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One of the first real crime scene photos ever taken, Madame Debeinche lies dead on the floor of her bedroom in Paris, May 8, 1903. Her darkening hands and feet are a clue that some time had passed since the killing. Though we might feel a bit guilty about our fascination with the macabre, there's just something irresistible about a good true crime story. And for those with an insatiable appetite, we've compiled a gallery of some of the grisliest photos from serial killers' crime scenes. These pictures don't hold anything back – even in black and white — limbs and bloodstains appear as if in color. From Ed Gein's furniture upholstered in human skin to Edmund Kemper's garden of severed heads, see photos that reveal the true horrors of history's worst killers o At first glance, the faded 1903 photograph of Mme Debeinche’s bedroom, bound in the yellowed pages of an early 20th-century album, shows what looks to be an unremarkable middle-class Parisian apart...

The Death of Stalin’s Son The death of Joseph Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili in a German concentration camp 80 years ago was kept a secret for decades. Joseph Stalin’s son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, following his capture, on a German airfield, 1941. Alamy. Shortly after the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945, Allied military intelligence agents unearthed a container of top secret files in the garden of a senior German diplomat. One set of microfilmed documents contained a report into the shooting of a Soviet prisoner of war by an SS guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp on 14 April 1943. The victim was a 36-year-old Red Army artillery lieutenant named Yakov Dzhugashvili. There was nothing remarkable in the death of a Soviet soldier in Nazi captivity. In the first 12 months of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the USSR, an estimated 2.8 million Red Army prisoners had succumbed to starvation, exposure and disease while in German hands. However, as the SS report made clear, Yakov Dzhugashvili was...

On April 11, 1945, U.S. soldiers liberated the concentration camp of Buchenwald. Left behind by fleeing Germans were starving survivors, piles of bones, bodies, and possessions. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Waisman United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Waisman United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Patricia A. Yingst United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Virginia Longest United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bernice Krinsky United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Morris Rosen United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Patricia A. Yingst United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park W...

in the Americas, African women who were enslaved had little to no legal protection from sexual violence. They were considered property of their enslavers, and their bodies were controlled by their enslavers.What I mean is that their enslavers had complete power and authority over what happened to their bodies. The institution of slavery was dependent on the reproduction of enslaved African women to produce future generations of enslaved laborers. Enslavers sought to control the reproductive capacity of enslaved African women, often forcing them to have children through rape or other forms of sexXual violence. The system of slavery was a highly developed and oppressive institution that sought to exert control over every aspect of the lives of enslaved African men and women, including their social and sexual lives.Enslaved African men were often forced by their enslavers to engage in sexual acts with enslaved African women in order to produce offspring that could be used as a sourc...

Man wakes with headache, finds bullet in his head Florida man shot in head, complains of headache. In 2007, A Florida man named Michael Moylan woke up with a severe headache. He initially thought the pain would pass, but instead, it got worse. A Florida man woke up with a severe headache and asked his wife to drive him to a hospital, where doctors found a bullet lodged behind his right ear. "The nurse looked at him and said, 'It appears that you've been shot,'" the Fort Pierce Tribune quoted St Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara as saying. "And he said, 'No way.'" The man's wife, April Moylan , fled the emergency room when the bullet was discovered but later told deputies she had accidentally shot her husband as he slept early on Tuesday. She was jailed on a weapons violation charge while deputies pursued additional charges. The husband, 45-year-old Michael Moylan, woke up with a head pain so severe he suspected he was having an aneurism and...