“We lived just ‘round the corner from them when they committed their last murder!”
Unsurprisingly, people did NOT hold back and had plenty to tell us.
Here’s what they said:
Warning: Graphic and disturbing content ahead including stories of murder.
1.Jefferson, Wisconsin “A teacher’s asst.
at my local high school hired her students to kill her husband.
The woman’s name isDiane Borchardt.
Unfortunately, the students (all boys) went through with the murder.
It’s quite the story.
Lifetime even made a movie about it calledSeduced by Madness.”
The incident ultimately ruined the company, and the whole chain went bankrupt the next year.
There is only one restaurant left in the world, inVienna, Austria."
They lived there for several years.
5.Brampton, Ontario “My friend Eric was murdered by a classmate namedJustin Morton.
This happened in my hometown of Brampton in 2003.
This was such a shocking murder that for years, no one could really speak about it.
Justin strangled Eric in the backwoods of our school, while everyone was in class.
No one truly knows why Justin did this to Eric, and I dont think we ever will.”
She ended up murdering a few of her tenants so you can collect their social security checks for herself.
She was convicted in ‘93, and her notoriety is still well known to this day."
8.Sugar Land, Texas “Shaqhas (had?)
a house in my hometown, Sugar Land.
Back in2004, their housekeeper was stabbed to death by her son in the kitchen.
The police found the son wandering around the neighborhood covered in blood.
Shaq and his daughter were not home when it happened.”
There were so many rumors and theories about what happened, but nothing was ever verified.
To this very day, no one knows what happened to Jake.
The scary part is that the woods where he disappeared is beside my house."
She convinced him to strangle her grandmother to death.
They also held her little sister hostage and had her tied up while they did drugs and had sex.
After a few days of doing so, they eventually passed out.
They then called Saugerties police who checked things out.
They found Wendy and James passed out in the basement and the grandmother’s body in the trunk.
Wendy got seven years to life, and he got nine years to life.
As far as I know, they’re both out now."
Our house was two doors down from theirs, and they seemed like a normal family.
After some investigating, the police arrested him for the murder, but thats not the shocking part.
In 2010, Matt was convicted of murder.
He is currently serving 65 years in the Texas Department of Corrections."
12.Fort Collins, Colorado “The murder case ofPeggy Hettrick.
His bedroom overlooked where Hettrick’s body was found.
Cassie’s remains were found in the woods, scattered about, months later.”
14.Holden, Alberta “I grew up on a family farm near Holden.
A few years after I left home, one of the neighboring farmers had disappeared without a trace.
15.South Salem, New York “I’m from South Salem whereRobert Durstlived with his first wife.
She disappeared and was almost certainly murdered by him.
His house was a short walk from mine.
I remember one time seeing police divers in Truesdale Lake.
The news later reported the divers were actually looking for the missing wifes remains.”
Well, it turns out that they all had a man calledFred Westwork there.
17.Ketchikan, Alaska “Ketchikan is a busy port for cruise ships.
One summer in the ’80s, a man bludgeoned a woman to death in their cruise ship suite.
So, there were a lot of questions about which area had jurisdiction to prosecute the crime.
Her boyfriend broke apart the concrete, which revealed two dead bodies.
The kicker here is that Lock preached the word of God while running a crime ring.
It made national news and marked when people first started learning to be wary of who they met online.
On day one, he announced to everyone that he had the world’s highest IQ.
He was so obnoxious I don’t think he ever had a friend.
He was an OK student but no genius.
I think I gave him a B.”
21.Colebrook, New Hampshire “I grew up in Colebrook.
Two significant things happened in our town.
Police noticed him, and a shootout ensued, and he was killed.
This man was on the FBI top 10 most wanted list.
In 1997, a man (Carl Drega) killed four people in a shooting spree.
He killed two state troopers, the newspaper editor, and our local judge.
But, not as many people know that we had aChuck E. Cheese massacrefrom 1993.
The mental image of finding dead teenagers amidst the artificial lights and noises freaked me out.
I was 9 when it happened and never went to any Chuck E. Cheese again.”
23.Finally, Port Salerno, Florida “I was friends with the mother of the Salerno Strangler.
I actually stayed the night at their house a few times with my ex-boyfriend while I was homeless.”
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
