Btk crime scene photos11/9/2022 ![]() ![]() He took her down to the basement, and hung her from a sewer pipe. When he returned to the other room, Josephine had woken up. Otero dead, he took Junior back to another room, where he put a t-shirt over his head, and then a bag, so he couldn’t tear a hole in it. He would not be able to tear it open again. Dennis put a cloth over it, and then another bag, and tied it down. Otero had not suffocated, in fact, he managed to squirm until he fell over, tearing a hole in the bag on his head. Otero, this time with a rope, making sure she was dead.ĭuring this time, Mr. He made the choice to remove the bag from Junior’s head before going back and strangling Mrs. Otero hadn’t been dead though, she regained consciousness and started to panic. He took another bag and secured it around, 9 year old, Junior’s head. He strangled her as well until he thought she was dead. He let her go when he thought she was dead, and moved on to 11 year old Josephine. Otero next, and strangled her with his hands. Otero’s head and secured it with some cords. Dennis Rader got a plastic bag and put it over Mr. That’s when he realized that he didn’t have a mask on, and that if he let them go, they could ID him. The family told him they would give him the car, money, whatever he wanted. Otero a pillow and cushion for him as he had broken a rib in a car accident. Nervous, he tried to make them comfortable, loosening the knots a little, giving Mr. He took all four members of the Otero family back to the bedroom where he tied them up. Otero to get the dog out, and one of the kids took care of it. ![]() He asked him to lie down in the living room, but changed his mind because the family dog was becoming a nuisance. He lied, telling him he wanted to get the car, that he was hungry, and he wanted food. Otero, whom he hadn’t expected to be at the residence. Inside the home, he pulled a pistol and confronted Mr. However, plans changed when the family emerged from the home, he went to the back door, cut the phone lines, and waited until eventually the back door opened one of the kids had opened it. Photos taken at the Hollywood Hills home of comedian Lenny Bruce following his overdose on August 3, 1966.Ī jewlery store heist gone wrong on July 23rd, 1932.Ī victim who had his throat slashed in his car photographed on March 11th, 1929.Ī “John Doe” victim lying in a yard found on July 13th, 1930.Ī chilling photograph of a dead body taken on January 11th, 1932.On January 15, 1974, sometime between 7:00 and 7:30am, Dennis Rader went to the Otero family home, with an idea that he would break in and carry out a sexual fantasy. Member of the Manson Family arriving for their arraignment in 1970. Many of the images that follow are NSFW.Ī lifeless body lying underneath a bridge over the Los Angeles River in 1955.Ī truck carrying a huge load of seized marijuana photographed on October 11th, 1935.Īn LAPD officer administrating a field sobriety test to a woman on July 6th, 1958.Ī photograph of a crude note given to a bank teller in 1961. Some of the more infamous photos that were salvaged by Morton include the aftermath of comedian Lenny Bruce’s overdose in March of 1966 and a shot of members of the Manson Family arriving at their arrangement in 1970. The grim collection includes pictures that chronicle crimes such as mob hits and bank robberies, as well as other curious images such as one of Maila Nurmi dressed as Vampira posing in what appears to be a dingy-looking storage facility (pictured at the top of this post). Morton and his group of film archivists spent hundreds of hours toiling to rescue the photos that had been slated for the trash pile owing to their condition. ![]() Cellulose nitrate was used widely in the film industry up until the late 1940s or early 1950s when it was “retired” from use due to the dangers associated with the decomposing film. The photos were in such bad shape that their decay posed a fire threat thanks to the instability of the cellulose nitrate-based film and negatives. In 2014 LA photographer Merrick Morton (who also spent time as an LAPD reserve officer) was hipped to the existence of a massive collection of crime scene photos taken for the LAPD that had been long forgotten. BTK CRIME SCENE PHOTOS ARCHIVEStarted in 2009, the photographic archive has digitized photos that were taken as early as the 1920s. It is a part of a huge collection of vintage LAPD crime scene pictures unearthed by photographer Merrick Morton in 2014.įototeka is a large photo digitation service that works in conjunction with the National Film Archive to enhance historically relevant vintage photographs. An image of Maila Nurmi as Vampira taken in 1955. ![]()
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