[Long Cut]

"I think there have been incidents where a murderer did record his activities even if he didn't intend to/actually distribute his videos."

Yes, that has happened. It still fell outside the FBI's definition of a true "snuff" film, in that the film was not produced for sale or distribution to an audience.

Let's face it...there really isn't much of a profit-to-risk ratio in producing such a film...after all, it would involve documenting evidence of a capital crime! While there may be people out there who would pay for it, I'm not sure (and I hope to Hell) there aren't enough to risk a ride in "old Sparky" for.

The way I heard the Sheen story, he recieved the film in the mail, he claims anonymously. It might be true; if he DID deliberately order what he thought was a snuff film, why would he have gone to the police in the first place?

[weegee]

Is there much commercial traffic in child pornography? Or do people make it more for themselves or to swap?

[HitmanLV]

I agree with what you say, especially that the film would document a capital crime. That being said, it's a big, nasty world out there, with a big, nasty underground and underground economy.

Who knows?