Human trophy collecting

Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His modus operandi typically consisted of convincing his target that he was in need of assistance or duping them into believing he was an authority figure. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon them unconscious, then restrain them with handcuffs before driving them to a remote location to be sexually assaulted and killed.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

American serial killer (1960–2013)

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Edmund Emil Kemper III is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women, including his own mother, and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Kemper was nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer", as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California. Most of his murders included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment and possibly cannibalism.

thumb|250px|Digital painting of a Mississippian culture|Mississippian-era priest, with a ceremonial flint mace and a severed head, based on a repousse copper plate.

Colombian serial killer (1957–2023)

thumb|upright=1.35|Karl Bodmer's 1844 [[aquatint Scalp Dance of the Minitarres depicts Siouan Hidatsa people in a scalp dance.]] Scalping is the act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp, with hair attached, from the head, and generally occurred in warfare with the scalp being a trophy. Scalp-taking is considered part of the broader cultural practice of the taking and display of human body parts as trophies, and may have developed as an alternative to the taking of human heads, for scalps were easier to take, transport, and preserve for subsequent display. Scalping independently deve

specially prepared human head

20th-century Japanese murderer

Japanese serial killer (1962–2008)

Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer who committed the kidnap, rape, and murder of four young women between 1968 and 1969 in Salem, Oregon. He is also known to have attempted to abduct two other young women.

American serial killer (1949–1992)

19th century Dakota chief (1810–1863)

town and commune in Senegal

atrocities perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) which, at the time, was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium

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The , which was renamed from , is a monument in Kyoto, Japan. It is dedicated to the sliced noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians, as well as those of Ming Chinese troops, taken as war trophies during the Imjin War. The monument enshrines the severed noses of at least 38,000 Koreans and over 30,000 Chinese killed during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasions.

Russian general of Baltic German origin (1797–1883)

American serial killer (1946–1995)

Preserved heads of Māori

Cup made from a skull

thumb|upright|A replica of a pair of at Strandagaldur|The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft. At the right is the magical symbol that is part of the ritual and at its feet are coins.

Belgian soldier who became prominent in the administration of the Congo Free State (1859-1924)

Murderer (1933-2020)

British murderer

Russian mercenary (1986–2023)

serial killers

war crime in Afghanistan, murders of civilians perpetrated by U.S. Army soldiers

1574 battle between the Chinese pirate warlord Limahong and the Spanish

American serial killer

museum in Germany