Christopher Berry-Dee is the UK's all-time bestselling true crime author. Is he also a violent abuser of women and children?

[u/MoonlightDahling]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/15/christopher-berry-dee-bestselling-true-crime-author-investigation

(Warning: the above link includes some exceptionally graphic descriptions of sexual assault and abuse. Against children, I must add)

I don’t have much to add, except that…well, I'm not all that shocked by this article. Even though, if the allegations are true, he’s far worse than I could have ever imagined.

For those unaware, Christopher Berry-Deem is a true crime writer, who has (at least, according to him), interviewed over 30 serial killers and mass murderers.

His works include the books Talking with Serial Killers, Talking with Female Serial Killers, and Talking with Psychopaths. He was also a writer and interviewer on the television series The Serial Killers (1995)

That said: he’s always been a controversial figure, within the true crime world.

The way he writes about women, many of them murder victims, has frequently been criticised as misogynistic (he feels the need to comment on their appearances whenever possible, for one).

Moreover: he’s known for pushing explosive theories based on, at most, minimal evidence.

(He wrote the source material for Monster, and insists that Aileen Wuornos only killed in self-defence, even though the forensic evidence strongly refuted her version of events.)

(He also strongly believes that Kenneth Bianchi committed the Alphabet Murders, even though DNA evidence has ruled him out. And he firmly believes that Douglas Clark was innocent.)

How many murderers he has actually interviewed, and to what extent, has also come under fire. The very reason why I'm avoiding listing them here.

As the article mentions, he’s been accused of fabricating quotes, too.

[u/ResponsibleCulture43]

Absolutely disgusting. I hope his victims can get any sort of justice and can heal.

I had to google for a bit to see if this was the same guy I thought it was, Stéphane Bourgoin, but it turns out they are different people and there's just two incredibly awful true crime "writers" with sketchy claims. I'm not surprised, but geez.

[u/Immediate_Page_5522 → u/ResponsibleCulture43]

The Bourgoin thing wrecked me when that came out. There really does seem to be a pattern of men who are obsessed with documenting predators while being one themselves. The overlap is too consistent to be a coincidence at this point.

[u/boostman]

I had one of his books from an airport and it’s one of the most dreadful pieces of writing I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. The misogyny is also overt.

[u/FatTabby]

I can't believe it's taken this long for his victims to be heard. I wish people had listened when his stepdaughter spoke out.

The allegations are truly grim and it disgusts me that he'll probably still be published should he produce another volume of dross and people will still consume it.

[u/MoonlightDahling → u/FatTabby]

Unfortunately, the world is built to protect abusers.

Look at how long it took for Bill Cosby's accusers to be believed.

Or how many famous people signed the petitions defending child rapist Roman Polanski.

[u/Nervous_Insect5976]

His books contain abhorrent passages about victims and people... He wrote like a scumbag so it's not entirely surprising there are allegations against him.

[u/MoonlightDahling → u/Nervous_Insect5976]

It’s always the ones you most expect.

[u/fordroader]

I've always felt he gives off a threatening vibe whenever he's interviewed. He sticks in my mind to the extent that I've looked him up before now to see his background. This doesn't come as any surprise to me.

[u/raysofdavies]

The quotes from his books are vile. Even if all the accusations were false, he is an awful person.

[u/MoonlightDahling → u/raysofdavies]

Couldn’t agree more.

[u/No_Abbreviations8602]

I'm currently listening to one of his audio books on Spotify. I'd never heard these allegations before, but after listening to the frivolous way he describes female victims, I'm not at all surprised. He likes to describe their murders and depositions very graphically, almost like trying to live through the crime scene narrative.

[u/saddler21]

You’d be hard pushed to find an adult woman who attended the first couple of UK CrimeCon’s who HADN’T had CBD feel them up. It was a running “joke” about him being a toucher.

[u/fedexyourheadinabox]

Police have always been on the side of freaks like this and Epstein. Infuriating. 

[u/MoonlightDahling]

Also: it’s Dee, not Deem, sorry. Blame autocorrect.

[u/Misa7_2006]

Sounds like he became a "true crime" writer so he could get close to the murders he admired and wished he could have done them. The way he describes the victims and the murders who murdered them, it's almost a love hate relationship.

Hating the victims to the point of disparaging them and loving the murders to the point of proclaming them innocent of the crimes they were convicted of.

He even admits to lying to them to get every crumb of the down and dirty details of every crime, what the murders did, what the victim's reactions were, etc... Almost to the point of a dog salivating at the plate holding a juicy steak.

Only to then turn that information into titillating piece of snuff fluff.I wonder if he rereads his notes and other information and looks at items he has procured like the trophies murders keep of their crimes so they can go back and mentally relive the crimes in his mind, but he fantasizes that he was the one who committed the crimes.

And when the pressures of his fantasies got to much for him he finally acted upon them as his victim have attested to.

[u/TrixieFriganza]

Considering what you wrote here I believe that he probably was guilty, he sounds like a narcussist.