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True crime is one of my guilty pleasures and there's a whole museum dedicated to it down in Hastings.
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Located on the seaside promanade, Hastings True Crime Museum looks a little out of place between the ice cream shops and hotels.
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When I spotted that they had was a special exhibition on Jack The Ripper, I knew I'd come to my kind of place.
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The first room was filled with memorabilia used in crimes, like a rubber Wayne Rooney mask used in a robbery and bolt cutters used to break into a safe.
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There were recreations of the skulls of Lizzie Borden's parents after she had blugeoned them to death.
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Actually, there were a lot of belljars filled with skulls.
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They had some boxing gloves belonging to, two of my favourites, The Krays.
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Things got a little gorier after we made our way through a tunnel to a crime scene painted with luminal which, of course, "lit up like a Christmas tree".
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In the Death Chamber you could see a real lethal injection table, along with a hanging noose and the bathtub that John Childs used to dismeber his victims.
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There were lots of killer photo opportunities, including an electric chair to sit in.
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I always love looking through displays of handcrafted weapons.
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I thought it was funny that they had an interactive bit for kids where you could write your own ransom note and take your finger prints.
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My favourite part was The Art Of The Murder where they had letters and art received from murderers in jail.
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This crucifix was crafted from toilet paper, wood and acrylic by a murderer with a life sentence.
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