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Both Morrissey and Johnny Marr worked together for the release of this single, agreeing on the two tracks being selected. They also both contributed sleeve notes, depicted in photo two (albeit in bad quality). As he did during his time in The Smiths, Morrissey solely oversaw the selection of the artwork. The artwork features a 1939 photo of American actor Billy Halop.

The box set is available to pre-order on Rough Trade Records' website.

Note: The image in this post is not NSFW, it is just a Twitter/X screenshot from a news account. The post is marked NSFW due to graphic descriptions below.

There is incredibly graphic video and imagery of this incident on social media. I do not recommend searching for any of it. In the footage, Hilton harms himself with a knife while seemingly covered in blood. It was live-streamed on TikTok before being removed from the platform. During the stream, he spoke of an intention to provoke police into shooting him. His condition is unknown.

EDIT: Statement by officials given to The Sun (per journalist Katy Forrester)

“The Miami Dade Sheriff's Office received multiple calls regarding an individual who was live-streaming acts of self-harm on social media.

Deputies quickly located the individual's residence, where they spoke with family members on scene, and confirmed he was alone inside.

In many incidents involving a person experiencing a mental health crisis or actively harming themselves, deputies prioritize de-escalation by creating time, distance, and opportunities for communication.

Unless there is an immediate threat to others, slowing the situation and utilizing crisis intervention techniques can reduce the likelihood of a suicide-by-cop encounter and minimize the risk of injury to the individual, deputies, and the public.

At this time, deputies have tactically disengaged while continuing to monitor the situation.”

I pulled this guard off a railing and he fell non-fatally onto the stairs below (where he is now). Some guards found him and "woke him up", but he just stayed paralysed on the stairs while apparently conscious.

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This post covers 13 instances of artefacts relating to mass killers and spree killers (including attempted ones) that are or were on public display at museums and similar institutions. Compared to serial killers and assassins, mass killers are seemingly not popular among museum exhibitions, perhaps due to a lack of memorabilia (or murderabilia, if you will) being in public circulation. Most pieces here are artefacts loaned directly from authorities to display rather than privately owned pieces obtained by the museum. This is not a comprehensive list, the goal of it was more to catalogue pieces I thought were interesting and represented a range of subject matter, geographical location, and notability. If you know of any more notable pieces, please let me know, as I find this to be very interesting. Each entry below has a brief summary of the related crime and then a sentence or two on the museum piece itself. All embedded links are to Wikipedia pages.

Homemade balaclava and earplugs worn by serial shooter Peter Mangs | Police Museum (Polismuseet) in Stockholm, Sweden

Peter Mangs is a Swedish serial killer and spree shooter convicted of a series of racially motivated shootings in Malmö between 2003 and 2010. Using a 9mm Glock 19 pistol he had purchased in the United States and smuggled into Sweden, he shot two men of immigrant background dead in 2003 and killed a Swedish woman in 2009, while carrying out more than a dozen other attacks on people of immigrant appearance around the city, often firing through windows, bags, or car doors. He was arrested in November 2010 after an anonymous tip following a lengthy investigation and manhunt. In 2012 a Malmö court found him guilty of two murders and several attempted murders and sentenced him to life imprisonment, with an appeals court adding further attempted-murder convictions in 2013. Also in 2013, he would confess to the 2009 killing, having initially denied it. Mangs expressed anti-immigrant views and admiration for John Ausonius, another serial shooter in Sweden that was known as the "Laser Man".

The image shows the homemade balaclava and earplugs Mangs would carry with him when he went out looking for targets. It is currently still on display as part of a hate crimes exhibit at the museum.

Remains of the van used by Anders Breivik in the bombing at Oslo | 22 July Centre in Oslo, Norway

On 22 July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian far-right extremist, carried out two attacks in and near Oslo, Norway. A van bomb he had assembled detonated outside government buildings in central Oslo at around 3:25 pm, killing eight people and severely damaging the surrounding buildings. Several hours later, wearing a police uniform, he travelled to the island of Utøya, where the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party was holding its summer camp, and opened fire on attendees for over an hour, killing 69 people, most of them teenagers, before being arrested. The combined attacks killed 77 people, the deadliest incident in Norway since the Second World War. Breivik said the attacks were meant to publicise a manifesto he had circulated opposing multiculturalism and Muslim immigration to Europe. In 2012 he was found legally sane and convicted of terrorism and murder, receiving Norway's maximum sentence of 21 years' imprisonment, extendable indefinitely if he is considered to pose a continuing danger to society.

The photo shows the remains of the van used in the bombing. It is displayed at the very building the bomb vehicle was parked outside of, the ground floor of which was turned into an information centre dedicated to the attacks and its effects on Norwegian society. Other artefacts relating to Breivik include the fake police ID card he carried and a necklace.

6mm Remington 700 ADL rifle used by Charles Whitman in the University of Texas tower shooting | Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

On 1 August 1966, Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old former U.S. Marine and engineering student, killed his mother and his wife at their homes in Austin, Texas, in the early morning. Later that day he carried firearms and supplies to the observation deck of the University of Texas Main Building tower and began shooting people on the campus grounds below. Over roughly 96 minutes, he killed 15 people and wounded 31 others before eventually being shot dead by two police officers, Houston McCoy and Ramiro Martinez, who had reached the observation deck with the help of a civilian volunteer. The attack is regarded as one of the first mass shootings on a university campus in U.S. history, and one of the first instances of a mass shooting receiving widespread news coverage.

The photo shows the 6mm Remington 700 ADL rifle, the primary weapon used in the sniper attacks from the tower, and a shell casing. Unique for being one of the few (if only) instances of a mass shooter's firearm being sold into private hands, the rifle exchanged hands several times before eventually being obtained by the museum, originally housed in its Washington location before it closed, and subsequently transferred to the Pigeon Forge location, where it remains on display. Whitman's other firearms are believed to still be privately owned by individuals. The firearms were sold due to them being part of Whitman's estate, necessary to pay costs for his outstanding financial debts, though this would not be typical practice today, with most firearms now either retained by police or destroyed. Other notable artefacts at the museum include Ted Bundy's Volkswagen Beetle, John Wayne Gacy's "Pogo the Clown" outfit, and O.J. Simpson's white Ford Bronco.

T-shirt worn by Timothy McVeigh at the time of his arrest | Oklahoma City Bombing National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children in a daycare center, and injuring hundreds more. McVeigh, an anti-government extremist and former U.S. Army soldier, carried out the attack with help from accomplice Terry Nichols. The bombing was timed to the second anniversary of the fatal end of the Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Texas, an event which, along with the Ruby Ridge standoff, heavily influenced McVeigh's anti-government beliefs. McVeigh was stopped about 90 minutes after the bombing by a state trooper for a traffic violation and arrested on a separate firearms charge, before investigators linked him to the bombing through a vehicle identification number recovered from the wreckage. He was convicted of murder and conspiracy in 1997 and executed in June 2001; Nichols received a life sentence, which he is still serving today. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.

The photo shows the t-shirt worn by McVeigh at the time of his arrest. It reads "Sic Semper Tyrannis" on the front, meaning "Thus Always To Tyrants", a phrase famously shouted by John Wilkes Booth during his assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The back of the shirt reads "the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants", a phrase written by President Thomas Jefferson. The t-shirt remains on display at the museum among other artefacts relating to the investigation into the bombers.

.223 calibre Bushmaster rifle and 1990 blue Chevy Caprice used in the D.C. Sniper attacks | National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington D.C., United States

Over three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo carried out a series of shootings primarily in the Washington, D.C. area, including Maryland and Virginia. Firing a Bushmaster XM15 rifle through a hole cut in the trunk of a modified car, they killed ten people and critically wounded three others as victims went about routine activities such as pumping gas or shopping, causing widespread fear across the region. The pair were apprehended on 24 October 2002, found asleep in their car at a highway rest stop in Maryland after tips led police to the vehicle. Muhammad, identified as the mastermind, was convicted of capital murder and executed in 2009; Malvo, who was 17 at the time, was sentenced to multiple terms of life imprisonment, later revised following U.S. Supreme Court rulings on juvenile sentencing.

The photo shows both the rifle and the vehicle used in the sniper attacks. Perhaps the most boastful out of all shown in this post, this museum has an entire exhibit dedicated to the shootings, which includes numerous artefacts relating to the shootings. Also displayed are the shooters' calling cards and letters used to taunt police during the investigation. This exhibit runs at the museum until December 2027.

Mannequins wearing and holding the actual equipment and weapons used by the North Hollywood bank robbers | Los Angeles Police Museum in Los Angeles, California

On 28 February 1997, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, two heavily armed robbers wearing homemade body armour and carrying illegally modified automatic rifles, attempted to rob a Bank of America branch in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. After the robbery failed, an extended gun battle broke out with responding police on the surrounding streets, lasting around 44 minutes and injuring eleven officers and seven civilians, all broadcast on live television. Both robbers were eventually killed: Phillips by a self-inflicted gunshot and Mătăsăreanu from blood loss after being shot by police. The disparity in firepower between the responding officers and the robbers resulted in many police departments across the U.S. to begin adopting high-calibre rifles as standard issue.

The photo shows two mannequins wearing and holding the equipment used by the pair. The mannequins are shown in a dedicated North Hollywood Shootout exhibit section of the museum, along with other pieces of equipment used by the robbers in glass display cases. The bullet-ridden car used by the robbers is also displayed in an exterior part of the museum.

Cabin of serial bomber Ted Kaczsynski (Unabomber) | Newseum in Washington D.C., United States

Theodore Kaczynski, known as the "Unabomber", carried out a campaign of mail and package bombings between 1978 and 1995, targeting university staff, airliners, and others connected to technology and industry, killing three people and injuring 23. In 1995 he sent a manifesto, "Industrial Society and Its Future," to major newspapers, arguing that industrial-technological society was destroying human freedom, and offering to stop the bombings if it was published; The Washington Post and The New York Times jointly published it later that year. His brother David recognized similarities to Kaczynski's earlier writing and alerted the FBI, leading to his arrest in April 1996 at an isolated cabin near Lincoln, Montana. In 1998 he pleaded guilty to avoid a trial centred on his mental competence and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. He died in a federal prison in June 2023.

The photo shows Kaczynski's actual cabin on display. The entire cabin was seized by investigators as evidence, literally hauled onto the back of a flatbed truck and taken away for analysis. Following Kaczynski's conviction, the cabin was loaned to the Newseum by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Following the Newseum's closure in late 2019, the cabin was transferred back to the FBI, where it is now displayed at its headquarters in Washington D.C. for public viewing. The Newseum, which curated artefacts and exhibits based on journalism, also featured the largest collection of sections of the Berlin wall.

7x33 calibre Sako hunting rifle used by Tauno Pasanen to murder four police officers | Police Museum (Poliisimuseo) in Tampere, Finland

On 7 March 1969, in the village of Korppinen in Pihtipudas, Finland, an intoxicated farmworker named Tauno Pasanen shot and killed four police constables who had been sent to his home after he threatened his wife and son, who fled and alerted authorities. As the officers approached on foot, Pasanen opened fire from a window with a hunting rifle, killing two instantly, then went outside and shot the remaining two at close range. He afterward left his weapon in the snow and walked to a neighbour's house to ask that police be sent to remove the bodies. It is the deadliest attack on police in Finnish history. After his release on parole around 2000, Pasanen was later convicted of manslaughter for killing his ex-wife in 1996. He died in 2025 at the age of 91.

The photo shows Pasanen's rifle on display. It is part of an exhibit on the risks Finnish police face in their occupation, though the attack is noted as a rare one-off incident of mass violence against police.

Burn-damaged laptop recovered from the car used in the 2007 Glasgow airport attack | Temporary exhibit at the Museum of London in London, England

On 30 June 2007, Bilal Abdullah and Kafeel Ahmed drove a Jeep Cherokee loaded with propane canisters into the entrance doors of the main terminal at Glasgow Airport, Scotland, attempting to set it ablaze. The vehicle became wedged in the doorway and caught fire without breaching the terminal; Ahmed, who was driving, suffered severe burns and died of his injuries about a month later, while Abdullah, a doctor, was restrained by airport staff and bystanders, several of whom were hurt in the struggle. No members of the public were killed. The attack followed a failed bomb plot the previous day in which two car bombs left in London's West End did not detonate; investigators determined Abdullah and Ahmed had also been involved in assembling those devices. Abdullah was convicted in December 2008 of conspiracy to murder and to cause explosions and sentenced to a minimum of 32 years in prison.

The photo shows a heavily burn-damaged laptop that was recovered from the attackers' vehicle. It is a rare instance of evidence relating to an attempted mass killing/terrorist attack being intentionally (see artefact 13) publicly displayed by authorities in the United Kingdom. Despite the damage it sustained, police forensics were in fact able to extract valuable information from it, which helped connect the attackers to the previous day's car bombs in London. The laptop was temporarily exhibited at the Museum of London, but is normally kept at the so-called "Black Museum" in New Scotland Yard, a private museum of artefacts relating to crime and policing that is only open to members of the police and invite-only attendees.

Axe used to kill eight people in the unsolved 1912 Villisca axe murders | Montgomery County Historical Center in Red Oak, Iowa

During the night of 9–10 June 1912, in Villisca, Iowa, an unknown assailant killed eight people — Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two young houseguests — with an axe belonging to the family while they slept. The killer apparently entered without forcing entry, covered the windows and mirrors with clothing, and left the axe at the scene. The case drew national attention and a lengthy investigation involving local, state, and private detectives, but no one was ever convicted. A Presbyterian minister, Reverend George Kelly, was tried twice; the first trial in 1917 ended in a hung jury and the second in his acquittal. Other suspects, including a state senator and a traveling labourer linked to similar axe murders elsewhere in the Midwest, were investigated but never charged, and the case remains officially unsolved.

The photo shows the actual axe used in the murders on display. This entry is rather unique as it is housed in a museum that is otherwise not to do with crime or criminal investigation, rather just a local history museum.

Packets of Flavor Aid retrieved from the site of the Jonestown massacre | Graveface Museum in Savanna, Georgia

The Jonestown massacre occurred on 18 November 1978 at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, a settlement in Guyana founded by American cult leader Jim Jones. The deaths followed the shooting of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and several others at a nearby airstrip. Ryan had traveled to Guyana to investigate reports of abuse within the community. That evening, Jones directed his followers to drink a cyanide-laced beverage, describing it as an act of "revolutionary suicide"; armed guards reportedly enforced compliance, and more than 300 children died along with adult members, some of whom were injected when they resisted. In total, 918 people died, including Jones, who died from a (likely) self-inflicted gunshot wound. At the time it was the largest single loss of American civilian life from a deliberate act prior to the September 11 attacks, and gave rise to the phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid" in popular usage (though, as the image shows, it was actually Flavor Aid).

The photo shows several unopened packets of Flavor Aid retrieved from Jonestown. The Graveface Museum is a museum with a rather macabre sense of humour, selling Jonestown-themed pins, as well as hosting the self-proclaimed largest collection of John Wayne Gacy paintings. It further features a "free play horror-themed pinball/arcade room". Perhaps the most... unserious museum in the list.

Wreckage of the car used in the Russell Street bombing | Victoria Police Museum in Melbourne, Australia

On 27 March 1986, a car bomb exploded outside the Victoria Police headquarters on Russell Street in Melbourne, Australia. The device, made using gelignite and detonators stolen from a mine in Blackwood, Victoria, and placed in a stolen car, detonated around 1 pm, blowing out windows across the lower floors of the headquarters and nearby buildings and injuring 22 people. Constable Angela Taylor, a 21-year-old officer caught in the blast, suffered severe burns and died of her injuries three weeks later, becoming the first Australian policewoman killed in the line of duty. Following an extensive investigation, Craig Minogue and Stanley Brian Taylor were convicted of murder and given life sentences.

The photo shows the car used in the bombing behind a glass container. Other artefacts at the museum include two sets of makeshift iron armour worn by Kelly gang during their infamous 1880 standoff, though Ned Kelly's own armour set is housed at the State Library of Victoria.

Display case where a VZ 58 rifle used in the Sean Graham bookmaker's shop shooting was held | Imperial War Museum in London, England

On 5 February 1992, two masked gunmen from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a loyalist paramilitary group, entered the Sean Graham bookmaker's shop on the Lower Ormeau Road in Belfast, an area with a predominantly Catholic and Irish nationalist population, and opened fire on customers with an assault rifle and a handgun. Five Catholic civilians, aged between 15 and 66, were killed and nine others were wounded. The UDA claimed responsibility under the cover name "Ulster Freedom Fighters," describing the attack as retaliation for the IRA's Teebane bombing less than three weeks earlier, in which eight Protestant construction workers had been killed. No one was convicted for the shooting itself, although senior loyalist figures, including Johnny Adair, were later identified by journalists and a subsequent Police Ombudsman investigation as having organized it. A 2022 Police Ombudsman report found evidence of collusion between the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the loyalist paramilitaries involved, including that a firearm used in the attack had previously been supplied to a loyalist informer by police.

The photo shows a display case in the IWM, where the VZ 58 rifle was displayed. What makes this entry unique is that it was apparently not known to be a murder weapon when it was displayed. Families of victims had been told the rifle was destroyed by authorities, yet, somehow, it ended up on display at a museum. It was discovered by BBC Panorama, who were making a documentary on state collusion in the Troubles, and subsequently removed by the museum. No picture of the rifle while it was on display appear to exist.

To see the full list of every topic promised, check the spreadsheet link here. There’s too many to fit on this post. To see the last update post from 2025, click here!

Somehow, the spreadsheet returned... just in time for Episode 666! This data comes from an attempt to log every time a topic was 'promised' by one of the hosts. This is not intended to be a criticism or scorning of how the show is made, I made this purely to satisfy my own curiosity. Maybe there's a topic in there of interest to you that you could potentially look forward to seeing in the future? Changes include a whole new list of most promised topics (last time's ones were all fulfilled!), the addition of a "Redos, Reduxes, & Updates" category, various visual changes, Ed's promise debut, and the logging of when a promise was fulfilled.

This list is not complete, and will not be until either LPOTL or myself dies! It is worked on whenever I listen to episodes/have time, and if you are going through old episodes and hear a promise not on the spreadsheet please let me know the topic mentioned and what episode it came from! Also, feel free to suggest any changes to the spreadsheet or anything else you'd like to see from it.

Special thanks to the website Podscripts, which has been very useful in tracking down promises from the full episode catalogue.