This is the last image of JonBenét Ramsey taken on Christmas morning 1996. She would be murdered only hours later. She would be 31 years old today.

A soundproof torture container that was found by the dutch police in 2020. Six men have been arrested in the Netherlands following the discovery of seven shipping containers converted into cells and torture chambers. The containers were located in Wouwse Plantage, south of Rotterdam, after French police cracked encrypted phones used by criminals. Dutch police said the containers were found before they were used, and potential victims were now in hiding. Officers found handcuffs attached to the floors and ceilings of the structures, which had also been soundproofed. In one container, they also discovered police clothing and bulletproof vests. In another, they located pruning shears, scalpels and balaclavas.

Skeleton of a Roman man beheaded by flying stone when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in Pompeii, Italy

Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém (Saigon Execution) captured by war photographer Eddie Adams Nguyễn Văn Lém, often referred to as Bảy Lốp, was a member of the Viet Cong. He was summarily executed in Saigon during the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, when the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive surprise attack. Lém was alleged to have murdered a colonel and eight members of his family before being captured. Lém was brought to South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, who then executed him. The event was witnessed and recorded by Võ Sửu, a cameraman for NBC, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer. The photograph and film became famous images in contemporary American journalism, and won Adams the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.

A distress message was found today on a sardine can with the words “We are sudanese laborers enslaved by the comapny/factory”. The factory is libyan exporting its goods to egypt.

Ku Klux Klan members at a 1922 parade

This guy swam to his girlfriend who was inside their underwater hotel room while on vacation in Tanzania, and proposed to her with a note and a ring seen here… He died before he could resurface from the water in this picture.

In 1949, Charles H. Cohen, then aged 12, hid in a closet as mass murderer Howard Unruh shot his family to death. He was the sole survivor of his family. Almost 70 years later, his granddaughter, Carly Novell, would survive the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting by hiding in a closet

Gang leader Charlie Birger prior to his execution for ordering the murder of the mayor of West City, Illi. Joe Adams. His last words “It’s a beautiful day.”

The suicide notice of infamous punk icon Sid Vicious. he purposely ODd on February 2, 1979 a day after being released on bail for The murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen

Alex Sullivan posted this tweet 9 years ago today. That night he was one of the 12 victims shot and killed during the Aurora Colorado Shooting

Balbir Singh Sodhi was a Sikh who lived in Mesa, Arizona. He was murdered 4 days after September 11, 2001 after being mistaken for Muslim by a Boeing employee who wanted to “retaliate” for the World Trade Center attacks. He is listed on the Arizona state 9/11 memorial as a victim of 9/11

Clearing Land for the People Temple, Jonestown, Guyana with Jim Jones September 1974

Tyler Hadley murdered his mother and father, hid them in their bedroom, and then proceeded to throw a party at his house. To his right is Michael Mandell, who Hadley had shown his parents dead bodies to moments before this picture was taken.

Photo of Travis Alexander taken by his ex GF Jodi Arias moments before she stabbed him 27 times and shot him in the head. His throat had been cut ear to ear and he was almost decapitated.