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Behind innocent smiles and ordinary moments lie some of history's most disturbing individuals. Join us as we examine seemingly mundane photographs that conceal horrifying truths. These deceptively normal images showcase killers, abusers and monsters who managed to blend into society while committing unthinkable acts.
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00:00I thought we were celebrating the upcoming graduation of our son.
00:03Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at 10 seemingly mundane photos that showcase horrible people.
00:09At one point, his friend Mike Mandel told investigators Tyler discussed allegedly purchasing a garden tool to, quote, use it on someone.
00:19John Wayne Gacy and the First Lady.
00:21On the go for Democrats as Norwood Park committeemen, a visit with Rosalind Carter, the First Lady during the Carter administration.
00:27Gacy right here is hiding the fact that there are bodies buried under his house.
00:32Here we see a respectable man bespoke in a red suit and shaking hands with First Lady Rosalind Carter.
00:37Surely this is a man of some renown.
00:39Nope, it's John Wayne Gacy, killer of at least 33 people.
00:44Gacy was active in local politics and had gained access to the event as a precinct captain.
00:48He's very attentive to all details, and so he's sort of, uh, that's the way that he operates.
00:55And that's how, that's how, uh, people like him are able to cover up these, do these crimes and cover them up because they are well planned and organized.
01:05He was even vetted by the Secret Service and given a special pin indicating he had passed a background check.
01:10This pin can be seen in the photo, and it serves as a horrifying bit of irony.
01:14This photo was taken in May of 1978 when Gacy had already murdered dozens of people.
01:19He was caught and confessed that following December, stating that he was responsible for approximately 30 murders.
01:26Hi Meg, we're right in the middle of lunch.
01:28John, I'm sorry to disturb you, but that hideous stench coming from under your house is getting worse.
01:33It's moisture buildup in my crawlspace. I'm taking care of it, I promise.
01:37Myra Hindley and her dog.
01:38The crimes committed by Moore's murderer, Myra Hindley, shocked the nation.
01:44Hindley has been demonized as the most evil woman in Britain.
01:47Take one look on Instagram or any other social site and you'll find a gajillion photos of people with their dogs.
01:53People posing with their lovable pets is nothing new.
01:56In fact, let's go back in time to 1963 when this photo was taken.
02:00It depicts a woman kneeling in an English moor, an adorable puppy cradled underneath her arm.
02:05Cute, right? Well, not really.
02:07The crime scene of the murder of Edward Evans was a grossly blood-splattered affair,
02:12in the midst of which Myra Hindley was projecting herself as a laughing, gay, busy housewife,
02:19tidying up a normal domestic scene.
02:21She normalized what was grossly abnormal.
02:24This is child killer Myra Hindley, who, with her partner Ian Brady,
02:28murdered five young people in the early 1960s.
02:30In fact, this photo shows Hindley kneeling over the grave of their second victim, John Kilbride.
02:35The photo was taken by Brady at Saddleworth Moor,
02:38which is where he and Hindley took and buried their victims.
02:41The last time I saw my brother John was in 1963 on a Saturday morning as I got up.
02:47What he used to do every Saturday was going out the market,
02:50so all this peck away.
02:53He'd just never come home that night.
02:54Jeffrey Franklin's smile.
02:55Franklin was 17 when he killed his parents
02:58and tried to murder his three young siblings at their South Huntsville home.
03:03That was in 1998.
03:04A young man looks over his shoulder, his eyes wide and his mouth grinning.
03:08He looks like your everyday college kid,
03:10and this photo could have easily been taken during a night on the town.
03:13But really, it was a night in a police car.
03:16You see, this is 17-year-old Jeffrey Franklin.
03:19And earlier that night, he used weapons like a hatchet,
03:21a sledgehammer and a knife to murder his parents and attack his three younger siblings.
03:26A neighbor spotted Franklin covered in blood and called 911, leading to his arrest.
03:30In this photo, Franklin is sitting in the back of the police car.
03:34And with that knowledge, those eyes suddenly become a lot more wild.
03:38And that grin, a lot more diabolical.
03:40Parole denied in a high-profile murder case out of Huntsville.
03:44Jeffrey Franklin is serving five consecutive life sentences at Bullock Correctional Facility.
03:49That's near Union Springs.
03:51And he won't be getting out of prison anytime soon.
03:53Jennifer and Sarah Hart pose with the family.
03:56That family almost never left the home, only to go to the store.
03:59And that late last year, the signs of trouble started to become glaringly obvious.
04:02You can never trust what you see on social media.
04:06If you were to look on Jennifer Hart's Facebook page,
04:08you'd see a loving family consisting of Jennifer, her wife Sarah, and their six adopted children.
04:13The Hart's presented themselves as a loving, progressive, and multiracial family,
04:17often posting curated photos like this one to their socials.
04:20They go on to say the family was all about community,
04:23whether it was marching together or going to family-friendly music festivals,
04:27and that they shared positive energy and love no matter where they went.
04:30But despite this positive public image, the Hart children were severely neglected,
04:35often suffering starvation and both physical and mental abuse.
04:38At one point, young Hannah Hart jumped out of her bedroom window and asked her neighbor for help,
04:43but she was quickly returned home without incident.
04:46The Hart story tragically culminated on March 26, 2018,
04:50when Jennifer drove the family off a cliff.
04:52Ruling just about an hour ago, the Hart mothers intentionally took their own lives
04:57and the lives of their six adopted children.
04:59Rodney Alcala's headshot.
05:01Between takes, you might find him skydiving or motorcycling.
05:04Please welcome Rodney Alcala.
05:07Rod, welcome.
05:08Who is this fine-looking man, you may be asking?
05:11The movie star looks shine through the outdated fashion,
05:13and this could easily pass as a headshot for a professional actor.
05:17Unfortunately, you cannot judge people solely on their looks.
05:21Bachelor number one.
05:23Yes?
05:23What's your best time?
05:27The best time is at night.
05:29Nighttime.
05:30Why do you say that?
05:32Because that's the only time there is.
05:34While this man looks put together and respectable,
05:36he's actually a heinous sex offender who may have murdered up to 130 people.
05:41He is Rodney Alcala, whom you probably know better as the dating game killer,
05:46owing to his infamous appearance on the game show of the same name.
05:49No one knows Alcala's true body count,
05:51but he was ultimately convicted of seven murders and sentenced to death.
05:55However, he died of a heart attack in 2021 after decades of legal delays.
06:00Thank you, Rodney.
06:02Okay.
06:03You can go relax, meet each other, say hello, get acquainted.
06:06Bart Whitaker's graduation dinner.
06:08Agreeing with the parole board,
06:09Texas Governor Greg Abbott commuted Whitaker about an hour before his scheduled execution.
06:14He was convicted of arranging a plot that left his mother and brother fatally shot.
06:18College graduation, a huge milestone and one certainly worth celebrating.
06:23In December 2003, Thomas Bartlett Bart Whitaker went out with his family
06:27to celebrate his graduation from Sam Houston State.
06:30One photo shows him proudly sitting with his mother and brother,
06:33and another shows him holding a celebratory dessert.
06:36However, this was all a ruse, as Whitaker had not graduated from university.
06:40As they celebrate his graduation, only Bart knows that an intruder has quietly entered their home.
06:47His deadly plot is about to begin.
06:50Later that evening, a gunman hired by Whitaker ambushed the family inside the house,
06:54killing his mother and brother, injuring his father,
06:57and shooting Whitaker in the arm to make it look like he was a victim.
07:00Even though he did not personally fire the weapon,
07:03Whitaker was convicted of murder and sentenced to death,
07:05although this was later commuted to life in prison.
07:07Bart smiles, and yet he knows that if everything goes as planned,
07:13in less than 30 minutes, his brother, his mother, and his father will all be dead.
07:18Tyler Hadley at the party.
07:20We are learning more tonight about the case of Tyler Hadley,
07:22the Treasure Coast teen accused of bludgeoning his parents to death with a hammer.
07:26Two young men pose at a party, one of them holding a red cup.
07:29There are billions of photos like this on social media,
07:32and no one would find this one suspicious.
07:34But what if we told you there were two dead bodies upstairs?
07:36Kelly, evidence filed today by the state attorney's office indicates that Tyler Hadley
07:41hinted to several friends during a party at his family home on July 16th
07:46that he had killed his parents earlier that day.
07:49On July 16th, 2011, Tyler Hadley, the young man holding the cup,
07:53bludgeoned both of his parents to death with a hammer,
07:56then invited about 60 friends over for a party.
07:59Guests reported a funny smell inside the house,
08:01and on one occasion, Hadley took his friend Michael Mandel upstairs to see their corpses.
08:05Mandel then took this photo with Hadley, keeping up a friendly ruse.
08:10He called a crime hotline later that night, and Hadley was arrested.
08:13The 17-year-old Hadley told two friends he would be going to prison for a long time,
08:19telling one it was because he, quote, did something bad.
08:22Ted Bundy in court.
08:24Kim was full of goodness and hope and kindness.
08:28That's part of the reason I feel like our classmates still cling together,
08:33because of her goodness.
08:34If you had no concept of who Ted Bundy was,
08:37this photo would seem perfectly normal, maybe even intensely professional.
08:41With his nice suit, documents, and briefcase,
08:43he could be one of the millions of lawyers working across the country,
08:47intently watching a case as it unfolds.
08:49But as we know, there is way more to the story.
08:52There comes word from Lake City, that's about 90 miles east of Tallahassee,
08:57that a junior high school student, Kimberly Leach,
09:01has disappeared during the middle of the school day.
09:04Bundy is one of the most notorious serial killers in history,
09:07a true psychopath in every sense of the word.
09:10In this photo, he's watching the jury selection during his trial in Orlando
09:14for killing a 12-year-old girl named Kimberly Leach.
09:16Leach was Bundy's final confirmed victim before he was finally caught and sentenced to death.
09:21It was raining, drizzly, very dreary day.
09:24I went to our designated spot to meet up, to go to our next class together,
09:29and she wasn't there.
09:31We knew something was wrong.
09:34BTK is a proud father.
09:35This letter is very clear to tell us,
09:38you have the wrong people.
09:40You need to stop looking at them.
09:42You need to come back and focus your attention on me.
09:44I am the important one.
09:45In this case, the graduation was real.
09:48A proud middle-aged man and his daughter pose in front of a tree,
09:52the daughter having just graduated from Kansas State University.
09:55They look like a happy family, but the father was hiding a very dark secret.
09:59He wanted to brag about it.
10:00He wanted to make sure that we, the police, found it undisturbed,
10:05and he wanted us to see his work,
10:06and wanted us to realize the type of quote-unquote monster we were dealing with.
10:14This is Carrie Rawson, and her father is Dennis Rader, also known as BTK.
10:19By this point, Rader had already murdered at least 10 people,
10:22his crimes stretching from 1974 to 1991.
10:26And he might have gotten away with it,
10:28as the case had gone cold by the time this photo was taken.
10:30However, he contacted the media in the mid-2000s to gloat,
10:34and police were able to trace a floppy disk directly to him, leading to his arrest.
10:39We could tell that it was somehow affiliated with Christ Lutheran Church
10:42and the Park City Community Public Library.
10:45And the next thing we looked at was statistics,
10:48and it shows here that it was last saved by Dennis.
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11:07Josef Mengele sits down to eat.
11:09He went to Auschwitz, because in Auschwitz,
11:11he would have the chance of experimenting on testing,
11:15examining more twins,
11:17and he planned to later write about it,
11:20use it in order to make his scientific career.
11:23This photo of four people eating at a restaurant was on display in Embu, Brazil.
11:28Why?
11:29It's just an old photo of four happy people enjoying each other's company and having a nice meal.
11:34What's so interesting about that?
11:35Well, the older man on the left is Josef Mengele,
11:38the notorious Nazi doctor who conducted inhumane medical experiments at Auschwitz during World War II.
11:43Like many people, I've read about this place.
11:46I've seen pictures and movies about it.
11:49But I didn't fully get the sheer scale and the extent of the suffering
11:52until I saw this place with my own eyes.
11:55Mengele's experiments were grotesque,
11:57like sewing people together to make conjoined twins
12:00and injecting chemicals into eyeballs to see if they would change color.
12:03And why was this photo in Brazil?
12:05Because that's where he spent his final years,
12:08having successfully escaped justice for decades before drowning in 1979.
12:12Because of Mengele's fascination with eye color,
12:16he ended up removing the eyes from many of his victims.
12:20And that's why the memorial to Mengele's victims
12:23that was erected in his hometown of Gunsborg consists of many, many eyes.
12:27Were you fooled by these photos?
12:29Let us know in the comments below.
12:31It's really disturbing.
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