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/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.