A police officer crouches under the rear end of a taxi jacked up on a crate and garbage can as the dead body of a man who was hit by the cab lies underneath, 1943

The body of mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, who was killed by an unknown assailant who shot him through a window with an M1 Carbine while he was staying at an associate’s house in Beverly Hills, 1947.

The body of Earl “Hymie” Weiss, leader of Chicago’s North Side Gang. He was killed when Al Capone’s men opened fire with a submachine gun on him and his associates while they were visiting a courthouse where an ally of his was on trial, 1926.

Mafia kingpin Joe Masseria holds the ace of spades, "the death card," in his hand following his murder on the orders of infamous gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano in a Coney Island restaurant. 1931.

Forensic detectives take the fingerprints of murdered store owner Joseph Gallichio, as he lies on the roof beside his cage of racing pigeons. New York, 1941.

The bodies of two would-be thieves named Robert Green and Jacob Jagendorf after a failed robbery attempt that ended when they accidentally fell down the building's elevator shaft. New York. 1915

Two police officers with a dead body in a New York apartment stairwell, 1957.

Random New York murder scene. 1916.

A New York police officer takes a peek at a dead body covered with newspapers. 1943.

Random young woman dead in her bed, 1930.

Murdered gangster David Beadle, also known as "David the Beetle," in front of The Spot Bar and Grill in Manhattan. 1939

The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, in which seven members of the North Side Gang were trapped in a garage, lined up against the wall, and shot to death by members of Al Capone’s rival gang during a power struggle for control of Chicago, 1929.

The body of a man named Antonio Pemear, who was found murdered in his bed in Brooklyn. 1915.

The dead body of Homer Van Meter, an associate of John Dillinger and a notorious bank robber, who was killed after fleeing police in St. Paul, Minn, 1934.

The body of Brooklyn mobster Frankie Yale. He was killed by unidentified rival gangsters following a car chase through the streets of New York, 1928.

The body of Earl "Hymie" Weiss, leader of Chicago's North Side Gang. He was killed when Al Capone's men opened fire with a submachine gun on him and his associates while they were visiting a courthouse where an ally of his was on trial. 1926.

Weegee photographs a human head at the scene of a murder. Circa 1945.

An unidentified murder victim, early 20th century.

Most of these victims were probably killed by serial killers as it was not a thing then....

An unidentified dead man in New York City. Circa early 20th century

Scene of a murder-suicide in New York’s Central Park, 1952.

The dead body of Al Capone associate Charles “Cherry Nose” Gioe, who was shot through the head by mafia hitmen hired by a Chicago mob boss whose plans Gioe had unknowingly interfered with, 1954

The murder scene of Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer, a powerful New York gangster in the 1920s and '30s who was ultimately killed in Newark, New jersey by an assassin hired by the Mafia Commission. The Commission had denied Schultz's request to murder the prosecutor that was targeting him. When he disobeyed and attempted the murder anyway, the Commission had him killed. 1935

The dead body of Joseph Rosen, a candy shop owner who was killed by Murder Inc. leader Louis “Lepke” Buchalter in his own store in Brooklyn. 1936.

Newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, examines a body stuffed into a trunk and deposited on a patch of waste ground in New York, 1945.

dead boy with his intestines visible. Date unspecified.

photo of a bloodied couple lying dead in bed in New York. 1915