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This implies that Nilsen had a very distorted view of himself. Stories like this are so fascinating, but how true are they? In parts of the documentary, we have a police officer talking about Nilsen as a person and then we have Nilsen “typing” on the typewriter, a complete contradiction. Apparently, in the army, he would cover himself with powder and imagine himself as a dead body. Nilsen was a police officer and he’d been in the army.

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Whilst this is about Nilsen, we are also given a detailed insight into London in that era.ĭelving into Nilsen’s past, the documentary discusses his childhood and we try to unravel, as we always do, what makes someone a serial killer. However, the way in which this is directed, I would say this is not really about Nilsen’s memories, but memories about Nilsen. It isn’t distracting to the average viewer, but I found it a little over the top and unnecessary. Everyone interviewed is interviewed in dark, dingy rooms, probably to resemble Nilsen’s dark and dank apartment. We hear stories and accounts from police, journalists, survivors, and bereaved families in the documentary, recalling what happened during the investigation. He targeted “rent-boys” and gay men knowing that they would fall into the ether of London. That’s probably one thing that stood out for me and has stayed with me. Heartbreakingly, a lot of the victims weren’t even recorded missing therefore no one was looking for them. Here, we have a killer who claimed he didn’t know the victims, so the police have to find the identity of the victims. What makes this different or makes it stand out is that usually we have a victim and the hunt is to find the killer. It’s clear he thought himself to be very important and wants to go down as some sort of king in British crime history. In this documentary we hear recordings from cassette tapes Nilsen made in prison, allowing him to narrate and tell his story. This documentary is roughly an hour and a half and is in the style of Conversations with A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.

The blockage was caused by human remains. His crimes were uncovered when his neighbours called in a specialist to deal with blocked drains. Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophiliac who murdered more than 15 young men and boys between 19 in London.

Netflix has answered our prayers and given us another documentary, with this focus being on the notorious killer, Dennis Nilsen.

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