Hi guys! As many of you know, this video got blocked in several countries, so I had to re-edit and upload it again. Apologies if you've already seen it + a huge thank you if you did and you're watching it for a second time!! I'll get a brand new video up soon! x
one of the saddest parts is that the people he would kill often went relatively unnoticed. As gay men many of them probably were outcasted by their families/friends
Ikr. I was just thinking about that. Except for one of them,who's disappearance got a lot of attention, other men were mostly from the margine of the society. Not only they were gay, but also homeless, drug or alcohol addicts and no one bother too much to look for them when they disappeared. It is really very sad. Also, if he was reported to the police at least three times for attempted murder, how come that the police didn't look into his case. If they took those surviving men seriously, they could prevented more deaths.
This is what I was thinking. In a weird way, Dennis was similar to them-an outsider. In one way, it's sad because the fact it went unnoticed, the fact a lot of gay men were homeless is down to people's attitudes and their own families not caring.
@@Willow_moon364 It's strange because Nilsen seemed to kind of acknowledge that yeah, there was a problem. It's why, he said, he took them in and offered them food. He was pretty disgusted at the way society treated people (I mean, everyone cared more about his victims after he'd already killed them!). His case is one which says a lot about how important it is for the vulnerable to be protected, and for the police to listen to vulnerable people when they go to them for help.
@@antonelabakavic4045 the police probably didn’t care because they were both gay men. They wrote it off as just a lovers quarrel because it seems like they didn’t want to get too involved in a gay relationship’s problems maybe?🤷🏼♀️ it’s so sad😥
That would permanently scar any kid, it's a horrible thing for a Mum to do. It seems like she must have had some mental health problems to have done something so cruel. I don't know if she meant it to be cruel or if she didn't have the ability to see that it was cruel but ffs.
My Grandad (with whom I was extremely close) was given 5 years to live when he went to the doc's office for his heart... So we all knew he would die soon but maybe I was in denial? I guess? Idk... (I was 13 at the time if that tells you anything.) Anyway, fast forward 6 yrs later, (I was 19) and my new husband called and said, "Where are you? You need to go to your Grandmother and Grandadys house RIGHT NOW.... Its Grandad." Otw there I remember bawling my eyes out thinking, well this is it, time to say goodbye... So I came sliding up in their drive, jumped outta the truck and flew up the stairs. At first I couldn't find anyone so I went straight to their bedroom. So... Yeah. Grandaddy died sometime earlier in the night ( probably around 2 or 3am and now it was about 730am). I will never forget how he looked. It was very traumatic to say the least. (Btw, my family didnt realize I misunderstood or they definitely would've warned me.)
@@inthelandofmorethansmall7582 im so sorry, i had to watch my mom slowly get smaller and die in the hospital, nobody told me she was pronpunced brain dead until around 9m, she passed at 4am previously, so :(
This is just a thought, but he was only 5 so I wonder if he just doesn’t have memories of his mom telling him his grandpa had passed and the only memory he does have is just her asking if he wanted to see his grandpa before he was buried and he’d never see him again. Idk just a thought. I have very spotty memories at 5 years old. 🤷♀️
It’s literally important for forensic scientists to know the background on people. It’s important information. It makes these horrible people real, because these people are out there. Every day. Everywhere. You have to be careful about strangers, not paranoid but careful. This guys seemed so normal other than being rather weird. Nobody suspected him even though his flat was filled with dead bodies. These people are a part of society and to separate them from the human race makes them seem like fictional horror movie killers. Texas chainsaw massacre is based off of a killer. This information that explains why it happened, can make it so we can prevent and catch these people.
In a podcast I listened to about this he was kicked from his first apartment because they complained about a smell and he got evicted. That was the only time he managed to effectively dispose of bodies
Its crazy how many things dennis had in common with dahmer,they were both gay,both killed for company,both wore glasses,both were in the army,both drank alot,both strangled there victims,.. rip to all the victims.
@@liamc1102 The circle way round your comment,it pissed me off you saying what about the killers,but liam you dont no me,ive been pen pals with killers ive spoke to them because no matter what they have done i think there is good in everyone liam.
Wow, what his mother did to him was horrible. He was a child. Children don't really understand death. Her approach with introducing the idea to him was really messed up. That must have traumatized him
A lot of details in this video lead me to believe that this man wanted attention and recognition for what he's done. I would take the details of his tragic backstory with a grain of salt.
@@kenzipearson16 fun fact, in the uk if you are 4’11 or under you are eligible for disability allowance for the rest of your life because apparently being under 4’11 makes you a legal midget 😂 and your not fat btw I’m also “overweight for my height” the chart was made by sexist men back when women were objects and we still use that system to measure the ideal weight to date. Just a mini fact tea spill x
It makes me so sad to think about the first victim. He was only 14, he was literally only a child, and that makes me so sad, and kinda sick to my stomach. He had so much of his life to look foward to only to have it forcibly taken from him.
ImNotAwaffle We interviewed Kay Holmes ( Stephens Mother ) if you could have seen how this had destroyed her mentally and physically as she could not be 100% certain that DN had murdered her son and she persisted each and every single day searching for information on Stephen's whereabouts, hoping and preying he would one day come back to her. The whole situation caused her to seek help from mental health services which back then were next to useless with psychiatrist preferring to offer her sleeping tablets rather than listen to her story, ( as they did not believe DN had murdered Stephen, they thought all this was in her imagination ) this led to her separating from her husband who had by then moved back to Ireland as the stress had become to much for him to deal with. Kay was finally proved right but sadly it was too late for her to know the truth as she had passed away a few years prior to it being confirmed. Many reports mention that Stephen was gay, this I can assure you and anyone else reading this that this was not the case. Stephen was 14 when he was killed by DN and in our opinion far too young to be labelled gay, unless he'd specifically asked to be. Absolutely nothing in his room or in his diary suggested he was anything but straight. As Kay mentioned in the interview if he had of been he most certainly would have told her as he knew just how much she adored her son and would do anything for him. If Stephen had told her he was gay both she and her husband and daughter would have loved him no less than if he had been straight. I have to admit that I've become quite hardened to doing these interviews over the years but the interview with Kay had me completely blown away with sadness.
@@rameshmalik5271 this is not important but just wanted to say some people know they're gay that young. I catched my friend (male) watching gay p*rn at 12 and he confessed me having crushes on guys since that age, also he had many of the mannerisms even earlier on. Still he never told anyone and even 'dated' some girls up until he came out at 18 but it was all a front friends closer to him always knew he was gay. Still i get what you mean, Stephen didn't give any signs or tell so I get he wasn't I'm just saying.
very good point, you should watch the assassination of giani versace series if you havent already. it really highlights this issue and shows that gianis death could have been prevented had the police taken it seriously
For real what type of bratty reaction is that?? 'Do you wanna see your grandpa? He's there' directing the kid to the dead body...I wanted to slap her when i heard it
@@pillbugheart I know right?? The clips of Nilsen casually explaining how dismembering the old bodies was not as messy as one might think sounds so chill that he might as well be having just about any other normal conversation......not including murder
That interview when he talks about cutting up the bodies so nonchalantly 😬 this is why I don’t trust anyone, ever! You could bump into that man at the grocery store & never know he was systematically cutting up year old dead bodies.
Megan Mango Im not sure if its because he genuinly doesnt care or if he has said these things so many times. Either way isnt good but many victums do the same thing you learn to detach yourself. Hell I do the same thing when I talk about being raped. Its just something people do. Yes he is a killer and not a victum but I think its safe to assume with all he had fucked up in his head he got really good at detatching himself.
Fun fact? The average person crosses around 36 murderers in their lifetime and walk past an average of 7 vehicles with a dead body in it. And people wonder why I’m agoraphobic. Enjoy trying to function now.
there are cases where people are sexually assaulted and / or raped, especially as a teenager or child and then after, as they're processing the event and trauma from it, try to believe they enjoyed it so it doesn't feel as bad to remember, or develop rape fantasies and/or a consensual non-consent kink because of the experience (obviously not everyone with either of these has them for this reason), or even believe (or want to believe) that they want it to happen again, even if they didn't actually enjoy it in the moment. obviously I have no way of knowing why he said what he did about being assaulted and no one else does either, maybe not even him. the brain tries to deal with and recover from trauma however it can, sometimes, unfortunately, creating more issues for itself, the person, and their mental and/or physical health later on (like this or developing BPD for example). :/ while I of course can't sympathize with someone like this or excuse his adult behavior with past trauma (I was repeatedly SA'd AND saw one of my best friends dead as a teenager and didn't turn out like him), the teenager he was didn't deserve to be SA'd, no one does, and it's still sad. :(
"he lost his innocence, he was never the same" what do u expect from a 5 yo after you just showed him the dead body of the person they loved the most on ur kitchen table?
@@Elleoaqua clearly they were if it led to Dennis becoming a serial killer. I’m sure it wasn’t a thing to just spring a dead body on a 5 year old without explaining death
@@breakfastattiffanys741 yeah but that really wasn't a good explanation or anything. She directly traumatized him and caused him to experience what he did. She is a sick person as well who did also cause him to become a murderer
@@breakfastattiffanys741 it's different when it's your favorite family member, the only one who showed you attention and love, and when you come home, being asked if you want to see him at that age, and then be greeted with a casket that you open yourself to find that person, it is entirely different. That's not at all how you explain that to a kid, especially a kid's favorite person. She directly traumatized him and was part of the cause of why he went on to be a murderer.
I thought the same thing. How could someone *live* in an apartment with that many corpses? I keep thinking about people with pets who don't realize that their house smells like animal. How much worse this must be.
it's kinda like hoarders, they get so used to the smell they dont notice anything is wrong with the smell. I think he got so used to the dead body smell that it just smelt normal to him
Am I the only one who’s obsessed with watching these and them ends up being paranoid about everything? I have also been watching true crime stuff all day now so I need to stop...
I love how in cases like this, when survivors go to the police, and the police excuse them not checking up on it as a “lovers spat” like? That’s not an excuse? Even if it was a spat between boyfriends, it’s still assault? A similar thing happened in Jeffrey Dahmer’s case where the victim Konerak Sinthasomphone managed to escape from Dahmer’s apartment, and two ladies found him and called the police. The police came and the women tried to tell them Sinthasomphone was in danger, but Dahmer convinced the officers that they were lovers, and the police ended up taking Sinthasomphone back to Dahmer’s appartment. The police even smelled something odd in the apartment, but didn’t investigate. It’s just a combination of homophobia and police negligence.
Close but the name was wrong, it was Konerak Sinthasomphone, he was Dahmer's youngest victim( 14 years old), and he convinced the racist and homophobic police that Konerak was his 19 year old boyfriend.
@@horrorhistory7342 Thank you so much for the correction! I didn't realize I had misread the article I was reading about the incident, but nevertheless I apologize for misnaming the victim and have corrected the comment!
Its crazy right? When Gacy’s first victim was assaulted they actually wrote it off as “consent gone wrong” because “gay men can’t assault each other,” aside from Gacy being a member of the community. They locked his records too so when his FIRST VICTIM (one of his first few) went to go report it, the police just shrugged and didn’t do much. So many young boys could’ve been saved Hell there were so many COMPLAINTS about t the smell of his crawl space. Ugh.
"He liked this flat is was nice and big, relatively cheap, he had access to the garden... he kept all of his victims bodies there" That line cut me off guard XD
I lowkey feel bad for the guy, I feel like if he was born around our time, a more accepting time, he maybe wouldn't have done it. But you can say that about a lot of people.
I know right like it’s not that I want to justify but he was not raised right and everything in his life contributed to this. Him not being accepted, him not having a person, or him not getting mental health. I feel bad even though there were the murders he’s still a human who was put through these wrong conditions that all shaped the way he grew up and who he became.
@@music_addict_with_a_pen1397 that obviously doesn't make his victims are any less victims, but I could also mean that he himself was also a victim of circumstances
Dennis Nilsen is my uncle and honestly what you’ve just said is so true I’m sat reading these comments of pure disrespect I’m no where near justifying his actions at all but it also effected my family my auntie and Dennis’s brother olav had to go into hiding cos people wanted to kill them just because they were related to him and the things I see people saying about his family is disgusting
@@TheDramacist Dennis is my uncle I never knew him or even met him but I’ve heard stories from dennis’s brother olav and my auntie, life was made a misery for them they had to be put into hiding because people were trying to kill them just because they were related to him but that side of the story is never told
I’m so confused how he lived in that. Like if there was even one dead body there’s horrible smell. How did he stand the smell? How did he himself not reek and how did nobody know? AND! How did none of these men coming over not smell anything when they were even near the flat? So many questions
MikaylaC204 eventually your nose kinda gets so used to a smell you don’t notice it like the way you would go in your home and not notice a smell but in a foreign area you immediately notice the difference
It's interesting. Naturally it makes sense that it's possible, if both partners have low enough hormone levels that they're fine never having sex. But, the sex in a (typical) romance is (varyingly) corollary to the love, it's not just an add-on like a mutual love for Mario Kart or bicycling. Does that mean the part of love that sex enhances and makes tangible, that's all missing in an asexual couple? Not that that should ruin it
@@nthgth not necessarily. You can be aroused and horny and se* with a person does nothing for you. Some asexuals don’t experience this but many do and masturbate. But sex with another person seems pointless to them. No extra pleasure received or anything. Like being a chef and going out to eat daily. Why do that? I could make better food at home. Still get hungry, still want luxury food. Rather make it themselves.
Cops: Yes, okay, people have started to go missing? Everyone: Yes. Cops: Around 4 or 5 people have said that some man tried to kill them- Everyone: Also yes. Cops: They all said it was the same person...Dennis Nilsen..and his flat smells terrible- Everyone: Your point? Cops: He's having relationship issues!
That just makes me wonder how many times the police were just careless toward victims. And how many times the victim just gave up knowing they were not gonna get any help from the people who are supposed to protect them. 💔
It's like when that young boy escaped from Jeffrey Dahmer and ran out into the street naked, drugged out and bleeding from his backside. People walking by called the cops, but when they came Dahmer just walked over and said "Don't mind the bleeding child, I'm his adult boyfriend" and they gave the poor kid back to him (and this was after Dahmer had killed the kids brother in the past too). When the witnesses asked what had happened the police basically told them it was a lovers spat and it wasn't their business -_-
Ok, his mother was kinda an cruel person especially towards her own 5 year old son. Of course, he's still an twisted person that committed awful crimes.
I don't think that Dennis was a horrible person, since, you know, he was completely honest with the locations of the bodies and the stories and Eleanor also mentioned that he felt guilty and did not wanted to do all that. He was just a really damaged kid.
@@nthgth I mean the video has 2.9 million views now. A lot of the views on this channel are either UK or America, leaning UK, just because of YT and it's targeting. I'd be shocked if no one who watches it either lives or lived right near the house, or was directly connected to someone who does.
i think this is the only case where i feel truly bad for the killer. to me, at least, it feels like his murders could have been prevented if he had gotten the attention a child needs when he was young. of course, he's a killer and he deserves to be held accountable for his murders, but i just feel like this could have been prevented idk edit: it's more like a sad feeling that maybe so many people's lives could have been saved if this could have been prevented in any way.
I think at one point or another every true crime fan feels this way about one killer or another - I know I felt similar conflicted sad feelings about John Wayne Gacy. But I do feel like it’s important to remember that there are plenty of abused, neglected kids that don’t get help right away and don’t murder people.
Boo hoo serial killers usually have terrible pasta involving neglect, they still made the conscious choose to inflict suffering on other people for their own selfish reasons. Stop feeling bad for serial killers
I have a quote here that I really love. Everyone has obstacles. Everyone has things in their life they need to overcome. The day we start letting people use these obstacles, these bad events excuse them from their actions, that’s the day we might as well open all the cells to the jailhouse. I guarantee you most criminal have terrible pasts. You gonna feel bad for everyone that rapes, kills, tortured and inflicts pain and suffering?
Zoe Frew this quote is dumb and ignores the existence of mental illness. Of course we shouldn’t feel bad for all serial killers but some have more sad lives and pasts than others and have gone through worse trauma. Look at the unabomber who had been part of horrific mind control experiments in his early adulthood- you’d have to be a psychopath yourself to have NO sympathy for that
Why is a 14 year old allowed to drink all night at a club? And what 14 year old can just go home with a random man and stay the night? His family and the community obviously failed him. Wtffff
I can't fathom why Dennis' mother would have allowed her five-year-old son to see his grandfather's corpse. My grandfather passed when I was twelve and I wasn't allowed to see him in his casket. Before he passed, he requested that my younger sisters and I not present for the viewing. I am grateful for this. I wouldn't have been able to handle that.
I find that strange. Being Irish we've always had wakes and stuff to give the person a good send off but also to help those left behind deal with their grief. Wakes are generally happy occasions (as happy as they can be when you lose a loved one) whereas the burial itself is when we cry. Kids will be at these events no matter their age to teach them that everyone passes on. I was 6 when I first saw a dead person
My mother made the decision to let me see my grandfather’s body when I was 3 years old, and honestly it traumatised me. I didn’t understand what death was or why he had “gone away” and I had nightmares for years afterwards. I was incredibly close with my grandfather and even now whenever I think of him I struggle to remember any of the good memories, but I vividly remember his body lying still in his coffin
One thing is to let him see the body in the wake or explain in detail what happened. But to send him right then and there while crying after asking him 'do you wanna see grandpa? He's there' was so careless and bratty. Sounded to me like purposely trying to confuse the kid
I saw my mom's coffin when I was 2 years old, and my grandfather's coffin when I was ~10 years old. I didn't regret it; I loved them and wanted to see them at the last moment.
I'm only 39 mins in at the moment but this video is very detailed and you clearly put a lot of time into it. Edited: Ok I watched all of it and WOW !!! You put so much time and effort into this. The way you planned and set this video was amazing and I'm not surprised that you were exhausted at the end.
Most psychopaths are usually pretty calm when reciting their crimes. Watch an interview with Ted Bundy or Dahmer for example; their demeanors are pretty similar to Nilsen. Disturbing 😬😨
I don’t want to sound like I’m excusing or justifying his crimes at all, but stories like Dennis’s make me all the more worried about children who go through things like he did. He was a sort of ticking time bomb. He needed something to prompt this to happen. The first thing that started that into motion was likely what his mother did, then the treatment of queer men he’d seen and experienced. I’m sure if hadn’t been that, he’d probably have still snapped for some other reason, but it still makes me always be conscious of the way I treat people and especially children. You never know what a mean word could trigger in a stranger, and you never know what they might do to you or someone else. Be kind, and always tell a trusted friend where you’re going if you hook up with stranger
Katrina while I get what you’re saying, no one can stop other people from making adult decisions, like hooking up with people they met in a bar or on an app. We can only make sure they know the dangers and weigh what it’s worth, and take precautions to keep themselves safe regardless of what they choose to do.
I agree with this wholeheartedly however I think you could have used a better word than "queer". I have a lot of gay friends including my best friend and the word queer is highly offensive to then as being gay is a natural thing not queer. The rest of your comment though I agree with xxxx
@@darkangelholz hi I am trans and queer and it is literally right there in the acronym LGBTQ. I know this is coming from a good place but the queer community has been using the word queer just as long as the word gay. It’s an easier umbrella term than assuming he specifically was gay. Most of our other terms (lesbian and gay being the big ones) were slurs used against us at the same time as the word queer, and reclaimed at the same time.
What sort of mother says “do you want to see your grandad” without explaining that he’d past away and knowing your child probably thinks that his grandad is still alive? And then be surprised that your child was completely different and detached?
Okay, so this man's crimes are _disgusting_ and I'm not trying to excuse any of his behavior in any way, but does anyone else feel kind of... sorry for him? I'm at the point in the video where Eleanor is talking about him keeping corpses around his house just to have some company, and weirdly, my heart is breaking for this guy. I'm not saying he's guiltless, or worth the sympathy I feel for him. He chose to commit these hideous murders, and obviously being a lonely person doesn't excuse his despicable actions. But. Part of me wonders what would've happened if he'd been treated differently by the people around him as he grew up, or if he'd ever been shown the love he craved. Do you think it would've changed anything? Do you think he still would've become a murderer? I can't help but to feel a little sorry for him, even knowing all of the horrific things he did. It's a bit worrying to me, honestly. EDIT: I've gotten a bit further into the video and I don't feel as sorry for him anymore. I'm just. Repulsed. This guy was sick in his mind.
Maicey Throckmorton i dont think theres anything wrong to feel empathy for someone like this, we just shouldn’t sympathize. I definitely feel bad but in an empathetic way.
Honestly, if you get really deep into a lot of serial killers/criminals histories there are really upsetting factors. They are and were human beings, even though they were awful. It's not bad to feel empathy for people's situations.
I must say some times the evil part of us can get the best of us and even though we don't want to do something horrible, we often feel like we have to do it. It's like we've got a kinship with the devil and we're his servants. Anyway that's a little something to do with my life currently but luckily I'm getting the help I need. I hope you have a lovely day or night where ever you are.
i believe where carl forgets his situation is a trauma response where when you go through something very traumatic, your brain suppresses the memory to shield yourself from remembering and going through the stress of having the memory.
My dad met Dennis Neilson when he was a teenager backpacking through London. My dad was out late trying to find a place to stay for the night because he couldn’t get into a hostel and he ran into Dennis who offered my dad a bed at his place. My dad said yes, but he was getting weird vibes from the guy but then eventually fell asleep. My dad randomly woke up that night to Dennis sleeping next to my dad, my dad freaked out and left!!! Didn’t find out about who Dennis was until he got back to Australia and was a few years older.
@Witty Witty my dad was a young boy, Dennis was an older man… he told my dad he’d sleep on the couch so my dad could have the bed and then he snuck in the bed while my dad was asleep. This man killed a lot of young men, so obviously there is a lot wrong with him sleeping next to my dad.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 even though..... that is not what saved him,but being strong did. Actually, Dennis tried to kill him too, but the man managed to push Dennis off of him and saved himself.
@@SleepyKwee you do you bro. Understandable that in that case, it is overrated. I could never get into Friends, tans, or the Kia Soul, so those seem entirely overrated to me lol
Please do a video on Jill Meagher. She was an Australian ABC worker/journalist who was brutally murdered in a Melbourne city laneway in 2012 on her way home from a work dinner party. There's a documentary about her case on TH-cam.
Girlllll KATHLEEN LIGHTS said she loves you in her newest video! Literally made me jump out my seat when she mentioned you, glad you’re getting some recognition for being so good!
Not enough people are talking about the pure effort she puts into her videos!! I usually can’t concentrate on anything for 20 minutes but I can binge these anytime, they’re so interesting and well made
once again, the police are so wrong in these cases! If they didn’t assume it was sexual and just looked into it that one little bit more they could’ve stopped atleast 15+ lives if they found the first victim of the murder... so sad!!!
It's so weird to think that Malcolm had gone there thinking Nielson was a caring and compassionate man who had helped him when he was ill when really he was a killer who'd kill him and he had said thank you to his killer and he'd have been a lot safer staying away and not going to say thanks.
@@meera2531 Lots of people say that to their children though, and they don't all just grow up to become serial killers. It's how the parents describe heaven... I agree, the mom was messed up, but I don't think it's the part about the "better place" that caused this.
This is why I sleep with my dog in the bed, you littearly cant come in while I' still asleep cause the dog will jump at you from the bed and bark loud as hell-
This is a serious case of what negligence and the lack of support at a young age can do to a person. His only will to see his name on the newspaper was not just control, but also that the attention he did not get as a child needed to be filled.
Past week I have BINGE WATCHED most of your videos while my little ones sleep. Absolutely love them and the respect you have when you talk about them is incredible
The drama called “Des” was about Dennis Nilsen. David Tennant played him and he eerily looks and sounds like him. He plays him perfectly. I think it was on ITV and was a 3 part series. Worth a watch if this is a case of interest to you 👌🏻
I find it strange that this man could defend people being bullied and have emotions for people but yet commit all these horrible killings of other people.
This is going to be my favourite quote! “he liked the flat, it was nice and big, it was relatively cheap and he kept all his victims’ bodies there’ 😂 with the tone she used it could have been a real estate description
could u request the daniel morcombe case... its a really big one in australia and it is a really interesting case with excelent police work and the story teaches a really good message to kids about stramger danger. thmak you
Watched this straight after watching Des because I know Eleanor would put in some extra details. You did not fail! This was amazing. Also David Tennant plays Dennis scarily well!
Eleanor, I think you do a great job of telling these stories. I'm probably a lot older than your usual listener. I'm a 52 year old Grandmother from Texas. I love hearing about the UK even if the subject matter is a bit dark. I like learning the British terms for things. Like boot, garden and bin men. We have trunks, yards and trash men or garbage men. Keep up the good work.❤️
Can’t even imagine how long it takes you to put these videos together. I have a degree in criminology so I know well that researching cases is A LOT of work! Love watching your true crime vids, keep doing what you’re doing☺️ x
When I HEAR about things like this, I'm unfazed because I can't manage to connect that what I'm hearing is real. But if I really see someone do so much as act suspicious, I'm running away.
Please do the monster of Worcester! I moved to Worcester a year ago and I've only recently found out about it, it is very gruesome and does unfortunately involve children
I’m thinking he experienced a psychotic break due to the extreeeeeme cognitive dissonance of being so happy and then feeling the absolute opposite in an instant when he saw his dead grandfather.
Hi guys! As many of you know, this video got blocked in several countries, so I had to re-edit and upload it again. Apologies if you've already seen it + a huge thank you if you did and you're watching it for a second time!! I'll get a brand new video up soon! x
Eleanor Neale watching a second time ❤️
Eleanor Neale Eleanor it’s fine and thank you for remaking it ❤️
Brilliant I only heard half and then I couldn't find it again. Thank you eleanor
What was the reason for it to get blocked?
Eleanor Neale soon as in late next week 😂💀 love you mummmm!
one of the saddest parts is that the people he would kill often went relatively unnoticed. As gay men many of them probably were outcasted by their families/friends
Ikr. I was just thinking about that. Except for one of them,who's disappearance got a lot of attention, other men were mostly from the margine of the society. Not only they were gay, but also homeless, drug or alcohol addicts and no one bother too much to look for them when they disappeared. It is really very sad.
Also, if he was reported to the police at least three times for attempted murder, how come that the police didn't look into his case. If they took those surviving men seriously, they could prevented more deaths.
I actually just read this comment and cried 😞💔
This is what I was thinking. In a weird way, Dennis was similar to them-an outsider. In one way, it's sad because the fact it went unnoticed, the fact a lot of gay men were homeless is down to people's attitudes and their own families not caring.
@@Willow_moon364 It's strange because Nilsen seemed to kind of acknowledge that yeah, there was a problem. It's why, he said, he took them in and offered them food. He was pretty disgusted at the way society treated people (I mean, everyone cared more about his victims after he'd already killed them!).
His case is one which says a lot about how important it is for the vulnerable to be protected, and for the police to listen to vulnerable people when they go to them for help.
@@antonelabakavic4045 the police probably didn’t care because they were both gay men. They wrote it off as just a lovers quarrel because it seems like they didn’t want to get too involved in a gay relationship’s problems maybe?🤷🏼♀️ it’s so sad😥
Who the hell says “do you want to see your grandpa” to their kid without warning them that they’re dead first???
I know right seems like intentionally hurtful thing done by his mother.
That would permanently scar any kid, it's a horrible thing for a Mum to do. It seems like she must have had some mental health problems to have done something so cruel. I don't know if she meant it to be cruel or if she didn't have the ability to see that it was cruel but ffs.
My Grandad (with whom I was extremely close) was given 5 years to live when he went to the doc's office for his heart...
So we all knew he would die soon but maybe I was in denial? I guess? Idk...
(I was 13 at the time if that tells you anything.)
Anyway, fast forward 6 yrs later, (I was 19) and my new husband called and said,
"Where are you? You need to go to your Grandmother and Grandadys house RIGHT NOW.... Its Grandad."
Otw there I remember bawling my eyes out thinking, well this is it, time to say goodbye...
So I came sliding up in their drive, jumped outta the truck and flew up the stairs. At first I couldn't find anyone so I went straight to their bedroom.
So... Yeah. Grandaddy died sometime earlier in the night ( probably around 2 or 3am and now it was about 730am).
I will never forget how he looked.
It was very traumatic to say the least.
(Btw, my family didnt realize I misunderstood or they definitely would've warned me.)
@@inthelandofmorethansmall7582 im so sorry, i had to watch my mom slowly get smaller and die in the hospital, nobody told me she was pronpunced brain dead until around 9m, she passed at 4am previously, so :(
This is just a thought, but he was only 5 so I wonder if he just doesn’t have memories of his mom telling him his grandpa had passed and the only memory he does have is just her asking if he wanted to see his grandpa before he was buried and he’d never see him again. Idk just a thought. I have very spotty memories at 5 years old. 🤷♀️
I feel like Eleanor's search history must be horrifying.
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So scary haha
her fbi agent: 👁👄👁
*browser history
Certainly getting her money’s worth with NordVPN
You do a really good job of humanizing Nilsen without making excuses for what he did.
Mr Nilsen was a top Lad.
His family sucks.
It’s literally important for forensic scientists to know the background on people. It’s important information. It makes these horrible people real, because these people are out there. Every day. Everywhere. You have to be careful about strangers, not paranoid but careful. This guys seemed so normal other than being rather weird. Nobody suspected him even though his flat was filled with dead bodies. These people are a part of society and to separate them from the human race makes them seem like fictional horror movie killers. Texas chainsaw massacre is based off of a killer. This information that explains why it happened, can make it so we can prevent and catch these people.
Katie Sumpter he’s not a human he’s vile asf and just despicable and disturbing
L L •
He's still human, just a vile one.
honestly murdering sounds like hard work why do people even do it
almond milk I have completely thought the same thing. I’m so lazy I just can’t get that kinda energy up lol.
Ikr? Why put so much effort into something your just gonna get punished for? Dumb murderers 🙄
almond milk it makes them feel powerful, they know it’s hard work which makes them feel more powerful when they don’t get caught. It’s crazy
Not only that but the consequences so much shit
SunKissedSounds Lol, it was a joke chill
You know you're in for a wild time when we're 5 minutes into a one-hour video and the killer has already confessed.
could the people who came in to his flat not smell the decomposing bodies??
That's what I was thinking. How was no one, even nearby, not suspicious?
It’s probably because they were all drunk so they didn’t think about it
TH-camr Edits Oof I love your channel 🥰 just subscribed!
@Brittany FFF Fucking hell
Nobody came into his flat
How did the whole house not smell with having THAT many bodies under the floor boards?!?
My thoughts exactly!!!🤢🤮
Madison Crawford Air fresheners?
Probably used lye like John Wayne Gacy
@Speaking Truth lol haha
In a podcast I listened to about this he was kicked from his first apartment because they complained about a smell and he got evicted. That was the only time he managed to effectively dispose of bodies
Imagine a plumber. Now imagine THEM saying something was the worst thing they've every smelled. Can't even fathom it
My dads a plumber and he’s smelt MUCH feces, dead rats, possums etc. I couldn’t imagine my dad finding anything worse.
I hope they wore gloves when pulling the human pieces out 😬
@@ssnowstarr4985 most likely
He earned that 300 pounds.
Its crazy how many things dennis had in common with dahmer,they were both gay,both killed for company,both wore glasses,both were in the army,both drank alot,both strangled there victims,.. rip to all the victims.
@@liamc1102 Are you on about me.?
@@liamc1102 others have said stuff,i dont see you messaging them?
@@liamc1102 The circle way round your comment,it pissed me off you saying what about the killers,but liam you dont no me,ive been pen pals with killers ive spoke to them because no matter what they have done i think there is good in everyone liam.
This whole comment is a conversation
@@liamc1102 I bet u wouldn't say the same if that person killed a person close to u, ur family, or friends. would u still respect that killer?
Wow, what his mother did to him was horrible. He was a child. Children don't really understand death. Her approach with introducing the idea to him was really messed up. That must have traumatized him
A lot of details in this video lead me to believe that this man wanted attention and recognition for what he's done. I would take the details of his tragic backstory with a grain of salt.
Simple events can really change the course of someone's life
Lord Farquaad It’s inappropriate to villainize the mother in this scenario when there video is about a serial killer
young children^
yeah maybe, but he is a serial killer and that’s worse. don’t forget that
I've never been so thankful I'm fat. People wouldn't be able to carry me way.
Lol 🤣
you do be spitting facts tho lmao! Im 5'2 and 10stone, a murderers dream fml
@@minihypez2415 im 4'11 and i weight 111 plb
🤦🏾♀️😂🤣☠
@@kenzipearson16 fun fact, in the uk if you are 4’11 or under you are eligible for disability allowance for the rest of your life because apparently being under 4’11 makes you a legal midget 😂 and your not fat btw I’m also “overweight for my height” the chart was made by sexist men back when women were objects and we still use that system to measure the ideal weight to date. Just a mini fact tea spill x
It makes me so sad to think about the first victim. He was only 14, he was literally only a child, and that makes me so sad, and kinda sick to my stomach. He had so much of his life to look foward to only to have it forcibly taken from him.
Denis was a very weak pathetic man. He died in agony in jail, and who would shed a tear?
NO doubt he knew the first victim was that young also. Easy prey. Fng freak.
ImNotAwaffle We interviewed Kay Holmes ( Stephens Mother ) if you could have seen how this had destroyed her mentally and physically as she could not be 100% certain that DN had murdered her son and she persisted each and every single day searching for information on Stephen's whereabouts, hoping and preying he would one day come back to her. The whole situation caused her to seek help from mental health services which back then were next to useless with psychiatrist preferring to offer her sleeping tablets rather than listen to her story, ( as they did not believe DN had murdered Stephen, they thought all this was in her imagination ) this led to her separating from her husband who had by then moved back to Ireland as the stress had become to much for him to deal with. Kay was finally proved right but sadly it was too late for her to know the truth as she had passed away a few years prior to it being confirmed. Many reports mention that Stephen was gay, this I can assure you and anyone else reading this that this was not the case. Stephen was 14 when he was killed by DN and in our opinion far too young to be labelled gay, unless he'd specifically asked to be. Absolutely nothing in his room or in his diary suggested he was anything but straight. As Kay mentioned in the interview if he had of been he most certainly would have told her as he knew just how much she adored her son and would do anything for him. If Stephen had told her he was gay both she and her husband and daughter would have loved him no less than if he had been straight. I have to admit that I've become quite hardened to doing these interviews over the years but the interview with Kay had me completely blown away with sadness.
What goes through someone’s brain not only to murder someone but keep there bodies in a flat and not even get rid of it 🤮 what a sick twisted man
@@rameshmalik5271 this is not important but just wanted to say some people know they're gay that young. I catched my friend (male) watching gay p*rn at 12 and he confessed me having crushes on guys since that age, also he had many of the mannerisms even earlier on. Still he never told anyone and even 'dated' some girls up until he came out at 18 but it was all a front friends closer to him always knew he was gay.
Still i get what you mean, Stephen didn't give any signs or tell so I get he wasn't I'm just saying.
I'm sure homophobia played a role in police continually not taking these murder attempts seriously for the survivors
very good point, you should watch the assassination of giani versace series if you havent already. it really highlights this issue and shows that gianis death could have been prevented had the police taken it seriously
defo
i was just thinking that. you just KNOW if these men were straight there is no way he'd have gotten away for it so long.
sweetkeet126
It’s probably due to the link between homosexuality and unsafe practices/relationship violence so that’s why it wasn’t taken seriously.
@@gabrielburrows6363 none of Dennis nilsen victims were gay well the ones that he killed
this mother really traumatized her five year son, and then get confused when he severely changed
yeah . she was wrong for that he was a child
For real what type of bratty reaction is that??
'Do you wanna see your grandpa? He's there' directing the kid to the dead body...I wanted to slap her when i heard it
“That was his hobby just pretending to be dead” I’m sorry this had my guts hurt from laughing so hard, this so sad.
K Bunny ksksksksj same
I haven't found it funny at all but after reading this comment I'm almost on the floor
hahahaha me too
@@moonkookie1505 😂 Your reply is even funnier I actually laughed at your reply even more
@@fofakadir8834 hahahhaha holy moly, glad it made you laugh
Every one else : wakes up without seeing a dead body
Dennis: (sees a dead body) aww dang it not again
Emmy Boggie I almost laughed and then just got sad 😶
"aW sHit hERE we gO AGaiN"
Happens everytime man
Colours_Collide literally happened today and i had to clean it all up 🤥
@@emmyboggie9769 r/holup
Dennis : lays there pretending to be dead
Also dennis : *im alive but im dead*
I was gonna comment this smhhh
IM CHOCKING ON AIR SHSHAH
LMAOO I’m dying this needs more likes
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LMFAOOO
"Don't mess me about. Where is the rest of the body?"
*_"ok fair enough"_*
He was so chill about it it's terrifying
i have to say this tho
BI PRIDE STAND UP
@@Snake-cw6hg *quietly rises up*
@@pillbugheart I know right?? The clips of Nilsen casually explaining how dismembering the old bodies was not as messy as one might think sounds so chill that he might as well be having just about any other normal conversation......not including murder
attack me if u want, idc, that response was bloody funny.
That interview when he talks about cutting up the bodies so nonchalantly 😬 this is why I don’t trust anyone, ever! You could bump into that man at the grocery store & never know he was systematically cutting up year old dead bodies.
Megan Mango omg that's deep so tru though
Megan Mango Im not sure if its because he genuinly doesnt care or if he has said these things so many times. Either way isnt good but many victums do the same thing you learn to detach yourself. Hell I do the same thing when I talk about being raped. Its just something people do. Yes he is a killer and not a victum but I think its safe to assume with all he had fucked up in his head he got really good at detatching himself.
The average person meets about 28 killers in their life and don't even know
An animating idiot thank u for giving me extra anxiety lol
Fun fact? The average person crosses around 36 murderers in their lifetime and walk past an average of 7 vehicles with a dead body in it. And people wonder why I’m agoraphobic. Enjoy trying to function now.
Kind of crazy how nobody is talking about how Dennis got sexually assaulted as a teen and described it as "not unpleasant"
there are cases where people are sexually assaulted and / or raped, especially as a teenager or child and then after, as they're processing the event and trauma from it, try to believe they enjoyed it so it doesn't feel as bad to remember, or develop rape fantasies and/or a consensual non-consent kink because of the experience (obviously not everyone with either of these has them for this reason), or even believe (or want to believe) that they want it to happen again, even if they didn't actually enjoy it in the moment.
obviously I have no way of knowing why he said what he did about being assaulted and no one else does either, maybe not even him. the brain tries to deal with and recover from trauma however it can, sometimes, unfortunately, creating more issues for itself, the person, and their mental and/or physical health later on (like this or developing BPD for example). :/
while I of course can't sympathize with someone like this or excuse his adult behavior with past trauma (I was repeatedly SA'd AND saw one of my best friends dead as a teenager and didn't turn out like him), the teenager he was didn't deserve to be SA'd, no one does, and it's still sad. :(
@@m1zumisaki damn take it to a publisher
I👏Need👏To👏Stop👏Watching👏These👏Before👏I👏Go👏To👏Bed👏
Wow same I’m watching this at 23:30
sameeeeeeee
Levvy Equestrian same 😂
Levvy Equestrian 👏 Bitch👏 me 👏 to 👏
i legit fall asleep to these vids
“What do you mean I’m evicted? This is where I keep the bodies!”
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Oml😃
Ayo that a schlatt pfp?
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"15 or 16 I think"
Detective: °~°
Nah, The Detectives Were More Like 👁👄👁
Nah the detective was more like
(⌐■-■)(ಠ_ಠ)>⌐■-■ Excuse me what?
kinda weird how he's boiling human heads like its an everyday thing
Guess you can say he lost his mind
@@aFuckinToaster 🤭
😭
#SerialKillerProblems
"he lost his innocence, he was never the same" what do u expect from a 5 yo after you just showed him the dead body of the person they loved the most on ur kitchen table?
And without regarding him for it at all
People weren't such snowflakes about death then
@@Elleoaqua clearly they were if it led to Dennis becoming a serial killer. I’m sure it wasn’t a thing to just spring a dead body on a 5 year old without explaining death
I’m just wondering why was he on the kitchen table. Like is that normal in other countries. 🤷🏾♀️
@@Elleoaqua pleaaase 🙄
Y’all learned the word snowflake and use it for every little thing.
The Police: We need to know where the bodies are
Denis: Say less
What kind of mother shows their son a dead body 🤭😖
Omygod 101 likes -DALMATIONS!!!!
🙄 It is common for some families to hold open caskets you know. Everyone in the comments seems to have grown up in bubble wrap.
@@breakfastattiffanys741 yeah but that really wasn't a good explanation or anything. She directly traumatized him and caused him to experience what he did. She is a sick person as well who did also cause him to become a murderer
@@breakfastattiffanys741 it's different when it's your favorite family member, the only one who showed you attention and love, and when you come home, being asked if you want to see him at that age, and then be greeted with a casket that you open yourself to find that person, it is entirely different. That's not at all how you explain that to a kid, especially a kid's favorite person. She directly traumatized him and was part of the cause of why he went on to be a murderer.
Not funny so don't be putting that shit emoji
Oh no. Can you imagine the SMELL of that place?
You deserve so many people to follow you. Great video
I thought the same thing. How could someone *live* in an apartment with that many corpses? I keep thinking about people with pets who don't realize that their house smells like animal. How much worse this must be.
JLynnEchelon humans are animals, facts.
@@isbacarrot4808 except we both know that I'm not talking about dead animals in a home.
The smell of a body is so strong this is chilling.
it's kinda like hoarders, they get so used to the smell they dont notice anything is wrong with the smell. I think he got so used to the dead body smell that it just smelt normal to him
Am I the only one who’s obsessed with watching these and them ends up being paranoid about everything? I have also been watching true crime stuff all day now so I need to stop...
God yeah, im the exact same
Same💯
Same, it’s terrible for my anxiety but here we are
Me🙈🙈
As someone with anxiety disorder, I don't know why I'm doing this to myself 🙃
I love how in cases like this, when survivors go to the police, and the police excuse them not checking up on it as a “lovers spat” like? That’s not an excuse? Even if it was a spat between boyfriends, it’s still assault?
A similar thing happened in Jeffrey Dahmer’s case where the victim Konerak Sinthasomphone managed to escape from Dahmer’s apartment, and two ladies found him and called the police. The police came and the women tried to tell them Sinthasomphone was in danger, but Dahmer convinced the officers that they were lovers, and the police ended up taking Sinthasomphone back to Dahmer’s appartment. The police even smelled something odd in the apartment, but didn’t investigate.
It’s just a combination of homophobia and police negligence.
Close but the name was wrong, it was Konerak Sinthasomphone, he was Dahmer's youngest victim( 14 years old), and he convinced the racist and homophobic police that Konerak was his 19 year old boyfriend.
@@horrorhistory7342 Thank you so much for the correction! I didn't realize I had misread the article I was reading about the incident, but nevertheless I apologize for misnaming the victim and have corrected the comment!
@@becka3627 No problem!!!
Its crazy right?
When Gacy’s first victim was assaulted they actually wrote it off as “consent gone wrong” because “gay men can’t assault each other,” aside from Gacy being a member of the community.
They locked his records too so when his FIRST VICTIM (one of his first few) went to go report it, the police just shrugged and didn’t do much. So many young boys could’ve been saved
Hell there were so many COMPLAINTS about t the smell of his crawl space. Ugh.
And even worse, he had killed the boys brother a while before that, so he took everything from those poor parents
"He liked this flat is was nice and big, relatively cheap, he had access to the garden... he kept all of his victims bodies there"
That line cut me off guard XD
Wiktoria Chmielewska typical things you look for when house hunting :)
@@silenthillisawesome6163 I read this in a real estate agent's voice and I cannot stop laughing
I love that we can laugh at this 😄 black humor ftw
I lowkey feel bad for the guy, I feel like if he was born around our time, a more accepting time, he maybe wouldn't have done it. But you can say that about a lot of people.
I know right like it’s not that I want to justify but he was not raised right and everything in his life contributed to this. Him not being accepted, him not having a person, or him not getting mental health. I feel bad even though there were the murders he’s still a human who was put through these wrong conditions that all shaped the way he grew up and who he became.
@@music_addict_with_a_pen1397 that obviously doesn't make his victims are any less victims, but I could also mean that he himself was also a victim of circumstances
Disagree. I think the Internet would have made him even more deadly
Dennis Nilsen is my uncle and honestly what you’ve just said is so true I’m sat reading these comments of pure disrespect I’m no where near justifying his actions at all but it also effected my family my auntie and Dennis’s brother olav had to go into hiding cos people wanted to kill them just because they were related to him and the things I see people saying about his family is disgusting
@@TheDramacist Dennis is my uncle I never knew him or even met him but I’ve heard stories from dennis’s brother olav and my auntie, life was made a misery for them they had to be put into hiding because people were trying to kill them just because they were related to him but that side of the story is never told
I dont often get put off my food but i suppose eating cheesy beans whilst talking about flesh dont really go hand in hand
Courtney Bird 😂😂😂
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im pushing thru it rn
i salute you, solider
Courtney Bird me too! Had to put my food down
No one:
Me: *watches videos on serial killers in the dark while my two biggest fears are being murdered and the dark*
i’m your 100th like!
omg same
Sameeeeee
I can’t believe how true this is!!
Same 😂😭
how are all these men coming back to his flat & not smelling anything?
Exactly and how did David not see or smell anything bc he lived with him
@@sarah-wt6ef David was before the murders.
They were most likely too hammered to notice
I’m so confused how he lived in that. Like if there was even one dead body there’s horrible smell. How did he stand the smell? How did he himself not reek and how did nobody know? AND! How did none of these men coming over not smell anything when they were even near the flat?
So many questions
MikaylaC204 eventually your nose kinda gets so used to a smell you don’t notice it like the way you would go in your home and not notice a smell but in a foreign area you immediately notice the difference
That's a good point holy shit, how did they not notice the smell when they were invited over? Those floorboards most have been magical or something.
MikaylaC204 he's gone nose blind
They probably couldn't smell it cause they were flat out drunk, and in the morning they probably got used to the smell.
@@katmlg2505 😂
Just for those who are curious: you can be in a serious, monogamous relationship. And be asexual. Romantic relationships do not have to be sexual.
It's interesting. Naturally it makes sense that it's possible, if both partners have low enough hormone levels that they're fine never having sex.
But, the sex in a (typical) romance is (varyingly) corollary to the love, it's not just an add-on like a mutual love for Mario Kart or bicycling.
Does that mean the part of love that sex enhances and makes tangible, that's all missing in an asexual couple?
Not that that should ruin it
@@nthgth Um. No? They are many reasons
@@nthgth it’s almost absolutely never hormones. Asexual people have a long history of disinterest in sex. Often even with a regular libido.
@@kristenjohns8498 Regular libido, yet disinterest in sex.
..Isn't "libido" the word we have for "interest in sex?"
@@nthgth not necessarily. You can be aroused and horny and se* with a person does nothing for you. Some asexuals don’t experience this but many do and masturbate. But sex with another person seems pointless to them. No extra pleasure received or anything. Like being a chef and going out to eat daily. Why do that? I could make better food at home. Still get hungry, still want luxury food. Rather make it themselves.
Cops: Yes, okay, people have started to go missing?
Everyone: Yes.
Cops: Around 4 or 5 people have said that some man tried to kill them-
Everyone: Also yes.
Cops: They all said it was the same person...Dennis Nilsen..and his flat smells terrible-
Everyone: Your point?
Cops: He's having relationship issues!
Right? Hmmm... Why don’t they just leave that poor guy alone?! Always trying to start trouble for him.
The cops got on my nerves ngl✋🙄
That just makes me wonder how many times the police were just careless toward victims. And how many times the victim just gave up knowing they were not gonna get any help from the people who are supposed to protect them. 💔
It's like when that young boy escaped from Jeffrey Dahmer and ran out into the street naked, drugged out and bleeding from his backside. People walking by called the cops, but when they came Dahmer just walked over and said "Don't mind the bleeding child, I'm his adult boyfriend" and they gave the poor kid back to him (and this was after Dahmer had killed the kids brother in the past too). When the witnesses asked what had happened the police basically told them it was a lovers spat and it wasn't their business -_-
@@BooglePoots I swear, police are just so dumb sometimes.
WHOA AN HOUR!? LET ME GET SOME SNACKS AND SIT DOWN FOR THIS!!
Thumin you’re not gonna wanna eat those snacks while watching this sis
I’m eating pizza while watching this lol😂
I'd feel bad eating while watching coz its like these people who died can't eat ever again
Thumin I ALREADY HAVE :)
Had the same idea eating NACHOS!!😂🤣
He cut across the "cut here" tattoo
I'm going to hell for laughing 😳
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Same here
i don't think that's funny :|
@@sweetyyoongs7934 🤷🏼♀️
@@sweetyyoongs7934 it’s not funny it’s that it’s ironic
why did his mom literally not tell him his grandpa died, and literally made him go in the kitchen and see his dead body, unaware... so angry abt this
Ok, his mother was kinda an cruel person especially towards her own 5 year old son. Of course, he's still an twisted person that committed awful crimes.
Keri O i still don’t believe it’s an excuse. of course it has impacted his behaviour but i don’t believe it justifies it
I am not justifying his actions but I was just making observation about his childhood environment.
I absolutely agree. She was horrible and so is he.
Maybe if she acted differently in this situation, Dennis would have been a little different? Just maybe..
I don't think that Dennis was a horrible person, since, you know, he was completely honest with the locations of the bodies and the stories and Eleanor also mentioned that he felt guilty and did not wanted to do all that. He was just a really damaged kid.
My Grandma was actually passing his house on her way home from work and saw him getting arrested. she still passes his old house everyday.
Small world, man
@@nthgth I mean the video has 2.9 million views now. A lot of the views on this channel are either UK or America, leaning UK, just because of YT and it's targeting.
I'd be shocked if no one who watches it either lives or lived right near the house, or was directly connected to someone who does.
@@_Fizel_ that's a good point
i think this is the only case where i feel truly bad for the killer. to me, at least, it feels like his murders could have been prevented if he had gotten the attention a child needs when he was young. of course, he's a killer and he deserves to be held accountable for his murders, but i just feel like this could have been prevented idk
edit: it's more like a sad feeling that maybe so many people's lives could have been saved if this could have been prevented in any way.
I think at one point or another every true crime fan feels this way about one killer or another - I know I felt similar conflicted sad feelings about John Wayne Gacy. But I do feel like it’s important to remember that there are plenty of abused, neglected kids that don’t get help right away and don’t murder people.
Boo hoo serial killers usually have terrible pasta involving neglect, they still made the conscious choose to inflict suffering on other people for their own selfish reasons. Stop feeling bad for serial killers
I have a quote here that I really love. Everyone has obstacles. Everyone has things in their life they need to overcome. The day we start letting people use these obstacles, these bad events excuse them from their actions, that’s the day we might as well open all the cells to the jailhouse. I guarantee you most criminal have terrible pasts. You gonna feel bad for everyone that rapes, kills, tortured and inflicts pain and suffering?
Zoe Frew this quote is dumb and ignores the existence of mental illness. Of course we shouldn’t feel bad for all serial killers but some have more sad lives and pasts than others and have gone through worse trauma. Look at the unabomber who had been part of horrific mind control experiments in his early adulthood- you’d have to be a psychopath yourself to have NO sympathy for that
Babygirl have you heard about Aileen Wuornos? You would then feel bad for the killer
„I guess hes like 17 or 18 years old“
*28 years later*
HE WAS 14 YEARS OLD
was juckts soo sad omg 😓
Why is a 14 year old allowed to drink all night at a club? And what 14 year old can just go home with a random man and stay the night? His family and the community obviously failed him. Wtffff
Katrina ikr? Like is it so hard to remember,that u still have a son,and u should care about him like 💆🏽♀️
@@ramu-silly I was referring to the failure of his parents... 🤦♀️
@@ramu-silly well you said @Katrina so....
I can't fathom why Dennis' mother would have allowed her five-year-old son to see his grandfather's corpse. My grandfather passed when I was twelve and I wasn't allowed to see him in his casket. Before he passed, he requested that my younger sisters and I not present for the viewing. I am grateful for this. I wouldn't have been able to handle that.
I find that strange. Being Irish we've always had wakes and stuff to give the person a good send off but also to help those left behind deal with their grief. Wakes are generally happy occasions (as happy as they can be when you lose a loved one) whereas the burial itself is when we cry. Kids will be at these events no matter their age to teach them that everyone passes on. I was 6 when I first saw a dead person
My mother made the decision to let me see my grandfather’s body when I was 3 years old, and honestly it traumatised me. I didn’t understand what death was or why he had “gone away” and I had nightmares for years afterwards. I was incredibly close with my grandfather and even now whenever I think of him I struggle to remember any of the good memories, but I vividly remember his body lying still in his coffin
One thing is to let him see the body in the wake or explain in detail what happened.
But to send him right then and there while crying after asking him 'do you wanna see grandpa? He's there' was so careless and bratty. Sounded to me like purposely trying to confuse the kid
I saw my mom's coffin when I was 2 years old, and my grandfather's coffin when I was ~10 years old. I didn't regret it; I loved them and wanted to see them at the last moment.
I'm only 39 mins in at the moment but this video is very detailed and you clearly put a lot of time into it.
Edited: Ok I watched all of it and WOW !!! You put so much time and effort into this. The way you planned and set this video was amazing and I'm not surprised that you were exhausted at the end.
That's something you gotta expect while watching these ❤️❤️
I paid for in flight wifi just to watch this
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@@mudsluvs in the most polite way ShUt. uP if you like Taylor swift you don't randomly comment *omg swifties*
okay but did the police officer try and mansplain to dennis how it would be messy to kill a body even after dennis was like uhhhh no not really
dennis really said “well sure but what if i don’t”
40:20 the way he’s so chill talking about murdering someone makes this so much creepier
Most psychopaths are usually pretty calm when reciting their crimes. Watch an interview with Ted Bundy or Dahmer for example; their demeanors are pretty similar to Nilsen. Disturbing 😬😨
Right??? He speaks so “matter of fact” like!
I don’t want to sound like I’m excusing or justifying his crimes at all, but stories like Dennis’s make me all the more worried about children who go through things like he did. He was a sort of ticking time bomb. He needed something to prompt this to happen.
The first thing that started that into motion was likely what his mother did, then the treatment of queer men he’d seen and experienced. I’m sure if hadn’t been that, he’d probably have still snapped for some other reason, but it still makes me always be conscious of the way I treat people and especially children. You never know what a mean word could trigger in a stranger, and you never know what they might do to you or someone else. Be kind, and always tell a trusted friend where you’re going if you hook up with stranger
Or like, just don't hook up with strangers... 🤷♀️
Katrina while I get what you’re saying, no one can stop other people from making adult decisions, like hooking up with people they met in a bar or on an app. We can only make sure they know the dangers and weigh what it’s worth, and take precautions to keep themselves safe regardless of what they choose to do.
@@literallywhy6162 True. It's just unfortunate, bc it puts one in a very vulnerable position. You seem very intelligent btw.
I agree with this wholeheartedly however I think you could have used a better word than "queer". I have a lot of gay friends including my best friend and the word queer is highly offensive to then as being gay is a natural thing not queer. The rest of your comment though I agree with xxxx
@@darkangelholz hi I am trans and queer and it is literally right there in the acronym LGBTQ. I know this is coming from a good place but the queer community has been using the word queer just as long as the word gay. It’s an easier umbrella term than assuming he specifically was gay. Most of our other terms (lesbian and gay being the big ones) were slurs used against us at the same time as the word queer, and reclaimed at the same time.
What sort of mother says “do you want to see your grandad” without explaining that he’d past away and knowing your child probably thinks that his grandad is still alive? And then be surprised that your child was completely different and detached?
we all know that the disclaimer is just so she doesn't get haunted
Lmaooooo
Hahahq
Lmao
Nah she’d have an army of their victims to defend her
@@lunar4107 yess
Okay, so this man's crimes are _disgusting_ and I'm not trying to excuse any of his behavior in any way, but does anyone else feel kind of... sorry for him? I'm at the point in the video where Eleanor is talking about him keeping corpses around his house just to have some company, and weirdly, my heart is breaking for this guy. I'm not saying he's guiltless, or worth the sympathy I feel for him. He chose to commit these hideous murders, and obviously being a lonely person doesn't excuse his despicable actions.
But.
Part of me wonders what would've happened if he'd been treated differently by the people around him as he grew up, or if he'd ever been shown the love he craved. Do you think it would've changed anything? Do you think he still would've become a murderer? I can't help but to feel a little sorry for him, even knowing all of the horrific things he did. It's a bit worrying to me, honestly.
EDIT: I've gotten a bit further into the video and I don't feel as sorry for him anymore. I'm just. Repulsed. This guy was sick in his mind.
Maicey Throckmorton i dont think theres anything wrong to feel empathy for someone like this, we just shouldn’t sympathize. I definitely feel bad but in an empathetic way.
Honestly, if you get really deep into a lot of serial killers/criminals histories there are really upsetting factors. They are and were human beings, even though they were awful. It's not bad to feel empathy for people's situations.
No fucks given here for him......only his victims!
I must say some times the evil part of us can get the best of us and even though we don't want to do something horrible, we often feel like we have to do it. It's like we've got a kinship with the devil and we're his servants. Anyway that's a little something to do with my life currently but luckily I'm getting the help I need. I hope you have a lovely day or night where ever you are.
He’s not “sick in his mind”. You can’t help being sick, killers choose to kill.
i believe where carl forgets his situation is a trauma response where when you go through something very traumatic, your brain suppresses the memory to shield yourself from remembering and going through the stress of having the memory.
Your voice makes me feel like my life isn’t worthless
Wasted Babe oof agreed
Wasted Babe : same here 😢😊
Me tooo xx
Wdym?
What?
What lack of Love , Empathy and Loneliness could do to a person is unimaginable.
My dad met Dennis Neilson when he was a teenager backpacking through London. My dad was out late trying to find a place to stay for the night because he couldn’t get into a hostel and he ran into Dennis who offered my dad a bed at his place. My dad said yes, but he was getting weird vibes from the guy but then eventually fell asleep. My dad randomly woke up that night to Dennis sleeping next to my dad, my dad freaked out and left!!! Didn’t find out about who Dennis was until he got back to Australia and was a few years older.
@Witty Witty my dad was a young boy, Dennis was an older man… he told my dad he’d sleep on the couch so my dad could have the bed and then he snuck in the bed while my dad was asleep.
This man killed a lot of young men, so obviously there is a lot wrong with him sleeping next to my dad.
This is insane
Wow so glad your dad got put off there
re-liking/watching for my girl eleanor 💗 and the fact that i never remember all the details the first time I watch em
I can't believe someone was saved from getting killed by being really into BDSM lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣 even though..... that is not what saved him,but being strong did. Actually, Dennis tried to kill him too, but the man managed to push Dennis off of him and saved himself.
@@antonelabakavic4045 why 2????????????????????????????????????????????????
That's the lesson I take away from this lol
"He found sex overrated and depressing" That's literally a mood for me. 😂
So much depends on the partner - it's not overrated, it's just rated by people who have great partners
@@nthgth Maybe but for me, I'm just asexual so that kinda activity just really doesn't appeal to me. 😅
@@SleepyKwee you do you bro. Understandable that in that case, it is overrated. I could never get into Friends, tans, or the Kia Soul, so those seem entirely overrated to me lol
someone’s asexual
@@ajjajsjsjj Yessss. 💜
Please do a video on Jill Meagher. She was an Australian ABC worker/journalist who was brutally murdered in a Melbourne city laneway in 2012 on her way home from a work dinner party. There's a documentary about her case on TH-cam.
Girlllll KATHLEEN LIGHTS said she loves you in her newest video! Literally made me jump out my seat when she mentioned you, glad you’re getting some recognition for being so good!
Emma Richardson which video!!
JESSI SMILES TOO!!!!
They’re the reason that I’m here!!
Not enough people are talking about the pure effort she puts into her videos!! I usually can’t concentrate on anything for 20 minutes but I can binge these anytime, they’re so interesting and well made
once again, the police are so wrong in these cases! If they didn’t assume it was sexual and just looked into it that one little bit more they could’ve stopped atleast 15+ lives if they found the first victim of the murder... so sad!!!
I love how you presented his character and early life.
Maybe Martin expressed strong interest IMMEDIATELY and that’s what saved him. So fascinating
Friend: So, what do you like to do at the beach?
Denis: Eh, the occasional drown is fun. What about you?
Friend: ...
Dennis on a dating site: I like long walks on the beach - especially when I simulate drowning myself.
I shouldn’t but 😂
"He liked that flat: it was nice and big, it was relatively cheap, he had access to the garden, he kept all the victims body there.."
OK well
His Zillow notifications be like:
@@nthgth 😂
It's so weird to think that Malcolm had gone there thinking Nielson was a caring and compassionate man who had helped him when he was ill when really he was a killer who'd kill him and he had said thank you to his killer and he'd have been a lot safer staying away and not going to say thanks.
His mother telling him that dead people are in a better place, made him believe he was taking people out of their misery...
@@meera2531 Lots of people say that to their children though, and they don't all just grow up to become serial killers. It's how the parents describe heaven...
I agree, the mom was messed up, but I don't think it's the part about the "better place" that caused this.
@@KatrinaJoy225 The mother was also very cold to him if I remember correctly. Add to that these words. It was a bad mix.
Me: Hot at night
*leaves window open*
*watches true crime*
“a serial killer gonna break in”
Yup, that's me.
This is why I sleep with my dog in the bed, you littearly cant come in while I' still asleep cause the dog will jump at you from the bed and bark loud as hell-
I have to entirely cover my body with my blanket. I can’t fall asleep while watching true crime if my legs are even a wee bit exposed lol
@@jaydehall9731 i heard raven symone say this in my head
THIS IS ME LMAO AND I LITERALLY LIVE ON THE 11th FLOOR
*Dennis Nilsen, waking up to find the dead body of a young man in his apartment:* Aw shit, here we go again.
This is a serious case of what negligence and the lack of support at a young age can do to a person. His only will to see his name on the newspaper was not just control, but also that the attention he did not get as a child needed to be filled.
Past week I have BINGE WATCHED most of your videos while my little ones sleep.
Absolutely love them and the respect you have when you talk about them is incredible
The drama called “Des” was about Dennis Nilsen. David Tennant played him and he eerily looks and sounds like him. He plays him perfectly. I think it was on ITV and was a 3 part series. Worth a watch if this is a case of interest to you 👌🏻
He looks the part too. I really have to give it a watch, it looks really well done.
Yea it's scary how similar they look
I only watched that cos it was David Tennant. It's how I got here.
Please please please do the lolly bing case, she was my mums friend as a kid and it would mean so much...
Like so she can see❤️
Sorry *lilly bing
What happened to her??
I wonder what would happen if Dennis Nielson met Jeffery Dahmer and they went on a date lol
gruesome they’d strangle each other probably
Shipping in the true crime fandom
gruesome dahmer was hot
Literally thoooo
@@simraha130 erm...
Eleanor: Talking about a serial killer dismembering and killing other men
Me eating a muffin and getting ready for bed: Damm :D
I had a chefs salad and a Hershey bar. It's a weird case. Much like Jeffery Dahmer.
I find it strange that this man could defend people being bullied and have emotions for people but yet commit all these horrible killings of other people.
I was eating raw noodles while she was talking about the cutting of the bones and I just slowly put them back in the pantry
😂😂😂 that's amazing
Tf?
Ok. Who eats raw noodles?!!!
@@sarahthegreat252 who doesn't?
R u okay
This is going to be my favourite quote! “he liked the flat, it was nice and big, it was relatively cheap and he kept all his victims’ bodies there’ 😂 with the tone she used it could have been a real estate description
Eleanor: “he was for......”
me: “forty??”
Eleanor: “fourteen”
Me: “oh..... wow.... I was waaayyyy off”
It’s back 😍😍😍
could u request the daniel morcombe case... its a really big one in australia and it is a really interesting case with excelent police work and the story teaches a really good message to kids about stramger danger. thmak you
May I just ask how u get her face next to your name ???
X macie, she says in all of her videos there is a button and says join and you’ll get all these perks
Ella Grace thank you x
I love ur profile picture x
Watched this straight after watching Des because I know Eleanor would put in some extra details. You did not fail! This was amazing. Also David Tennant plays Dennis scarily well!
37:51 23 years old?? he looks 10
He ended up being 14
it said that he was living rough in streets and hostels and so im assuming that most of the photos of him would be from when he was younger?
I literally gasped when she said he was actually 14 years of age that’s so sad ;(
Eleanor, I think you do a great job of telling these stories. I'm probably a lot older than your usual listener. I'm a 52 year old Grandmother from Texas. I love hearing about the UK even if the subject matter is a bit dark. I like learning the British terms for things. Like boot, garden and bin men. We have trunks, yards and trash men or garbage men. Keep up the good work.❤️
Can’t even imagine how long it takes you to put these videos together. I have a degree in criminology so I know well that researching cases is A LOT of work! Love watching your true crime vids, keep doing what you’re doing☺️ x
You bet I watched this one before and I’m still gonna watch it again!
When I HEAR about things like this, I'm unfazed because I can't manage to connect that what I'm hearing is real. But if I really see someone do so much as act suspicious, I'm running away.
Please do the monster of Worcester!
I moved to Worcester a year ago and I've only recently found out about it, it is very gruesome and does unfortunately involve children
This case sounds like the Jeffrey Dahmer case
Kinda looks like him too
yeah and im pretty sure they both started killing in the same year, im no to sure though
Well he was called the British Jeffrey Dahmer because their cases were so similar,
I was looking after the itv ‘des’ and I’m soo happy you covered this case
I’m thinking he experienced a psychotic break due to the extreeeeeme cognitive dissonance of being so happy and then feeling the absolute opposite in an instant when he saw his dead grandfather.
Nilsen sees a dead body: ah shit, here we go again
“alright, it’s go time”
Can we just take a moment to realise how gorgeous eleanore is 🥺❤️
You should do a video on the Sylvia Likens case. I think it would be an interesting topic.
Already watched the original but ya kno I’m gonna watch it again
JustAnotherRoadie x I liked this comment because of roadtrip 😂
Lol thanks 😂😂
JustAnotherRoadie x Love RoadTrip xx
Sophie Delano who’s your lane?
Sophie Delano same I probably couldn’t live without them lol