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The Crime : A guy goofing around with his friends at a dinosaur exhibit falls off a rig (not by accident, one of his friends nudges him with an Apatosa... more
The Crime : A guy goofing around with his friends at a dinosaur exhibit falls off a rig (not by accident, one of his friends nudges him with an Apatosaurus ) and into the maw of a Tyrannosaursus Rex. Gruesome Factor :
3. That really looks like it hurt.
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The Crime : Don't be distracted by all the detective work going on above the body: That is an actress whose lips have been cut off. Throughout the epis... more
The Crime : Don't be distracted by all the detective work going on above the body: That is an actress whose lips have been cut off. Throughout the episode, they make the crime seem so serious that they never show the face full-on, they just have people rear back in shock. Gruesome Factor : 3. If they showed us this face completely, it would probably leapfrog way up this list. Thankfully, they didn't, a rare act of restraint.
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The Crime : This is a body that found its way into the back of a dump truck, and was then shredded. Bicycle bits and what looks like some gallbladder c... more
The Crime : This is a body that found its way into the back of a dump truck, and was then shredded. Bicycle bits and what looks like some gallbladder can be seen in the image. Gruesome Factor : 4. The CBS procedurals have a "grittier" vibe than the more light-hearted Bones and Castle
(which both appear multiple times on the rest of this list), and yet they don't have
as much fun with their corpses. If this were a crime on Bones , this would look like slide number four.
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The Crime : A man gets eaten by an alligator that was lured into his swimming pool by a millionaire matchmaker/pimp. Gruesome Factor : 5. This body look... more
The Crime : A man gets eaten by an alligator that was lured into his swimming pool by a millionaire matchmaker/pimp. Gruesome Factor : 5. This body looks grosser in close-up: take a look at that foot being fished out of the pool at the top left.
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The Crime : A woman cooks to death in her tanning bed and then decomposes. Her right arm, which you can't see, looks normal because it was hanging out ... more
The Crime : A woman cooks to death in her tanning bed and then decomposes. Her right arm, which you can't see, looks normal because it was hanging out of the bed. Gruesome Factor :
7, but a little less gross than what's next because it has nothing to do with food.
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The Crime : A reporter is found cooked to death in a pizza restaurant's oven. File under things you don't want to have to think about while enjoying pi... more
The Crime : A reporter is found cooked to death in a pizza restaurant's oven. File under things you don't want to have to think about while enjoying pizza.Gruesome Factor : 7. The grossest part of this is that before the son and his girlfriend find the body, she keeps talking about how "good" it smells in the restaurant. "Do you make barbecue pizza?" But it's still a little less gross than what's next because at least this crispy body is still intact.
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The Crime : A man, already dead, gets tossed down a bowling alley, and his body gets threshed in the pin resetting machine. The mess you see was former... more
The Crime : A man, already dead, gets tossed down a bowling alley, and his body gets threshed in the pin resetting machine. The mess you see was formerly someone's body. Gruesome Factor : 7. Someone's body .
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The Crime : An astrophysicist turns up dead in her car, a victim of "explosive decompression," which is when a body is "exposed to a zero pressure envi... more
The Crime : An astrophysicist turns up dead in her car, a victim of "explosive decompression," which is when a body is "exposed to a zero pressure environment." Or, as Castle puts it in layman's terms, "Wow, she looks like an overstuffed sausage." Gruesome Factor : 8. This is more disturbing than purely gross. It's harder to forget that these shows are wringing a prurient glee out of horrific assaults when you can see a face.
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The Crime : A serial killer is lopping off the hands of bodies and putting shells where the mouth and eyes should be as part of some black magic Santer... more
The Crime : A serial killer is lopping off the hands of bodies and putting shells where the mouth and eyes should be as part of some black magic Santeria. When the investigators go down to Miami to check this case out, they find that an even darker kind of Caribbean voodoo is going on, this one involving decapitation. Thus, this body. Gruesome Factor : 9. You can't tell in this image, but this body has no hands.
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The Crime : The body you see so graphically, gloopily exploding here is not even the main body from this episode. Nope, the main murder involved some d... more
The Crime : The body you see so graphically, gloopily exploding here is not even the main body from this episode. Nope, the main murder involved some dismembered feet washing ashore, eventually leading the show's dedicated protagonists to a "body farm," where academics study decomposition in action. This gushing corpses is one of those bodies. Gruesome Factor : 11. Look at that. It's a shower of intestines.