Do 'snuff flicks' exist?

McGruff

Paul Lanning, the FBI's chief researcher into child pornography was quoted by The Times of London: 'In 20 years I have not seen any hard evidence that they have commercially produced sexually explicit films of murders for the gratification of other people. Simulated snuff movies using special effects are so realistic there is no point in risking life in jail.' http://www.urbanlegends.com/afu.faq/listing.cgi?selection=snuff Feb 16 02, 3:06 PM

Brainy Blonde

Claim: Films are routinely made for distribution in which participants are murdered on camera. Status: False. Origins: All the fretting about it aside, not so much as one snuff film has been found. Time and again, what is originally decried in the press as a film of a murder turns out, upon further investigation, to be a fake. Police on three continents routinely investigate films brought to them, and so far, this has always been their verdict. No snuff films. Some clever fakes, yes. But, no real product. For more details see: http://www.snopes2.com/movies/other/snuff.htm For a variety of sites covering this subject, see: http://dmoz.org/Society/Folklore/Literature/Urban_Legends/Snuff_Films/ http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Folklore/Literature/Urban_Legends/Snuff_Films/ FBI files opened as a matter of public record on snuff films see: http://www.apbnews.com/media/gfiles/snuff/docs.html In researching this topic, I have now found out about 'Crush' films. Something I have never heard of before. Perhaps my friends and family were protecting me, knowing how I feel about animals. I will post the web sites, but sure wish I had never read them. The text is graphic, I think, but there are no pictures. Actually now I do know about them, and am telling other people about them, it just might be a step in the right direction to stop them. I didn't read enough to find out if it is an urban legend or true. I am hoping I won't throw up, getting off this computer and going to bed with a nice happily ever after book. I hope that will stop the images forming in my mind. See: http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a58/press/p582000006.htm http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a58/press/p582000001.htm These web sites are government sites outlining legislation and bills on the subject. I am much more sensitive and emotional about these kind of things, so they are most likely nowhere near as awful as I made them out to be. However, I just can't read stuff like that, without feeling disgust, anger and nauseous. Who wanted to know about this kind of stuff anyway. Go get some help will ya. I'm just as curious about things as other people are, but I draw a deep, thick line. This goes way beyond it for me. Unless someone tells me it's all fake, I will be doing some letter writing to some politicians tomorrow. Enough of the internet for tonight. Sweet dreams all! Feb 16 02, 6:43 PM

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