seaexplore
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Post by seaexplore on Aug 29, 2018 4:41:14 GMT
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Post by cadoodlebug on Aug 29, 2018 4:55:35 GMT
yes, 4 people.
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PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Aug 29, 2018 5:29:12 GMT
Thankfully, no.
To those who have: Please accept my condolences for your losses & the pain such tragedies caused.
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Post by cmpeter on Aug 29, 2018 5:44:50 GMT
Yes, my best friends mother was murdered while I was in high school.
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Post by anniefb on Aug 29, 2018 6:07:13 GMT
Thankfully no.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 29, 2018 6:10:16 GMT
Just a few months after XDH went to prison for assaulting me when I tried to separate from him, a couple I’d known for decades died just down the road. She found a new man, and wanted a divorce. He shot the lover ( a man I also knew), killed his wife, and then himself.
It was absolutely chilling, both that I knew them, and thinking that could have been me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 6:35:08 GMT
Yes. DH's nephew who was more like his son. He was going to be DH's Best Man at our wedding, but his (soon-to-be-ex)wife planned on murdering him in the middle of the night in his bed, when he was asleep, with their 3 young children hearing what was going on. No worries--she emptied the gun on him while he crawled out of bed and then tried to crawl to the door to get help, but she pushed him in & LOCKED the door on the inside. He couldn't get up to open the lock. She sat in her chair all night, listening to him groaning. THEN she decided to call the police.
Still disturbing to this day, more than 8 years later, and he is missed always. Such a brutal murder.
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anniebygaslight
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 29, 2018 6:58:20 GMT
Yep. The bloke up the road was murdered about 20 years ago. He was an odd one who kept strange company. He was murdered by two people who came to his house supposedly to buy some railway memorabilia that he collected. The next door neighbour noted that a downstairs window was open, and that his car was not on the drive, so altered the police. The officer who came to the house had a look round all the rooms but saw nothing, secured the house and that appeared to be that, as he often went away for long periods. A week later, the windows of the house were black with bluebottles, and so the police were called again. Long story short, he had been in the house all the time, trussed up and placed on the far side of a bed in a back bedroom. His body could not be seen from the bedroom door. It was a big event at the time, with CSI much in evidence, and local news teams interviewing every man and his cat. The house was on a bus route and the double decker practically tipped over as it passed the house.
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Post by sueg on Aug 29, 2018 7:02:06 GMT
A girl my brother went to primary school with was murdered when she was about 18 by a jealous boyfriend. By then, we had moved from that town, but my brother moved back in his 30s, and a mutual acquaintance told him about it.
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Post by tracyarts on Aug 29, 2018 7:36:09 GMT
Yes, a guy from my circle of friends (we were the "weird" kids at the high school) was murdered a few months after graduation. He and his two brothers lived with his grandmother, my friend was the middle child. His older brother had gotten involved with a gang. One evening he and his younger brother were home with their grandma and someone rang the doorbell. My friend answered the door and was shot point blank in the head, he died instantly. The killer was never caught, but it was deemed a gang related murder. Word on the street was that my friend's older brother did something to piss off another gang member and it was a retaliation hit. Nobody knows if the older brother was the intended target or whether it was done to send him a message. It was tragic but not considered too shocking unfortunately. Not headline news, either. Just a statistic, another example of senseless gang violence in a rough neighborhood. My friend was really quiet and introverted, but had a sweet personality and everybody liked him even though not many kids at school really knew him.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 29, 2018 7:51:54 GMT
Not to my knowledge, but just this year someone I thought I knew killed his wife. I didn't know the wife. It's always awful hearing/reading someone else's tragedies, but completely shocking if you knew them.
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Post by KelleeM on Aug 29, 2018 8:36:10 GMT
My elderly neighbor was murdered on Christmas night. She lived alone but her sons owned the two houses next door to her. The murderer broke in, ate pie, smoked cigarettes (putting one out on her forehead) and then attacked her. He left a trail of blood and stolen items leading to his apartment a short distance away and was arrested quickly.
Another neighbor murdered a police officer by trapping his arm in his car window and dragging him. To his death.
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Post by disneypal on Aug 29, 2018 9:13:18 GMT
Yes, I actually posted about the first one on the old board when it happened. 1) A woman I knew very well and was in my Bible study group was murdered by her husband. After her death, he was also arrested for the murder of his first wife. I think they suspected he murdered his first wife but after my friend's murder, the found additional evidence to prove the first wife's murder too. It was very shocking. He is currently still in prison (thank God). 2) My uncle's (my marriage) nephew was murdered. It happened 3 years ago. He was well liked and has no known enemies, was just such a great guy and was never in any trouble and I'm not sure his killer will ever be found. He was found stabbed to death at the end of his driveway, apparently he was on his way to work (he left at 5:30am). He lived in the country - so closest neighbors were about 1/2 mile away. There are just no leads at all.
3) When I was just out of high school, my friend was dating a guy so we all hung out together. One night after work, he was driving home on the expressway and apparently cut off a taxi (it was early hours of the morning - after midnight so not many people on the road). The taxi driver shot him through the passenger window and killed him instantly. It was horrible. His cousin was my next door neighbor so I knew him through her as well as through my friend - he was 19 years old.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 9:22:46 GMT
No, thankfully.
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Post by gigi333 on Aug 29, 2018 10:30:39 GMT
My grandmother was murdered when I was a little girl. Raped and murdered. Who does that to a sweet old defenseless lady? My dad and his brothers were devastated. They felt they should have moved her in with one of the families so she wasn’t living alone after Grandpa died. Grandma had photos of all the kids and grands on her dresser and the killer lay them all face down as if he didn’t want us watching what he was doing to my grandma. She was a very tiny lady, barely 5’ tall and very slight build. She was in her 80s when she died. I heard they suspected the gardner’s son, but he fled to Mexico and no one was ever charged. Omg,I’m so sorry,that’s one of the saddest stories I’ve ever heard
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Post by gigi333 on Aug 29, 2018 10:32:50 GMT
Yes. DH's nephew who was more like his son. He was going to be DH's Best Man at our wedding, but his (soon-to-be-ex)wife planned on murdering him in the middle of the night in his bed, when he was asleep, with their 3 young children hearing what was going on. No worries--she emptied the gun on him while he crawled out of bed and then tried to crawl to the door to get help, but she pushed him in & LOCKED the door on the inside. He couldn't get up to open the lock. She sat in her chair all night, listening to him groaning. THEN she decided to call the police.
Still disturbing to this day, more than 8 years later, and he is missed always. Such a brutal murder.
I’m so sorry, that’s awful
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Post by Just Beth on Aug 29, 2018 11:32:33 GMT
Yes, both of my parents were murdered by someone who was a stranger to them when I was a small child. Hugs to those who have lost people they love.
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smartypants71
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Post by smartypants71 on Aug 29, 2018 12:13:59 GMT
Yes, my high school boyfriend was murdered a couple of years back. He owned a business, and invited a bunch of his friends over for a poker game. Someone found out about it, and robbed all of them at gunpoint and shot and killed my friend. The news really twisted the whole story, saying it was some backroom, high stakes poker game to make the story sound dramatic and worse than it was. It was really just an innocent card game amongst friends vs some big gambling ring.
He was really great man and an active member in the community. The school district even named one of their new schools after him.
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Post by auntkelly on Aug 29, 2018 12:22:16 GMT
I had a friend who was murdered by Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City Bombing.
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Post by myboysnme on Aug 29, 2018 12:25:37 GMT
I worked with a man a few years ago who murdered his wife and then killed himself. I did not know his wife but he had just been in my office a few days earlier.
I have personally known more people who killed themselves than were murdered.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 12:26:16 GMT
Thankfully no.
Lexica I'm so sorry for what happened to your grandmother, totally horrific.
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rickmer
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Post by rickmer on Aug 29, 2018 12:31:04 GMT
yes, I used to figure skate with a girl that was a couple of years older than me that was on her way back to university and disappeared, car found on the side of the highway with a flat tire and smashed back window. they found her stabbed, beaten and burned body in a field a week later.
she used to drive me to skating practices every week and we roomed together at a couple of competitions out of town. very mature and responsible so it freaked my mom out - if that could happen to a girl like her, god help a flaky girl like her daughter.
they ended up solving the crime with DNA evidence years late but the murderer was already dead.
a friend of DHs while growing up that was a part of our life for the first 15 years we were together is currently in jail awaiting trail for 2nd degree murder. waiting for trail to hear what happened... had been living on the streets and fallen into drugs since (which explains why we hadn't spoken to him in about 12 years) I cannot imagine he would hurt anyone. but one never really knows I suppose.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Aug 29, 2018 12:33:32 GMT
Yes, unfortunately. My cousin was murdered at age 21, and it was initially ruled a suicide. His body was exhumed years later, and the cause of death was changed to homicide, but there have never been charges filed in the case. A distant cousin was murdered while on vacation in Florida. IIRC, it was a mugging, and I don’t know if they ever caught the murderer. A friend from my days in college marching band was killed in a very estrange case in Houston. abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125738&page=1 She was the nurse who was the second Mary Morris who was killed, and most people assume that she was the target of the killings. Her husband is a prime suspect, and his sister was a good friend of mine as well. So sad all around.😢
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Post by CeeScraps on Aug 29, 2018 12:59:52 GMT
Yes....and I know the murderer. Both her and her boyfriend murdered her father, mother and brother. This happened back in Spring of 1976.
The murderer was a neighbor and a friend. I was away at college when the murder occurred. I had last seen her the Christmas prior to the murder. She had stopped by while I was home for Christmas break.
Her boyfriend I had worked for. He was a manager at a local store. He was the most fair manager that I had ever worked for.
How did they get together you ask? He managed and she was an employee. Why did they do it? They hated her parents. Her parents didn't want them together.
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Post by wellway on Aug 29, 2018 13:03:02 GMT
No. Thankfully.
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Post by tduby1 on Aug 29, 2018 13:08:39 GMT
I've worked in a dental office for 7 years. In that time 2 of our young male patients have been murdered by random gun violence. One was 16, the other early 20's.
Two local men to our office were killed in a public place, a few cities away, mid day and both of their children are patients of ours.
Our office borders a high crime area and even both these cases were high profile.
I live in a small town. Years ago my sis and I had an apartment and across the hall lived the nicest, politest young man. He was 13. He would stop by to chat sometimes and play with my niece and nephew, always said hi in the halls and would do anything you asked. The murder of a middle aged gentleman who lived alone and hung out with some of the local teens "partying" shocked our community. More shocking to us personally was when the cops came to our complex looking for this young man and found him hiding in the dumpster. He and several other teens were the murderers. They thought this guy had money but if I recall correctly he was living on disability I believe- I suppose to teens their age that might seem like a lot though.
I read true crime and twice while reading a true crime book I came across someone I actually knew. (Not the murderers or murdered). Once was in a book about a local serial killer (same city as me, literally living a mile away)- again a patient of ours mentioned in the book. Super weird reading about your town in a book. The second time was a murder that happened across state and a childhood friend was central in the book. I'd met her via my aunt and though we lived across state we wrote each other as pen pals our whole childhood. She was good friends with the victim. ETA: actually there was 3 times I came across someone I knew in a true crime book. There was a murder of two hunters up north that were fed to pigs and my cousin's husband (at the time) and his father were in the book.
There was another high profile murder in our town. Books and documentaries galore. I didn't know anyone in that case but my BIL knew the victim and the consensus was, even before the murder, his wife, (murderer) was evil.
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Post by scrappert on Aug 29, 2018 13:09:15 GMT
Hugs Just BethAnd to others who have dealt with this horrendous crime. My answer is yes. My best friend's brother was shot and murdered by his best friend (they were 15/16 at the time), that was 32 years ago. He is still in prison, but he comes up for parole every 6 months. They go to every hearing to make sure he stays in prison.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Aug 29, 2018 13:09:52 GMT
In high school, my friend's mother was murdered by her father.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 13:13:06 GMT
A friend was a target.
Her neighbor’s son robbed them. He was all set for court, when he flipped out and decided that he was going to kill my friend. I think that she wasn’t home, which made the guy even more enraged. He saw that his mother was home and he killed her instead.
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Post by kelly8875 on Aug 29, 2018 13:14:56 GMT
When I was in 3rd grade, one of my 2nd grade classmates (we were a mixed grade class experiment in the school) was murdered by her father in the night. He shot her in her sleep because the parents were getting a divorce. 😢
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