No case too cold
Professor David Wilson, 64, Buckingham
Staring into the eyes of the weedy man sitting opposite, I had many questions.
Not least was, Why did you do it?
It was the early 1980s and I was face-to-face with a notorious serial killer.
Dennis Nilsen.
He’d just been convicted of murdering six young men and attempting to murder two more, but was actually suspected of killing up to 15.
He’d hidden some bodies under floorboards in his London home.
Dismembered others, flushing flesh down the toilet and throwing bones out in rubbish bags.
I was a young man, fresh out of
