Netflix continues to bet on the genre of “true crime” and this Wednesday, August 18, the documentary ‘Memoirs of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes‘.
The haunting documentary film show the serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who recounts his life and the heinous crimes he committed from his jail cell.
Director Michael Harte had access to the audios of a series of interviews in which Nilsen luridly goes over his brutal crimes and compiled them in this haunting documentary film.
Dennis Nilsen was a British serial killer and necrophiliac who murdered 15 young men between 1978 and 1983 in London. He was sentenced to life in prison on November 4, 1983, with a recommendation to serve a minimum of 25 years. Years later, he was incarcerated in HM Prison, a maximum security prison at Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
All the crimes of Nilsen they were committed in north London. Their victims were lured by deception and later killed by strangulation and sometimes accompanied by drowning. Following the killings, Nilsen performed a ritual in which he bathed and dressed his victims, which he then kept for a long time before dissecting them and burning them at the stake or flushing them down the toilet.
Nilsen He was known as the “Muswell Hill Murderer” when he confessed to the killings in the Muswell Hill district of North London. He was also known as “The Kind Assassin” for his ceremonial method of murder which he himself considered quite humane.
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