CRIME PAYS
For sale: Serial killers’ letters and hair from Death Row monster
Rory sells murder memorabilia 14 burglaries in California. He was on Death Row – the source of many other items for sale on the Dark Crime Collectables site. Founder Rory Everett, of South East London, has a €12,000 collection of letters, art and documents which have been collected with help from contacts in the US. Software engineer Rory, 31, said: “My father is from the East End of London and I’ve always been interested in British gangland memorabilia. “It was letters from the Kray twins, the Richardsons. But then it swung over to the darker side of memorabilia like Ted Bundy (the 1970s serial killer). It’s always been huge in the States but Netflix documentaries on serial criminals and dark crime have made these people household names in the UK.”
Rory is even planning to sell ghoulish T-shirts and hoodies.
He has a 1995 phone card signed by OJ Simpson, 73 – the US footballer and actor found liable in a civil case for the deaths of his ex-wife and a male friend.
And a €45 bundle purports to include a Death Row hair sample from Douglas Clark, 72 – one of the Sunset Strip Killers who claimed six lives in Los Angeles in 1980.
Rory says his collection focuses largely on US killers who are free to post items from jail. And values shoot up if the killer is dead.
He said: “A couple of years ago Bundy’s toe nails sold for £4,000. I had letters from the gangster Whitey Bulger and the minute he died they quadrupled in price. These can be eerie gifts.”
Darkcrimecollectables.co.uk is due to go live today.
dan.warburton@mirror.co.uk 1995 phone card autographed by OJ Simpson
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