Scariest UM Composite Sketches ever!

[Corkys-Place]

Originally Posted by Mace Dolex

ahh yeah I see it now, but to me as a kid and looking at that sketch I didn't know who Lou Reed was so I immediately thought of Gene Wilder.

He does look a bit like the late great Lou Reed now you mention it.

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Claw sketch

[Victoria81]

Originally Posted by MegtheEgg86

No explanation needed. Especially the one on the left.

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The one on the right, the not so creepy one, looks exactly like my husband and every time this reruns, his mom calls and I swear he doesn't look creepy or maybe he does and I like creepy

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Originally Posted by Victoria81

The one on the right, the not so creepy one, looks exactly like my husband and every time this reruns, his mom calls and I swear he doesn't look creepy or maybe he does and I like creepy

Yeah that one really got me when I was a kid. That whole segment scared me so bad I just stopped watching. It took me about 10 years to watch again.

[Hambone2421]

The composite sketch in the Beverly McGowan murder creeped me the hell out. It still kinda does.

[Nickolas086]

The Bike Path Rapist, you just got to add that scary music they had on in the segment.

[baloony]

Originally Posted by bell83

I second the NC hit and run guy. He looked REALLY weird. Another one I always found unnerving (I don't know why...it just looked odd to me) was L'il Miss Panasoffkee's sketch. I can't explain why...I just don't like seeing that one...

Yes. The NC hit and run guy sketch is extremely unnerving.

[Hambone2421]

Originally Posted by johnnyangel

3. The "Danielle Britton" murders in New Orleans. Some of the sketches of the 'unidentified' women.

Is there a thread on here discussing the Danielle Britton murders in New Orleans?

[WishfulDreamer]

Old thread, but I'm resurrecting it for an age progression photo that creeps me out: Michael Cline's! Just the way they did his eyes and coupled with the music.

[tvscript124]

Originally Posted by SageSlowdive

Beverly McGowan's supposed transsexual murderer, hands down.

What nightmares are made of....

Gives transsexuals a bad name. The wig may have been tacky, but as I said on another thread, the way the sketch artist drew the wig, creating this wild, shaggy, savage effect, made it anything but. Clearly, because so many of us are still freaked out by the drawing 30 years later, and now it's on the Internet for posterity.

[MayorofMedford]

Originally Posted by sdb4884

I don't remember a "sketch" of Alice but Sam was scary. Amazing how Parent pulled that off. Clever evil bitch.

The sketch of "Alice" might've only appeared during the original run of that segment. And if you could look at it as just a drawing of a random woman and not the complete sociopath she was (which I very much cannot do), she actually doesn't look too bad at all, odd as that sounds given the context.

[MayorofMedford]

As for my personal all-time creepiest:

- Bill Henderson's killer is the winner by a nose over...

- Michaela Garecht's abductor/murderer. I was seven when that segment first ran and this was one of the very rare examples of the composite being shown during the intro to the show (it still is on the Amazon reloads). I was very much NOT expecting that and was very much NOT sleeping that night.

- There was an earlier mention in this thread (like 15 years ago haha) of the Boston Shopping Mall Rapist being the most generic looking sketch and I agree. But... anyone remember the sketch that was shown during the very first run of that segment? It was anything but generic and was as unnerving as everything else about that segment.

- Bike Path Rapist sketch #1 (the very creepy eyes). The other one (guy wearing a ball cap) kind of looks like Burton Cummings.

- Son of Sam sketches. Everything about that segment is terrifying (and, as a dog lover, the German Shepard part is equal parts sad and infuriating).

- Ritchie Aderson's road rage killer (sketch looks like a creepy version of Larry David, I find).

[tvscript124]

Originally Posted by Hambone2421

The composite sketch in the Beverly McGowan murder creeped me the hell out. It still kinda does.

I think we need to form a "Creepy UM Composite Sketches" support group...

[tvscript124]

Originally Posted by MayorofMedford

The sketch of "Alice" might've only appeared during the original run of that segment. And if you could look at it as just a drawing of a random woman and not the complete sociopath she was (which I very much cannot do), she actually doesn't look too bad at all, odd as that sounds given the context.

It only appeared during that original run, but like the "Sam" sketch, it's on the Internet forever. In another episode, when they updated the story because Elaine Parent had been identified, they showed Parent's picture and...dum dum dum...the "Sam" composite, because they were still looking for him at that point as an accomplice.

I do agree with you that the sketch of "Alice" looks like some modern art drawing of a reasonably attractive woman in a blond wig, as opposed to the nightmare fuel that is the "Sam" sketch. I, like you, cannot look at the Alice sketch without seeing a stone cold bitch.

This is a weird thought, but I almost can see Elaine Parent reading/watching the coverage and seeing that sketch shown over and over--that would feed her narcissistic ego. Whether she, a feminine woman, was successfully able to disguise herself as "Sam" to throw people off and impersonate Beverly McGowan, or whether a "Sam" existed in real life (and never found, creepily enough), she had to have been gloating over her own cleverness.

[tvscript124]

Another one...the man who drove the white van in which Tara Calico was supposedly photographed bound and gagged with a young boy, also bound and gagged. Ugh.