tduby1
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Post by tduby1 on Aug 29, 2018 13:15:48 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. I am so sorry.
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Post by mcscrapper on Aug 29, 2018 13:16:13 GMT
Sadly, yes. I was attending the U of A in Huntsville when Amy Bishop, my professor at the time, opened fire during a staff meeting and killed three other professors. She almost killed another one, Joe Leahy, who died last year as a result of complications from his injuries. He was an amazing man and probably one of my favorite teachers of all time.
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Post by Prenticekid on Aug 29, 2018 13:22:46 GMT
My step-sister and step-brother were murdered by my step-sister's on again off again boyfriend. My step-sister's daughter was 11 at the time. I think she gave my step-mom a reason to live after losing two of her children like that.
A high school friend was raped and murdered right after we graduated. I had moved away by then, but ran into her mother years later. She was barely subsisting and an alcoholic as a result of her daughter's death.
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Madi & Me
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Jun 25, 2014 22:20:27 GMT
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Post by Madi & Me on Aug 29, 2018 13:36:44 GMT
A former coworker/friend murdered her three children. I still struggle to think about it.
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edie3
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Post by edie3 on Aug 29, 2018 13:40:17 GMT
A friend of mine in high school. His father was divorced, but was having an affair with a married woman. Her husband came to the apartment and shot through the door, killing Rick.
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used2scrap
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Post by used2scrap on Aug 29, 2018 13:41:40 GMT
When I was in high school an older student’s father killed his mother, her boyfriend, and then himself after a lengthy standoff with police.
A few years later one of our neighbors up the street was murdered by his wife in a notorious line of killings.
I’ve long moved away, but keep up with the local paper from time to time, and recently a former school mate’s father murdered his mother and killed himself when she asked for a divorce. They were very prominent in the small town community.
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Aug 29, 2018 13:46:32 GMT
I don't know anyone that was murdered.
I sat next to a kid in 4th grade (and he went to my high school) that murdered someone our junior year of high school. He was finally caught two years later.
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 29, 2018 14:02:45 GMT
One of DH's employees murdered his wife & killed himself last December in response to her wanting a divorce, leaving 2 young sons behind.
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Post by pjynx on Aug 29, 2018 14:07:19 GMT
I don't know anyone who was murdered, but a former roommate of mine murdered someone. In college, I shared a 5-bedroom house with several people. It happened about a year after dh & I moved out. At first, the news was only reporting that a murder had happened there (they weren't saying yet if it was the suspect or the victim that lived there). But immediately, dh & I said to each other "omg, what did Dan do now?" We both *knew* that our former roommate Dan was the suspect. Sure enough, Dan had gotten mad at a friend and shot him point-blank in the head. Weird thing was, when we were living there with him (for approx 3 years), I was never scared of him. Got along with him quite well. But it just didn't surprise me when it happened. Pam
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 14:14:54 GMT
Yes. I didn't know her well...but Annie Le. My son also played softball with the man who turned out to be her killer.
Scary to think about.
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Post by jenr on Aug 29, 2018 14:41:01 GMT
Yes. My childhood next door neighbor, who was my age and played with my brother and me constantly as kids, killed his wife a couple years ago. It was gruesome and terrible and I have nightmares about it. My family was/is very close to his family. ETA: The wife was someone I knew in high school as well.
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Post by librarylady on Aug 29, 2018 14:46:03 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. How horrible. I am sorry for the grief for your family and the terrible death for your grandmother.
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Post by padresfan619 on Aug 29, 2018 14:46:19 GMT
I know the murderer :/
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Post by librarylady on Aug 29, 2018 14:47:48 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.
Beyond the pale. I can see why your family is still in grief/shock even 8 years later.
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Post by mom on Aug 29, 2018 14:51:45 GMT
Yes - my friend who I went through Design School with was murdered by her husband. She shot her at point blank range because she told him she wanted a divorce.
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Post by danalz on Aug 29, 2018 14:57:31 GMT
I know 3:
1. A girl I went to high school with was murdered in her apartment a few years after graduation. The guy scaled her balcony and broke in to the apartment.
2. I had a student who was deaf and gay when I was student teaching in a very small town. About 8 years later I heard that a group of guys dragged him into a field and beat him to death because they thought he was making advances towards them at a bar.
3. Two years ago a woman I worked with was murdered by her roommate. Totally shocking news for all of us that worked with her
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Post by maryland on Aug 29, 2018 15:20:53 GMT
Last year my former neighbors 21 yr. old murdered an ex-girlfriend. It was shocking as the family was such a nice family and the young man had so much going for him.
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Post by wezee on Aug 29, 2018 15:39:34 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. I'm so sorry!
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Montannie
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Post by Montannie on Aug 29, 2018 15:42:56 GMT
Oh, these stories are awful! Hugs to all of you touched by murder and the loss of loved ones. I am so sorry for your loss, and the painful memories this brings up.
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tarus777
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Post by tarus777 on Aug 29, 2018 15:46:20 GMT
Yes, my mother was murdered 5 years ago. :-(
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Post by genny on Aug 29, 2018 15:46:40 GMT
Yes unfortunately. 1) a girl i went to high school with murdered by her ex boyfriend as she left her job at the mall. This was maybe the year after we graduated high school. 2) My uncle shot my aunt when she asked for a divorce, then shot himself. He died immediately. She lingered for several hours before she passed. It was traumatic and horrible on our family in so many ways. His family sued my family because the way their wills were written she was his beneficiary. Since he died first, she got it all (they were pretty well off, but not filthy rich). Then when she died my grandmother got it all, per my aunts will. It was so horrible for my poor granny and my mom and her sisters. This happened after many years of abuse from her husband. She had tried to leave but he always found her. She had finally found the courage to leave after his horrible abuse - hitting her in the stomach to terminate a pregnancy, killing the puppy she had bought, etc. And he killed her for it. Piece of shit, it still gives me chills. 3) My cousin shot her husband. There had been abuse in the past - and while all abuse is horrific, nothing to the point that it had escalated to this day. It was her or him and she chose to protect herself. She served 23 years in prison. she is now out and lives here (can't go back to her hometown per parole) and is doing very well. 4) Another cousins wife was killed by police. I'll call it murder - I'm a huge LEO advocate, but this was plain and simple murder. I've wanted to post about it here often but ultimately decided not to because if I posted her name it might show up in a search and I wouldn't want my family to see me posting about it. If you live in the Brunswick, GA area you probably know what I'm talking about as one of the officers involved was in the news recently for killing his ex wife, her boyfriend and then himself. It's a horribly tragic story. Lexica . Your poor grandmother…I am so sorry. Damn I forgot one. I didn't know the kid personally but my daughter did, she went to school with him and I took her to the funeral. The boy, his mother and his niece were brutally murdered in a break in. 3 teenage boys known to the family (long family relationship history) broke in and beat Caleb and his family. Beat them til they were unrecognizable. With multiple objects. It was sickening. The father was a nurse on night duty and came home to find his family like that. It still gives me chills. They stole 2 cars which they ditched later that day, and got away with about $600 in cash. Eveyrthing else they stole was caleb's - his clothes, shoes, PS4 and games. Brutal murder over nothing but petty jealousy.
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Post by zztop11 on Aug 29, 2018 15:48:20 GMT
Yes and I'll never forget this story. I was a middle school teacher and for weeks before the murder, I had a feeling of "doom" for our school. (I have grown up getting premonitions.) I couldn't pinpoint anything but it was this great feeling of doom at work. Wouldn't you know it but the secretaries husband was murdered at work by a coworker. This was about 25 years ago before workplace shootings were as common as they unfortunately are now.
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Post by wezee on Aug 29, 2018 15:50:54 GMT
Yes, My Great Grandmother. My family never really talked about it. I was in Costco one day looking at the books low and behold there it was the whole story and a picture her autopsy report. FYI yes I bought the book.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2018 15:51:14 GMT
Yes, my mother was murdered 5 years ago. :-( I'm so sorry for your loss. My heart breaks a little with each post.
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hutchfan
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Post by hutchfan on Aug 29, 2018 15:52:13 GMT
Sadly yes. A family that lived up the road from me when I was a teenager was shot and then the home set on fire to cover up the crime. My uncle was on the fire department and he was the one who discovered the young children's bodies it was very traumatic for him that he quite the fire department not long after. Things like this just never occurred in our area. It took weeks to find the killers who ended up being friends of the family who robbed them of money and belongings. This was early 80's. Then in high school I was on the cheerleading squad and one of the other cheerleader's sister was shot and found in a barn at the home of her boyfriend. He was never even arrested as supposedly no evidence could be linked to him.
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Post by christine58 on Aug 29, 2018 15:54:03 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. I am sorry for you and Lexica
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Post by Anne-Marie on Aug 29, 2018 15:54:13 GMT
So many tragic stories . . . I am so sorry for those of you that have been affected.
A guy I grew up with was shot and killed the summer after we graduated from high school. "Cruising" was a thing we did back then in our small town and Eric was standing with a group of people at Sonic. Apparently someone had an argument with someone else in the group at Sonic (later it came out it was not Eric) and shot into the crowd. Eric was the only one shot and he died that night.
My freshman year of college I dated a guy that was a year younger than me, still a senior in high school. Super talented guy. His parents had an older biological son and had adopted my friend, who was Pakistani, a little later in life. Ten or so years after we dated, Aaron and a friend were robbed at gunpoint in his apartment complex parking lot by at least one person wearing a mask similar to the one from the movie Scream. Apparently Aaron didn't hand over his wallet quickly enough and both he and his friend were shot in the head. Aaron was killed and his friend was hospitalized for quite some time.
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Post by genny on Aug 29, 2018 15:58:30 GMT
I am so sorry….
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Post by christine58 on Aug 29, 2018 16:00:48 GMT
Yes, my mother was murdered 5 years ago. :-( I am so sorry....
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Post by Alexxussss on Aug 29, 2018 16:06:49 GMT
So sorry to hear about all of your losses- my heart goes out to you.
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