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(Serious) Forensic investigators of Reddit:
What are some of the most disturbing and horrific
cases you've worked on?
Had a paranoid schizophrenic male who forced
his elderly mother to eat rocks, and I mean
a shitload of rocks, to the point where she
died.
He told Police that he was feeding her rocks
to weigh her down so God couldn’t take her
yet.
Gotta be the guy that stabbed his newborn
and 4 year old before slitting his throat
and jabbing the knife into his chest.
The worst part was his phone on the bed with
numerous texts from his fiancé and mom begging
him to not harm the children.
A man decapitated his infant son with a samurai
sword while high on PCP.That's up there for
me.
i did a case once where the home had burnt
down.
As was always the case, the homeowner was
asked to provide a list of everything in the
home (tip - make this list BEFORE your house
burns down - most people (not this guy) can't
remember and this is how insurers short change
you)
But I digress.So homeowner emails me a list,
all 190 pages of size 12 Arial print single
spaces.The first 48 pages were all the books
in the house
Every single book and I mean ALL of them,
over 3200 in total were biographies, memoirs
and other books related to
Serial Killers
And then, as if to prove the old saying it
is the ones you least suspect, he was a normal
dude, middle age etcetera wife, 2 kids and
so on
Police arrested him 2 months later when the
house was demolished and 6 bodies were found
in the crawl space under the house.
I do fire investigation and one that stuck
with me was a likely mentally disturbed girl
started “speaking to god” at the dinner
table and then that night lit her room on
fire with her in it.
I think about that one a lot
Worked a case involving 2 young sisters (8
and 4 [It was actually 13 and 6] if I recall,
this was 20 yrs ago), and their methhead mom
and her boyfriend.
Mom was convinced her girls were possessed
by demons, so she forced them to take baths
in bleach.
When that didn't work, she started making
them drink bleach.
The older girl knew enough to immediately
throw up the bleach, and she would drag her
sister behind the couches or wherever they
could in the house to throw it up.
Eventually the little daughter couldn't throw
it up anymore and died.She then froze the
little sister, and proceeded to hack the frozen
body into pieces in front of the older sister,
and then disposed of the pieces somehow.
We were sent in to see if we could find the
body.
Walking into that house, the smell of bleach
was overwhelming, and I can still remember
all the bleach stains on the carpet.....
Can’t go into too much detail, but child
porn.
Several hundred GB of it.
Some of it recorded by the owner of that particular
machine, some of it starring their own children.Made
me really appreciate the boring stuff like
recovering deleted invoices.
Long story short: Arson case.
Two kids die.
Lady who started the fire also lived in the
house but got kicked out by the owners for
whatever reason.
She had a previous felony arson charge.
They found her a few days later living with
her boyfriend in a tent with multiple gas
cans.
She was arrested and released with charges
completely dropped.
That’s when I realized 1.)
how fucked our judicial system truly is and
2.)
I didn’t want to investigate homicides anymore.
I had one case where a mentally ill guy killed
his ex wife and was driving around school
to school in the city looking for his kids
to kill then kill himself.
He didn’t know which schools his kids attended
and there are many in the city.
My girlfriend is a city school teacher.
When I learned this was happening I called
her and told her to lock everything.
I’ve never been so scared in my life.
EMT.
Not my call but my coworkers.
Get dispatched for vaginal bleeding.
Arrive at the home to find a woman sitting
in a pool of blood on her bedroom floor.
Transport her to the hospital where the doc
examines her.
He asks where the baby is.
What?
He states this woman just had a baby.
So they go back to the home with police and
search the place.
My coworker looks under the bed and sees a
bowling ball bag.
Opens the bag and finds the strangled dead
baby.
A mildly over weight man had a heart attack
and died on his waterbed, it broke and the
sun heated the water (this is Arizona by the
way) and cooked him like a fucking stew
I'm an expert in work related incidents, and
am hired to investigate accidents and incidents
for large cooperations.Two children fell down
an elevator shaft on a building project.Employee
of manufacturer in the Pharmaceutical industry
got his arm ripped off by a powder centrifuge.Retired
person was fatally hit by the coupling of
a compressed air-hose after the hose broke.
It may seem like plagiarism or repost , but
I had already answered a similar question,
since English is not my first language and
I am working, I felt it was easier just to
copy my previous post, sorry for any inconvenience.I
worked in csi in Mexico, once we went to a
safe house where the police found 14 people
who were tortured and executed You could smell
the iron from the entrance.
Upon entering there were two women with broom
sticks taped to the anus and the vagina.
In the upstairs bathroom they found a woman
tied to the toilet, died of dehydration, had
urinated and defecated on her for days, it
was evident that they also raped her and beat
her before turning her into a toilet.
One of the rooms had 5 shackles on the wall
and in the center a metal bucket with water,
the 5 people died of hunger and from beatings.
The sickest was in the backyard, in a warehouse
without windows there were several bodies
that had their faces and hands removed.It
was like watching a horror movie, but that's
the narco in these places, excuse my bad English.
Used to work in the field.
Craziest was a chap who tied a steel cable
to a tree, then through his car window, secured
it around his neck, then floored the car.
Cable ran out of slack and, well, 'pop!'.Always
amazed me how clean it came right off, decapitations
are normally pretty messy but this guy's creativity
led to a fairly clean, instant, and memorable
death for those who worked his case.Oh and
also toxic megacolon, Google image search
that, just not during dinner.
Just imagine dying of a 20kg turd stuck in
your guts!
Was like delivering the world's worst baby
when we pulled it out during the PM!
Digital forensics here.
I had to sit through a film of a blindfolded,
screaming eight year old girl being abused
every way you can image by two overweight
Russian men.
The film lasted about three hours, and the
abuse would have caused her permanent injury.
The denouement was where the bag was taken
off her head and a gun was presented to her
face.If you've never seen a small child suddenly
realize their own mortality then I suggest
you never do.One of them pulled the trigger
and her head disintegrated in a shower of
red mist and brains.
The other held up a newspaper which was to
show the date.
The film had been commissioned by someone
else who wanted this to happen, presumably
so he could jerk off to it.Humanity is fucked.
Children's Protective Services worker here.
We do forensic interviewing during our investigation
so I'm counting myself in.
I watched the autopsy of a two month old infant
with suspected CoD of asphyxiation from regurgitating
too much milk from being overfed.
Turned into a homicide as they peeled back
the infant's scalp to reveal a massive skull
fracture and brain bleed from sharp blunt
force trauma.... to a two month old.
I was completing my Masters in Forensics (Anthropology)
and put it on hold as I got offered a job
in Child Protection.I’ve seen some fucked
up shit in terms of child deaths, rape cases
and severe neglect.
The cases that make me sad though is when
kids have been so traumatized from being sexually
abused that they do it to other children.
Or animals, I held my cats and didn’t allow
them outside for so long after working with
those cases.
As a forensics student, I helped piece together
the ripped up diaries of a girlfriend who
was 'supposedly' killed by her boyfriend and
shoved into a freezer.
There was another women in there too, one
of the big freezers with the lift up lid.
The police found evidence that the freezer
had been off a couple times as the boyfriend
ran out of electric too...
In CT, back a few years there was a guy high
on PCP that thought his 5month old was possessed
by the devil and then crucified them to the
wall with screwdrivers.
Had a father of two children, chop up his
wife in the house, whilst the kids were upstairs
before sending a text to the mothers parents
saying ‘I killed your daughter, call the
police’, before going to the garage and
hanging himself.
A fair few years ago now I was involved in
an investigation where a zookeeper whom had
nurtured this pack of male wolves from pups,
was out of the blue attacked and eaten by
them.
That was a bit gruesome shall we say.Overall,
most of the work involves child abuse though
which I'll spare you the details of.
I've seen some horrible shit and trust me,
you don't want to know the details.
Grandmother prostituting her deaf grandson.
QRT squad went in hard, but at minimum close
to 3 dozen unique samples of individuals were
found in just the kids' room.I was in narcotics
at the time following up on some shit that
lead to this.
This lead me to decide I could no longer police
as I would've ended up killing someone at
some point.
Which if it weren't for my own kid in my life,
I'm not sure anything would've pulled me away.8
months overseas guarding food trucks and watching
supply lines got me hooked in with a supply
chain company back state side.
Every once in a while someone who finds out
I was a cop says 'oh I can see that'.
No time can put that me away.
No time can solve the possibility that my
wires would've burnt and I would've been a
bad guy too.Edit: Response team went in fast
due to possibility of men in house.
Ravaged probably quite a bit of evidence.
How these people meet and find each other
I will never understand
Client committed suicide by connecting zip
ties around neck and pulling.
Frantic scratch marks indicated they regretted
the action but could not cut the zip ties
due to sharps restriction.
Sharps restriction enforced due to recent
morbid self mutilation.Claw marks on neck
and lack of oxygen to the brain was the saddest
i've ever seen.
The inability to say the individual died on
their own terms is often the only bright side
to any type of suicide i deal with.
I was on the scene of a crash where a drunk
mother went off the highway, into the central
median which was basically a ditch.
She hit a support column for a bridge and
her two daughters, 6 and 8, were ejected.
The 6yr old was dead on the scene and the
8yr old died in the helicopter on way to the
hospital.
Mom lived, of course.
The impact was so hard that I was standing
about 300 yards away with the car's battery
at my feet.
When dad found out, he attempted to attack
mom in the hospital.
Unfortunately, police were there to clear
her to go to jail and stopped the dad.
I was an intern but... guy finds out his lover
was cheating on him, flies into a jealous
rage, and stabs the guy to death with the
handle of a frying pan.He gets him the first
time in the kitchen.
Vic manages to get free and runs up the stairs.
Gets caught and stabbed again.
Gets free again and makes it to the bathroom,
where he gets cornered in the tub and stabbed
to a bloody pulp.
Me and another intern were tasked with picking
bits of organic matter from the drain with
tweezers.
Not crime scene investigator but in uni I
did crime and investigation and part of it
was reviewing old cases.
We were lucky enough to have a talk from the
lead investigator on the Myra Hindly and Ian
Brady case, during the talk we got to review
the official crime scene photos including
ones that as far as I’m aware the press
nor family had ever seen (on the way in we
had anything that we could use to take a photo
taken off us to prevent any being leaked online)
one was a photo of a half skeleton and half
human as the soil had fully preserved one
side of the body.
Even tho it was just pictures they are images
I wish I’d never have seen along with some
of the sick stories you head about what people
had done it made me never do anything with
my degree.
Hubby and I were both volunteer EMTs.
My worst call was a couple who were on their
way to celebrate their first anniversary.
There was a bad storm and they hydroplaned
under a semi, whose back wheels ran up over
the passenger side of the car.
Killed the wife instantly.
She was smashed down into her husband’s
lap.
My ambulance transported the husband, who
only had a broken arm.
We aren’t allowed to tell passengers if
someone died, so I had to spend the whole
trip to the hospital reassuring him that the
other ambulance would be doing their very
best for her, while knowing she was DOA.
He was talking about how it was their first
anniversary and ...she was 3 months pregnant.
I totally checked out after that call and
only lasted another month or so.
I was still in the ED doing paperwork when
he got the news and that wail of grief still
haunts me.
I studied forensics back during the CSI craze.
I noped right out of that program when we
reviewed the Dahmer crime photos.
We had an elderly couple that was a murder
suicide, more a mutual suicide, that were
found frozen under a foot of nearly perfectly
clear ice.
Also a family that all except the mother drowned
in a kayaking accident.
A model house for a new subdivision was busy
with 4 people (3 women and 1 man) running
sales.
So the model house was the first on the street
with signs everywhere saying "Come on in!"
etcetera and people could tour the model home
then possibly sign up to build a house in
the subdivision.A local well known drifter
had been watching the house for the days.
Ended up taking all 4 hostage.
Raped several of the women and killed them
all with blunt force trauma.
He had entered with an old gun but that didn't
stop him from making things awful for these
people's deaths.Ultimately the man was taken
down by a swat team after a solid day stand
off.
The case was kinda high profile so they moved
the trial 3 hours away.
I had seen lots of terrible things in my time
at this DA's office but this crime was particularly
brutal and upsetting.
Apparently he had been watching the model
house because of one woman in particular he
was basically stalking.
He had been regarded as a harmless man usually
just looking for some change around town but
the cruelty and brutality he exhibited that
day was haunting.
I work in forensic pathology, I'm usually
just on the surgical side; however, I live
in an extremely rural area so I regularly
alternate between surgical/forensic.
I actually love it.
One case that absolutely crushes my spirit
involved one of my old High School classmates.I
saw the results of child abuse on an 11 month
old with stages of healing dating back months.
The child's skull looked like pop rocks on
the scan.
Her husband was the one prosecuted, and she's
still free.
Her son survived.
Somehow, I thought when I was asked to just
look that they were absolutely gone.
She lost custody of all of her children.
I can't for the life of me understand how
she gets to walk around and post pictures
of her children on Facebook when there's no
way she could have been ignorant to the situation.Every
case I see with a child hits hard, but this
one has stuck with me on a personal, emotional
level.
I was a med student doing a trauma rotation
in New york city.
Guy comes into the ER super torn up, escorted
by more than a few police officers, and handcuffed
to the gurney.Long story short, he was mentally
unstable, and lived with his parents.
He snapped that morning, stabbed both of them
a bunch of times, then jumped in front of
a subway train and got rolled up underneath
it.
He survived, and remained conscious and even
conversational as we literally cleaned tar
off his skull.
(not head, skull.
Like, hold flaps of skin back and pull sticky
tar and dirt from the bone).
He couldn't see anything because his face
was so badly injured.What stands with me forever
were the conversations.
He clearly was not living in the same reality
as the rest of us.
He talked a lot about comic books and TV shows.
At one point, he asked us if this was going
to take long.
We all kinda look at each other, like "WTF
is this guy asking?"
The cop finally answers, "I'm not sure you're
going anywhere anytime soon."
The patient replies "Well, can someone call
my mom then and ask her to feed my birds?"Like,
dude.
You murdered your mom less than an hour ago.
Digital Forensics here, do I count?Easily
the guy who got girls to crawl into cages
and fantasized about them being slaves.
Reading his accounts and fantasies was disturbing.Or
the guy who interviewed his daughter every
6 months to see what she enjoyed about their
sexual encounters...
I was working a case of what was thought to
be a b&e, and the homeowner killed them in
self defense, the person killed was a 16 year
old boy.
The case was about to be shut but the lead
said to have the body examined for other trauma.
Then found semen in the boys rectum, and a
few days later a neighbor sent in a video
from a ring doorbell, showing the man dragging
a body.
The boy had been raped and then killed, then
dragged into his house to make it look like
he was acting in self defense.
His brother then committed suicide around
2 weeks later.
And the mom had to be taken to a mental institute
as she was suicidal as well.
a middle aged man was hosting a fish fry and
drinking, fell headfirst into the vat of hot
oil AND LIVED.
I worked in health insurance and saw his claims.
I think it would have been kinder if he'd
died.
