19 Final Photos Taken Before Death

The last known photos of people just before their deaths.

Published 9 years ago in Creepy

The last known photos of people just before their deaths.

1
In 1853, Joseph Avery became stranded on a log in the Niagara River after his boat capsized. Avery managed to cling to the log for 18 hours before he was swept over the falls.

2
Leonard Siffleet, an Australian soldier during World War II, seconds before he was beheaded by a Japanese soldier.

3
Former president Ronald Reagan on his 89th birthday. This is the last known photo of him before his death.
4
A stowaway on a flight from Japan to Australia accidentally falls from the wheel well of a plane.

8
Surveillance footage of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh stopping in his rental truck to light the fuse. Minutes later, the truck exploded in front of the Oklahoma federal building. The attack killed 168 people.
9
22-year-old Afghani taxi driver Dilawar was falsely accused and sent to Bagram prison by American soldiers. Five days after this photo was taken, Dilawar succumbed to injuries sustained during torture.
10
NYPD Officer Moira Smith helps an injured man on the morning of 9/11/2001. Shortly after the photo was taken, she returned to the lobby of the south tower. She was killed ten minutes later when the building collapsed.

11
Self portrait of Chris McCandless taken days before his death as he wandered the Alaskan wilderness.
12
Russian freerunner Pavel Kashin attempting a backflip on top of a 16-story building. He landed successfully, but lost his balance and fell to his death.
13
Hank Carr (center), who later used a hidden key to escape incarceration and murdered the two detectives on the left and far right. Carr then led cops on a high-speed chase before being killed in a standoff.

14
Serial killer John Wayne Gacy receives a visit from his sister just days before his execution.
15
Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the days before his assassination, which would then spark World War I.
16
The last photo of Freddy Mercury.

17
The crew of the Challenger.
18
The Plymouth, Massachusetts Police Department saluting their K-9 officer on his way to the vet to be put down.
19
Final image of Vladimir Lenin --- founder of the Soviet Union --- in 1923.