What's the worst thing you've seen as an LEO?

[Nismo240SX]

Seeing as I'm almost halfway through the process of becoming a Philly LEO I can't help but wonder just how often LEO's come across a crime scene that just completely appalls or disgusts them. So besides the usual dead or abused child (which pretty much disgusts anyone with a soul) what is the worst thing you as cops have seen. Have you ever come across a crime scene that looks like something straight out of a horror film, have you ever seen anything that just makes you completely question the world or nature (outside of the usual degree of scumbags and general human filth int his world).

Basically what I want to know is is there any merit whatsoever in stuff like what you would see in a movie? I'm not a sicko or anything and while I've seen my fair share of dead bodies (mom used to work in a mortuary and I am prior service military) I just want to know if at the end of the day on any given shift I will be haunted by anything I would see on the job. FYI I'm not easily scared or disturbed and I'm far from squeamish.

[CityCopDC]

A 2 week old baby that had been microwaved for 5 minutes.

[highwaycop]

triple fatal mvc. knew one of the vics.

[Baysidegal]

There are two things that stick out most in my mind. The first is a two year old boy that we tried to save during a house fire and couldn't get to.

The second was a fellow Police Officer that was murdered in the line of duty. That is by far the worst......

[andy5746]

My dead friend.

[Surf]

My dead friend. Same for me.

While every officer is a big loss, I have had 4 very close friends killed in the line of duty. One being the guy that introduced me to my wife. However the worst was my best friend who was assigned to an intel unit. He was shot and killed by a guy our unit was hunting for. I will never forgive his supervisor who wanted some glory with a big bust, instead of calling us and passing on the intel like they were supposed to do. :mad:

My unit has lost 3 guys and that is a very tought thing.

[katseiye]

Hooked a guy up for injury to a child for racking his own 9 yo son so bad he could barely walk and had both new and old injuries on torso from beating w/ a coaxial cable. 1 month before scheduled trial date he stomped to death his common laws 7 yo who had been practically starved, neglected and beaten in a similar manner himself.

[LeanG]

Any "officer down" (shooting) calls. We had a few in '07.

[Joe159]

A guy had died in a bathtub. He was in the water for weeks. We helped the medical examiner get the body out of the tub/water. Friend tried to lift the body from the shoulder, armpit area. When he pulled and worked his way to the arm area, all the skin and flesh pulled off both arms, exposing bones etc. He literally left the room and started gaging. Freaked us all out.

[mruiz46]

A 2 week old baby that had been microwaved for 5 minutes.

Omg.. that most be a horrible thought.. thats such a cruel crime, I hope the person who did that got the death sentence

[Fuzz]

Train vs pedestrian.....not a pretty sight.

[katseiye]

Any "officer down" (shooting) calls. We had a few in '07.

That's one that thankfully I have not and hope to never have. I'm amazed that with our proximity to the big department in this county that we have not had one ourselves. I think we're operating on borrowed time.....

[ateamer]

The worst thing I've seen? The reports written by one of my trainees a couple years ago. Still makes me shudder to think of them.

[ChopperCopper]

Some woman living in Section 8 housing who doesn't pay property taxes trying to tell me how to do my job.

[CityCopDC]

DC thats some pretty heavy S--- right there.

Believe it or not, 8 years later it still bothers me and I still have nightmares about it. Eats at me because I constantly say "had I gotten here 5 minutes earlier......"

[M-11]

I saw a Ford Taurus Station Wagon with a Black and white Paint job and a light bar.

M-11

[e-man]

Old lady deceased for 2 weeks laying in the bathroom. Ring of maggots wrapped around her head like a yellow backlight.
Stench from down the hall...

Guy found dead hanging in his living room. Dead, hanging for TWO WEEKS.
skin flaked off, fingers fell off, head shrunk...We called him Beetleguse...

There was a call recently, luckily I was off, alarm, open rear door. Guys go in and get smacked with the overwhelming stench of death.
People had a huge Mcmansion, inside were dozens of rotting dog carcasses.
Had to call F.D. in to get air packed up...

Its a job

[Nismo240SX]

So I take no ones come across an Ed Gein's huh? Oh and Joe159, that's just foul, floaters are downright nasty,. My mom used to to work for mortuary affairs @ Dover AFB back in the 80's, if any of you remember we had a transport plane go down back in 1985 and my mom worked through Christmas because of it (for those that don't remember or are too young to remember here's a link ... http://www.qmfound.com/gander.html ). So I've seen a few things in my own right, for those that don't know the US Military has a wooden box for practically every body part that you have so in the event of a tragedy such as gander where all they find is an arm or a leg or head they put it in its box and place that in the coffin.

The baby in the microwave is just down right horrible and yes DC that would haunt anyone's dreams. Did you have to talk to anyone at Psych afterward or no?

They had a call in Delaware where I'm from where they had a fatality of natural causes, apparantly the guy had some really big lizards that proceeded to eat him. The only way they knew he was dead was because of the blood rolling under the apt. door.

[Jordon198]

1. The crime scene where one of our own had been murdered. I got there long after the fact, and had a post on the outside, but still could see him laying there in the street.

2. The crime scene where a hotel clerk that had been murdered. I had spoken to her about 3 hours prior to her being murdered. As it turned out, I also knew the person who murdered her, also an employee of the hotel. In the week or so that it took to get to the bottom of that case I spoke with at length 2 or 3 times.

[ASUMach1]

When the doughnut shop was out of bear claws the other morning. I called a care unit to help me through the anxiety.

[Monkeybomb]

...........................

[FLState26]

A male who had committed suicide and was in the house for more than 2 weeks. We can smell him from the Driveway and having all the doors closed...we weren't able to ID him right away. The revolver he used had to be soaked in water for a couple days because the dried up fluids and maggots were not allowing us to remove the ammo from the cylinder. It was so bad, the Body Removal guys were hesitant in who was grabbing him first. That's been my worse so far, I've only been on the road for 4 months.

[WKT]

Two sisters in a pickup ran broadside into a tractor-trailer. The truck was small enough that everything but the cab went under the trailer. The passenger sister's head came off and was lodged on the side of the trailer, eyes still open, mouth open.

[mdrdep]

I've seen a lot of bad stuff over the past almost 20 years but the only thing that made me gag was about 4-11 and easily 350 lbs. of butt naked female transient. Oh god still makes me shudder, nothing was where it should have been

[biker331]

I'm still trying to figure out the police lingo...what is "DC"?

[Monkeybomb]

DC thats some pretty heavy S--- right there.

If your refering to this its CityCopDC

[hobbsie711]

I'm still trying to figure out the police lingo...what is "DC"?

I would assume District of Coumbia as in Washington DC

[ray8285]

Car Vs truck--all 5 occupants dead. Started as a pursuit, I was supposed to get in front of the car being pursued and put out spikes, didn't make it. I couldn't even tell the one vehicle was a truck it was mangled so bad and I could only see 4 bodies at first.

The look on a mid 20's mom when you tell her her six month old baby is dead.
The car wreck where the guy was ejected, and so was his brain. We found it a few feet away, in tact.

She wasn't bad but I can still "see" my first hanger. I can close my eyes and still do a detailed account of the entire scene.

[j706]

Some very horrific traffic crashes. I have been on a lot of self inflicted GSW's. They don't bother me. An innocent person or persons (Kids) traveling down the road one second and then ripped apart the next for someones impatience or stupidity bothers me.

[GoldBadge]

I've seen lots of gruesome scenes, but nothing is worse than a dead child. They're so innocent.

[CityCopDC]

The car wreck where the guy was ejected, and so was his brain. We found it a few feet away, in tact.


Had something similar happen some years back, only the guy was on a yamaha R-1. He decided to do a wheelie at 100+ mph and lost control of the bike when he started to go down the incline. Plowed face first into a steel telephone pole. His brain was completely intact a few few away and the bikes engine casing was two blocks down the road.

[Nismo240SX]

Just for the sake of asking but for those of you who were in the military and served in a war zone; would you say that scenes of war are more less gruesome than what you see as LEO's. I'm sure GSW's and car accidents scenes are pretty horrible but does anything compare to casualties of war?

[j706]

Had something similar happen some years back, only the guy was on a yamaha R-1. He decided to do a wheelie at 100+ mph and lost control of the bike when he started to go down the incline. Plowed face first into a steel telephone pole. His brain was completely intact a few few away and the bikes engine casing was two blocks down the road.

Nice!!

[Frank Booth]

Higher and higher co-pays for medical. That's by far the worst I've seen in over 20 years. More gruesome than a thousand dead and mangled bodies.

[ateamer]

Once again, Frank is right. I believe the latest studies show he is at 99.3%.

[ray8285]

Had something similar happen some years back, only the guy was on a yamaha R-1. He decided to do a wheelie at 100+ mph and lost control of the bike when he started to go down the incline. Plowed face first into a steel telephone pole. His brain was completely intact a few few away and the bikes engine casing was two blocks down the road.

Funny thing was (and yes, we laughed) his skull was intact!!! When we looked at his head there was a little hole but upon further review we found his skull had split open, brain flew out and then his skull flapped back shut.

[C-15]

talking about straight out of a movie... a guy slit his wrists (both) vertically with a box cutter and sprayed the whole house with blood before he died, all because his girlfriend dumped him. there was blood EVERYWHERE we thought there was another body somewhere in the house

[CityCopDC]

Funny thing was (and yes, we laughed) his skull was intact!!! When we looked at his head there was a little hole but upon further review we found his skull had split open, brain flew out and then his skull flapped back shut.

Whoa!

[Nonsequitur]

My dead friend.

Ditto, everything else pales in comparison to someone who has fought, rode, and joked with you laying dead infront of you.

I have seen the rest, multiple fatal accidents, long dead bodies, shotgun suicides, etc. etc. Nothing at all will ever affect me like seeing a friend, brother, and co-worker dead.