Many serial killers take photos of their victims–both dead and
alive–to keep a record of their work, to refer to later for
self-pleasure, and sometimes to taunt police. Here are a few images
taken by serial killers of their victims while they were still alive.
Most know they’re doomed, others are still unaware of what’s to come.
This picture of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades,
who toured the country in an 18-wheeler equipped with a torture chamber
in the back. Rhoades abducted Walters and her boyfriend, Ricky Lee
Jones, who ran away together in Texas. This photo was taken in an
abandoned Illinois barn, where Rhoades killed Walters after cutting off
her hair and making her wear a black dress and heels. Jones’s body was
never found.
Judith Dull, an aspiring model, was murdered by “Glamour Girl Killer” Harvey Glatman.
Glatman moved to Los Angeles, where he posed as a professional
photographer to lure girls into his hotel room with the promise of work.
There, he tied them up, photographed them, and eventually killed them
and dumped their bodies. Judith, 19 and divorced, showed up at Glatman’s
under the premise that she would pose for a crime fiction magazine.
Shirley Ann Bridgeford, 24, met Glatman
using a dating service called the Patty Sullivan Lonely Hearts Club.
Glatman, using the name George Williams, picked Bridgeford up and told
her that instead of going dancing as they’d planned, he’d take her on a
drive around the countryside. Once at a remote spot, Glatman ordered
Bridgeford out of the car and told her to undress. He then raped,
photographed and humiliated her before strangling her to death, taking a
few more pictures, and leaving her body.
Another killer posing as a photographer was William Richard Bradford.
In 1984, while out on bail for a rape charge, Bradford met bartender
Shari Miller. Promising to help her kick-start a modeling career, he
took her to a scenic desert spot outside LA and snapped a few pictures
before strangling her to death. He then cut off her tattoos and drove
her body back to Hollywood, where he disposed of it in a dumpster.
Though he was convicted in only two murders, including Miller’s, it is
believed he’s responsible for around 50.
Bob Berdella,
a serial killer who preferred male victims, kept 23-year-old Todd
Stoops for two months, torturing him daily with electric shocks, anal
penetration and other abuse. Berdella didn’t intentionally murder
Stoops; the young man died as a result of the countless injuries
inflicted by his assailant. After repeated rape, Stoops developed a
rectal rupture and was bleeding profusely. Berdella treated him with
animal antibiotics and injected Drano into his eyes.
Another of Berdella’s victims, Larry Pearson, was a male prostitute. He lived as Berdella’s sex slave for about six weeks and was more cooperative than the others. When he finally did try to escape, Berdella killed him.
Serial killer and necrophiliac Jerry Brudos
took this photo of 19-year-old college student Karen Sprinker in his
garage. He had kidnapped her from a department store parking lot and
brought her to his house, where he made her model women’s underwear and
pose for photos. He killed her by hanging her from a hook in his
ceiling, then had sex with her body and cut off her breasts.
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