kindly proceed with caution.
Recently Reddit user7deadlycinderellaasked, “What was thecrimethat rocked the community you grew up in?”
Unfortunately folks had many stories to tell, which seemed to scar them for life.
like proceed with caution.
“A kid murdered his own brother in my town years ago.
Police found the knife buried in the backyard.
They still pay to put up billboards around the town looking for ‘help’ finding their sons killer.
The brother who did the killing is now out of prison (it’s depressing).”
u/Lets_be_stoned
2.
Something that looked like anextremelywell-guarded construction site."
“There were a lot of uniformed cops at this house.
This was the afternoon when the search and methodical deconstruction ofJohn WayneGacy’s house began.
Over the course of the next eight days, investigators would recover the remains of 29 bodies.”
u/RightHandWolf
3.
He killed them in a city park next to his house and covered the bodies in leaves.
He acted like he was helping the police when they started looking for the kids.
The thing is the murders were brutal (and I mean incredibly brutal).
Apparently, he just ‘flipped out’ and attacked these kids with incredible ferocity."
u/Automan2k
4.
“My moms murder in Ohio back in the ’70s nothing like that ever happened in our town.
The paramedics stood over her naked body as she bled out.
The sightseers started driving by that day and didnt stop for a long time.
He got extra time, and served until he was 21.”
Gratefully there was very little news reported (even though there were plenty of news people there).
He was actually younger than the kid (his older sister had him later).
u/Mussing_Rose
5.
He was able to collect for over five years before a repairman discovered the bodies."
u/TooManyIssuestoList
6.
“The Harvey Family murders on New Year’s Day, 2006.
I’ve lived in Richmond most of my life, and I spent my entire childhood and adolescence here.
That brutal murder rocked the city to its core stuff like that just didn’t happen here.
Were we the murder capital of the US in the ’90s?
u/BrilliantWeight
7.
“A crime so heinous that Pizza Hut blacklisted my town for nearly 12 years.
The four people originally arrested back in 2006 were convicted of the double murder in 2022.”
u/TheLightningCount1
8.
“A cardiologist in our town beat his wife with a baseball bat in their second-floor bedroom.
He dropped her head-first from the window to the ground so their kids wouldn’t see it.
He had a good lawyer he was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years.
That was in the mid-’80s, so he’s been out of prison for a long time.”
u/kd3906
9. u/cowboyshouse
10.
“I live in a small town that’s never really had any big controversies or crimes happen.
He’s now serving a 60-year prison sentence there were 146 counts of sexual abuse.
u/ContractSweaty802
11.
The two adults escaped while all four children drowned he was convicted of murder.
There was a Netflix documentary about it.
u/baconandpotates
12.
“A friend and co-captain of the soccer team brutally murdered his parents.
He stabbed his dad over 20 times and chased his mom around the neighborhood.
When he caught her, he bludgeoned her to death with a splitting maul.
His mom was a teacher at our high school I had her for English.”
u/JohnnyBrillcream
13.
“I knew the youngest victim of the Hillside Strangler crime.
She was missing for a week before her body was found (along with her friend’s).
They were found on the day that we were supposed to appear in a ballet recital together.
u/1oneYLVA
14.
The mother and older two kids were murdered, and the killer left the toddler alive.
She was left alone for days.
They redo a DNA test and find he’s guilty, and is now rotting in a military prison.
u/bruisevwillis
15.
“My community is primarily an elderly population (over 60% of residents are considered senior citizens).
One of my dad’s patients was trading his pain meds for harder drugs.
This (along with other things) caused an investigation into my dad’s practice.
The investigation took two years, and during that time he didn’t practice.
This left a majority of our community without a doctor to treat them.
He decided to stop treating them.”
u/ashton8177
16.
The perpetrator was charged with involuntary manslaughter the community has gone to shit since then.”
u/Burggs_
17.
“I worked at a farmers market I came in one morning to a very somber mood.
Some people were crying one vendors stall was just gone.
Turns out one of the most beloved farmers we had was murdered.
This guy was young he had a wife and two kids under 10 years old.”
“But there is a small bright side to this: The community RALLIED around this family.
The GoFundMe for his funeral got five times the asked-for amount on the first day it opened.
Everyone made damn sure that his family would be taken care of.”
He ended up coming in with a gun and shooting most of his coworkers one night.
It definitely caused a lot of pain and shook the whole community.”
u/No-Feedback-6697
Note: Some stories have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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