“My dad is one of the detectives who caught BTK.
Here are their bone-chilling tales.
Warning: Disturbing content ahead, including mentions of sexual assault and murder.
He truly believed that he had the Zodiac Killer for a patient.
Shortly after that, petty acts of vandalism began to occur around our house.
His dad has always been the top suspect, but they never convicted anyone of the murder.
I spent years side-eyeing that man.
One January, the most famous serial killer from my state suddenly resurfaced.
And how did he do it?
He mailed my neighbor’s mom’s driver’s license to our local newspaper.
IF she had accepted…my friend probably wouldn’t even exist.
I was speechless.”
4.Camille Cleroux (serial killer): “I lived a few floors below Camille Cleroux.
She was such a nice woman.
Two days later, our entire building was taped off and surrounded.
His ex-wife and ex-girlfriend were his other victims.
The story is awful and hard to believe.
He died in prison a couple of years ago.
You know what they say about karma.”
He has since been released from prison."
Turns out my stepsister was friends with Paul, the son who was killed.
He was at her birthday party just a few months before.
Apparently, the FBI even called their circle of friends asking questions about Alex."
Recently, an older man (Ill call him Eric) came in and was talking about his son.
We found out recently that my grandparents bought their house in Tacoma, Washington, from Teds great-uncle Jack.
Im still creeped out by it."
Around the time Leanne Tiernan went missing, he attended a parents evening with my friend’s mother.
I don’t remember much, but my mom thought he was a creep."
My parents and I slept in the living room with a baseball bat until he was caught.
My dads best client lived a few doors down from another one of the victims, too.
13.Drew Peterson (killer): “I lived 10 minutes away from Drew Peterson.
Wed see him at McDonalds, Best Buy, etc., in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
They really liked each other.
He suddenly disappeared from her life.
She found out years later he was a victim of John Wayne Gacy.”
My daughter babysat for a neighbor who lived three houses down from him.
My two sons and my daughter used to ride their bikes by his house every day.
16.Jennifer Cave (murder victim): “I knew Jennifer.
When I lived in Austin, we had sociology together at Austin Community College.
Everyone always says of those who died tragically, ‘He/she was such a good person.’
With Jennifer, it was true.
She hated having to look through the love letters they received.”
He was not his lawyer at the time I worked for him.
But when I read an article that mentioned my old boss as his parole defense, my jaw dropped.
He was always an advocate for people and their rights, which made sense.
Some of his clients were guilty of minor or accidental crimes.
Some were convicted felons who he felt deserved more access to treatment and their families, etc.
I understood his stance.
I’m glad not to have taken part in that defense."
This was before the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, when it was in the planning stages.
It was also before Russell Little and Joseph Remiro killed the Oakland school district superintendent, Marcus Foster.
My mother dated Russell for a while, and another member, Willie Wolfe, was our babysitter.
He was always very kind to us, and he was good at entertaining the kids.
He even grew vegetables in our yard.
They were dating/engaged while he was on trial and while I was taking her class.
When I came back for eighth grade, her name was Mrs. Watson.
She used to be around all the time.
When news broke that she was being charged with killing her baby, I knew it was false.
She was scared for me, a baby, left in the car.
She went home and told my dad about him.
Months later, he was arrested and she recognized him.
My mom and the woman were talking and hit it off.
Turned out it was Andrea Yates, and a month later she drowned her five kids.
Still gives me chills."
24.Kelley Henderson Howard (missing person): “My cousin was working for a dental office.
They were closed during lunch.
She was there and was on the phone with her mother.
Someone had knocked on the door.
She put the phone down and never returned; her purse and car were still there.
Her boss was later indicted for fraud and embezzlement charges.
She has never been found.
Her boss was released and opened a church in the same building as the dental office.
He died in jail.
Still do not know where my cousin is, if she is dead or alive.
Her name is Kelley Henderson Howard from Anniston, Alabama.
She went missing in Pell City, Alabama.”
My mom and sister lived right next door to each other.
One day, my mom called out to me from the front porch and I went outside.
There was this guy out there, and she asked me if I could get him some water.
Ten years later, this case is ongoing.
Wendis brother was recently convicted, and her mother is awaiting trial.
Hoping that they finally get Wendi soon and that Dan and his family get justice.
Through Wendi, I also met Jeff Lacasse, Wendis boyfriend at the time of the murder.
I met and knew quite a few infamous female murderers.
It was just the two of us.
She said something to me about the weather; it had just started sprinkling.
She is scary evil."
They were some of the agents who responded to Ariel Castro’s house.
He was charged and convicted of killing a girl the following summer in Virginia.
It was the first case in Virginia to get a murder conviction without the body being found.
He seemed very erratic and asked at least one junior girl out that year in our class."
One day I walked in, and a horrible odor of old sweat in the air greeted me.
After scanning my ID card, I walked toward the back where the locker rooms were.
They left the gym shortly after, and the bad odor slowly dissipated."
Next to my building was the ‘Triangle Social Club.’
It was the headquarters for Vinny ‘the Chin’ Gigante, head of the Genovese crime family.
In the summer, you could indeed find ‘the Chin’ walking the block in his pajamas and robe.
Needless to say, it was an incredibly safe place to live."
Little was acquitted, though his reputation never recovered.
They grew up together they had sleepovers, played baseball on the same Little League team, etc.
After high school, they shared an apartment in college.
Her husband was also a groomsman in the wedding of Chris and Shanann.
They drifted apart when the Watts family moved from North Carolina to Colorado.
He never knew him to be anything but genuinely nice.
Something inside him just snapped.
They have had zero contact since the killings."
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