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Some crime scenes go beyond the unthinkable — they leave behind objects that haunt investigators forever. Join us as we count down the creepiest and most unsettling things ever discovered at violent crime scenes, from chilling calling cards to disturbing personal artifacts left behind by some of history's most notorious criminals. Which entry disturbs you the most?
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00:00I'll have that blood sample in about five seconds.
00:02Okay.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo,
00:05and today we're looking at 30 creepy and unsettling things
00:09that were found at violent crime scenes.
00:11What's this?
00:16Stacked dishes.
00:18And each new assault led to ever-increasing fear
00:21in thousands of family homes.
00:23The Golden State Killer was a master of psychological terror,
00:26and his most chilling signature weapon was dinnerware.
00:29After breaking into homes and binding his victims,
00:31the killer would stack ceramic plates or teacups
00:34on the backs of the bound men.
00:35He then whispered a terrifying ultimatum.
00:37If he heard the dishes rattle,
00:39he would kill everyone in the house.
00:41When police finally arrived,
00:43those precarious stacks of china
00:44were often still standing on the men,
00:46a silent testament to the hours of absolute terror
00:49that they were forced to endure.
00:50It's a haunting detail highlighting the sadistic control
00:53that Joseph D'Angelo exerted over his victims,
00:55turning mundane household items into instruments of fear.
00:58He had an M.O.,
01:00and that was he would place these plates
01:03on the back of the husband
01:05and tell the husband,
01:07if I hear these plates rattle,
01:10I'm going to kill your wife,
01:11and I'm going to come back in here,
01:12and I'm going to kill you.
01:13The introduction audio tape.
01:15I'm going to tell you in detail
01:17why you have been kidnapped,
01:19what's going to happen to you,
01:21and how long you'll be here.
01:23David Parker Ray didn't just own the so-called toy box.
01:25He even had an orientation for it.
01:28Investigators discovered a cassette tape
01:30that Ray played for his kidnapped victims
01:31as they regained consciousness.
01:33In it, Ray's calm and detached voice
01:35explained exactly where they were
01:37and what was about to happen,
01:39detailing the horrific devices
01:40that they were about to endure.
01:41While the physical tape was disturbing,
01:43the bureaucratic, almost professional way
01:45that he explained his sadistic plans
01:47makes it one of the creepiest pieces
01:49of audio evidence ever recovered.
01:51It turned a chaotic crime scene
01:53into a calculated nightmare,
01:55proving Ray had ritualized his violence.
01:57He's basically Jigsaw in real life.
01:59That is scary.
02:01Did you hear that voice?
02:03He recorded that tape in July 23rd, 1993.
02:08I can't imagine how many women heard that tape.
02:11Purple Shrouds and Nikes
02:13This video reveals the scene that unfolded
02:16when the first responding deputies
02:17entered the house.
02:19As soon as I opened up that door,
02:21I was just overcome with the smell
02:23of decomposing bodies.
02:26When police entered the rented mansion
02:28of the Heaven's Gate cult,
02:29they found 39 bodies,
02:31but it was the uniformity of the scene
02:33that was truly eerie.
02:34Each dead member was dressed
02:35in identical black shirts and sweatpants
02:37and covered with square purple shrouds.
02:40Most famously,
02:41they were all wearing brand new
02:42black and white Nike Decades.
02:44The pristine, orderly nature of the scene,
02:46with victims laid out in bunk beds as if sleeping,
02:49created a surreal tableau of mass death.
02:52This wasn't a chaotic struggle.
02:53It was a planned exit.
02:55The visual of those matching sneakers
02:57sticking out from under purple cloths
02:58remains one of the most unsettling images
03:00in criminal history,
03:02symbolizing the fatal devotion
03:03of the deceased cult members.
03:05Every room that you would go into,
03:08there were more bodies.
03:10Clown suits.
03:11Gacy was considered an upstanding,
03:13key member of his small community.
03:15He was popular and involved in politics.
03:18At weekends, he would even dress as a clown
03:21and perform for children at parties
03:23and at local hospitals.
03:25John Wayne Gacy is remembered
03:27as one of history's most deceptive killers,
03:29posing as a community pillar
03:30while also hiding 29 corpses around his house.
03:33During the search of his home,
03:35investigators found custom-made costumes
03:37for his alter ego, Pogo the Clown.
03:39While owning clown suits isn't illegal,
03:42finding them in the same house
03:43where dozens of young men were murdered and buried
03:45added a layer of nightmarish irony to the story.
03:48It also solidified the terrifying killer clown archetype
03:51in the public consciousness forever.
03:53Seeing those colorful, ruffled outfits
03:55hanging in the closet,
03:56knowing the monster who wore them
03:57committed atrocities just feet away,
04:00turned a standard police search
04:01into a scene straight out of a horror movie.
04:03There's just something horrifically sinister
04:06and monstrous about this figure of Pogo.
04:11Just an element that raises Gacy
04:14to the level of a kind of mythic American monster.
04:17The ransom note.
04:18Did the handwriting look familiar to you at all?
04:21Had you seen it ever before?
04:24No.
04:25I feel like the listen carefully is very distinct
04:27and I've never really seen that.
04:29The murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey
04:31is famous for a number of reasons,
04:33including the bizarre ransom note.
04:35Police found a two-and-a-half-page ransom note
04:37demanding the oddly precise number of $118,000.
04:41What makes this creepy is that the note was written
04:44on a notepad from inside the house.
04:46The idea that the intruder sat there long enough
04:49to draft a rambling manifesto
04:50while the family slept upstairs is deeply unsettling.
04:53Of course, there's also an even creepier theory
04:56that it was JonBenet's own mother who wrote the note,
04:58creating a fake kidnapper story
05:00to cover up either a crime or an accident.
05:02Either way, this stationary object
05:04became the center of a media firestorm
05:06and it hasn't let up since.
05:08You will withdraw $118,000 from your account.
05:12I have never seen a ransom kidnapping
05:15that asks for such a specific amount of money.
05:19Mummified dolls.
05:20In Russia, the mere mention of the name Anatoly Moskvin
05:25still elicits responses of horror
05:28and disgust amongst its citizens.
05:30In 2011, Russian police raided the apartment
05:33of historian Anatoly Moskvin
05:35and found what looked like a collection
05:37of large antique dolls.
05:38They were dressed in knee-high boots and dresses,
05:41their faces wrapped in fabric.
05:42But upon closer inspection,
05:44these dolls were revealed to be the mummified bodies
05:47of 26 young girls that Moskvin had dug up
05:50from local cemeteries.
05:51He lived with them, threw them birthday parties
05:53and even installed music boxes
05:55inside their chest cavities.
05:57The realization that these figures
05:58were actually human remains,
06:00lovingly preserved and displayed
06:01in a cramped apartment, horrified the world.
06:04It is a singular example of both delusion
06:07and desecration.
06:08So, based on what we now know,
06:11is he good, evil, or just insane?
06:16Perhaps he is all of the above.
06:18And the better question is,
06:20how much of each is he?
06:22The kitchen tableau.
06:24There's a pot on the stove.
06:27I think I might have even said to Scotty,
06:29I'll give you one guess where the head is.
06:31Catherine Knight became the first Australian woman
06:33sentenced to life without parole.
06:35And the crime scene explains why.
06:37When police arrived at the home of her partner,
06:39John Price,
06:40they found his skinned body hanging from a doorframe.
06:43But the most grotesque discovery was in the kitchen.
06:45On the stove, police noticed a hot pot.
06:48They peered inside
06:49and saw the victim's head staring back at them,
06:51being cooked with some vegetables.
06:53Nearby were two plates with place names.
06:55Catherine was intending on serving John
06:57to his own children.
06:59It was a scene of domestic horror
07:00that seasoned officers could never unsee.
07:03And this culinary nightmare elevated the crime
07:05from domestic homicide
07:06to something unspeakably evil.
07:08On the table, there was a couple of plates
07:11that had meals where he prepared and vegetables
07:13and meat cooked sitting there.
07:15Blocked drains.
07:17So I said, well, let's have another haul around
07:19inside the drain,
07:20get some, anything else that's in there.
07:22And the scenes of crime officer that I had with me
07:25managed to pull out three or four pieces of flesh,
07:29each about four inches long, an inch wide,
07:34and three little bones.
07:36In 1983, residents at 23 Cranley Gardens in London
07:40complained about some blocked pipes.
07:41When a plumber opened the drain cover,
07:43he didn't find a mass of hair.
07:45He found human flesh and small bones.
07:47When the flesh was conclusively identified as human,
07:50the plumber traced its origin to the upstairs flat.
07:53This grim discovery led police
07:54straight to the doorstep of Dennis Nielsen.
07:56It turned out that Nielsen had been flushing
07:59the remains of his victims down the toilet for months
08:01until the pipes finally clogged under the pressure.
08:04It is a disgusting reminder that sometimes
08:06the clues to a crime are hidden
08:08in the most mundane infrastructure.
08:10He said, it is, it's human.
08:14And he said, by pure luck,
08:16you've brought me a piece of neck off the neck
08:19and your victim has been strangled.
08:22He said, there's a clear ligature mark
08:23on this piece of flesh.
08:25The M Ladies
08:26Appallingly, the video showed in vivid detail
08:30the depths of depravity that Lake and Ng indulged in.
08:34Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were responsible
08:36for a macabre spree in California,
08:39murdering between 11 and 25 people.
08:41When police searched Lake's remote cabin
08:43slash killing dungeon,
08:45they found a horrifying series of video cassettes
08:47labeled M Ladies.
08:48These tapes showed Lake and Ng psychologically
08:50and physically tormenting their many female victims.
08:53Finding the tapes transformed the case
08:56from a police investigation
08:57into a documented nightmare of sadism.
08:59Watching the fear in the victim's eyes
09:01on those grainy recordings gave investigators
09:03a direct window into the hell they endured.
09:06They serve as a permanent witness
09:07to their unimaginable suffering,
09:10making the tapes perhaps the most disturbing items
09:12found at the compound.
09:13And there were a lot.
09:14That brings it to a whole new level.
09:16It was on a horrific level
09:18why you would want to tape this stuff.
09:20But if you view those tapes,
09:21they're quite disturbing.
09:22The Wall of Photos
09:24I was watching the news
09:25and I was like,
09:26damn, I was with the Grim Sleeper.
09:29When police arrested the so-called Grim Sleeper,
09:31Lonnie Franklin Jr.,
09:32they found a horde of souvenirs in his garage.
09:35Stashed away were over 1,000 photos
09:37and hundreds of hours of video
09:39depicting Franklin with women
09:41in various states of unconsciousness or distress.
09:43Police were forced to release
09:45180 of these disturbing photos to the public
09:47in a desperate attempt to identify the women.
09:50The sheer volume of the collection
09:51was a chilling indicator
09:53of just how long he had operated in the shadows.
09:55This wall of faces represented
09:57literal decades of violence,
09:59turning what otherwise appeared
10:00as a cluttered garage into a gallery of horrors.
10:03He lived on 81st and Western
10:06and that was the epicenter
10:09of where all the murders took place.
10:13It would have made a frightening Hitchcock thriller
10:16if the crimes hadn't been real.
10:18A killer was stalking Boston women.
10:20The case of the Boston Strangler
10:22has long been contested in American True Crime.
10:25The perpetrator killed 13 women
10:27in the greater Boston area
10:28throughout the early 1960s.
10:30While blame has often been placed
10:32on a man named Albert DeSalvo,
10:33his guilt remains a divisive subject.
10:36The Strangler earned his name
10:37through his modus operandi,
10:39which was to strangle his victims
10:40using nylon stockings.
10:47These garments were often recovered at the scene
10:49and some were photographed.
10:51Perhaps the most famous case
10:53was that of Joanne Graff,
10:54the Strangler's penultimate victim.
11:04Nylon stockings were found at the scene,
11:06with writer Gerald Frank stating
11:08that they were tied in, quote,
11:10an elaborate flowing bow,
11:11like a circus clown's bow tie.
11:13The tapes of Ricardo Lopez.
11:15This is being sent off tomorrow, probably.
11:19Well, actually, technically today.
11:21If it went, I feel great about it.
11:23Perhaps better known as the Bjork stalker,
11:26Ricardo Lopez was a pest exterminator
11:28who became infamous for his obsession
11:30with the Icelandic singer.
11:31In 1996, Lopez grew incensed
11:34that Bjork was in a relationship
11:35and mailed an explosive package
11:37to her residence in London.
11:39Throughout this journey,
11:40Lopez kept a personal video diary
11:42detailing his methods and motivations.
11:45He recorded over 20 hours of footage
11:47spread across 11 tapes,
11:49with each spanning around two hours.
11:51In the final one,
11:52Lopez takes his own life on camera.
12:03Neighbors reported a rotten smell
12:05coming from his apartment,
12:06where police officers discovered the tapes.
12:08They also informed Scotland Yard
12:10about the explosive device,
12:11which was safely found and detonated.
12:20A handwritten warning.
12:22On June 12, 1977,
12:24eight-year-old Lori Farmer,
12:26nine-year-old Michelle Gousset,
12:28and 10-year-old Denise Milner
12:29set off for camp,
12:30but never came home.
12:32On the morning of June 13, 1977,
12:35the bodies of three Girl Scouts
12:36were found near the showers
12:37of Oklahoma's Camp Scott.
12:39The camp was immediately evacuated,
12:41and investigators uncovered various clues,
12:44including a flashlight
12:45and a bloody footprint.
12:46Agent Linville also found tape
12:48and plastic material
12:49used to cover the flashlight lens.
12:51Two photographs of women,
12:53a red pair of lace panties,
12:55and the glasses taken
12:56from the counselor's tent
12:58in Kiowa unit.
12:59But a far more malicious clue
13:01was sent to Camp Scott
13:02less than two months prior
13:03to the killings.
13:04A counselor returned
13:05to her personal area
13:06and found that her belongings
13:07had been thrown around.
13:09She also discovered
13:10a handwritten note
13:11that read,
13:12quote,
13:12We are on a mission
13:13to kill three girls
13:14in tent one.
13:15The note was taken
13:17to the camp's director,
13:18but it was dismissed
13:19as a prank
13:19and no action was taken.
13:21To date,
13:22the murders officially
13:23remain unsolved.
13:25It will probably never
13:26be brought to an end
13:27because of people
13:29and their opinions
13:30and the way they think.
13:32The Son of Sam letter.
13:33I want you to go out
13:35and kill.
13:36Kill!
13:38Kill!
13:42David Berkowitz,
13:43also known as
13:44the Son of Sam,
13:45terrorized New York City
13:46in the mid-70s,
13:48killing and wounding many
13:49with his .44 caliber revolver.
13:51On April 17, 1977,
13:54Berkowitz committed
13:55the double murder
13:55of Valentina Suriani
13:57and Alexander Esau,
13:58bringing his body count
13:59to five.
14:00Up to this point,
14:01he was known
14:02as the .44 caliber killer.
14:04However,
14:04that changed
14:05when authorities
14:06found a handwritten note
14:07by Berkowitz,
14:07in which he not only
14:09taunted the police force,
14:10but also identified himself
14:12as the Son of Sam.
14:13The letter is incredibly eerie,
14:15not just for its
14:16taunting content,
14:17but also its frequent
14:18misspellings,
14:20grammatical errors,
14:20and rambling.
14:21Often of an incoherent nature,
14:23it provides a glimpse
14:24into the troubled mind
14:26of its author.
14:26You thought what you were doing
14:27was right?
14:28It was not right,
14:29but that somehow
14:30this had some kind of plan.
14:32A morbid Hello Kitty doll.
14:34On March 17, 1999,
14:37a nightclub hostess
14:38named Fan Man-Yi
14:39was kidnapped
14:40by triad member
14:41Chan Man-Luk.
14:42The kidnapping
14:43was in retaliation
14:44for Fan stealing
14:45his wallet.
14:45The hostess
14:46was taken to an apartment
14:47and imprisoned
14:48for a month,
14:49where she was forced
14:49to endure extreme trauma,
14:51which eventually
14:52led to her death
14:53from shock.
14:53The captors
14:54disposed of her body
14:55in grisly fashion
14:56and placed some
14:57of her remains
14:58inside a large
14:59Hello Kitty mermaid doll.
15:01Here,
15:01it remained
15:02for several weeks.
15:03Eventually,
15:04one of the captors,
15:05who was burdened by guilt,
15:06went to the police
15:07and led them
15:07to the scene
15:08of the crime.
15:09It was there
15:10that responding officers
15:11found the doll
15:11with its morbid contents.
15:14BTK's Polaroids.
15:15The three photos
15:16are of a woman's
15:17dead body.
15:18The driver's license
15:19belongs to
15:20Vicki Wegerly,
15:21killed in her home
15:22in 1986.
15:23After at least
15:2410 victims
15:25and many long years,
15:27the BTK killer,
15:28real name Dennis Rader,
15:29was finally caught
15:30on February 25, 2005.
15:33Virtually every place
15:34associated with Rader
15:35became an instant crime scene,
15:37including his church,
15:38house,
15:39and business.
15:39And in all three places,
15:41investigators found
15:42disturbing evidence
15:43of his crimes.
15:44He had dolls
15:46that he used
15:47to help facilitate
15:48his imagination
15:49and he would experiment.
15:52Rader had personally
15:53taken Polaroids
15:54of his victims
15:54in various stages
15:55of distress
15:56and decomposition
15:57and stored these photos
15:58throughout the
15:59aforementioned locations.
16:00The macabre images
16:01served as irrefutable
16:02proof of his guilt
16:03and helped secure
16:05a conviction
16:05and sentence
16:06of 10 consecutive
16:07life terms.
16:08I always had the tripod
16:10and so I rigged that up
16:12and lo and behold,
16:14I could take pictures
16:14of myself.
16:15Footprints in the snow.
16:17It's rare that a victim
16:18finds clues
16:19at their own future
16:20crime scene,
16:20but it does happen.
16:22Case in point,
16:23the infamous
16:23Hinterkaifeck murders.
16:24A very creepy
16:25and notorious case.
16:27It saw an unknown assailant
16:28killing five members
16:29of the Gruber family
16:30and their maid
16:31on the night
16:31of March 31, 1922.
16:34Unfortunately,
16:35there were many portents
16:36that patriarch
16:36Andreas Gruber
16:37failed to heed.
16:39These included
16:39noises in the attic
16:41and a newspaper
16:41from Munich
16:42that Gruber thought
16:43was dropped
16:43by the mailman.
16:44But the creepiest clue
16:45was a set of human
16:46footprints in the snow
16:48leading from the nearby
16:49forest to the farm.
16:50It's now believed
16:51that these possibly
16:52belonged to the perpetrator
16:54who claimed the lives
16:55of the family.
16:56I'm coming down!
17:01pentagrams.
17:02Why did you kill
17:03those people?
17:06No comments.
17:08No comments.
17:08I cannot answer
17:10at this time.
17:12Richard Ramirez,
17:13better known
17:13as the Night Stalker,
17:14had a strange fascination
17:16with pentagrams.
17:17He famously drew one
17:18on his hand
17:19during his initial
17:20court appearance,
17:21but that wasn't
17:21the first time
17:22law enforcement
17:23encountered the symbol
17:23in this case.
17:24Back on May 29, 1985,
17:27Ramirez assaulted
17:28sisters Mabel Bell
17:29and Florence Lang
17:30in their home.
17:31Following the attack,
17:32he stole Bell's lipstick
17:33and drew two pentagrams
17:35on the bedroom walls.
17:36He just left
17:37so much destruction
17:38and lives.
17:41But the thing
17:41that was so frightening
17:42about it from, like,
17:43the public's point of view,
17:45remembering back then,
17:46was that it was
17:46all so random.
17:47He continued this M.O.
17:49when he attacked
17:49married couple Peter
17:50and Barbara Pan
17:51on the night of August 18.
17:52After shooting them both,
17:54Ramirez grabbed
17:55some lipstick
17:56and drew a pentagram
17:57on the bedroom wall
17:58along with the phrase
17:59Jack the Knife.
18:00I think she was spared
18:02because he said,
18:04get on your hands
18:05and knees
18:05and say you love Satan.
18:07She said,
18:07I just looked in the eye
18:08and says,
18:09no, I will not do that.
18:10I believe in Jesus Christ.
18:12Bloody writings.
18:17While the Manson family
18:18is notorious
18:19for killing Sharon Tate,
18:20their true victim count
18:22is actually much higher.
18:23Throughout the summer
18:24of 1969,
18:26the family killed
18:27nine individuals,
18:28although they are
18:29suspected of more.
18:30At three of these crime scenes,
18:32various messages
18:33were written
18:33in the victim's blood.
18:34After murdering
18:35Gary Hinman,
18:36one member wrote
18:37the phrase
18:38political piggy
18:38on the wall.
18:39At the infamous
18:40Tate crime scene,
18:41Susan Atkins wrote
18:42pig on the front door.
18:44Go around there,
18:45see if there's
18:46a back entrance.
18:47I don't.
18:48The last
18:49and perhaps
18:49most famous message
18:50was left
18:51at the La Bianca scene.
18:52Patricia Krenwinkel
18:53wrote the phrases
18:54rise,
18:55death to pigs
18:55and helter-skelter.
18:57The latter of these
18:58was misspelled
18:59and became
19:00the eventual title
19:01of Vincent Bugliosi
19:02and Kurt Gentry's
19:03landmark book.
19:09A drum of acid.
19:10A 57-gallon vat
19:15filled with acid.
19:17Jeffrey Dahmer
19:18is undoubtedly
19:18one of the most
19:19notorious killers
19:20in American history,
19:21his very name
19:22synonymous with evil.
19:24Dahmer took 17 lives
19:25between 1978 and 1991,
19:28with the most famous crimes
19:29occurring inside
19:30of his Milwaukee apartment.
19:32He often did
19:32unspeakable things
19:34to his victims' bodies
19:35and used large quantities
19:36of acid to accomplish
19:37his grotesque goals.
19:39You gotta put that
19:40life down, okay?
19:45Come on.
19:46Shortly after
19:47Dahmer's capture,
19:48investigators found
19:49a 57-gallon drum
19:51in the corner
19:51of his apartment.
19:52Inside the drum
19:53was a powerful acid solution
19:55and the remains
19:56of three people.
19:57This was just one
19:58of the many lurid objects
20:00taken from Dahmer's residence.
20:01As the chief
20:02medical examiner stated,
20:03it was more like
20:04dismantling someone's museum
20:06than an actual crime scene.
20:07I wish it would go away.
20:09I wish I,
20:09there was some way
20:11to completely get rid
20:12of the compulsive thoughts,
20:14the feelings.
20:15Bathroom hair.
20:16The hair in question here
20:18actually wasn't
20:18from the criminal
20:19associated with the case,
20:20Ted Kaczynski,
20:21also known as the Unabomber.
20:23For nearly two decades,
20:24a mathematical genius
20:26with delusions
20:26of single-handedly
20:28destroying industrial society,
20:30planted or mailed
20:31from powerful bombs
20:32to unsuspecting
20:33innocent victims.
20:35Here,
20:35Kaczynski actually planted
20:36someone else's hair
20:37that he found
20:38in a bus station bathroom
20:39into an explosive package
20:41in order to throw authorities
20:43off the scent of the case.
20:44We knew we were dealing
20:45with a disgruntled genius.
20:47We just didn't know
20:48how smart
20:48or how angry
20:49he truly was
20:50or how far he'd go.
20:52Although the hair
20:53didn't belong
20:53to the Unabomber,
20:55utilizing someone else's locks
20:56in this way
20:57is not only gross
20:58but creepy as well.
20:59Never mind the possibility
21:01of the feds
21:02knocking at your door
21:03thinking that you're
21:03somehow involved
21:04with such a dangerous madman.
21:06He was given
21:07four life sentences
21:08plus 30 years.
21:09He would never
21:11be eligible for parole.
21:13Message machete.
21:14There was no questioning
21:15the intentions
21:16of one Prince Hepburn
21:18after the forensic report
21:19of this crime scene
21:20came back from the lab.
21:21After just over
21:22an hour of deliberations,
21:23a jury has determined
21:24that Prince Hepburn
21:26is guilty
21:26of killing his girlfriend
21:28Nellie Brown Cox
21:29two years ago.
21:30This is because
21:31Hepburn actually left
21:32behind the murder weapon
21:33with a very specific
21:34pair of messages
21:35written about
21:36both the actual
21:37and intended victims.
21:38A bloody machete
21:40was found at the scene
21:41where Hepburn
21:41murdered his girlfriend
21:42with the phrase
21:43this is what cheaters
21:45get scrawled on the blade.
21:46On the other side
21:47was a message
21:48for the other
21:48potential victim.
21:49It's the level
21:50of morbidity
21:51that only tends
21:51to be seen
21:52in horror movies
21:53but in this case
21:54the horror was
21:55very, very real.
21:56When the verdict
21:57was handed down,
21:57Hepburn have paired
21:58calm the same way
22:00he had a paired
22:00throughout the trial.
22:01Tarot cards.
22:02The Beltway snipers
22:04terrorized the Washington
22:05D.C. area
22:06back in 2002,
22:07utilizing long-distance
22:09rifles to maximize
22:10the cold and detached
22:11distances between them
22:12and their victims.
22:18Go.
22:20Go.
22:22John Allen Muhammad
22:23and Lee Boyd Malvo
22:24utilized different
22:25calling cards
22:26over the course
22:26of their terror spree
22:27but one particularly
22:29chilling moment
22:30occurred after the
22:30October 7th shooting
22:32of Iron Brown.
22:33Malvo and Muhammad
22:34left the death tarot card
22:36at the crime scene
22:36inscribed with the words
22:38Do not release
22:39to the press.
22:40For you,
22:41Mr. Police
22:41and Call Me God.
22:43Leads that once
22:44didn't mean anything
22:45started to bring
22:46the case together.
22:47It was creepy
22:48and deeply disturbing
22:50to say the least.
22:51I mean,
22:51I was a monster.
22:52If you look up
22:53the definition,
22:54I mean,
22:54that's what a monster is.
22:55I was a ghoul.
22:56I was a thief.
22:58I stole people's lives.
22:59A deadly plea.
23:00The random savagery
23:02of the lipstick killer
23:03didn't jibe
23:04with a city known
23:05for its strong,
23:06safe neighborhoods.
23:07The legal case
23:08of the lipstick killer,
23:09William Herons,
23:10was a mess,
23:11featuring inconsistent
23:12prosecution,
23:13shoddy police work,
23:15and illegalities
23:16behind the scenes.
23:17It was then,
23:18with his own lawyers
23:18encouraging him,
23:20that he stopped fighting
23:21and decided
23:22to take the rap
23:23for three murders
23:24he did not commit.
23:25There are some
23:26who feel that Herons
23:27wasn't even
23:28the notorious serial killer
23:29who left a creepy,
23:30moniker-defining message
23:31at the scene of a crime.
23:32It was scrawled
23:33on a victim's apartment wall
23:34and it said,
23:36quote,
23:36For heaven's sake,
23:37catch me before I kill more.
23:39I cannot control myself.
23:41Herons was ultimately
23:42sentenced to life in prison
23:43for three separate murders,
23:44although he died in prison
23:46maintaining that
23:47his confession was coerced.
23:48He insisted.
23:49He had confessed solely
23:51to save himself
23:52from the electric chair,
23:53not because he was guilty.
23:56Legos.
23:56The murder of Lucille Johnson
23:58in 1991
23:59was notable right off the bat
24:01for the bevy of Lego bricks
24:03scattered at the scene
24:04of the crime.
24:04Investigators say
24:05it took them 23 years
24:07to catch a break
24:08in this cold case.
24:09The game-changing clues,
24:11new DNA evidence,
24:12and Lego toys
24:13that were found
24:14at the crime scene.
24:15Moreover,
24:16DNA results
24:17conducted many years later
24:18led authorities
24:19to believe
24:19that Johnson's murderer,
24:20John Sansing,
24:21had brought his son
24:22along with him that day.
24:24Investigators say
24:24it was Sansing's son's
24:26fingerprints
24:26found on the Lego toys,
24:28placing the child
24:29at the murder scene.
24:30That young child
24:31has been tormented
24:32with these visions
24:34all these years.
24:35As a result,
24:36the mental image
24:37is that Sansing's son
24:38was innocently playing
24:40with the Legos
24:40while his father
24:41was off committing
24:42a truly heinous act.
24:43Occasionally,
24:45we run into individuals
24:47who are evil.
24:49The individual
24:50that is being charged
24:52with this crime today
24:53can only be described
24:54as that.
24:54Dead driver's license.
24:56David Kalick
24:57was unapologetic
24:58after murdering
24:59his ex-girlfriend
25:00in 2014,
25:01so much so
25:02that he posted
25:03his grotesque handiwork
25:04to the internet.
25:05He was drinking beer
25:06while police were
25:07hunting for him
25:08and talking about
25:09his dead girlfriend
25:10as if she was still alive.
25:12It was known
25:12as the 4chan murder
25:14in the press
25:14after Kalick uploaded
25:16photos of the crime
25:17and text
25:17apparently lamenting
25:18the fact that
25:19quote,
25:19it's way harder
25:20to strangle someone
25:21to death
25:22than it looks
25:22on the movies.
25:23Additionally,
25:24Kalick wrote messages
25:25around the house
25:26including
25:27bad news
25:27on blinds in the home
25:29and
25:29she killed me first
25:31on a framed photo.
25:32Finally,
25:33Kalick scrawled out
25:34a blunt statement
25:35on his ex's
25:35driver's license,
25:37one that simply said
25:38dead.
25:38And in his confession
25:40note,
25:40Kalick also said
25:41quote,
25:41running from the cops
25:42was so much fun
25:43then he signed
25:44his initials
25:45DK.
25:46A promise to return.
25:48She may currently
25:49live under an alias,
25:50but the woman born
25:51Mary Bell
25:52possesses the gruesome
25:53distinction of being
25:54Britain's youngest
25:55female killer.
25:56Oh,
25:56she was wicked.
25:57She was.
25:58I think there's
25:59no question about it.
26:01Bell was still
26:01a preteen
26:02when she strangled
26:03the first of her
26:04two victims
26:04back in 1968.
26:05By all accounts,
26:07Bell's home life
26:08was full of trauma
26:09and mistreatment
26:10at the hands
26:10of her mother
26:11and she displayed
26:12troubling and dangerous
26:13behavior for some time
26:14before killing her
26:15first victim,
26:16Martin Brown.
26:17She was deeply
26:18embedded
26:19in a sort of
26:20petty crime
26:21environment
26:22and an environment
26:23in which
26:23violence against
26:24each other
26:25was something
26:26that was
26:27almost acceptable
26:28and the norm.
26:29Later,
26:30Bell and an accomplice
26:31would not only
26:32harass Brown's mother
26:33prior to her son's
26:34funeral,
26:34but they also
26:35left taunting
26:36notes to police
26:37at a nearby nursery
26:38they vandalized.
26:39One of the notes read,
26:40I murder
26:41so that I may
26:42come back.
26:43The general tenor
26:44of these notes
26:47was to
26:49tease
26:49and provoke
26:51the police
26:51because the police
26:53weren't making
26:54any progress.
26:55Grizzly devices.
26:57Dean Corll
26:58was a notorious
26:59serial killer
26:59known by a number
27:01of monikers,
27:01including the
27:02Pied Piper
27:03and the Candyman.
27:04Dean Corll
27:05earned the nickname
27:06the Candyman
27:07because his younger
27:08days,
27:08his family owned
27:09a candy company,
27:10a small candy company
27:11located in the Heights.
27:13And he often gave
27:15candy away to kids
27:16in the neighborhood.
27:17Corll's methodology
27:18was brutal,
27:19and he even had a pair
27:20of young accomplices
27:21that assisted
27:22in his luring,
27:23torturing,
27:24and murdering
27:24his victims.
27:25These victims
27:26would often be
27:27handcuffed
27:27to a plywood board
27:28and harmed by Corll
27:30prior to their deaths.
27:31And it was this
27:32torture board
27:33that was found
27:33at the scene
27:34when the Candyman
27:35met his demise
27:36at the hands
27:37of one of these
27:37aforementioned
27:38accomplices,
27:39Elmer Wayne Henley.
27:40Elmer Wayne Henley's
27:42trial was a
27:43media circus.
27:44The only thing
27:45I can equate it to
27:46was his O.J.
27:48Simpson trial
27:49without the television
27:50in the courtroom.
27:52Ciphers.
27:52A cipher
27:53is a coded message
27:55that's deliberately
27:55disguised in order
27:57to convey
27:57a hidden message.
27:58There have been
27:59a number of killers
28:00over the years
28:00that have communicated
28:01in ciphers,
28:02most notably
28:03the Zodiac.
28:05It's okay.
28:07This is all
28:08gonna be okay.
28:11The case of
28:12Ricky McCormick
28:13is another involving
28:14ciphers,
28:14and one that also
28:15remains unsolved.
28:17Here,
28:17the message was found
28:19on McCormick's body
28:20after his remains
28:21were found
28:21in a Missouri cornfield
28:22on June 30th, 1999.
28:24Within Ricky's pockets
28:26were two pieces of paper,
28:28both filled with
28:29seemingly random
28:30letters and punctuation
28:32that local police
28:33had no chance
28:34of being able
28:35to decipher.
28:36The FBI
28:36is still actively
28:38seeking public
28:39assistance in cracking
28:40the cipher
28:40at the time of this
28:41writing,
28:41since it's believed
28:42that the clue
28:43to the identity
28:44of McCormick's murderer
28:45lies within the code.
28:47The head of the
28:48CRRU
28:49says,
28:50we are really good
28:51at what we do,
28:51but we could use
28:52some help with this one.
28:53Breaking the code
28:55could reveal
28:55the victim's
28:56whereabouts
28:56before his death
28:57and could lead
28:58to the solution
28:59of a homicide.
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29:16Ed Gein's House
29:17You can take your pick
29:19from the contents
29:19of Ed Gein's House.
29:21It was a literal
29:22house of horrors.
29:23He'd reverse
29:24the normal process
29:25of trash disposal,
29:27you know,
29:28and instead of taking
29:29all his garbage
29:30to the dump,
29:31would go to the dump
29:31and bring it into his house.
29:33The horror of Gein's crimes
29:34shocked the world
29:35and served as inspiration
29:37for numerous,
29:38equally gruesome
29:39horror movie amalgamations
29:40of his life.
29:41Gein's House
29:42was full of furniture
29:43and other items
29:44that were crafted
29:45from human remains.
29:46He knows how to
29:47slaughter animals,
29:48he knows how to
29:48prepare carcasses,
29:49he's from a community
29:51that's very much
29:51into its hunting
29:52and its fishing.
29:53So at some point,
29:55reality and fantasy
29:56are going to collide.
29:57It's almost too much
29:58to take in.
29:59An absurdly horrific
30:00and unforgettable
30:01tableau of inhuman depravity
30:03from one of the most
30:05notorious cases
30:06of all time.
30:07Ed Gein's farmhouse
30:08was the habitation
30:10of a literal ghoul,
30:13you know,
30:13somebody who had
30:14been living amidst
30:15these horrific relics
30:17of human dismemberment.
30:18It was a madhouse.
30:21Which of these
30:22do you find
30:23the most disturbing?
30:24Let us know
30:24in the comments below.
30:25I didn't meet and see
30:26it was an accident.
30:27Who are you kidding?
30:28This was no accident.
30:30It was an execution.
30:33It was an execution.
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