When the authorities finally decided to break into the mansion in 1947 after receiving a call that Homer was dead, they saw Homer dead of a heart attack. After a couple of weeks, Langley was found dead. The cause: He triggered one of his own booby traps, getting him crushed under a heavy pile of newspapers.
The following are cases of people who were unharmed by their own booby traps but ended up getting into trouble because of them. Read on.
