9 Famous Photos With Twisted Backstories

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In 1943 St. Louis politicians boarded a military glider for a test run. Mid-flight, the right wing of the glider broke off and the aircraft plummeted from 1,500 ft. All ten people on board died.

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The interior of Japan Airlines Flight 123. The oxygen masks were deployed after explosive decompression occurred due to a defect in an earlier repair on the aircraft. The pilots lost control of the plane and eventually hit two mountain ridges before the plane crashed upside down. Out of the 520 people onboard, only 4 survived.

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Russian freerunner Pavel Kashin during a backflip off the edge of a 16-story building. Kashin decided to stand on a ledge that was just three feet wide on a rooftop that was 16 floors above the ground. His friends, Vladimir Lapik and Sasha Bitkov, were filming the stunt. After doing the backflip, Kashin struggled with the landing, losing his footing and falling from the roof and to his death on the ground below.

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Molly LaRue and Geoff Hood get their photo taken before hiking the Appalachian Trail. This was the last photo taken of the couple before they were murdered on Cove Mountain by a wanted drifter named Paul David Crews.

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High School Class Photo. This is the class of 99′ from Columbine High School and in the far left corner Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and their friends are pointing pretend guns at the camera.

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Surveillance photo of a mall in England. The toddler in this picture is James Bulger. He was abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. His mutilated body was found on a railway line two-and-a-half miles away in Walton, Liverpool, two days after his murder.

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A girl in a veil at a party. This pictureof Elizabeth Smart (far left) taken while she being was held captive by her kidnapper (pictured far right).Smart was missing for 9 months. the picture was taken some time in the middle of that period, at a party the kidnapper crashed with Smart. She was made to wear the veil in order to keep from being recognized in public

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Abby Williams hiking in Delphi, Indiana in February 2017 with her friend Libby German. They were both murdered shortly after the photo was taken. They still haven’t identified the killer.

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Here is the photographs that Libby took of the suspect.