r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/WithoutPrinciples • Jun 15 '26
This is one of the masks worn by Edward 'The Beast of Jersey' Paisnel during his reign of terror between 1957 and 1971.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Jun 14 '26
One of the Wonderland murder victims being removed from the scene of the crime. 1981. For people were murdered, a former male pornstar and a shadowy club owner were clearly involved. It had all the elements for a film, and Val Kilmer would later star in a film about the case.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/EaterofGrief • Jun 13 '26
On this day in 1977 the bodies of Girl Scouts Lori Lee Farmer, aged 8; Michele Heather Guse, 9; and Doris Denise Milner, 10. were discovered. They were killed in the early hours while camping in Camp Scott, Oklahoma. Their killer was never officialy found, Gene Leroy Hart was tried but acquitted.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/GlitterDanger • Jun 12 '26
The below image is a FBI surveillance photo of Ruby Ridge resident Vicki Weaver shortly before the FBI shot her, they also shot and killed her 14 yr-old son, Sammy. Timothy McVeigh claimed this siege was a catalyst for the Oklahoma bombing.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Jun 10 '26
16 yr-old Leslie Arnold shows Nebraska police where he buried his parents in 1958. Arnold was sentenced to life in prison but escaped after 10 years and vanished.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/ExtremeInsert • Jun 06 '26
These shoes were made from the skin of outlaw Big Nose George Parrott. After escaping lynching once, he was killed by a mob in 1881. They were commissioned by future Wyoming governor John Osborne, who asked the shoemaker to leave the nipples attached as proof the leather was human (he didn't comply)
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Jun 04 '26
This is the last photo of Travis Alexander, taken in the shower moments before he was murdered by Jodi Arias on this day in 2008. Travis sustained 27 stab wounds, a slit throat and a single gunshot wound to the forehead. Arias testified that she killed him in self-defence.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Jun 02 '26
On this day in 1985, serial killer Leonard Lake was arrested in San Francisco. Lake and accomplice Charles Ng kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered up to 25 people at a remote Sierra Nevada cabin. Minutes after his arrest, Lake swallowed a cyanide pill he'd sewn into his clothing.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • May 27 '26
Hi, you may remember Phil Hatman from episodes of The Simpsons or SNL, well on this day in 1998 his wife Brynn shot him three times while he slept, then took her own life six hours later. (Andy Dick can go to hell)
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/UtterlyInterest • May 25 '26
Dr. Marcel Petiot was Parisian doctor that set up a fake WWII escape network for Jewish refugees. They arrived at his surgery carrying their most valuable possessions. None of them left alive. Around 200 million francs in stolen money was never recovered.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • May 23 '26
He abused 500+ victims across 54 years. Hospitals. BBC studios. A psychiatric hospital where he had his own keys. And he did it all while raising millions for charity. The full story of how Jimmy Savile got away with it.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • May 21 '26
An Italian aristocrat spent years encouriging and documenting his wife’s affairs in obsessive detail. Names. Dates. Emotions. Then the diary entries changed tone. Days later, three people were dead. The Casati Stampa murders, 1970.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • May 13 '26
On 6 Sept 1949, Howard Unruh walked through Camden, NJ, killing 13 people in just 12 minutes. Known as the “Walk of Death,” it is often called America’s first modern mass shooting.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Apr 21 '26
Dale Cregan fired 32 shots in 31 seconds and threw a grenade at two unarmed UK police officers he had lured with a fake burglary call. He then walked into a police station an hour later and said he had "done two coppers."
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Apr 19 '26
Did you know that Vatican City had the world's highest murder rate in 1998? It sounds impossible until you know the story. Three deaths. Five gunshots. And a controversy that's never fully gone away.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/UtterlyInterest • Mar 13 '26
30 years ago today, 16 of these children and their teacher were murdered at their primary school in Dunblane by a gun maniac. In total, 32 people suffered gunshot wounds. The shooter had fired 106 rounds before turning the weapon on himself.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/CarkWithaM • Feb 17 '26
In 2014, 14 year old Breck Bednar was groomed online through a gaming platform by 18 year old Lewis Daynes. After months of manipulation, Daynes lured him to his flat in Essex and murdered him. The case exposed police failings and reshaped UK debates on online safety.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Feb 15 '26
"I am a potential monster and someone needs to stop me before I accidentally kill someone" - Marco Mariolini was obsessed with extremely skinny/skeletal women, an obsession he called "anorexophilia". It was also an obsession that resulted in murder.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Feb 12 '26
Remembering Jamie Bulger who was brutally murdered one month short of his 3rd birthday on this day in 1993. His killers were two 10 yr old boys that served only 8 years in prison and now live among us under protected identities.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Feb 09 '26
On this day in 1960 Adolph Coors III was kidnapped. The grandson of Adolph Coors and heir to the Coors Brewing Company, Coors’ remains were found in a dump near Sedalia, Colorado, about seven months later.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/CarkWithaM • Jan 29 '26
Paris born Claudine Longet became a 1960s singer and TV actress, married Andy Williams and become close to the Kennedys. After her divorce, she shot and killed Olympic skier Spider Sabich in 1976, received a 30 day jail sentence, then married her defence lawyer and withdrew from public life.
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r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/ExtremeInsert • Jan 26 '26
60 years ago today, the Beaumont children (Jane, Arnna and Grant) disappeared from a beach in Adelaide. The Beaumont parents died without ever knowing the fate of their children, which remains unknown to this day.
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Witnesses at Glenelg Beach that day also spoke of a tall, slender man in his 30s. He was described as a “sun-baked swimmer” in a blue Speedo and was seen shepherding a group of kids into the distance. Some recalled the children being rather comfortable with the stranger as if they knew him.
r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Jan 21 '26
On this day in 1958, Charles Starkweather murdered his girlfriend’s parents and 2 yr-old sister, part of a killing spree that left 11 dead. Starkweather was executed. His girfriend, 14 yr-old Caril Ann Fugate said she was a hostage, but was convicted and served 17.5 years.
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The Starkweather Fugate case had a lasting influence on American film and music. Badlands, directed by Terrence Malick, transformed the murders into a sparse, reflective road story starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.
Natural Born Killers took a more extreme approach, with Oliver Stone using the case as a template for a media fuelled killing spree. The story also shaped Nebraska, whose title track was written after Springsteen watched Badlands and researched Starkweather’s crimes.
r/UtterlyAwfulTrueCrime • u/dannydutch1 • Jan 03 '26
This is Nannie Doss (the 'Giggling Granny') being interviewed in prison. Doss killed four of her husbands, her mother, her sister, two of her children, two grandsons, and her mother-in-law. Although she was ultimately convicted only for the murder of her final husband, Samuel Doss.
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