Dr. Micki Pistorius Profiler Podcast

Dr. Micki Pistorius Profiler Podcast

In this podcast, I’ll be joined by a special guest as we dive deeper into my career journey and share new insights. mickipistorius.substack.com

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May 15, 2026 9 mins

In the 1980’s the Bang-Bang club, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalists of South Africa captured necklacing, horrific scenes of execution by burning tyres, which haunted them to their deaths.



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Lieutenant-colonel Mike van Aardt, investigator in the 1997 Pyromaniac serial killer case discusses the first arrest of a suspect who admitted to one murder but denied the other two.



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December 8, 2025 11 mins
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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.

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Congratulations Charlotte Hope on your role as Micki Pistorius in Catch me a Killer. Actor Ivan Zimmermann praises Charlotte Hope for her performance and talks to Micki about the series based upon her book.

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October 17, 2025 22 mins

In the tv series Baby Reindeer depicting the real-life drama of Richard Gadd, a comedian who was stalked over years, he says: “I just gave her a cup of tea.”

Stalking is not reserved only for celebrities, company directors or politicians. Before Baby Reindeer became a hit, it was difficult to comprehend how a normal person’s life could be turned into a living hell by a stalker, unless you have been the victim of a stalker as well.

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In July 2025, fiction met reality in an unsettling way. The TV series Dexter: Resurrection referenced “The Pig Farmer” — a nod to one of Canada’s most infamous serial killers, Robert Pickton. Just two months later, Pickton himself was murdered in prison by a fellow inmate who claimed to have acted “for the victims.”

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September 12, 2025 6 mins
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The psychology of fetishism can explain what motivated Jerry Brudos ‘ murderous podophilia and retifism.

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Instead of a synthetic sensational clickbait moniker such as the Vampire of Sacramento, a professional criminal profiling approach based upon academic insight into the mental illness of Richard Trenton Chase, may be more productive in the understanding of the motivation of disorganized serial killers, focussing on the MacDonald Triad,...

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August 23, 2025 10 mins
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Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo, means: Strike a woman, Strike a Rock and the slogan is embedded in the grindstone, or ‘imbokodo’, featuring in the Monument for the Women of South Africa, referring to the nurturing role of women.

August is Women’s Month in South Africa, yet gruesome murders of young women leave nothing to celebrate...

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25 years ago, Monique Strydom was kidnapped by a terrorist group and held hostage for 127 days on Jolo island. She shares her supernatural experiences in the jungle and her survival tools as well as how she turned this ordeal around into a positive.

Please support the United Nationals Trust Fund for Human Trafficking.

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Ex sergeant Derrik Norsworthy discusses the case study of 17-year old South African Amanda du Toit who killed her 13-year-old sister Cisca in a fit of rage illustrating how sibling rivalry can turn into sororicide within minutes.

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