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It was instead a clogged drain pipe in his flat, the second apartment of his in which he’d been disposing of his victims’ bodies. He’d lure them to his home with the promise of food and alcohol, and once they had fallen asleep, he’d strangle them to death.īut it was not the 15 missing victims that helped the authorities catch on to him, or even the survivors who did report their encounters to the police.

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Similar to American serial killer John Wayne Gacy, many of his young victims were selected deliberately because they were less likely to be reported missing. Nilsen frequented gay bars in London’s West End and targeted runaways, homeless boys, drug-users, and sex workers, according to Netflix’s documentary. Police searching the grounds of Nilsen’s North London flat. But, according to the Netflix doc, the boy’s family did not want him to testify publicly, so Nilsen was never charged for the crime. He needed 100 stitches but survived, and claimed he had jumped after he’d woken up stripped naked with Nilsen attacking him. A fellow officer interviewed in the documentary calls Nilsen “a real loner.” At the time of his arrest, Nilsen was working at a job centre in London.Ī few years before Nilsen’s murder spree began, the police were called to Nilsen’s flat after a teenaged boy jumped out of the third-floor window one night. According to his tapes, he resigned due to homophobia in the department. He served in the army before he moved to Britain, where he first worked as a security guard before eventually becoming a police officer. Nilsen also explains in his tapes that he realized he was gay when he was eight years old. Dennis Nilsen grew up in Scotland, and according to his tapes, was sexually abused by his grandfather until his grandfather’s death when Nilsen was five years old. The documentary about the notorious British serial killer traces the timeline of his life from childhood, through his killings, up to his 1983 arrest. Officer Michael Albrecht On Gacy's Confession.Questions of the Gacy Murders Remain Unanswered.

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