Alaina Urquhart

He was barefooted and needed a shave.

He looked as if he was sleeping.

Many years later, Dennis would trace his pathology back to this event.

He wrote, Oh, man.

Man.

Which if he wasn't such a complete piece of shit, you'd be like, oh my God, that's so sad.

Yeah, you feel bad for the kid.

Exactly.

In the wake of his grandfather's death, Dennis became much more isolated.

He spent his free time by the water, watching the fishing boats come and go.

And during one of these occasions, he claimed to have walked into the ocean to try to end his life.

Oh, fuck.

But he was saved by an older boy who spotted him from the beach and pulled him back to shore.

Now, in his memoirs, he claimed that this savior of his potentially sexually assaulted him.

Oh.

But because he was unconscious at the time, he was unable to provide any details of the attack or his attacker.

Okay.

That said, Nilsen himself acknowledges his tendency to blend fantasy with memory and reality with reality.

not reality um when recounting events from his life so it's kind of impossible to know which aspects of his early biography are true and which are pieces he made up you know yeah that's tough um not because they never were able to like identify this person right they don't even know if he actually walked into the ocean exactly right it might have never happened okay

Now, not long after the death of his father, Elizabeth married a second time to a man named Adam Scott.