Killer Robert ben rhoades. Photos, behind each of which is a terrible story (15 photos)
regular shot can be stored for many decades - it can be a photograph that shakes your faith in humanity, or a photograph that defines an entire era, 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 the explosion in Omagh killed 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 photographs 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 as a memento by a student during another exhausting study trip, but instead, the photo captures the last moment of a whole group of young people's lives.
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, friends found Travis dead at his home in Mesa, Arizona. 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 a building. shopping center Strand, 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, isn't 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. She served social advertising in order to force people to observe safety rules in 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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Before killing his victims, he brutally tortured and raped them in his truck, which he equipped with a special torture room. Rhodes' travels and killer streak are the subject of a book by Alva Busch called "Roadside Prey", who at one time personally conducted his own investigation. Alva Bush wrote a book about Rhodes almost ten years after the events, by which time Rhodes was behind bars.
Robert Ben Rhodes in custody
Date of Birth:
November 22, 1945
Profession:
Truck driver (truck driver)
Motive:
Rape / Torture
Number of victims:
3+
Kill period:
1989 - 1990
Date of arrest:
April 1, 1990
Kill method:
Choking/Pistol shooting
Scene of crimes:
Texas, Illinois, USA
Status:
Life imprisonment
Rhodes is a former truck driver. Investigators believe that a torture room was set up in the cab of his truck, in which he brutally and systematically tortured the women he held captive before killing them.
Robert Ben Rhodes
To be honest, an article in the Tucson Weekly in 1996 contained lines that made the blood run cold. A police investigator said that in early 1990, Rhodes kidnapped and killed an average of three women a month. He always had a briefcase with torture items on the road, according to the data in the article. The exact number of victims is still unknown.
Alva Bush believes that Rhodes roamed the roads for years, using his truck to satisfy his lust by torturing and killing people. His bloody journey came to an end one day in 1990 when an Arizona police officer stopped to examine a truck parked on the highway with its headlights on.
Alva Busch: "When the officer got on the running board to look inside the truck, he saw a handcuffed woman in the cab with a horse bit in her mouth." A police officer arrested Rhodes and rescued the woman, who had been held captive on the highway for many days.
Scott Zyskowski
In 1990, 25-year-old Patricia Candice Walsh and her husband, Douglas Scott Zyskowski, both from Seattle, were hitchhiking in Texas when Rhodes picked them both up on the road. Prosecutors believe he killed Ziskowski and dumped his body in January 1990 in Texas. Utah officials believe that for the next seven days, Walsh was held captive by Rhodes before he shot her multiple times and buried the body.
A month after Walsh's death, Rhodes took in 14-year-old Regina Walters and Ricky Lee Jones, a couple in love from Texas. He killed Walters in Illinois and was later convicted for that crime. On September 11, 1992, Rhodes pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Jones' body has never been found.
Walsh's body was found almost a year later by a farmer and deer hunter who discovered a decomposed corpse 22 miles south of Fillmore in October 1990, she had already been dead for several months when she was found. Examination confirmed through dental records that it was 14-year-old Regina Walters from Pasadena, Texas, who was last seen in February 1990 near Houston with her boyfriend, Ricky Lee Johnson.
Even after the body was found, Walsh was considered an unknown for 13 years, and her remains were stored in the basement of the Millard County Sheriff's Office. But with the help of a set of random circumstances, Millard's detectives were finally able to identify and identify her in 2003. Then 59-year-old Robert Ben Rhodes was linked to DNA.
After identifying Walsh, the next step in the investigation went much faster. The police found enough evidence to link the bastard Rhodes to the crime. By then, Rhodes was already serving a life sentence in Illinois for murder.
Last photo of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters before she was killed by Robert Ben Rhodes.
This picture was a key piece of evidence and proof. In the photo above, the man behind the camera is serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes filming one of his victims moments before she takes her last breath.
Rhodes' bloody story itself came to an end on April 1, 1990, in Arizona, when police stumbled upon Rhodes' trailer truck while he was in the process of torturing another woman. He was convicted and sent to prison. But before he had to be released in Arizona, officials in Illinois they filed their case. Rhodes was sent to Illinois, where he stood trial and was again found guilty and convicted.
Regina Kay Walters died at the hands of Robert Ben Rhodes
In 2005, Rhodes was extradited from the Pontiac, Illinois Correctional Center to the Utah Correctional Center to stand trial for the murder of Walsh. If found guilty, prosecutors then said they would seek to see Rhodes given the death penalty.
Based on the wishes of the Walsh and Ziskowski family, Utah dropped its case in 2006 and sent Rhodes back to Illinois to await Texas authorities, who filed two counts of murder and were also seeking the death penalty for the maniac. Under Texas law, prosecutors will be able to sentence Rhodes at trial for both deaths at once. In Utah, only Walsh's murder can be considered.
Although Alva Bush and other researchers believe that there were many victims, Rhodes was convicted of only one murder - Patricia Candace Walsh. He is serving a life sentence without parole in Illinois. If found guilty in Utah, he could face the death penalty.
We present to your attention photos that, at first glance, may seem quite ordinary and harmless. But what made them famous was the fact that terrible events lurk behind each of them. It is unlikely that any of us thinks that this or that picture can be the last in our life or anticipate a tragedy. For example, not so long ago, newlyweds on vacation were photographed a second before the misfortune. And if death itself cannot be captured, then in each of the photographs below it is definitely invisibly present.
Survivors. In this photo, at first glance, there is nothing unusual. Until you notice a gnawed human spine in the lower right corner.
The heroes of the picture are the players of the Uruguayan rugby team "Old Cristians" from Montevideo, who survived the plane crash on October 13, 1972: the plane crashed in the Andes. Of the 40 passengers and 5 crew members, 12 died in the crash or shortly thereafter; then 5 more died the next morning..
The search operations were stopped on the eighth day, and the survivors had to fight for their lives for more than two months. Since food supplies quickly ran out, they had to eat the frozen corpses of friends.
Without waiting for help, some of the victims made a dangerous and long transition through the mountains, which turned out to be successful. 16 men were rescued.
In 2012 the star of Mexican music Jenny Rivera died in a plane crash. Selfie on the plane was taken a few minutes before the tragedy.
No one survived as a result of the plane crash.
Thunderstorm Games. In August 1975, a girl from the United States, Mary McQuilken, photographed her two brothers, Michael and Sean, during severe weather, with whom she spent time on top of one of the cliffs in California national park sequoias.
A second after the picture was taken, all three were struck by lightning. Only 18-year-old Michael survived. In this photo - the sister of young men Mary.
It is worth noting that the atmospheric discharge was so powerful and close that young people's hair literally stood on end. Survivor Michael works as a computer engineer and still receives emails with questions about what happened that day.
Regina Walters. A 14-year-old girl was photographed by a serial killer named Robert Ben Rhodes a few seconds before being killed ... The maniac took Regina to an abandoned barn, cut her hair and forced her to wear a black dress and shoes.
Rhodes toured the United States on a huge trailer, which he equipped as a torture chamber. At least three people a month became its victims.
Walters was one of those who fell into the trap of a maniac. Her body was found in a barn that was supposed to be burned down.
"Pli!". In April 1999, high school students from the American Columbine School posed for a group picture. For the general cheerfulness, two guys pretending to point a rifle and a pistol at the camera hardly drew attention to themselves.
But in vain. A few days later, these guys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, showed up at Columbine with weapons and improvised explosives: their victims were 13 fellow students, 23 people were injured.
The crime was carefully planned, which led to such a number of victims.
The culprits were not detained, because in the end they shot themselves. Later it became known that teenagers were outsiders at school for many years, and what happened was a cruel act of revenge.
Girl with black eyes. You might think that we have a frame from a horror movie, but, unfortunately, this is a real photo. In November 1985, the Ruiz volcano erupted in Colombia, as a result of which the province of Armero was covered with mudflows.
13-year-old Omaira Sanchez was the victim of a tragedy: her body was stuck in the rubble of a building, as a result, the girl stood up to her neck in mud for three days. Her face was swollen, her hands were practically white, and her eyes were bloodshot.
Rescuers tried to rescue the girl different ways but in vain.
Three days later, Omaira fell into agony, stopped responding to people, and eventually passed away.
Family photo. It would seem that there is nothing strange in the photo of the Victorian era, which depicts a father and mother with a daughter. The only feature: the girl turned out to be very clear in the picture, and her parents are blurry. Guess why? Before us is one of the posthumous photographs popular in those days, and the girl depicted on it died shortly before from typhus.
The corpse remained motionless in front of the lens, and therefore it appeared clearly: photographs in those days were taken with a long exposure, which made it necessary to pose for a very, very long time. Perhaps that is why photos of “post-mortem” (i.e. “after death”) have become incredibly fashionable. Oddly enough, the heroine of this picture is also already dead.
The woman in this photo died in childbirth. In photo salons, they even installed special devices for fixing corpses, and the eyes of the dead were opened and a special agent was instilled into them so that the mucous membrane did not dry out and the eyes did not become cloudy.
fatal dive. It would seem that there is nothing strange in this photo of divers. However, why does one of them lie at the very bottom?
Divers accidentally discovered the body of 26-year-old Tina Watson, who died on October 22, 2003 during her honeymoon. A girl with her husband named Gabe went on a honeymoon to Australia, where they decided to go diving.
Under water, the beloved turned off the young wife's oxygen cylinder and held it at the bottom until she suffocated. Later, the offender, who received a life sentence, said that his goal was to obtain insurance.
sad father. At a cursory glance, there is nothing unusual in this picture with a pensive African, but if you look closely, you can see that a severed child's foot and hand lie in front of the man.
Pictured is a Congolese rubber plantation worker who failed to meet his quota. As a punishment, the overseers ate his five-year-old daughter, giving the remains for edification ... This was practiced quite often, as can be seen from other pictures.
At the same time, white officers and overseers, as evidence that they had destroyed the local cannibal, presented his right hand. The desire to rise in the service led to the fact that the hands were chopped off from everyone, including children, and those who pretended to be dead at the same time could stay alive ...
Assassin with a sword. It would seem like a picture from Halloween, right? 21-year-old Swede, Anton Lundin Peterson, came in this form to one of the schools in Trollhätten on October 22, 2015. Two schoolchildren decided that what was happening was a joke and happily took pictures with a stranger in a strange outfit.
After that, Peterson slaughtered these youths and went after the next victims. He ended up killing one teacher and four children. The police opened fire on him and he died from his wounds in the hospital.
dying tourist. Americans Sailor Gilliams and Brenden Vega set off on a hike in the vicinity of Santa Barbara, but due to inexperience they got lost. There was no connection, and due to the heat and lack of water, the girl was left completely exhausted. Brendan went to get help, but crashed after falling off a cliff.
And these photos were taken by a group of experienced tourists who, returning home with horror, noticed a red-haired girl lying unconscious on the ground. Rescuers went by helicopter to the scene of the tragedy, Sailor survived.
kidnapping two year old James Bulger. It would seem that it is strange that an older boy leads the younger by the hand? But behind this picture lies a terrible tragedy ...
John Venables and Robert Thompson took 2-year-old James Bulger from the mall, brutally beat him, covered his face in paint, and left him to die on the train tracks.
The 10-year-old killers were found thanks to video footage from a surveillance camera. The criminals received the maximum term for their age - 10 years, which greatly outraged the public and the mother of the victim. Moreover, in 2001 they were released and received documents for new names.
In 2010, it was revealed that John Venables was returned to prison for an unmentioned parole violation.
Later it became known that Venables was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. The police found 57 images of child pornography on his computer. On the Internet, Venables posed as a 35-year-old married woman who boasted of abusing her 8-year-old daughter in the hope of obtaining other child pornography.
Take a picture of your own killer. Again, at first glance, we have the usual family photo but look at the background.
The picture was taken by the Filipino adviser Reinaldo Dagsa, whom the killer decided to take revenge for helping to arrest him for stealing a car.
It was the photo that helped to quickly identify the killer and put him behind bars again.
Suicide on the bridge. A Chinese reporter who was trying to capture fog on the Wuhan Yangtze River, only after a detailed study of the photo, discovered that the picture captured a man at the moment of falling from the bridge, as it turned out later, his girlfriend jumped after him a few seconds later.
last shower. The man in the photo has a strange expression on his face, don't you think? The camera with this picture was found in the washing machine of Travis Alexander, who was killed in the shower by stabbing 25 times, including in the neck, and shot in the head.
The incident was blamed on his girlfriend Jody Arias, with whom he was going to break up, but the girl pursued him and literally did not give a pass
Other images found at the crime scene showed the couple in sexual positions, and a picture of Travis in the shower was taken at 5:29 p.m. on the day of the murder. In the photo, taken just minutes later, Alexander was already lying in blood on the floor.
Seconds before the explosion. Posing for a photo, the father and daughter hardly guessed that in the car, captured next to them, there is an explosive that will detonate in a few seconds.
This terrorist attack in August 1998 was carried out by the terrorist organization Genuine Irish Republican Army. As a result, 29 people were killed, more than 220 were injured. The camera with the first picture was found under the rubble, and his heroes miraculously survived.
As if killing young men and women wasn't enough, maniac Robert Ben Rhodes took photographs of his victims before his death, capturing a truly nightmarish frame for history that is impossible to watch without shuddering.
Driving along the endless American roads from the west coast to the east, the trucker harvested his bloody crop for fifteen years, killing an average of one to three women a month and invariably a fugitive. As was the case in Martin McDonagh's recent excellent film "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", when the killer picks up the future victim on the side of the road, promising a ride to the desired destination, then does his cruel deed and calmly leaves the scene of the crime without fear of prosecution , because his truck appeared in these places for the first and last time in his life.
Serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes
Regina Walters and Robert Ben Rhodes
The photo of the 14-year-old Pasadena native who ran away from home with her boyfriend to seek adventure is the scariest shot in the killer-photographer's archive. Young lovers Regina Walters and Ricky Jones were hitchhiking across the country until they crossed paths with a serial killer on truck. The maniac killed the guy immediately, and gave the girl a nightmarish marathon of torture and torture. Usually, the psychopath had enough sophisticated fantasy for a couple of weeks, after which he got rid of the captive, threw the corpse in the nearest ditch and went in search of a new victim. This is what happened to the unfortunate girl who was killed in February 1990.
Killer truck photo 
Photo of the interior of the killer truck
The track where the killer Robert Ben Rhodes found his victims In the cab of his death truck, the maniac set up a torture chamber, where he gave free rein to his monstrous nature. It was here that the criminal was overtaken by justice, and it happened quite by accident. God knows how many innocent people would have been harmed at the hands of a killer-photographer if, on an April evening in 1990, police officer Mike Miller of the Arizona State Highway Patrol had not become suspicious while driving past a truck parked on the side of the road. The officer approached the car, looked inside and saw a terrible picture, which he would certainly not forget until the end of his days. Miller pointed a gun at the suspect and called for reinforcements.
Thus ended the story of the murders of Robert Ben Rhodes and began a long investigation that is ongoing to this day, acquiring new ominous details.
Regina Walters - the victim of a maniac
Rhoads received his life sentence for the murder of Regina Walters, but over time he confessed to several more murders, and then the investigation guessed to compare the diary of the maniac trucker with the approximate location of the disappearance of persons listed as missing. Thus, the list of victims of Robert Ben Rhodes grew to a nightmarish number of 50, although some experts tend to think that the real figure is even worse - more than 100, and the atrocities began back in 1975, when the murderer changed jobs and got behind the wheel of a truck.
We bring to your attention 15 photos behind which stand real stories, at one time terrified even the most experienced forensic scientists.
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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 him ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias before his murder. 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 delivered to the Hale-Bopp comet on spaceship. 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 cruel 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.
