"The trade in murder memorabilia – “murderabilia” as it is sometimes known – is opaque. Scouller obtained his first piece – his Arthur Shawcross hair – on eBay, but in 2001 the site banned the sale of crime-related memorabilia out of respect for the victims. This led to the flourishing of several specialist auction sites, such as Murder Auction, Serial Killers Ink and Supernaught, that cater specifically for true crime collectors. On these you can buy such desirables as a handful of soil from Gein’s gravesite ($25), the seatbelt from Shawcross’s car ($800), an unfinished burrito chewed by Manson in his prison visiting room ($800), Ramirez’s prison-owned TV ($4,200) or two of Gacy’s Pogo the Clown paintings with signed letters ($125,000)." WTAF?!
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