AMERICAN TRADITION

☆ what do you think about, when you look at the sky at night, when there's no clouds out and you can see all the stars? ☆ true crime / columbine case centered sideblog 🔪 please don't follow me if you condone or agree with the actions or mentalities of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris 🔪

[empathyisvital]

“One particularly bad night, Tom said wearily, “I wish he’d killed us too”. It was a thought we would have on many occasions over the years.”

— Sue Klebold, A Mother’s Reckoning

[truecrimefiles]

“Thought is the most powerful thing that exists - anything conceivable can be produced, anything & everything is possible, even in your physical world."

– from Dylan Klebold’s journal

[uglyplastic]

Photo courtesy: Pawtucket Police Department, Rhode Island

Charge(s): First degree murder

[sanseviieria]

she and her fiancé shot her ex mans elderly mother with a 3D printed gun and posted about being goth shooters on facebook what a MESS

[bloodofchrist-tcc2]

revived eric & dylan reading y’all’s dylric imagines:

[moonlightmurder]

Teenaged crowd outside the county jail in Douglas, Wyoming, in January 1958, trying to get a glimpse of Charles Starkweather.

[gallery-of-suicide220]

Daniel was a shy guy but that didn’t stop him in many things. He was a straight A student. He went to France for 2 weeks with the French club. It was weeks before the shooting. He was in the library while Eric Harris shot him in the face. 1983-1999

[rebsradical]

map of the library/deaths. columbine, april 20th 1999

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[sinlessvirgin]

you all think “i don’t condone” is a duty phrase? I REALLY don’t. fucking. condone. and hate violence, blyat’. understand?

[thecrimewave]

many murderers study true crime, but most people who study true crime arent murderers, or more likely to be one. studying other killers can certainly encourage someone to commit violent crimes (learning their evasion tactics, being inspired etc), but a combination of many other factors needs to be present for a true crime obsession to manifest itself this way (ie anti-social behaviors, instability in home life, untreated mental health issues, access to weapons, homicidal ideation, etc etc).

tl;dr: being into true crime by itself doesn’t encourage someone to commit murder, there needs to be a vulnerability for this behavior; this vulnerability is created by many traits commonly seen in killers.

every square is a rectangle but not every rectangle is a square etc etc

[thecrimewave]

also this post isn’t about the true crime community but i think it applies to the tcc too. i don’t think the tcc inherently encourages kids to shoot up a school, but it can certainly be a way that people who are at risk of being a mass murderer to be immersed in material that glorifies the killers/gives them inspo/etc. in order for this to happen tho, there have to be a lot of other factors in place. i think the romanticizing of killers is unhealthy in other ways, but it in and of itself doesn’t cause school shootings unless you are primed for that behavior in the first place.

also it should be noted that many normal ass people LOVE true crime and don’t go on to commit murder. many people who study it apply it to their careers, or at least their educational career.

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[lethalvanity]

‪“Septic Tank Sam” is the special name given to an unidentified victim that was discovered inside a septic tank located in an abandoned farmhouse outside of Tofield, Alberta, Canada in 1977. Investigating officers recounted his death as one of the most sadistic crimes they had ever seen.‬ ‪The victim’s body had been decomposing for months before being found by the owners of the property while they were searching the old septic tank for a pump.‬ ‪According to the autopsy reports, he had been bound and repeatedly beaten while being burned with a blowtorch multiple times. Additionally, he was sexually mutilated and shot in the chest and head.‬ ‪The killer(s) wrapped his body in a yellow bed-sheet tied with nylon rope and disposed of it head first into the septic tank. They also dumped limestone with the body in order to dissolve it and increase the speed of decomposition.‬ ‪Unbeknownst to them, when water is combined with quicklime, only a small gradation of superficial burnings are caused along with a vast amount of body tissue becoming dried out, resulting in the body being well-preserved for the amount of time transpired before discovery.‬ ‪His body was unearthed in 1979 when a forensic pathologist named Dr. Clyde Snow was sent to reconstruct the skull and use DNA in order to aid in identifying what the victim looked like before death.‬ ‪Dr. Snow took numerous measurements of the skull and bone structure, and logged the information into a computer program, to show that the victim was likely of aboriginal heritage and approximately in the mid-30s.‬ ‪It is believed by police that he may have been a transient and was suspected to be a construction worker or farm laborer based upon his clothing. It is also likely that the killer(s) knew the area well and selected the location objectively. To this day, the bizarre murder of “Septic Tank Sam” still remains unsolved.

[columanson]

Manson Family Mugshots

From left to right:

1 Charles Manson

2 Bobby BeauSoleil

3 Danny DeCarlo

4 Steve Grogan

5 Sandra Good

6 Al Springer

7 Kenneth Bell

8 Susan Atkins

9 Bruce Hall

10 Charles Allen Beard

11 Leslie Van Houten

12 Sherry Cooper

13 Susan Scott

14 Ella Jo Bailey

15 Mary Brunner

16 Patricia Krenwinkel

17 Bryan Lukashevsky

18 Catherine Share

19 David Hannum

20 Larry Craven

21 Phil Phillips

22 Harold True

23 Charles Watson

24 Juan Flynn

25 Larry Bailey

26 Mark Bloodworth Damion

27 Susan Bartell

28 Johnny Scwartz

29 Vern Plumlee

30 Stephen Palazzo

31 Karate David Lipsett

32 Colleen Sinclair

33 Stephanie Schram

34 Nancy Pitman

35 Dianne Lake

36 Kathryn Lutesinger

37 Thomas Walleman

38 Allen Delisle

39 Catherine Gillies

40 Charlee Griffin

41 Bruce Davis

42 Lynette Fromme

43 Laura Shepard

44 Ruth Ann Moorehouse

45 Madeline Cottage

46 Maria Alonzo

47 Barbara Rosenberg

48 Linda Kasabian

49 Diane Von Ahn

50 Barbara Hoyt

51 Claudia Smith

52 William Vansicle

53 Paul Watkins

54 Jack Gordon

55 Carol Loveless

56 Ruth Gordon

57 Raymond Petrizzo

58 Robert Murray

59 Thomas Galella

60 Robert Reinhard

[unexplained-events]

Timer

This antique box of match candles, were said to be used by women in brothels, as a timer. A man would pay his dues and then would light the candle. Once the candle went out, the session was over. 

Each candle would last ~7 minutes

[morbidology]

On the 6th of September, 2006, Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work and was met by a brutal attack from an intruder wielding a claw hammer. He smacked Susan across the face and head before she managed to bite him and get him face down on the ground. Susan sat on the man, our her arms around his throat in a chokehold. She demanded: “Tell me who sent you and I will call an ambulance!” Susan never got an answer; she strangled the man to death. It was later uncovered that the man, Edward Dalton Haffey, a local drug addict, had been hired by Susan’s estranged husband, Michael Kuhnhausen, to murder her. When she faced her husband in court, she told him: “You were willing for me to share your small, miserable life until death we did part - the sooner the better, as it turned out.”

Michael Kuhnhausen was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit murder.

[morbidology]

On the 10 March, 1998, 17-year-old Jeffrey Franklin attacked his family in their home at 13005 Camelot Drive, Huntsville, Alabama. Armed with a hatchet, he murdered his mother, Cynthia and his father, Gerald. He also attempted to murder his 14-year-old sister, Sara and his 8-year-old and 6-year old brothers, Timothy and Christopher. Miraculously, they survived, although with life-altering injuries. His other sister, 11-year-old Stacey, was thankfully not at home. A neighbour called 911 after they saw one of the siblings lying outside the house covered in blood.

After the brutal attack, Jeffrey led police on a car chase throughout the neighbourhoods of southeast Huntsville. He was apprehended shirtless despite the cold weather after crashing into a fence. The top photograph shows a wild-eyed Jeffrey immediately after his arrest. He laughed and taunted onlookers. His defence attorney described his behaviour as “deranged.” Jeffrey told police that he was at the house but didn’t admit to attacking his family. He said it was like some “evil being” had taken over his body. Police noticed Jeffrey had a pitchfork scratched into his chest.

In his notebook, police found that he had been planning on killing his parents for a while. He also wrote of satanic rituals and sexual torture and his belief that Satan wanted him to kill his family. Before the murders, Jeffrey had been visiting a psychiatrist for attention deficit disorder and depression. He was prescribed with Ritalin, Prozac, and Klonopin. Jeffrey had been awake for three days straight before the killings and was said to abuse Ritalin. The abuse “pushed him into a total psychosis, he was crazy,” said Robert Tuten, Jeffrey’s representative.

In 2001, Jeffrey pleaded guilty to two murder charges and was sentenced to five life sentences.

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Murderer: I know you are hiding somewhere…

Me: 

Murderer:

Me:

Murderer: Charles Manson was a serial killer

Me: HE WAS A CULT LEAD-