- Serial Killer's Crime Scene Photos Link (Graphic) Discussion in 'The Front Porch!' Started by BillieJeanDab, Aug 31, 2012. Tags: serial killer; Page 2 of 2.
- This picture was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades. 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters was one of the numerous women held in an 18-wheeler equipped with a torture chamber in the back. The photo was taken in an abandoned Illinois barn, where Rhoades killed Walters after cutting off her hair and making her wear a black dress and heels.
Frank Scherschel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Curiosity-seekers peer through a window into the house of serial killer Ed Gein in Plainfield, Wisconsin. The bright lighting in the side ground floor window is part of the illumination for the on-site crime lab.
Serial killers often keep “trophies” of “souvenirs” of their victims, mementos that are kept to prolong the killers’ pleasure or give them a sense of ownership over the deceased. Experts say, the act is similar to that of a big-game hunter who proudly hangs the head of its prey on the wall, aside from the fact that it involves killing another human being.
Throughout history, some of the most notorious killers were known to keep humans remains of their victims, such as Jack The Ripper, who collected organs as trophies, or Dennis Nilsen, who hid his victims’ bodies under his floorboards so he could “watch over them” as he masturbated.
It’s fair to say that these killers are monstrous people, whether or not their actions were predestined by psychological abnormalities. So, to honor the lives of their victims, and to remind us of the sadism and savagery of their actions, here are the serial killers who photographed their victims, alongside chilling images of their victims’ last moments.
Harvey Glatman
Known as The Lonely Hearts Killer,” Glatman was an American serial killer active in the late-1950s. He exhibited his antisocial behavior and malice sexual tendencies from an early age, and began killing when he moved to Los Angeles to work as a professional photographer. By by trolling Los Angeles modeling agencies, he would lure his victims to his hotel rooms where he would then tie them up, photograph them, kill them, and dump their bodies in the desert. He was executed in the gas chamber of San Quentin State Prison on September 18, 1959.
Judy Ann Dull was a 19-year-old victim of Glatman. She agreed to pose for him because she was desperate to pay money for a lawyer in a child custody battle with her ex-husband.
Shirley Ann Bridgeford was Harvey’s third victim, a model that he lured through an ad he placed in a San Diego newspaper.
Robert Ben Rhoades
Rhoades was known for touring the U.S. in an 18-wheeler equipped with a torture chamber in the back, and is believed to have raped, killed and tortured over 50 women, while only three victims have been confirmed. Apprehended in the early 1990s, he is currently serving a life sentence without parole at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, IL.
This photo of one of Rhoades victims, Regina Kay Walters, was found in his house after he was arrested. This image was used in a case that connected Rhoades to pattern of murders that spanned over the course of five months.
Bob Berdella
Bob Berdella was an American serial killer in Kansas City, MO, active throughout the 1980s. He preferred male victims, in which he raped, tortured and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987. By 1992, Berdella died of a heart attack at Jefferson City Correctional Center, and it is said that prison officials refused to give him his heart medication.
Todd Stoops was a 23-year-old victim of Berdella, a male prostitute that the killer befriended. For two months, Berdella tortured him daily with electric shocks, anal penetration and other abuse. Believe it or not—he wasn’t intentionally murdered by Stoops, but died as a result of the countless injuries inflicted by his assailant.
Larry Pearson was another one of Berdella’s victims, also a male prostitute. He lived as Berdella’s sex slave for about six weeks, and was murdered when he finally tried to escape.
Berdella’s third victim was a prostitute named Chris Bryson. Like the other victims, he was put in the killer’s basement, but managed to break free and ran to a neighbor’s house wearing nothing but a dog collar around his neck. This exposed Berdella’s dungeon as well as the photos of his other victims.
Rodney Alcala
Rodney Alcala is a convicted rapist and serial killer, sentenced to death in California in 2010 for five murders committed between 1977 and 1979. He is often compared to Ted Bundy, and some estimate that he has killed over 130 women.
Detectives found hundreds of photographs of unidentified women in a storage locker that belonged to Alcala. He is sometimes referred to as “the dating game killer” after his appearance on the game show during the height of his spree.
Jerry Brudos
Jerry Brudos was a serial killer and necrophiliac, also known as “The Lust Killer” and “The Shoe Fetish Slayer,” who was active in the late 1960s. In just one year, 1968 t0 1969, he bludgeoned and strangled four young women while wearing women’s clothing that he would masturbate in afterward. Brudos died in prison on March 28, 2006 from liver cancer. At the time of his death, he was the longest incarcerated inmate in the Oregon Department of Corrections, serving a total of 37 years.
Nineteen-year-old college student Karen Sprinker was killed in Brudos’ garage after kidnapped her from a department store parking lot. It is reported that Brudos made her model women’s underwear and pose for photos. He then killed her by hanging her from a hook in his ceiling, then had sex with her body and cut off her breasts.
- Chillling final photos of murder victims taken by their killers.
- Last minutes of the victim’s agony perpetuated forever on pictures.
Harvey Glatman
Harvey Glatman was an American serial killer. He exhibited his antisocial behavior and sadomasochistic sexual tendencies from an early age. Media quickly nicknamed him 'The Lonely Hearts Killer'. Glatman started when he moved to Los Angeles, where he posed as a professional photographer to lure girls into his hotel room with the promise of easy money and work. There, he tied them up, photographed them, and eventually killed and dumped their bodies in the desert.
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Robert Ben Rhoades and Regina Kay Walters
This picture was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades. 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters was one of the numerous women held in an 18-wheeler equipped with a torture chamber in the back. The photo was taken in an abandoned Illinois barn, where Rhoades killed Walters after cutting off her hair and making her wear a black dress and heels.
William Richard Bradford
Bradford was incarcerated in an maximum security San Quentin State Prison for the 1984 murders of his 15-year-old neighbor Tracey Campbell and barmaid Shari Miller, making them the only official victims. In Bradford’s apartment, authorities found 54 different women in modeling poses. Because he had lured Shari Miller with the promise of a modelling career and took pictures prior murdering her, police have reason to believe Bradford was, in fact, a serial killer and the photos represent the girl’s last moments before their deaths.
Bradford died in 2008, taking the secret with him to his grave.
Robert Berdella
Robert Andrew 'Bob' Berdella was an American serial killer from Kansas City, Missouri. He raped, tortured, and killed at least six men. Berdella was conscious of his homosexuality. In 1984, he started dating Jerry Howell, a good-looking 19-year-old male prostitute. On July 5th, 1984, Berdella invited Howell to his house, where he drugged him with sedatives for animals and immobilized him by binding him to a bed. In the following hours he repeatedly raped his victim, wrote carefully about the process into his diary, and took several pictures to relive his fantasy later. This was the beginning of his torture and murder spree.
Robert Sheldon
Next year, a friend of Berdella, 18-year-old Robert Sheldon, came to stay with him for a few days and found himself drugged and held captive in the basement just like Howell before him. He was killed after 3 days of torture by suffocation.
Todd Stoops
21-year-old Todd Stoops was kidnaped because Berdella felt sexually frustrated at him. The torture he endured prior to his death included electric shocks via a spatula placed across the eyelid in an unsuccessful attempt to blind him. Stoops died due to a combination of blood loss and an infection.
Chris Bryson
In March 1988, 2 years after killing Todd Stoops, Berdella abducted his last victim. A prostitute named Chris Bryson was tortured on the second floor. His narrow escape happened after he got loose from the ties, removed a picture that was covering the window, and climbed out the window. He hung from the gutters on the second floor until they broke and he fell into bob's yard. He ran to a neighbor's house while wearing nothing but a dog collar around his neck.
Berdella made a deal to avoid the death penalty in exchange for a full confession.
Bob Berdella's interview from prison
Rodney Alcala
The homicide detectives found hundreds of photographs of unidentified women in a storage locker belonging to Rodney Alcala – a convicted rapist and serial killer. The man could be behind as many as 130 murders. Because only a handful of women identified themselves as having posed for the pictures, it's highly likely that some of those photographed were murdered.
Alcala is sometimes labeled The Dating Game Killer, because of his appearance on the television show The Dating Game in the midst of his murder spree. Alcala clinched the dating show by smiling softly into the cameras and saying: 'We're going to have a great time together, Shelly.' Fortunately, they never went on a date.
Read the post about Rodney Alcala on Bizarrepedia to see more pictures.
Asunta Basterra
Real Crime Scene Images
Asunta Basterra (the story has been covered by Bizarrepedia before) was a 12-year-old girl adopted from China by a wealthy and well respected Spanish family – lawyer Rosario Porto Ortega and journalist Alfonso Basterra Camporro. Her adoptive parents reported her missing on the evening of September 21, 2013, only ten days short of her 13th birthday. Asunta was repeatedly poisoned with benzodiazepine-based sedatives and eventually suffocated by her adoptive parents. The motive was greed – Asunta was about to inherit expensive real estate from her grandparents. The photo below is one of the last photos taken by her parents, where she was drugged and wrapped in a blanket.
Madyson Jamison
This is the last photo taken of Madyson Jamison, who disappeared on October 8, 2009 with her whole family. Their remains were found on November 16, 2013. The photo is believed to have been taken by their killer, whose identity remains a mystery.
While there is no proof the picture was taken by a stranger or the killer, the police accepted it as a strong theory. Madyson's aunt claimed she looks to have been in extreme distress and looking towards her parents. There is also a theory the father murdered the family and then himself. Either way, little Madyson has disappeared.
The Haunting Polaroid
In 1989, a woman pulled off the Route 98 (Florida) into the parking lot of a food store and found what appeared to be a polaroid photo lying face down on the asphalt. When the woman turned the polaroid over, the picture she saw was harrowing.
A young woman and a younger boy lie on their backs on a rumpled pile of mismatched sheets and pillows. Both look directly at the camera with expressions of tense resignation. Their mouths are covered with duct tape, and their postures suggest that their wrists are bound behind them. The space they occupy is cramped and poorly lit. The only source of light seems to come from behind the photographer. The photo could well have been taken in the back of a windowless van with its side door pulled open.
The haunting polaroid has a dedicated story on Bizarrepedia. The origin of the mysterious polaroid has a myriad of theories but the children on have never been identified.
Reynaldo Dagsa
This photo captures Filipino politician Reynaldo Dagsa's murderer, Michael Gonzales, aiming a gun at him a second before he was shot dead in front of his family. The murderer blamed Dagsa for a lengthy prison sentence. From heaven to hell, a moment caught on a photo forever.
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