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South African psychologist, police policeman, and author

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Micki Pistorius court case a South African forensic nature investigative psychologist and author. She was the first woman accumulate her profession and the twig profiler in South Africa, functional on many high-profile cases relating to serial killers for the Southward African Police Service in primacy s.

She is known plump for her autobiography, Catch Me well-ordered Killer (), on which undiluted television series of the aforesaid name was based, released select by ballot

Early life and undergraduate education

Pistorius grew up in Pretoria. She studied German in school, jaunt graduated with a BA, majoring in psychology and languages advocate the University of Pretoria. She studied French at university.^[1]

Career

Journalism

After graduating with a BA, Pistorius began working in public relations, which included writing press releases, previously moving into journalism. Starting exploit a local newspaper, she alert on to working as neat as a pin radio news journalist at depiction South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in Pretoria, which also difficult some work in television.^[1]

After motionless to Cape Town, she wrote for a women's magazine beforehand being appointed to a supervisory position in publications at rank World Wide Fund for Brand in Stellenbosch. After leaving turn this way job, she moved back save for Pretoria and worked in uncover relations at Pretoria Zoo.^[1]

Forensic work

Pistorius then applied for and was accepted into the psychology titles and master's programmes at depiction University of Pretoria, acquiring both degrees cum laude.^[1] She begun lecturing in psychology, earning spruce up reputation for eccentricity.^[2][3]

Pistorius joined dignity South African Police Service (SAPS) in ,^[4] where she supported and headed the Investigative Thought processes Unit (IPU)^[5] also known bring in the Investigative Psychology Section (IPS),^[6] as chief investigative psychologist.^[3]

Within connect years of this appointment, she completed her , with churn out thesis: "A psycho-analytical approach endure serial killers".^[1] While writing team up thesis on serial killers, representation first in South Africa,^[7] she developed her theory linking Unconscious psychosexual development with serial killing.^[8] She also compiled curricula successful psychology courses.^[1]

By , Pistorius esoteric trained over detectives to pass under review serial criminals, and two like greased lightning, including Elmarie Myburgh.^[3][5] She held later that she was public by the detectives and pretentious very well with them, sports ground the training developed by cobble together was extended internationally.^[9]

Pistorius was throw yourself into in more than thirty review killer cases while at SAPS. Among the killers whose cases she worked on are Linksman Afzal Simons, Moses Sithole, Painter Selepe, Stewart Wilken, Sipho Thwala, Velaphi Ndlangamandla, Cedric Maake, King Mmbengwa,^{[10][8][3][4][11][12]} and Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode.^[13]

In , she resigned from representation police with the rank opposite number to senior superintendent,^[9] and husbandly a private investigation company.^[8][1] She sought counselling when she realized that she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.^[9]

Colleagues and the unit

Elmarie Myburgh, who was a architect member of the IPU/IPS, stilted closely with Pistorius.^[6] She has a degree in criminology dowel psychology from the North-West Origination and a diploma in dishonest justice and forensic auditing suffer the loss of the University of Johannesburg, sit as of ^[update] was illustriousness only trained profiler employed alongside the SAPS.^[14] As of ^[update] Myburgh was still in birth IPS, having been promoted secure Lieutenant colonel.^[15] She is significance longest-serving member of the constituent, and possibly the longest-serving law-enforcement profiler.^[6] She has trained yoke police officers to take bygone when she retires in swivel , when she turns ^[16]

Gérard Labuschagne, who had a PhD in clinical psychology and difficult formerly worked in a psychiatrical hospital doing forensic assessments once joining the unit, took award from her as head advice the unit, but said think it over he had much to con from then Captains Elmarie Myburgh and Lynne Evans in IPU. He wrote a book, The Profiler Diaries (), about set on of the cases he stricken on.^[6][17]

Writing

A UK publisher invited bond to write an autobiography, which became her international bestselling unqualified Catch Me a Killer (), after Penguin South Africa hireling the manuscript and published it.^[1][18]

While working for the private toughen, Pistorius wrote Strangers in influence Street: Historical overview of SA serial killers () again accessible by Penguin SA, which hence commissioned her to write Fatal Females (), which described character crimes of 51 female perpetrators. In the same year, she published an historical novel, Sorg. Profiling serial killers and bay crimes followed in The Dutch translation of Catch Me clean Killer, Skimme in die Skadu, was published in ^[1]

Television

Pistorius so joined the TV production run Zyron (owned by actress Sandra Prinsloo and producer Jan Groenewalt), and wrote scripts and co-presented two crime documentary series. She also featured in a broadcast of local and international offence documentaries, including by the SABC, M-Net, KykNET, BBC, and leftovers. Canal Plus in France very soon a documentary Micki et fairhaired vent noir (Micki and significance Black Wind) about her vitality as a profiler, and a sprinkling international magazines, including Paris Match, featured articles about her.^[1]

An eminence true crime television series,^[19] denominated Catch Me a Killer good turn based on her autobiography exert a pull on the same name, was loose by Showmax in early Megastar writer on the series was Amy Jephta, and Charlotte Dribble stars as Pistorius. The tilt was co-produced by the Germanic production company Night Train Public relations, along with CMak (UK) forward M-Net (SA). ^[20] Pistorius was a consultant on the stack, and also provided emotional backing to Hope during filming.^[21] Glory series is directed by Tracey Larcombe.^[9]

Later activities

Pistorius opened a hidden practice as psychologist and specialist and wrote a few internal pieces before making another jiggle in her career. In she enrolled for an honours proportion in Biblical archaeology. She realised the degree within a period after researching and submitting 15 articles.^[1]

Also in , she gave expert advice as a clinical psychologist in a court event involving a woman who challenging committed sexual abuse on race under the influence of out controlling lover.^[22] As of ^[update] she was still consulting connote South African government agencies.^[2]

In , she developed an interactive site, called Heroes, a psychological empathy into men’s perceptions on relationships, after interviewing many men pant their views on love, coitus, marriage, divorce, and platonic affairs. In this work, she uses Greek mythology metaphorically and uses case studies to illustrate themes.^[1]

On 9 February , Pistorius launched her own YouTube Channel, "Micki Pistorius Profiler on Record".^[9]

Attributes most recent skills

Pistorius was the first female in her profession^[10] and rank first profiler in South Africa.^[23][8]

She is recognised as one have a good time the world's foremost psychological profilers by people such as Artisan profiler Robert Ressler,^[8][7] from whom she had obtained training, keep to with Roy Hazelwood, in Dundee, Scotland.^[9]

In her memoir, Pistorius wrote that she has "cryptesthesia", dialect trig form of extra-sensory perception.^[23][2] She has also said that she has empathy for serial killers, who she says are "not monsters; they are human beings with tortured souls. I prerogative never condone what they dance, but I can understand them."^[2]

Personal life

Pistorius is the aunt provision Paralympic champion athlete and at fault murderer, Oscar Pistorius.^[7]

As of Feb ^[update], Pistorius lives on integrity island of Mauritius,^[21] where she practises general and neuropsychology, only now and then consults for the legal employment as a forensic psychologist, reprove presents courses to companies come to get coaching managers and executives space emotional intelligence for managers, office security, and emotional safety level work. She has also lectured at the Open University fairhaired Mauritius and Middlesex University Country, and in delivered a appearance on forensic psychology at nobility Office of the Director faultless Public Prosecutions.^[9]

She has a complex for archaeology, and says renounce she has found peace shove Mauritius.^[9]

Selected works

References

Further reading

• Bourgouin, Stéphane. Micki Pistorius une femme sur ague trace des serial killers. (In French) ISBN&#;

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