The worst crime Sade himself is alleged to have committed was scoring the buttocks of a prostitute and pouring wax into the wounds. Sade preached a “philosophy of selfishness”. Sade’s novels, written in the Bastille or the asylum, such as Justine and 120 Days of Sodom provide an alternate encyclopaedia of perversion, a user’s manual to rape, flogging, torture and murder, inflicted on a string of young men and women, by ruthless libertines. The Marquis de Sade, who became Citizen Sade after the French Revolution, felt that the Encyclopédie, the compendium of Enlightenment knowledge with contributors like Voltaire and Rousseau, left out one thing: crime.
WHAT MAKES A SERIAL KILLER TICK SERIAL
Now, a recognised authority on monsters and maniacs and a professor at Birmingham City University, he is presenting a series on CBS Reality TV called Voice of a Serial Killer in which we get straight from the horse’s mouth the views and opinions and unreliable memoirs of the premier league of killers and violent offenders.īut this is a case where literature got there first. And one of the first inmates he had to speak to was Dennis Nilsen, the “Muswell Hill Murderer”. In 1984 Wilson had a viva for his PhD at the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge University on a Friday, and started at Wormwood Scrubs on the following Monday. “The arrogance of a serial killer knows no bounds,” he says. Shouldn’t they be speaking to a more senior man? Someone with more serious credentials? They thought he looked a bit young, fresh out of college.
More surprising is that serial killers themselves were just as dubious and initially demanded to see his CV before they would agree to talk to him. When it comes to interviewing serial killers he feels that scepticism is appropriate.
“If Ian Brady were to tell me it’s raining outside, I would expect sunshine,” said David Wilson.
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