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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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Victims of serial killer Dennis Nilsen
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Met in pub, lured home with promise of sex, attempted to strangle but escaped, no charges pressed.
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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.
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16, runaway, lured home with promise of bed and meal, strangled with ligature and drowned, bathed with body, stowed in cupboard, then under floorboards
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Burns all victims since December 1979 in a large bonfire
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Four further victims killed and one more attempted by end of 1980, all unidentified.
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18, met in pub, lured home with promise of a drinking contest, strangled with necktie and stored under floorboards
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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"
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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.
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Burns last five victims before moving to Cranley Gardens the next day.
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Moves into Cranley Gardens. No floorboards, no deaths for 2 months
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19, attempted to strangle.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Flushed flesh, internal organs, and small bones down toilet. Boiled heads, hands, and feet to remove flesh.
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Writes letter about blocked drains.