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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

361 - The UK's Jeffrey Dahmer: Dennis Nilsen

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Summary

Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen isn't known nearly as well in the United States as he is in the UK, but that isn't because his story isn't darkly fascinating. Nilsen's crimes were as... strange as they were brutal. Telling an especially weird true crime tale this week.

Transcript

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0:00.0

He looked like Mr. Ordinary. He had a suit on. He had steel rims, spectacles. In the context of what he'd done

0:06.5

He was frightingly normal

0:08.6

These were the words of detective chief inspector Peter Jay one of the investigators who came to Dennis Nielsen's apartment when strange and

0:16.0

Horrible substances were found in the building's pipes at first other tenants of the apartment complex wondered if the pipes contained a dead animal

0:23.6

Or if as Dennis Nielsen himself suggested someone had flushed their KFC

0:29.3

The rotting gray substance looked practically unidentifiable. Was dog food? Was it Kentucky fried chicken?

0:35.5

Was something flushed down the toilet other than your everyday peanut butter sewage?

0:40.2

And then a plumber thought he saw something a small bone that looked just like a human knuckle

0:45.7

Forensic pathologist would soon confirm that the sewage substance practically liquefied now was decomposing human tissue

0:53.1

Indeed, there were actually two different kinds of human tissue in the pipes

0:56.9

The police were now obviously suspicious

0:59.6

And so were many of the buildings tenants

1:01.6

Some thought Dennis Nielsen might have something to do with it

1:04.5

It was a weird dude

1:05.8

He often seemed either incredibly depressed or very drunk. Sometimes both

1:09.8

He had visitors over every couple of weeks, but they never seemed to raise his spirits

1:13.6

He spent a lot of time by himself only emerging to maybe boisterously invite his neighbors over for a drink

1:19.6

Drink invitation. They consistently declined

1:22.4

But even though Dennis or Dez, as he called himself, was not duck

1:26.0

It was still hard for many to believe that he could really be responsible for the human tissue in the pipes

1:30.8

Like Peter Jay thought he was Mr. Ordinary

1:33.5

An unremarkable civil servant live in the bachelor life

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