Dr. Micki Pistorius
@mickipistorius.bsky.social
Psychologist, author, and South Africa’s first profiler, Dr. Micki Pistorius has a doctorate in psychology, seven books (including Catch Me a Killer), and an Honours in Biblical Archaeology.
Peter Pan and the Lost Boys give a romanticized rendition of young men recruited into #gangs. #Psychology and neurocriminology provide more answers to why and how these youngsters are so easily recruited.
Wanted: Lost Boys To Join Gangs
Sir James Matthew Barrie, the Scottish novelist and playwright’s famous 1904-play Peter Pan The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, is set in Neverland
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January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Peter Pan and the Lost Boys give a romanticized rendition of young men recruited into #gangs. #Psychology and neurocriminology provide more answers to why and how these youngsters are so easily recruited.
Like Achilles in Hades, South African prison Number gang generals and members eventually face eternal nothingness in the Netherworld, unless they stop the senseless war.
#SouthAfrica #Crime #History
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#SouthAfrica #Crime #History
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Mythology of the Origin of The Number Gangs in South Africa
A cultural narrative defines a community’s shared identity.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Like Achilles in Hades, South African prison Number gang generals and members eventually face eternal nothingness in the Netherworld, unless they stop the senseless war.
#SouthAfrica #Crime #History
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#SouthAfrica #Crime #History
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Dr Sabah Carrim, expert in Genocide Studies deep dives neurological changes in individuals who engaged in genocide and if this could influence the Superior Orders Defence in the International Criminal Court.
#truecrime #crime
#truecrime #crime
Genocide: “I Acted on Orders”
Dr Sabah Carrim, expert in Genocide Studies deep dives neurological changes in individuals who engaged in genocide and if this could influence the Superior Orders Defence in the International Criminal...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Dr Sabah Carrim, expert in Genocide Studies deep dives neurological changes in individuals who engaged in genocide and if this could influence the Superior Orders Defence in the International Criminal Court.
#truecrime #crime
#truecrime #crime
I’m delighted to share a new podcast episode that holds a special place in my heart. Actor Ivan Zimmermann joined me to talk about Catch Me a Killer and to reflect on Charlotte Hope’s remarkable portrayal of me in the series.
I invite you to listen to our conversation and share your thoughts.
I invite you to listen to our conversation and share your thoughts.
Actor Ivan Zimmermann working with Charlotte Hope, Emmy nominee in Catch me a Killer
Congratulations Charlotte Hope on your role as Micki Pistorius in Catch me a Killer.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I’m delighted to share a new podcast episode that holds a special place in my heart. Actor Ivan Zimmermann joined me to talk about Catch Me a Killer and to reflect on Charlotte Hope’s remarkable portrayal of me in the series.
I invite you to listen to our conversation and share your thoughts.
I invite you to listen to our conversation and share your thoughts.
Netflix series Aileen Wuornos Queen of Serial Killers opens a dialogue of theodicy – Can God allow evil? Was Aileen good or evil?
#truecrime #aileenwuornos #theodicy
#truecrime #aileenwuornos #theodicy
Aileen Wuornos - A Dialogue of Theodicy
The Netflix documentary, Aileen Wuornos, Queen of Serial Killers opens the dialogue of theodicy. A theodicy postulates it is reasonable to believe in God despite evidence of evil in the world, and it ...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Netflix series Aileen Wuornos Queen of Serial Killers opens a dialogue of theodicy – Can God allow evil? Was Aileen good or evil?
#truecrime #aileenwuornos #theodicy
#truecrime #aileenwuornos #theodicy
The Monster of Florence displayed a signature of piquerism on his crime scenes, and was probably a shy reserved man who worked in a mortuary in the region of the countryside of Florence.
#FBI #Truecrime #Florence
#FBI #Truecrime #Florence
Monster of Florence - The Killer’s Signature Revealed
After 40 years, modern Italy’s first major serial killer case, the Monster of Florence has still not been solved.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Monster of Florence displayed a signature of piquerism on his crime scenes, and was probably a shy reserved man who worked in a mortuary in the region of the countryside of Florence.
#FBI #Truecrime #Florence
#FBI #Truecrime #Florence
The Netflix series Monster of Florence depicts the chaotic investigation scourging the countryside around Florence for 17 years. Perhaps with a proper criminal profile the real killer could have been identified.
#serialkiller #truecrime
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#serialkiller #truecrime
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The Monster of Florence - A Voyeur’s Perspective
The Netflix series Monster of Florence opens a can of worms regarding Italy’s most infamous and confusing serial killer cases.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Netflix series Monster of Florence depicts the chaotic investigation scourging the countryside around Florence for 17 years. Perhaps with a proper criminal profile the real killer could have been identified.
#serialkiller #truecrime
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#serialkiller #truecrime
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In Monster, the Ed Gein Story, Ed copies Ilse Koch, Nazi Buchenwald commandant-wife by using the flayed skin of women to make furniture covers. He was not the first.
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Serial killers like Ed Gein using flayed Human SkinMicki Ed Gain 1 1
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November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In Monster, the Ed Gein Story, Ed copies Ilse Koch, Nazi Buchenwald commandant-wife by using the flayed skin of women to make furniture covers. He was not the first.
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Ed Gein flayed human’s to use their skin as lampshades, as he had read Nazi Ilse Koch had done in Buchenwald concentration camp. In 2011 South African Chane van Heerden and her lover flayed an innocent man to relieve her boredom.
Skin Deep – Serial Killers’ fascination with Flaying Skin
The Netflix series Monster, the Ed Gein Story focusses on Ed’s penchant to re-use the skin of bodies he exhumed from graveyards as well as that from the victims he killed, to make furniture covers as ...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Ed Gein flayed human’s to use their skin as lampshades, as he had read Nazi Ilse Koch had done in Buchenwald concentration camp. In 2011 South African Chane van Heerden and her lover flayed an innocent man to relieve her boredom.
Mr Ian Rothman, principal at Northfields Primary school and Dr Micki Pistorius at her Neurodevelopment of Children workshop on 22 October 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Mr Ian Rothman, principal at Northfields Primary school and Dr Micki Pistorius at her Neurodevelopment of Children workshop on 22 October 2025.
Netflix series #Monster The Ed Gein Story provides material for a psychoanalytic explanation of real-life serial killer Ed Gein’s fixation on his mother, overlooked in the series.
#truecrime #edgain
#truecrime #edgain
Who was Ed Gein’s Mother in the Rocking Chair?
The current Netflix series, Monster: The Ed Gein Story portrays real life serial killer Ed Gein having conversations with his deceased mother Augusta as if she is alive.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Netflix series #Monster The Ed Gein Story provides material for a psychoanalytic explanation of real-life serial killer Ed Gein’s fixation on his mother, overlooked in the series.
#truecrime #edgain
#truecrime #edgain
In the late 1920’s American Albert Fish was a paedophile who abducted, tortured and ate children and often tortured himself. On what grounds did the jury find him legally sane to send him to the electric chair?
#serialkiller #truecrime #albertfish
#serialkiller #truecrime #albertfish
Albert Fish, the Real Life Bogeyman Who Devoured Children
Sane or Insane?
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October 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In the late 1920’s American Albert Fish was a paedophile who abducted, tortured and ate children and often tortured himself. On what grounds did the jury find him legally sane to send him to the electric chair?
#serialkiller #truecrime #albertfish
#serialkiller #truecrime #albertfish
The Cape Flats, located 30 kilometers outside Cape Town has been turned into the Wild West where a scourge of gangster-related killings has erupted in a full-scale war, with children caught in the crossfire and mowed down in their beds.
#southafrica #truecrime #crime
#southafrica #truecrime #crime
The Gangs of Mitchell’s Plein – Interview Mr Kurt Oliver
Earlier this month on 16 September 2025, actor, activist and icon Robert Redford died.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Cape Flats, located 30 kilometers outside Cape Town has been turned into the Wild West where a scourge of gangster-related killings has erupted in a full-scale war, with children caught in the crossfire and mowed down in their beds.
#southafrica #truecrime #crime
#southafrica #truecrime #crime
Throughout mankind’s #history, feet and shoes have always played a significant role in human attraction. Jerry Brudos’ obsession with feet led to four women’s #murders.
Serial killer Jerry Brudos – The man who killed for feet
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September 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The door is open, yet they stay. Lisa Vetten an author who has worked in the field of gendered violence for 30 years, provides insights into #CoerciveControl and why the people caught up in the spiral of entrapment do not escape at the first opportunity that may present itself.
Captive Love, Coercive Control
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August 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The door is open, yet they stay. Lisa Vetten an author who has worked in the field of gendered violence for 30 years, provides insights into #CoerciveControl and why the people caught up in the spiral of entrapment do not escape at the first opportunity that may present itself.
August 2025 Women’s Month is nothing to celebrate in South Africa with a spate of women being killed in a tragic trio of muti-murder, a serial rapist and possible serial killer. Are they linked or not?
#WomensMonth #southafrica #truecrime
#WomensMonth #southafrica #truecrime
Women’s Day Carnage in Eersterust
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August 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
August 2025 Women’s Month is nothing to celebrate in South Africa with a spate of women being killed in a tragic trio of muti-murder, a serial rapist and possible serial killer. Are they linked or not?
#WomensMonth #southafrica #truecrime
#WomensMonth #southafrica #truecrime
Chilling crimes in South Africa: children harmed by those meant to protect them. Dark as Grimm’s tales, yet all too real.
#StopChildAbuse #MickiPistorius
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#StopChildAbuse #MickiPistorius
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Who are killing South Africa's children?
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August 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Chilling crimes in South Africa: children harmed by those meant to protect them. Dark as Grimm’s tales, yet all too real.
#StopChildAbuse #MickiPistorius
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#StopChildAbuse #MickiPistorius
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Beheadings, drownings, slavery, abuse — nursery rhyme horrors made real. August 2025 saw a grim rollcall of crimes against children in South Africa. #JusticeForChildren #EndChildAbuse
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They did not live happy-ever-after
A chilling look at South Africa’s early August 2025 headlines, where nursery rhyme horrors became real — children murdered, abused, and betrayed by those meant to protect them.
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August 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Beheadings, drownings, slavery, abuse — nursery rhyme horrors made real. August 2025 saw a grim rollcall of crimes against children in South Africa. #JusticeForChildren #EndChildAbuse
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Dr. Ernst Strydom, the man who brought hostage negotiations to the South African Police, shares what it really takes to talk someone back from the edge — and the mindset that can save lives.
#truecrime #hostage
#truecrime #hostage
Dr Ernst Strydom former Chief hostage negotiator South African Police
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August 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Dr. Ernst Strydom, the man who brought hostage negotiations to the South African Police, shares what it really takes to talk someone back from the edge — and the mindset that can save lives.
#truecrime #hostage
#truecrime #hostage
25 years ago, Monique Strydom was kidnapped by a terrorist group and held hostage for 127 days on the remote island of Jolo. In this episode, she shares her extraordinary story of survival, resilience, and hope.
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30 July 2025 - World Trafficking of Persons Day – Monique Strydom Survivor
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July 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
25 years ago, Monique Strydom was kidnapped by a terrorist group and held hostage for 127 days on the remote island of Jolo. In this episode, she shares her extraordinary story of survival, resilience, and hope.
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Nataraj Muneesamy, Assistant DPP, and I at the launch of the ‘End Human Trafficking in Mauritius’ initiative.
#truecrime #mickipistorius #southafrica
#truecrime #mickipistorius #southafrica
July 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Nataraj Muneesamy, Assistant DPP, and I at the launch of the ‘End Human Trafficking in Mauritius’ initiative.
#truecrime #mickipistorius #southafrica
#truecrime #mickipistorius #southafrica
Gen. Bushie Engelbrecht breaks his silence on the 1995 Shobashobane massacre and a young Mkhwanazi — now the SAPS chief exposing political assassinations.
#TrueCrime #SouthAfricaNews #PoliceCorruption
#TrueCrime #SouthAfricaNews #PoliceCorruption
Shobashobane: Former General Bushie Engelbrecht hails Lt-genl Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
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July 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Gen. Bushie Engelbrecht breaks his silence on the 1995 Shobashobane massacre and a young Mkhwanazi — now the SAPS chief exposing political assassinations.
#TrueCrime #SouthAfricaNews #PoliceCorruption
#TrueCrime #SouthAfricaNews #PoliceCorruption
I helped profile Moses Sithole—the ABC Killer. His trail of terror ran through Atteridgeville, Boksburg, and Cleveland. #TheABCKiller, a 3-part documentary, now streaming on Showmax.
The ABC Killer | Tease Trailer | Showmax Original
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July 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I helped profile Moses Sithole—the ABC Killer. His trail of terror ran through Atteridgeville, Boksburg, and Cleveland. #TheABCKiller, a 3-part documentary, now streaming on Showmax.
Former Lt-Col Dave Pieterse of The Forensic Hub breaks down forensic ballistics—gunshot residue, trajectory, self-defense vs. staged wounds—drawing on 21 years of experience. Forensic science as the silent witness in court.
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Inside Forensic Ballistics: A Veteran Expert Explains the Science
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July 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Former Lt-Col Dave Pieterse of The Forensic Hub breaks down forensic ballistics—gunshot residue, trajectory, self-defense vs. staged wounds—drawing on 21 years of experience. Forensic science as the silent witness in court.
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Debunking some myths about polygraphs - they are not “lie detector tests”, psychopaths can also fail them, and they can deliver false positives. Yet, they can be useful tools in the sphere of criminal investigations.
The Truth Does Not Mind Being Questioned, A Lie Does… Nietzsche - Dr. Micki Pistorius
Dr. Micki Pistorius debunks myths about lie detectors, polygraphs, and psychopaths, revealing the truth behind tools used in criminal investigations.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Debunking some myths about polygraphs - they are not “lie detector tests”, psychopaths can also fail them, and they can deliver false positives. Yet, they can be useful tools in the sphere of criminal investigations.