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Warning: this one is not for the faint of heart. Join us as we count down some of the most disturbing trophies ever kept by serial killers throughout history! From the chilling collections of Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer to the grotesque keepsakes of Ed Gein and Jerry Brudos, these mementos reveal the darkest corners of the criminal mind.
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00:00Jeffrey Dahmer committed some of the most evil acts that I have ever written about or heard about or seen
00:08on a television show, because they were real.
00:11Welcome to WatchMojo. Whether they're weird or just plain awful, today we're taking a look at 10 of the most
00:18disturbing serial killer trophies ever.
00:21As with the other two murders, the eyeballs had been removed from the scene. But this time, the killer appeared
00:28to have acted in a frenzy.
00:31Number 10. Underwear.
00:33The Ukrainian serial killer Anatoly Onopryenko murdered 52 people in just six months between 1989 and 1996.
00:42The presiding judge reads out one of hundreds of witness statements which allege that Onopryenko shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to
00:51death at least 52 people.
00:53Upon his arrest, investigators discovered over 100 items stolen from his victims, including a pair of underwear taken from every
01:00woman he killed.
01:01This was made even worse by the fact that Anatoly gifted some of these personal items to his girlfriend.
01:08He betrays no remorse, as he describes wiping out whole families to steal a few trinkets.
01:14During his confession, he detailed each murder to a tee, revealing that he exclusively used the garments as morbid mementos
01:21of his spree.
01:22He showed zero signs of remorse and admitted guilty to every single crime he committed, including those against children.
01:31I feel absolutely no pity for any of those people I killed. I am a much better person than any
01:37of them.
01:37Number 9. Shoes.
01:40Jerry Brudos, notoriously known as the shoe fetish slayer, centered his entire criminal history around a deep-seated obsession with
01:48women's footwear.
01:50It had to have something. What was it that it had to have? High-heeled shoes.
01:54This fixation originated early in his childhood, when he found a high-heeled shoe in a junkyard,
02:01with this eventually escalating into a series of murders between 1968 and 1969.
02:07Brudos meticulously curated a collection of shoes stolen from his victims, keeping them as trophies within his home.
02:15The 30-year-old could not suppress his unhealthy desire for high-heeled shoes.
02:21The sight of all of this organized footwear was deeply disturbing to investigators,
02:26as each pair represented a stolen life, linked to his specific compulsion.
02:31On the 27th of June, 1969, Jerry Brudos was given three life sentences.
02:39Number 8. Chessboard Squares.
02:42Alexander Pichushkin, the chessboard killer, sought what you might consider more of a mental trophy for his crimes.
02:49He aimed to murder 64 people to match the number of squares on a chessboard,
02:54filling in the grid in his mind as he progressed.
02:57We got the chessboard with numbers pasted on it.
03:02Each figure, each number, meant a crime.
03:06While he officially succeeded in 60 murders, he viewed each death as a necessity for his own survival,
03:12claiming that life without murder was equivalent to life without food.
03:18Moscow police recovered this hammer.
03:21Pichushkin claims to have used it.
03:23As if that wasn't enough, Pichushkin also described himself as a father to his victims,
03:29believing he was opening a door to another world, whatever that means.
03:34He even blamed us for not being able to find all the bodies.
03:37Number 7. Driver's Licenses and IDs.
03:41Dennis Rader, the self-dubbed BTK killer, maintained what he called a motherlode of trophies hidden within his home.
03:48This secret collection contained female underwear and jewelry,
03:52but the most significant items were the original driver's licenses and identification cards of those he targeted.
03:59And there was something else, a photocopy of a driver's license.
04:02These IDs allowed Rader to revisit his crimes long after they occurred, to feel them again.
04:09Dolores Davis' driver's license and social security card had gone missing.
04:13That was certainly the kind of thing BTK did to his murder victims.
04:17This turned out to be a critical error on his part, though,
04:20as his own hubris and need to collect identities eventually led to his capture, at least partially.
04:27He just, evil, evil personified.
04:29Number 6. Photographs of Victims.
04:33Rodney Alcala used his professional persona as a photographer to lure young women into vulnerable positions.
04:40Rodney Alcala will go down in history as one of the world's most evil killers.
04:46Known as the dating game killer, following his 1978 television appearance,
04:52Alcala amassed hundreds of photographs that served as both bait and trophies.
04:56Investigators discovered a storage locker filled with these images,
05:00many depicting victims in various states of distress.
05:04When we got into his storage locker, immediately after he was identified and arrested,
05:10there's thousands of photographs.
05:12These photographs still pose a challenge to forensic experts today,
05:16as many of the individuals pictured have never been identified.
05:20His photo archive is a massive, unresolved record of his predatory reach and the sheer volume of his victims.
05:28Given the volume of the photographs, we always knew that we had other victims.
05:34We just, we didn't know who they were.
05:37Number 5.
05:38Beat.
05:38While shoes were his gateway, Jerry Brudos' obsession with feet eventually took a much darker, more morbid turn.
05:47He would sever the feet of his victims to preserve them as a physical part of his collection,
05:51sometimes fitting them into the shoes he had stolen.
05:55And then he put a foot in a freezer and would put shoes on this foot.
06:00In addition to the feet, Brudos was found to have crafted plastic molds of his victims' breasts to use as
06:07household paperweights.
06:08And they were cut off so that he could make a mold.
06:13He'd fully reduce his victims to functional, inanimate decorations in his home.
06:18He wouldn't always just kill them, though.
06:20In one case, Brudos lured a woman into his home,
06:23knocked her out, dressed her up in lingerie, and then amputated her foot.
06:27This was something that they couldn't fight back against him.
06:31Most of these souvenirs were kept in his garage, which has since been described as a laboratory.
06:38He's committed all of these murders, he's caused so much harm, so much trauma, and he wants credit for it.
06:44Number 4.
06:45Eyes.
06:46Charles Albright's transition from minor offenses to violent murder was marked by a specific and gruesome calling card.
06:53He mutilated the eyes of his victims, surgically removing them to keep as trophies.
07:00Both Mary Pratt and Susan Peterson had been mutilated in the most horrific manner,
07:05their eyes surgically removed during the twisted attacks.
07:09Despite his eventual arrest and conviction, the eyeballs he harvested were never recovered by law enforcement.
07:15This missing evidence still eludes police to this day, suggesting that Albright either successfully hid his collection or disposed of
07:24it in some way.
07:25All of the victims had been shot and had bizarrely had their eyeballs removed.
07:30But as detectives searched Albright's house, little evidence came to light.
07:35The cleanliness and precision of the removals indicate a fixation that went further than mere violence,
07:41meaning Charles had possibly trained himself in surgery.
07:45He will talk at length about his obsession with eyes to this day.
07:49In his prison cell, he reportedly had drawings that he had made of beautiful women's eyes.
07:54Number 3.
07:55Human Remains.
07:57Jeffrey Dahmer's Milwaukee apartment was a gallery of horror,
08:01containing human remains stored in refrigerators and vats of acid.
08:05He preserved the genitals of several victims in acetone, and kept a collection of body parts and skulls.
08:1231-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer was in his killing prime.
08:16He'd already murdered 11 men, and had begun collecting bones and skulls from his victims.
08:23Dahmer confessed that his ultimate goal was to construct an altar made of these bones,
08:28stating it was the only place he felt at home.
08:31This need to surround himself with the body pieces of his victims would reveal a desire for ownership that persisted
08:38long after his death.
08:40When the officers went to investigate, they found themselves in a living nightmare.
08:45They saw the body parts, and then one of the officers said he heard a scream,
08:48then he realized later he was the one who screamed when he saw the body.
08:51The stench from his garage and basement were so severe that his grandmother eventually forced him to move out.
08:58Though she remained unaware of the skulls he had been cleaning and storing in her home.
09:03Obviously, she had no inkling of the atrocities he was committing on their bodies,
09:08although she was complaining also about a foul odor that she noticed.
09:13Number 2. Faces.
09:15Ed Gein's farmhouse in rural Wisconsin contained some of the most grotesque trophies in American history.
09:21When the police first broke into Gein's house and discovered this crazy mass of body parts,
09:28their first assumption was Gein was a serial killer.
09:31When police investigated the disappearance of Bernice Worden,
09:35they discovered masks fashioned from human skin,
09:38chairs upholstered with flesh, and a belt made from human nipples.
09:42Gein also possessed a corset made from a female torso and skulls used as bowls.
09:48In plain sight, scattered throughout the house, was a ghastly array of human remains.
09:55Although he only had two confirmed murder victims,
09:58he admitted to robbing local graves at least 40 times to source the materials for his woman's suit.
10:04The sheer volume of household items made from human parts is unparalleled,
10:09inspiring horror characters like Leatherface and Buffalo Bill.
10:13Gein has grown into a notorious figure in American folklore,
10:16a killer of almost mythic proportions.
10:20Number 1. Heads
10:22Ted Bundy used his charm to lure at least 36 women to their deaths,
10:26but his private behavior involved the most grisly form of trophy-taking.
10:31No one who knew him would connect the charismatic young Ted Bundy
10:34with the man who'd now abducted at least eight women.
10:38Bundy confessed to decapitating 12 of his victims with a hacksaw,
10:42keeping their severed heads in his apartment for extended periods.
10:46He engaged in necrophilia with the remains,
10:49and went so far as to wash their hair and apply makeup to the faces of the deceased.
10:54He would rip parts of the body off.
10:56He would keep parts of the body mutilated after he did it.
10:59This is a person who ravaged his victims.
11:02Bundy made the infamous statement that
11:04they can be anything you want them to be, revealing his view on humans.
11:09Four of these heads were eventually discovered on Taylor Mountain in Utah,
11:14though many others were never found.
11:17Right up until the end, he's trying to buy himself more time.
11:20He's trying to just gradually give away some of this knowledge about his crimes.
11:24Those were 10 of the most disturbing serial killer trophies ever.
11:29Did you have one which didn't make the list?
11:32Tell us in the comments below.
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