Euphorion10120 - Mauvaise Augure

Devil’s fingers - this must be the creepiest mushroom ever. It looks like a zombie hand reaching out to grab someone. It’s made to look even more realistic by the the presence of the what appears to be tattered sleeve at its ‘wrist’. 

“One particularly bad night, Tom said wearily, “I wish he’d killed us too”. It was a thought we would have on many occasions over the years.”

— Sue Klebold, A Mother’s Reckoning

Crime scene photographs taken at 10050 Cielo Drive, where Sharon Tate and four others were murdered by the Manson family. You can see where the killers draped an American flag over the couch where the bodies of Tate and Sebring were found dead as well as blood stains on the carpet left by Abigail Folger. 

Notre Dame, Paris, Édouard Baldus, 1852-1853, Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography

This extraordinary photograph clearly demonstrates Baldus’s genius both as an architectural photographer and as a printer. Centrally placed and filling the entire composition, this great architectural monument is clearly depicted, seemingly removed from time, as there are no interfering elements such as figures or clouds to distract from the building’s majesty. This large, ambitious view captures, almost without rival, the physical and symbolic essence of Notre-Dame. Instead of the traditional frontal view, Baldus photographed the building at an oblique angle in order to articulate the volume of the structure, and he was most conscious of the negative space created by the cathedral’s contour against the unmodulated sky. His salt prints of architectural views, with their breathtaking warm gray tones, are among the most striking achievements of 19th-century photography. Size: Image: 29.5 x 44.7 cm (11 5/8 x 17 5/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) Medium: salted paper print from wet collodion negative

https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.35

Carol DaRonch

On 8th November 1974, 18-year-old Carol DaRonch had been out shopping at the Fashion Palace Mall in Murray, Utah. She was in a bookshop when a man who said he was a police officer, showed her a police officer's badge and told her that there had been an attempted theft of her car. Carol felt suspicious, particularly since she had heard about a recent string of abductions and murders in the area, but reassured by the badge and followed the man to his Volkswagen Bug and got into the car. She did not realise at the time that the man was Ted Bundy.

Bundy suggested Carol put her seatbelt on but she declined. She felt suspicious that the man smelt of alcohol and noticed the passenger side draw didn't have an easily accessible handle. As the car drove away, things took a terrifying turn. Carol recalls she began to panic when he suddenly pulled over and attempted to handcuff her but only managed to handcuff one wrist. Despite Bundy threatening her with a gun, Carol was able to fight off Bundy and escape from the car. Bundy fought with Carol at the side of the road and attempted to hit her with a crowbar. Carol fought for her life and luckily got away. When a car approached them from the opposite direction Carol jumped in with the handcuffs still dangling from her wrist.

That same day, around four hours later, Bundy abducted and murdered 17-year-old Debra Kent.

Carol was one of the few survivors to live to tell a victim's account of Ted Bundy. She testified against him in court. She has since earned a degree in business management and lives with her partner in Utah, the same area she was living in with her parents when Bundy first approached her.

Roy Dell Schmidt as a young man. He would later be a victim of Texas Tower shooter Charles Whitman.

18 September 1936 - 1 August 1966.

A page from GJ Schaefer’s art catalog of drawings he did of executed women.

Gerard John Schaefer (Wisconsin, March 25, 1946 – December 3, 1995) was an American serial killer from Florida. He was imprisoned in 1973 for murders he committed as a Martin County, Florida Sheriff’s deputy. While he was convicted of two murders, he was suspected of many others. Schaefer frequently appealed against his conviction, yet privately boasted — both verbally and in writing — of having murdered over 30 women and girls.