Eerie Artifacts: The Story of High-Profile Crimes Told in 100 Murder Objects (Painted-Out Shotgun, Deluxe Edition)

John Wayne Gacy's clown paintings, Ted Bundy's autographed Christmas cards, the Zodiac cipher, the ladder used in the Lindbergh baby abduction, the false teeth of the 1908 female serial killer, the documented confession of Elizabeth Short's killer, the shotgun used to kill the Cutter family, and many other items that once belonged to famous killers or were somehow connected to their crimes. In the days before police had the idea of cordoning off crime scenes, souvenir hunters would flock to the scenes of brutal murders, taking with them every piece of potentially important evidence. For example, after the Deering family's murder, "the man knelt down quickly on a pile of straw and manure, found a bloody straw, carefully wrapped it in paper, and even more carefully placed it in his vest pocket."