The Dennis Nilsen Tapes, Michael Morley
The Dennis Nilsen Tapes, Michael Morley
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The Dennis Nilsen Tapes
In jail with Britain's most infamous serial killer - as seen in The Sun

Author: Michael Morley

Narrator: David Morley Hale

Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Coronet

Published: 08/05/2021


Synopsis

Only one TV interview with a serial killer has ever been recorded in a British jail and broadcast. This is the exclusive story of that dramatic event, carried out by award-winning documentary maker Mike Morley with Dennis Nilsen, then the country's most prolific murderer.

In what became front page news, Morley overcame two eleventh hour government attempts (in the High Court and Court of Appeal) to stop ITV in the UK screening any extracts of the Nilsen interview. Controversially, the court ruled no more than 4 minutes of a four-hour interrogation should ever be shown.

The Dennis Nilsen Tapes: In Jail with Britain's Most Infamous Serial Killer covers those full four hours, plus two days spent face to face with Nilsen in Albany Prison and two years of graphic correspondence and confessions from the infamous Scottish serial killer.

With fresh insight from world famous psychological profilers and a leading pathologist, Morley completes almost three decades of investigation into what turned the former chef, policeman and civil servant into one of the world's most notorious murderers and necrophiles.

(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Reviews

I will never understand why Nilsen's name isn’t mentioned alongside the likes of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer etc when we discuss the most terrifying serial killers. Like @eastofreaden said to me, it’s probably because he’s British - we tend to focus on the American ones. The parts of this book that fo......more

Goodreads review by Zorba5

I'd like to give this book 2 and a half stars, as although it gave a graphic account of the crimes that Nilsen committed, this book was also about the author processing his personal trauma after interviewing Nilsen and about venting out his frustration around the 'show that never got made.'......more

Goodreads review by Julia

Overall a really good factual book about Dennis Nelson and the horrific scenes he conducted to his victims. Some moments are a little hard to read, knowing what he actually did and to the detail that Michael Morley writes then in. It brings home how much of a horrific man he is. Although the book wa......more