He was officially promoted to the position of executive officer, with additional supervisory responsibilities, in June 1982, and transferred to another Jobcentre in Kentish Town, [47] continuing in this job until his arrest. As Nilsen progressed into adolescence, he found life in Strichen increasingly stifling, with limited entertainment amenities or career opportunities. Yet, despite the inordinate amount of interest, the serial killer remains one of the least understood types of criminal - even in the academic world the simple definition of a serial killer has still not been settled.

In August, following a failed relationship, Nilsen came to the conclusion that his personal lifestyle was at odds with his job. To disguise the smell of the burning flesh of the six dissected bodies placed upon this pyre, Nilsen crowned the bonfire with an old car tyre.He discarded these innards both upon the waste ground behind his flat, and in his household rubbish. Nilsen admitted to engaging in masturbation as he viewed the nude bodies of several of his victims, and to have engaged in sexual acts with six of his victims' bodies, [60] but was adamant that he had never penetrated any of his victims. According to Nilsen, upon being transferred to Brixton Prison to await trial, his mood was one of "resignation and relief", with his belief being that he would be viewed, in accordance with law, as innocent until proven guilty.

Prior to their dissection, Nilsen removed their internal organs, [57] which he disposed of either beside a fence behind his flat or close to Gladstone Park. The defence counsel, Ivan Lawrence QC, argued that Nilsen suffered from diminished responsibility, rendering him incapable of forming the intention to commit murder, and should therefore be convicted only of manslaughter.The dismembered body parts were the bodies of three men, all of whom he had killed by strangulation—usually with a necktie.

DCI Jay then recounted the circumstances of Nilsen's arrest and his "calm, matter-of-fact" confessions, before reading to the court several statements volunteered by Nilsen following his arrest. Although a relatively rare phenomenon, there is a great deal of public interest in the life and crimes of serial killers. He died in 2018, entrusting the manuscript to his closest friend and it is now being published with the latter's permission. Each victim killed between 1978 and 1981 at his Cricklewood residence was disposed of via burning upon a bonfire.The day before he vacated the property, Nilsen burned the dissected bodies of the last five victims he had killed at this address upon a third and final bonfire he constructed in the garden behind his flat.

Moss was to remain Nilsen's legal representative until July 1983, when Nilsen—again expressing his intention to defend himself—discharged him, until 5 August when Nilsen once again reappointed Moss. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . When he replied that he did, he was taken into the room where his grandfather lay in an open coffin. All of Nilsen's murders were committed at the two North London addresses where he lived between 1978 and 1983. Nilsen was determined to have his memoir published but to his frustration, the Home Office blocked publication during his lifetime.

The evidence provided by Stottor was not included as part of the indictment against Nilsen as his whereabouts were not known until after the indictment had been completed. This included the cooking pot in which Nilsen had boiled the heads of the three victims killed at Cranley Gardens, the cutting board he had used to dissect John Howlett, and several rusted catering knives which had formerly belonged to victim Martyn Duffey. Again, Nilsen ensured the bonfire was crowned with an old car tyre to disguise the smell of burning flesh (Nilsen had already dissected the bodies of four of these victims in January and August, [95] and needed only to complete the dissection of Barlow for this third bonfire). In December 1983, Nilsen was cut on the face and chest with a razor blade by an inmate named Albert Moffatt, resulting in injuries requiring eighty-nine stitches. Nilsen held this grip until Duffey became unconscious; he then dragged the youth into his kitchen and drowned him in his sink [76] before bathing with the body—which he recollected as being "the youngest-looking I had ever seen.