Serial Killers: The Blood & Tears Walk

Serial Killers: The Blood & Tears Walk 23 years, 63,000 people. A classic London walk on Serial Killers. Jack the Ripper, yes, BUT 9 MORE.

An acclaimed, chilling, interactive and illustrated thought-provoking Serial Killer walk featuring serial killers from London, Britain and Worldwide (not just Jack The Ripper...). Also criminal profiling exercises, and fun little quizzes for the Group. If you want access to any or all of the photos I have shown on the Tour, to look at or download, just send me a quick email and I will respond with the link to an online Folder where you can access and download all the photos.

Google AI said this in response to the query "What is the best serial killer walking Tour in the world?".That's a pretty...
19/04/2025

Google AI said this in response to the query "What is the best serial killer walking Tour in the world?".

That's a pretty good reply by a robot!

The only bit that's a bit off is under 'Comprehensive Coverage'. AI is getting slightly mixed up there with the former version of the Tour which was 65% about serial killers and 35% about other 'dark side of London' stuff.

During the Pandemic, when I was not allowed to work, I rebranded the Tour and made it 100% about serial killers, and I think that rebranding has worked.

So, a tiny bit of catching up needed by Google's AI, otherwise really not bad at all, and makes me proud.

I have decided to turn this into a fiendishly difficult, fully-fledged competition! Read all of this first. The first pe...
19/03/2025

I have decided to turn this into a fiendishly difficult, fully-fledged competition! Read all of this first.

The first person to know ALL the owners of these eyes, gets two free tickets to the Tour. That means you have to identify ALL 21 serial killers represented here. 20 won't win.

My email address for your entries is [email protected].
In your entries answer like this:

"First row from left to right: Smith, Jones, Brown.
Second row from left to right: Garcia, Taylor, Miller, Robinson.

Do the same for all five rows.

Clue: These are not the right surnames!

DO NOT identify or guess any of the Serial Killers here on this page. That's a hanging offense (or at least means you won't win, and I'll be annoyed).

You may want to team up with an extremely knowledgeable friend. So send a link to this page to all those friends of yours who know a lot about serial killers.

https://www.facebook.com/BloodandTearsWalk/

Two free tickets to this Tour, which Google thinks is the 'best Serial Killer tour in the world' (look that phrase up), are worth about £30-£35 or $40-$44.

There is no point in emailing me unless you either know or are willing to guess all 21 Serial Killers. I will not help in any way. I will just say "Good try" by return email. And that means you did not win.

If you do win, but have been on 'Serial Killers: The Blood & Tears Walk' before and don't want to go again, then just contact me at [email protected] and give me the email addresses of people who will be in London and who you know for sure will want to do this sort of thing (ask them first - some people are absolutely not into this stuff, so be careful!).

This competition is far from easy to win, in fact it's fiendishly difficult, since these serial killers come from all over the world, and can be from any time. Some are well-known, others not so much. Whoever wins this will absolutely deserve it!

Now, the world being the morally bankrupt place it is, some of you will try Google tricks, AI and reverse image searches. Good luck with that, you'll find that it will work in only a few cases because there's not enough information to go on.

I am really curious as to who will win this competition, or will it still be un-won in 10 years time when I hope to retire? We shall see.

Let the Games begin! Good luck!

Declan

I did a little deep dive into what posts have received the most interest over the years on this page about my S...
18/03/2025

I did a little deep dive into what posts have received the most interest over the years on this page about my Serial Killer Tour.

Milestones interest people. Like if it's an anniversary of the Tour. Or if a particularly large number of people come along. Or if I'm in the top 5 of something or other. That kind of thing.

The other thing that clearly interests people is if I write about a particular Serial killer. I've only done that once so far (repulsive Canadian Serial Killer Robert Pickton), and it's the second most looked at post out of all the posts I've done.

So I'll do that again. I may as well put the research to use.

But I imagine that's not for everyone.

Does that sort of thing interest you, dear Reader? And do you know any of these people?

I'd be seriously interested to know....

31/12/2024

This year, 2024, my efforts doing my 'Serial Killers: The Blood & Tears Walk' resulted in the following TripAdvisor statistics:

66 5-star reviews.
1 4-star review.
0 3-star reviews
0 2-star reviews.
0 1-star reviews

I rest my case 😂

There are fans of the Tour. And then there's Joe. Joe has been on my Tour a startling SEVEN TIMES. No-one else has atten...
27/09/2024

There are fans of the Tour. And then there's Joe.

Joe has been on my Tour a startling SEVEN TIMES. No-one else has attended more...

And he lives in the USA, so it's not that easy for him to come on the Tour.

Not only does Joe come on the Tour - he sends friends, relatives and colleagues on the Tour all the time.

By the time I finally finish doing the Tour, in maybe 10 years if the Universe allows me that long, Joe's on course to have sent every single person in the United States. 😆

Thanks, Joe. You well deserve to be in the Tour Hall of Fame!

27/07/2024

Two American professors independently came on the Tour in the same week, and both reviewed it on TripAdvisor with 5 stars.

Chris Patrick, the Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of Psychology, Florida State University, (and editor of 'The Handbook of Psychopathy'), said:

"It was a phenomenal experience....He's extremely knowledgeable about the topic of serial murder and London-based cases, and he conveys his knowledge in a way that is both highly informative and highly entertaining. I highly recommend this tour"

😊

Carson Mencken. the Professor of Sociology at Baylor University, Texas, wrote:

"Fantastic...will bring next year's students on the tour, as well".

😊

I'm very happy and proud.....

Robert PicktonRobert Pickton, serial killer, has died in a Canadian prison after an attack by a fellow inmate.It’s very,...
01/06/2024

Robert Pickton

Robert Pickton, serial killer, has died in a Canadian prison after an attack by a fellow inmate.

It’s very, very hard to feel much sympathy for Pickton: a vile woman-hater, who smirked when he told another inmate that he’d killed 49 woman, and was disappointed that he did not manage to get to 50 murders of women.

That inmate was wired up, and Pickton inhaled only prison oxygen for the rest of his life.

He joins a growing number of serial killers who have been murdered in prison.

Jeffrey Dahmer, Gerard Schaefer, Billy Chemirmir, among others.

I can still remember the moment on my Tour, back in 2002, when (and she probably only did this because she was away from Canada) a Canadian female police officer told my group that the Canadian police were “digging at a pig farmer’s farm, and we’ve discovered a fridge full of human heads”

This was BEFORE the news broke big!

Pickton also joins the numbers of serial killers who took delight in inadvertently making members of the public cannibals-by-proxy, since it’s very likely he sold to the public pork from the pigs on his farm mixed with human remains.

Every photo of him, even in just a photo, radiates somehow (to me anyway) a vile smell….

Truly a depraved and disgusting individual.

Shout out to the man in the American couple last night. As he was buying my book at the end of the Tour, he overheard t...
09/05/2024

Shout out to the man in the American couple last night.

As he was buying my book at the end of the Tour, he overheard that the Swedish couple on the Tour also wanted to buy the book, but didn't have cash on them or use PayPal.

The Swedes were asking me about ordering on Amazon when the American man spoke up, said he'd had a good trip and wanted "to pay it forward", then paid me for two more copies of the book (so the Swedes would have signed copies, which isn't possible with Amazon).

He also gave me a very generous tip. What a guy!

This is not the first time this has happened...

I've noticed that, with very few exceptions among over 60,000 people who've come on my serial killer tour, the vast majority are really very nice indeed!

Although there were those 3 creepy guys from Australia once (you know who you are) 😅

26/03/2024

When you put in serial killer walk on Google, about 16,000,000 results come up.

My tour now occupies NINE of the top TEN Google results.

If you change the phrase to serial killer tour I occupy eight of the top ten places.

What's even more significant is that these are the organic results meaning I haven't paid a penny to get to the top of Google; it's all happened through word of mouth and people liking the tour so much that I've had amazing reviews on sites like TripAdvisor for a very long time.

I don't even have a website - although that will change later this year.

Yes, rub your eyes and read this again - I'm working on a website.

I did have one promoting the tour years back, but it was rather clear from the ramshackle 'design' that I did not know what I was doing.

In fact, if you'd put in the phrase 'worst websites of all time' I'd also have been at the top of Google!

This time I'm working from a template, making things a little easier.

The website will promote the tour (obviously), but will also have a stack of interesting information about serial killers - and it won't be the generic stuff...

After fifteen years of receiving TripAdvisor reviews for my Serial Killer Tour (I'd been doing it for nearly ten years b...
17/02/2024

After fifteen years of receiving TripAdvisor reviews for my Serial Killer Tour (I'd been doing it for nearly ten years before joining TripAdvisor), I've just passed a milestone: I've accumulated over 1000 reviews for this Tour on the TripAdvisor platform.

Of the 1001 reviews to date 87% have been 5 star reviews. Another 9% have been 4-star reviews.

So, 96% of attendees thought the Tour was either excellent or very good, with the vast majority thinking it was excellent.

Over the course of 15 years of reviews, 12 people have HATED the Tour.

Overall, I'm feeling proud.

I don't rest on my laurels though. I go out there every time determined to give a thrilling, chilling, informative, sad, funny, immersive story-telling 'WOW' experience.

Heartfelt "Thanks" to all who have attended and reviewed me.

If anyone has attended but forgot to review - I fully understand, life gets in the way - the link is:

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/UserReviewEdit-g186338-d1383076-The_Blood_And_Tears_Walk-London_England.html

Declan x

I predicted in advance exactly what the breakdown would be of the 17 people who attended my Serial Killer Tour last nigh...
17/02/2024

I predicted in advance exactly what the breakdown would be of the 17 people who attended my Serial Killer Tour last night (a fantastic bunch of people, by the way).

I told people on my earlier Shakespeare Tour that the 17 people booked for the Serial Killer Tour would turn out to be 12 women and 5 men. This was exactly right.

This is not evidence of psychic abilities, it's based on 23 years of experience.

The preponderance of women interested in Serial Killers is stunning....look at the graph below of the followers of this very page

Part of it is, as one woman said on the Tour recently, "Doing your Tour is a bit like doing a self-defence class".

I think there's other stuff going on as well, and it absolutely deserves a research project....

Gulp.
02/02/2024

Gulp.

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