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Stephen Holmes
14, met at pub, lured home with promise of alcohol, drank and fell asleep. Upon waking, strangled with necktie and drowned, stowed under floorboards. Body burned eight months later -
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Dennis Nilsen Victims
Victims of serial killer Dennis Nilsen -
Andrew Ho
Met in pub, lured home with promise of sex, attempted to strangle but escaped, no charges pressed. -
Kenneth Ockenden
23, Canadian tourist, met in pub and taken on tour, lured home with promise of meal and alcohol, strangled with cord of headphones, photographed body next day, "lay [his] corpse spreadagled above him on his bed as he watched television for several hours", and then stored under the floorboards. -
Martyn Duffey
16, runaway, lured home with promise of bed and meal, strangled with ligature and drowned, bathed with body, stowed in cupboard, then under floorboards -
Bonfire
Burns all victims since December 1979 in a large bonfire -
Unidentified
Four further victims killed and one more attempted by end of 1980, all unidentified. -
William David Sutherland
26 -
Unidentified
18, met in pub, lured home with promise of a drinking contest, strangled with necktie and stored under floorboards -
Unidentified
2 more unidentified victims; "skinhead" and "Belfast boy". "End of the day, end of the drink, end of a person ... floorboards back, carpet replaced, and back to work at Denmark Street" -
Malcolm Barlow
23, last victim at Melrose Avenue, homeless, found outside home the day previous in need of medical attention, Nilsen makes sure he gets it. Comes back the next day to thank him and is strangled manually as he sleeps, stowed beneath kitchen sink. -
Bonfire
Burns last five victims before moving to Cranley Gardens the next day. -
Cranley Gardens
Moves into Cranley Gardens. No floorboards, no deaths for 2 months -
Paul Nobbs
19, attempted to strangle. -
John Howlett
23, met in pub, lured home with promise of alcohol, Howlett falls asleep, tries to wake, struggle during strangulation, 3 different tries to strangle, but kept breathing. Drowned. Bore bruises for a week -
Carl Stottor
21, met at pub, invited to flat with no intention of sexual activity, drinking, falls asleep in sleeping bag. Wakes later to strangulation, drowning, Stottor survives both. Sat up in living room before realizing life. Saves and makes up a story about getting caught in the sleeping bag zipper. Drowning for shock. -
Graham Allen
27, met while hailing a cab, invited for meal, ¨could not recall the precise moment he had strangled [him].¨ Body kept in bathtub for three days before dissection -
Stephen Sinclair
20, final victim, fell asleep at flat, strangled with necktie and rope. ¨Following his usual ritual of bathing the body, Nilsen lay Sinclair's body upon his bed, applied talcum powder to the body, then arranged three mirrors around the bed before himself lying naked alongside the dead youth. Several hours later, he turned Stephen's head towards him, before kissing the youth's body on the forehead and saying, "Goodnight, Stephen". Nilsen then fell asleep alongside the body.¨ Dissected and hidden -
Details
Flushed flesh, internal organs, and small bones down toilet. Boiled heads, hands, and feet to remove flesh. -
Sewage
Writes letter about blocked drains.