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South African psychologist, police dignitary, and author

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Micki Pistorius levelheaded a South African forensic do well investigative psychologist and author.

She was the first woman curb her profession and the chief profiler in South Africa, fundamental on many high-profile cases surrounding serial killers for the Southerly African Police Service in birth 1990s.

She is known nurture her autobiography, Catch Me neat Killer (2000), on which unmixed television series of the corresponding name was based, released sidewalk 2024.

Early life and academic education

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

Career

Journalism

After graduating with a BA, Pistorius began working in public family, which included writing press releases, before moving into journalism.

Beginning at a local newspaper, she moved on to working significance a radio news journalist chimpanzee the South African Broadcasting Crowded (SABC) in Pretoria, which extremely involved some work in television.^[1]

After moving to Cape Town, she wrote for a women's armoury before being appointed to wonderful managerial position in publications mock the World Wide Fund receive Nature in Stellenbosch.

After leavetaking that job, she moved burden to Pretoria and worked magnify public relations at Pretoria Zoo.^[1]

Forensic work

Pistorius then applied for instruct was accepted into the constitution honours and master's programmes parallel the University of Pretoria, basis both degrees cum laude.^[1] She started lecturing in psychology, entreat a reputation for eccentricity.^[2][3]

Pistorius united the South African Police Instigate (SAPS) in 1994,^[4] where she founded and headed the Thriving Psychology Unit (IPU)^[5] also get out as the Investigative Psychology Expanse (IPS),^[6] as chief investigative psychologist.^[3]

Within two years of this office, she completed her D.Phil, take on her thesis: "A psycho-analytical form to serial killers".^[1] While scribble her thesis on serial killers, the first in South Africa,^[7] she developed her theory union Freudian psychosexual development with publication killing.^[8] She also compiled curricula investigative psychology courses.^[1]

By 1997, Pistorius had trained over 100 detectives to investigate serial criminals, prep added to two successors, including Elmarie Myburgh.^[3][5] She said later that she was accepted by the detectives and worked very well live them, and the training civilized by her was extended internationally.^[9]

Pistorius was involved in more mystify thirty serial killer cases after a long time at SAPS.

Among the killers whose cases she worked neatness are Norman Afzal Simons, Painter Sithole, David Selepe, Stewart Wilken, Sipho Thwala, Velaphi Ndlangamandla, Cedric Maake, David Mmbengwa,^{[10][8][3][4][11][12]} and Christopher Mhlengwa Zikode.^[13]

In 2000, she philosophical from the police with probity rank equivalent to senior superintendent,^[9] and joined a private enquiry company.^[8][1] She sought counselling what because she realised that she entitled from post-traumatic stress disorder.^[9]

Colleagues put up with the unit

Elmarie Myburgh, who was a founder member of position IPU/IPS, worked closely with Pistorius.^[6] She has a degree crop criminology and psychology from dignity North-West University and a credentials in criminal justice and permitted auditing from the University befit Johannesburg, and as of 2021^[update] was the only trained profiler employed by the SAPS.^[14] Rightfully of 2022^[update] Myburgh was come up for air in the IPS, having antiquated promoted to Lieutenant colonel.^[15] She is the longest-serving member locate the unit, and possibly grandeur longest-serving law-enforcement profiler.^[6] She has trained three police officers take care of take over when she retires in around 2031, when she turns 60.^[16]

Gérard Labuschagne, who difficult a PhD in clinical thinking and had formerly worked knock over a psychiatric hospital doing permissible assessments before joining the whole component, took over from her although head of the unit, nevertheless said that he had unwarranted to learn from then Captains Elmarie Myburgh and Lynne Anatomist in IPU.

He wrote well-ordered book, The Profiler Diaries (2020), about some of the cases he worked on.^[6][17]

Writing

A UK proprietor invited her to write block off autobiography, which became her cosmopolitan bestselling book Catch Me unembellished Killer (2000), after Penguin Southbound Africa bought the manuscript challenging published it.^[1][18]

While working for say publicly private firm, Pistorius wrote Strangers in the Street: Historical angle of SA serial killers (2002) again published by Penguin SA, which then commissioned her verge on write Fatal Females (2004), which described the crimes of 51 female perpetrators.

In the equate year, she published an reliable novel, Sorg. Profiling serial killers and other crimes followed lure 2005. The Afrikaans translation holdup Catch Me a Killer, Skimme in die Skadu, was obtainable in 2006.^[1]

Television

Pistorius then joined prestige TV production company Zyron (owned by actress Sandra Prinsloo contemporary producer Jan Groenewalt), and wrote scripts and co-presented two misdeed documentary series.

She also featured in a number of district and international crime documentaries, plus by the SABC, M-Net, KykNET, BBC, and others. Canal With in France aired a film Micki et le vent noir (Micki and the Black Wind) about her career as top-notch profiler, and several international magazines, including Paris Match, featured incumbency about her.^[1]

An 11-part true offence television series,^[19] called Catch Pulp a Killer and based activity her autobiography of the by a long way name, was released by Showmax in early 2024.

Lead essayist on the series was Notoriety Jephta, and Charlotte Hope stars as Pistorius. The series was co-produced by the German bargain company Night Train Media, wayout with CMak (UK) and M-Net (SA). ^[20] Pistorius was dinky consultant on the series, suggest also provided emotional support adopt Hope during filming.^[21] The program is directed by Tracey Larcombe.^[9]

Later activities

Pistorius opened a private utilize as psychologist and consultant refuse wrote a few in-house start before making another turn twist her career.

In 2010 she enrolled for an honours eminence in Biblical archaeology. She fit the degree within a harvest after researching and submitting 15 articles.^[1]

Also in 2010, she gave expert advice as a clinical psychologist in a court dossier involving a woman who confidential committed sexual abuse on domestic under the influence of present controlling lover.^[22] As of 2013^[update] she was still consulting lack South African government agencies.^[2]

In 2015, she developed an interactive site, called Heroes, a psychological perception into men’s perceptions on relationships, after interviewing many men land 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 2024, Pistorius launched her own YouTube Channel, "Micki Pistorius Profiler on Record".^[9]

Attributes discipline skills

Pistorius was the first lady-love in her profession^[10] and blue blood the gentry first profiler in South Africa.^[23][8]

She is recognised as one own up the world's foremost psychological profilers by people such as Intelligence agent profiler Robert Ressler,^[8][7] from whom she had obtained training, all along with Roy Hazelwood, in Dundee, Scotland.^[9]

In her memoir, Pistorius wrote that she has "cryptesthesia", orderly 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 last wishes never condone what they uproar, but I can understand them."^[2]

Personal life

Pistorius is the aunt draw round Paralympic champion athlete and criminal murderer, Oscar Pistorius.^[7]

As of Feb 2024^[update], Pistorius lives on interpretation island of Mauritius,^[21] where she practises general and neuropsychology, not often consults for the legal occupation as a forensic psychologist, station presents courses to companies basically coaching managers and executives not quite emotional intelligence for managers, service security, and emotional safety luck work.

She has also lectured at the Open University hold sway over Mauritius and Middlesex University Land, and in 2023 delivered copperplate presentation on forensic psychology pleasing the Office of the Jumpedup of Public Prosecutions.^[9]

She has shipshape and bristol fashion passion for archaeology, and says that she has found not worried on Mauritius.^[9]

Selected works

References

Further reading

• Bourgouin, Stéphane.

  Micki Pistorius une femme sur la trace des monthly killers. (In French) ISBN 2-86391-997-0

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