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In this month's Morbidly Fascinating Page:

A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook of Horrors

Circa 1921 through 1950

IN THE ARCHIVES:

Puente House
X-Rays
Freaky Photoshop
Heavenly Bodies
Shrunken Heads
Sharks
Polydactyly

The book:

Death Scenes

The explanation by Jack Huddleston:

Jack

BELOW ARE SOME OF THE PHOTOS FROM THE BOOK

Decaptitate

Suicide

Shotgun Daughter

Torso murder

Auto accident

Human skin

 

Here is the policeman

Jack Huddleston

Jack Huddleston

Katherine Dunn says:

Banked anger smolders in the official grammar introducing Jack Huddleston's scrapbook of horrors. He created this monument to death, depravity and human foible during a Los Angeles area police career that spanned the decades from 1921 to the early 50s. The records of his working life were buried in the mounds of antique files in municipal basements and werehouses.

The original scrapbook is large, six inches thick. Its stiff cardboard covers have disappeared over time and what is left are hundreds of black and white photos glued onto 18 x 24 inch sheets of heavy paper that is now mummy-brown with age and crumbling at the edges.

Bootleg shooting

lipstick

JACK HUDDLESTON ALSO SAW DISEASES OF THE TIMES

LEPROSY

Leprosy

TUMOR

tUMOR