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

[lupo pazzesco]

And I'm not joking

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/Arch.../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:

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.

[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 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.