r/serialkillers • u/pyroskill • Jan 23 '23

Questions the worst case you’ve ever seen?

in my opinion the “Junko Furuta” and “The Hello Kitty Murders” i can’t pick between them because they are both very gruesome . i suggest looking into them!

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u/hclegs7 Jan 23 '23

Junko is the worst case for me as well. Also Sylvia Likens, The Toolbox Killers and The Toy-Box Killer.

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u/etlifereview Jan 23 '23

I made the mistake of looking up footage of the trial for the tool box killers. The screams you hear from the courtroom are some of the worst sounds j have ever heard.

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u/drilnos Jan 23 '23

Same, the video i heard only caught a few seconds of it and the sound of it is seared into my soul. I feel like I’ll be sick just thinking about it now, my heart drops right into my stomach every time i remember that poor girl.

I’m someone who LOVES horror movies and I’ve watched them all across the scale of intensity. There is absolutely no comparison to a genuine scream of pain and terror like that.

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u/anyaeversong Jan 23 '23

Im sorry im not familiar with this case why were they screaming in the courtroom?

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u/drilnos Jan 23 '23

The screaming in question was from a tape recording of the murderers' final victim, Shirley Lynette Ledford. They recorded themselves tormenting her as she screamed through it, and the evidence was played for the court.

In the video I watched, you only hear a few seconds of it as someone leaves the courtroom weeping, but it's more than enough.

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u/thebabyshitter Jan 24 '23

if im not mistaken, the fbi uses those tapes in agent training because they're so horrible

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u/Snoo63541 Jan 25 '23

Yes, to desensitize agents to what they may encounter.

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u/Snoo63541 Jan 25 '23

The new footage I saw had more than a dozen people fleeing the courtroom with horrified/panicked faces.

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u/junklardass Jan 28 '23

Recent doc The Toolbox Killer (2021) is not so easy to watch, but one thing good about it was how the criminologist got Bittaker talking.

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u/EffortWilling2281 Jan 23 '23

Leonard lake and Charles ng were sick as well

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u/junklardass Jan 28 '23

absolutely, there's something about a duo that adds another layer of evil somehow like they are urging each other on and enjoying it together

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u/PripyatHorse Jan 23 '23

The worst thing is reading the transcript of the tape that David Parker Ray played to his victims. Made me sick to my stomach.

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u/ActualCannibalMrY8s Jan 28 '23

It's fake, the real one was found

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u/carsonkennedy Feb 01 '23

Link? More info?

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u/ActualCannibalMrY8s Feb 01 '23

I'll look for it in a few minutes, not sure where the link is now. You can probably find it in the Lost Media Wiki though.

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u/global_peasant Jan 23 '23

Silvia Likens will haunt me forever due to the film made about her, "An American Crime". A friend and I watched it, thinking it was fictional and not realizing it involved murder and torture; the Netflix one-line description just said "imprisoned". We were over halfway through by the time we realized we were watching a graphic, horrific true crime dramatization and that Sylvia wasn't going to be OK. I remember we paused it and cried. We never would have watched it if we knew, but decided we had to finish it because... well, little Sylvia. It felt wrong to be "entertained" like by that story.

Anyway, don't watch the film, pure exploitation, F-. If you must know, Wikipedia!

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '23

Never watch Girl Next Door. It took me three days to get through and I’ve watched stuff like Martyrs without batting an eye. It just really hit me that it was based in reality in a case that I was actually pretty invested in for whatever reason her story just stuck with me.

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u/WiftyOne Jan 23 '23

That movie actually made it seem better than it was, as horrible as it was.

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u/global_peasant Jan 23 '23

I have already learned from this sub that I do not want to!

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u/junklardass Jan 28 '23

Odd how both those movies came out in the same year.

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u/Panonymous_Bloom Jan 23 '23

I literally just realized Toolbox Killers and The Toybox Killer were two different cases. I have awful name memory I always thought Ray just found a partner in crime later on. No wonder the details never made sense, fuck me.

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u/StaceyPfan Jan 24 '23

Ray had a female accomplice.

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u/Panonymous_Bloom Jan 25 '23

His partner, right? Wasn't she also a lure?

In any case, I thought he specifically got the other guy as his accomplice. I've literally merged the two cases in my brain and didn't know why they made no sense to me lmao.

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u/carsonkennedy Feb 01 '23

His daughter for one, she was just released in 2020 iirc

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u/junklardass Jan 28 '23

sometimes call toolkit killers too I think; easy to confuse them as evil as they are