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Advocates Attack Sale Of 'murderabilia'
By courier-journal.com
Published: 02/28/2011

There are self-portraits from Washington sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, a cigar partly smoked by Charles Manson and clown drawings by notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

It's called “murderabilia,” a chillingly macabre array of prison paraphernalia obtained from notorious serial killers and murderers — and it's all for sale on the Internet.

Increasingly, those items, sold on a handful of websites, include artwork, letters and even a prison I.D. from Kentucky inmate Michael Carneal, whose shooting rampage at West Paducah's Heath High School in 1997 left three students dead and five injured.

While Kentucky has no laws to prevent it, the sale of Carneal's prison items has angered his victims, as well as crime advocates who track the sites.

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