A picture is worth a thousand words. And we can instantly feel any number of emotions after simply looking at a photograph. That's why many of us have camera rolls that are littered with thousands of pics! But unfortunately, some images tell dark, disturbing stories that are impossible to forget.
Redditors have been sharing seemingly innocent images that have creepy backstories, so we’ve gathered some of the most harrowing ones below. We’ll warn you right now, pandas, that these tales are anything but uplifting. But if you can stomach true crime stories, you might find this list simultaneously heartbreaking and fascinating.
#1
This is a picture of my wife Silvia when she was a child growing up and living in Romania in the late 70’s.
To me, I can see the beautiful woman she is to become and the future wife and mother she is now.
But at the time the situation was heart-breaking.
Silvia’s mother died due to suspected complications after giving birth to Silvia. Silvia has no memory of her birth mother. Her step-mother was an abusive nightmare of a woman who physically and emotionally beat her and her siblings.
Living in Romania in the 70’s and 80’s during the height of the Cold War was tough. Long lines for basic foods, never knowing if you had enough to feed the family, central heating which was turned off overnight, travel restrictions and secret police always watching.
Silvia’s father was imprisoned for 3 years for trying to flee Romania, but he was caught. So the family knew all too well the risks of trying to escape.
Silvia was effectively trapped with abusive parents in a repressive country with little hope of escape.
Silvia and her father did however escape Romania a few years later, lying at the border by claiming they were going on holiday to Italy, leaving behind her step-mother and siblings, lived as refugees in Italy for four months before travelling to Australia as immigrants.
They moved many times, lived in a back supply shed behind a restaurant, a caravan, a single room sharing with strangers, trying to support themselves and trying to bring out the rest of the family.
By 16 Silvia left home, dropped out of high school, slept on the floor with her siblings who had joined her in Australia, but she went many days hungry, not having enough money to buy food. Silvia spent 10 years struggling with waitress work and bar work and going through as many as 12 jobs a year.
There is a happy ending however. Eventually, she put herself through school, post graduate study, and built a successful career with the Australian federal government. I married Silvia in 2003, had a beautiful daughter of our own and are living happily ever after.
To me, I can see the beautiful woman she is to become and the future wife and mother she is now.
But at the time the situation was heart-breaking.
Silvia’s mother died due to suspected complications after giving birth to Silvia. Silvia has no memory of her birth mother. Her step-mother was an abusive nightmare of a woman who physically and emotionally beat her and her siblings.
Living in Romania in the 70’s and 80’s during the height of the Cold War was tough. Long lines for basic foods, never knowing if you had enough to feed the family, central heating which was turned off overnight, travel restrictions and secret police always watching.
Silvia’s father was imprisoned for 3 years for trying to flee Romania, but he was caught. So the family knew all too well the risks of trying to escape.
Silvia was effectively trapped with abusive parents in a repressive country with little hope of escape.
Silvia and her father did however escape Romania a few years later, lying at the border by claiming they were going on holiday to Italy, leaving behind her step-mother and siblings, lived as refugees in Italy for four months before travelling to Australia as immigrants.
They moved many times, lived in a back supply shed behind a restaurant, a caravan, a single room sharing with strangers, trying to support themselves and trying to bring out the rest of the family.
By 16 Silvia left home, dropped out of high school, slept on the floor with her siblings who had joined her in Australia, but she went many days hungry, not having enough money to buy food. Silvia spent 10 years struggling with waitress work and bar work and going through as many as 12 jobs a year.
There is a happy ending however. Eventually, she put herself through school, post graduate study, and built a successful career with the Australian federal government. I married Silvia in 2003, had a beautiful daughter of our own and are living happily ever after.
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#2
This one of Steven Stayner giving Timmy White a piggyback ride always pulls at my heart strings.
He was kidnapped by convicted child m*lester Kenneth Parnell and repeatedly ab*sed for nearly 7 years. But when he got too old, Parnell kidnapped 5 year old Timmy White. Steven couldn't stand the idea of another kid going through the h**l that he suffered, so the next chance he got he carried him on his back and walked through the freezing snow to a police station. The boys were each reunited with their families.
Steven's story is so inspiring to me in a lot of ways, the guts and guile he demonstrated is nothing short of amazing. But I have to warn you all, the story does not have a very happy ending. So if these kinds of cases are emotionally taxing for you, especially the ones that involve ab*sed children, skip this one.
He was kidnapped by convicted child m*lester Kenneth Parnell and repeatedly ab*sed for nearly 7 years. But when he got too old, Parnell kidnapped 5 year old Timmy White. Steven couldn't stand the idea of another kid going through the h**l that he suffered, so the next chance he got he carried him on his back and walked through the freezing snow to a police station. The boys were each reunited with their families.
Steven's story is so inspiring to me in a lot of ways, the guts and guile he demonstrated is nothing short of amazing. But I have to warn you all, the story does not have a very happy ending. So if these kinds of cases are emotionally taxing for you, especially the ones that involve ab*sed children, skip this one.
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#3
These photos taken while hiking reveal a women in the background who had fallen the day before and could not get up.
She was discovered shortly after the photos were taken and survived.
gadela08:
My friends and I found a 22 year old girl, face down in the mud, both legs broken with compound fractures. she had no cell phone, no water, no food, and nothing to keep her warm. her friend was dead.
a little backstory - my 2 friends and I were hiking in a pretty popular spot in our area. it's a 150-ft waterfall that takes about 45 mins of uphill hiking to get to.
We decided to go bouldering around the bottom of the waterfall, there are various little pools and boulders where the water runs off from the waterfall. this bouldering trail is not on the main trail, and not many hikers ever veer off of the main trail.
When we found her, obviously we called 911 and gave her any supplies we had. eventually a helicopter showed up and they flew her to the nearest hospital.
Turns out she was hiking with her friend the NIGHT BEFORE when they both fell off of the waterfall. her friend must have gone to get help, but unfortunately died less than 100 yds from where we found the girl. so no one knew she was hurt or that she was even there.
It's a miracle she was still alive and mind blowing to think what she had gone through when we found her 20 hours later.
Before we found the hiker, we were climbing rocks in the area and taking pictures. we didnt even know the poor girl was in the background of these photos!!
She was discovered shortly after the photos were taken and survived.
gadela08:
My friends and I found a 22 year old girl, face down in the mud, both legs broken with compound fractures. she had no cell phone, no water, no food, and nothing to keep her warm. her friend was dead.
a little backstory - my 2 friends and I were hiking in a pretty popular spot in our area. it's a 150-ft waterfall that takes about 45 mins of uphill hiking to get to.
We decided to go bouldering around the bottom of the waterfall, there are various little pools and boulders where the water runs off from the waterfall. this bouldering trail is not on the main trail, and not many hikers ever veer off of the main trail.
When we found her, obviously we called 911 and gave her any supplies we had. eventually a helicopter showed up and they flew her to the nearest hospital.
Turns out she was hiking with her friend the NIGHT BEFORE when they both fell off of the waterfall. her friend must have gone to get help, but unfortunately died less than 100 yds from where we found the girl. so no one knew she was hurt or that she was even there.
It's a miracle she was still alive and mind blowing to think what she had gone through when we found her 20 hours later.
Before we found the hiker, we were climbing rocks in the area and taking pictures. we didnt even know the poor girl was in the background of these photos!!
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#4
This is my handsome husband in 1970, shortly after we got married. Our life seemed perfect and we had so much to look forward to. In 1975 I became pregnant and like most expectant parents, we were excited and were making plans. One thing we did not plan on… he starting going blind due to diabetic retinopathy half way into the pregnancy. Sad memories of waddling into a hospital for weeks on end, for laser treatments, haunt me. In 1976 we gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. That should have been the best summer ever; however the laser treatments were not effective and at some point, rather than help, they start to cause the retina to be damaged. He had too many laser treatments to count. He was hospitalized for a procedure to try to reattach his retina in one eye when our baby was six weeks old. The operation was not successful. The good news… his other eye seemed to be doing well. We had great hope.
So much for that good news. By December 1976 his other eye was acting up; hence laser treatments continued. The bleeding into his vitreous, which is what happens w diabetic retinopathy, was arrested.
However, with so much trauma to his good eye, he developed a cataract. For the next 8 years he struggled with partial sight as the cataract grew…. but was assured that, like most cataract surgeries, when it was big enough to remove he would have a good amount of vision.
We were excited when he had the surgery. When we got home, later that night, he said…”I cannot see anything.” I assured him that the next day when we have a follow up appointment, the doctors will give you a new lens. I remember him sitting in the chair while I watched. Two doctors, one old and one young were working with him. The body language of the two doctors got my attention. The tears that rolled down the face of the younger doctor told me what I didn’t want to hear.
He has been totally blind since the age of 37. He has no light perception. Against all odds, he is still here at the age of 75, challenged everyday by the dread disease that rendered him blind…. a disease he has had since age 12. Flash forward, on June 20, 2020 we celebrated our 50th anniversary. We couldn’t be with our close and loving family, but with Zoom and Facetime we had a party. Two successful, beautiful daughters, two charming son in laws, and four lively grandchildren ages 5,8,10 and 13. We came a long way from my terror of being the only breadwinner on a teacher’s salary. He went on to a very successful career at the National Institutes of Health and we have retired to a beautiful community in Southwest Florida. Yet every time I see this picture, it brings me to tears. By the way, he has never ever complained.
So much for that good news. By December 1976 his other eye was acting up; hence laser treatments continued. The bleeding into his vitreous, which is what happens w diabetic retinopathy, was arrested.
However, with so much trauma to his good eye, he developed a cataract. For the next 8 years he struggled with partial sight as the cataract grew…. but was assured that, like most cataract surgeries, when it was big enough to remove he would have a good amount of vision.
We were excited when he had the surgery. When we got home, later that night, he said…”I cannot see anything.” I assured him that the next day when we have a follow up appointment, the doctors will give you a new lens. I remember him sitting in the chair while I watched. Two doctors, one old and one young were working with him. The body language of the two doctors got my attention. The tears that rolled down the face of the younger doctor told me what I didn’t want to hear.
He has been totally blind since the age of 37. He has no light perception. Against all odds, he is still here at the age of 75, challenged everyday by the dread disease that rendered him blind…. a disease he has had since age 12. Flash forward, on June 20, 2020 we celebrated our 50th anniversary. We couldn’t be with our close and loving family, but with Zoom and Facetime we had a party. Two successful, beautiful daughters, two charming son in laws, and four lively grandchildren ages 5,8,10 and 13. We came a long way from my terror of being the only breadwinner on a teacher’s salary. He went on to a very successful career at the National Institutes of Health and we have retired to a beautiful community in Southwest Florida. Yet every time I see this picture, it brings me to tears. By the way, he has never ever complained.
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#5
Smiling woman in Kutno, Poland. It was taken in 1939 by Hugo Jaeger, who was a photographer for the N*zis. More specifically, it was taken after they'd just invaded Poland.
I find photos like this creepy because they believe the underlying misery that is about to be forced upon these people. If she'd known the reality, a casual chat and a request for a photo by him wouldn't have seemed so natural. You can find plenty more like it of that period.
winterisforhome:
Whenever I see photos of individual Jews or families of them from that time, I just want to burst into tears. We always hear the numbers of the h*******t, how many millions etc, but when you actually start seeing the individual faces of the victims, especially if they're smiling or just living life, it hits so much harder. To a degree, history class has almost "depersonalized" the h*******t in a way, which is why I love the story of Anne Frank; it reminds us that the victims were people just like us, there was no huge difference between us. Just my mini-rant on my feels:/
I find photos like this creepy because they believe the underlying misery that is about to be forced upon these people. If she'd known the reality, a casual chat and a request for a photo by him wouldn't have seemed so natural. You can find plenty more like it of that period.
winterisforhome:
Whenever I see photos of individual Jews or families of them from that time, I just want to burst into tears. We always hear the numbers of the h*******t, how many millions etc, but when you actually start seeing the individual faces of the victims, especially if they're smiling or just living life, it hits so much harder. To a degree, history class has almost "depersonalized" the h*******t in a way, which is why I love the story of Anne Frank; it reminds us that the victims were people just like us, there was no huge difference between us. Just my mini-rant on my feels:/
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#6
This photo was taken moments before an IRA car b*mbing. The charge was inside that red car. The man and child depicted survived, though the photographer did not.
Anon:
I live(d) about 5 miles from here growing up, I was around 4 when this happened, i was with my dad at the time and he remembers hearing the explosion.. my mom was actually on her way towards here (town center), but was still a mile or so away, pretty crazy how being 5 or 10 minute early / late could entirely change so many peoples' lives! I knew one kid that died in it, he was about 16 at the time. I still see his mom around, she never got over it, she went shopping that day with him, he went to buy some new jeans in one store and she quickly ran to another store, she survived and he died instantly.. Really sad!
Anon:
I live(d) about 5 miles from here growing up, I was around 4 when this happened, i was with my dad at the time and he remembers hearing the explosion.. my mom was actually on her way towards here (town center), but was still a mile or so away, pretty crazy how being 5 or 10 minute early / late could entirely change so many peoples' lives! I knew one kid that died in it, he was about 16 at the time. I still see his mom around, she never got over it, she went shopping that day with him, he went to buy some new jeans in one store and she quickly ran to another store, she survived and he died instantly.. Really sad!
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#7
Josef Fritzl enjoying himself on holiday while his daughter was still trapped in his cellar at home.
RealHorrorShowvv:
I think the mom had to have been in on this. Because seriously even if your daughter left you a letter saying she ran away, would you ever stop looking for her? And maybe after the first baby was "left on her doorstep" wouldn't she have thought to install a camera? Oh and her husband going down to the cellar for hours at a time and forbidding her from going down there, that's not totally suspicious...
RealHorrorShowvv:
I think the mom had to have been in on this. Because seriously even if your daughter left you a letter saying she ran away, would you ever stop looking for her? And maybe after the first baby was "left on her doorstep" wouldn't she have thought to install a camera? Oh and her husband going down to the cellar for hours at a time and forbidding her from going down there, that's not totally suspicious...
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58points
#8
Obligatory: Regina Kay Walters
I don't know if it qualifies as "seemingly innocuous" to anybody else, but it became a lot creepier and more tragic to me once the story behind it was explained, because at first glance it just looks kind of like somebody getting annoyed at having their photo taken.
Before serial k**ler Robert Ben Rhoades k****d his victims, he like to snap a photo of them. This is the last picture ever taken of Regina Walters.
The TL;DR: is that the photo was taken by the "Truck Stop K**ler" - he drove her out to that rotting shell of a house, made her cut her hair and put on the dress, and snapped the photo before moving in to m**der her.
someCrookedVulture:
Just to add to this, Rhodes made her pose this way for the photo. She wasn’t actually reacting to an impending threat.
Edit: That doesn’t diminish the impact of the photo, it’s still haunting and terrible. And made even worse by how little he valued life, calling homeless runaways “the invisible people.”
"Her body was later found in September 1990, in an abandoned Illinois barn. Also present were photos of another female (Walsh), whose body was discovered that October. In 1994, Robert Ben Rhoades was convicted of the first degree m*rder of Regina Kay Walters and sentenced to life without parole at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, IL. He was extradited to Utah in 2005 to be tried for the deaths of Candace Walsh and Douglas Zyskowski; however, per the victims' families' requests, the charges were dropped in 2006 and he was returned to prison. Rhoades later pleaded guilty to those crimes as well."
I don't know if it qualifies as "seemingly innocuous" to anybody else, but it became a lot creepier and more tragic to me once the story behind it was explained, because at first glance it just looks kind of like somebody getting annoyed at having their photo taken.
Before serial k**ler Robert Ben Rhoades k****d his victims, he like to snap a photo of them. This is the last picture ever taken of Regina Walters.
The TL;DR: is that the photo was taken by the "Truck Stop K**ler" - he drove her out to that rotting shell of a house, made her cut her hair and put on the dress, and snapped the photo before moving in to m**der her.
someCrookedVulture:
Just to add to this, Rhodes made her pose this way for the photo. She wasn’t actually reacting to an impending threat.
Edit: That doesn’t diminish the impact of the photo, it’s still haunting and terrible. And made even worse by how little he valued life, calling homeless runaways “the invisible people.”
"Her body was later found in September 1990, in an abandoned Illinois barn. Also present were photos of another female (Walsh), whose body was discovered that October. In 1994, Robert Ben Rhoades was convicted of the first degree m*rder of Regina Kay Walters and sentenced to life without parole at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, IL. He was extradited to Utah in 2005 to be tried for the deaths of Candace Walsh and Douglas Zyskowski; however, per the victims' families' requests, the charges were dropped in 2006 and he was returned to prison. Rhoades later pleaded guilty to those crimes as well."
RJ_Ramrod, https://www.reddit.com/r/MorbidReality/comments/gtenu9/the_photo_of_14yearold_regina_kay_walters_taken/
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#9
Myra Hindley, on the Saddleworth moors with her dog, Poppet. She is looking down at the grave of John Kilbride, one of her's, and Ian Brady's, young victims.
Hindley and Brady used to take photos hinting to the gravesites of their child victims, and when their crimes came to light, these pictures were used to help find the bodies.
Hindley and Brady used to take photos hinting to the gravesites of their child victims, and when their crimes came to light, these pictures were used to help find the bodies.
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#10
The saddest one that I’ve come across is a photo of two divers smiling together at the camera on the Great Barrier Reef. In the background, another diver can be seen laying limp on the seabed, with somebody swimming to their rescue. The diver on the reef is Tina Watson, who died before they even resurfaced. If I can remember correctly, multiple witnesses said her partner had bear-hugged her before she began to sink, realizing only later that he had most likely purposefully disconnected her breathing apparatus. He was charged with m**der, but never convicted, as the case collapsed. He was convicted for manslaughter (to which he pleaded guilty) and was sentenced to 4.5 years (under Australian law).
Edit: I previously did not realize that the case is still classed as unresolved, and wrote that her husband was not convicted after the m**der charge was dropped instead of his conviction of manslaughter.
Edit: I previously did not realize that the case is still classed as unresolved, and wrote that her husband was not convicted after the m**der charge was dropped instead of his conviction of manslaughter.
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#11
Basically all of the Turpin family photos of all 13 kids on trips to Vegas and Disney. At first they seem like a normal family, then you realize that the kids are gaunt and pale. Add that to the matching outfits and I'm all spooked out.
In one picture of the family, the children are seemingly clinging to each other with forced smiles. All the while Louise and David Turpin are beaming with pride of their family.
It's sort of terrifying.
shifa_xx:
The ab*se seemingly developed over time - like there was a woman who reported being able to play with the older Turpin kids-now-adults when they were young. The kids were apparently more 'normal' kids then who were allowed outside and to have friends visit or go to friends houses, etc. They were described as friendly but also being weird. Weird as in they would smell bad, be unclean and have those fishy seeming parents.
Then by the sounds of it, as more and more kids came along the abuse only developed more. They weren't allowed out anymore (their neighbour thought they only had 1 or 2 kids) and the weirdness increased. And the weight/type of malnourishment of the older Turpin kidults suggests they were deprived of food for a very long time to. Malnourishment like they have must have started from way before pre-teen years. The parents can't have just snapped and started ab*sing them one day - the state of those adult Turpins shows that the parents had always been ab*sive, just on different levels over time.
awillis0513:
Also, apparently some of the children didn’t know what a police officer was and the 17 year old didn’t understand what medication was when she called 911. These kids are in for a reality shock. It seems, though, that they are being eased slowly into the world.
In one picture of the family, the children are seemingly clinging to each other with forced smiles. All the while Louise and David Turpin are beaming with pride of their family.
It's sort of terrifying.
shifa_xx:
The ab*se seemingly developed over time - like there was a woman who reported being able to play with the older Turpin kids-now-adults when they were young. The kids were apparently more 'normal' kids then who were allowed outside and to have friends visit or go to friends houses, etc. They were described as friendly but also being weird. Weird as in they would smell bad, be unclean and have those fishy seeming parents.
Then by the sounds of it, as more and more kids came along the abuse only developed more. They weren't allowed out anymore (their neighbour thought they only had 1 or 2 kids) and the weirdness increased. And the weight/type of malnourishment of the older Turpin kidults suggests they were deprived of food for a very long time to. Malnourishment like they have must have started from way before pre-teen years. The parents can't have just snapped and started ab*sing them one day - the state of those adult Turpins shows that the parents had always been ab*sive, just on different levels over time.
awillis0513:
Also, apparently some of the children didn’t know what a police officer was and the 17 year old didn’t understand what medication was when she called 911. These kids are in for a reality shock. It seems, though, that they are being eased slowly into the world.
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#12
The My Lai villagers picture. might not fit exactly since the picture shows the terrorized villagers right before they were gunned down, so not exactly seemingly normal. but, one often overlooked aspect is the young woman buttoning her shirt, which is interpreted as evidence that she was r**ed right before the photo.
Saelza_:
This is horrible. I don't know why America joined that war. The actions of those soldiers is disgusting, and should be remembered so it never happens again.
Saelza_:
This is horrible. I don't know why America joined that war. The actions of those soldiers is disgusting, and should be remembered so it never happens again.
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#13
Just a photo of a cute girl, right? This is Genie (not her real name, but that's what she is called in the public sphere. (Real name was kept secret.) From the time she was an infant, around 20 months old, her father kept her in a single room, strapped down to a potty chair facing the wall. She had no human interaction beyond her parents until the age of 13, when she was rescued.
Anon:
Studied her in developmental psych. Incredibly sad, but also intriguing.
Anon:
Studied her in developmental psych. Incredibly sad, but also intriguing.
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#14
This picture of Elizabeth Smart (far left) taken while she being was held captive by her kidnapper (pictured far right).
Smart was missing for 9 months. the picture was taken some time in the middle of that period, at a party the kidnapper crashed with Smart. She was made to wear the veil in order to keep from being recognized in public.
BoxingAngel:
My dad is a Corrections Offficer here in Tucson and has had personal contact with her kidnapper. He always says that he gets this chill up his spine when he talks to him. He is at a special prison that has a program called the SOMP program. The SOMP or S*xual Offender Management Program was put into place so people like Mr. Mitchell wouldnt get beat to death on the yard. The prison consists of 80% s*xual offenders. According to my father, they play a game similar to Dungeons and Dragons. Only instead of trying to level up and k*ll creatures, they discuss ways of how to lure children into their clutches. Really sick stuff and this guy is one of more nasty people I have heard about.
Smart was missing for 9 months. the picture was taken some time in the middle of that period, at a party the kidnapper crashed with Smart. She was made to wear the veil in order to keep from being recognized in public.
BoxingAngel:
My dad is a Corrections Offficer here in Tucson and has had personal contact with her kidnapper. He always says that he gets this chill up his spine when he talks to him. He is at a special prison that has a program called the SOMP program. The SOMP or S*xual Offender Management Program was put into place so people like Mr. Mitchell wouldnt get beat to death on the yard. The prison consists of 80% s*xual offenders. According to my father, they play a game similar to Dungeons and Dragons. Only instead of trying to level up and k*ll creatures, they discuss ways of how to lure children into their clutches. Really sick stuff and this guy is one of more nasty people I have heard about.
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#15
Snake bite captured mid strike in this family photo. Taken at a friend's ranch.
gwtrull:
The dog actually was bit and didn't make it. The woman was bit as well but made a full recovery. Thankful it wasn't the child.
gwtrull:
The dog actually was bit and didn't make it. The woman was bit as well but made a full recovery. Thankful it wasn't the child.
Ms_Tyree, https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4fhq85/snake_bite_captured_mid_strike_in_this_family/
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#16
This photo taken not long before Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were kidnapped and m******d.
I was young when it happened and my parents never hid things from us, but this made my parents not trust us playing out without an adult watching.
Zombeedee:
I was around the same age as these girls when this happened. This, along with other cases during my childhood such as Sarah Payne, James Bulger, Millie Dowler, I honestly feel like was a turning point for British people and the whole freedom in childhood, kids playing in the street thing.
Before these h**h profile cases I still remember being turned out in the morning every weekend, along with all the other kids in my street, and we'd just wander and play around all day. My parents had no clue where we were. And we were not safe. I'm amazed none of us got hurt, looking back.
But growing up hearing these stories, it honestly feels like blinkers were taken off. Kids were told to be more careful or not allowed out unsupervised at all. And now I'm a mum myself there is no f*****g way I let my kids wander about alone.
I really think it changed the nation and made us more wary for the most part.
I was young when it happened and my parents never hid things from us, but this made my parents not trust us playing out without an adult watching.
Zombeedee:
I was around the same age as these girls when this happened. This, along with other cases during my childhood such as Sarah Payne, James Bulger, Millie Dowler, I honestly feel like was a turning point for British people and the whole freedom in childhood, kids playing in the street thing.
Before these h**h profile cases I still remember being turned out in the morning every weekend, along with all the other kids in my street, and we'd just wander and play around all day. My parents had no clue where we were. And we were not safe. I'm amazed none of us got hurt, looking back.
But growing up hearing these stories, it honestly feels like blinkers were taken off. Kids were told to be more careful or not allowed out unsupervised at all. And now I'm a mum myself there is no f*****g way I let my kids wander about alone.
I really think it changed the nation and made us more wary for the most part.
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#17
This brings to mind the relatively recent m**ders of Abigail Williams and Libby German. This case has been discussed numerous times in this subreddit, I know, but it's one that's stuck with me. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, you can read up on it here.
This is the final image taken of Abigail Williams, uploaded to Libby German's Snapchat at approximately 2:07 PM on February 13th, 2017. As depicted in the photo, Abigail is is standing on a bridge, a physical landmark that her body was found in close relation to.
Another image that has been circulated because of this case is an image of the suspect himself. Apologies for the grainy quality, but it was superimposed from a video still. As discovered through this video that retraces the crime, the suspect was only seventy-three feet behind them at this point.
This is the final image taken of Abigail Williams, uploaded to Libby German's Snapchat at approximately 2:07 PM on February 13th, 2017. As depicted in the photo, Abigail is is standing on a bridge, a physical landmark that her body was found in close relation to.
Another image that has been circulated because of this case is an image of the suspect himself. Apologies for the grainy quality, but it was superimposed from a video still. As discovered through this video that retraces the crime, the suspect was only seventy-three feet behind them at this point.
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#18
The M**der of Reynaldo Dagsa.
A filipino politician, Dagsa was on vacation spending time with his family.
Looks like a regular family photo at first glance right?
This photo was taken on New Years Day by him moments before he was shot and k**led, and his k**ler can be seen in the background behind his family.
A filipino politician, Dagsa was on vacation spending time with his family.
Looks like a regular family photo at first glance right?
This photo was taken on New Years Day by him moments before he was shot and k**led, and his k**ler can be seen in the background behind his family.
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#19
Selfie posted by Daylenn Pua on February 24, 2015. Just two days later he vanished while hiking the Haiku Stairs in Hawaii. During the hike, he sent his grandmother numerous photos. One appeared to show a man following him.
This hike was closed to the public, and anyone caught hiking it was trespassing. His grandmother warned him against it, saying he would be locked up if he did.
On February 27, 2015, he caught a bus and ventured forth to the stairway to heaven hike. Daylenn sent texts to his grandmother with photos of the hike. He was never seen again.
After his disappearance, the photos were studied, one showed what appears to be a man in the far background. He seems to be following behind Daylenn.
The family asked for public assistance and for anyone who recognized the man to come forth.
To this day, he or his remains have never been found, and what happened to him and the identity of that strange man in the photo remains a mystery.
This hike was closed to the public, and anyone caught hiking it was trespassing. His grandmother warned him against it, saying he would be locked up if he did.
On February 27, 2015, he caught a bus and ventured forth to the stairway to heaven hike. Daylenn sent texts to his grandmother with photos of the hike. He was never seen again.
After his disappearance, the photos were studied, one showed what appears to be a man in the far background. He seems to be following behind Daylenn.
The family asked for public assistance and for anyone who recognized the man to come forth.
To this day, he or his remains have never been found, and what happened to him and the identity of that strange man in the photo remains a mystery.
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#20
On the morning of 17 January, Muhammad Yusuf Pujwala (the father of Asia Bano( was sitting outside his home in Kathua, Kashmir, when one of his neighbours came sprinting towards him. He told Muhammed Pujwala, they had found his eight-year-old daughter, Asifa Bano. Her body was found in the bushes of a forest.
The 8 year old’s legs were broken. Her fingers were black and blue. Asifa was confined in a local temple for several days and given sedatives that kept her unconscious. The charge sheet alleges that she was "r**ed for days, tortured and then finally m**dered". She was strangled to death and then hit on the head twice with a stone.
The worst thing is, she isn’t the only girl and she won't be the last.
The 8 year old’s legs were broken. Her fingers were black and blue. Asifa was confined in a local temple for several days and given sedatives that kept her unconscious. The charge sheet alleges that she was "r**ed for days, tortured and then finally m**dered". She was strangled to death and then hit on the head twice with a stone.
The worst thing is, she isn’t the only girl and she won't be the last.
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