. Nilsen says he decided to strangle him the next morning because he was fearful the boy would leave.
He kept the body stuffed under the floorboards of his flat in Melrose Avenue, Cricklewood, for eight months before burning the remains in the back garden. He used the same method to dispose of several victims.
Nilsen was only caught out after moving to a flat in Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, where he lived in the attic and had no access to a garden. He chopped up three victims and stuffed their bodies down the drain. After complaints about the smell, a plumber found 30 to 40 pieces of human flesh beneath the manhole cover, leading to Nilsen's arrest and eventual conviction on six counts of murder.
A file on Stephen's murder has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service which will decide whether to charge Nilsen. A decision is expected within weeks although sources suggest the prospect of a second Old Bailey trial is remote.
Nilsen appears in the letter to baulk at the prospect of another trial. He refuses to divulge "graphic details of the incident", adding: "I say this out of consideration for this victim's family."
In the letter, Nilsen says: "Oddly enough I did point out to police that a positive ID could, perhaps, be confirmed from the teeth and bone fragments unearthed by police at Melrose Avenue. To my surprise they told me that all such evidence had long been disposed of and was no longer available for analysis."
This is a very open interview featuring Jeffrey talking about his first kill and what led him there, also what happened after the first kill and the obsession that followed after. It's very odd hearing such a calm voice talking about such things. He also like Nilsen talks about how the killing wasn't the objective, it was all about having the person under his control and keeping them for as long as he wanted.
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