The Kindly Killer: Dennis Nilsen and the Blocked Drain
February 1983, Muswell Hill. A plumber opens a manhole to clear a blocked drain and finds human remains. The tenant upstairs is Dennis Andrew Nilsen — a quiet civil servant neighbours called Des.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the UK story of the Muswell Hill Murderer: two north London addresses, Cricklewood and Cranley Gardens; at least twelve young men and boys killed between 1978 and 1983; victims the city often failed to count; an Old Bailey trial; a whole-life sentence; and a case that ended not with a detective’s hunch, but with an ordinary complaint…
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