Dennis Nilsen: The Kindly Killer (Part 1)

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Paranormal, True Crime, Dark History

4.4 • 100.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of February 8, 1983, a plumber working in London’s Muswell Hill neighbor opened a drainage cover behind a Cranley Gardens apartment building and made a horrific discovery—the drain was blocked by pieces of bone and human tissue. Upon investigation, detectives traced the blockage back to one apartment in the building, where additional evidence suggested things were far worse than they’d initially thought. When the occupant of the apartment, Dennis Nilsen, was confronted with the human remains, he began telling investigators a shocking story and when he was finished, Nilsen had confessed to murdering and dismembering at fifteen men over the course of five years. In the annals of British crime, Dennis Nilsen ranks among the worst serial killers the country has ever seen, not only because of the number of people he killed, but also the method of disposal and the motive.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos. I'm Elena. I'm Ash. And this is morbid.
0:04.4	This is morbid.
0:21.3	This is morbid. This is morbid and there's a lot going on.
0:23.1	My goodness, doesn't it just feel like that?
0:24.2	Every single day you wake up.
0:24.8	Truly.
0:25.9	More and more going on.
0:29.6	Something very, this is one of those things.
0:32.9	It's very chilling and it's like something that I can't stop thinking about.
0:33.9	And like checking it on.
0:42.0	So the Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie, her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, has been missing since Saturday night, I believe.
0:44.7	The last time she was seen was Saturday night.
0:46.8	And this story is just wild and heartbreaking and horrifying.
0:51.7	I can't stop thinking about it.
0:53.3	No, I can't either. We, I mean, we, we, we haven't
0:57.0	been so much recently just because life has gotten busy, but we used to be such a Today Show house.
1:01.5	Oh my God. I used to come over like every single day and we would just watch hours of the Today
1:06.1	show. Love the Today Show. And like, so we've been watching Savannah forever.
1:11.7	Yeah.
1:12.2	And it's.
1:12.6	Years.
1:13.5	Destroying my soul to think of how much pain she must be going through right now.
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