• A Viet Cong that was beheaded in Ben Cát, during the Vietnam war.
• A south Vietnamese woman crying over plastic bags containing her husband's remains in April of 1969. He was found in a mass grave of civilians murdered in 1968 by Vietcong forces during the Hue Massacre.
• Bodies of children lost in the Marcelino Ugalde school in Spain, October of 1980. The school was experiencing drainage issues, and the worker lit a match to try to heat a tube in the basement, causing an explosion, and collapse that took the lives of 120.
• The moment that Clarence Sims jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge on February 27, 1952.
• The bodies of Emil, Mary, and Anna Keller, who in 1894 were the victims of a murder suicide. Mary killed Emil, then Anna (9 months old at the time), before turning the gun on herself.
• The leg of Dr. John Irving Bentley laying in ashes, thought to be the result of spontaneous human combustion, in 1966.
• The execution of the Lincoln Conspirators in 1865.
• Kezban Özer crying over her five children, all who passed after an earthquake in Turkey, 1983.
• A father carrying the body of his son after the truck they were riding in struck a land mine, South Vietnam, April 28, 1972.
• The body of Joseph Reiber, found murdered in Paris of 1902. Bloody fingerprints were found on the scene, and were matched to a man by the name of Henri Scheffer, who had been arrested before for stealing. This was one of the first cases of fingerprints being used to solve a murder.
• The body of William ‘Action' Jackson, 1961. He was strung up by the rectum on a meat hook and tortured for 3 days on suspicion of being a spy.
• Bodies of Sikh pilgrims after the Golden Temple Massacre. Under operation Blue Star, the Indian Government raided the temple and killed nearly 500 civilians, 1984.
• A Mongolian woman in 1913, sentenced to death by starvation for the crime of adultery. Her family brought her food and water, but only delayed her death. This box was her coffin.
• 10 year old Kazimiera Mika crying over the body of her older sister, killed in Warsaw during a German air raid, WW2.
• An execution by beheading in Hanoi, 1908.
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Man the earthquake one is heart breaking
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