Top 10 Creepiest Things Found at Crime Scenes

The hair in question here actually wasn’t from the criminal associated with the case, Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber. Here, Kaczynski actually planted someone else’s hair that he found in a bus station bathroom into an explosive package in order to throw authorities off the scent of the case. Although the hair didn’t belong to the Unabomber, utilizing someone else’s locks in this way is not only gross, but creepy as well. Never mind, you know, the possibility of the feds knocking at your door, thinking that you’re somehow involved with such a dangerous madman.

There was no questioning the intentions of one Prince Hepburn after the forensic report of this crime scene came back from the lab. This is because Hepburn actually left behind the murder weapon with a very specific pair of messages written about both the actual and intended victims. A bloody machete was found at the scene where Hepburn murdered his girlfriend with the phrase, “this is what cheaters get” scrawled on the blade. On the other side was a message for the other potential victim. It’s the level of morbidity that only tends to be seen in horror movies, but in this case, the horror was very, very real.

The Beltway Snipers terrorized the Washington, D.C. area back in 2002, utilizing long-distance rifles to maximize the cold and detached distances between them and their victims. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo utilized different calling cards over the course of their terror spree, but one particularly chilling moment occurred after the October 7th shooting of Iran Brown. Malvo and Muhammad left the Death tarot card at the crime scene, inscribed with the words, “Do not release to the press,” “For you mr. Police,” and “Call me God.” It was creepy and deeply disturbing, to say the least.

The legal case of “The Lipstick Killer,” William Heirens (HARE-ins) was a mess, featuring inconsistent prosecution, shoddy police work and illegalities behind the scenes. There are some who feel that Heirens wasn’t even the notorious serial killer who left a creepy, moniker-defining message at the scene of a crime. It was scrawled on a victim’s apartment wall, and it said, “For heavens Sake catch me Before I kill more I cannot control myself.” Heirens was ultimately sentenced to life in prison for three separate murders, although he died in prison maintaining that his confession was coerced.

Stories about true crime can certainly be troubling, but the stakes get even more disturbing once children become involved within the narrative. The murder of Lucille Johnson in 1991 was notable right off the bat for the bevy of Lego bricks scattered at the scene of the crime. Moreover, DNA results conducted many years later led authorities to believe that Johnson’s murderer, John Sansing, had brought his son along with him that day. As a result, the mental image is that Sansing’s son was innocently playing with the Legos while his father was off committing a truly heinous act. The mind boggles.

David Kalac (KAY-lick) was unapologetic after murdering his ex-girlfriend in 2014, so much so that he posted his grotesque handiwork to the Internet. It was known as the “4chan Murder” in the press, after Kalac uploaded photos of the crime and text apparently lamenting the fact that “its way harder to strangle someone to death than it looks on the movies,” Additionally, Kalac wrote messages around the house, including “bad news” on blinds in the home and “she killed me first” on a framed photo. Finally, Kalac scrawled out a blunt statement on his ex’s driver’s license, one that simply said, “DEAD.”

She may currently live under an alias, but the woman born Mary Bell possesses the gruesome distinction of being Britain’s youngest female killer. Bell was only ten when she strangled the first of her two victims back in 1968. By all accounts, Bell’s home life was full of trauma and mistreatment at the hands of her mother, and she displayed troubling and dangerous behavior for some time before killing her first victim, Martin Brown. Later, Bell and an accomplice would not only harass Brown’s mother prior to her son’s funeral, but they left taunting notes to police at a nearby nursery they vandalized. One of the notes read, “I murder so that I may come back.”

Dean Corll (basically coral) was a notorious serial killer known by a number of monikers, including “The Pied Piper” and “The Candy Man.” Corll’s methodology was brutal, and he even had a pair of young accomplices that assisted in his luring, torturing and murdering his victims. These victims would often be handcuffed to a plywood board and harmed by Corll prior to their deaths, and it was this “torture board” that was found at the scene when the Candy Man met his demise at the hands of one of these aforementioned accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley.

A cipher is a coded message that’s deliberately disguised in order to convey a hidden message. There have been a number of killers over the years that have communicated in ciphers, most notably the Zodiac. The case of Ricky McCormick is another involving ciphers, and one that also remains unsolved. Here, the message was found on McCormick’s body after his remains were found in a Missouri cornfield on June 30th, 1999. The FBI is still actively seeking public assistance in cracking the cipher at the time of this writing, since it’s believed that the clue to the identity of McCormick’s murderer lies within the code.

You can take your pick from the contents of Ed Gein’s home: it was a literal house of horrors. The horror of Gein’s crimes shocked the world, and served as inspiration for numerous, equally gruesome horror movie amalgamations of his life. Gein’s house was full of furniture and other items that were crafted from human remains, including, but not limited to: chairs and baskets upholstered in human skin, discarded skulls, torn faces and even loose noses littering the premises. It’s almost too much to take in; an absurdly horrific and unforgettable tableau of inhuman depravity from one of the most notorious cases of all time.