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Psychologist Dissects Joanne Dennehy’s Profile in Fresh Review of 2013 Peterborough Murders

The new commentary frames her diagnosed personality disorder and sexual sadism as evidence of persistent dangerousness.

Overview

  • Psychologist Phil Macleod says Dennehy’s case shows profound emotional detachment, a fixation on control and humiliation, and a striking lack of remorse that is rare in women.
  • Coverage revisits that she murdered Lukasz Slaboszewski, John Chapman and Kevin Lee over ten days in March 2013, dumping their bodies in a Peterborough ditch.
  • Dennehy told clinicians she killed to test whether she was cold and later found it addictive, and she used sexually suggestive messages to lure at least one victim.
  • Reports note she also carried out two unprovoked stabbings on men who survived before her arrest, and she told an accomplice, “I want my fun. I need you to get my fun.”
  • She received an indeterminate life sentence in 2014 and is held at HMP Bronzefield, where unnamed sources say she has intimidated other inmates, including confronting Rose West.