Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook by Katherine Dunn and Sean Tajaratchie
Overview: For several years, homicide detective Jack Huddleton collected and kept death scene photos from the job. He has since passed and by some estates sale, this book came to see the light of day to preserve these photos. All photos are from the early to mid 1900's. These are very, very real, very, very uncensored death scene photos in this book and are not for just anyone!!!!
The Writing and Words: Half of the book is the introduction written by Katherine Dunn (the author of Geek Love, a classic novel). She goes to great lengths to warn the reader of the photo's they are about to see and the history of some of the photos. Other than the introduction there isn't much reading left. The photo's have some captions that explain what happened and such.
My Opinion: Okay, let me first by stating this one more time: These are very, very real, very, very uncensored death scene photos in this book and are not for just anyone!!!! And it's not just limited to photo's of adults. Kids, teenagers, and babies are murdered too. This book really put the website bestgore.com to shame. That site is extremely graphic but this book topped in the disturbing photo areas. i was hoping it'd have more description and story behind the photos. I seriously cannot believe this book is available to just anyone. Decapitated babies, several blown off heads, and hermaphrodites. I actually had to take a break from this book when I came to the photo of a kid with his head caved in.
So, yeah, don't think I'll be picking up this book again anytime soon. If you are seriously thinking of going into CSI work, this should be required reading (gawking?) before you even apply to the schooling. If you can't take the images in black and white photos, then how can you handle them live, in color, face to face?
My first instinvt was "I wanna read this book".. but ..children? No way I could see that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I mean, the reviews on Amazon.com warn you, but I figured it couldn't be worse than Bestgore.com. It's good to know somethings still disturb me though.
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