Elena

Right, and then he did three more times.

But just a few months later, he very likely tried to murder Andrew Ho.

And this is all to say that he might not have intended or even desired at the time to become a killer, but once he had done the first murder and gotten away with it, that desire and his urges and his fantasies, it just overruled any moral qualms that he may have had with these acts.

And it just took him over.

Because he's not, I'm not saying he's insane, but he's not living in reality.

No, something is very off here.

Something's broken.

Yeah.

You know what it is?

He's just deeply entrenched in dark fantasy because that's all he's done his entire life is isolate and live in a fantasy world.

Now, over the course of the next six months, he would go on to murder five more men.

Only one has ever been identified of those five men.

Yeah.

In August of that year, he met Billy Sutherland, a drifter from Scotland who supported himself primarily through sex work.

Although he wasn't like Nilsen's other victims in a physical sense, like he was older, he was covered in tattoos, just different physically.

Sure.

His background and marginalized status made him an ideal target for Dennis Nilsen.

Sutherland had a history of petty crime, stealing to get by whenever he couldn't find work, and he rarely stayed in one place for long.

That's kind of what he was looking for.

Sutherland met Dennis at a pub near Piccadilly Circus, and the two men spent the night going from one bar to another until closing time.