World War II veteran Isaac Woodard with eyes swollen shut from the brutal beating and blinding inflicted upon him by a South Carolina police chief while he was en route to rejoin his family shortly after his honourable discharge from the Army on February
Studio portrait of deceased twin infants in coffins, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1886. They are Robert and Janet Fitzpatrick, born July 5, 1885, died April 20, 1886, children of Robert and Martha Fitzpatrick.
A note containing the final request of 50-year-old former NFL safety Dave Duerson that he left when he shot himself in the chest on February 27, 2011. His brain, as he suspected, was found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy as a result of the concus
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan screams in pain after she was hit on her right lower thigh with a police baton by Shane Stant who was hired by rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly to prevent Kerrigan from competing in the National Championships and
The bodies of three of the four U.S. Catholic missionaries who were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador National Guard on December 2nd, 1980 lay strewn on the ground after being exhumed from a shallow grave on December 4th, 1980.
An unwitting participant of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study being x-rayed. In 1932, 600 African-American men were enrolled under the guise of free medical care but were never told of their diagnosis and given placebos with the intent to study the disease left
Seven members and associates of Chicago’s North Side Gang were lined up against a wall and shot dead inside a garage on February 14th, 1929. The only surviving witness to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre was a dog named Highball, who was chained up in the
In 1986, a Harris County sheriff's deputy wears surgical gloves to protect himself from the poison in Ronald Clark O'Bryan's deteriorating Pixy Stix. O’Bryan gave the cyanide laced candy to five children including his daughter and son, the latter of whom
Louise Bundy, mother of serial killer Ted Bundy, wipes away a tear in her dining room in Tacoma, Washington, as she tells him over the phone, "You will always be my precious son." He was executed minutes later at the Florida State Prison, pronounced dead
Marcy Borders covered in dust as she takes refuge in an office building after the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed. Borders was caught outside on the street as the cloud of smoke and dust enveloped the area. New York City, September 11, 200
Crime scene photograph of the blood-stained dormitory room where Richard Speck systematically tortured and murdered eight student nurses, one by one. Chicago, July 14th, 1966.
An LAPD officer points to prescription pill bottles on a nightstand next to the lifeless body of Marilyn Monroe lying in bed, August 5th, 1962.
Close-up of a chair seat that Ed Gein upholstered in human skin, photographed during a search of his home following his arrest in Plainfield, Wisconsin, late November, 1957.
Dieter Degowski holds his gun to the throat of Silke Bischoff during a stop in Cologne on August 18th, 1988. Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner robbed a bank and hijacked a bus during the 54 hour Gladbeck hostage crisis. Two of the hostages, Emanuele de Geor
On the 17th floor ledge of the Gotham Hotel John William Warde contemplates suicide in front of a captive audience of 10,000+ New Yorkers and 300 NYPD officers for 11 hours before jumping to his death at the age of 26, with 26 cents in his pocket on the 2
Post-mortem photographs of serial killer Ted Bundy following his execution at the Floria State Prison on January 24th, 1989. Autopsy reports showed the 2,000 volts of electric current scorched Bundy's shaved head and calf, leaving a 7-inch strip of charre
X-Ray of serial killer Albert Fish’s pelvis. Taken in 1935 after his arrest, it revealed at least 29 self-embedded needles in his pelvic region and was used as defence evidence at his trial.
Corpses lying in a cart on their way to be cremated after bloody rioting between Hindus and Muslims in Calcutta, India, 1946 (photographed by Margaret Bourke-White)
The blood-stained news script Christine Chubbuck left to be read out on air after she shot herself her in the head on live television, it detailed that she had been taken to Sarasota Memorial Hospital and was listed in critical condition. Below is her .38
Emaciated male prisoners lying in bunks and standing half-naked at Buchenwald concentration camp during liberation by American forces, April 28, 1945. (photographed by Margaret Bourke-White)
Heysel Stadium disaster, Belgium, May 29th, 1985. Human crush resulting in 39 deaths. A man comforts his friend next to dead bodies that have been laid haphazardly on the ground outside the stadium. The downdraught from police and medical helicopters has
Villagers walk through a field of dead cattle and search for rice and other grains to salvage in the aftermath of the 1970 Bhola cyclone, near Sonapur, East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). The official death toll for the disaster was more than 500,000
Paramedics walk a stretcher into the San Ysidro McDonald's over the body of Omar Alonso Hernandez. The 11-year-old boy was among 21 people killed by James Oliver Huberty during a mass shooting in San Diego, California on July 18th, 1984.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, New York City, March 25th, 1911. For endless hours police officers held lanterns to light the bodies while crowds filed past victims laid out in numbered rough-wood coffins. As the dead were identified, the coffin was clo
