Though most true crime fanatics claim to know everything there is to know about infamous serial killers, that knowledge is all gleaned from podcasts, films, & books. And most media only goes so far. It usually doesn't convey the gruesome nuances of these infamous murders. But we're not most media. Take a look at the harrowing photographs depicting the often unseen details of these killers' lives and crimes. They fill in blanks you didn't know existed.
From an English murderer taking a pork chop into a photobooth to Edmund Kemper towering over his prison guards, here are 22 seldom-seen photos of notorious serial killers.
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“Serial killer Edmund Kemper with two prison guards, California Medical Center, early 2000s.”
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The graffiti left at Frances Brown's apartment by 'The Lipstick Killer' (William Heirens). Frances was found with a knife lodged in her neck and a bullet wound on the head, 10 December 1945. [278x272]
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“Ted Bundy with his ex-girlfriend & her daughter. It’s so creepy how he’s holding their heads.”
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“John Wayne Gacy's clown suits.”
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“This photo is a little unsettling, but gets worse when you realize that's Joseph Ray Metheny, a serial killer who has a confirmed 10 kills and ran a BBQ stand in Maryland. Its believe he used human meat in his stand.”
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“Art by convicted serial killer Elmer Wayne Henley.”
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“The mummified head of serial killer Peter Kürten "der Vampir von Düsseldorf" is displayed in an museum.”
9
“X-ray of serial killer Albert Fish’s pelvis and perineum with more than 2 dozen self-embedded needles.”
10
“Serial killer Ed Gein's soup bowl made from a human skull…”
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“An image of the mask worn by the English serial killer known as "The Beast Of Jersey.”
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“The 178 year old preserved head of Portuguese serial killer Diogo Alves (1810-1841).”
13
Richard Ramirez waves to his groupies in court.
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“This is serial killer John Edward Robinson (yellow sweater) holding [a] baby … whose mother he murdered the day before.”
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“First Lady Rosalynn Carter with infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy, 1978.”
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“Jeffrey Dahmer Passed Out with a Bottle of Thunderbird (Late 1970’s).”
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“An excavation of victims at one of Californian serial killer Juan Corona's burial sites, 1972.”
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“English serial killer Patrick Mackay posing in a photo booth while eating a lamb chop. Kent, England 1975.”
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“Teenage serial killer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer standing with a giant bong made of snow back in 1976.”
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“Robert Pickton is a Canadian serial killer and former pig farmer. He is one of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history confessing to 49 murders. Its believed he fed some of his victims to pigs. He also sold ‘pork pies’ that actually contained human flesh.”
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“John Douglas, former FBI agent and pioneer of criminal profiling, with serial killer Ed Kemper, 1970s.”
22
“Roman Polanski kneeling at his door where 'Pig' is written in his wife's blood (Sharon Tate) after the Manson family murders, 1969.”
23
“The hands of German serial killer Fritz Honka.”
