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simple photography can gather dust in a cupboard for decades, getting covered in dust as the world around us changes. But there are also pictures that make us reconsider our faith in humanity. There is a saying that “A picture can be worth a thousand words”, and in this case it is completely true. These shots were captured shortly before the tragedy happened.
A typical day in Oma
On August 15, 1998, a car bomb attack took place in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The IRA group was responsible for this. 29 people were killed and more than 200 injured. The bombing was due to a local ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted over 30 years. Undermining a car in Oma was the bloodiest of all the time of this conflict. The camera with this photo was buried under a pile of rubble, capturing life on a quiet street in the moments before the bomb went off. One of the more touching photographs went around the world. Calmness, smiles, an unknown threat - a really frightening shot. Nothing foretells a massacre - in this picture frozen in time, everything will happen without the knowledge of people.
Latest footage of Regina Walters
Regina Kay Walters was a 14-year-old girl from Pasadena, Texas who was murdered by notorious serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes. She turned out to be one of three victims of a maniac who treated Regina in a special way. Rhodes cut her hair, dressed her in a black dress and took pictures. The one that stands out the most is the one you see above. Robert Ben Rhodes was caught in September 1992, taking two more lives in the process. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and remains incarcerated in a Texas prison to this day. The photo of this young girl in the last moments of her life is literally saturated with fear and despair. The girl looks at the torturer in horror, with despair on her face, which makes this photo a disgusting demonstration of human torture, like a cat playing with a mouse. The image forever captured the breaking of the soul of one person.
Photo by Reinaldo Dagza
Reinaldo Dagza actually filmed his own killer, as well as his own death. He was a Filipino politician who was assassinated on New Year's Eve 2011. His murder gained international notoriety for a photograph taken with his family just a second before the shooting. The photo also captures the killer himself, with a gun in his hands. Dagsa was taking a picture of his wife, daughter and grandmother when the shooter decided to make an assassination attempt. The photo was used as the main piece of evidence to jail two criminals, although it was believed that there were more. This photo is proof of the absolute absurdity of life: a man who was only 35 years old, at the very beginning of the new year, takes a picture of his loving family and at the same time sees his own death in the lens...
Tragedy on the Beas
On June 8, 2014, 24 engineering students from Hyderabad, India died during their journey when there was a sudden release of water at the Larji hydroelectric power station on the Beas River. The bus with the students stopped so that they could take photos on the banks of the River Beas. Without warning, the open floodgates and the flow of water took the group by surprise, killing all the students instantly. This incident was caused by gross negligence on the part of the workers at the Larji Hydroelectric Plant. This photo was supposed to be a simple reminder, a memory of a trip with friends from college. Instead, it became a harrowing look at the final moments of a group of friends.
Doomed
The above photograph and headline were very eloquently used by the newspaper New York post. These are the final moments of Ki-Suk Yong, a 58-year-old father and husband who is pushed under an incoming train by homeless Naiem Davis. Previously, a quarrel ensued between them, the reasons for which are not fully known. Naem Davis blames multiple causes for his aggressive actions - voices in his head, drugs, and even a lost pair of shoes. He claims that Ki-Suk Yeon would not leave him alone and that he acted according to the circumstances. After all these excuses, the "not guilty" Davis was charged with second-degree murder and sent to prison. Regardless of the cause of death, this photo will forever remain a sad reminder of the unexpected nature of death.
Suicide of Budd Dwyer
Robert Budd Dwyer has been a politician and Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for over 10 years. He also served as Treasurer of Pennsylvania until the day of his death on January 22, 1987. After being convicted of bribery, Dwyer called a press conference to announce his resignation. After all the accusations, Dwyer courageously accepted a 55-year sentence and a hefty $300,000 fine. In his eyes, this was an unfair punishment, as his ex-attorney William T. Smith admitted many years later. He said he lied under oath, accusing Dwyer of taking bribes. The press conference was broadcast live to television viewers throughout Pennsylvania. After reading part of the speech, Dwyer stopped reading and began handing out envelopes of his staff members. After the final envelope, he pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head before anyone could intervene. If for some reason you want to watch the video of Budd Dwyer's death, it's on Youtube.
Death of Travis Alexander
This is a photo of Travis Alexander, 30, taking a shower seconds before he was brutally murdered by his ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias. In 2008, friends found Travis Alexander dead at his home. He was found in the shower, with 27 stab wounds, a slashed throat, and a gunshot wound to the head. Arias initially denied killing Alexander, alleging a robbery, but she later changed her testimony, alleging self-defense murder.
Photo by James Bulger
In February 1993, ten-year-old John Venables and Robert Thompson murdered two-year-old James Bulger after kidnapping him from a Mall in Liverpool. The details of the case sent shockwaves of panic across England, forcing parents to rethink their children's upbringing. This photo of little James Bulger being taken away by his killers has graced the news channels for months and will forever be the last picture of this little one. Venables and Thompson stole James Bulger from their mother and walked with him, hand in hand, to the railway embankment 4 kilometers. On the way, the boys were repeatedly stopped by caring people. People thought they were lost or in need of help as James didn't stop crying out loud. They were even offered to help take the "little brother" home. James was found two days after his death, on a railway line in Walton. His horrific injuries were covered by the media, who were vocal about the leniency of the court's decision regarding the incident. Venables and Thompson remained in institutions for young offenders for eight years, receiving mental health care until the age of 18. They were subsequently released, the government took care of them and guaranteed their safety.
Mark Chapman and John Lennon
On the day John Lennon died, the Earth seemed to stop and plunge into mourning. In cities around the world, grief-stricken fans united and held mass funerals. It was an expression of the love that John Lennon sought to instill in people - a kind of musical affinity. Just one month before his death, John released "Double Fantasy" - the long-awaited album, which has been waiting for five whole years. This was his final album. On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon at the entrance to the Dakota (the building where Lennon lived in New York). Crazy Mark Chapman decided to kill Lennon because of his fame. He originally had a roster of several people, but Champen struck out Johnny Carson and George Q. Scott. “If he was less famous than three or four other people on the list, he wouldn't have been killed,” Chapman told police. This photo was taken hours before John Lennon was assassinated. The quiet, unassuming fan waiting for his autograph in the picture is none other than Mark David Chapman. Along with being the killer, he was, unfortunately, also the last person to be photographed with Lennon alive.
brothers on vacation
In 1975, Michael and Sean McQuilken, two smiling San Diego natives, were vacationing in California. Together with their sister Mary, they took pictures against the background of the beginning thunderstorm and laughed at their tousled hair, like many other people nearby. Seconds after this picture was taken at Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park, the boys were struck by lightning and seriously injured. Contrary to popular belief, lightning did not kill them. This image has been used countless times over the years, mainly as a public service announcement to draw attention to the dangers of lightning. The photo of the happy, carefree faces of these two brothers painfully hints at a life-threatening element that should not be underestimated. It is lightning that causes 24,000 deaths a year worldwide.
An ordinary photograph can be stored for many decades - it can be a photograph that shakes your faith in humanity, or an era-defining photograph, about which they will later say that "sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words." But the photos below may just leave you speechless.
1. Typical day in Omagh
On August 15, 1998, a car exploded in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The rebel organization IRA (Irish Republican Army) was behind this explosion, and it claimed the lives of 29 people, and 200 people were injured to varying degrees of severity. The explosion came at a time of "controversy" that arose during the ethno-nationalist conflicts in Northern Ireland. These conflicts continued for more than 30 years, and during the explosion in Oma died the largest number of people.
The camera used to take the photograph presented here was recovered from the rubble of a building destroyed by the explosion. The man in this photo is standing in the middle of a quiet street, and rejoices. A second before the bomb exploded. This is one of the most poignant photos of all that have been published since the explosion in Omagh. Serenity, smiles on the faces of people who are unaware of a mortal threat, all this makes this picture simply heartbreaking. Before us is forever frozen in time, the moment preceding the massacre of unsuspecting people.
2. Last minutes of Regina Kay Walters
Regina Kay Walters was a 14 year old girl from Pasadena, Texas. She was the victim of serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes. She was one of his three proven victims (although Rhodes himself claims to have killed many more), and he decided to finally play with her. Rhodes cut her hair, put a dress on her, and took a picture. It turned out the image of a man in trouble, the one you see here. Rhodes was captured in September 1992, but before that he managed to kill two more people. He was sentenced to life in prison without the right to parole, and to this day is in one of the prisons in Texas.
A photo of a young girl in the last moments of her life, changed, with cropped hair, dressed in an incomprehensible what, and left alone with such a monster as Rhodes - it is very hard to look at this. The camera impassively showed the despair on the face of this girl. He showed us a picture of disgusting torture: when the executioner plays with his victim, like a cat with a mouse. This is a photo that captures the forever broken human psyche.
3. Assassination of Reinaldo Dagza
Reinaldo Dagza was a Filipino politician who was killed in an armed attack during New Year's Eve 2011. The murder of this man gained worldwide fame thanks to a photograph showing Dagsa's family. At that moment, when Dagsa was photographing the family, the killer was also in the field of view of the camera, aiming directly at the politician. This picture was later used by Dagsa's wife as evidence, thanks to this picture, two men were arrested almost immediately, since the police decided that they were directly related to the murder.
This photograph seems bewitching, but it is also the embodiment of the most absurd: a man, 35 years old, at the very beginning of the new year, photographs his loving family, and at the same time photographing his own death.
4. Tragedy on the River Beas
On June 8, 2014, 24 students from Hyderabad, India, died while on a trip when a huge wave of water surged upstream from the Larji hydroelectric power plant on the Beas River. VNR VJIET engineering students were on an educational tour of Himachal Pradesh. They were driving from Shimla to Manali when the bus stopped so the students could get off and take some pictures on the banks of the Beas River. At that moment, the floodgates at the hydroelectric power plant opened without any warning, and a flood of water caught a group of 24 students by surprise, literally sweeping them off the shore in an instant. This happened due to the criminal negligence of the station staff.
This photo was supposed to be just another picture taken by a student during another exhausting study trip, but instead, the photo captures the last moment of life whole group young people.
5. "Doomed"
The photo you see captures the final moments of Ki Suk Han, a 58-year-old father and husband. He was pushed under the train by a homeless man named Naeem Davis, with whom Khan had recently argued about something. According to eyewitnesses, Khan was intoxicated due to a quarrel with his wife, and tried to exchange something with Davis. Davis, in turn, attributes his aggressive actions to several reasons at once: it could be drugs, voices in his head, or even the loss of his boots (according to him, they were very good boots). Either way, Davis claimed that Khan didn't leave him alone, and that he had to respond to Khan's harassment accordingly. And although Davis constantly repeated his "not guilty", he was charged with premeditated murder. Regardless of the reasons that led to the death of Khan, this photo will forever remain a man staring into the face of his own death.
6Bud Dwyer Public Suicide
Robert Bud Dwyer was a Pennsylvania Republican politician in the US Senate. He has been doing this for over 10 years. He later became chief treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania. He worked there until the day of his death: January 22, 1987. One day, Dwyer was accused of taking a bribe and called a press conference. He was supposed to announce his resignation there. If found guilty, he faced up to 55 years in prison and a $300,000 fine. Years later, a former lawyer named William Smith admitted to lying under oath when he accused Dwyer of taking bribes.
The press conference was broadcast live throughout the state of Pennsylvania. After reading part of his pre-prepared speech, Dwyer suddenly stopped reading, and began to distribute some envelopes to his employees. After handing over the last envelope, Dwyer pulled out a gun and said, "If this offends you in any way, please leave the room." As his friends and work colleagues later said, he said this with a slight stutter, and then pulled the trigger. It happened before they could stop him, and he died right in the hall. If for some reason you want to see a live video of Dwyer's suicide, you can easily find it on Youtube.
7. Death of Travis Alexander
You may have already seen this photo: 30-year-old Travis Alexander takes a shower. After that, he will be brutally murdered by his ex-girlfriend named Jodi Arias. When the murder took place, this photo was broadcast on many news channels.
In 2008, Travis was found dead at his home in Mesa, Arizona by friends. He was found on the floor of his bathroom with 27 stab wounds on his body, 1 gunshot wound to the head, and his throat had been cut. Arias initially denied any involvement in Travis' murder, stating that Travis was likely killed during the robbery. But later she changed her testimony, and confessed to having killed Travis in self-defense. Jody Arias is currently in jail awaiting sentencing. The trial is to take place on September 8, 2014.
8 CCTV shot of James Bulger
In February 1993, John Venables and Robert Thompson, both ten years old, killed two-year-old James Bulger after kidnapping him from the Strand shopping center in Liverpool (UK). The details of this murder set off a wave of panic throughout England, leaving parents to wonder what their children were capable of. A CCTV footage of James Bulger being taken away by his killers was broadcast on news channels for several months. And this was the last opportunity to look at a two-year-old child in his last hours.
Venables and Thompson lured Bulger away from their mother, and then walked with him for 4 kilometers, hand in hand, along the railroad tracks, away from the mall. On the way, the children were stopped several times by passers-by, asked if they were lost and if they needed help. They also advised the children to take home their "little brother" who couldn't stop crying. James's body was found two days after his death, tied to rails on a railroad line to Walton. His injuries were horrendous, and after media coverage of this fact, a wave of indignation arose in society due to the lenient sentence against two juvenile delinquents. Venables and Thompson were to spend 8 years in educational colonies and receive psychiatric care until they were 18 years old. And then they were released. Their names were changed and they received care and security guarantees from the government. After all, the government is constantly looking for the right people, is not it?
9. Mark Chapman met John Lennon
The day John Lennon died, the Earth stood still and wept. In cities around the world, grief-stricken fans and musicians united and held a worldwide funeral for one man. It was the love that Lennon gave to people. It was a musical relationship. A month before his death, Lennon released Double Fantasy, a long-awaited album. It was his first solo album, which was the result of five years of work. And it also became his last album.
On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon at the entrance to The Dakota (the building where Lennon lived) in New York. Lennon was targeted by the crazy Chapman because of his fame. And he was only killed because he was able to oust other potential victims on Chapman's list, such as Johnny Carson and George Scott. "If he was a little less famous than the three or four people on my list, he wouldn't have been shot," Chapman told police.
This picture was taken about an hour before Lennon was killed. The quiet, unassuming fan waiting for Lennon's autograph in this picture is none other than Mark David Chapman. He was Lennon's killer, and, unfortunately, he was the last person to be photographed with Lennon alive.
10. Two brothers on vacation
In 1975, Michael and Sean McQuilken were just two smiling guys on a family vacation in California. Along with their sister, Maria, they posed for a photo with their hair standing on end. They posed and laughed at the strangeness of this situation. Other vacationers in the area did much the same. This photo was taken on top of Moro Rock Mountain in California's Sequoia National Park, and a few minutes later the brothers were struck by lightning, the impact of which was terrible, but, contrary to popular belief, did not kill anyone.
This photo has been shown countless times over the years. It served as a public service announcement to get people to follow safety rules during a thunderstorm. The photo with the happy, carefree brothers very eloquently hints at a huge danger to life: an average of 24,000 people die every year from lightning strikes in the world. It is probably for this reason that this photo is now as shocking as it was before.
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Have you ever been stupid on the Internet, browsing a bunch of pages with a variety of content, and suddenly, out of nowhere, you stumble upon a seemingly harmless photo, but for some reason, you get goosebumps when you look at it? I'm not talking about caps from Paranormal Activity, or there storyboards of broadcasts from you-know-what-channel about Mount Ararat, giants and aliens who build pyramids.
I'm talking about the most seemingly ordinary photos, from real life itself, and at first glance there is nothing of the kind in them, but, nevertheless, it feels like only an icebreaker will save the blood in your veins now. Do you know what the problem is? Now I know and I hasten to enlighten the visitors of this site - I offer you an article in which you will also find the answer: photos do not need photoshopped ghosts, blurry silhouettes in mirrors and UFO crumbs to be scary - real stories behind them they chill the soul in a way that not a single most sophisticated fantasy of a sick or not very author can succeed.
17. The charred remains of Vladimir Komarov
In 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was assigned the mission to go into orbit - a mission that the cosmonaut himself obviously considered a failure, and agreed to it only because he was afraid for the life of his close friend Yuri Gagarin, who would have to replace Komarov if he refused.
When inspecting the Soyuz-1 spacecraft, 203 malfunctions were discovered, but the report on them never went upstairs - who would have had the courage to bring bad news to Brezhnev when he was determined to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution on a cosmic scale?
Malfunctions made themselves felt, as soon as the ship managed to enter orbit - the antennas did not open, the engines junk, control was difficult. The US National Security Agency, having picked up the signal, overheard Komarov admitting in a conversation with high-ranking officials that he knew he would die. Through the chairman of the government Kosygin and his wife, Komarov conveyed the message to the children. The ship began to descend, the parachute did not open, the Americans were able to catch snippets of Vladimir Komarov's last words: the cosmonaut was furious and blamed the USSR government for his death until his last breath.
16. Shadows of Hiroshima
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima is one of the most infamous events in world history. The death toll ranges from 90,000 to 166,000, half of whom died on the first day. Let's not get into politics, instead look at the horrific consequences.
When the bomb "Kid" exploded, a powerful wave of light radiation followed. If at the time of the explosion a person was standing near the wall, his body prevented the spread of radiation to the surface area behind him - the wall around him burned out, but this area remained untouched. Thus, on the walls there were "shadows" of silhouettes, footprints that serve as an eternal monument to people who once stood in these very places and seconds later turned to coal. This is a terrible reminder that war is hell on earth.
15. Group photo Columbine schools
The 1999 Columbine High School massacre will forever be remembered as one of the most horrific school shooting incidents in history. It was this tragedy that forced the world community to pay attention to issues such as bullying at school, gun control and the mental health of adolescents. Initially it was believed that the two guys who shot their classmates were downtrodden outcasts, but it was later revealed that Eric Harris was a psychopath and Dylan Klebold suffered from bipolar disorder. They wounded 37 people (of which 13 were fatal), and after that they shot themselves.
This photo was taken just a couple of weeks before the massacre. In the upper left corner, you can make out a group of teenagers who pretend to shoot at the camera - among them are the future killers. Whoever took this photo probably thought the teens were just fooling around, but now the photo takes on an ominous meaning as it openly reveals what was on the minds of two teens who are about to commit mass murder.
14. Terrorist attack in Oma
Imagine that you are strolling nonchalantly down the street with your little daughter and stop to pose for a photo. Nothing, it would seem, special, just another unremarkable day. What you don't know is that just a few steps from where you're posing, there's an inconspicuous red car full of explosives that detonate after a few seconds.
In August 1998, the terrorist organization Genuine Irish Republican Army planted a car bomb on a street in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack served as a protest against the Belfast Agreement and the ceasefire by the Irish Republican Army. As a result, 29 people were killed, more than 220 were injured. It was the deadliest terrorist attack of all time in the conflict in Northern Ireland, which took more than thirty years.
The terrorists had given warning of an explosion, but as a result of a misunderstanding, the police inadvertently led people towards the bomb instead of away from it. The photo below was found on a camera that was pulled out from under the rubble - the man and daughter captured on it miraculously survived. The photo serves as a pitiless reminder that life can change in the blink of an eye, and a thunderstorm can break even on the most cloudless day.
13. Blanche Monnier
This photo looks like a poster for a horror film about exorcism, but unfortunately, the photo is absolutely real, and the story behind it is much more terrifying than any movie.
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Monier family lived in the town of Poitiers in France - the family belonged to the very top of the middle class, she was respected in the district, and the Committee of Good Deeds even awarded her an award that only the most honorable citizens were awarded. When 25-year-old Blanche Monnier disappeared, it did not arouse any suspicion at all. Until, 25 years later, the Attorney General of Paris received an anonymous letter announcing that a woman was being locked up in Madame Monnier's house, living from hand to mouth and sleeping on a mattress covered in lice and her own excrement.
When the police found Blanche locked in a dark room, her weight was barely 24 kilograms, she had not seen the sun for a quarter of a century. Her mother and brother Blanche hid her from the whole world in order to prevent marriage with a man whose position they considered below the social status of their family. Although Blanche was able to put on some weight later, she never regained her mental health. The girl died in a psychiatric clinic thirteen years after she was lucky enough to escape from her cell.
12 Travis Alexander's Last Shower
In 2013, the media around the world were full of headlines about the trial of Jodi Arias. The girl was charged with murder sales agent Travis Alexander in 2008.
Alexander's body was found in his shower room. More than twenty-five stab wounds were inflicted on the man, after which the killer cut his throat and shot him in the head. Suspicion fell on Arias due to the information that Travis tried to break up with her, and the girl continued to pursue him.
The broken camera with this picture was found hidden in Alexander's washing machine at home, and the police were able to recover several of the deleted photos. Some showed the couple in sexual positions, and the image below was taken at 5:29 pm on the day of the murder. In the pictures taken minutes later, Alexander was already lying on the floor in blood, which means that this photo was taken a few moments before Arias broke loose and attacked her lover.
11. Tourist in the background
This March, Sailor Gilliams and Brenden Vega went camping in Santa Barbara County, California. Unfortunately, the path they chose was poorly lit, and the couple fell and maimed repeatedly. Hours of screaming with a plea for help did not give a result, and then Vega left his girlfriend and went for help. On the way, the young man stumbled, flew off a rocky cliff and crashed to death.
The next day, another group of tourists came to this area, who enthusiastically took pictures against the backdrop of nature. What they didn't notice was that in the background of these photos, face-drenched in the mud with a broken arm, ankles, and several other fractures, lay Sailor (you can tell by her curly red hair in the photo). You can imagine what her despair was - to see help so close, but at the same time so hopelessly far away.
In the end, the tourists still found Sailor and called the rescue service. The girl was helped, but it is easy to guess that she will never forget the death of a friend.
10. St. Helens eruption
Robert Landsburg, an American photographer from Portland, was 48 years old when he died in 1980. Volcano St. Helens was a favorite subject for him to shoot, he often visited the state of Washington to capture on film the changes taking place with the volcano. Interest in this volcano killed him, but not before the photographer managed to take this incredible picture.
On the morning of May 18, the day of the eruption, Landsburg was only a few kilometers from the summit. The photographer, well acquainted with the nature of volcanoes, knew that he could not escape from the giant cloud of ash approaching him, so he remained standing and continued to photograph, after which he put the camera in his backpack and lay on top of it to protect him from damage.
His body, buried under the ashes, was found 17 days later with a camera underneath him, almost unscathed. A fitting end for a man who gave his life for a job he loved.
9. Catch your own killer...on film.
Again - imagine you are celebrating New Year with your family, celebrate a new turn of the calendar with those you care most about, and ask loved ones to huddle together to capture a moment of joy on film. I'm sure all of us have done this. But if you're reading this right now, I can say with 100% certainty that none of you have ever seen your killer enter the frame a split second before pulling the trigger and ending your life.
This is exactly what happened to the Filipino adviser Reynaldo Dagsa, who had recently facilitated the arrest of his would-be assassin for stealing a car. On the right in the photo you can also see his accomplice, he is standing right behind the backs of Reinaldo's wife, his daughter and mother-in-law.
The only bright moment in this story is that the picture helped to quickly arrest the killer, and this time he went to prison for a much longer period than for stealing a car.
8. An autograph for a killer
This picture is probably familiar to everyone. It features music legend John Lennon signing a copy of his Double Fantasy album for Mark David Chapman, the man who will kill him in less than six hours.
Initially, Champman was a big fan of the Beatles and idolized Lennon, but after he turned to religion and became a zealous Christian, he turned his back on his favorite band, furious at John's words that the Beatles had become "more popular than Jesus." He was also infuriated by Lennon's hypocrisy regarding material values, since his wealth directly contradicted his own lyrics to the song "Imagine". And the fact that he did not support the lifestyle that he himself promoted, Chapman even considered an insult to the people whom Lennon inspired to this very lifestyle.
As Lennon left his apartment on his way to the recording studio, Chapman stopped him and asked for an autograph. The unsuspecting musician signed the record and went about his business. A few hours later, when Lennon returned from the studio, Chapman, seeing him, shouted after him, “Hey, Mr. Lennon!”, After which he shot him five times. Chapman remained at the scene of the crime - when the police arrived, he was sitting on the pavement and serenely reading "The Catcher in the Rye."
7. James Bulger
James Bulger is a boy from Kirkby, Merseyside, England. He was kidnapped a month before his third birthday, tortured by his captors and then killed. James disappeared while hiking shopping center while his mother was shopping at the butcher shop.
The kidnappers turned out to be two boys of ten years old, Robert Thompson and John Venables, who were skipping school that day, which they generally did with enviable constancy. According to one of them, the devilish couple deliberately planned to take some child away and push him into the roadway. The surveillance system detected how these little monsters were eyeing several children that day, and also stole some little things - sweets, batteries, paint.
The photo below is a frame from surveillance footage of Thompson and Venables leading Bulger by the hand out of the store. At first glance, the scene is unremarkable - two boys lead their younger brother through a crowded shopping center. But the truth behind this frame is chilling horror.
This pair of monsters forced little James to walk four kilometers to his own death, up the steep bank of railway tracks close to Walton & Anfield station. There they began to mock the baby, subjected him to torture, about which I cannot raise my hand to write, after which, as a result, they killed him with a ten-kilogram iron bar. The fact that a small child went through such an atrocity, especially at the hands of the same children who are supposed to fiddle with toys, and not kill babies, is simply incomprehensible.
6. Diver at the bottom
At first glance, this photo does not differ in anything special - a pair of scuba divers swims at a depth, examining the marine nature. But if you look closely, you can see that one of them lies motionless on the seabed. Without context, it's still not a very unsettling picture, but in fact, the story behind it is, shall we say, pretty mind-boggling.
The photo was taken by Gary Stemper and his wife is in the foreground. The other two divers are Tina Watson and a rescue scuba diver. Tina and her husband Gabe, an Alabama couple, came to Australia for their honeymoon to dive on the Great Barrier Reef. But Tina was not destined to rise to the surface alive.
According to Gabe, Tina was sucked in by strong currents, and when he swam to her to help, his wife accidentally knocked off his mask, and by the time he adjusted the equipment, Tina was already sinking too quickly. Gabe swam for help, and later stated that some problem with his ear prevented him from diving deeper for his wife, and in general, no one had prepared him for such a situation. Contradictions in testimony led to an investigation, and the Queensland prosecutor suggested that Watson cut off the air in his wife's gear, held her in a wrestling hold until she passed out, then turned her back on. oxygen balloon and only then rose to the surface.
An investigation in June 2008 led to an indictment in an Australian court, where Watson confessed to manslaughter and was convicted, but then the US Attorney's Office accused him of trying to collect money after the death of his wife. According to the prosecutor, Watson was going to receive 220 thousand dollars in insurance. Appeals followed, a trial in Alabama, and another bizarre incident in which hidden camera spotted Watson removing flowers from Tina's grave. In the end, the court found all the evidence of the prosecution unconvincing, and Watson was left to live out his days in disgrace and censure - a man who may have killed his own wife at the bottom of the ocean.
5. Heaven's Gate is not on board the spaceship
Heaven's Gate is a ufological sect of religious millennialists (see: fanatics-:)atists), founded in California in the 70s. Guided by the firm hand and extremely unstable mind of Marshall Applewhite, the organization believed that soon the Earth would be completely destroyed, and the only way to save it was to leave it immediately. In order to evacuate the planet, they needed to get to the alien ship, which, in their opinion, was flying behind the comet Hale-Bopp.
In March 1997, Applewhite convinced 38 lunatics to commit suicide with a cocktail of poisons and self-suffocation - after all, only in this way their souls could leave their bodies, move to a spaceship and reach a higher level of existence, unthinkable for a person.
Decaying in the spring heat, cultists were found in a rented mansion in the San Diego area. All the bodies lay on bunk beds, completely hidden under purple cloth, and each had carefully prepared $5.75 for "interplanetary travel" in his pocket. Also, they were all wearing the same black t-shirts, sweatpants and Nike sneakers. It is assumed that the mass suicide occurred in three stages - three groups in three days. Among the dead was the brother of actress Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in the original Star Trek series. The photo below is a moment of terrible discovery and a sad example of the limitlessness of human stupidity.
4. Jonestown
While we're on the subject of mass suicides, we can't help but mention the most infamous incident at Jonestown. As part of the sect's "Temple of the Peoples" project, led by the charismatic leader Jim Jones, a huge crowd of followers of 918 people committed suicide. This is the largest mass suicide in history, and a terrible reminder of the power of the cult of personality.
Until September 11, 2011, there was no tragedy in the US that claimed more human lives as a result of a deliberate act. Some eyewitnesses described the event as more of a mass murder than a suicide. At Jones's direction, a tank was prepared filled with Flavor Aid grape drink, to which was added a mixture of cyanide and Valium - this killer drink was injected into the children's mouths using syringes.
A 44-minute "death tape" recorded that day captured much of this horror. The photograph below conveys the scale of the lives taken that day - it shows that the bodies literally accumulate in the pyramids of death.
3. Clown Pogo
Let's start with the fact that this photo is already creepy, if only because it has a clown in it - this is enough reason to postpone laying bricks. But specifically this evil joker in the photo below is a true fiend from which Pennywise would have fled in fear to Uchkuduk. After all, Pogo the Clown is actually serial killer and rapist John Wayne Gacy. Known as the "Killer Clown", this guy is responsible for the rape and murder of at least 33 young people in six years.
He killed all his victims in his own house and buried in the cellar. When Gacy was arrested in 1978, he confessed to "25 or 30" murders, and at that time he disposed of the bodies by throwing them off the bridge, since his cellar was already full to capacity.
The photo, which is guaranteed to give you nightmares, shows Gacy as Pogo, a character Gacy himself created to participate in charitable causes such as fundraisers and children's parties.
2. Unknown victim
Dean Corl, infamously known as "Lollipop" for his penchant for handing out candy to neighborhood kids, is considered the most prolific serial killer in United States history. With the help of accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Hanley, Korl raped, tortured and eventually killed at least 28 boys between 1970 and 1973.
Korl was shot to death by Hanley, who is currently serving a 600-year sentence for complicity. In 2012, a filmmaker was given the go-ahead to inspect Korl's personal belongings that were left in an old school bus. Among them, he found a Polaroid of a handcuffed boy lying on the floor next to Korlov's torture chest with a look of horror in his eyes.
The feeling of nausea from contemplating this photo is exacerbated by the fact that no one recognized the child in the photo, which means that Lollipop had more victims than the police know.
1. Regina Walters
The photo shows 14-year-old Regina Walters on a family vacation with her parents. On the way to the village, the parents noticed a few dilapidated pasture farms along the road and thought it would be fun to take some quick shots. Regina, like most girls her age, is only photographed if she looks her best, and therefore was very unhappy with her mother's attempts to take her off against her wishes. The result is an awkward photo of a girl who doesn't want to pose for a photo, but there's nothing terrible about that. We all have a similar photo.
Now forget everything you just read, because none of this really happened. The circumstances under which this photo was taken are truly horrific, and from such nightmares are born. The girl in the photo is indeed Regina Walters, but the person behind the camera is not a member of the family at all. This is serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes filming one of his victims moments before she takes her last breath.
Rhodes traveled the country in a heavy trailer, which he himself equipped as a torture chamber, and kidnapped and then killed at least three young people a month. It is said that this monster also carried a tool case with him, which he used to torture his victims. Walters was one of the many unfortunates who fell into the trap of the killer. A farmer discovered her body in a barn during a final inspection, after which the barn was to be burned down.
An inspection of the crime scene where Regina's body was found revealed that it was indeed the location from the photo. On it you see literally the last seconds of the life of a girl distraught with fear, moments before a deranged madman took her from this world solely on his own sick whim.
It is no secret that it is naive and unsafe to expect something good from murderous maniacs. The inner demons whisper wild and terrible things in their heads. Although nothing human is alien to them - treat a little boy with candy and pat on a blond head before being tortured to death and cut into pieces. Or take a photo of the victim for memory, not yet suspecting that this picture will be farewell for her.
In general, killers take photos of their victims quite often. Like a hunter, for whom the aerobatics is to capture the still living “game” for history on their own camera, the maniacs earnestly click the shutter so that later, looking through the printed silent testimonies of their inhuman deeds, they again revel in their own power over the fate of the unfortunate victim with a shudder of delight . However, there is undoubtedly a benefit from such posturing - and the evidence base after the capture of the scoundrels is wider, and the relatives of the victims get the opportunity to absolutely accurately find out the truth about the last hours of the life of their missing loved ones.
What kind of photos from the masters of pain and horror are present in the treasury of forensic science today? Let's take a look at some of them.
Rodney Alcala - hippie killer with a camera
The widest collection of photos of the victims belongs to an amateur photographer and part-time American strangler Rodney Alcala, who committed atrocities from 1971 to 1979 and took the lives of seven people under proven articles. Given the abundance of images, the estimated number of victims of the Dating Game Killer could be as high as 130 people! An elderly photographer with the appearance of a good-natured hippie offered the future victim a photo shoot, then playfully handcuffed him or tritely stunned him with a piece of steel rail, and then strangled him. Brought to life and again strangled. And so for several hours, each time peering intently into the eyes of his victim, from which the spark of life slowly slipped away.
Like many American serials, Alcala was repeatedly arrested, but decades could stop his successful “harvest” only at the very end of the seventies of the last century. An inhuman sentenced to death several times, one of whose victims was cynically raped with a nail hammer, was released due to the casual features of the US legal system and received a final sentence only in 2010 (!)
Due to the current moratorium on death penalty he is still alive and does not deny himself the attention of journalists and various fabulists-biographers, in a Washington prison.
John Wayne Gacy - a clown who liked to be photographed with victims
It is not necessary to strictly condemn people suffering from Coulrophobia - the fear of clowns. Perhaps they have good reason for this, which was given by a gay, rapist and killer clown in one bottle, John Wayne Gacy. This sick-headed bastard has come up with a stage persona that is perfect for disguising his inclinations as charity events, sneaking up on his future victims unnoticed. On account of the bloody "circus" more than thirty young men, whom he raped and strangled.
A cheerful children's clown named Pogo repeatedly advertised young people for unskilled contract construction work. The careless victim was stunned, tied up and became the object of sexual games with a deadly ending. Once, convinced of the complete failure of law enforcement agencies and his own impunity, Gacy lured two young men to his home. The clown buried them with enthusiasm and fantasy, in the 69 position, putting each member of his brother in misfortune into his mouth.
The seventies of the last century in the United States turned out to be very productive for serials. Gacy, who took life from 1972 to 1978, was nevertheless executed in May 1994 by injecting “death serum” into a vein.
Arnold Corll - Last Photo for Candy
And again the seventies. From 1970 to 1973 owner confectionery factory in Houston Height fed about thirty male children and adolescents under 20 years of age with free candy. None of them endured such generosity - having got to Arnold Corll's house, the victims were tortured, bullied, followed by rape. At the end of a boring evening, Col's accomplices - David Owen Brusk and Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., who also participated in the bacchanalia, helped in strangling the unfortunate, or shot them in the head with a 22-caliber pistol.
A photograph of a child handcuffed next to a tool box for torture demonstrates the horror and desperation of the victim, who realized the whole disastrous situation in which she was not lucky enough to find herself.
Robert Ben Rhodes - trucker photographer
A photo of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters circled the world as the last dying image of a young, slender brunette in love who became the victim of Robert Ben Rhodes, a serial Texas killer who worked as a truck driver.
Rhodes even equipped a special torture chamber in his truck, which he repeatedly used from 89 to 90 of the last century. The exact number of victims of the driver of "hell on wheels" is not known - experts who have studied Rhodes' routes believe that he killed about three times a month.
Rhodes was detained by accident by a police officer who decided to check a suspicious truck on the side of the road. This made it possible to save the last victim of the maniac, hobbled, with a horse bit in his mouth, whom Rhodes had raped over the past few days. Regina is not so lucky.
Harvey Murray Glatman - camera nerd
Another "professional" photographer who created deadly collages with fashion models dreaming of being on the cover of a detective novel. Strangled after repeatedly raping four girls with an ordinary household rope, the bespectacled photographer still kept his word - photographs of the victims fell into the hands of detectives, however, such a ending would hardly suit the girls themselves.
Taking advantage of the impotence of the victims, Harvey raped the victim at gunpoint, took another photo, then raped again, receiving ecstasy from the horror and pain of a helpless beauty. The murderer with a camera managed to commit three murders in a row, but the next chosen victim gives the puny photo-esthete a “bang”, takes away the gun and hands the scoundrel into the hands of the cops who have arrived on call. In November 1958, the district court gives the talented paparazzi a breath of stale air in the gas chamber, and photos of several of his victims will forever fill up the archives of the world's criminalists.
The picture that went down in history under the name "The most beautiful suicide."
Evelyn McHale committed suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles, who happened to be nearby, captured McHale's body as it fell onto a UN limousine. Before committing suicide, McHale left her fiancé. Her suicide note read: “He will be better off without me. I couldn't be a good wife to anyone."
Regina Kay Walters
This photograph of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who was later captured driving a truck with a torture chamber in the trailer. Before taking this picture, Rhodes cut his victim's hair and forced her to wear a dress and high heels before killing her in a barn in Illinois.
Tyler Hadley.
Tyler Hadley, 17, wanted to throw a party, but his parents were at home, so he beat them both to death with a hammer. He hid the corpses, cleaned up the mess, and invited guests while the bodies of his parents remained in the house. This picture was taken the night after the murder, when Tyler confessed to his friend Max (left).
Photograph by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Kevin Carter.
South African photographer Kevin Carter worked in Sudan during the 1993 famine. The picture shows a starving child crawling towards a food distribution center while a vulture prowls nearby, waiting for easy prey. Carter could not approach the children because of the threat of infection. Three months after the Pulitzer Prize ceremony, 33-year-old Carter committed suicide, unable to bear the painful memories.
Travis Alexander.
The last photo of Travis Alexander taken by his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias before he was murdered. She came to his house and, while they were fooling around, took several pictures of him. Travis' body was found in the bathroom five days later with 27 stab wounds, a slashed throat, and a bullet through his head.
Cult of the Heavenly Gates.
On March 26, 1997, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists committed suicide, believing that their souls would be taken to the Hale-Bopp comet by spacecraft. The founder of the cult, Marshall Applewhite, convinced them that aliens would soon cleanse the Earth, so they should leave this world.
Blanche Monier.
Blanche Monnier was kept in confinement for 24 years in a room where she had to live among her own feces. She was discovered in 1901 when someone told the police her whereabouts. A 24-year-old woman has not seen sunlight.
Reynaldo Dagsa.
Filipino politician Reinaldo Dagsa photographed his family during New Year's Eve celebrations. His killer also got into the frame. It turned out to be a car thief, whom Dagsa once hid behind bars.
"Temple of the Peoples".
American preacher Jim Jones (Jim Jones) founded the religious movement "Temple of the People", which went down in history as the largest mass suicide. 918 cult members committed suicide by cyanide poisoning.
Dean Corll.
Dean Corll was nicknamed Lollipop because he constantly handed out candy to the neighborhood kids. He was one of the most brutal serial killers in history. Between 1970 and 1973, Corll raped and killed at least 28 boys. He had two accomplices, one of whom shot him. This picture was found among his personal belongings. The boy from this photo was never identified, which leads to terrible thoughts that the victims of the maniac were much more than 28.
John Lennon and his assassin Mark David Chapman.
Chapman killed Lennon just hours after this picture was taken. When Chapman was asked why he did this, he replied: "I thought I would get his fame."
Massacre at Columbine High School.
This picture was taken two weeks before the Columbine massacre, when 12 students and one teacher were gunned down. In the upper left corner, you can see two schoolchildren who imitate shooting at the camera. Many see this gesture as a terrible prophecy.
Photo taken in the gas chamber in Auschwitz, Poland.
Attack in Oma.
This picture was taken minutes before the Omagh attack in Northern Ireland. The explosive device was planted in the red car you see in this picture. The explosion, organized by the Genuine Irish Republican Army, claimed the lives of 29 people. The father and son captured in this picture survived.
Traveler Christopher McCandless.
The last self-portrait taken by Christopher McCandless before he traveled to the uninhabited part of Alaska. Shortly after this picture was taken, hunters found McCandless's body in an abandoned bus. As it turned out later, the traveler was poisoned by the root of a poisonous plant.
