Beautiful girls in the morgue. The local historian collected a collection of female corpses in his apartment. For the sins of the fathers

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I will show you a selection of the most famous photographs of recent years. There is a jump from the window of the World Trade Center on September 11, and the execution of Saddam Hussein, a photograph of a child in the womb when a surgeon performs an abortion on her, and much more.
Of course, you all saw these frames separately, but when they are collected in one post, the effect is gorgeous.
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"The most famous photograph that no one has ever seen" is how Associated Press photographer Richard Drew calls his picture of one of the victims of the World Trade Center, who jumped out of the window to her death on September 11

"On that day, which was captured on camera and on film more than any other day in history," Tom Junod later wrote in Esquire, "the only taboo by common consent was pictures of people jumping out of windows." Five years later, Richard Drew's Falling Man remains a terrible artifact of that day that should have changed everything but didn't.

Malcolm Brown, a 30-year-old photographer (Associated Press) from New York, received a phone call and was asked to be at a certain intersection in Saigon the next morning, as something very important is about to happen.

He went there with a reporter from the New York Times. soon a car drove up, several Buddhist monks got out of it. Among them is Thich Quang Duc, who sat in a lotus position with a box of matches in his hands, while the rest began to pour gasoline on him. Thich Quang Duc struck a match and turned into a living torch. Unlike the weeping crowd watching him burn, he didn't utter a sound or move. Thich Quang Duc wrote a letter to the then head of the Vietnamese government asking him to stop the repression of Buddhists, stop the detention of monks and give them the right to practice and spread their religion, but received no answer.

Take a closer look at this photo. This is one of the most remarkable photographs ever taken. The baby's tiny hand reached out from the womb to squeeze the surgeon's finger. By the way, the child is 21 weeks from conception, the age when he can still be legally aborted. The tiny pen in the photo belongs to a baby who was due to be born on December 28 last year. The photo was taken during an operation in America.

The first reaction is to recoil in horror. It looks like a close-up of some terrible incident. And then you notice, in the very center of the photo, a tiny hand grasping the surgeon's finger.

The child is literally grasping for life. Therefore, this is one of the most remarkable photographs in medicine and a record of one of the most extraordinary operations in the world. It shows a 21-week-old fetus in the womb, just before the spinal surgery needed to save the baby from severe brain damage. The operation was performed through a tiny incision in the wall of the uterus and this is the youngest patient. At this time, the mother may choose to have an abortion.

The death of the boy Al-Dura, filmed by a reporter for a French television station, as he is shot to death by Israeli soldiers while in the arms of his father.

The portrait of "shahid" al-Dura has spread in stamps, books, songs and posters. But Jewish activists in France, who have questioned the authenticity of the images, are leading a stubborn campaign that has been going on for several years, demanding that French television also reveal parts of the footage that did not make it to the broadcast, clips showing Palestinians practicing to stage a shooting incident, as a result which al-Dura was allegedly killed.

By the early summer of 1994, Kevin Carter (1960-1994) was at the height of his fame. He had just received the Pulitzer Prize, job offers from famous magazines poured in one after another. “Everyone congratulates me,” he wrote to his parents, “I can't wait to meet you and show you my trophy. This is the highest recognition of my work, which I did not even dare to dream of.

Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph "Famine in Sudan" taken in early spring 1993. On this day, Carter flew to Sudan specifically to shoot scenes of hunger in a small village. Tired of shooting people who died of starvation, he left the village in a field overgrown with small bushes and suddenly heard a quiet cry. Looking around, he saw a little girl lying on the ground, apparently dying of hunger. He wanted to take a picture of her, but suddenly a vulture vulture landed a few steps away. Very carefully, trying not to startle the bird, Kevin chose the best position and took a picture. After that, he waited another twenty minutes, hoping that the bird would spread its wings and give him the opportunity to get a better shot. But the damned bird did not move, and in the end, he spat and drove it away. In the meantime, the girl apparently gained strength and went - more precisely crawled - further. And Kevin sat down near the tree and cried. He suddenly terribly wanted to hug his daughter ...

A settler resists an Israeli army officer, Amon outpost, West Bank, February 1, 2006

A Jewish settlement confronts Israeli police as they enforce a Supreme Court decision to demolish 9 houses in the outpost of Amon settlement, West Bank, February 1. Residents, joined by thousands of other protesters, erected barbed wire barriers to protect their homes and clashed with police. More than 200 people were injured, including 80 policemen. After hours of confrontation, the settlers were driven out and bulldozers arrived and began demolition.

A 12-year-old Afghan girl is the famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

Soviet helicopters destroyed the village of a young refugee, her whole family died, and before getting to the camp, the girl made a two-week journey in the mountains. After being published in June 1985, this photograph becomes a National Geographic icon. Since then, this image has been used everywhere - from tattoos to rugs, which turned the photo into one of the most replicated photos in the world.

Stanley Forman/Boston Herald, USA. July 22, 1975, Boston. A girl and a woman fall trying to escape the fire

"Unknown Rebel" on Tiananmen Square. This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widner, shows a protester who single-handedly held off a tank column for half an hour.

Poland - a girl Teresa, who grew up in a concentration camp, draws a "house" on the blackboard. 1948. © David Seymour

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (often referred to simply as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that took place in the United States of America. According to the official version, the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda is responsible for these attacks.

On the morning of that day, nineteen terrorists, allegedly related to Al-Qaeda, divided into four groups, hijacked four scheduled passenger airliners. Each group had at least one member who completed basic flight training. The invaders sent two of these aircraft into the towers of the World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 11 into WTC 1, and United Airlines Flight 175 into WTC 2, causing both towers to collapse, causing severe damage to surrounding structures.

Niagara Falls is frozen. Photo from 1911

Mike Wells, UK. April 1980 Karamoja region, Uganda. Hungry boy and missionary.

White and color photograph by Elliott Erwitt 1950

Spencer Platt, USA (Spencer Platt), Getty Images
Young Lebanese people drive through a devastated area in Beirut, August 15, 2006.


Young Lebanese people drive down the street in Haret Hreik in the bombarded suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 15. For almost five weeks, Israel attacked this part of the city and other cities in southern Lebanon in an operation against Hezbollah fighters. After the truce announced on August 14, thousands of Lebanese began to gradually return to their homes. According to the Lebanese government, 15,000 residential buildings and 900 commercial firms were affected.

The photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head not only won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also completely changed American attitudes towards what was happening in Vietnam.

Despite the obviousness of the image, in fact, the photograph is not as unambiguous as it seemed to ordinary Americans, filled with sympathy for the executed. The fact is that the man in handcuffs is the captain of the Viet Cong "revenge warriors", and on this day many unarmed civilians were shot dead by him and his henchmen. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, pictured left, has been haunted by his past all his life: he was refused treatment at an Australian military hospital, after moving to the US, he faced a massive campaign calling for his immediate deportation, the restaurant he opened in Virginia, every day was attacked by vandals. "We know who you are!" - this inscription haunted the general of the army all his life.

Lynching (1930) Lawrence Beitler

This shot was taken in 1930 when a mob of 10,000 whites hanged two black men for raping a white woman and killing her boyfriend. The mob "released" the criminals from prison to be lynched. A striking contrast is the joyful faces of people as a background for torn corpses.

At the end of April 2004, the CBS program 60 Minutes II aired a story about the torture and abuse of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison by a group of American soldiers. The story showed photographs that were published in The New Yorker a few days later. This became the loudest scandal around the presence of Americans in Iraq.

In early May 2004, the leadership of the US Armed Forces admitted that some of the torture methods were not in accordance with the Geneva Convention and announced their readiness to publicly apologize.

According to the testimony of a number of prisoners, American soldiers raped them, rode them, forced them to fish food from prison toilets. In particular, the inmates said: “They made us walk on all fours like dogs and yelp. We had to bark like dogs, and if you didn't bark, then you were beaten in the face without any pity. After that, they left us in the cells, took away the mattresses, poured water on the floor and forced us to sleep in this slush without removing the hoods from our heads. And all this was constantly photographed”, “One American said that he would rape me. He drew a woman on my back and forced me to stand in a shameful position, to hold my own scrotum in my hands.

Burial of an unknown child.

On December 3, 1984, the Indian city of Bhopal was hit by the largest man-made disaster in human history. A giant poisonous cloud, released into the atmosphere by an American pesticide factory, covered the city, killing 3,000 people that same night, and 15,000 more in the coming month. In total, more than 150,000 people were affected by the release of toxic waste, and this does not include children born after 1984.

Nilsson gained international fame in 1965 when LIFE magazine published 16 pages of photographs of a human embryo.

These photographs were immediately reproduced also in Stern, Paris Match, The Sunday Times and other magazines. In the same year, Nilsson's book of photographs, A Child is Born, was published, selling eight million copies in the first few days. This book went through several reprints and is still one of the best-selling illustrated books in the history of this kind of album. Nilson managed to obtain photographs of the human fetus as early as 1957, but they were not yet spectacular enough to be shown to the general public.

Photograph of the Loch Ness monster. Ian Wetherell 1934

The photo was taken on September 29, 1932 on the 69th floor during the last months of construction of Rockefeller Center.

Surgeon Jay Vacanti of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is working with microengineer Jeffrey Borenstein to develop a technique for growing artificial livers. In 1997, he managed to grow a human ear on the back of a mouse using cartilage cells.

The development of a technique that allows culturing the liver is extremely relevant. In the UK alone, there are 100 people on the waiting list for transplants, and according to the British Liver Trust, most patients die before they get a transplant.

Freezing rain... Sounds harmless enough, but nature often throws up unpleasant surprises.

Freezing rain can form a thick crust of ice on any object, destroying even giant power lines. And they can create incredibly beautiful works of art of natural origin.
The photo shows the effects of freezing rain in Switzerland.

A man tries to alleviate the difficult conditions for his son in a POW prison.
Jean-Marc Bouju/AP, France.
March 31, 2003. An Najaf, Iraq.

Dolly is a female sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from the cell of another adult creature.

The experiment was set up in the UK (Roslin Institute, Midlothian, Scotland), where she was born on July 5, 1996. The press announced her birth only 7 months later - on February 22, 1997. After living for 6 years, Dolly the sheep died on February 14, 2003.

The 1967 Patterson-Gimlin documentary of a female Bigfoot, the American Bigfoot, is still the only clear photographic evidence of the existence of living relic hominids on earth, referred to in hominology by the term "homins".

At the same time, there are a fair amount of fuzzy, blurry images that are not suitable for scientific analysis. This is a testament to how difficult these primates are to photograph. As a rule, meetings with them take place at dusk and unexpectedly, so that a shocked eyewitness at the most crucial moment usually forgets not only that he has a camera or video camera, but even weapons.

Republican soldier Federico Borel Garcia is depicted in the face of death.

The picture caused a huge uproar in society. The situation is absolutely unique. During the whole time of the attack, the photographer took only one picture, while he took it at random, without looking into the viewfinder, he did not look at all in the direction of the “model”. And this is one of the best, one of his most famous photographs. It was thanks to this picture that already in 1938 the newspapers called the 25-year-old Robert Cap "The Greatest War Photographer in the World."

A picture taken by reporter Alberto Korda at a rally in 1960, in which Che Guevara is also visible between a palm tree and someone's nose, claims to be the most widely disseminated photograph in history.

The photo, which depicted the hoisting of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag, spread around the world. Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945.

The death of a Nazi functionary and his family.

Vienna, 1945 Yevgeny Khaldei: “I went to the park near the parliament building to film the passing columns of soldiers. And I saw this picture. On the bench sat a woman, killed by two shots - in the head and neck, next to her a dead teenager of about fifteen and a girl. A little further away lay the corpse of the father of the family. He had a gold NSDAP badge on his lapel, and a revolver was lying next to him. (...) A watchman ran up from the parliament building:
- It's him, he did, not Russian soldiers. Came at 6 am. I saw him and his family from the basement window. There is not a soul on the street. He pushed the benches together, ordered the woman to sit down, and ordered the children to do the same. I didn't understand what he was going to do. And then he shot the mother and son. The girl resisted, then he laid her on a bench and shot her too. He stepped aside, looked at the result and shot himself.”

Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995), a photographer working for Life magazine, strolled around the square photographing the kissers. He later recalled that he noticed a sailor who “rushed around the square and kissed indiscriminately all the women in a row: young and old, fat and thin. I watched, but the desire to photograph did not appear. Suddenly he grabbed something white. I barely had time to raise the camera and take a picture of him kissing the nurse.”

For millions of Americans, this photograph, which Eisenstadt called "Unconditional Surrender", has become a symbol of the end of World War II.

The assassination of the thirty-fifth US President John F. Kennedy was committed on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas (Texas) at 12:30 local time. Kennedy was mortally wounded by a gunshot while he and his wife Jacqueline were riding in the presidential motorcade down Elm Street.

On December 30, Iraq executed former President Saddam Hussein. The Supreme Court sentenced the former Iraqi leader to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out at 6 am in the suburbs of Baghdad.

The execution took place shortly before the morning prayer, which marks the beginning of the Muslim holiday of sacrifice. It was filmed and now the national Iraqi television is broadcasting this recording on all channels.

Representatives of the Iraqi authorities who were present at the same time reported that Hussein behaved with dignity and did not ask for mercy. He stated that he was "glad to accept death from his enemies and become a martyr" and not vegetate in prison until the end of his days.

The US military is dragging the body of a Viet Cong (South Vietnamese rebel) soldier on a leash.
Kyoichi Sawada/United Press International, Japan.
February 24, 1966, Tan Binh, South Vietnam

A young boy looks out from a bus loaded with refugees who have fled the epicenter of a war between Chechen separatists and Russians near Shali, Chechnya. The bus returns to Grozny.
Lucian Perkins/The Washington Post, USA.
May 1995. Chechnya

At the beginning of the month, a local historian was arrested in Nizhny Novgorod, in whose apartment more than a dozen mummified corpses of girls aged 15 to 25 were found.

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1. A small three-room apartment with skeletons, from which the detainee made life-size puppets, was discovered by investigators shortly after the holidays.

2. According to representatives of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Nizhny Novgorod, at night a man made his way to the cemetery and dug up corpses from the ground. After that, he put the remains in bags and dragged them to his home. The historian managed to get on the trail after the police began investigating numerous cases of desecration of graves at two local cemeteries - Sormovsky and Sorting

3. According to the police, the historian developed his own technology for mummifying bodies, which he used to store the remains dug up in the cemetery. He dressed mummified women in bright outfits and hats and seated them around the apartment like dolls.

4. Anatoly Moskvin put musical mechanisms, plush hearts and fragments of tombstones into the skeletonized bodies of girls.

5. Investigators believe that the purpose of the kidnapping of the remains was collecting.

6. At the moment, 29 mummified corpses of young girls are known, which Anatoly Moskvin dug out of the graves and turned into elegant dolls. The bodies were dug up between a year and 15 years ago. In addition, two boxes of bones were removed from the scientist's dwelling, the age and belonging of which have yet to be clarified by the experts.

7. It is known that at one time the man graduated from the postgraduate studies of one of the leading universities in the specialty "Celtology", once he was teaching. Until the moment of detention, Anatoly Moskvin worked as a local historian, lectured and conducted excursions in the Nizhny Novgorod library of the Leninsky district.

8. Earlier, Moskvin became the subject of articles by the Nizhny Novgorod journalist Tatyana Kokina-Slavina. She wrote that Moskvin specializes in the study of cemeteries (local historian-necropolis). He managed to visit more than 750 cemeteries and began to prepare an appropriate guide for publication. Kokina-Slavina noted that Moskvin is also a polyglot - he knows 13 languages.

9. Moskvin was charged under the article of the Criminal Code "Desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places." In the near future, various examinations will be carried out, including a forensic psychiatric one.

Episodes of crime series often feature characters filming gory scenes at crime scenes or working in morgues. Everyone knows how it happens in the movies, but in reality there are quite a few people who every day, on duty, are forced to face death.

WARNING: many of the photos are taken in the morgue and contain some pretty violent scenes. Impressive look is not recommended!

It took several months for the institute's leadership to finally give in. Budenz spent the next year among the corpses and those who work with them. As a result, two collections of images appeared: the first is dedicated to forensic experts who are looking for evidence at crime scenes, the second is about what happens to bodies after death: funeral homes, mortuaries, crematoria, etc. Of course, this is not the only photo collection dedicated to death. However, the work of Budenz is distinguished by an atmosphere of calm and peaceful attitude to this issue, without excessive drama. The goal of the photographer is not to shock, but to try to reconcile the viewer with the thought of death.

Episodes of crime series often feature characters filming gory scenes at crime scenes or working in morgues. Everyone knows how it happens in the movies, but in reality there are quite a lot of people who every day, on duty, are forced to face death.

Photographer from Germany Patrick Budenz decided to dedicate a separate project to these people and went to the Berlin Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science, where he had to work hard to get full access to all laboratories and the right to film the work of all specialists of interest to him. It took several months for the institute's leadership to finally give in. Budenz spent the next year among the corpses and those who work with them. As a result, two collections of images appeared: the first is dedicated to forensic experts who are looking for evidence at crime scenes, the second is about what happens to bodies after death: funeral homes, mortuaries, crematoria, etc.

Of course, this is not the only photo collection dedicated to death. However, the work of Budenz is distinguished by an atmosphere of calm and peaceful attitude to this issue, without excessive drama. The goal of the photographer is not to shock, but to try to reconcile the viewer with the thought of death.

At first glance, these photographs may seem ordinary and harmless, but terrible events are hidden behind each of them - from accidents to particularly brutal murders and cannibalism.

1. There is nothing unusual in this photo 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, in a plane crash on October 13, 1972: their plane crashed in the Andes. Of the 40 passengers and five crew members, 12 died in the crash or shortly thereafter; five 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. Food supplies quickly ran out, and 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 escaped.

2. In 2012, Mexican music star Jenny Rivera died in a plane crash. Selfie with friends on the plane was taken a few minutes before the tragedy.

No one survived as a result of the plane crash.

3. In August 1975, American Mary McQuilken photographed two brothers, Michael and Sean, in bad weather. They were on top of a cliff in California's Sequoia National Park.

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.

The atmospheric discharge was so powerful and close that the hair of young people literally stood on end. Survivor Michael works as a computer engineer and still receives letters asking what happened that day.

4. Serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes took this picture of 14-year-old Regina Walters seconds before he killed her. 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 equipped as a torture chamber. At least three people a month became its victims.

Walters' body was found in a barn that was supposed to be burned down.

5. In April 1999, high school students from the American Columbine High School posed for a group picture.

For the general gaiety, hardly anyone paid attention to the two guys, pretending to be pointing a rifle and a pistol at the camera.

A few days later, these guys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, showed up at Columbine with guns and improvised explosives. Their victims were 13 students, and 23 people were injured.

The crime was carefully planned. The perpetrators were not detained because they shot themselves. Later it became known that teenagers were outsiders at school, and what happened was a brutal act of revenge.

6. In November 1985, the Ruiz volcano erupted in Colombia, causing debris flows to cover the province of Armero.

13-year-old Omaira Sanchez was the victim of a tragedy: her body was stuck in the rubble of a building, and 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.

The corpse remained motionless in front of the lens, and therefore it appeared clearly: photographs in those days were taken with a long exposure, and it took a long time to pose. Perhaps that is why post-mortem photos, that is, post-mortem photos, have become incredibly fashionable. The heroine of this picture is also already dead.

8. The woman in this photo died in childbirth. In photo salons, special devices were installed to fix corpses, and they also opened the eyes of the dead and instilled a special agent in them so that the mucous membrane did not dry out and the eyes did not become cloudy.

9. It would seem that the usual photo of three divers. But why is one of them lying at the very bottom?

26-year-old Tina Watson died during her honeymoon on October 22, 2003, and divers accidentally discovered her corpse. After the wedding, the girl with her husband Gabe went to Australia, where they decided to go diving.

According to the photographer accompanying the couple, underwater, the man turned off his young wife's oxygen tank and held her at the bottom until she suffocated. When it turned out that Watson's wife had taken out a new life insurance policy shortly before the tragedy, and in the event of her death, Gabe would have received a considerable amount, everyone began to suspect him of premeditated murder. After serving a year and a half in prison, he returned to Alabama and was again put on trial, but the case was closed due to lack of evidence. Watson later remarried.

10. Looking closely, you can see that in front of this pensive African are severed children's feet and hands. The photo was taken in 1904.

Pictured is a Congolese rubber plantation worker who failed to meet his quota. As punishment, the overseers ate his five-year-old daughter, giving him the remains of the child as a warning. This was practiced quite often.

For non-compliance with the norms, execution was supposed. To prove that the cartridge was used for its intended purpose, and was not sold, it was required to provide the severed hand of the executed, and for each execution the punishers received a reward. The desire to rise in the ranks led to the fact that the hands were chopped off from everyone, including children. Those who pretended to be dead at the same time could stay alive.

11. At first glance, it looks like a picture from Halloween. Two Swedish schoolchildren thought the same on October 22, 2015, when 21-year-old Anton Lundin Peterson came to their school in Trollhättan in this form: they took what was happening as a joke and happily took a picture with a stranger in a strange outfit.

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 of his wounds in the hospital. The incident was the deadliest armed attack on an educational institution in Swedish history.

12. Americans Sailor Gilliams and Brendan Vega went camping together 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. Going for help, Brendan fell off a cliff and crashed.

And these photos were taken by a group of experienced tourists. Having already returned home, they were horrified to notice in the background a red-haired girl lying unconscious on the ground. Rescuers flew to the scene of the tragedy by helicopter, and Sailor survived.

13. It would seem that there is nothing unusual in the fact that an older boy leads the younger by the hand, but a terrible tragedy is hidden behind this picture.

10-year-olds John Venables and Robert Thompson stole 2-year-old James Bulger from a mall after being briefly left unattended by his mother, brutally, face-painted, and left for dead on railroad tracks to disguise the murder as a train accident.

The 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 became known that John Venables was returned to prison due to a parole violation.

Venables was later charged with possession and distribution of child pornography. The police found 57 relevant images on his computer. In the hope of obtaining other child pornography, Venables posed on the Internet as a 35-year-old married woman who bragged about the abuse of her eight-year-old daughter.

The picture was taken by Filipino councilor Reinaldo Dagsa. The killer decided to take revenge on him for helping to arrest him for stealing a car.

It was the photo that helped to quickly identify the killer and send him back to jail.

15. A Chinese reporter captured fog on the Yangtze River and only after a detailed study of the photo found a man falling from a bridge on it. As it turned out later, a few seconds later his girlfriend jumped after him.

16. The camera with this picture was found in the washing machine of 27-year-old Travis Alexander. He was killed in the shower by 25 stab wounds, including to the neck, and a headshot.

Other images found at the crime scene showed the couple in sexual positions, and the shower image of Travis was taken at 5:29 p.m. on the day of the murder. In photographs taken just minutes later, Alexander was already lying on the floor, covered in blood.

17. A father and daughter posing for a photo are unaware that the red Vauxhall Cavalier behind them contains explosives that will detonate in a few seconds.

This terrorist attack in August 1998 was carried out by an illegal organization, the Genuine Irish Republican Army. 29 people died and more than 220 were injured. The camera with the first picture was found under the rubble, and his heroes miraculously survived.