Death comes with the territory

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Holocaust denial consists of conspiracy theorists with strong anti-semitic sympathies who deny the magnitude of the Holocaust and believe that the genocide was faked by a Jewish conspiracy to advance a Zionist cause. While Holocaust denial is prevalent amongst extreme Arab political groups, the historical “research” that has been used as evidence for Holocaust denial is largely the workings of Western white supremacist organizations. These include the Ku Klux Klan, a racist terrorist group legally active within the United States, who have protested for decades against the reality of history.

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Nelson Burroughs who was kidnapped by members of the American white supremacist movement, the Ku Klux Klan and branded with hot irons because he refused to renounce his Catholic vows.

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When Ted Bundy was three-years-old he lifted up the covers of his fifteen-year-old aunt’s bed as she slept and slipped in three butcher knives beside her. According to Ted’s aunt:

“He just stood there and grinned. I shooed him out of the room and took the implements back down to the kitchen and told my mother about it. I remember thinking at the time that I was the only one who thought it was strange. Nobody did anything.”

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Gary Michael Heidnik was born in November of 1943. Odd behaviour was clearly ingrained in this man, who glued money to the walls of his home. He wanted a large family, and devised a plan to kidnap, rape, and impregnate ten women so that he could achieve his dream. As he kidnapped each of five women, he chained them securely in the basement, intermittently torturing each one in between rapes. He fed the women scraps, dog food, and even the remains of one of the women who he had killed. Heidnik was executed in July of 1999 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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August Landmesser (1910 – presumably killed February 1944) was a worker at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. He appeared in a photograph refusing to perform the Nazi salute at the launch of the naval training vessel Horst Wessel on 13 June 1936.

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Bonnie and Clyde after ambush. Their bodies are still in car.

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Overgrown railroad tracks in a forest.

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Speaking in the third person, as he often did when being questioned about his crimes, Ted Bundy described his first murder attempt:

“He was horrified by the recognition that he’d done this, the realization that he had the capacity to do such a thing… The sobering effect of that was to… for some time close up the cracks again. For the first time, he sat back and swore to himself that he wouldn’t do something like that again… or even, anything that would lead up to it.”

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Ted Bundy called himself: “an amateur all right. I don’t even know how to hot-wire a car. Any cars that I went into would be open.” He once talked about driving one stolen car from Michigan to Atlanta: “They’ll never find that goddamned car. I parked it in the middle of a black ghetto with the keys in it. It’s probably in so many pieces, man, you’ll never see it again.”

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The central and peripheral nervous system of a human being.

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Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim in 1888 - a prostitute in London’s East End know as ‘Polly’, though her real name was Mary Nichols. Her throat had been cut and there were various stab wounds to her stomach and genitals. About a month later, prostitute Annie Chapman was found disembowelled, her entrails laid across one shoulder. In a patter that was to prove horribly familiar, parts of the body, in this case the bladder, vagina, womb, and ovaries, were missing. The murders continued, each one more gruesome than the last; in the case of victim Catherine Eddowes, a kidney was removed and then half of it sent to the police with a letter bragging that the killer had eaten the other half. Finally, with the murder of Mary Kelly, the Ripper reached new depths of violence and madness: her dead body was disembowelled and her hand had been inserted into her stomach. In addition, her liver had been placed on her thigh, while her breast had been cut off and laid out beside her severed heart, kidneys, and nose. Strips of flesh were hung from nails around the room in which she was murdered. A post-mortem discovered that Kelly had been three months pregnant, but the Ripper had taken her womb and fetus with him. Jack the Ripper was never found, and speculation about him (or, according to one theory, her) continued to abound, casting a long shadow over the inhabitants of London for many years. Every time a fresh murder was committed, people would fear the hand of the Ripper; murders that had happened before the Ripper’s reign of terror were also re-examined. Currently, the case is still open, and the lists of suspects contribute to grow as the evidence is repeatedly sifted, in the hopes of one day solving the mystery.

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A Palestinian boy makes hand prints on the walls of his home from the blood of a just-slaughtered sheep at the start of Eid al-Adha in al-Azza refugee camp December 19, 2007 in Bethlehem.