A Twitter account called Mugshawtys posts the criminal charges and photos of women who look criminally attractive in their mugshots has racked up nearly 200,000 followers.
And while having a mug featured on the page may seem like a dubious honor, the man behind it says he’s been inundated with wannabe felon fatales begging for him to post their pics.
“A lot of people send me their own mugshots — I get probably 15 to 20 plus [direct messages] a day of different ones,” the creator of Mugshawtys 24-year-old electrician Josh Jeffrey. “A lot of what I post is submissions.”
Josh is a true crime lover from California, started collecting and posting female mugshots around 2016 or 2017 originally as a joke Twitter account.
The many mugshots of Sara Jane Isbister, whose collection of mugshots he posted as a pinned tweet, kicked off his desire to run the sites, Jeffery explained.
He calls websites that charge to take down mugshots “insane” and “the most f–ked-up thing I’ve ever heard.”
If a Mugshawty ever asks for her photo to be taken down, he complies immediately.
“If there’s anybody that doesn’t want their picture on there, I take it down with no questions asked,” he says.
“I think the US is the only country where there’s a public mugshot database,” he says. “I’ve posted some international mugshots, too, but every one of those the person sent me.”
https://twitter.com/mugshawtys
https://www.instagram.com/mugshawtys/
Everybody always asks me who my fav mugshawty is…well here we go…a thread of Sara Jean Isbister…the mugshawtys profile picture
— mugshawtys (@mugshawtys) March 17, 2019
