So apparently, I was in class with a killer...

[lupo pazzesco]

And I'm not joking (http://privateofficernews.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/university-of-houston-student-arrested-for-thrill-kill-wwwprivateofficercom/)

I know more about this case than I should. The guy was in one of my classes for a few weeks, then stopped showing up. But he hung out at a store next to mine a lot, standing outside. You know how you get the feeling something ain't right with someone? He set off that vibe, hardcore. Maybe he's insane, I don't know, but yes, instant dislike for the guy.

And what REALLY pisses me off is what he said about shooting and killing a homeless man. He, allegedly, was threatening some people at an on campus apartment complex, with a gun, and said, "I already shot a bum, I'm not afraid to shoot you" or something the that effect.

The man he killed? A transient, who'd been fighting mental illness almost his whole life. He had a brother who tried his damndest to take care of him, and who spoke at the candlelight vigil held in memorial at the bus stop where he was shot.

I can't go to the bus stop anymore. I don't. I walk an extra few minutes to get to a different one.

[Amethyst Hunter]

I went to high school with a convicted murderer and a convicted felon, and babysat a murderer once.

I don't even want to know what other kinds of crazies and creepsters I could have crossed paths with.

[DeltaSierra]

I didn't go to school with, but personally knew one of BC's worst mass murderers.

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.true-crime/2006-02/msg04107.html

My family knew all the people who were killed :(

My Dad was one of the prison wardens where he was initially held. He told me a LOT was withheld from the press because people wouldn't be able to mentally handle it, most involving what happened to the girls. There was also another man involved, who my Dad says was the 'mastermind' of the entire thing but only Shearing confessed and didn't/wouldn't implicate the other guy so he got off scott free.

[draggar]

..and I felt strange having gone to high school with a convicted "sex offender".

No murderers... yet (just a vehicular manslaughter)

[Buglady]

Was that his mug shot? Because if so, EEEK. That smile just "ain raht" as my Southern friend Gine says. Even as a regular picture, that smile is creepy. As one of the people quoted in the article said, there's "other issues" going on here.

ALWAYS listen to that little voice that goes "uh... this guy isn't quite right..." and especially always listen to the one that says "get a sharp stick and push this guy away RIGHT NOW."

Take care of yourself, Lupo!

[PepperElf]

Had a teacher back in my first semester of college (fall 91) who stopped showing up to classes.

One day he was sick, the next his car broke down, then he was there, and the following class he was gone again.

One of the girls saw the notice they were putting on his door about classes being canceled.

Her: What did he do? Die?
Other teacher: Yes. <walked away>
Her: :eek:

We found out later that he had strangled his mother and then hanged himself in his garage, on his wife's birthday. From what the replacement teacher told us... he was on medication for depression, but that we had always been safe in his class.

One of the music majors caused a few waves when the college started putting together memorials for him.... "If he hadn't killed himself he'd be on trial for murder." But the memorials still took place.

[tropicsgoddess]

Holy shit....that guy is not right in the head....at all. :eek:

[draggar]

Actually - now that I think about it - when I went to a YMCA camp as a child, one of the head counselors was convicted of being a child molester - everything happened while I was there (at the camp, not right there).

He did nothing to me but boy did my parents drill the hell out of me one night with a police officer (asking question after question after question). I had no idea what was going on until years later.

[Amethyst Hunter]

ALWAYS listen to that little voice that goes "uh... this guy isn't quite right..." and especially always listen to the one that says "get a sharp stick and push this guy away RIGHT NOW."

Quoted for 200% pure truth! Better to take the chance of looking stupid than risk ending up in deep shit.

[blas]

And I felt creeped out when I almost went on a date with a convicted sex offender (unbeknownst to me) and work with a sex offender.....

I need to start CCap-ing everyone I meet.

[Miyon]

It hasn't happened yet but my Uncle who has OCD and it off his rocker, works for the post office and has over 150 loaded guns in his house, including assault rifles.

Nothing we can do, he wont let anyone into his home and if the police showed up he would shoot them. So he says. He has a beautiful daughter and when she was in high school one boy got the guts up to try to visit her at her home. Totally true..kid knocked on the door, uncle opens it holding his shotgun and fires it into the air. Poor kid went running and my uncle chased him, still shooting, luckly just firing 'warning shots'.

So we just hold our breath.

[powerboy]

One of my uncles took a gun into a Chucky Cheese (years and years ago) and threaten to shoot his boss.

These two (http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/shermantine.html) lived in a town over and killed 33 people at the time of their arrests. One of the victims went to my school, years before I did.

Members of the Manson Family was living in my town in the 70's. Killed someone in my city.

A school chum was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He came walking out of a store, when a gang thought he was in a gang.

[blas]

There are rumors that Jeffry Dahmer's family had a home in the city I used to live in. I've never taken the time to research and see if that's correct, or people around here just being typical hillbillies trying to get people worked up and crazy over nothing.

[candyshopgirl]

Am I the only one that thinks he looks like norman bates?

[friendofjimmyk]

There are rumors that Jeffry Dahmer's family had a home in the city I used to live in. I've never taken the time to research and see if that's correct, or people around here just being typical hillbillies trying to get people worked up and crazy over nothing.


I graduated from the same high school as Jeffrey Dahmer. The whole case broke the summer before my senior year. As a teen, he lived in a house behind the fire department in Bath, Ohio.

[Hon'ya-chan]

Man, the only infamous person i've known (Neighbor) got nicked by the Feds for selling Government Secrets to the Chinese.

[blas]

FOJK, then rumor debunked, unless he lived elsewhere as a child.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I dated the murderer in this case's (http://www.judicial.state.sc.us/opinions/displayOpinion.cfm?caseNo=24849) older brother Robert in high school. The guy who ended up murdering someone, James, was a sweet young boy who used to like my younger sister (I'm talking when they were like 13-ish years old). We used to take them on movie dates with us, they would hold hands. Cute.

Years down the line, a girl ends up in the woods down the road dead. If I'm not mistaken (this was a long time ago, my memory is sketchy) this girl worked in the vets' office my sister worked at (same sister, I only have one) along with the young man Keefe, who is mentioned in the document (and who my sister had dated a little. Nice boy.).

I come home one day, my mom goes "Guess who murdered that Whitten girl? James Fossick."

And I just stood there a moment, and she said "Suprising."

And I said "What is suprising is that it was James and not Robert."

And I didn't mean that with any humor about my ex-boyfriend. I meant it seriously. I had long broken up the older boy, as it became very quickly obvious he was extremely messed up, manipulative and (I found out later) abusive towards women.

So, both sons from that family turned out to be extremely dangerous. And what is really troubling is that their family seemed completely normal. I mean, nobody can know what really goes on, but neither boy ever even complained about their home life. I spent a lot of time over there, and the family seemed happy, got along well, and seemed to have good relationships with each other. Really, really disturbing.

[depechemodefan]

One of our patrons killed his landlady with a meat cleaver years ago.

[JLRodgers]

Let's just say I've known, worked with, lived by, done business with, gone to school with, etc people who have been convicted, accused of, and/or got away with:

murder, rape, drug trafficking


One of those I witnessed.... and the person was never taken to trial or anything (my word against his as no psychical evidence).... I won't even go to any town he may have friends in because I fear for my life if he were to see me again. He just has this..... I don't know what..... but there's a look to him that makes you fear for your safety. Kind of like a wild cat looking at a deer on nature programs.

[AdminAssistant]

I was just a kid, but a guy in our hometown went nutso and killed a couple. They found the man in his truck, couldn't find the woman. Everyone knew who did it - the guy was mentally unstable, he'd killed animals as a kid, and was in a 'hunting accident' that killed his cousin. Dad was part of the search team - they finally found the woman, but they needed to find the rifle, which the police believed had been tossed in the river. Dad said the sherrif told them, "Boys, we're sending a car right now to pick up that SOB, it'd sure be nice if we had some evidence by the time he gets to jail." They did, and he's sitting behind bars right now. Even if he were to ever get out, there'd be a whooooole bunch of men with rifles waiting for him.

Oh, and one of the more famous school shootings happened near my hometown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonesboro_massacre

Yes, those two boys are still walking around. At least Golden has been smart enough to stay quiet and get out of state (as the judge highly recommended). There is a civil case, but I haven't heard any word on it yet.