Between 19, Nilsen killed and dismembered at least 12 vulnerable young men in a case that has depressing similarities with that of Stephen Port over three decades later. This is in no small part due to the particularly gruesome method he treated his victims’ remains. If Shipman is the UK’s most prolific killer, Dennis Nilsen is perhaps the most notorious. The other is outside his home in 1998, just before he was arrested and charged for mass murder, yet there he is carrying on as if magnanimously pardoning a subordinate journalist for stepping on his begonias. The first shows him dispassionately discussing, ironically, care in the community in 1982 for a British TV show when he was already well into his killing spree. Shipman enjoyed playing God, taking advantage of a community that offered him nothing but unfettered trust and respect.īelow we have clips from two short television interviews with Shipman. However, just because there are no gory, salacious details, this was cold-blooded, calculated murder at its most cynical. The nature of his crimes, artificially diagnosing susceptible, trusting, victims with an ailment, and then injecting them with a lethal amount of diamorphine, makes Shipman an almost incongruous figure on this list. The doctors, nurses and carers who exploit their positions of trust for their own nefarious and murderous ends
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