He served 34 years of his life sentence, then died in 2018 at the age of 72. He suggests that his view of the dead grandfather's body may have merged his emotions about love and death so that he would go on to have sex and kill and, in at least one instance, masturbate on one of his dead victims. He objected to being called a "monster," and explains he was molested by a beloved grandfather before the age of 5, as if to blame his proclivities on someone else. He called such people "a unit in the herd," nobodies, abandoned ciphers in life. As a former police officer and a civil servant, he had the discernment to select his victims from among a large London population of young homeless, runaways, "rent boys" - male prostitutes - and people on the margins whose disappearance would likely go unnoticed. Nilsen is articulate, even eloquent at times, as he tells his story with a measure of self importance and no sign of remorse. Director Michael Harte (director of Don't F** with Cats) plays excerpts from the 250 hours of tapes Nilsen recorded while he served his life prison term as he worked on his autobiography, a compilation of self justifications attached to an indictment of society for its marginalization of gay people. In MEMORIES OF A MURDER: THE NILSEN TAPES, British serial killer Dennis Nilsen is a cheerful raconteur of his murderous exploits. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. A grandfather is described as a pedophile who abused a child under the age of 5. Nilsen kept at least on corpse around to masturbate on. The movie recounts many horrifying ways he disposed of body parts, under floorboards, in plastic bags, buried in the garden, and clogging the plumbing. He often picked up young homeless men in gay bars, then after plying them with alcohol and having sex with them, he sometimes strangled and sometimes drowned victims, then dismembered them. Language includes "pee" and "rent boy." Graphic descriptions of Nilsen's methods are offered. That police negligence allowed Nilsen to murder for years longer. Male victims who survived and reported Nilsen's acts were victimized again - ignored or ridiculed by police for being gay. After a murderous spree from the late 1970s to the 1980s, he not only revealed that he'd murdered and buried around 15 men, many of them never identified, but his story also laid bare the crushing institutional prejudice harbored by police and other authorities against homosexuality in Britain at the time. Parents need to know that Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes tells the story of one of Britain's most infamous serial killers, Dennis Nilsen. Nilsen kept at least on corpse around to masturbate on.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. He finds four fingers and other human flesh in the pipes. A plumber is called when a building's plumbing is clogged. Police describe an "awful smell" at Nilsen's home. Two severed heads were found, one having been boiled in a pot. Nilsen reveals two sacksful of human remains in his closet. Bodies are found rotting under floorboards. A yard is combed for pieces of bone and teeth of victims. Descriptions are given of bonfires used to reduce victims' bodies to disposable ash. A woman whose straight, drug-addicted estranged husband was a victim was informed by a reporter exactly how her husband was murdered and how he was sexually defiled after his death. Graphic descriptions of his methods are included.
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