Henry Zebrowski

There, Savile helped the nuns care for the elderly in the infirm.

Now, this sounds nice, but this was also where Savile developed his lifelong obsession with death.

See, the young Jimmy Savile was allowed to ride in the hearse as a treat when an elderly resident died and the body had to be transported to the funeral.

Savile, however, even from a young age, was completely detached from the deaths of these people that he'd gotten to know personally.

A ride in the hearse was what he got when he was a good boy.

I've kissed a corpse.

I was forced to.

I didn't want to.

By whom?

I chose to kiss both of them.

Never kissing a corpse.

Now Saville claimed that helping out the nuns at St.

Joseph's taught him that doing nice things for people isn't a bad idea.

That they would pat you on the head and be pleased to see you if you made their lives a little easier.

But I think the real lesson Jimmy Saville learned here is that doing charitable activities can be an incredible smokescreen for getting away with anything.

And he learned that lesson at quite a young age.

Now, all of these tidbits, these are gold mines for armchair psychologists like ourselves or for authors or podcasters, whoever.

But anytime Jimmy Savile was pressed to talk about any of these things in interviews beyond the surface level, he would get defensive, annoyed, and most of the time quite combative.

When Saville was interviewed for a Radio 4 show called In the Psychiatrist's Chair in 1991, for example, the interviewer noticed that Jimmy was exceedingly edgy the entire time, like a prizefighter, he said, on his toes, anticipating a punch.

And throughout the interview, which is both fascinating and fucking chilling, Saville spent most of his mental energy talking about money.