Author: Phil GB

It’s entirely possible that my wife thinks I’m a psycho and I’m okay with that.

For Christmas, she got me tickets to go see “the psychology of serial killers” at the Liverpool Empire. A talk from former Metropolitan police officer in crime scenes officer, now forensics lecturer, Jennifer Rees.

Not really sure what to expect I took my seat and spent the first 10 minutes scanning the room, trying to work out who was the actual psychopath in the room. I’m not 100% sure if I spotted them, but there were certainly a few contenders.

The talk was fantastic. She covered the different classifications of serial killers and some of the statistics that sent them down that route. As my wife will content to, I do seem to know an unhealthy amount about some of the more popular serial killers in the world However, the thing I liked about the talk from Jennifer was that she covered some of the less common individuals and the stories around them and was linking that back to the statistical research done on serial killers.

One of the most interesting sections of the talk was around hybristophilia (People who “fall in love with Serial Killers”.

The whole thing was fascinating, and I would highly recommend it if this is even remotely in your wheelhouse.

https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/the-psychology-of-serial-killers-with-jennifer-rees/

Jennifer has also produced a book about the lives of women in the Police force “Voices from the blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen”.