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After he graduated from the Metropolitan Police Academy in Lon-
don, he began visiting gay pubs. Nilsen had several brief, sentimen-

tal relationships that ended in failure and hence believed that he

was unfit for long-time relationships.

MURDER

Dennis began to actively seek out sexual encounters but he felt lone-

ly each time his partners left. So he decided to force men to stay by
killing them. He found his victim’s dead naked bodies fascinating.

His first victim was a 14-year-old boy whom he had met at the pub.

The boy accompanied him to his apartment and promised to sup-

ply alcohol for the night. Eventually, he fell asleep. Fearing that the

young boy would leave him if he awoke, Nilsen strangled him with

a necktie and drowned him in water. He then washed the boy’s body
and took him to his bed, where he attempted a sex act and then fell

asleep next to the corpse. Eventually, he hid the boy’s body under-

neath the floorboard of his apartment. He would stay there for sev-

eral months until Nilsen buried him in the backyard. Meanwhile,

he continued to seek out new victims.

Some of his victims were homeless or sex workers while the others
were tourists who had visited the wrong bar. No matter who they

were, Nilsen wanted to keep them with him forever.

He had been hiding his corpses underneath the floorboard, how-

ever, the smell eventually became too much to bear so he started

burning and burying his victims in the garden. He often saved his

victim’s skin and bones. He often dressed them up, took them to

bed, watched TV, and performed sex acts with them.

ARREST AND DEATH

In 1981, his landlord decided to renovate his apartment and he

moved to a new location. He didn’t have enough outdoor spaces to

burn the body parts and hence he began flushing human remains

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