The Eerie and Dark Practice of Collecting True Crime Memorabilia

People have been collecting things for centuries like dolls, stamps, baseball cards, even shrunken heads. Farther down that spectrum lies the more macabre: the belongings of criminals. The marketplace for such commerce is called "murderabilia.” “You find the thing and there's an odd amount of pleasure in getting a bunch of it,” said Ryan Graveface, a collector who doesn’t sell any of it. What's so captivating about the serial killer stuff? It's a question he's often asked.