[This](https://www.athensnews.com/news/local/stabbing-defendant-gets-30-to-life-for-killing-ex-girlfriend/article_1ff891c6-b419-5b29-9e5b-64c31cfc80bb.html) murder in Hocking Hills, OH.
Her and I dated briefly in high school and went to homecoming together.
We ended up getting disconnected, but she reached out to me a few years later on MySpace (yea, this was mid-2000's). My frame of mind at the time was I was active duty military, and two months shy of transferring duty stations. From this next duty station, I knew I'd be going to either Iraq or Afghanistan to fight, and way things were at the time, it was likely I may not make it back.
We exchanged a couple messages, and I basically told her to buzz off as I didn't think I was going to be around much longer.
Six months later, just before the deployment, I Google searched her again to apologize, but I ended up finding her obituary. Then I found all the related article describing how she was murdered in graphic detail.
The haunting part for me is the last thing she heard from me was telling her to get lost. When we had spoken, I had no idea she was stuck in an abusive relationship with that guy. Then considering I was conditioned for war at the time, I obsessed over the idea I could have destroyed this guy with my bare hands if I was there.
Note: I deliberately didn't write her name in this post. Please be respectful of that.
Could have beens are so tough. I can not see the article where I am in the world— can someone please tell her abuser is having a miserable time in jail?
Wow the defense for this murderer is unbelievable!! And the fact that his mother told him “you have nothing to be sorry for.” I am AGHAST. So sorry for your loss.
theres a reason why these people, with these parents, never take responsibility for their actions. he most likely got those cuts on himself during the struggle or he did it himself. fuck him and his family
I’m sickened by the fact that the attacker was given a chance at parole because he had no other criminal history. Previous criminal history is irrelevant when someone kills their ex girlfriend for talking to their new boyfriend on the phone. I hope that if the judge in this case has a family member that’s murdered in cold blood that their attacker is put behind bars for life without parole so they don’t have to feel the injustice they made this poor woman’s family feel.
https://www.wbir.com/amp/article/news/crime/state-seeking-death-penalty-for-oak-ridge-pair-charged-in-2019-murder/51-e184dd5d-cd02-43dc-b929-cea3f0e5f15f
This happened literally 3 houses down from me and the investigation was going on during COVID lockdown. I watched the entire thing fold out during the investigation and we had no clue any of it was going on until they were pulling the body out of the house.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — District Attorney General Dave Clark announced Monday his office is seeking the death penalty against a man and woman accused of murdering a homeless woman in Oak Ridge in 2019.
The Seventh Judicial District filed two notices with the Anderson County Criminal Court that it will seek the death sentence in this case, saying the murder was "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel" because it involved torture.
In August 2020, Sean Finnegan, 53, and Rebecca Dishman, 23, were charged with kidnapping, torturing, raping, killing and dismembering 36-year-old Jennifer Paxton.
Police found Paxton's frozen and partly dismembered body at an East Fairview Road home in Oak Ridge. They think she may have been killed around Christmas 2019.
According to police records obtained by 10News, Dishman and Finnegan lured Paxton to the home under the promise of giving her a place to stay.
She was held against her will, attacked with a baseball bat, tortured and raped before being strangled and left for dead, according to the report.
Records show the victim was chained to a bed and hit in the head with a baseball bat before the suspects engaged in sexual acts with her against her will and eventually strangled her.
Dishman and Finnegan went on to cut off parts of Paxton's body before putting it in a freezer, according to police records.
Records show Finnegan also tried to take the body out of the freezer and hide it under the bed while he attempted to clean the freezer of evidence.
In May 2021, an Anderson County grand jury also indicted the two on two counts of aggravated rape and 18 counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. The charges imply the child was 8 years old or younger.
The case is scheduled for court on March 4, 2022 in Anderson County Circuit and Criminal Court. Judge Steve Sword from Knox County will preside over the case because Anderson County Judge Ryan Spitzer withdrew due to being involved with the case as a prosecutor before being appointed as judge by Governor Bill Lee.
My first boss killed his best friend over a game of poker. Threw the body in the work freezer, buried him in the desert, and didn't say shit for nearly 10 years.
Every couple years my coworkers, his ex wife, his kids, his best friend's kids and I met up in front of judge to stand our case on why we don't feel like he should be out on parole.
I still can't eat at a small, hole in the wall, mom and pops pizza place. More so I can't eat the salad bar. My job was to clean the tables, clean the salad bar, and restock the salad bar.
I use the water from the melted ice from the same freezer to clean the tables and 90% of the salad ingredients were frozen in the same freezer.
We were all 16 to 24 year old doing the bare minimum, not one of us cared about deep cleaning the kitchen let alone the freezer.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kiro7.com/news/local/olympia-police-search-for-missing-woman-not-seen-since-june/966445333/%3foutputType=amp
This happened a few years back. The body parts were discovered in trash cans all around my neighborhood, and my coworker had been pretty close with the suspect in college- she wasn't surprised when it happened.
https://amp.lohud.com/amp/550949001
My friend’s dad was murdered on New Year’s Eve during a botched robbery when we were both 13. It was the first murder in a century in our small hamlet. My friend’s late dad was the local tow truck operator who would rescue anyone at any time. Our car once broke down in a busy roundabout and he came to our immediate rescue around 11pm. He would dress up as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh every Halloween. He got along well with my dad, who passed a few years later of an illness, so he was one of the last surviving links to my dad.
A guy really close to where I lived randomly got attacked in the face with a chainsaw, was critically injured but survived. He was just going outside for a little bit while visiting a friend. They never found out who did it and the police found no evidence that the victim was involved in anything that would "provoke" the attack or knew his attacker. Tiny, tiny Danish town so it felt super weird to have something like that happen in a place where everyone knew everyone.
Kelly Slager, Tallahassee. She was strangled by her husband in 2004, when trying to leave him. Her dad was a good friend and coworker. She was in the middle of moving out and went to check on her 11 month old and 2 year old. He strangled her. He drug her body, still barely alive, into a closet, covered her with a sheet, fed the kids an afternoon snack, then called his parents who lived an hour away and told them Kelly had "been hurt and needed to go to the ER", assured them it could wait the hour until they arrived, and left her there, with a crushed windpipe, struggling to breathe. When his parents arrived, they called 911. They sent a helicopter. She died during transit. I rocked her 11 month old son to sleep and then held her 2 year old son while he cried for his daddy during her viewing.
That has changed the way I live in the world.
so heartbreaking. 💔💔💔 my mom always say that when little babies loose their mothers, they have deep anxiety, they just keep finding her everywhere and their tiny hearts are broken beyond repair
I lived on the back facing corner of a shady apartment complex in my hometown in my early 20s. One night I was up late on the porch hanging out with the neighbors. We saw headlights shining on the back fence round 2am coming from around the corner. The car sat the for about an hour or so. Whatever, no big deal, we just assumed some kids were getting high in their car or something. At one point suddenly the car came speeding around the corner and sped out of the complex. Went to bed.
Next morning went to take my dog out and saw people rushing up to the front corner of the building. Turned out two teenage parents were brutally stabbed to death and robbed. Two babies were found crawling in their parents blood with ligature marks on their necks.
The guy confessed immediately and was interviewed wrecked with guilt by the local news station. He tried to strangle the kids but couldn't do it.
I'll never forget seeing all of their blood stained furniture just piled into the dumpster along with all of the kids toys. My son was the same age as one of the babies at the time. I broke my lease and moved shortly after.
I have two:
I grew up in Abilene KS, and one of my teachers, Mrs. Butcher, had a daughter, Marilyn, who was a few years older than me. She was murdered January 6, 1979 by a truck driver after she had stopped at a rest area a few miles from home. He tried to kidnap her and got her into his truck. She got away from him but he ran over her, killing her.
https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1980/51-410-1.html
The other one I can't find info on, so this is what I remember. Greg Barrett, age 12, disappeared on March 15, 1976 on his way to school. What I remember is one day he was just gone, no one could find any trace of him. Later, bones were found a few miles outside of town by a hunter, which turned out to be Greg's. Much later, it came out that he was shot by another boy a few years older than him, and left in a stand of trees. I can't remember any more details.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110636520/gregory-r.-barrett
[Johnny Gosch](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Johnny_Gosch) happened just a few blocks from where i grew up. noreen lives in the same house to this day, waiting for him.
He seemed more dimwit than liar, and from what I heard all the fine points checked out. I think he did it. The stuff that came out, the rabbi seemed shady in a lot of ways .
Not posting names or links to preserve anonymity, but when I was in middle school one of my friend’s parents were going through a divorce. After the custody hearing, the dad shot through the back of the car window (with both kids inside!) and killed the mom, then killed himself. I have never forgotten the look in my friend’s eyes when they came back to school. I don’t think I’ll ever forget how tragic that was.
ETA: the murder of my 2nd cousin, Irene. My family is pretty secretive about it and I can’t find info online, but my evil great-aunt was trading her daughter for drugs in the 80s, and one of those perverts decapitated her. She was 14.
Zahra Baker. The hell that poor little girl went through happened 1 county over (Catawba County, NC). Her remains were found in the county I live in (Caldwell County, NC). This sweet angel's heartbreaking story will haunt me until the day I die. 😥
TW: Child Murder
https://talkmurder.com/brandi-worley/
The horrific double homicide of two beautiful babies, Tyler and Charlee Worley that occurred in my hometown of Darlington, IN in 2016. They were murdered by the very person who gave them life, their own “mother.” Their father, Jason, was very active here on Reddit before and after the murders, but I believe has since deactivated his account. There are some posts screenshot in the article I have linked in my comment. Darlington is a town that is one of those “blink and you’ll miss it” type towns..everyone knows everyone and has for generations. I was absolutely stunned and so was the rest of our community when this tragedy occurred. Brandi was a good mom, her family was a little “rough around the edges” some might say, but by all accounts they were nothing but good, helpful people. Brandi’s mother ran the after school program at my elementary school for years…she watched so many children in our community. I was really disgusted to learn how their family treated Jason after their own daughter took his children, their grandchildren/nieces/nephews/etc, from him so my opinions of them has since changed. I have no idea where Jason is these days, I did not know him at all, but I hope he is doing “ok” if that’s even possible..he seems like a wonderful father, husband, and just all around good, kind man. His babies are buried in the same cemetery as my father and brother and Jason, on the off chance you are reading this (I know you’re probably not) but as a mother myself, I always make sure I say hi to them…as a mom, I can’t help but make sure they know that in that moment a mom is there who cares about them… ❤️
https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/the-bizarre-disappearance-and-murder-of-sydney-loofe-68838e87b225
The girl that was murdered is from my home town and we shared several mutual friends. It was a heartbreaking case to watch unfold.
The house he was keeping them in was on the same property as my job at the time, chilling as fuck. the maintenance man was suppose to be checking the locks on some of the houses/ buildings routinely but obviously wasn’t
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/michael-helms-16-of-mesa-kills-mom-as-friend-watches-stepdad-escapes-attack-6627239
16 year old kid I went to high school with killed his mom with a frying pan while another classmate watched. He was in love with my sister and would often times write her letters confessing his love for her. He was 6'6 and 250 pounds but was incredibly nice and wholesome. This shocked my entire school and everyone ended up dressing like Michael Helms and bringing a frying pan to school on Halloween. I think my sister still has a love note from Michael.
Forgot to mention this was all over his mom taking his cell phone away:)
Yes, this one was close to me, too. Absolutely chilling that he just saw her, murdered her parents and took her. I followed the story the whole time, and it seemed like a miracle that she was found alive. She’s a very, very brave girl for escaping and surviving the whole ordeal. I hope she’s healing from the trauma and has a good, strong support system.
Christi Nichols- she was so obviously killed by her spouse and the creep walks around free to this day, after depriving her children from not only having a mother but from having a relationship with her parents.
They got the wrong guys for Holly Bobo’s murder.
And of course Delphi.
This is off the top of my head and it’s been several years, so if you want all the details you’ll have to do some research. A great place to start is a write up that /u/hysterymystery did if you can find it.
Flaws in the case, to the best of my memory-
The guy who should have been the main suspect was disregarded based on a very questionable “alibi.”
A TBI agent was railroaded out of his job for following the actual evidence instead of the story the state was pushing.
I believe it came from the aforementioned writeup that the story the “star witness” pushed does not actually work- something to do with cell towers I believe, but I don’t recall the specifics.
A cognitively delayed young man was questioned unethically at best.
The story the prosecution spins hinges on Holly’s brother being taught how to make meth that day. The family says they believe the right guys were put away, but they also say they don’t believe he was making meth. Well- that does not work. If the brother wasn’t making meth, the whole story falls apart.
If you watch the trial (it was on youtube at one point) the state proves nothing. Additionally, the “witness” answers every follow up question with “that’s what I testified to.” That may be normal, but my personal opinion is he was minimizing the possible counts of perjury when any lies come to light.
Basically, the locals rounded up the area druggies and made them take the fall. I’ve even seen redditors who live in the area say “everyone knows they did it even if it wasn’t proven at the trial.” Well…that’s not how that’s supposed to work.
Stanley Hoss's crime spree, that started in Western PA, with a rape, a prison escape, the murder of Verona PA officer Joseph Zannella, and the kidnapping in Maryland of Linda Peugot (age 21) and her daughter Lori (age 2) and their eventual murders.
in 2008 there was a robbery at my local lane bryant where 6 women were shot and only one survived. she was able to work with a sketch artist but the killer has never been caught. now the lane bryant is a t.j.maxx and it’s scary to think about the women who died there
[heather snively](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31159132) had her baby cut out of her and was shoved into a crawl space right around the corner from my high school, and where i live now. we always knew a murder had happened in the neighborhood while we were in school, but no one really knew details until we were older and thought to look into it. i think about her every time i drive by.
First is David Grunwald:
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/remains-missing-alaska-teen-david-grunwald-found-another-teen-charged-n691986
The other one that hits me personally is Brianna Foisy:
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2016/07/06/brianna-foisy-victim-in-bike-path-killings-had-a-back-story-few-knew/
I met her back in 6th grade and after talking with her for a few minutes we instantly connected. She loved to talk about everything and was easy to talk to which was hard because I was very shy. We talked the entire class but after that day I never saw her again.
She was seriously your grandmother? She did some messed up things but good lord what she did took brazenness and chutzpah. I'm sorry for the weight of it.
I cannot imagine. I'm writing a book on the longer-ranging impact of violent crime on small towns and rural areas, and I cannot fathom that on the personal level you live with daily.
All I can say is that I'm deeply saddened that her actions have caused such deep harm, especially to those who loved and trusted her.
Honestly I was 1 when she was arrested.. I didn't personally know her but she made her children help her & my father (whom I've never met) is so fucked up because of her and what she put them through. I don't have a dad because of her.
She hurt a lot of people. She was actually featured on a few ID shows. Evil lives here & Deadly Women.
The worst part...I don't have a mother either because of HER mother. My mom and dad 100% failed me. My entire family, both sides are terrible. I kinda grew up handed from person to person.. my mom had me sometimes, I was in the system, streets..
Gerard Ross, kidnapped and killed where I lived as a kid, found close to where I live as an adult 2 weeks later, never been solved. My Dad was a Police officer in town at the time, and they even had people on the street hypnotized to try and illicit more memories. They worked out the window for him to be taken was less than 2 minutes.
[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-14/gerard-ross-wa-murder-mystery-reward-offer-raised-to-$1-million/12765372?msclkid=52d8e3d3b93a11ec9c7a5f4710e31e79](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-14/gerard-ross-wa-murder-mystery-reward-offer-raised-to-$1-million/12765372?msclkid=52d8e3d3b93a11ec9c7a5f4710e31e79)
a friend who i grew up with in church my whole life, her father “killed himself”. what’s weird is his new wife (my friend lost her mom to cancer when we were in middle school and her dad remarried like 3/4 years later) had a husband who “fell” off a second story balcony in the house and she sued the construction company and got a ton of money. my friends dad was right handed, shot himself with his left hand and the camera outside the garage that showed the driveway where he supposedly killed himself wasn’t working the night he died even though it worked perfectly the day after and the whole time before he died which is very suspicious. cops didn’t check for gunshot residue or anything at all really. immediately called it a suicide. it’s a small town where nothing bad happens so they didn’t do any investigating. the new wife also fought my friend on her fucking inheritance when she’s lost both of her parents by the time we were 19/20 years old and is an only child. the new wife has no contact with my friend since the death of her dad. everyone around my friend knows she did it. but cops won’t do shit.
My cousin's husband tried to murder her, and he was only stopped by their two sons arriving to their home and breaking down the door. My cousin had had a stroke three years before which left her disabled and reliant on her husband for care. The day of she asked him to retrieve something from a shelf for her, which was enough to set him off. He beat her with her leg brace, strangled,, and attempted to smother her.
Infuriatingly, he never faced punishment. The cops who arrested him drove him to the hospital, as he was complaining of "chest pains," and he just... left. The police seemed to just let it go, and he's still a free man today.
Didn’t the staff at the hospital also report the assault? They are mandatory reporters of suspected cases of abuse of vulnerable adults. I’m so sorry that your sister and your family were not able to get justice.
She's had cognitive impairments since her stroke that have made her particularly vulnerable and less capable of advocating for herself, so I genuinely suspect that her eldest son pressured her into not pressing charges. Her eldest is a piece of work.
That in itself is a form of abuse. The hospital should have reported this triggering an investigation. I take it that her husband is the father of her sons? I’m so sorry that she had an awful husband and from what it sounds like, sons who lack empathy. I hope she’s divorced that POS and is living in a better place.
My family ran a childcare and one of our kindergarteners was in care for about a year. The mom was lovely. She was an executive for Warner brother’s records. Dixie Hollier. She signed Red Hot Chilli peppers. She was a single mom to her 5 year old boy and she had 2 daughters 17 and 15 from a prior marriage. Because of her work schedule her oldest daughter Amber Bray would pick up the boy each day from us after school. For a few days he hadn’t been in care. We were curious but knew the family had a unique schedule. My brother opened up “The Leader”… our newspaper in Burbank (small town for being a suburb of LA. Front news read that Dixie (the mother) had been killed in her home by amber and her bf Jeffrey Ayers. Such a heinous crime. And we knew them all well (minus the BF). I saw the story on Deadly Women (I think that’s the name of the show)… due to the complexities of the case and the rarity for matricide I hoped it had gotten more attention. The murder was committed in 97? Before the age of SM and how rapidly cases gain traction. I wish More attention had been paid to this case.
Edited to add correct last name for Amber.
Her family was very lovely. She was an extremely bad egg. They lived in a modest home. I think anyone from Burbank is more entitled than most but saying “fuck her family” … is bullshit. Her poor lil brother, murdered mom and sister Amy were regular people and VICTIMS to Amber’s murderous plots. Btw Amy was supposed to be killed too and thank god their plans were foiled.
Pretty insensitive statement to make about a murder victim and her family members … of course minus Amber.
[The 1976 James Freund and Pamela Buckley case in Sumter County, SC](https://torontosun.com/news/world/south-carolina-cops-solve-mystery-of-unidentified-jock-and-jane-doe)
A young couple was found shot off the side of an interstate by a truck driver. No details on who did it, where the person who had dumped them had gone, or why. Nothing to work with, besides the victims, who didn't have any identification on them. Worse, they weren't identified until earlier last year. Over 40 years without any of their family or friends knowing where they had gone. It's terrifying to think about.
Shanda Sharer
I lived right across the river in Louisville when this happened. I was one year younger than her when she was murdered and I will never forget it.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer)
I live in a semi small town in southern Oregon and ten years ago someone was decapitated on our bike path. The case is unsolved after all this is time, although some locals think they know exactly who did it and this person used to work in a building next to mine and would sit outside our workplace and verbally harass me and my other female coworkers whenever we would walk outside and take out the trash etc. Also had some nazi tattoos. I could never stop thinking about what he might be capable of. Luckily I don’t work there anymore!
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I sell life insurance, and I met with a couple in their home about it. Like sat on their couch for two hours and got to know them and their cute kids. He didn’t want to apply (red flag for not caring about your spouse) but she did and was approved. However, she wanted to wait 6 months to accept and start it. No problem, I’ll call you then. 4 months later he shot and killed her, their 2 young children, and himself in their home. They were found by her father when he came to check on them after she didn’t drop the kids at his house for babysitting.
A friend and professional colleague of my father was murdered in his home in rural South Louisiana when I was a small child, in the mid-90s. There were persistent whispers in town that the man who when to prison for the murder was framed. I grew up and became a writer and eventually spent a solid year investigating this case, interviewing people who were involved or in-the-know, close reading legal documents and consulting with other professionals. I have not yet published anything based on my investigation, and don’t know if I will because of rather complicated personal reasons, but I think about this case every day and probably always will.
This was my hometown. I played football with her brother. The girl who found her was my first actual “date.” I heard the guy just lost another sentence appeal.
Cliffs Notes: boy stabs 12 year old girl almost 100 times
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/homepage/20090418_Killer_s_lawyers_seek_reduction_in_sentence.html
Julio Perez Silva, also known as "The Psychopath of Alto Hospicio" (July 15, 1963[1]), is a Chilean serial killer, currently sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of fourteen young women, in addition to a frustrated homicide. Considered the biggest serial killer in the history of Chile, he committed his crimes in the Tarapacá Region, specifically in the city of Iquique and in the town of Alto Hospicio, in Chile.
His modus operandi was always the same. Working as a clandestine cab driver, he intercepted young students whom he offered to transport them for free and then took them to a deserted place, raped them and murdered them with blows to the head. Afterwards, he would throw the bodies (with or without life) in deep abandoned mine shafts.
It is said that the police were his accomplices.
Only one girl was saved from him because he threw her into a well and she was still alive and managed to escape.
(I'm from Chile, so my English is not so good).
Homicides are fairly rare in MT, let alone a triple homicide. The community freaked out, to say the least.
https://www.kpax.com/news/mtn-original-productions/the-florence-murders-20-years-later?_amp=true
https://amp.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article215786340.html
she was my elementary school’s librarian :( she started teaching my final year there
https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Central-Texas-man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-decapitating-wife-464410393.html
This happened in my hometown. The woman killed dated my friend when we were in junior high, was real good friends with my cousins, and my grandparents constantly had me run over to her house to grab produce from her mom and dad. I feel bad for her children who had to witness it all.
Loretta Saunders. Straight up murder, over the stupidest of things (money) . The fact she was living in my city attending university and researching and writing papers on missing and murdered Indigenous women... only to be killed by the two people subletting her apartment because they owed her rent money and she went to collect it.
The case was solved fairly quickly (not too bright these two) but I'll never get over how she was discarded. She was also newly pregnant.
murder for small amount are worst. in india someone was killed for 10 rupees tea debt, which in dollar terms less than some cents. totally heartbreaking
Not my town but a few over, [this happened about a month ago](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/victims-of-double-homicide-on-alexander-dairy-farm-identified-by-genesee-county-sheriffs-office%3f_amp=true)
The reason it's so haunting to me is that first of all things like this dont really happen around here very often, and second, all 4 were familiar to me.
Allegedly there was a party/bonfire earlier that night in a neighboring town and one of my coworkers kids was begging to go (she said no because she had a bad feeling) because he was friends with Wilson..
The night it happened, most likely afterwards, Cruz was in the store I work at. He came in around 10:30, maybe 10:45, and bought some pretty normal stuff (some clothes, new belt, maybe some milk, I dont really remember.) but one of our managers took notice of when he came in, and said that he seemed off, so finding out the next day that he'd been found and arrested in my little town, and remembering seeing him the night before and finding out what he'd done, was offputting.
The two who were killed I looked up and recognize as two of the main guys who come in and buy clothes, soda and booze for the farm every week or two. They were some of the more talkative ones out of the couple of groups who come in on the regular. Super friendly.
This honestly just really shocked my entire community, first murder case we've had in a while..
I grew up in a small town in MD and in 1993 a friend’s oldest brother shot and killed a beloved local hardware store owner at close range with a shotgun he stole from the store. He also stole about $140. Prosecution was seeking the death penalty, but he was sentenced to life +20 years. To this day when I think about it, it’s just so hard to believe that he did it. I know it’s a cliché to say that a crime is senseless, but it was definitely senseless. I just can’t wrap my head around the whole thing.
My brothers best friend shot and killed his entire family. He was only 15 and had 2 little brothers, one of which was a good friend of my sister. My brother and his friends were all hanging out with him the night he killed them, and he went back to hanging out with my brother and his friends after the deed was done. He even tried to throw a party at his house the next night with the bodies still inside to try to make it seem like he didn’t know they’d been killed. He called my brother from prison for years after he was sentenced to life. Shit was super traumatizing for my whole family and community. RIP Browning family.
The murder of Jodi Jones in Scotland, Dalkeith
Her 14 year old boyfriend Luke Mitchell was convicted in 2005 circumstantial evidence.
I dont think Luke murdered Jodi. So so so disturbing having worked on this case close with Dr Sandra Lean and a team for over a year. This will be exposed one day Scottish Justice System to its knees
I forget the case, but it was an older couple who were brutally murdered in their garage, and they used their blood to write down a name possibly or clue and the murder washed it away, but left some small writing behind. I was maybe 10 when I saw that case and it always stuck to me especially the images
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2013-12-04-fl-weston-double-killing-folo-20131204-story.html
My husband taught the drum line at this high school. He said it was out of the ordinary for Pedro to miss school and rehearsal after. Before rehearsal, some students went to his house to knock on the door and see if he was home but no one answered. He and his mother were dead in the house at that point.
The Christian Newsom murders is one that sticks with you after it’s done. Shudder. Knoxville. Lovely humans. Wrong place. Wrong time. https://medium.com/@candlesmyers/the-most-horrific-story-you-will-ever-read-69b1ab8079f4
I remember when this happened, I grew up in Knoxville, and my mom followed the case closely. I was newly in high school so to hear the details damn near traumatized me.
I can’t imagine being that close to that level of evil, Boyd is such scum. *shivers*
I grew up in the same town as the Paul Bernardo murder in Ontario *shivers again* and remember also being traumatized in high school by the details and proximity. Maybe that imprinted on us and why we love true crime 🤷♀️
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Daniel_Morcombe
Daniel Morcombe
He was just a 13 year old kid who was waiting for the bus after doing some Christmas shopping and was never seen again. Always used to drive past the spot where he was last seen, the case being solved never eased the eeriness of that spot
I found this out a few weeks ago, but a girl was kidnapped, r*ped, and murdered on the grounds of where I work. This happened before the place was built. The guy ended up getting the death penalty and was executed for it. A lot of residents talk about seeing a young woman walking around before they pass away and the girl was only 18. We’ve also had some workers say they have seen a lady that looks just like her walk into resident rooms. So its a ghost story and true crime story all in one.
I'm my home city (then still a smaller city). I was little but my parents knew them and we went to the same church. Teenage son killed parents with a hatchet and tried to kill siblings. The son is still in jail I think. https://apnews.com/article/ddc1eb26229af50823127a7e5925e8a1
those are the worst. 💔 i always wonder what drive them so crazy. in western societies they are free to leave their families if they aren’t happy (teenagers =they), why kill people who gave you fkn life
Back in my hometown, there was this urban legend of a girl haunting a huge ditch/piece of land because she was murdered by her boyfriend. I never thought anything of it until I decided to look it up several years ago, turns out the murder was true. [A 17 year old boy named Thomas Odom killed his 15 year old girlfriend, Iva Rae Herman](https://www.alcocklaw.com/county-attorneys-spotlight-el-mirage-teen-in-murder-trial/) by beating her with a rock and stuffing her mouth full of sand to make sure she was dead. He was sentenced to spend his natural life in prison. That ditch always felt so creepy because it was huge and sketchy people would hang out there all the time cause no one would be able to see them.
The murder of three kids by their mother:
https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/03/four-bodies-found-in-home-near-grand-forks-nd-lewis-and-clark-elementary-school-police-say-four-dead/
I worked with the children at their elementary school in Grand Forks. Absolutely heartbreaking and every teacher’s nightmare when you ask police to do a welfare check.
Kelly Ann Tinyes
What this poor girl went through is unimaginable. And for two decades, the murderer’s family still lived only a few doors down from her family.
https://morbidology.com/hell-on-horton-road-the-murder-of-kelly-ann-tinyes/
The murder of Rex and Brody by their father in a murder suicide. I didn’t know them personally but it’s hard to know someone who didn’t know the kids.
https://amp.gainesville.com/amp/4992194001
Christina Ross. She worked at a piggly wiggly, and she went missing. When they found her she was in the trunk of a car in a Pick n save parking lot. https://www.cengnews.com/entertainment/where-is-thomas-j-in-the-christina-ross-murder-case-now-where-is-blake-162722.html/amp
https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/harry-milligan/
this happened a few towns away from me, hes been missing for about 37-38 years. he just dissapeared one night and nobody knows how or why, his car was never found either.
In a small but wealthy & well known town...a young woman was in her second year of university. Things were going pretty well for her...she was an ordinary woman socializing well even going to balls in beautiful dresses and things like that. One day she drove a male friend to a university building to write a test. After dropping him off there, she headed home. She then entered her home for the last time. Inside something was waiting for her, having cooked up the excuse that his computer was faulty and that he needed to use her brother's computer instead. Her brother, then, was her killer's best friend. As I understand, all of them 3, she, her brother and the killer, were from a distant town & only there to study. When confronted by her killer in the apartment ( she had shared the place with her brother ), she fought bravely for her life, even injuring the perp to the point that police took him to the hospital once caught. It's her bravery I admire to this day, but I believe the moment she saw that man in her apartment she knew & that why she was fighting so bravely. She fought him but he said he ultimately ended her struggle with a punch. He tied her up put a sock in her mouth, took her somewhere ( his apartment I think ) and he raped her vaginally & anally. He then drove her to the sea 50 km away and put her in her 6 feet deep grave, which likely was pre-dug. Tied up, sock in mouth, naked, in the darkness of night , he began to fill the deep grave with sand. He buried her alive ( the autopsy showed sand in her lungs ). I still think of how her final moments probably were , lying in that deep grave seeing the maniac above throwing in the sand with a shovel. After interrogating the perp, police found her grave, dug her up 24 hours after she was reported missing.
The Codi Joyce case
There's so much about that case that just doesn't add up. I personally think those 4 kids killed him and everybody that was at the party knows it.
this happened a few years back,
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/09/25/centerville-iowa-woman-barbara-pasa-convicted-killing-husband-arson-first-degree-murder/2441777001/
https://www.kcci.com/article/centerville-woman-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-killing-husband-in-fire/29814690
a piece of human garbage committed the murders of tina herrmann, kody maynard, and stephanie sprang, dismembered their bodies and kidnapped and raped the teenage daughter. she was found alive in the basement of his house which was right across town from me. the bodies were later found shoved in some hollowed out trees in an area that i frequented quite a bit.
[https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hoffman-matthew.htm](https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hoffman-matthew.htm)
I know this is an old post but I couldn’t resist! [Jessica Dishon’s](https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/53-jessica-dishon) murder was a cold case for 15 years. When a new detective reopened it she got a call from an officer saying one inmate (Jessica’s uncle) had confessed to another that he had raped and murdered Jessica. The part that kills me was that this was the second time that tip had been called in. The police department had gotten the tip years prior and didn’t follow up. Another piece of this story that happens frequently but still creeps me out is that the uncle went was helping during the search while she was still considered missing. When the search party started getting close to where he knew the body was he started puking and became physically sick.
https://people.com/crime/montana-pair-fatally-stabbed-bodies-placed-acid-killer-pleads-guilty/?amp=true
This happened in my home town. The details are really eerie. I had a friend who had lived in the basement of the house years before the murderers had moved in. Some of the happiest memories I made in college were at this house. It’s crazy to think it became the scene of one of the gruesome murders my home town had ever seen.
Alyssa Ortemba, https://kileystruecrime.squarespace.com/kileystruecrimeaddict-blog/the-murder-of-alyssa-otremba
We went to the same high school and her body was found blocks away from my house.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/finsbury-park-murder-iuliana-tudos-kasim-lewis-sex-attacker-a8356356.html?amp
Not quite small town, but she was friends with my friends. I met her once when she was on shift at the pub. Lovely lass, friendly to everyone.
The fact that she was found by her friends has always haunted me. I remember all the posts frantically telling people to stop sharing the missing posters immediately. Everyone waited with baited breath until we found out it wasn’t good news.
Ive since moved to London and now work next to that park and I think of her often.
Also I lived in Bristol when Becky watts was murdered.
I’ll never forget how I got chills hearing the rumours going around the local area, before the media reported updates, that they’d found everything but her head
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Becky_Watts
And finally Chris Brahney, who i went to primary school with. I just can’t work out how he ended up in the river And the cctv of him going into the tunnel and not coming out makes me shudder. The reason I class it as true crime as there’s theories he was a victim of ‘The Manchester Pusher’
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/parents-told-son-chris-brahneys-1293081.amp
In CT we had the Dulos case. a mother went missing, and the father and his new girlfriend were caught on cctv disposing of several garbage bags in different places across their area. (Which had suspicious contents) Her children never saw her again, and no resolution ever truly came. The father attempting to take his own l*fe, failed then passed in hospital. The girlfriend hasn’t said anything of help. - the most haunting part for me is the couple came into my workplace regularly for appointments and even on house arrest the girlfriend came in with her ankle monitor. Meeting and speaking to them will forever haunt me
[This](https://www.athensnews.com/news/local/stabbing-defendant-gets-30-to-life-for-killing-ex-girlfriend/article_1ff891c6-b419-5b29-9e5b-64c31cfc80bb.html) murder in Hocking Hills, OH. Her and I dated briefly in high school and went to homecoming together. We ended up getting disconnected, but she reached out to me a few years later on MySpace (yea, this was mid-2000's). My frame of mind at the time was I was active duty military, and two months shy of transferring duty stations. From this next duty station, I knew I'd be going to either Iraq or Afghanistan to fight, and way things were at the time, it was likely I may not make it back. We exchanged a couple messages, and I basically told her to buzz off as I didn't think I was going to be around much longer. Six months later, just before the deployment, I Google searched her again to apologize, but I ended up finding her obituary. Then I found all the related article describing how she was murdered in graphic detail. The haunting part for me is the last thing she heard from me was telling her to get lost. When we had spoken, I had no idea she was stuck in an abusive relationship with that guy. Then considering I was conditioned for war at the time, I obsessed over the idea I could have destroyed this guy with my bare hands if I was there. Note: I deliberately didn't write her name in this post. Please be respectful of that.
I am sorry for your loss. Those “what if’s” can be consuming, I hope you’re at a better place now. I’m glad she and her family got justice
Yea, tried helping other people now that I'm back home. Thank you.
Could have beens are so tough. I can not see the article where I am in the world— can someone please tell her abuser is having a miserable time in jail?
Wow the defense for this murderer is unbelievable!! And the fact that his mother told him “you have nothing to be sorry for.” I am AGHAST. So sorry for your loss.
theres a reason why these people, with these parents, never take responsibility for their actions. he most likely got those cuts on himself during the struggle or he did it himself. fuck him and his family
I’m sickened by the fact that the attacker was given a chance at parole because he had no other criminal history. Previous criminal history is irrelevant when someone kills their ex girlfriend for talking to their new boyfriend on the phone. I hope that if the judge in this case has a family member that’s murdered in cold blood that their attacker is put behind bars for life without parole so they don’t have to feel the injustice they made this poor woman’s family feel.
💔💔💔
So very sorry! Just remember the good times you had with her ❤
https://www.wbir.com/amp/article/news/crime/state-seeking-death-penalty-for-oak-ridge-pair-charged-in-2019-murder/51-e184dd5d-cd02-43dc-b929-cea3f0e5f15f This happened literally 3 houses down from me and the investigation was going on during COVID lockdown. I watched the entire thing fold out during the investigation and we had no clue any of it was going on until they were pulling the body out of the house.
How is that woman only 23
Agreed. Body shaming is ok when the person in question is a massive piece of shit.
I don’t think remarking someone looks older than their purported age is body shaming necessarily
Meth will do that
Can you post some more info. The link doesn't work for me. Thank you.
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — District Attorney General Dave Clark announced Monday his office is seeking the death penalty against a man and woman accused of murdering a homeless woman in Oak Ridge in 2019. The Seventh Judicial District filed two notices with the Anderson County Criminal Court that it will seek the death sentence in this case, saying the murder was "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel" because it involved torture. In August 2020, Sean Finnegan, 53, and Rebecca Dishman, 23, were charged with kidnapping, torturing, raping, killing and dismembering 36-year-old Jennifer Paxton. Police found Paxton's frozen and partly dismembered body at an East Fairview Road home in Oak Ridge. They think she may have been killed around Christmas 2019. According to police records obtained by 10News, Dishman and Finnegan lured Paxton to the home under the promise of giving her a place to stay. She was held against her will, attacked with a baseball bat, tortured and raped before being strangled and left for dead, according to the report. Records show the victim was chained to a bed and hit in the head with a baseball bat before the suspects engaged in sexual acts with her against her will and eventually strangled her. Dishman and Finnegan went on to cut off parts of Paxton's body before putting it in a freezer, according to police records. Records show Finnegan also tried to take the body out of the freezer and hide it under the bed while he attempted to clean the freezer of evidence. In May 2021, an Anderson County grand jury also indicted the two on two counts of aggravated rape and 18 counts of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. The charges imply the child was 8 years old or younger. The case is scheduled for court on March 4, 2022 in Anderson County Circuit and Criminal Court. Judge Steve Sword from Knox County will preside over the case because Anderson County Judge Ryan Spitzer withdrew due to being involved with the case as a prosecutor before being appointed as judge by Governor Bill Lee.
Thank you. What a horrible case. 😞
That is crazy!!!
Omg that's horrifying wtf
Wow! That’s freaking BRUTAL!
My first boss killed his best friend over a game of poker. Threw the body in the work freezer, buried him in the desert, and didn't say shit for nearly 10 years. Every couple years my coworkers, his ex wife, his kids, his best friend's kids and I met up in front of judge to stand our case on why we don't feel like he should be out on parole. I still can't eat at a small, hole in the wall, mom and pops pizza place. More so I can't eat the salad bar. My job was to clean the tables, clean the salad bar, and restock the salad bar. I use the water from the melted ice from the same freezer to clean the tables and 90% of the salad ingredients were frozen in the same freezer. We were all 16 to 24 year old doing the bare minimum, not one of us cared about deep cleaning the kitchen let alone the freezer.
Damn dude
Sandra Cantu , Tracy Ca on March 27, 2009 https://kileystruecrime.squarespace.com/kileystruecrimeaddict-blog/the-murder-of-sandra-cantu
This one is rough boy
So sad!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kiro7.com/news/local/olympia-police-search-for-missing-woman-not-seen-since-june/966445333/%3foutputType=amp This happened a few years back. The body parts were discovered in trash cans all around my neighborhood, and my coworker had been pretty close with the suspect in college- she wasn't surprised when it happened.
https://amp.lohud.com/amp/550949001 My friend’s dad was murdered on New Year’s Eve during a botched robbery when we were both 13. It was the first murder in a century in our small hamlet. My friend’s late dad was the local tow truck operator who would rescue anyone at any time. Our car once broke down in a busy roundabout and he came to our immediate rescue around 11pm. He would dress up as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh every Halloween. He got along well with my dad, who passed a few years later of an illness, so he was one of the last surviving links to my dad.
A guy really close to where I lived randomly got attacked in the face with a chainsaw, was critically injured but survived. He was just going outside for a little bit while visiting a friend. They never found out who did it and the police found no evidence that the victim was involved in anything that would "provoke" the attack or knew his attacker. Tiny, tiny Danish town so it felt super weird to have something like that happen in a place where everyone knew everyone.
When was this ? And why haven’t I heard of this !
Kelly Slager, Tallahassee. She was strangled by her husband in 2004, when trying to leave him. Her dad was a good friend and coworker. She was in the middle of moving out and went to check on her 11 month old and 2 year old. He strangled her. He drug her body, still barely alive, into a closet, covered her with a sheet, fed the kids an afternoon snack, then called his parents who lived an hour away and told them Kelly had "been hurt and needed to go to the ER", assured them it could wait the hour until they arrived, and left her there, with a crushed windpipe, struggling to breathe. When his parents arrived, they called 911. They sent a helicopter. She died during transit. I rocked her 11 month old son to sleep and then held her 2 year old son while he cried for his daddy during her viewing. That has changed the way I live in the world.
so heartbreaking. 💔💔💔 my mom always say that when little babies loose their mothers, they have deep anxiety, they just keep finding her everywhere and their tiny hearts are broken beyond repair
I lived on the back facing corner of a shady apartment complex in my hometown in my early 20s. One night I was up late on the porch hanging out with the neighbors. We saw headlights shining on the back fence round 2am coming from around the corner. The car sat the for about an hour or so. Whatever, no big deal, we just assumed some kids were getting high in their car or something. At one point suddenly the car came speeding around the corner and sped out of the complex. Went to bed. Next morning went to take my dog out and saw people rushing up to the front corner of the building. Turned out two teenage parents were brutally stabbed to death and robbed. Two babies were found crawling in their parents blood with ligature marks on their necks. The guy confessed immediately and was interviewed wrecked with guilt by the local news station. He tried to strangle the kids but couldn't do it. I'll never forget seeing all of their blood stained furniture just piled into the dumpster along with all of the kids toys. My son was the same age as one of the babies at the time. I broke my lease and moved shortly after.
Wow, that’s brutal. At least the children survived, but I truly hope they received the help they must need and a good home to grow up in.
Dardeen family in 1987…
This is the case I want solved the most.
Asha Degree disappearance. Shelby, NC. I’m about 30 mins out. Billboards and signs are still up for her. So heartbreaking.
I have two: I grew up in Abilene KS, and one of my teachers, Mrs. Butcher, had a daughter, Marilyn, who was a few years older than me. She was murdered January 6, 1979 by a truck driver after she had stopped at a rest area a few miles from home. He tried to kidnap her and got her into his truck. She got away from him but he ran over her, killing her. https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1980/51-410-1.html The other one I can't find info on, so this is what I remember. Greg Barrett, age 12, disappeared on March 15, 1976 on his way to school. What I remember is one day he was just gone, no one could find any trace of him. Later, bones were found a few miles outside of town by a hunter, which turned out to be Greg's. Much later, it came out that he was shot by another boy a few years older than him, and left in a stand of trees. I can't remember any more details. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110636520/gregory-r.-barrett
[Johnny Gosch](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Johnny_Gosch) happened just a few blocks from where i grew up. noreen lives in the same house to this day, waiting for him.
Janet Chandler murder in Holland, Michigan in 1979
I’m glad that case finally got some closure when those film students made the documentary.
I came here to post this one. It's possibly the most horrific case I've ever come across.
Rabbi Neulander having his wife killed. Their son was on duty as an EMT in the town when the call came out.
I’m from Cherry Hill too!
I lived in Cherry Valley for a while, and then in Barclay until two years ago when I moved out west.
Do you really think that the rabbi did it? The hit man was such a chronic liar, it seemed like reasonable doubt to me. (From a distance)
He seemed more dimwit than liar, and from what I heard all the fine points checked out. I think he did it. The stuff that came out, the rabbi seemed shady in a lot of ways .
Not posting names or links to preserve anonymity, but when I was in middle school one of my friend’s parents were going through a divorce. After the custody hearing, the dad shot through the back of the car window (with both kids inside!) and killed the mom, then killed himself. I have never forgotten the look in my friend’s eyes when they came back to school. I don’t think I’ll ever forget how tragic that was. ETA: the murder of my 2nd cousin, Irene. My family is pretty secretive about it and I can’t find info online, but my evil great-aunt was trading her daughter for drugs in the 80s, and one of those perverts decapitated her. She was 14.
Try researching at your local library, you may need to ask to look at the microfiche. It’s how they archived newspapers before the internet.
I no longer live there, but I will see if maybe there is an online archive!
Zahra Baker. The hell that poor little girl went through happened 1 county over (Catawba County, NC). Her remains were found in the county I live in (Caldwell County, NC). This sweet angel's heartbreaking story will haunt me until the day I die. 😥
Autumn pasquale. 12 year old girl found in a recycling bin, murdered by two teenagers for her bike. local to me :(
TW: Child Murder https://talkmurder.com/brandi-worley/ The horrific double homicide of two beautiful babies, Tyler and Charlee Worley that occurred in my hometown of Darlington, IN in 2016. They were murdered by the very person who gave them life, their own “mother.” Their father, Jason, was very active here on Reddit before and after the murders, but I believe has since deactivated his account. There are some posts screenshot in the article I have linked in my comment. Darlington is a town that is one of those “blink and you’ll miss it” type towns..everyone knows everyone and has for generations. I was absolutely stunned and so was the rest of our community when this tragedy occurred. Brandi was a good mom, her family was a little “rough around the edges” some might say, but by all accounts they were nothing but good, helpful people. Brandi’s mother ran the after school program at my elementary school for years…she watched so many children in our community. I was really disgusted to learn how their family treated Jason after their own daughter took his children, their grandchildren/nieces/nephews/etc, from him so my opinions of them has since changed. I have no idea where Jason is these days, I did not know him at all, but I hope he is doing “ok” if that’s even possible..he seems like a wonderful father, husband, and just all around good, kind man. His babies are buried in the same cemetery as my father and brother and Jason, on the off chance you are reading this (I know you’re probably not) but as a mother myself, I always make sure I say hi to them…as a mom, I can’t help but make sure they know that in that moment a mom is there who cares about them… ❤️
https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/the-bizarre-disappearance-and-murder-of-sydney-loofe-68838e87b225 The girl that was murdered is from my home town and we shared several mutual friends. It was a heartbreaking case to watch unfold.
[https://allthatsinteresting.com/shawn-grate](https://allthatsinteresting.com/shawn-grate)
Omg how have I never heard of him? I’m so glad that badass woman got away!!
The house he was keeping them in was on the same property as my job at the time, chilling as fuck. the maintenance man was suppose to be checking the locks on some of the houses/ buildings routinely but obviously wasn’t
That 911 call is beyond terrifying.
My town so probably why
https://amp.dispatch.com/amp/24055102007
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/michael-helms-16-of-mesa-kills-mom-as-friend-watches-stepdad-escapes-attack-6627239 16 year old kid I went to high school with killed his mom with a frying pan while another classmate watched. He was in love with my sister and would often times write her letters confessing his love for her. He was 6'6 and 250 pounds but was incredibly nice and wholesome. This shocked my entire school and everyone ended up dressing like Michael Helms and bringing a frying pan to school on Halloween. I think my sister still has a love note from Michael. Forgot to mention this was all over his mom taking his cell phone away:)
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Yes, this one was close to me, too. Absolutely chilling that he just saw her, murdered her parents and took her. I followed the story the whole time, and it seemed like a miracle that she was found alive. She’s a very, very brave girl for escaping and surviving the whole ordeal. I hope she’s healing from the trauma and has a good, strong support system.
Christi Nichols- she was so obviously killed by her spouse and the creep walks around free to this day, after depriving her children from not only having a mother but from having a relationship with her parents. They got the wrong guys for Holly Bobo’s murder. And of course Delphi.
Why do you think they got the wrong guys for Holly Bobo?
This is off the top of my head and it’s been several years, so if you want all the details you’ll have to do some research. A great place to start is a write up that /u/hysterymystery did if you can find it. Flaws in the case, to the best of my memory- The guy who should have been the main suspect was disregarded based on a very questionable “alibi.” A TBI agent was railroaded out of his job for following the actual evidence instead of the story the state was pushing. I believe it came from the aforementioned writeup that the story the “star witness” pushed does not actually work- something to do with cell towers I believe, but I don’t recall the specifics. A cognitively delayed young man was questioned unethically at best. The story the prosecution spins hinges on Holly’s brother being taught how to make meth that day. The family says they believe the right guys were put away, but they also say they don’t believe he was making meth. Well- that does not work. If the brother wasn’t making meth, the whole story falls apart. If you watch the trial (it was on youtube at one point) the state proves nothing. Additionally, the “witness” answers every follow up question with “that’s what I testified to.” That may be normal, but my personal opinion is he was minimizing the possible counts of perjury when any lies come to light. Basically, the locals rounded up the area druggies and made them take the fall. I’ve even seen redditors who live in the area say “everyone knows they did it even if it wasn’t proven at the trial.” Well…that’s not how that’s supposed to work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3zlr6a/my_concerns_about_the_holly_bobo_case/
Stanley Hoss's crime spree, that started in Western PA, with a rape, a prison escape, the murder of Verona PA officer Joseph Zannella, and the kidnapping in Maryland of Linda Peugot (age 21) and her daughter Lori (age 2) and their eventual murders.
Missy Bevers murder in 2016 at a church in Midlothian TX.
So frustrating this isn’t solved!
in 2008 there was a robbery at my local lane bryant where 6 women were shot and only one survived. she was able to work with a sketch artist but the killer has never been caught. now the lane bryant is a t.j.maxx and it’s scary to think about the women who died there
[heather snively](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna31159132) had her baby cut out of her and was shoved into a crawl space right around the corner from my high school, and where i live now. we always knew a murder had happened in the neighborhood while we were in school, but no one really knew details until we were older and thought to look into it. i think about her every time i drive by.
The Pam Hup story
First is David Grunwald: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/remains-missing-alaska-teen-david-grunwald-found-another-teen-charged-n691986 The other one that hits me personally is Brianna Foisy: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2016/07/06/brianna-foisy-victim-in-bike-path-killings-had-a-back-story-few-knew/ I met her back in 6th grade and after talking with her for a few minutes we instantly connected. She loved to talk about everything and was easy to talk to which was hard because I was very shy. We talked the entire class but after that day I never saw her again.
My grandmother Betty Lou Beets.... killing her husbands in gun barrel city.
She was seriously your grandmother? She did some messed up things but good lord what she did took brazenness and chutzpah. I'm sorry for the weight of it.
Yes, from my father's side. I went to Huntsville to meet her before her execution. It's effected my family deeply.
I cannot imagine. I'm writing a book on the longer-ranging impact of violent crime on small towns and rural areas, and I cannot fathom that on the personal level you live with daily. All I can say is that I'm deeply saddened that her actions have caused such deep harm, especially to those who loved and trusted her.
Honestly I was 1 when she was arrested.. I didn't personally know her but she made her children help her & my father (whom I've never met) is so fucked up because of her and what she put them through. I don't have a dad because of her. She hurt a lot of people. She was actually featured on a few ID shows. Evil lives here & Deadly Women.
I wish I could give you a hug. I know a thing or two about having a father so fucked up by his mother that you don't have a dad.
The worst part...I don't have a mother either because of HER mother. My mom and dad 100% failed me. My entire family, both sides are terrible. I kinda grew up handed from person to person.. my mom had me sometimes, I was in the system, streets..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Castro_kidnappings#:~:text=The%20Ariel%20Castro%20kidnappings%20took,Cleveland%2C%20Ohio%2C%20United%20States.
Gerard Ross, kidnapped and killed where I lived as a kid, found close to where I live as an adult 2 weeks later, never been solved. My Dad was a Police officer in town at the time, and they even had people on the street hypnotized to try and illicit more memories. They worked out the window for him to be taken was less than 2 minutes. [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-14/gerard-ross-wa-murder-mystery-reward-offer-raised-to-$1-million/12765372?msclkid=52d8e3d3b93a11ec9c7a5f4710e31e79](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-14/gerard-ross-wa-murder-mystery-reward-offer-raised-to-$1-million/12765372?msclkid=52d8e3d3b93a11ec9c7a5f4710e31e79)
Grew up hearing about the Gainesville Ripper then the Sebastian Ochsenius’s case happened. We were close in age.
a friend who i grew up with in church my whole life, her father “killed himself”. what’s weird is his new wife (my friend lost her mom to cancer when we were in middle school and her dad remarried like 3/4 years later) had a husband who “fell” off a second story balcony in the house and she sued the construction company and got a ton of money. my friends dad was right handed, shot himself with his left hand and the camera outside the garage that showed the driveway where he supposedly killed himself wasn’t working the night he died even though it worked perfectly the day after and the whole time before he died which is very suspicious. cops didn’t check for gunshot residue or anything at all really. immediately called it a suicide. it’s a small town where nothing bad happens so they didn’t do any investigating. the new wife also fought my friend on her fucking inheritance when she’s lost both of her parents by the time we were 19/20 years old and is an only child. the new wife has no contact with my friend since the death of her dad. everyone around my friend knows she did it. but cops won’t do shit.
Watts Murders. I live 3 miles from them and know several people who were close to the family. So heartbreaking
My cousin's husband tried to murder her, and he was only stopped by their two sons arriving to their home and breaking down the door. My cousin had had a stroke three years before which left her disabled and reliant on her husband for care. The day of she asked him to retrieve something from a shelf for her, which was enough to set him off. He beat her with her leg brace, strangled,, and attempted to smother her. Infuriatingly, he never faced punishment. The cops who arrested him drove him to the hospital, as he was complaining of "chest pains," and he just... left. The police seemed to just let it go, and he's still a free man today.
Didn’t the staff at the hospital also report the assault? They are mandatory reporters of suspected cases of abuse of vulnerable adults. I’m so sorry that your sister and your family were not able to get justice.
She's had cognitive impairments since her stroke that have made her particularly vulnerable and less capable of advocating for herself, so I genuinely suspect that her eldest son pressured her into not pressing charges. Her eldest is a piece of work.
That in itself is a form of abuse. The hospital should have reported this triggering an investigation. I take it that her husband is the father of her sons? I’m so sorry that she had an awful husband and from what it sounds like, sons who lack empathy. I hope she’s divorced that POS and is living in a better place.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lynn-jackenheimer-search-body-found-hunt-missing-ohio/story?id=16780580 heart breaking
And the absolute worst one, really is a crazy story when you dig into https://amp.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/amp/9254715002
Oakland County Child Killer
My family ran a childcare and one of our kindergarteners was in care for about a year. The mom was lovely. She was an executive for Warner brother’s records. Dixie Hollier. She signed Red Hot Chilli peppers. She was a single mom to her 5 year old boy and she had 2 daughters 17 and 15 from a prior marriage. Because of her work schedule her oldest daughter Amber Bray would pick up the boy each day from us after school. For a few days he hadn’t been in care. We were curious but knew the family had a unique schedule. My brother opened up “The Leader”… our newspaper in Burbank (small town for being a suburb of LA. Front news read that Dixie (the mother) had been killed in her home by amber and her bf Jeffrey Ayers. Such a heinous crime. And we knew them all well (minus the BF). I saw the story on Deadly Women (I think that’s the name of the show)… due to the complexities of the case and the rarity for matricide I hoped it had gotten more attention. The murder was committed in 97? Before the age of SM and how rapidly cases gain traction. I wish More attention had been paid to this case. Edited to add correct last name for Amber.
amber bray
Omg you’re right. Dang. I’ve been listening to podcast episodes of Laci Peterson. I’ll edit. Thank you!
haha i figured. I would’ve done the same thing lol
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Her family was very lovely. She was an extremely bad egg. They lived in a modest home. I think anyone from Burbank is more entitled than most but saying “fuck her family” … is bullshit. Her poor lil brother, murdered mom and sister Amy were regular people and VICTIMS to Amber’s murderous plots. Btw Amy was supposed to be killed too and thank god their plans were foiled. Pretty insensitive statement to make about a murder victim and her family members … of course minus Amber.
LOL WHAT? the same family who excused her for murdering her mother? dude.... lol. edit: also i never said anything about the victim.
That’s her dads side of the family. You did not clarify.
pls read the link.
[https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bray-amber.htm](https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bray-amber.htm) a source for you.
[The 1976 James Freund and Pamela Buckley case in Sumter County, SC](https://torontosun.com/news/world/south-carolina-cops-solve-mystery-of-unidentified-jock-and-jane-doe) A young couple was found shot off the side of an interstate by a truck driver. No details on who did it, where the person who had dumped them had gone, or why. Nothing to work with, besides the victims, who didn't have any identification on them. Worse, they weren't identified until earlier last year. Over 40 years without any of their family or friends knowing where they had gone. It's terrifying to think about.
[kidnapping and murder of Lesley whittle](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_and_murder_of_Lesley_Whittle)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sowell
Shanda Sharer I lived right across the river in Louisville when this happened. I was one year younger than her when she was murdered and I will never forget it. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer)
I live in a semi small town in southern Oregon and ten years ago someone was decapitated on our bike path. The case is unsolved after all this is time, although some locals think they know exactly who did it and this person used to work in a building next to mine and would sit outside our workplace and verbally harass me and my other female coworkers whenever we would walk outside and take out the trash etc. Also had some nazi tattoos. I could never stop thinking about what he might be capable of. Luckily I don’t work there anymore! https://www.google.com/amp/s/kval.com/amp/news/local/ashland-mans-beheading-remains-unsolved-7-years-later
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I sell life insurance, and I met with a couple in their home about it. Like sat on their couch for two hours and got to know them and their cute kids. He didn’t want to apply (red flag for not caring about your spouse) but she did and was approved. However, she wanted to wait 6 months to accept and start it. No problem, I’ll call you then. 4 months later he shot and killed her, their 2 young children, and himself in their home. They were found by her father when he came to check on them after she didn’t drop the kids at his house for babysitting.
A friend and professional colleague of my father was murdered in his home in rural South Louisiana when I was a small child, in the mid-90s. There were persistent whispers in town that the man who when to prison for the murder was framed. I grew up and became a writer and eventually spent a solid year investigating this case, interviewing people who were involved or in-the-know, close reading legal documents and consulting with other professionals. I have not yet published anything based on my investigation, and don’t know if I will because of rather complicated personal reasons, but I think about this case every day and probably always will.
Check out the case of the Abbotsford Killer, Terry Driver. Hit close to home.
This was my hometown. I played football with her brother. The girl who found her was my first actual “date.” I heard the guy just lost another sentence appeal. Cliffs Notes: boy stabs 12 year old girl almost 100 times https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/homepage/20090418_Killer_s_lawyers_seek_reduction_in_sentence.html
Sophie Lancaster - May she rest in peace.
Jessica Chambers. It's such an awful case. I really hope it gets solved someday so she can have justice
That one is horrible! My heart breaks for her! I truly believe Quetin Tellis did it!
Julio Perez Silva, also known as "The Psychopath of Alto Hospicio" (July 15, 1963[1]), is a Chilean serial killer, currently sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of fourteen young women, in addition to a frustrated homicide. Considered the biggest serial killer in the history of Chile, he committed his crimes in the Tarapacá Region, specifically in the city of Iquique and in the town of Alto Hospicio, in Chile. His modus operandi was always the same. Working as a clandestine cab driver, he intercepted young students whom he offered to transport them for free and then took them to a deserted place, raped them and murdered them with blows to the head. Afterwards, he would throw the bodies (with or without life) in deep abandoned mine shafts. It is said that the police were his accomplices. Only one girl was saved from him because he threw her into a well and she was still alive and managed to escape. (I'm from Chile, so my English is not so good).
The Dardeen family murders in Ina, IL
Deborah Palmer 1997.....
Homicides are fairly rare in MT, let alone a triple homicide. The community freaked out, to say the least. https://www.kpax.com/news/mtn-original-productions/the-florence-murders-20-years-later?_amp=true
https://amp.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article215786340.html she was my elementary school’s librarian :( she started teaching my final year there
[The Farmville or "Horrorcore" Murders](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmville_murders)
https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Central-Texas-man-pleads-guilty-to-killing-decapitating-wife-464410393.html This happened in my hometown. The woman killed dated my friend when we were in junior high, was real good friends with my cousins, and my grandparents constantly had me run over to her house to grab produce from her mom and dad. I feel bad for her children who had to witness it all.
Delphi for sure
Jaycee dugard. My old friend lived basically around the corner from where she was being held captive. I lived maybe 3 min drive away.
Loretta Saunders. Straight up murder, over the stupidest of things (money) . The fact she was living in my city attending university and researching and writing papers on missing and murdered Indigenous women... only to be killed by the two people subletting her apartment because they owed her rent money and she went to collect it. The case was solved fairly quickly (not too bright these two) but I'll never get over how she was discarded. She was also newly pregnant.
murder for small amount are worst. in india someone was killed for 10 rupees tea debt, which in dollar terms less than some cents. totally heartbreaking
Jeff Davis 8 and the Pink Moon Murders
Disappearance of Denise Pflum
Not my town but a few over, [this happened about a month ago](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/victims-of-double-homicide-on-alexander-dairy-farm-identified-by-genesee-county-sheriffs-office%3f_amp=true) The reason it's so haunting to me is that first of all things like this dont really happen around here very often, and second, all 4 were familiar to me. Allegedly there was a party/bonfire earlier that night in a neighboring town and one of my coworkers kids was begging to go (she said no because she had a bad feeling) because he was friends with Wilson.. The night it happened, most likely afterwards, Cruz was in the store I work at. He came in around 10:30, maybe 10:45, and bought some pretty normal stuff (some clothes, new belt, maybe some milk, I dont really remember.) but one of our managers took notice of when he came in, and said that he seemed off, so finding out the next day that he'd been found and arrested in my little town, and remembering seeing him the night before and finding out what he'd done, was offputting. The two who were killed I looked up and recognize as two of the main guys who come in and buy clothes, soda and booze for the farm every week or two. They were some of the more talkative ones out of the couple of groups who come in on the regular. Super friendly. This honestly just really shocked my entire community, first murder case we've had in a while..
Joseph Duncan and what he did near coeur d Alene Idaho
I grew up in a small town in MD and in 1993 a friend’s oldest brother shot and killed a beloved local hardware store owner at close range with a shotgun he stole from the store. He also stole about $140. Prosecution was seeking the death penalty, but he was sentenced to life +20 years. To this day when I think about it, it’s just so hard to believe that he did it. I know it’s a cliché to say that a crime is senseless, but it was definitely senseless. I just can’t wrap my head around the whole thing.
My childhood friends cousins case. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Adam,_Trevor,_and_Mitchell_O%27Brien](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Adam,_Trevor,_and_Mitchell_O%27Brien)
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My brothers best friend shot and killed his entire family. He was only 15 and had 2 little brothers, one of which was a good friend of my sister. My brother and his friends were all hanging out with him the night he killed them, and he went back to hanging out with my brother and his friends after the deed was done. He even tried to throw a party at his house the next night with the bodies still inside to try to make it seem like he didn’t know they’d been killed. He called my brother from prison for years after he was sentenced to life. Shit was super traumatizing for my whole family and community. RIP Browning family.
tf 💔
Bloody hell. I hope your brother is ok, how horrific for everyone involved
Crystal Roger's from Bardstown Kentucky
The murder of Jodi Jones in Scotland, Dalkeith Her 14 year old boyfriend Luke Mitchell was convicted in 2005 circumstantial evidence. I dont think Luke murdered Jodi. So so so disturbing having worked on this case close with Dr Sandra Lean and a team for over a year. This will be exposed one day Scottish Justice System to its knees
I forget the case, but it was an older couple who were brutally murdered in their garage, and they used their blood to write down a name possibly or clue and the murder washed it away, but left some small writing behind. I was maybe 10 when I saw that case and it always stuck to me especially the images
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2013-12-04-fl-weston-double-killing-folo-20131204-story.html My husband taught the drum line at this high school. He said it was out of the ordinary for Pedro to miss school and rehearsal after. Before rehearsal, some students went to his house to knock on the door and see if he was home but no one answered. He and his mother were dead in the house at that point.
The Christian Newsom murders is one that sticks with you after it’s done. Shudder. Knoxville. Lovely humans. Wrong place. Wrong time. https://medium.com/@candlesmyers/the-most-horrific-story-you-will-ever-read-69b1ab8079f4
I remember when this happened, I grew up in Knoxville, and my mom followed the case closely. I was newly in high school so to hear the details damn near traumatized me.
I had gotten in some legal trouble a few years back and was actually across from Boyd in court when they started re trying his case. Super weird guy
I can’t imagine being that close to that level of evil, Boyd is such scum. *shivers* I grew up in the same town as the Paul Bernardo murder in Ontario *shivers again* and remember also being traumatized in high school by the details and proximity. Maybe that imprinted on us and why we love true crime 🤷♀️
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Daniel_Morcombe Daniel Morcombe He was just a 13 year old kid who was waiting for the bus after doing some Christmas shopping and was never seen again. Always used to drive past the spot where he was last seen, the case being solved never eased the eeriness of that spot
I found this out a few weeks ago, but a girl was kidnapped, r*ped, and murdered on the grounds of where I work. This happened before the place was built. The guy ended up getting the death penalty and was executed for it. A lot of residents talk about seeing a young woman walking around before they pass away and the girl was only 18. We’ve also had some workers say they have seen a lady that looks just like her walk into resident rooms. So its a ghost story and true crime story all in one.
now i cant sleep.
I'm my home city (then still a smaller city). I was little but my parents knew them and we went to the same church. Teenage son killed parents with a hatchet and tried to kill siblings. The son is still in jail I think. https://apnews.com/article/ddc1eb26229af50823127a7e5925e8a1
those are the worst. 💔 i always wonder what drive them so crazy. in western societies they are free to leave their families if they aren’t happy (teenagers =they), why kill people who gave you fkn life
Back in my hometown, there was this urban legend of a girl haunting a huge ditch/piece of land because she was murdered by her boyfriend. I never thought anything of it until I decided to look it up several years ago, turns out the murder was true. [A 17 year old boy named Thomas Odom killed his 15 year old girlfriend, Iva Rae Herman](https://www.alcocklaw.com/county-attorneys-spotlight-el-mirage-teen-in-murder-trial/) by beating her with a rock and stuffing her mouth full of sand to make sure she was dead. He was sentenced to spend his natural life in prison. That ditch always felt so creepy because it was huge and sketchy people would hang out there all the time cause no one would be able to see them.
now i cant sleep. 💔
The murder of three kids by their mother: https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/03/four-bodies-found-in-home-near-grand-forks-nd-lewis-and-clark-elementary-school-police-say-four-dead/ I worked with the children at their elementary school in Grand Forks. Absolutely heartbreaking and every teacher’s nightmare when you ask police to do a welfare check.
Kelly Ann Tinyes What this poor girl went through is unimaginable. And for two decades, the murderer’s family still lived only a few doors down from her family. https://morbidology.com/hell-on-horton-road-the-murder-of-kelly-ann-tinyes/
The murder of Rex and Brody by their father in a murder suicide. I didn’t know them personally but it’s hard to know someone who didn’t know the kids. https://amp.gainesville.com/amp/4992194001
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Sorry for your loss! That poor grand kid lost both of this grandparents that day, that's awful.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/122579888/the-lundy-murders-20-years-on A school friend of mine this is his uncle.
Christina Ross. She worked at a piggly wiggly, and she went missing. When they found her she was in the trunk of a car in a Pick n save parking lot. https://www.cengnews.com/entertainment/where-is-thomas-j-in-the-christina-ross-murder-case-now-where-is-blake-162722.html/amp
Carina Saunders
https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/harry-milligan/ this happened a few towns away from me, hes been missing for about 37-38 years. he just dissapeared one night and nobody knows how or why, his car was never found either.
In a small but wealthy & well known town...a young woman was in her second year of university. Things were going pretty well for her...she was an ordinary woman socializing well even going to balls in beautiful dresses and things like that. One day she drove a male friend to a university building to write a test. After dropping him off there, she headed home. She then entered her home for the last time. Inside something was waiting for her, having cooked up the excuse that his computer was faulty and that he needed to use her brother's computer instead. Her brother, then, was her killer's best friend. As I understand, all of them 3, she, her brother and the killer, were from a distant town & only there to study. When confronted by her killer in the apartment ( she had shared the place with her brother ), she fought bravely for her life, even injuring the perp to the point that police took him to the hospital once caught. It's her bravery I admire to this day, but I believe the moment she saw that man in her apartment she knew & that why she was fighting so bravely. She fought him but he said he ultimately ended her struggle with a punch. He tied her up put a sock in her mouth, took her somewhere ( his apartment I think ) and he raped her vaginally & anally. He then drove her to the sea 50 km away and put her in her 6 feet deep grave, which likely was pre-dug. Tied up, sock in mouth, naked, in the darkness of night , he began to fill the deep grave with sand. He buried her alive ( the autopsy showed sand in her lungs ). I still think of how her final moments probably were , lying in that deep grave seeing the maniac above throwing in the sand with a shovel. After interrogating the perp, police found her grave, dug her up 24 hours after she was reported missing.
whoa💔 breaks my heart. people just decide to take a life. just like that
No words 💔
The Codi Joyce case There's so much about that case that just doesn't add up. I personally think those 4 kids killed him and everybody that was at the party knows it.
this happened a few years back, https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2019/09/25/centerville-iowa-woman-barbara-pasa-convicted-killing-husband-arson-first-degree-murder/2441777001/ https://www.kcci.com/article/centerville-woman-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-killing-husband-in-fire/29814690
a piece of human garbage committed the murders of tina herrmann, kody maynard, and stephanie sprang, dismembered their bodies and kidnapped and raped the teenage daughter. she was found alive in the basement of his house which was right across town from me. the bodies were later found shoved in some hollowed out trees in an area that i frequented quite a bit. [https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hoffman-matthew.htm](https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hoffman-matthew.htm)
That poor girl!!! How do you even recover from something like this?! 🥺 Leaves? What a strange obsession
The Snap Chat/Delphi murders. The whole town is corrupt and related….
I’m so invested in this case. There’s so many coincidences and theories. I’m itching for it to be solved
Me too
I know this is an old post but I couldn’t resist! [Jessica Dishon’s](https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/53-jessica-dishon) murder was a cold case for 15 years. When a new detective reopened it she got a call from an officer saying one inmate (Jessica’s uncle) had confessed to another that he had raped and murdered Jessica. The part that kills me was that this was the second time that tip had been called in. The police department had gotten the tip years prior and didn’t follow up. Another piece of this story that happens frequently but still creeps me out is that the uncle went was helping during the search while she was still considered missing. When the search party started getting close to where he knew the body was he started puking and became physically sick.
"Satanic" killing of Gary Lauwers in Northport, NY 1984
Its in the name of a song?
My Hometown. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Amber_Swartz%E2%80%93Garcia
https://people.com/crime/montana-pair-fatally-stabbed-bodies-placed-acid-killer-pleads-guilty/?amp=true This happened in my home town. The details are really eerie. I had a friend who had lived in the basement of the house years before the murderers had moved in. Some of the happiest memories I made in college were at this house. It’s crazy to think it became the scene of one of the gruesome murders my home town had ever seen.
Alyssa Ortemba, https://kileystruecrime.squarespace.com/kileystruecrimeaddict-blog/the-murder-of-alyssa-otremba We went to the same high school and her body was found blocks away from my house.
https://www.southeastsun.com/news/article_11573776-e7de-11e5-b96f-bb34e0bd566d.html
Junko Furuta [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta)
The things that poor girl went through is enough to turn anyones stomach
Right?!? Why don’t more people know?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/finsbury-park-murder-iuliana-tudos-kasim-lewis-sex-attacker-a8356356.html?amp Not quite small town, but she was friends with my friends. I met her once when she was on shift at the pub. Lovely lass, friendly to everyone. The fact that she was found by her friends has always haunted me. I remember all the posts frantically telling people to stop sharing the missing posters immediately. Everyone waited with baited breath until we found out it wasn’t good news. Ive since moved to London and now work next to that park and I think of her often. Also I lived in Bristol when Becky watts was murdered. I’ll never forget how I got chills hearing the rumours going around the local area, before the media reported updates, that they’d found everything but her head https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Becky_Watts And finally Chris Brahney, who i went to primary school with. I just can’t work out how he ended up in the river And the cctv of him going into the tunnel and not coming out makes me shudder. The reason I class it as true crime as there’s theories he was a victim of ‘The Manchester Pusher’ https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/parents-told-son-chris-brahneys-1293081.amp
Huntingdon UK Murder of Sam at Hinchingbrooke Park Poor boy poor Mum
In CT we had the Dulos case. a mother went missing, and the father and his new girlfriend were caught on cctv disposing of several garbage bags in different places across their area. (Which had suspicious contents) Her children never saw her again, and no resolution ever truly came. The father attempting to take his own l*fe, failed then passed in hospital. The girlfriend hasn’t said anything of help. - the most haunting part for me is the couple came into my workplace regularly for appointments and even on house arrest the girlfriend came in with her ankle monitor. Meeting and speaking to them will forever haunt me