10 Real-Life Crimes You Should Never, Ever Google Image Search

It's a no-brainer that searching for gore on Google can only lead to gross things. Blood and guts, gruesome photos, and portraits of suffering will only remind you of the true and horrifying nightmares out in the world. 

And when it comes to crime scene photos, that's especially true. There are just some things you can't unsee. These things stick with you, cause you to doubt your fellow man and your own happiness. How can you be happy knowing what others have faced? From the BTK Killer trapping and humiliating his victims before their death to Jeffrey Dahmer keeping his victims organs and bones as trophies, these killers were visual in nature and made a mess of their prey. Some left refrigerated gifts behind, others carved their victims into punctured objects. These crimes were intended to be seen and to be appreciated in all their heinous physicality - which is exactly why the photographs will haunt you long after you've turned away. 

Don't say we didn't warn you. 

A cursory glance at "Tate Labianca killings" on Google image search will yield nothing but nightmare fodder: images like a bloodied, strangled, nude, and pregnant Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, a close-up of Tate's belly carved with the word "WAR," or other guests sliced up beyond recognition. Whether in black and white or color, these photographs stand the test of time as testaments to a particularly nasty crime scene. Not recommended!

Stumbling across Ed Gein's resume of gore is enough to ruin your day. The Wisconsin serial killer terrorized the heartlands in the 1950s, and became known as "The Butcher of Plainfield." Gein notoriously made masks of his victims' faces, strung them up and eviscerated them, cut off their hands, cut off their everything. Other photographs feature bones and parts of bodies assembled into tools and pseudo-machinery. Gein was said to have been in a "daze-like" state during his crimes, and you'll most certainly wind up in one too if you search for "Ed Gein crime photos," but why would you?

Google image search "Jeffrey Dahmer gore," and you will be inundated with pictures of heads in refrigerators, torn open torsos sprawled out, bodies arched backwards on beds, and other horrific intake. Dahmer was a disturbed man who took his time with his victims, often keeping them alive in the process of dissecting them and always documenting them in perverse ways. But it was the crime scene photographers that really went to town showing his sick and demented crimes. Shield yourself!

Lizzie Borden is largely thought to have axed her father and stepmother to death in Fall River, MA, in 1892. A quick Google image search for "Lizzie Borden crime scene" will uncover the startling, stomach-churning results of this rampage: bleak visions of Andrew Jackson Borden slumped over his couch, bloodied and frozen forever in terror, Abby Durfee Gray Borden's skull riddled with axe wounds, the axe itself, mangled heads and necks, casualties bleached in daylight. Borden was somehow acquitted of the crimes, though speculation over whether she did it or not still continues more than a century later.

Notorious nut Ted Bundy charmed his way into the lives of his female victims, but don't let his good looks fool you. One Google image search for "Ted Bundy crime photos" will show you the dark side. Bundy assaulted and murdered many young women during the 1970s and often returned to the scenes of his crimes to perform sexual acts with their decomposing bodies. He slit the throats of some victims, decapitated others (making sure to keep the severed heads as souvenirs), and bludgeoned others in the dead of night. Not such a nice guy after all. 

Typing in "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" in Google image search won't leave you feeling warm and fuzzy. It's hard to think humans can treat each other with such callousness, but then again, this massacre was led by the king of callous - Mr. Al Capone. Capone ordered four of his henchmen to dress as uniformed policemen and to shoot down seven of his rivals with submachine guns. The plan worked and the carnage was captured meticulously on camera. These images of piled up stiffs, leaking heads, and men without hats will chill you to your core.

Searching for "Jack the Ripper victims" online may result in a new and far worse worldview. Warning: there are mangled, eviscerated corpses, faces of horror (even after death), faces that aren't even faces anymore, and a whole bunch more. All black and white, of course, these images help to illustrate the menace he or she posed. "Jack" was known for mutilating women - specifically slitting their throats, skinning them to the bone, and tearing out their wombs, uteruses and kidneys. 

Do yourself a favor and don't look up "Faryion Wardrip crime scene" on Google image search. Faryion was a ruthless serial killer from Texas who specialized in stabbing and strangling nurses and waitresses in the 1980s, and his handiwork is still very much alive on the Internet. From brutally knifing women in their backs and stomachs to binding their hands, this maniac fulfilled the promise of the serial killer, and did it all for "no apparent reason."

One search for "Dennis Raider victims" and you're sure to lose your lunch. "The BTK Killer" was known for his sadism. This included binding, torturing, and killing his victims - hence his name. He dug graves, dressed up in victims' clothes to relive the horror, and generally acted like a creep. Some of these images are heartbreaking. But rest assured - Raider was eventually arrested in 2005 and he is currently serving 10 consecutive life sentences at El Dorado Correctional Facility in Kansas. Good riddance.

Definitely don't Google image search "Hinterkaifeck murders," or else you might succumb to a deep depression. These six murders occurred at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead near Munich, nestled between the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen, on March 31, 1922. All six inhabitants of the farm were methodically picked off with an axe. To this day, the murders remain unsolved. However, the violence was captured for eternity, and you can witness it all online: things like deceased and half-buried children, butchered adults, and a variety of bleakness to keep you feeling great about yourself!