safe space

Drawings by serial killers depicting their crimes

1. Dennis Nilsen’s drawing of one of his murdered victims. He produced a number of these drawings and called them “sad sketches”.

2. Dennis Rader’s drawing of one of his victims. He referred to them as “PJ’s” meaning ‘projects’.

The infamous Honor Society photo in the 1978 Revere High School Yearbook.  As a prank, Jeffrey Dahmer sneaked into several photos for high school clubs, only to have his face blacked out in all of them once his stunt was discovered.  This photo has since become a symbol of both Dahmer’s complete alienation from other people and the grim consequence of society’s neglect of an obviously disturbed youth. 

“Whatever had gone on in Jeff’s life, he couldn’t talk about.  It seemed so clear all along that it was someone saying, ‘Pay attention to me.’ “

One of the creepiest things to come out of the Satanic panic of the 1980s (see here) was a kid’s book entitled Don’t Make Me Go Back, Mommy. Written by Doris Sanford, it was meant as a tool to help children (and parents) identify and recognize signs of Satanic ritual abuse. A few pages from the book can be found below.

The corpses of the starving Ukrainians during Holodomor. An estimated  2.5–7.5 million Ukrainians died during the famine. Among them were Kulaks (Russian peasants) who during the reign of Stalin had their growing land forcibly taken from them. Because of this and many other factors, the production of grain, a large resource for food has been cut from  7.2 million tons to  4.3 million tons.  a rationing system was put into place in an attempt to provide people with food, but was gradually cut back to almost nothing.

Starving children on the streets of Kharkiv.

Starving child in Kharkiv.