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[Music] on the morning of Saturday February 5 1983 plumber Mike Welch arrived at
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cranly Gardens a long wired residential street in the North London suburb of Muswell Hill
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the neighborhood was defined by its Edwardian era houses most of which were stylish semi-detached structures with
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pointed roofs and attractive well cared for Gardens 23 cranly gardens stood out against its neighboring properties its
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pale blue and white facade was grimy and the front yard was neglected and overgrown with weeds unlike most of the
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other houses on the street number 23 had been divided into several separate flats
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and bed sets that were leased to multiple tenants for the past few days its occupants had been complaining of
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blocked drains and toilets necessitating the need for a plumber Mike Welch inspected the drains outside
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the property and determined the blockage was severe enough to warrant a visit from a specialist Jim Allcock a builder
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who lived in one of the ground-floor flats called a dino rod an emergency plumbing company that used an innovative
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electromechanical technique to unblock stubborn drains dino rods earliest available appointment was on Monday
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February 7 so Jim advised his fellow tenants that they would have to wait two more days for the problem to be fixed
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the Dino rod engineer failed to visit on Monday but at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday February 8 the company sent 30 year old
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Mike Catrin to conduct an inspection it was a cold and dreary winter evening and
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to the ground was covered in slate Jamal Kaka guided Mike Katrin along the side of the house and to the manhole
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that led to the 12-foot deeper drains beneath Mike removed the manhole cover and to climb to down the iron rungs to
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see what was causing the blockage he was instantly hit with a revolting odor and
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yelled up through the manhole at Jim I haven't been in this job for long but I know this isn't [ __ ] upon closer
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inspection Mike realized that the drain was blocked by an eighth inch thick porridge alike substance that contained
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approximately 40 pieces of what appeared to be greyish white flesh of various sizes as he moved around more of the
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mysterious substance fell from the pipe that stemmed from the house by now several of the tenants had gathered
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around to the main hall to see what was causing the blockage Mike suspected a could be animal remains and suggested it
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was a matter for the police 37 year old Dennis Nilsen who lived in the upstairs flat remarked that it
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looked like Kentucky Fried Chicken Mike called his supervisor Gary wheeler to discuss his concerns and the two men
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agreed to return to the property the following morning to carry out a more thorough inspection in the daylight
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at 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday February 9 mark and Gary arrived at 23:00 cranly Gardens as planned McRae entered the
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main hall and was surprised to say that a majority of the flesh-like substance was no longer there he reached to deeper
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into the drain and fished around until he made contact with something solid upon pulling the object out he realized
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he was holding what appeared to be a human knuckle [Music] [Music] [Music] Denis Andrew Nielsen was born on
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November 23 1945 in Fraser borough a mid-sized fishing village in the northeast of Scotland he was one of
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three children to Betty and dual of Nelson who met in 1942 when who love who was serving in the Norwegian army had
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been dispatched to Scotland in anticipation of a Nazi invasion who loves military duties kept him away from
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his family for long stints at a time so Betty and the three children lived with her parents in their two-bedroom flat
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lulav rarely visited or saw his children and - the couple divorced in 1948 Betty's parents Lilly and Andrew fought
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were actively involved in raising their grandchildren Dennis Nilsen had a particularly strong bond with his
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fisherman grandfather and saw him as his hero and protector he relished their long walks together across the nearby
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sienta tunes and golf courses where his grandfather would carry him on his shoulders in 1951 when Nilsson was six
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years old betty was assigned to counsel flat of her own and she and her children
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moved out to live as a solo family unit for the first time shortly afterwards on October 21 1951 Andrew fire was out
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on a fishing job when he suffered a heart attack and died at sea the three children were taken to view
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their grandfather's lifeless body and were told that he had gone to heaven a concept that they didn't understand
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consequently they thought he was merely sleeping and would soon recover and Dennis Nilsen was left uncertain and
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troubled by the idea of death when adults told him that his grandfather had gone to a better place
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Nielson believed that death was considered a positive thing in 1954 betty married a builder named Adam Scott
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and - the couple had four more children together Nielsen had never been close with his mother describing her as cold
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and unloving but he grew to admire his stepfather despite this he didn't feel that he belonged in their household and
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to begin to withdraw spending most of his time alone by the age of 10 he was exhibiting some
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disturbing behavior although he was a self-described animal lover he took a neighborhood cat into a
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disused the bathroom tied a wire around its neck and strangled it to death he was immediately disgusted by his own
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actions later stating I wanted to see the reality and process of killing and death I was not excited
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by the act shortly after this incident Nielsen and his family relocated to a larger and
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more comfortable flat in the village of stricken approximately 8 miles inland from Fraser borough around at the same
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time Neilson started to recognize that he was physically attracted to males he explored his sexuality by groping his
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older brother's penis and wrestling with other children on two occasions he pinned younger boys to the ground and
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enjoyed feeling a sense of power over them this realization about his sexuality left in Neilson with a feeling
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of shame his homosexuality was illegal in Scotland during the 1950's and - gay people were severely ostracized by the
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time Nielson was 15 he was tired of feeling rejected by his family and to the wider community so he decided to
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join the army On June 28 1961 he passed his entrance test and enlisted to serve as an army chef for nine years two and a
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half months later he set off for the army catering Corps training barracks in Aldershot in Englishtown 42 miles
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southwest of London Dennis Nilsen arrived as a frail introverted and self-conscious at a
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lesson but the harsh discipline and strict routines of army life saw him evolve into a confident young man
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determined to match the physical strength of his fellow recruits he dedicated himself to cross-country
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training and quickly achieved a higher level of fitness in May 1964 he successfully completed his recruitment
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course at the age of 18 three months later he was sent to his first post to work as a catering Corps cook in the
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North West the German city of osnabrück Nielsen's new comrades were hard workers
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but also heavy drinkers and too they introduced him to alcohol despite having a low tolerance Nilsson was soon
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drinking daily and to gained a reputation for often being drunk during this time he also started developing a
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strong sexual imagination finding himself drawn to smooth-skinned boyish looking men rather than those with
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larger or muscular physique but as he was well aware of the deep homophobia that existed within the Armed Forces
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including in his own regimen he suppressed his sexual feelings as best as he could
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privately he fantasized about one of his sex starved colleagues finding him passed out drunk and fondling his
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unconscious body eventually this desire became so strong that Nilson sometimes pretended to pass out in the hope that
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someone would take advantage of him on July 22 1966 20 year-old Nielson was promoted to corporal and six months
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later in January 1967 he was posted to ailment surah detention center in arden a port city in the Republic of Yemen
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men surah was a military prison that held terrorist detainees and it was frequently under attack from rioters
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Aden was a dangerous place and soldiers were often ambushed and killed while out
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on patrol with dead bodies often littering the countryside despite these threats Nielsen claimed he engaged in
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risky behavior by going out drinking in town then hitchhiking back to the barracks on July 21 1967
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Nelson was deployed to the Trucial Lamont Scouts mass in Sharjah a city in the Persian Gulf during his time there
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he witnessed several horrific events including a plane crash victim being brought back to the base in pieces and
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to the death of a drinking companion who accidentally broke his neck after falling from a Landrover
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despite day's incidents Nelson's time in Sharjah was generally positive he had the advantage of a private room and
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began to further explore his sexuality he placed a large horizontal mirror beside his bed and imagined that his
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reflection belonged to someone else enjoying the fantasy most when he lay still and appeared to be asleep or
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unconscious On January 15 1968 Nielson returned to the United Kingdom and was posted to the Seaton barracks in
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Plymouth a port city on England's south coast one night he was watching television in his room when he heard
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whimpering noises and went to investigate he discovered that several young privates had brought a local
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barmaid back to the barracks and watched as they took turns raping her to his own
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shame Nielsen went back to his room without intervening in a separate incident Nielsen and a
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young private were drinking heavily on a long train journey when the private passed they are Nielsen carried him to
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the bathroom and intentionally propped him in such a way that the jerking motion of the Train caused his
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unconscious head to knock against the toilet bowl he then sexually assaulted the private and considered raping him
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but stopped when other passengers started banging on the door afterwards when the private regained consciousness
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Nielsen pretended nothing had ever happened in 1969 Nielsen was sent to Berlin Germany and joined his comrades
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in a visit to a brothel under peer pressure he engaged in sexual activity with a female sex worker and although he
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was aroused during the encounter the experience left him depressed he spent the next few years serving at various
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posts throughout Germany and Scotland though he never returns to visit his family in Berlin he bought an 8
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millimeter movie camera on a whim and developed an interest in film eventually completing a 2-day projectionists course
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in May 1972 while posted in Scotland's Shetland Isles Nilsson met an 18 year old private identified only as Terry who
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was naive homesick and easily dominated by the older men with more forceful personalities
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Terry shed Nielsen's interest in film so Nielson taught him how to use the camera
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and the two recorded short scenes together some of which involved Terry playing dead at night Nielson
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watched the tapes and masturbated to the shots of Terry lying still he developed
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an unrequited infatuation with the younger man and was possessive of him at one point accusing a sergeant of trying
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to steal Terry away the allegation humiliated and enraged Terry and he attempted to strangle Nielson in
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retaliation Nielson was approaching 12 years of service with the army but by his own account he decided to leave
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because of the inherent homophobia in contrast to his claim others asserted that his application for extension of
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service was denied due to his poor personal hygiene and a lack of discipline either way on November 22 1972 Dennis
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Nilsen was officially discharged after serving 11 years and 284 days and awarded with the general service medal
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for time served devastated by his separation from Terry Nielson returned to stricken to live
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with his family one night he joined his brother sister-in-law and another couple in
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watching a film that featured a gay protagonist the group reacted to the storyline with the region and to Nielson
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took their comments personally a fight broke out between him and his brother and the two never spoke again just five
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weeks after returning to stricken Nielsen decided to move to London in early 1973 the now 27 year older
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Nielson used his army experience to join London's Metropolitan Police Force as part of the training he and a fellow
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recruit were taken to a morgue to gain exposure to the darker side of police work upon seeing the deceased and
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dissected bodies the other trainee vomited but Nielson showed no reaction instead
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when he saw the hand of a young cadaver flop out in front of the mortuary assistant he started fantasizing about
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the assistant molesting the corpse in a separate incident he had to undertake a life-saving classes that
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involved pulling a pseudo unconscious colleague from the water this caused him to become so aroused that he stayed in
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the water to hide his excitement Neilson quickly discovered that much like the army the police force was a homophobic
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environment around at this time Nielson started exploring London's gay nightlife
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seeing homosexuality was decriminalized in England in 1967 and the subsequent political and social movements led to
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increase the visibility for gay people in the country's capital although English society remained predominantly
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heteronormative and homophobia was widespread a thriving subculture had developed Nielsen began frequenting the
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gay bars of London's Earls Court district and meeting other gay men during a visit to a gay drop-in centre
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he met a teenage boy and the two spent the evening drinking heavily before retreating to a cheap hotel when the boy
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passed out Nielson raped him marking this as the first penetrative sex act he performed with another male the boy
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remained unconscious throughout the rape and was seemingly unaware of the abuse that had occurred when he awoke the next
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morning Nielsen's sexual desires were fueled by this encounter and by mid 1973 he
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frequently fantasized about molesting men who were drunk drugged asleep comatose or dead
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meanwhile Nielsen's dismay over the homophobia that existed in the police force escalated while on the job he
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refused to arrest any men he found engaging in public sex acts together eventually in an act of rebellion he
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kissed the man he was dating in front of onlookers while wearing his police hat Nielson grew increasingly distant from
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his colleagues and in late 1973 he resigned from the police force and found a job as a security guard for the
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Department of Environment during one of his security patrols Nielson found a book on toxicology that contained a
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color photograph of a boy with rigor mortis the boy looked slightly alive and to Nielson realized he was aroused by
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the idea of someone being on the cusp of life and death while later patrolling the warehouse of the Natural History
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Museum he attempted to act out a sexual fantasy with a stuffed gorilla by placing the animal's hands on his naked
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body but was unable to sustain arousal by mid February 1974 Nielson was living in a share house in North London having
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been evicted from his previous residence after the other tenants complained about
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the number of men he was bringing home a few months later in May 1974 he quit his
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security guard job and went to the local Job Center to look for a new position there was an entry-level role available
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within the job center itself for someone to place low paid unskilled workers in restaurant jobs in the nearby Soho
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district given Nielsen's catering experience with the army he was offered the position and happily accepted
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although the job mostly involved answering phone calls they gave Nilsson a sense of achievement and satisfaction
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he was a diligent worker and after six months in the job he became involved in trade union politics and volunteered as
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branch organizer for the Jobcentre Workers Union he immersed himself in the role and soon also took on the volunteer
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role of branch secretary for the workers union on August 19 1975 a 17 year old boy named David painter attended the Job
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Center looking for work he was particularly vulnerable as he was suffering from mental health issues
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Neilson later bumped into David on the street and invited him back to his room where he plied him with alcohol the two
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climbed into bed together naked into Nilsen placed an arm around David's body David screamed and jumped from the bed
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running out of the room and into a glass partition injuring himself in front of some of the other tenants
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he was taken to a hospital where he told the medical staff that Nelson had tried
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to sexually assault him Nielson was taken to his former police station at Willesden green for questioning and held
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overnight but David and his parents declined to press charges and he was released without charge the following
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morning Nelson continued to retreat further into his fantasies his sexual ritual
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involving his marriage reflection soon took a more disturbing turn he was no longer fantasizing about exploring an
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unconscious body but rather a dead one in mid 1975 Nielson received a letter from Norway advising that his father who
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loved had died of a heart attack and left him 1,400 pounds the letter also informed him that since divorcing his
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mother who loved had married three more times and fathered several other children furthermore all loved surname
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wasn't really Nielson at all but mock shame and he had only used the Nielson name as an alias this news had a
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profound effect on Nelson and his already fragile sense of identity in November 1975 Nielson celebrated his
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30th birthday but this point he was tall and slim with crooked teeth that was slightly browning he wore his dark hair
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short and swept to one side and was clean-shaven a typical outfit for Nielson consisted of dark trousers a
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pale gray tweed a jacket blue shirt navy tie and two rimless eyeglasses around this time he was outside a pub in
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London's Hyde Park when he saw a skinny blond young man who appeared to be aged between 18 and 20 being bothered by two
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older men upon intervening Nielson learned the young man's name was David Galician and he was unemployed and two
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living in a hostel David was vulnerable immature and easily led he agreed to accompany Nielson back
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to his flat and at the following day the two commenced what would become a long-term relationship using the money
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from his father's inheritance Nielson rented a spacious self-contained flat in the North London district of Cricklewood
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for himself and David to move into 195 Melrose Avenue was a substantial Victorian era home that had been
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subdivided into multiple residences and two Nielsen's secured the ground floor flat at the back of the property it was
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a modest but comfortable abode with a living room bedroom small kitchen and an unkempt rubbish filled garden that
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backed on to an area of wasteland Nielsen spent the remainder of his inheritance on new furnishings and
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improvements to the home he convinced the landlord to give him and David exclusive use of the shared a garden and
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blocked off the sight path to ensure no other tenants could access it the two then removed all of the yards
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debris established a stone path and fish pond and planted various trees shrubs and vegetables nielsen already had one
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pet a budgerigar named Hamish who had been taught to say piss off and david suggests that they had a puppy to their
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household Neilson was reluctant given the level of responsibility required to care for a
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dog but David insisted they purchased a black and white female mixed breed naming her bleep after the sounds she
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made during the journey home David also found and adopted a stray kitten whom he
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named DeeDee content with his new domesticated life Nilsson stopped frequenting pubs in favor of spending
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his spare time at home with David he was thrilled to finally have the life he had
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always wanted but there were several issues within the relationship david was emotionally passive while Nelson was
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domineering and belittling and often complained that David was too hairy or too thin they were rarely intimate as
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David view Danielson as relatively inept and disinterested in sex consequently David was frequently unfaithful and by
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March 1976 just four months into their relationship the pair barely spoke to one another
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[Music] in April nielsen developed the gall stones and suffered through two months
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of severe abdominal pain while waiting to have an operation during this time he grew increasingly irritable with David
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and to the pear board often drifting even further apart David only visited Nilsson once during his 10-day hospital
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stay and by the time he recovered both men started bringing other men home to their flat over the next year Nilsson
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used alcohol and music to escape the growing turmoil in his domestic life but the final straw came in May 1977 after
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their dog bleep had a litter of puppies Nilsson went out to purchase a bottle of
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rum and asked the David to look after the dogs but by the time he returned two of the Pops had drowned in the garden
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pond Nilsson was furious and started wondering how he could get David to leave but two weeks later David met
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another man and moved out of his own accord without david to keep him company nielsen permitted various strangers to
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stay at his home many of whom he met at the pub some of the men became short-term lovers while others were
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simply drinking buddies who needed a place to crash on one occasion he invited a three men back to his place
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for a drink once they were all asleep nielsen lit the oil stove placed a jacket over it
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and watched as the room filled with smoke he took a bleep outside and then rushed
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back into the room assuming the role of hero by putting out the fire and flinging all the windows open another
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friend of Nielsen's recalled waking up at the Melrose Avenue flat one night to find that the room full of smoke and to
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Nielson hovering above him with a small knife Nielsen claimed the gas heater had
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fallen off the wall and he was using the knife to detach it completely in case of
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an explosion but the friend was convinced Nielsen had intentionally started the fire himself by the end of
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1978 Nielsen had been working at the Job Center for three and a half years but still hadn't earned a promotion although
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his employers couldn't fault his work at the Corps general abilities they felt his personality was volatile and his
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colleagues found him irritating Nielsen felt the moralized and overwhelmed but feelings of inadequacy and self-pity his
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sexual fantasies escalated and he retreated further into his mirror fetish using talcum powder on his skin and
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charcoal under his eyes to further enhance the lifeless appearance of his reflection when later looking back on
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this period he told author Brian masters quote loneliness is a long unbearable pain I
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felt that I had achieved nothing of importance or of help to anyone in my entire life I would think that if I
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drank myself to death my body would not be discovered until at least a week after there was no one I felt I could
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call upon for real help I was in daily contact with so many people but quite alone in myself I was becoming depressed
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and conditioned to a belief that I was impossible to live with Nielsen's desolation reached its peak when he
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spent Christmas of 1978 alone with a bleep as the New Year approach he was drinking heavily and in a state of
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despair so on December 30 he left his flat in search of company instead of going to one of his usual
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haunts Nielson chose the Cricklewood Arms Hotel a rough Irish pub approximately a 15-minute walk from his
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flat he consumed to multiple points of Guinness and engaged in conversations with several people including a
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fourteen-year-old named Steven Dean Holmes the miner had just attended a pop concert and had decided to stop at the
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bar on his way back to his home in the Kilburn district where he lived with his parents and sister Steven was refused
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service on account of his age and soon started chatting to Nielson who invited him back to his house for a
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drink the two walked back to Nielsen splat and two drank heavily late into the night eventually falling
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asleep in Nelson's bed a few hours later as dawn was breaking Nielson woke up and
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watched Steven sleep he caressed the teenagers body which led to him becoming aroused
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in a letter to author Brian masters Nielsen later recalled I could feel my heart pounding and I
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began to sweat he was still sound asleep I looked down on the floor where our clothes lay and my eyes fixed on my tire
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I remember thinking that I wanted him to stay with me over the new year whether he wanted to or not
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Nielsen picked up the tire and slipped it over Stephens head straddling his body while pulling the tire a struggle
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ensued and two the two tumbled from the bed onto the floor knocking over the coffee table as they fell Stephen
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eventually lost consciousness but continued to breathe uh raspily Nielsen went to the kitchen and filled a plastic
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bucket with water bringing it back to the bedroom he lifted Stephens head and dropped it into the bucket holding him
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down until it was clear he was dead he then washed Stephens body in the bathtub and carried him back to bed
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tucking the sheets up under his chin Neilson noted that Stephens skin was still warm but slightly discolored his
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eyes were half open and his lips were slightly parted and had turned blue nielsen started considering ways to get
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rid of the body and decided to take a walk to clear his mind he strolled down Willesden high road approximately 15
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minutes from his flat and purchased the cooking pot and an electric knife upon returning to the flat nielsen dressed
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Stephens corpse in brand-new underwear socks and a tank top he climbed into bed and to molested the body but lost his
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erection when he realized the body's temperature had started to drop instead Nielsen placed Stephens body on
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the floor covered him with an old curtain and then went to sleep later that day nielsen woke up made
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something to wait and to watch the TV while the corpse lay on the floor he eventually decided to conceal it beneath
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the floor of his flat the carpet wasn't fixed to the floor so he pulled it back priced up the floorboards and attempted
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to push Stephens body into the crawlspace below however rigor mortis had set in and to
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the now stiffening body became stuck Nielsen propped the body up against the wall and waited until the following day
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to try again this time he wrapped Stephen in a curtain and was able to work his limbs loose enough to ease him
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into the crawl space he then covered the space with the floorboards and carpet and disposed of Stephens clothing and
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boots in the rubbish bin one week later Nielson was curious as to what stage of decomposition the body had
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reached and exhumed Stephen from underneath the floorboards he bathed the corpse before washing
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himself in the same bathwater and proceeded to masturbate over the naked body Nielson then suspended Steven by
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his ankles from the ceiling overnight masturbating over him again the following day he intended to dismembered
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the corpse but instead returned to Steven to the crawlspace later explaining to Brian masters I just
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couldn't do anything to spoil that marvelous body it was the beginning of the end of my life as I had known it I
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had started down the Avenue of death and possession of a new kind of flatmate getting in shape it doesn't have to be
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about losing weight or a magic number on the scale it's about building healthier
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habits and feeling better about yourself if fitting into that favorite pair of jeans is your goal then that's great but
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alcohol intake to avoid committing another crime he stopped frequenting gay bars and
00:45:44
inviting men to his home instead focusing on his work at the Job Center rather than turn himself in he reasoned
00:45:53
it would be better to live a more productive and settle to life on Friday August 10 1979 just over seven months
00:46:03
after Stephens murder Nielson decided it was time to properly dispose of the teenager's remains in preparation he
00:46:13
constructed a bonfire in the rear garden of his flat the fence around the yard was seven feet tall into the house next
00:46:21
door was derelict so Neilson was confident he wouldn't raise any suspicions the following day he
00:46:30
retrieved Stephens body from under the floorboards and wrapped his remains in plastic bags he then set the bonfire
00:46:38
alight and placed the bags on the burning pyre throwing its fire into the flames so that the odor of burning
00:46:46
rubber would mask the smell of burning flesh after the fire had burnt out Nielson pounded the ashes into a fine
00:46:55
powder and raped them into the ground when Stephens body was gone Nielson regained a feeling of control
00:47:05
and two resumed his heavy drinking and bar-hopping two months later on October 11 1979 he was at an arcade in Leicester
00:47:16
Square when he met a young Chinese student named Andrew Howe and invited him back to his flat
00:47:23
andrew agreed and to the pair headed to Melrose Avenue where Andrew suggested they participate
00:47:29
in bondage Nielsen said he wasn't interested in any form of intimacy and instead offered Andrew money in exchange
00:47:38
for his company Andrew protested as he was more interested in a sexual encounter to appease his request
00:47:48
Nielsen agreed to tie Andrews feet together he then wrapped the tie around injuries
00:47:54
neck pulled it tight and warned what could happen if he continued to live such a risky lifestyle
00:48:02
Andrew panicked and started to scream prompting Nielsen to release his grip on the tire Andrew threw a candlestick at
00:48:11
Nielsen and I ran from the flat roughly half an hour later the police contacted Nielsen wanting to discuss the incident
00:48:21
but he denied that an attempted strangulation had taken place Andrew declined to make a written
00:48:29
statement or attend a future court date and therefore no charges were placed almost two months later on Monday
00:48:44
December 3 1979 Nielson left work early and went to the Princess Louise pub in London's Hoban district he struck up a
00:48:54
conversation with 23 year old Kenneth Ockendon who was originally from the United Kingdom but had emigrated to
00:49:01
Canada with his family as a young teenager Kenneth was training to be a welder and
00:49:08
had saved enough money for a three-month trip to England to catch up with relatives and old friends while also
00:49:15
indulging his passion for photography he had been in the country since September
00:49:21
and was due to fly home in just a few days Nilsson and Kenneth chattered and bought each other a round of drinks at 3
00:49:32
p.m. Kenneth placed a phone call to his uncle Gordon who lived in London to say he
00:49:38
would be stopping by in two days time to pick up some cash that Gordon was keeping safe for him after Kenneth ended
00:49:47
the call he into Nilsson left the pub together to visit some of London's famous landmarks including Trafalgar
00:49:54
Square and Westminster Abbey so that Kenneth could take some photographs with his prized cannon
00:50:00
single lens reflex camera and telephoto lens as their excursion drew to an end Nielsen suggested they go back to his
00:50:10
flat for something to wait before heading out for another drink later in the night
00:50:15
Kenneth accepted the invitation and the two went back to Melrose Avenue where they ate a meal of ham eggs and chips
00:50:24
they then decided to stay in instead of going to another pub and walked to a nearby liquor store to buy rum whiskey
00:50:32
and a beer they spent the rest of the evening drinking watching TV inter listening to Nelson's extensive record
00:50:41
collection at some point between 1:00 and 2:00 o'clock in the morning Kenneth was listening to music through
00:50:50
Nielsen's headphones suddenly Nielson wrapped the headphones around Kenneth's neck and dragged him across the floor
00:50:58
bleep barked frantically from the kitchen while Kenneth struggled until he eventually succumbed to the
00:51:05
strangulation Nielsen put bleep outside before returning to untangle the headphones from Kenneth's neck he then
00:51:15
poured himself a drink put the headphones on and sat down to listen to the record that Kenneth had been
00:51:21
enjoying after a while he strips in to bathe Kenneth's body laid him in bed and slept by his side in the morning
00:51:34
Nielsen stashed Kenneth's body in a cupboard disposed of his belongings and went to work during the day he purchased
00:51:44
the cheap Polaroid camera for the purpose of taking photographs of the body when he returned home he removed Kenneth
00:51:52
from the cupboard dressed him in socks briefs and a tank top and two then sat him on a chair he posed Kenneth in
00:52:01
various positions and took several Polaroids while speaking to him as though he was still alive that night
00:52:09
Nielson lay Kenneth's body on top of his own while he watched television and a later molested him eventually
00:52:18
he wrapped Kenneth in curtain fabric and placed him under the floorboards over the next two weeks
00:52:27
Nielsen retrieved Kenneth's corpse on four separate occasions and sat him on an armchair while he watched television
00:52:35
he smashed the records the pair had been listening to before the murder into pieces and threw them away Nielson later
00:52:45
told Brian masters I thought that his body and skin were very beautiful a sight that almost brought me to tears
00:52:54
after a couple of drinks he was my friend I liked him a lot his music still haunted me
00:53:05
when Kenneth failed to show at his uncle Gordon's house on Wednesday December 5 gordon notified the Ockendon family in
00:53:13
canada kenneth was close with his family and had maintained a regular contact with them throughout his trip to England
00:53:22
so it was out of character for him not to be in touch do Condon's hold out hope that Kenneth
00:53:29
would return for Christmas but after several weeks passed with no word from him they reported him missing the London
00:53:38
Metropolitan Police visited Kenneth's last known place of accommodation the Central Hotel on Argyle Street and
00:53:45
discovered all of his belongings were still there except for his London Street directory enterprise camera and des
00:53:53
landes among his possessions was a diary that detailed Kenneth's movements up until Monday December 3 the day of his
00:54:03
encounter with Nelson police suspected he had been missing since then and that foul play was involved
00:54:14
in February 1980 Kenneth's parents Audrey and Ken flew to London to wait the search telling the press they would
00:54:23
stay as long as it took to find to their son missing persons posters were distributed throughout the city and
00:54:31
police asked for assistance in locating Kenneth or his camera equipment but no leads emerged
00:54:40
[Music] during the 1970s and 80s London saw an increase in the number of young people experiencing homelessness
00:54:51
unemployment rates were higher and to the unskilled workers who did manage to find casual employment were poorly paid
00:54:59
to secure a job an individual needed to provide proof of address but without enough income to make the down payment
00:55:07
required to rent a room or flat many young people were caught in a vicious cycle
00:55:13
moreover council housing was scarce and available beds in charitable shelters were rapidly declining leaving those who
00:55:22
were unable to afford accommodation with no choice but to sleep araf many of these young people were raised in foster
00:55:32
care or estranged from their families and had no one to turn to for help to support themselves they often turned to
00:55:40
drugs and sex work effectively growing what was known as the rentboy trade in which teenagers and young men sold
00:55:49
sexual services to older men in the days before the internet mobile phones and social media it was easy for Londoners
00:55:59
experiencing homelessness to disappear and become nearly impossible to track down the Department of Health and Social
00:56:07
Security didn't follow up on the whereabouts of an individual if they failed to claim their welfare benefits
00:56:15
Nielsen's years of working for the Job Centre meant he was well aware of this growing problem and to the predicament
00:56:22
faced by many young men on May 17 1980 just over five months since the murder of Kenneth Ockendon Nielson was
00:56:34
returning from a work conference when he disembarked a train at Euston station in
00:56:39
central London there he met 16 year-old Martin Duffy a catering student from the
00:56:46
town of birkenhead in northwest England who had just arrived in London Martin had a left high school at the age of 15
00:56:55
and after struggling to find work he started stealing and getting into trouble with the authorities after one
00:57:03
incident his parents sent him to a special school for maladjusted children where he received psychological
00:57:10
treatment his parents divorced around the same time Martin was discharged from the school and he started frequenting
00:57:18
gay clubs and developed an addiction to Valium one of Martin's psychologists helped him complete a catering course
00:57:27
and he graduated with his very own set of chef's knives engraved with his name Martin's circumstances had recently been
00:57:37
improving until he was questioned by police with regard to evading a train fare on May 13 1980 he packed a suitcase
00:57:47
with his new knife set and other belongings and told his family he was going to live in New Brighton a town
00:57:54
four and a half miles from Birkenhead instead he traveled 215 miles southeast to London where he struck up a
00:58:05
conversation with Dennis Nilsen and agreed to accompany him back to his Melrose Avenue flat after drinking a
00:58:15
beer Martin became tired and went to sleep in Nelson's bed Nielsen then straddled the teenager and strangled him
00:58:24
while he slept once Martin lost consciousness Nielsen carried him to the kitchen sink filled
00:58:32
it with water and held Martin's head under until he drowned he then ran himself a bath climbed in and washed the
00:58:42
naked body while it laid on top of his own once he was finished Neilson carried Martin's corpse to the bed where he
00:58:51
molested him further afterwards he stored Martin in a cupboard for two days before burying him beneath the
00:59:01
floorboards alongside Kenneth Ockendon Neilson found a luggage tag in Martin's pocket and went to Euston station to
00:59:11
retrieve his belongings the locker contained an old suitcase which Nielsen threw away but he kept several knives
00:59:20
from the chef's knife set inside three months later in August 1980 26 year-old William Billy Sutherland visited the job
00:59:35
centre where Nelson worked Billy had been raised in a slum estate near the city of Edinburgh in Scotland and had
00:59:44
moved to London with his girlfriend Donna into their young son in the late 1970s Donna disliked to London and
00:59:52
missed home so she and their child returned to Scotland while Billy stayed in England since then he had been living
01:00:01
as somewhat transient lifestyle moving around to London often and struggling to find steady employment
01:00:10
Billy's attempts to find work were hindered by the fact that he had lots of tattoos which many people at the time
01:00:17
associated with criminals Billy had previously been employed as a chef so he visited the job centre hoping to be
01:00:26
placed in a similar role Nielsen and Billy struck up a conversation and decided to go on a pub crawl through the
01:00:36
Soho area after several hours of drinking Neilson got tired of walking around and decided to go home he walked
01:00:46
down the stairs to the Leicester Square underground station and bought himself a
01:00:51
train ticket Billy followed and indicated he had nowhere else to go so Nielson invited him to stay at his
01:01:00
flat once they arrived at Melrose Avenue Nielsen strangled Billy with his bare hands and disposed of his body
01:01:09
underneath the floorboards despite Billy's transient lifestyle he regularly contacted his girlfriend - Donna and his
01:01:20
mother back home in Scotland and - the two grew concerned when he stopped calling his mother contacted both the
01:01:28
London Metropolitan Police and The Salvation Army to report him missing but there were already 40 other men named
01:01:36
Billy Sutherland on the missing-persons register Nielsen now had three bodies hidden underneath these floorboards that
01:01:46
he needed to get rid of those of Kenneth Ockendon Martin Duffy and Billy Sutherland one Sunday afternoon in
01:01:55
August he retrieved all three corpses and too laid them out on his kitchen floor they were in an advanced state of
01:02:04
decomposition covered in maggots and emitting a foul odor Nielson drank several glasses of rum and - then
01:02:14
masturbated next to his victims in what he interpreted as his way of saying goodbye using his sharpest kitchen
01:02:25
knives Nielsen employed the butchery skills he had learned in the army to dissect each of the bodies into several
01:02:32
parts it was a difficult and physically demanding process during which Nelson vomited several times in order to remove
01:02:44
the flesh from the skulls he boiled the heads of his victims in a large cooking pot on the stove
01:02:51
he put the internal organs into plastic bags and stuffed them between the double
01:02:57
fencing in his backyard to be eaten by insects and animals he placed the remaining body parts in plastic bags and
01:03:06
stuff to them inside some old suitcases that had been left at the flat by a previous tenant not all of the body
01:03:14
parts would fit so Nielsen hid a bag containing the arms and hands of one victim underneath the bush in his
01:03:22
backyard he then took the suitcases to his garden shed and constructed a low brick wall around them to conceal the
01:03:32
stench he placed the few sticks of deodorant over the suitcases and covered them with bricks and stacked in
01:03:38
newspapers as Nielsen had salt use of the garden he didn't bother to lock the shed over the following months Nielson
01:03:53
continued to frequent London's pubs where he met several unsuspecting men whom he brought back to his Melrose
01:04:00
Avenue flat while his memory of this period was hazy his victims included an Irish labourer aged between 27 and 30
01:04:10
years old a slim man Aveda Filipino or Mexican descent an emaciated homeless man whom
01:04:17
he met on Charing Cross Road and a long-haired hippie he encountered in London's West End as he'd done with his
01:04:27
earlier victims he strangled each of them and then hid their bodies under his floorboards on November 10 1980 Nielson
01:04:38
was drinking with some people at the Golden Lion Park in Soho when the group struck up a conversation with Douglas
01:04:45
Stewart a 26 year old from the town of thurso on Scotland's north coast although the Golden Lion had a
01:04:54
reputation as a gay bar Douglas was there because it served his favorite Scottish beer he drank and chatted with
01:05:02
the group until closing time at which point Nielsen suggested they continue the party at his Platte once Douglas was
01:05:11
out on the street he realized he was the only person who had taken Nilsson up on
01:05:16
his offer although he was now hesitant he thought it would be rude if he didn't continue on so the two headed to
01:05:25
Nelson's flat alone once there they each drank two pints of beer and two Nielsen invited Douglas to
01:05:35
join him in bed the Scots been declined and instead went to sleep in an armchair
01:05:42
two hours later Douglas awoke to find that his feet had been tied to the legs of the chair and
01:05:49
that the necktie he'd taken off earlier was now fastened around his throat suddenly Nielson was on top of him
01:05:58
pushing his knee down hard into Douglass's chest Douglas fought back scratching Nilsen
01:06:06
hard enough under one eye to draw blood and eventually pinned him to the ground Nielson loudly shouted take my money
01:06:16
take my money before quietly and calmly telling Douglas I could kill you the struggle dissipated and to douglas
01:06:29
placated nielsen by apologizing and helping to wipe the blood from his face he stayed for another drink then fled to
01:06:38
the nearest telephone box to call the police shortly after an officer arrived at Nelson splat but Nelson provided a
01:06:47
starkly different version of events the police didn't notice the scratch below his eye and promptly left concluding the
01:06:57
fight had likely been nothing more than quote a lover's TIFF the next day they tried to contact Douglas to obtain a
01:07:07
further statement but were unable to locate him no further action was taken by December of 1980 Nelson now had the
01:07:21
remains of seven victims on his property the bodies of Kenneth Ockendon Martin Duffy and Billy Sutherland were in the
01:07:29
suitcases in the shed three of the unnamed victims were stored underneath the floorboards and one was in the
01:07:36
cupboard realizing he was running out of room and needed to dispose of his victims
01:07:43
permanently Neilson retrieved the four unidentified bodies and dismembered them using a kitchen knife he placed the
01:07:53
limbs heads and torsos into large plastic garbage bags put them back under the floorboards and have been disposed
01:08:00
of the organs and entrails in his backyard for animals to devour that evening he prepared a large bonfire in
01:08:10
the area of Wasteland just beyond his back garden he used sections of a recently felled
01:08:17
poplar tree as the base and two stacked pieces of wood and furniture that had been discarded by his neighbors on top
01:08:25
when he was finished the structure was five feet tall and had a large hole in the center Neilson retired to bed and
01:08:36
resumed his plan at 6:45 the following morning Walla was still dark he retrieved the garbage bags from beneath
01:08:45
the floorboards wrapped them inside two large carpets and to drag them out to the bonfire next he fetched the
01:08:54
suitcases from the garden shed those that had been stacked on top were still intact and easy to drag into the center
01:09:03
of the bonfire but the ones at the bottom had been crushed and fell to pieces when he tried to lift them bits
01:09:12
of rotting flesh scattered on to the ground which he had to pick up by hand to add to the pyre
01:09:19
when all of the garbage bags suitcases and stray pieces had been thrown into the center Nielsen loaded the fire with
01:09:27
newspaper and through an old car tire on top to disguise the inevitable smell of
01:09:33
burning flesh he squirted the base with a lighter fuel and set the pile alight the fire burned throughout the day with
01:09:45
Nelson monitoring it closely at all times and adding extra wood as required a few children from the neighborhood
01:09:54
stopped a buyer to watch a burn but Nelson wanted them away by the time the fire eventually died down one of his
01:10:05
victims skulls was still recognizable so Nielsen used the garden rake to crush it
01:10:11
into a fine powder he then covered the ashy remains of the fire with bricks disinfected the floor of the garden shed
01:10:20
took a bath and headed out to the salisbury pub in London's West End there he met a young man with whom he had a
01:10:29
one-night stand [Music] Christmas into the new year passed without incident but during the first
01:10:42
few months of 1991 Nielsen was the victim of a series of robberies his camera and projector was stolen from his
01:10:51
flat and he was also mugged one night while staggering home drunk from the pub the assailant stole three hundred pounds
01:11:00
the equivalent of one month's wages to make ends meet Nielsen had to apply to the Department of Employment benevolent
01:11:09
fund for an advance on his wages which he was mortified about meanwhile his landlords were encouraging him to vacate
01:11:20
the Melrose Avenue property as they considered him a difficult uncooperative and obstructive tenant they told Nielsen
01:11:29
he would have to leave temporarily while renovations were underway but he refused
01:11:34
saying that he wouldn't be intimidated into giving up his rights as a tenant one day in June 1981 he returned home
01:11:44
from work to discover that his entire flat had been vandalized his television record player and mirror were smashed to
01:11:53
pieces and his furniture linen and clothing had all been smeared in a tar-like substance destroying everything
01:12:01
except the suit he was wearing Nielsen reported the incident to the police who took a statement but the person
01:12:09
responsible was never identified when Nielsen's colleagues at the job centre found out they pulled their money
01:12:17
together and presented him with a check for 85 pounds the equivalent of about 600 Australian dollars in today's
01:12:25
currency that same month Nielsen made several attempts to further his career first he submitted a request to attend
01:12:37
management committee meetings as part of his role as a union official but the request was denied with the hour
01:12:44
explanation he then applied for a transfer to the overseas workers section of the Job Center a department which
01:12:52
helped place foreign workers in employment Nielsen's manager denied this request writing in a rejection letter
01:13:02
your men are in relationships with your colleagues is usually outspoken and often overbearing I am concerned that
01:13:11
despite your undoubted desire to provide an effective service to our customers your manner with the public on overseas
01:13:18
workers section might cause offence Nielson was furious but continued in his current role throughout the first half
01:13:32
of 1981 he also claimed three more victims one was an 18 year old blue-eyed Scottish man who he met at the Golden
01:13:42
Lion in Soho and challenged to a drinking competition another was a man in his early 20s from Belfast who he met
01:13:52
in the West End and to the other was a 20 year old skinhead who was covered in tattoos one of which was a dotted line
01:14:00
across his neck accompanied by the words cut here like the other attacks the men
01:14:08
were killed by strangulation and kept for several days to fulfil Nelson's sexual desires before being dismembered
01:14:15
and buried under the floorboards at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday September 17 1981 Nielson was walking to work when he saw
01:14:28
a young man slumped against the garden wall a few houses down from his flat the man was 24 year old Malcolm Barlow
01:14:37
an orphan from the Yorkshire town of Rotherham who had spent the majority of his youth in foster homes and hospitals
01:14:44
for the mentally ill he was of a low intelligence epileptic and also a compulsive liar who often induced
01:14:53
seizures in order to gain sympathy malcolm relied on welfare benefits and sometimes turned to sex work to earn an
01:15:02
income he typically slept in hostels or with people who picked him up off the street Malcolm told her Nelson that the
01:15:12
pills he was taking to treat his epilepsy had caused his legs to give way and he was unable to walk Nielson picked
01:15:20
Malcolm up and helped support him as they walked back to his flat there he made Malcolm a cup of coffee before
01:15:27
going to the nearest pay phone to call an ambulance ten minutes later the paramedics arrived then took Malcolm to
01:15:36
the Park Royal Hospital where he received treatment and was released the next day on Friday September 18 Nelson
01:15:46
returned home from work to find Malcolm sitting on his doorstep he invited him inside cooked him a meal into the - sat
01:15:55
down to watch television together Nelson started drinking but refused to give a malcolm any alcohol in case it
01:16:04
interfered with his medication malcolm insisted one or two drinks would be fine and Nelson reluctantly agreed after
01:16:16
drinking two rum and cokes malcolm then fell asleep on the sofa an hour later Nielsen tried to wake
01:16:26
Malcolm by slapping him in the face but there was no response he contemplated whether or not to call the paramedics
01:16:34
again but was worried that if he did the police might become involved after 20 minutes of consideration he wrapped his
01:16:44
hands around Malcolm's neck and strangled him to death he then finished his drink and went to bed the next
01:16:53
morning Nielsen dragged Malcolm's body into the kitchen placed him under the sink and left for work when later
01:17:03
reflecting on the murder two author Brian masters Nielson said I'm sorry that he managed to find me again
01:17:16
in late September 1981 a real-estate agent acting Vanille since landlords offered to rent him a self-contained
01:17:25
flat roughly five miles northeast of the Melrose Avenue property as an added incentive
01:17:33
the landlord's offered to pay him 1,000 pounds compensation for the difficulties
01:17:38
he had enjoyed over the preceding months nielsen was driven to see the flat at 23
01:17:45
cranly gardens in Muswell Hill and accepted the offer on the spot the move was scheduled for Monday
01:17:54
October 5 Nielson spent the weekend prior packing up his few belongings and disposing of the remaining bodies on
01:18:04
Saturday October 3 he built one final bonfire in the wasteland behind his garden using unwanted furniture and
01:18:12
rubbish to again create a large construction with a hollow Center in the early morning hours of Sunday October 4
01:18:22
while it was still dark outside he dragged Malcolm Barlow's body to the wasteland and into the center of the
01:18:29
fire he then retrieved the body parts of the three unidentified victims from underneath the floorboards and added
01:18:38
them to the pile after setting the fire alight he watched as it burned when one of his neighbors
01:18:48
came out to ask what was going on Nielson responded that he was burning his rubbish before the big move on
01:18:57
Monday morning Nielson checked the remnants of the fire and to notice the large pile of ashes and small bone
01:19:04
fragments remained using a garden roller he flattened to the pile and crushed the
01:19:11
bones into one recognizable pieces he then remembered he had hidden the hands and arms of one victim under a bush in
01:19:20
his backyard and to retrieve the bag that contained the body parts after using a shovel to break the bones into
01:19:29
smaller fragments he threw them over the fence into the wasteland when the removalist arrived soon after nielsen
01:19:39
loaded up his belongings and his beloved dog bleep as he later explained to brian
01:19:46
masters quote driving away from 195 Melrose Avenue was a great relief to be continued next week
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