Micki Pistorius

Long before the FBI came up with the concept of offender profiling, Heinrich Kramer was a Medieval inquisitor who first profiled witches, but his book The Malleus Maleficarum provides material for a profile of himself. mickipistorius.substack.com/p/profiling-lu…

Celebrated South African actor Kagiso Kuypers who played Norman Simons in the #SAFTA award winning tv series, Catch me a Killer, revisits the Station Strangler investigation with me. #southafrica #Crime youtu.be/wvpMBzQ-ouc

Congratulations to the #SAFTA winners and nominees for #CatchmeaKiller. I am so thankful to all of you that tell and show the story and my journey. @Jabu_Macdonald @WarrenGrays #MickiPistorius ❤️

The ancient Persian Zoroastrian Fire of Victory may once again ignite the furnace in the collective soul of anonymous people of Iran. #Iran #history #Fire mickipistorius.substack.com/p/iran-on-fire

Specialist #Forensic Pathologist Dr Reggie Perumal discusses what happens when a body burns, sati or widow burning, identification of burnt bodies, self-immolation and the myth self-combustion. mickipistorius.substack.com/p/myths-around…

Pyrophiliacs, who derive sexual gratification of setting people on fire are extremely rare, but have a specific criminal profile. In the 1990’s two were operating in close proximity in #SouthAfrica and it took a supercop to catch both. mickipistorius.substack.com/p/pyrophilia-s…

2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse, as we focus on modern and ancient crimes related to fire including arson, pyromania, bride-burning, self-immolation and sati, and barbaric punishments such as burning people at the stake and boiling them alive. mickipistorius.substack.com/p/hinoe-uma-th…

Peter Pan and the Lost Boys give a romanticized rendition of young men recruited into #gangs. #Psychology and neurocriminology provide more answers to why and how these youngsters are so easily recruited. mickipistorius.substack.com/p/wanted-lost-…

Like Achilles in Hades, South African prison Number gang generals and members eventually face eternal nothingness in the Netherworld, unless they stop the senseless war. #SouthAfrica #Crime #History mickipistorius.substack.com/p/mythology-of…

Dr Sabah Carrim, expert in Genocide Studies deep dives neurological changes in individuals who engaged in genocide and if this could influence the Superior Orders Defence in the International Criminal Court. @SabahCarrim Podcast: mickipistorius.substack.com/p/genocide-i-a…

Dr Sabah Carrim, expert in Genocide Studies deep dives neurological changes in individuals who engaged in genocide and if this could influence the Superior Orders Defence in the International Criminal Court. #truecrime #crime mickipistorius.substack.com/p/genocide-i-a…

I’m delighted to share a new podcast episode that holds a special place in my heart. Actor Ivan Zimmermann joined me to talk about Catch Me a Killer and to reflect on Charlotte Hope’s remarkable portrayal of me in the series. mickipistorius.substack.com/p/actor-ivan-z…

📍🗓️ Join us at EB @MenlynSA for an author discussion with Micki Pistorius for her book Catch Me a Killer! @PenguinBooksSA @MickiPistorius RSVP is essential here: exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events#?…

Nudhar Bundhoo, Dr Micki Pistorius, Dr Lizette Labuschagne and Louise Lebrasse at Mauritius Pedostop conference 2025.

Netflix series Aileen Wuornos Queen of Serial Killers opens a dialogue of theodicy – Can God allow evil? Was Aileen good or evil? #truecrime #aileenwuornos #theodicy mickipistorius.substack.com/p/aileen-wuorn…

The Monster of Florence displayed a signature of piquerism on his crime scenes, and was probably a shy reserved man who worked in a mortuary in the region of the countryside of Florence. #FBI #Truecrime #Florence mickipistorius.substack.com/p/monster-of-f…

The Netflix series Monster of Florence depicts the chaotic investigation scourging the countryside around Florence for 17 years. Perhaps with a proper criminal profile the real killer could have been identified. #serialkiller #truecrime mickipistorius.substack.com/p/the-monster-…

In Monster, the Ed Gein Story, Ed copies Ilse Koch, Nazi Buchenwald commandant-wife by using the flayed skin of women to make furniture covers. He was not the first. youtu.be/hLmSyfmbEVg

Ed Gein flayed human’s to use their skin as lampshades, as he had read Nazi Ilse Koch had done in Buchenwald concentration camp. In 2011 South African Chane van Heerden and her lover flayed an innocent man to relieve her boredom. mickipistorius.substack.com/p/skin-deep-se…

Mr Ian Rothman, principal at Northfields Primary school and Dr Micki Pistorius at her Neurodevelopment of Children workshop on 22 October 2025.