Crime buffs are a unique bunch. They like to visit the scene of notorious crimes to see just where it all went down. Does the location look the same? Has it changed drastically? Is it gone? It may sound sick and twisted to some, but people actually spend their free time doing this for fun.
Below are 8 infamous crime scenes, and what they look like today.
Unspeakable horror befell the people who entered apartment 213 in the building that stood on what is now this vacant lot. Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer murdered and cannibalized over a dozen men here until his arrest in July 1991. When authorities arrested Dahmer and searched his apartment they discovered human heads, bones, and organs in the freezer and his bedroom. Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison but was murdered by another inmate in 1994.
Many claim that H.H. Holmes was America’s first serial killer. Holmes built a massive “castle” on Chicago’s South Side and lured visitors to Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair to stay at his building. Many of these guests never left Holmes’ house of horrors. Police discovered that Holmes had transformed his home into a killing factory, complete with soundproof rooms and a cremation oven in the basement.
Holmes was arrested in Boston in 1894, and hanged in Philadelphia in 1896. The castle was demolished in 1938, and a U.S. Post Office was built on the site where an unknown number of victims met their fate at the hands of H.
H. Holmes.
Now this is a famous location that crime buffs can really enjoy. The house where Lizzie Borden may or may not have killed her father and stepmother with an axe…
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