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Warning - this countdown might keep you up at night. Join us as we explore the most bone-chilling photographs linked to infamous crimes throughout history. These disturbing images capture moments of pure horror, from serial killers hiding in plain sight to the last haunting snapshots taken before murder.
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00:00And this photograph, discovered by police, would lead a heartbroken family to their loved one, missing for almost 40 years.
00:08Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 50 of the scariest and most disturbing pictures that are associated with famous true crimes.
00:16For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself.
00:23Jonestown drug vials.
00:24He said, well, we gotta go. We gotta get out of here. We gotta go to sleep. Get the solution together.
00:33If we can't live in peace, we'll just die in peace.
00:37What you see here are various vials of drugs, including Valium, that were found inside the Jonestown complex back in 1978.
00:45On November 18th of that year, over 900 members of the People's Temple died in a massacre at Jonestown,
00:52a remote settlement in Guyana. After U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan was killed during an investigative visit,
00:59cult leader Jim Jones ordered his followers to drink a deadly concoction of Flavor-Aid laced with cyanide and sedatives like Valium and chloral hydrate.
01:08Infants and children were poisoned first, followed by adults who drank the mixture either voluntarily or under coercion.
01:15Within hours, nearly a thousand lay dead, the result of these tiny little glass bottles.
01:20My son was dead, and he was frothing at the mouth. You know, cyanide makes people froth at the mouth.
01:27My wife died in my arms, and my dead baby son was in her arms, and I held her and said, I love you, I love you,
01:35because that's all I could say. It was like...
01:37Patty Hearst inside the bank.
01:42They bust in, they start swearing at everybody, everybody get down on the ground, and guess what?
01:46Patty Hearst is right in the middle of things.
01:49On February 4th, 1974, Patty Hearst, the heiress of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst,
01:55was kidnapped by the far-left militant group Symbionese Liberation Army.
01:59Two months later, on April 15th, Hearst was captured on security footage participating in a robbery
02:05at San Francisco's Hibernia Bank. Armed with a carbine, she certainly looked the part,
02:11and helped her kidnappers steal over $10,000 in cash. The bank robbery shocked the country,
02:16fueling intense debate over whether she had been brainwashed by the group,
02:19or had willingly embraced her captor's radical cause. In fact, it's still hotly debated to this day.
02:25She was given seven years in prison for the robbery, her sentence being commuted by Jimmy Carter.
02:30Not like now where we have cameras on everything, there are sort of quick-still camera shots of her
02:36and the others pulling guns to scare folks and to get out of there, and they do.
02:41The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
02:43The theft is the largest unsolved art theft in history, as well as the largest theft of property in America.
02:49One of the most famous heists in American history.
02:52Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed on March 18th, 1990.
02:57Two men disguised as police officers gained entry to the museum, and once inside,
03:02they tied up the guards and stole 13 artworks valued at over $500 million.
03:07It was and remains the most valuable art theft in history.
03:11Here we see the Dutch Room, where the thieves stole a few Rembrandt paintings.
03:15If you look closely on the right, you can see the empty frame for
03:18A Lady and Gentleman in Black, lying on the ground.
03:21Despite decades of investigation by the FBI,
03:24none of the stolen art has been recovered, and no arrests have been made.
03:27The thieves travel both to the Dutch Room and the Short Gallery.
03:31The Dutch Room is where they're taking five important old master works,
03:36including the concert and Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
03:39The Unabomber at UC Berkeley
03:41Sometimes it's hard to imagine that terrorists begin as normal people.
03:55Ted Kaczynski was born on May 22, 1942, in Chicago.
03:59A gifted child, he tested with a genius IQ and skipped multiple grades.
04:03He attended Harvard at just 16, and earned his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1967.
04:10That same year, Kaczynski became the youngest assistant professor of mathematics
04:14at the University of California, Berkeley.
04:16In this photo, the proud Kaczynski stands on the campus of Berkeley, ready to mold young minds.
04:22However, he abruptly resigned just two years later, and withdrew from society,
04:26eventually moving to a remote cabin in Montana to live as the Unabomber.
04:31His terrorist campaign killed three, and injured another 23.
04:35He examined a small package with excessive postage,
04:38from an H.C. Wickle, Department of Economics, San Francisco State University.
04:48The explosion was the most gruesome yet, instantly decapitating Thomas Moser.
04:53Richard Ramirez looks out the van.
04:56So we missed him.
04:56It's amazing how just one glance can send chills down your spine, like this photo,
05:10which shows serial killer Richard Ramirez glancing into the camera,
05:13a slight smirk on his face, and a malicious gleam in his eyes.
05:17Ramirez terrorized Southern California between 1984 and 1985 as the Night Stalker,
05:22breaking into homes at night and assaulting and murdering the inhabitants.
05:26He often left satanic symbols at his crime scenes,
05:29further heightening public fear and fueling the satanic panic of the time.
05:34Ramirez was finally captured thanks to the help of some good Samaritans,
05:37and in 1989 he was convicted of 13 murders and numerous other felonies.
05:42He died in prison in 2013 while awaiting execution.
05:46Californians have come to know him as the Night Stalker.
05:48Today the search for California's Night Stalker continues.
05:51Neighbors sat quietly staring at the house,
05:54wondering why the couple was picked out by the Night Stalker,
05:57and thanking God it wasn't them.
05:59Ed Kemper in court.
06:01I could kill you now pretty easily.
06:04Do some interesting things before anyone showed up.
06:10Then you'd be with me in spirit.
06:12All serial killers are inherently scary,
06:14but when it comes to being physically terrifying,
06:17it's hard to beat Ed Kemper.
06:19As this deceptively creepy photo shows,
06:21Kemper is a beast of a man,
06:23towering over others and imposing a true sense of power.
06:27By most accounts, Kemper stood at 6'9 and weighed 300 pounds during his killing spree,
06:32an absolutely horrific fact for those who had to face his wrath.
06:35He looks calm enough in this photo.
06:37Just imagine that man coming after you and doing unspeakable things to your body.
06:42Kemper has remained in prison since 1973 after being convicted of eight murders,
06:47including that of his mother.
06:48He also murdered his grandparents in 1964,
06:51bringing his total body count to 10.
06:53Well, now, that is the truth.
06:57Dean Corll's Boatshed.
06:59Okay, and they, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong,
07:02but they kind of, not kind of, but correct me if I'm wrong,
07:04they buried bodies all over the place.
07:06I mean, all the way to High Island and Bolivar Peninsula, right?
07:09High Island, some in, outside, or at Lake Sam Houston,
07:16probably the majority in the Boatshed over in Southwest Houston.
07:20When his crimes came to light in 1973,
07:22Dean Corll was considered the worst serial killer in American history.
07:26Between 1970 and 1973,
07:29Corll abducted and murdered at least 29 teenage boys,
07:32often luring his victims with the promise of a party at his place.
07:35Corll's crimes were marked by extreme brutality.
07:38Victims were often handcuffed, gagged, and then strangled or shot.
07:42Corll and his accomplices, David Brooks and Elmer Henley,
07:46then buried 18 of the victims in his boatshed.
07:49This photo depicts the boatshed before it was excavated,
07:51its bodies hidden just beneath the surface.
07:54The murders were finally exposed in August of 1973,
07:57when Henley fatally shot Corll and confessed to the killings.
08:01We didn't put a lot of faith in what he had to say
08:04until we got to the boatshed and opened it up
08:07and saw some bags of lime
08:10and smelled the odor of decaying flesh inside.
08:15Samantha Koenig's ransom photo.
08:17He zip ties her hands and leads her away from the coffee stand,
08:21telling police he killed her,
08:22then left to take a cruise out of New Orleans
08:24before asking her family for ransom.
08:27In February 2012,
08:29serial killer Israel Keyes kidnapped 18-year-old barista Samantha Koenig,
08:34took her back to his house, and murdered her.
08:36He then demanded a ransom from her family
08:38and staged her body to make it appear as if she was still alive.
08:42Keyes sewed her eyelids open with fishing line,
08:45braided her hair, and applied makeup to her face.
08:47He then photographed her holding a copy of a local newspaper
08:50to make it look like a proof-of-life photo.
08:53Thankfully, this picture has never been released to the public,
08:56although a creepy reconstruction can be found online
08:58for those who are morbidly curious.
09:00His calculated plan now accomplished,
09:03Keyes dismembered and disposed of Koenig's body in a lake.
09:06We did spend a fair amount of time talking about his crimes
09:09and his offenses as well,
09:10and those times were definitely very chilling
09:15to hear him talk about what he's done.
09:16The Masked Terrorist.
09:18At this moment, eight or nine terrified living human beings
09:23are being held prisoner.
09:25The demands have been many.
09:27There is someone right now.
09:29This certainly must be one of the guerrillas,
09:31a man with a spacking mask on his face.
09:34Weird.
09:35One of the most reproduced photos in true crime history
09:37was taken at the 1972 Munich Olympics,
09:40when members of the Palestinian group Black September
09:43took nine Israeli athletes and coaches hostage
09:46and killed two others.
09:47The crisis ended tragically at a nearby air base,
09:50when all the hostages were killed
09:52during a failed rescue attempt.
09:54The most iconic image from the event
09:56shows a masked terrorist standing on the balcony
09:58of the Israeli team's quarters.
10:00Taken by a professional photographer during the media blitz,
10:03the picture became a chilling symbol of terrorism's intrusion
10:06into the supposed peace of the Olympic Games.
10:09The man's ski mask and dark clothing
10:11against the bright backdrop encapsulated global shock
10:14and the loss of innocence surrounding the modern Olympic ideal.
10:18There's no peace at the end of this,
10:20no matter what you believe.
10:21You know this is true.
10:22The Boston Marathon bombers.
10:24In one video shown for the first time in court today
10:26during Jahar Tsarnaev's trial,
10:29Tsarnaev appears to be seen.
10:31He's circled there.
10:31You can see him on your screen.
10:33He's watching the marathon.
10:35The first blast goes off.
10:37We return to the subject of terrorists being normal people
10:40for this photo of the Boston Marathon bombers.
10:43These aren't creepy monsters you'd find in a movie,
10:46but two everyday guys
10:47that literally went unnoticed until it was too late.
10:50The brothers blended in completely
10:51and freely walked the streets of the marathon
10:53without a second glance,
10:55the people around them having no idea
10:57that they were carrying homemade bombs.
10:59The photo chillingly highlights
11:00how vulnerable public spaces can be
11:02and how difficult it is to detect danger
11:05when it looks just like everyone else.
11:07Perhaps even creepier
11:08is what looks like a smirk
11:10on the face of Jahar Tsarnaev,
11:12gleeful at the idea
11:13that he's about to murder three people
11:15and injure hundreds more.
11:22Bailey Allman.
11:24The firefighter in that photo is Chris Fields.
11:27He's now retired after more than 31 years
11:29on the Oklahoma City Fire Department.
11:31Chris, thanks for being with us.
11:32The memories aren't too painful.
11:34I'd like you to take us back to that day 30 years ago.
11:36You were in the firehouse, as I understand it.
11:38You felt the concussion of the explosion
11:41and you headed to the scene.
11:42You didn't wait for a dispatcher to send you.
11:44You guys headed out on your own.
11:46There are plenty of ghastly photos out there
11:48of the Oklahoma City bombing,
11:50but none toe the line between creepy and devastating
11:53quite like Bailey Allman.
11:55Allman was just a baby on April 19th, 1995,
11:58but she became one of the unfortunate victims
12:00of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
12:02In a widely publicized photograph,
12:05firefighter Chris Fields can be seen holding
12:07Allman in his arms as he emerges from the rubble.
12:10We can't show you the photo,
12:12but it is easily found on the internet,
12:14and it had a profound impact on the world,
12:16with Charles Porter winning the Pulitzer Prize
12:18for Spot News Photography.
12:20Fields suffered from PTSD after the event,
12:23but he also became good friends with Allman's mother.
12:25She had some other injuries,
12:27but I didn't find any signs of life,
12:28and I went across the street to an ambulance,
12:30and I told the paramedic,
12:32I have a critical infant,
12:33and I'm waiting for him to get a blanket
12:35out of the ambulance to put her on the ground
12:37because the ambulance was full.
12:39And, you know, the next day,
12:41seeing the photo, finding out
12:43that's when the photo was taken
12:44when I was standing there waiting
12:45for the paramedic to get a blanket.
12:47Howard Unruh cleans his guns.
12:49On September 6th, 1949,
12:51Howard Unruh, a 28-year-old veteran of World War II,
12:55carried out one of America's first modern mass shootings.
12:57And in this terrifying photo,
13:00Unruh can be seen cleaning a series of weapons,
13:02showcasing his proficient knowledge of firearms.
13:05On the morning of September 6th,
13:06Unruh walked through his Camden neighborhood
13:08and killed 13 people in about 12 minutes.
13:11His victims included children and neighbors,
13:14many of whom were chosen over petty grievances.
13:17Later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia,
13:19he was deemed criminally insane
13:20and spent the rest of his life
13:22in a psychiatric institution.
13:24He died in 2009,
13:25having never repented for the massacre.
13:27In fact, his last public words were,
13:30I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.
13:32Boots and ashes.
13:33They used hydrochloric acid
13:34to try to mask the identity of Bobby.
13:37And then they put his body in the culvert.
13:39They thought it would be relatively simple,
13:42but getting him there is a challenge.
13:44They leave his feet exposed,
13:46sticking out of the culvert.
13:47One of the most infamous crimes in American history
13:50is that of Leopold and Loeb.
13:52Back in 1924,
13:54university students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb
13:57kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks
13:59in what they deemed the perfect crime.
14:02They lured Franks into a rented car,
14:04struck him with a chisel,
14:06and suffocated him.
14:07That night,
14:07they dumped his body near Wolf Lake.
14:09The next day,
14:10a worker discovered the disfigured corpse.
14:12In this horrific photo,
14:14a pair of boots lies next to a small pile of ashes.
14:16These boots belong to Nathan Leopold,
14:19and are believed to have been worn
14:20when they dumped Franks' body.
14:22And the ashes?
14:23Those are allegedly from the robe
14:25in which his body was wrapped.
14:26We dragged the body out of the car,
14:28put the body in the robe,
14:30and carried it over to the culvert.
14:33Leopold carried the feet,
14:34I carried the head.
14:36The Black Dahlia murder letter.
14:37A beautiful young woman
14:39cut down in the prime of her life
14:41by this, you know, shadowy creature.
14:43It's kind of the archetype
14:44or the kind of crime
14:45that captures the American public's attention.
14:48After the infamous murder of Elizabeth Short,
14:50aka the Black Dahlia,
14:52several taunting letters and postcards
14:54were sent to various Los Angeles newspapers,
14:56supposedly from her killer.
14:58Big, supposedly,
14:59but creepy nonetheless.
15:01One notable message seen here read,
15:03I will give up in Dahlia killing
15:05if I get 10 years.
15:07Don't try to find me.
15:08It was assembled from block letters
15:10and mailed to the Los Angeles Examiner.
15:12Authorities investigated the letters seriously,
15:15but handwriting analysis
15:16and lack of corroborating evidence
15:18led police to believe most were hoaxes
15:21from attention seekers.
15:22Others think it came from the journalists themselves,
15:25hoping to keep the story alive
15:26and, by extension, sell more newspapers.
15:29We want an answer.
15:31We want to know why.
15:32We want to know who.
15:33And until we do,
15:34I think there will always be an interest.
15:36Charles Whitman's bullet hole.
15:38On August 1st, 1966,
15:47former Marine Charles Whitman
15:48carried out one of the first
15:50modern mass shootings in American history.
15:52After killing his wife and mother the night before,
15:55Whitman went to UT Austin
15:56and murdered three people inside the main building.
15:59He then ascended the university's clock tower
16:01and opened fire on people below,
16:03killing another 11
16:04and wounding more than 30.
16:06Police officers ultimately stormed the tower
16:08and killed Whitman.
16:10In this remarkable photo,
16:11we see the clock tower
16:12through one of the bullet holes.
16:14It gives a horrifying perspective to the crime,
16:16the cameras serving as the point of view
16:18of the unsuspecting victims below.
16:20We can almost hear the whiz of the bullet
16:21coming from the tiniest and remote of places.
16:24As I ran behind the car,
16:26the shot from the rifle
16:27sounded like it was almost in my ears
16:29and I could hear the bullet ricochet.
16:32When I asked if anyone had been hit,
16:34someone said five people,
16:35including a little boy on a bicycle.
16:37Richard Allen on the bridge.
16:39Tonight, eight years after the murders
16:40of 13-year-old Abby Williams
16:42and 14-year-old Libby German in Delphi, Indiana,
16:45we're now seeing the chilling video
16:47recorded by Libby
16:48of the final moments with their killer.
16:50Key evidence police say
16:51helped them capture and convict Richard Allen.
16:54One of the most famous true crimes of the 2010s
16:57occurred on February 13, 2017,
16:59when Indiana teenagers Abigail Williams
17:01and Liberty German were murdered.
17:03Their bodies were found near the Mönnhai Bridge Trail,
17:06and law enforcement uncovered footage
17:08from German's phone following a white male
17:10walking toward them on the bridge.
17:12Still photos of the man were then widely distributed.
17:15Even creepier is an audio recording,
17:18also caught on German's phone,
17:19in which this same man can be heard saying,
17:22Guys, down the hill.
17:23It wasn't until 2022
17:25that this man was identified as Richard M. Allen.
17:28He was convicted of the murders
17:29and given 130 years in prison.
17:31You hear heavy breathing
17:33and then footsteps before the voice of their killer.
17:36Guys.
17:37Hi.
17:40The unsolved Polaroid.
17:42On June 15, 1989,
17:44a Polaroid was found placed down
17:46in a convenience store
17:47at Port St. Joe, Florida.
17:49Back in June of 1989,
17:51a Florida citizen made the creepiest discovery
17:54of their lives in a convenience store parking lot.
17:56It was a color Polaroid depicting a young woman and a boy,
18:00both bound and gagged,
18:01and lying in the back of a van.
18:03Witnesses reported seeing a white,
18:05windowless Toyota cargo van
18:06in that same parking lot
18:08shortly before the photo was found.
18:10Unfortunately, the driver has never been caught,
18:12and neither the boy nor the woman
18:14have ever been positively identified.
18:16Some, including Scotland Yard,
18:18believe it's Tara Calico,
18:19a woman from New Mexico
18:21who was kidnapped in September 1988.
18:24Regardless of who they are,
18:25the photo is haunting.
18:26The Chowchilla bus.
18:27For this woman,
18:28stepping onto this school bus
18:30is an act of courage.
18:32Laura Yazzie Fanning
18:33was just five years old in kindergarten
18:35when 26 of her fellow classmates
18:37and their bus driver
18:38were kidnapped and buried alive.
18:40This is a surprisingly little-known true crime
18:43given its scale.
18:44The Chowchilla kidnapping
18:45occurred on July 15, 1976,
18:48when 26 schoolchildren
18:49and their bus driver
18:50were abducted by three armed men.
18:52The kidnappers hijacked the bus,
18:54transferred the victims into two vans,
18:57and eventually buried them
18:58inside a moving van in a quarry.
19:00In this horrifying photograph,
19:02we see the bus sitting alone in the woods,
19:04having been abandoned by the kidnappers.
19:06The abductors planned on demanding a ransom
19:08for the release of the children,
19:10but after 16 hours underground,
19:12the driver and some of the older children
19:14managed to dig their way out,
19:16leading to everyone's rescue.
19:17The perps were soon arrested and convicted,
19:19although all three have since been paroled.
19:22The victims again are reliving their terror
19:24from the past.
19:26This, after the California Parole Board announced
19:28it was releasing one of the convicted kidnappers,
19:31James Schoenfeld, now 63 years old.
19:34Another kidnapper, Schoenfeld's brother, Richard,
19:37was deemed harmless and released in 2012
19:39against the protests of the victims.
19:42The basement of 25 Cromwell Street.
19:4425 Cromwell Street in Gloucester
19:47has become one of the most infamous addresses in Britain.
19:50For 20 years, Fred and Rose West
19:52quenched their appetite for sex and murder
19:54inside this house of unimaginable horror.
19:57When you think of a serial killer's dungeon,
19:59you probably think of the basement
20:01of 25 Cromwell Street.
20:03This was the Gloucester home
20:04of Fred and Rosemary West,
20:06who tormented, sexually assaulted,
20:08and murdered at least 10 young women
20:10throughout the 70s and 80s.
20:12When police uncovered the basement in 1994,
20:15they found evidence of these atrocities,
20:17along with some disturbing wall decorations.
20:19The photos are downright nauseating,
20:22the basement being dark and damp,
20:24the floor pure concrete,
20:25and the walls adorned with disturbing writings
20:28and childish drawings.
20:29We don't even want to imagine what went on down there,
20:32but the pictures certainly paint a lurid picture.
20:34On March 4th, 1994,
20:36police moved their search inside the house.
20:39They had a feeling that down in the dark cellar,
20:42they may uncover even more bodies.
20:44Mary Jane Kelly
20:45But October would pass without a murder,
20:48and a slight sense of normality returned to Whitechapel.
20:51But the killer would strike again,
20:54and this time,
20:55he would commit his most horrendous crimes so far.
20:57Sometimes we have a tendency to romanticize Jack the Ripper,
21:01and it's hard to think of just how heinous his murders actually were.
21:05But if you need a reminder,
21:06just go look at the photo of Mary Jane Kelly.
21:09We obviously can't show it here,
21:11but suffice to say,
21:12it's one of the most nightmarish photographs
21:14in the history of true crime.
21:16What Jack did to Mary is simply unfathomable,
21:19and her extensively mutilated body
21:21was found lying in bed in 13 Miller's Court,
21:23in the Spitalfields neighborhood of London.
21:26Police at the time claimed her face
21:28was hacked beyond all recognition,
21:30and that's putting it mildly.
21:31It also doesn't mention the complete evisceration of her body.
21:35There's a reason he was nicknamed the Ripper.
21:37Please forgive me for the implication that I'm praising it,
21:40but it was Jack's masterpiece.
21:43Having done what he did in that room,
21:46I think that he could certainly take a break.
21:49The 4chan murder post.
21:51It says, quote,
21:52I killed Amber Copeland.
21:54I strangled her with my hands, then a shoelace.
21:57A controversial site,
21:584chan has seen its share of brutality throughout the years.
22:02One of the most notorious incidents
22:03occurred on November 5th, 2014,
22:06when an anonymous man posted a picture
22:08of what appeared to be a dead body.
22:10Accompanied with the grotesque image was the text,
22:13Turns out it's way harder to strangle someone to death
22:16than it looks on the movies, and
22:18She fought so damn hard.
22:21Naturally, many believe that this was a hoax,
22:23but this was no joke.
22:25Oregon man David Kaleck later turned himself in
22:27for the murder of Amber Copeland,
22:29and the affidavit confirms the photo posted to 4chan
22:32matched the Copeland crime scene.
22:34Kaleck was given 82 years in prison.
22:37Robert Pickton's farm.
22:38For the families of the women brutalized and killed,
22:41Pickton's death marks the end of a traumatic chapter.
22:44Even as questions about the extent of his crimes remain.
22:48One of Canada's most notorious serial killers,
22:51Robert Pickton,
22:52was active from the late 70s to the early 2000s,
22:55and it's believed he murdered at least 26 women.
22:58Although he later confessed to an undercover officer
23:00that it was actually 49.
23:02He was finally apprehended in 2002,
23:05and his British Columbia farm was subjected
23:07to an enormous search valued at $70 million.
23:10In this unsettling photo,
23:12heavy machinery is used to sift through the mountains of soil
23:15in an attempt to find human remains.
23:18It's believed that Pickton disposed of his victims at the farm
23:21as personal items belonging to the murdered women
23:24were found on the property.
23:26This is what's left of Robert Pickton's notorious pig farm.
23:30Remnants of the pain he caused
23:31tributes to the women he killed.
23:34The son of Sam Carr.
23:35Well, he said, you got me.
23:38Police say those words ended the biggest manhunt
23:40in New York City history,
23:41with a capture of Son of Sam.
23:43Between 1976 and 77,
23:46New York City was plagued by a mysterious killer
23:48known as the Son of Sam.
23:50He committed eight shootings in the span of a year,
23:53killing six and wounding even more.
23:55His M.O. was brazen and unpredictable.
23:58He seemed to target strangers totally at random,
24:00often when his victims were in their cars.
24:02He would approach unexpectedly, typically on foot,
24:06and open fire without provocation.
24:08Here we see the aftermath of one of the shootings,
24:11a brown 1968 Buick Skylark with its door open.
24:15This car belongs to Robert Violante,
24:18a clothing salesman who was on a first date
24:20with Secretary Stacey Moskowitz.
24:22Son of Sam approached the car from the passenger side
24:25and shot both, killing Moskowitz and blinding Violante.
24:29It was the largest task force New York ever assembled.
24:33A hundred years from now,
24:34people will still know the name Son of Sam.
24:38John Wayne Gacy and Rosalind Carter.
24:40His name is John Wayne Gacy,
24:42convicted of killing 33 innocent people
24:45and destroying hundreds of lives.
24:47Some serial killers hide in plain sight,
24:49perhaps the most notorious example being John Wayne Gacy.
24:53Gacy posed as a respectable figure in his community,
24:56participating in various civic activities,
24:59and serving as a precinct captain for the Democratic Party.
25:02On May 6th, 1978, he met First Lady Rosalind Carter
25:07at a local political event,
25:08and an employee of the White House snapped this hair-raising photo.
25:12Gacy is seen wearing an S-pin,
25:15indicating that he had undergone a background check
25:17by the Secret Service.
25:19This is especially chilling in hindsight,
25:21as Gacy had already murdered 29 men
25:24and buried them in the crawlspace of his home.
25:27He would kill four more
25:28before being apprehended the following December.
25:31What happened to,
25:32what happened in the Bukovic case?
25:35Where was he picked up,
25:37and how did he get to the house,
25:39and what happened with him?
25:41The Lindbergh Kidnapping.
25:42One of the biggest crimes of the 20th century
25:44occurred on March 1st, 1932,
25:47when young Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
25:49was kidnapped from his New Jersey home.
25:51The crime was pinned on a man named Bruno Hauptmann,
25:55but many have questioned his conviction,
25:56and believe there is more to the story.
25:58The kidnapper used a homemade wooden ladder
26:01to reach the window,
26:02and this ladder was left at the scene
26:03after the kidnapping,
26:05lying in sections on the ground.
26:07In this photo,
26:08we see a recreation of the ladder,
26:10and how it was used to reach the high window
26:12and abduct Lindbergh.
26:13It's a terrifying picture,
26:15showcasing vulnerability
26:16and pure human malice all at once.
26:19It is the address and telephone number
26:21of Dr. Condon,
26:23the man who paid the ransom,
26:24written in your writing,
26:25found on a board in your closet.
26:28The smiling Manson followers.
26:30Are you always this happy?
26:31Uh-huh.
26:32What's the secret?
26:34We found the truth.
26:35The Manson family shocked the world
26:37in the late 1960s,
26:39killing at least nine people,
26:41and committing the infamous
26:41Tate murders of August 1969.
26:44Adding to the story's horrifying aura
26:46was the behavior of the accused
26:48while on trial.
26:50They all seemed detached
26:51from the brutal crimes
26:52they had just committed.
26:53Indeed, they were almost gleeful
26:55as they giggled and smiled in court
26:58as their crimes were recounted
27:00in graphic detail.
27:01Here we see Susan Atkins,
27:03Patricia Krenwinkel,
27:05and Leslie Van Houten
27:06looking positively cheerful
27:08as they walk away
27:09from receiving their death sentences.
27:12This type of behavior
27:13shocked the public
27:14and seemed to exemplify
27:15the cult's disturbing mindset.
27:17She's a convicted killer
27:18and former follower
27:20of Charles Manson
27:21and is now free
27:22after spending more than
27:2350 years in prison.
27:25Travis Alexander.
27:26This is around the time
27:27where she became
27:28very possessive of him.
27:30Very possessive.
27:31She just had to sit right by him.
27:33She didn't appreciate
27:33when he was talking
27:34to another female.
27:35This is one of the most
27:36notorious criminal cases
27:37in recent American history.
27:39Occurring on June 4, 2008,
27:41Arizona salesman
27:42Travis Alexander
27:43was murdered in his home
27:45by an ex-girlfriend
27:46named Jody Arias
27:48who stabbed and shot
27:49Alexander
27:50while he was taking a shower.
27:52The two had a tumultuous relationship
27:54and Alexander's friends
27:55did not like Arias,
27:56finding her troubling
27:57and obsessive.
27:59On the evening of June 4,
28:00Arias entered
28:01Alexander's home
28:02and made her way
28:03to the bathroom.
28:04She then snapped
28:05this final photo
28:06of Alexander
28:07just moments
28:08before she viciously
28:09stabbed him to death.
28:10It's certainly
28:11a haunting photo,
28:12his eyes emitting
28:13what looks like intense fear.
28:15That leaves her left hand free.
28:17Could she have had
28:18the knife in her hand
28:19at that moment?
28:20BTK.
28:21You will find a homicide
28:22in 1843,
28:25South Persian,
28:26North Apoch.
28:28Dennis Rader
28:28is a famous serial killer,
28:30better known by the acronym
28:31BTK.
28:32He terrorized the Wichita area
28:34between 1974 and 1991,
28:37murdering at least
28:3810 individuals.
28:39One of Rader's
28:40disturbing hobbies
28:41was dressing up
28:42in women's clothing,
28:43sometimes those of his victims,
28:45and often in connection
28:46with depraved elements
28:48of sexual gratification.
28:49He would sometimes
28:50wear masks and wigs
28:52to further fulfill
28:52these fantasies.
28:54For example,
28:55here we see
28:55a nightmarish photo
28:56of Rader
28:57dressed in what appears
28:58to be female garments
28:59and donning both
29:00a blonde wig
29:01and a clown mask.
29:02Psychologists often link
29:04this kind of behavior
29:05to issues of power,
29:06suggesting that his
29:07dressing up,
29:08much like his killings,
29:09was just another way
29:10to dominate
29:10and degrade his victims.
29:12Sure.
29:18Because I was trying
29:19to catch you.
29:19The Beast of Jersey mask.
29:21Here's the plan, Sandens.
29:24You have until
29:25our provisions arrive,
29:26provisions which will
29:26help us break into
29:27your elegant home.
29:28A little-known
29:29but deeply disturbing case
29:30occurred between 1957
29:32and 1971
29:33on the island of Jersey.
29:35This is an island country
29:36in Europe,
29:37found just off
29:38the northwest coast
29:39of France.
29:40A man named
29:41Edward Pasnell
29:42was a notorious
29:42serial predator
29:44who terrorized
29:44the small island,
29:45committing numerous
29:46home invasions
29:47and assaulting
29:48the women inside.
29:49His appearance
29:50resulted in his nickname
29:51The Beast of Jersey,
29:53as he wore a grotesque
29:54and frightening mask
29:55made of rubber
29:56while committing his crimes.
29:57It looked somewhat
29:58like a disfigured
29:59and monstrous face,
30:01adding to the general
30:02horror of his crime spree.
30:03Pasnell was eventually
30:04caught in 1971
30:05and given 30 years
30:07in prison.
30:08Why are you doing this to us?
30:12Because you were home.
30:14The Zodiac Letter.
30:15To prove I killed them,
30:17I shall state some facts
30:18which only I and the police know.
30:20Perhaps the most famous
30:21aspect of a true crime case,
30:23the Zodiac Letters
30:24are an enduring part
30:25of American history,
30:26having been referenced
30:27in literature and film
30:28for decades.
30:29Here we see a copy of one,
30:31addressed to Melvin Belay
30:33and sitting on the desk
30:34of Lieutenant Charles Ellis
30:35of the San Francisco
30:36Police Department.
30:37Belay was a prominent lawyer
30:39who had many famous clients,
30:40including Jack Ruby,
30:42the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald.
30:44The Zodiac mailed
30:45the Belay letter
30:45on December 20th, 1969.
30:48Inside was a desperate
30:49plea for help
30:50and a swatch of bloody clothing
30:52belonging to a victim
30:53named Paul Stein.
30:55Stein was the Zodiac
30:56final confirmed victim,
30:58his death occurring
30:59on October 11th,
31:00just two months
31:01before this letter was sent.
31:02This is the Zodiac speaking.
31:04I am the murderer
31:05of a taxi driver
31:06over by Washington Street
31:07and Maple Street
31:08last night.
31:09To prove this here
31:10is a blood-stained piece
31:12of his shirt,
31:12I am the same.
31:14Salah Abdusalaam.
31:16On November 14th, 2015,
31:18two men were captured
31:19on camera walking
31:20near a French gas station.
31:21One was wearing
31:22a black jacket
31:23and walking with his hands
31:24in his pockets.
31:25These pictures were taken
31:26a day later
31:27at a Belgian petrol station.
31:29The photo doesn't look like much,
31:30but it becomes terrifying
31:31once the context becomes clear.
31:33The man in the black jacket
31:34is terrorist Salah Abdusalaam
31:36and he had just helped
31:38commit a series of attacks
31:39in Paris.
31:40The morning after the attacks,
31:42he's seen on surveillance video
31:43in northern France.
31:44Occurring the night
31:45before the photo was taken.
31:47The coordinated attacks
31:48killed 130 people
31:49and injured more than 400.
31:51Abdusalaam was the only perpetrator
31:53to survive
31:53and he called his friends
31:55to pick him up.
31:56They did so
31:57and Abdusalaam was captured
31:58on camera
31:59while fleeing the country.
32:00He was later captured
32:02and sentenced to life in prison.
32:03The next day,
32:04he's seen at a petrol station
32:05in France
32:06wave through a border check
32:08into Belgium.
32:09Christopher Wilder.
32:11Throughout a period
32:12of six weeks in 1984,
32:14Christopher Wilder
32:15embarked on a cross-country trip
32:17from Florida to California.
32:18It was the beginning
32:19of a string of brutal
32:20and terrifying murders
32:22that spread out
32:23across the country.
32:24Along the way,
32:25he abducted
32:26and sexually assaulted
32:27at least 12 individuals.
32:29He's also been linked
32:30to eight murders,
32:31although the true number
32:32is likely higher.
32:33On April 1st,
32:34Wilder attended
32:35a fashion show
32:36in Las Vegas
32:37hosted by Seventeen magazine.
32:39In one picture
32:40taken on that fateful day,
32:42Wilder can be seen
32:43sitting in the background
32:44wearing white pants
32:45and a dark jacket.
32:46And who's directly
32:47beyond her,
32:49about 20 feet away,
32:51looking at her
32:52with what I call
32:54the look of a homicidal maniac?
32:57None other
32:57than Christopher Wilder.
33:00An aspiring model
33:01named Michelle Korfman
33:02would disappear
33:03from this event
33:04and her body was found
33:05one month later
33:06near a rest stop.
33:08Her death was later linked
33:09to Christopher Wilder,
33:10who had abducted her
33:11from the fashion show.
33:12They announced the placement
33:13of Christopher Wilder
33:15on its famed
33:1510 Most Wanted Fugitives list.
33:18Death masks.
33:19Found in the Cleveland
33:20Police Museum
33:21are a series of death masks
33:23hanging on the wall.
33:25It's an unbelievably eerie sight.
33:27Not only is the concept
33:28of human heads
33:29hanging on a wall disturbing,
33:31but the death masks
33:32look eerily realistic.
33:34These grotesque decorations
33:35date back to the 1930s,
33:37when they were made
33:38in the midst of the city's
33:39most infamous killing spree.
33:40The victims
33:41often went unidentified.
33:43The killer
33:44always escaped undetected.
33:47The still unidentified
33:48Cleveland Torso Murderer
33:50killed at least 13 people
33:52between 1934 and 1938.
33:54Because most of the victims
33:56were transients,
33:57it was very difficult
33:57to identify them,
33:59especially considering
34:00what happened to their bodies.
34:02In February 1937,
34:04the torso of another
34:05unidentified woman
34:07washed up on the shores
34:08of Lake Erie.
34:09Enter these plastered
34:11death masks of the victims.
34:13which were displayed
34:13to the public
34:14in the hopes of someone
34:15recognizing their faces.
34:17Tyler Hadley's party.
34:20Two young men pose
34:21for the camera,
34:21one of whom is holding a drink.
34:23That man is Tyler Hadley,
34:25and he had just killed
34:26his parents.
34:27In fact,
34:28their bodies were still upstairs.
34:29Tyler Hadley and Michael Mandel
34:31took this picture
34:32Saturday night.
34:34It was the last picture
34:35Mandel thought he'd ever take
34:36with his best friend.
34:38Hadley killed his mother
34:39and father earlier in the day,
34:41hid their bodies
34:41in the master bedroom,
34:43then used their credit cards
34:44to fund a party
34:45that dozens of people attended.
34:47The other man in the photo
34:48is Michael Mandel.
34:50Hadley told Mandel of the crime,
34:52and Mandel even found
34:53the bodies in the bedroom.
34:54Regardless,
34:55he stayed at the party,
34:56and even took this selfie
34:57with Hadley.
34:58It wasn't until Mandel
34:59had left the party
35:00hours later
35:01that he reported the crime
35:02to the authorities.
35:03After I found his parents,
35:05I knew it was going to be
35:06the last time I'd seen them.
35:07This is that look on his face.
35:08You could see the horror
35:10in his face.
35:12John Edward Robinson
35:13holding Tiffany Stacey.
35:15The photo is of poor quality,
35:17but the content is clear.
35:18A happy group of people
35:19are centered around a man
35:21wearing a yellow sweater.
35:22This man is holding
35:23a very young baby
35:24who is adorably dressed in white.
35:26But that baby
35:27is not his own.
35:28In fact,
35:29he killed the baby's mother
35:30and stole her.
35:32The man is serial killer
35:33John Edward Robinson,
35:35who took the lives
35:36of at least eight people.
35:37He befriended a young mother
35:38named Lisa Stacey,
35:40killed her,
35:41and took her young daughter Tiffany,
35:42later posing for this photo.
35:45She disappeared.
35:46Forever.
35:47He then sold Tiffany
35:48to his brother and sister-in-law,
35:50who quote-unquote
35:51adopted her,
35:52for $5,500
35:53in quote-unquote
35:55legal fees.
35:56It would be 15 years
35:58before Tiffany Stacey
35:59learned of her true identity.
36:01Justice and closure for me
36:03is finding her remains
36:04and giving her a proper burial.
36:06The Sean Moore crime scene.
36:09A child's bicycle
36:09lies abandoned on the roadside
36:11while a police officer
36:12speaks to witnesses
36:13in the background.
36:14This is a startlingly
36:15great picture,
36:16conveying a primal sense
36:18of fear and danger,
36:19and letting you know
36:20that something
36:20is definitely not right.
36:21This bike belonged to Sean Moore,
36:24who was riding home
36:25from a convenience store
36:26when he was forcibly abducted
36:28by Ronald Bailey.
36:29The bike was left behind,
36:31a painful reminder
36:32of Moore's interrupted life.
36:34Bailey took Moore
36:35to a secluded cabin,
36:36where he proceeded
36:37to drug, assault,
36:38and eventually kill him.
36:40Bailey was later found guilty
36:41of first-degree murder
36:42and kidnapping
36:43and sentenced to life in prison.
36:45The Mad Bomber of New York.
36:48Everything about George Metesky
36:50is terrifying.
36:51Throughout the 1940s and 50s,
36:53Metesky earned the moniker
36:55The Mad Bomber
36:56as he planted explosives
36:57in many public areas
36:58around New York.
37:00While these bombings
37:00never killed anyone,
37:02they left 15 people injured.
37:04Metesky was finally identified
37:06and caught in 1957
37:07and taken to
37:08the Waterbury Police Headquarters.
37:10A photographer took a picture
37:12of Metesky inside his jail cell
37:14and the result
37:14is absolutely blood-chilling.
37:17Metesky glances out of his cell,
37:19a gleeful smile
37:20plastered on his face
37:21and his eyes depicting
37:23a complete loss of reality.
37:25Metesky was found
37:26legally insane,
37:27with the judge calling him
37:29quote,
37:29hopeless and incurable
37:31both mentally and physically.
37:34James Bulger.
37:35This famous photograph
37:37depicts James Bulger,
37:38who is walking through a mall
37:39and holding the hand
37:41of an older boy.
37:42Another boy wearing
37:43a darker jacket
37:44walks in front.
37:45These two are Robert Thompson
37:47and John Venables
37:48and they are in the process
37:49of discreetly
37:50kidnapping Bulger.
37:52The young boy
37:52was shopping with his mother
37:54at the New Strand
37:54shopping centre
37:55when she briefly
37:56took her eyes off him
37:57to pay for some groceries.
37:59It was just a split second
38:00and I think
38:01that's going to live with me
38:03for the rest of my life.
38:04It was then
38:04that Thompson and Venables
38:05swooped in
38:06and guided Bulger away
38:07by hand.
38:08His body was found
38:09two days later
38:10near some railway tracks.
38:12A man,
38:13his daughter
38:14and a car bomb.
38:15For a period
38:16of about 30 years,
38:17Northern Ireland
38:18was embroiled
38:19in a political conflict
38:20known as the Troubles.
38:22This ended with
38:23the Good Friday Agreement
38:24in 1998.
38:25But this ceasefire
38:26was not honoured
38:27by a splinter group
38:28of the Irish Republican Army
38:29called the Real IRA.
38:32As a form of protest,
38:33they planted
38:34a car bomb
38:34in the town of Oma.
38:36A bomb has exploded
38:37in the centre of Oma
38:39and there are reports
38:40that a number of people
38:41have been killed.
38:42It went off
38:42on August 15th, 1998,
38:45killing 29
38:45and injuring hundreds.
38:47In this photograph,
38:48taken shortly
38:49before the bombing,
38:50a man in a yellow sweater
38:51holds a child
38:52on his shoulders.
38:54Right beside them
38:55is the red car
38:56in which the bomb
38:56was planted.
38:58Both the man
38:58and the child survived,
39:00but the photographer
39:00was one of the 29 fatalities.
39:02About a hundred people
39:04have been injured.
39:06It's the worst bomb attack
39:07in 30 years of terrorism
39:09in the province.
39:10Regina K. Walters
39:11It's one of the most
39:13visceral photos
39:14in true crime.
39:15A girl wearing a black dress
39:17holds her hands
39:18towards the camera.
39:19An obvious defensive gesture
39:21that elicits great fear
39:22of whoever is behind the camera.
39:24That whoever
39:25was a man named
39:26Robert Ben Rhodes,
39:27who may have killed
39:28more than 50 women
39:30while working as a truck driver.
39:31He took this haunting
39:32snapshot of Walters
39:33shortly before strangling
39:35her to death.
39:36And Walters' decomposing body
39:38was later found
39:39on the same farm
39:40depicted in the image.
39:41When I saw the photos,
39:42I said,
39:43this is Regina Walters.
39:46The photo was later found
39:47by investigators
39:48in Rhodes' house.
39:50If it's any consolation,
39:51it was Walters' death
39:52for which Rhodes
39:53was convicted
39:53and finally put away.
39:55Rhodes was sentenced
39:56to life in prison
39:57without the possibility
39:58of parole.
40:00Leonard Lake's cabin.
40:01This photo is quite
40:02unassuming at first.
40:04It's an aerial shot
40:05of a rubble-strewn building
40:06with various crew members
40:07working amongst the debris.
40:09It's a sight
40:09that millions of people
40:10see every day
40:11on their way to and from work.
40:13But this is actually
40:14the compound
40:14of Leonard Lake
40:16and it hosted
40:16some nightmarish atrocities.
40:19Lake and his accomplice,
40:20Charles Ng,
40:21took their victims
40:22to this cabin
40:23in the Sierra Nevada
40:24foothills
40:24and committed horrible acts
40:26against them
40:27before ending their lives.
40:28It's believed
40:29that the duo killed
40:30up to 25 people
40:31inside the cabin
40:32and authorities later
40:33found the likes
40:34of videotapes
40:35and human remains
40:35at the site.
40:37Cherie Miller.
40:38In July of 1984,
40:40a man named
40:41William Bradford
40:41met young bartender
40:43Cherie Miller
40:43at the Meat Market
40:44in Los Angeles.
40:46After convincing Miller
40:47that he was
40:47a professional photographer,
40:49he extended a proposition
40:50to take some photos of her.
40:51She agreed
40:52and the two drove north
40:53into the desert
40:54of California.
40:55Bradford took
40:56various photographs of Miller,
40:58who can be seen
40:58wearing a pair
40:59of denim shorts.
41:00Soon after the photos
41:01were taken,
41:02Bradford killed Miller
41:03and took her body
41:04back to Hollywood,
41:05where he abandoned it
41:06in an alley.
41:07Bradford was a predator
41:08who was out on bail
41:09at the time
41:10of Miller's killing.
41:11She was just one
41:12of a potential
41:1328 victims.
41:15Dahmer's Drum.
41:16It's amazing
41:16how a story
41:17can recontextualize
41:19a picture.
41:20This seemingly harmless
41:21photo depicts
41:22a blue plastic drum
41:23in the corner
41:24of an old room,
41:25nothing too strange
41:26or malicious,
41:27until you realize
41:28what's inside the vat.
41:30It belonged
41:30to Jeffrey Dahmer,
41:31who was probably
41:32the most notorious
41:33serial killer
41:33in American history.
41:35One of Dahmer's
41:35survivors took note
41:36of the drum
41:37while inside the house
41:38and noticed
41:39a very strong
41:40and unpleasant smell
41:41coming from it.
41:42When Dahmer was
41:43finally caught,
41:44investigators uncovered
41:45the drum
41:45and found it was
41:46filled with hydrochloric acid
41:48and human remains.
41:49Dahmer was going
41:50full Breaking Bad
41:51and dissolving his victims
41:52inside the drum.
41:56John Lennon and Mark David Chapman
42:10A very famous photo
42:12taken by Paul Goresh
42:13shows John Lennon
42:14signing an autograph
42:15while a man in glasses
42:17stands over his left shoulder.
42:19Thousands of photos
42:19just like this
42:20were taken throughout
42:21Lennon's career,
42:22but this one
42:23is steeped in malice.
42:24This photo was taken
42:25around 5pm
42:26on the evening
42:27of December 8th, 1980.
42:29Nearly six hours later,
42:31Lennon returned home
42:32and was shot
42:33by the man in the photo.
42:34Lennon was shot
42:35and killed
42:36at about 11 o'clock
42:37last night
42:37outside his apartment building.
42:39The very same man
42:40he had given an autograph
42:41to earlier in the evening.
42:43This, of course,
42:44is Mark David Chapman
42:45and he had been planning
42:46to kill Lennon
42:47for months.
42:48While Chapman
42:49watched Lennon
42:50sign his album,
42:51he knew he would kill him
42:52just a few hours later.
42:54Karen Sprinker
42:55Here's five-year-old
42:56Jerome Brudos.
42:57He finds this pair
42:58of women's shoes.
42:59Something had made
43:00him pick those up.
43:01Throughout the late 1960s,
43:03a man named Jerry Brudos
43:05killed at least
43:06four women in Oregon.
43:07So he brings home
43:07this pair of women's shoes
43:09and he begins
43:10to wear them
43:11around the house.
43:11One of them
43:12was an 18-year-old
43:13named Karen Sprinker.
43:15On March 27, 1969,
43:17Brudos was wearing
43:18women's clothing
43:19and scoured
43:20a department store
43:21parking lot
43:21for victims.
43:22He found Sprinker
43:23and kidnapped her
43:24at gunpoint.
43:25She was beautiful.
43:29I said I'd take
43:30some photos of her.
43:33Was that when
43:33you invited her in?
43:34Brudos then took her
43:35to his personal garage
43:36and made her put on
43:37underwear while he took
43:38photos.
43:39One of them
43:40has been released
43:41and shows a calm-looking
43:42Sprinker gazing into the lens.
43:44Shortly after the photo
43:46was taken,
43:46Brudos killed Sprinker
43:48and put her body
43:49into the Willamette River.
43:51Ted's Tools
43:52Few serial killers
43:53are as notorious
43:54as Ted Bundy.
43:56His name is synonymous
43:57with evil
43:58and he may have killed
43:59up to 36 women
44:00throughout the mid-70s.
44:01More detectives
44:02tried to track a man
44:03who slipped into
44:04a sorority house
44:05early yesterday
44:05and murdered two women.
44:07The killer struck first
44:09at the Chi Omega
44:10sorority house.
44:11Police say he was armed
44:12with a heavy oak log.
44:14Bundy was arrested
44:15in the early morning
44:16of August 16th, 1975
44:18by patrolman
44:19Bob Hayward
44:20and when Hayward
44:21searched Bundy's vehicle
44:22he discovered
44:23a treasure trove
44:24of suspicious material.
44:25Inside the Volkswagen Beetle
44:27and later photographed
44:28for the world to see
44:29were the likes
44:29of garbage bags
44:30an ice pick
44:31rope
44:32gloves
44:32a ski mask
44:34and more.
44:34Unfortunately
44:35there wasn't enough
44:36solid evidence
44:37to hold Bundy
44:38at the time
44:38and he was promptly
44:39released from custody.
44:40Washington missed you.
44:42Utah gave you away
44:43Colorado lost you.
44:47I'm gonna fry you.
44:50He went on
44:51to kill again
44:52before he was
44:53finally captured
44:54for good
44:54in February of 1978.
44:57The Columbine
44:58class picture.
44:59It's pictures like this
45:00that prove
45:01the volatility of life.
45:02You never know
45:03the types of people
45:04you're literally
45:05sitting beside.
45:06Parents,
45:06hug your kids.
45:08Pray to,
45:09pray that,
45:10be happy
45:10that you're with them.
45:12Kids,
45:12scrub your friends,
45:14hold them tight
45:15and never be mad
45:16at people
45:17because it could happen
45:19in a second
45:19that they'll be gone.
45:20This photo shows
45:21the Columbine High School
45:22class of 1999.
45:24In the top left corner
45:25some boys can be seen
45:27making gun gestures
45:28with their hands.
45:29Two of these boys
45:30are Eric Harris
45:31and Dylan Klebold
45:32who just weeks later
45:34would enact
45:34the historic Columbine attack.
45:37On April 20th, 1999,
45:39Harris and Klebold
45:40killed 13 at their high school.
45:41The perps
45:42would also take
45:43their own lives
45:44bringing the total
45:45body count to 15.
45:46Even more were injured
45:47and Columbine
45:48became an international
45:50talking point.
45:51Rodney Alcala's photos.
45:53A vicious man
45:54who killed at least eight.
45:55Rodney Alcala
45:56is famously known as
45:57the dating game killer
45:59as he once appeared
46:00on the titular game show.
46:01Between takes
46:02he might find him
46:03skydiving or motorcycling.
46:05Please welcome
46:05Rodney Alcala.
46:07Rod, welcome.
46:08Rodney Alcala
46:09While searching his home
46:10and his personal storage locker,
46:12investigators found
46:12over 1,000 photographs,
46:15many of which
46:15depicted people
46:16in sensual poses.
46:18120 of these photos
46:19were eventually released
46:20to the public
46:21in the hopes
46:21of identifying the subjects.
46:23The released photographs
46:24are not explicitly
46:25sensual in nature,
46:27but merely depicts people,
46:28mainly young women,
46:29posing in artful manners.
46:31The San Antonio police
46:32refused to take
46:33a missing persons report
46:34on Chris
46:35because she was an adult.
46:37It's unclear
46:38how many of these subjects
46:39were killed by Alcala,
46:40but at least
46:41one missing persons case,
46:43that of 28-year-old
46:44Christine Thornton,
46:45was solved
46:46with the help
46:46of the photographs.
46:47Her smile shared
46:48by a tragic list
46:49of young women and girls
46:51who trusted
46:51a charming stranger
46:53only to discover
46:54a dark secret
46:55that began back
46:56in the fall of 1968.
46:58A message
46:58from the lipstick killer.
46:59Later that morning
47:00in the bedroom,
47:01police found
47:02a crumpled up ransom note
47:03left by the culprit.
47:05It read,
47:06Get $20,000 ready
47:07and waits for word.
47:10Do not notify FBI
47:12or police.
47:13Bills in fives and tens.
47:15While his conviction
47:16is controversial,
47:18the lipstick killer
47:18is thought to be
47:19Illinois criminal
47:20William Herons.
47:21The lipstick killer
47:22got his name
47:23from a particularly
47:24creepy crime scene,
47:25and this crime scene
47:26was famously photographed.
47:28Frances Brown
47:29was killed
47:29inside her apartment,
47:30and the perp
47:31left behind a message
47:32for whoever
47:32came across her body.
47:34Scrawled on the wall
47:35in lipstick
47:36were the words,
47:37For heaven's sake,
47:37catch me
47:38before I kill more.
47:39I cannot control myself.
47:41Unfortunately,
47:42the killer did indeed
47:43strike again,
47:44kidnapping
47:45and taking the life
47:46of the young
47:46Suzanne Degnan.
47:48This occurred
47:48just one month
47:49after the death of Brown.
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48:06Ed Gein's house.
48:08The inspiration
48:09behind numerous
48:10fictional killers
48:11like Norman Bates
48:12and Leatherface,
48:13Ed Gein
48:14is a notorious
48:15body snatcher
48:16who fashioned himself
48:17one nightmarish house.
48:24Gein would dig up
48:26corpses from graveyards
48:27around Plainfield, Wisconsin
48:28and use their bones
48:30and skin
48:31to make household objects.
48:32When authorities
48:33searched Gein's house,
48:34they found the likes
48:35of garbage bins,
48:36upholstery,
48:37bedposts,
48:38bowls and lampshades,
48:40all of which
48:40were made
48:41from human remains.
48:43Many photos
48:43were taken
48:44of Gein's house,
48:45most of which
48:46depict a horribly
48:47cluttered space
48:47filled with trash
48:48and furniture.
48:50It's eerie
48:50to think how much
48:51of that stuff
48:52was made out
48:52of the recently exhumed.
48:54Perhaps the scariest
48:55picture is that
48:56of a chair
48:57upholstered with
48:57old and leathery
48:59looking skin.
49:00Do these photos
49:00give you the creeps?
49:02Let us know
49:02in the comments below.
49:05We'll see you next time.
49:06Bye.
49:07Bye.
49:08Bye.
49:09Bye.
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