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Every town has its secrets… The kind that rarely make it into history books or glossy tourist brochures. They’re the stories that people whisper about behind locked doors, or in dimly lit corridors. True crimes are so unsettling that some locals would rather not speak about them and instead pretend they never happened. Until now…
Someone recently asked, “What’s a disturbing crime from your town that doesn’t get talked about?” and the answers read like a Stephen King horror. From people chopping off relatives’ heads, to entire families wiped out in a moment of madness, and shady black market body part shops… This is the stuff nightmares are made of.
Bored Panda has put together a list of the most bone-chilling ones for you to scroll through while you ponder the hidden secrets of your own neighborhood. We also explore why many people are so obsessed with true crime stories. And why that’s not necessarily a good thing. You’ll find that info between the images. Please note that some people might find the following content extremely disturbing.
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#1
A man on my street beat his wife to death and poured boiling oil over her body in an effort to cover it up. His two children saw this happen and escaped the house alerting neighbours. The man got 15 years and didn't even serve that. His children were forced to live with his parents and he maintained contact while the wife's family never saw the kids again. He was also released temporarily on compassionate grounds on a day dedicated to domestic violence awareness in her name. An absolute travesty of a crime that spat in the name of victims everywhere. The poor woman's name was Caroline Crossan
AutumnGirl 1 month ago
My heart aches for Caroline and her family... and I'm so sad to realize that the so-called "Justice" for us women is pretty awful no matter the place.
Our obsession with true crime is nothing new. People have been devouring that type of literature since the 1600s. But nowadays, the content is everywhere. Podcasts, documentaries, blockbuster films, television shows... It seems we just can't get enough of gruesome and gripping tragedies.
In fact, the "True Crime Consumer Report" by Edison Research and audiochuck found that roughly 84% of Americans over the age of 13 consume true crime in some form, and 42% have listened to a true crime podcast.
But why? What psychological wiring, social forces, and media mechanics combine to turn some of the most violent stories into such an addictive form of entertainment?
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#2
S**t, this one wasn't even on the news; a guy went ice fishing with his wife, but came back alone. Said she was coming back after she was done visiting family. She never comes back and the guy puts on a sob story about how they are divorcing and she moved away. Life went on.
About six months later, a couple of magnet fisherman on the lake snag something but can't pull it up, so one of them swam down to release the magnet and the line; it was the wife. She of course was terribly decomposed, and the reason she didn't float to the top was her jacket was filled with a s**t ton of sand. They pulled her up and ran a DNA test. Called in the husband to ID her, and his very first statement was, "I thought cold water preserves people." They had not told him yet where they found her.
I guess she had brought up divorce during the fishing trip, he got mad, beat her to death, and then filled her jacket was sand from one of the sandbags that lined the Icehouse, shoved her through the hole in the ice, and left.
Now he's spending life in a prison cell.
In short, true crime meets a lot of our human needs all at once: curiosity, problem-solving, threat management, social connection, and moral storytelling. Throw in some brilliant, suspenseful production and we're hooked.
According to a YouGov survey, more than one-third of Americans said they consume true crime content because of their interest in mysteries. “It’s just fascinating to look directly at the dark side of humanity from a safe distance,” shared one respondent.
Another said that they watch true crime in order “to see others get justice for themselves when [they] didn’t get it for a similar situation.” And one respondent said that his “female friends have told me they watch it to figure out how they would react if they were the victim in this situation as a way to feel safer while interacting with others.”
Some revealed they find it to be a healing experience. Interestingly, a few Americans who don't consume true crime think that those who do are either trying to learn to be criminals or enjoying others’ pain.
#3
A man kidnapped and a****d a child, who was terrified and in captivity long enough to keep quiet for years despite having access to internet and phone. At one point, he even left a message for his parents on a message board, asking if they’d keep looking for him. His parents thought this was a troll, as he used his own name.
Years later the man kidnapped another child. This child happened to have been walking with another boy around his age before he was taken. The other boy happened to know a lot about/have a special interest in trucks, and was able to relay to the police that he saw a (color/make/model/rust pattern). The police caught the man days later with that information, and both boys were safely released.
If you grew up in the community when he was growing up, you knew him. You worked with his mom, he managed you at the local pizza chain back in the day, he went to your high school, he asked your friend out long ago.
My partner and I were walking our dogs last night and saw a little girl playing outside her home unaccompanied by her parents. She was sweet, and we were sweet back. But it made me think about Michael, Sean, and Ben. How we talked about them growing up, and now not so much.
Almost half a million children are reported missing each year in the U.S.
Whitney Phillips is an assistant professor of digital platforms and ethics at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC).
According to the university's site, the expert has written and researched extensively on internet trolling, malicious online activity, and the ethical implications of popular culture subjects such as the true crime genre. She teaches students to examine the ethics of consuming true crime stories.
Phillips defines true crime as "content about violent, nonfictional events that have specific characteristics that make it popular as entertainment." And believes there are three main reasons why people love the true crime genre...
#4
More than 15 years ago my friend, Jennifer Cooke of Grandview, Ohio, was stabbed to death in her home. No one has ever been arrested. Her ex husband, let’s call him Stabby McStabberson to protect his identity, was a person of interest.
#5
This didn't happen where I lived but it was very disturbing. This happened in Florida. Back in the late 1980's, the Ray Brothers were barred from school for having AIDS. They had hemophilia and got AIDS thru blood transfusions. In 1987 someone set their home on fire and the family was forced to move as a result. I don't think they ever caught the arsonist but I find it hard to believe that no one who lived in that town knew who might have done this.
Firstly, as we touched on earlier, human beings enjoy the mysterious element. "Novels and movies centered around a mystery have always proved popular, but true crime allows audience members the chance to feel invested in a real mystery unfolding before them," notes the university's site.
The second reason, says Philips, is that many viewers "enjoy watching a case getting solved while feeling that they’ve participated in it from the comfort of their couch."
#6
We had a mentally handicapped high school kid k**l both his parents because he got upset. It was pretty awful, he didn’t understand that what he did meant they couldn’t come back.
Snazzy Smurf 1 month ago
This one hits different as he dellik his parents while having no concept of what he had done. These are all horrible, however.
The third reason certain people are drawn to true crime as entertainment, according to the expert, is because they feel it's a way to be prepared in the face of real danger.
"Studies of true crime have found that white women are the largest demographic that enjoys the true crime genre. The hypothesis is that because 'women, in particular, have anxiety about potential threats,' they turn to true crime to feel better prepared if something violent were to happen to them," explains the site.
#7
Funeral home was selling body parts and gold from teeth/jewelry without permission, (using funds for luxury items and vacations) and giving loved ones cement mix in place of cremains. They literally operated a business called "Body Brokers" from the same address as the funeral home.
#8
I lived in a very white suburban / rural town in the 1980s. A black family bought a large house directly across the street from the local country club. It was burned down within a month. Even though everyone knew who did it, or at least who was responsible, there was never an arrest made.
Earthquake903 1 month ago (edited)
White people have been burning the homes a businesses of black people for as long as both have existed. Then, if a black person dares to speak against their horrific ab.u.se, that black person is labeled violent and quite often unalived. Racism is a cancer that needs to be carved out!
But while we binge-watch hours of true crime content, many experts have raised ethical concerns about the millions of dollars being made from real victims’ stories.
Mackenzie Joy Brennan is one of them. In an article titled, "True crime" pays but who pays and who gets the loot?, she writes that "As the true crime genre has proliferated – much of it driven largely by entertainment and financial incentives – many creators have failed to balance public interest with the potential harm of re-telling the horrors inflicted on real people."
Often, adds Brennan, true crime creators consult neither journalistic ethics nor the real people harmed by the crimes they recount.
#9
As of recently in Houston, multiple bodies have been found in Buffalo Bayou and this maybe linked to an active serial killer.
Phillips has also raised concerns about commoditizing true crime. The professor explains that some podcasts create catchphrases and sell merchandise inspired by their shows and real-life cases.
"In doing this, they are reducing victims' lives and tragedies to marketable content. This branding of real violence and victims dehumanizes them by turning them into merchandise and memes," the university's site notes.
#10
Oh man. Few girls went missing in my middle of nowhere town. A body or two was found in the river after a while of searching. They search one potential guys house, even the pile of concrete rubble behind it.
One day, this same guy is drunk driving and runs into a school bus. Police search his car and find a pretty little pink cell phone apparently belonging to one of the missing girls. They search his house again, and this time in the pile of rubble find the last missing girls body.
Population of literally 135 where I grew up.
#11
I live in Hannover in Germany. About 100 years ago, there was a guy called Fritz Haarmann. I’m not fully aware of his crimes but here he’s known as the "Vampire of Hanover". He was a cannibal.
He’s somewhat known in Germany — especially here in Hannover obviously — but outside of Germany, I don’t think too many people have heard of him and his crimes.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
I maybe getting people mixed up here, but wasn't this the guy who sold meat, as a butcher? There being a strong possibility of people unknowingly eating human meat?
Another concern raised by Phillips is how the true crime genre has created so-called citizen sleuths. These fans discuss ongoing cases online and post their own theories and opinions, which are often not backed up by facts.
The expert warns that this can be harmful because "they often promote poor leads that distract the investigation."
#12
Small town. Guy beat his wife to death with a hammer then shot himself in the head. Then a few years later his parents donated money to a municipal project, an area of a public building bears his name. Grosses me out.
“It’s this ‘bingeability,” says journalist and author Rachel Monroe. “If you think about both podcasts and streaming series, you need something that will make people tune in for the next one – because we have so much culture, and it’s so easy to turn away to something else entertaining.”
“True crime isn’t the problem,” adds Phillips. “It’s how people approach it, who is telling the story, and whose stories are not being told, that’s the problem.”
#13
When I was in 11th grade , there was a quiet , kinda nerdy kid who sat behind me in my first period English class . He was sometimes annoying and other kids were a******s to him but I always tried to be nice . One day I was talking to another friend in that class about a book I really wanted to buy . He obviously overheard our conversation bc the next morning the book was sitting on my desk when I arrived at school . He’d gone out and bought it for me the night before and said it was because I was always kind to him . It was a little awkward, but thoughtful . I remember this incident vividly because a few days later he ended up k*****g both of his parents with a s*****n while they slept . He then went “on the run” and was featured briefly on Americas Most Wanted . I believe he was 17 at the time . He was caught a few weeks later somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, which is far away from where we lived in Southern Ontario , Canada . Crazy.
#14
Where a grew up this guy was neighbors with some of my parent friends. He seemed a nice guy and seemed a good neighbor. He managed to place multiple hidden cameras in my parents friends house and was recorded the wife in the shower and bed room and would get in their attic to grab the vhs tapes and replace with new ones to continue recording. I think he was able to manage this by acting like he was boring a friendly neighbor and helping with house repairs and renovations if my memory serves me correctly. The wife started to get suspicious of some things or would say or do and became super paranoid. She eventually noticed something wrong in the ceiling above the shower which led to her finding the recordings. My parents went to the guys house multiple times because he had a pool and they would all get together . My mom started to get the creeps because he was always very insistent that my parents wait to get to his house before they change into swimsuits ( he had cameras set up in the pool house). They made a lifetime movie about it but no one really talks about it back home. We only did because we were friends with the family that it happened to.
hannahbahngswife 1 month ago
Why do people even want to record other people naked?? If you are that desperate, p**n is free.
#15
A couple went to rob a local hotel, the guy bashed the night clerks head in with a rock and they tried to cover it up but got found out, and then turned on eachother in court. The girl walks free amongst us…I think about the man they k****d often, he was a very nice man and his poor wife never recovered.
Jane Doe-Doe 1 month ago
I’m not surprised the wife never recovered, having that image ( of her husband being beaten to death) in her brain forever
#16
My family lived next door to a dude who k****d his wife, chopped her head off, left her head in the crawl space of his home, and threw her body off a bridge near the neighborhood of another family member of mine. The body didn’t make it into the water below so it was quickly spotted and the guy was thrown in jail.
#17
The Singer D4VDs car was discovered to have a chopped up body of a minor in his car. Everything points to him being in a relationship with her since she was around 13. Apparently she grew up in my area of Lake Elsinore CA as her school district sent out an email about it. (My kid goes to the same district).
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 1 month ago
This is a recent news story, been catching details of it. What I have heard so far, has been that there is no proven link between the girl and the singer other than she was found in his car. Not saying the post is wrong, just not heard much this side of the pond.
Lauren Caswell 1 month ago
There's heaps more links, videos of them together, someone asked her age and he freaked at them etc. I've been tracking that. It's speculative that the mother was aware, but it's looking more likely
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v10011011 1 month ago
That generally means they have a solid case and don’t want to spook him, that’s why they made it publicly known that he was/is cooperating with the investigation. They keep their cards close to their chest when they know they have a solid case.
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Not my hometown but just a bit down the road, where I lived for a few years.
Wife files for divorce and a restraining order, from her a*****e husband, files for full custody of their 2 kids all that fun stuff. A few weeks later, the husband shows up at the grocery store she works as a clerk at, armed with a .22 handgun, which he stole from his brother. He goes in intending to kidnap her at gunpoint.
He goes in and grabs her by her hair and begins dragging her into the parking lot but as he's forcing her out of the store a customer at the customer service counter attempts to step in and is shot and k****d, a second customer attempts to step in in the parking lot and meets the same fate, at which point she gets loose and attempts to flee, and he turns the gun on her k*****g her before sitting on a bench in front of the store and shooting himself.
My aunt was childhood friends with her, and my grandma told me the story one day when I found some pics of them together while I was trying to track down embarrassing childhood photos of my dad in the photo albums. To date, I've never seen any mention of the story outside of my family and old newspaper articles.
#19
The star high school quarterback was charged with possession and distribution, then while on bail tried to leave the state (and was caught by the Texas Rangers at the border), was given additional charges for all that, was once again released on bail and eventually was fined 5 figures and time served.
Then he hanged himself and it all came out that he had molested his daughter (4 years old at the time) and beat his wife.
When people talk about him, they only talk about how good a football player he was.
Along the same lines, the high school football coach in the 90s (same time as quarterback) was found guilty of encouraging steroid use in his players, fraud/money laundering of school funds, covering up sexual a***e allegations and he literally left town being chased by the cops.
He then went on to do the same thing at the university level (including a university many people would recognize) and similar things happened there. I believe he is now coaching in Europe.
But all anyone talks about is how great a football coach he is.
#20
There's a stretch of road just outside of town that's got some really dark history that most people living there have no clue about.
It's along a small river. In a little forested area completely hidden from the road is the oldest cemetery in the county. Across the road is corn fields now, but you can still see parts of a building foundation. The foundation is what remains from a church that burned down with the congregation inside, about 30 people iirc, in the 1920s.
A little further down the road, about 1/4 mile, was a house. In the 1960s the family that lived there was found m******d in their beds, husband, wife, and 3 kids between 5 and 13. No suspects were ever identified.
About another 1/4 from there the road curves and crosses the river. That bridge was used for lynchings until at least the 1950s. There's no clear verifiable number of lynchings that happened there that I've ever found but it was at least a couple dozen. .
Earthquake903 1 month ago
10 bucks says the church was a black church. God forbid black people praise and worship the white folks god
#21
This guy that was in my friend group, but I only met him once, k****d his whole family on Thanksgiving night. Mom, dad, grandma, and little brother. One by one he lured them into a room alone and then bashed them with a pipe. I’ve never seen it on any true crime shows or podcasts despite being an absolutely batshit story. He spent the night in the house with the bodies and then went on the run with his underage girlfriend.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
I feel like this is really inefficient. I mean just poison the meal dude.
#22
I mean it doesn’t get talked about much anymore, especially on a national scale.
Marcus Wesson. He was involved in an incestuous relationship with his daughter. He had 9 kids and one day, he made the oldest shoot the younger children through the eyes before she k****d herself.
#23
Sexual A*****t is rampant in the swinger lifestyle scene in New York. Which is a shame because most people in the scene overall are very nice and respectful. We went to a Hacienda Villa party in Brooklyn which is a very popular poly-swinger organization. We witnessed at least two r**es. When we tried to report it, we were shunned and thrown out of the club permanently.
There is even a New York Times article about this place describing this. I wish we knew earlier.
David 1 month ago
not surprised, any underground s*x community is ripe for this type of thing, and ofc they would go after the reporter, rather than thank them for them for helping out. Its the same mentality that religious groups and small towns use for cover up and punishing whistleblowers. If you think society will persecute or demonize you, you feel a need to protect your "group" from the outside, when you should protect from the evils inside.
#24
The event didn't happen in my town, but one of the people involved used to frequent it a lot. About 20 minutes from me there's an old hospital that I thought was closed off due to it being closed/abandoned since the 80s. Apparently, in the early 2000s, some guy owned it and lived in it. This guy had a son who eventually got into d***s really bad and ended up owing some dealers a lot of money. Dealers know he lived in that hospital so they decided they were going to go get their money from him. They showed up and only the dad was there so they went after him. There's two versions depending on who you're able to get to talk about it, the first is they shot him in the head with a s*****n, blowing his brains all over one of the rooms. The second is that they beat him so badly that his brain went every where. Both are plausible because he was beaten really badly and there were s*****n blasts along the walls, there was also a trail of blood. This happened in a town even smaller than the one I live in (pop of 50 vs. pop of 403), so everyone knows everyone's vehicle and several people saw an unknown vehicle driving slowly through the town. The son wasn't well liked before this happened and he for sure isnt well liked now. The dad was loved. The people were never caught, and the son's d**g problem got worse. I'm not sure who owns the hospital now, but I do know that as of 2020 the blood stains were still there and it's suspected the brain matter is still there too because no one went in to clean it up and it's never been torn down. I have to drive by it every time I go to my friend's house in that town.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 month ago
I think the censored word is ''shotg.un'' if anyone was trying to figure it out. Took me a while -_-
#25
This dude k****d his wife, dismembered her, and then cooked her in a restaurant they used to own together.
The cops arrested him while he was in the process of putting her boxed head on the neighbor's porch.
#26
Theres a case from the city I lived in New Zealand where a poor girl was tortured to death by her own family to "exorcise" her.
#27
My cousin who was m******d by a group of people who premeditated it.
They gave him weed laced with fent cause his gf was in a love triangle and wanted him gone saw all but 2 online news article's about it never seen it talked about at all yet . People still not convicted yet either this happened some time in 2024.
Panda'sMom 1 month ago
Your cousin and "sometime in 2024"???? Methinks you would really remember. I not only remember the year, but the exact date when my cousin was unalived.
#28
Parents and their children were tortured and executed with a knife from their own kitchen. Police suspect it involved a professional Hitman from a different country. No one was ever seen or caught. Also a man down the road from me mutilated his father and mother while they were sleeping. Dad went about his morning routine before dropping dead in the kitchen.
#29
Not my current town, but one froma few years back. The city's fire marshals wife went missing. After a while people stopped looking. It wasn't until the chief of police got a little tipsy one night that they tied him to the m****r. Apparently the fire marshal k****d his wife, and called his buddy chief of police to come help disposed of the body. I moved before I think either were convicted. This was in Louisiana.
#30
Chief of police got caught having an affair with his 18 year old son’s 17 year old girlfriend. He’s still a cop, but no longer the chief, and I think she’s a s******r now. Nobody talks about it because most people don’t know - the only reason I do is because she and I were both seniors in the same class.
#31
Once an old lady m*dered another one because she wouldn't return her necklace, so she KOd her on the shoreline, leaving the water red for hours, which spread for meters. People at first thought it was something related to nature, but then discovered what happened and she got caught.
#32
My former town: Thief River Falls, MN, had a dude beat to death with a traffic sign. The victim was out smoking a cigarette in the smoking break area and the killer saw this dude and just got bad vibes. The killer got out of his car, pulled a traffic sign out of the ground, carried across the field to the break area, then proceeded to beat the victim to death. Apparently the victim tried to run away but the killer chased him down and continued the beating.
#33
Three teenagers were slashed to death in the concrete riverbed/channel behind a miniature golf/arcade parking lot. Nobody was ever arrested
If youve ever seen the original Karate Kid movie, that's where they filmed the date scene right around the same time it happened .
#34
Serial killer Israel Keyes came through in 2011, abducted and m****r an older couple. Bodies/remains have never been found. Was talked about for years but lately, sort of just forgotten for most.
Lila Allen 1 month ago
OK he m******d a whole lot more than just that couple. He k****d at least dozens but probably a lot higher than that. He is incredibly forensically sophisticated and we are d**n lucky he got caught at all.
#35
Renowned gynecologist in my city used to put women under sedation for made up reasons and sexualy a***e them. Was only caught when one of those women woke up mid a***e.
And on top of all that this came to light same time as his son opening his own gynecology practice.
Earonn - 1 month ago
There's witness statements from women before aborti.on got allowed (for a while): they went to get it done by doctors underhand. The doctors performed the abo.rtion, then straightaway went on to ra.pe the women, while they were still on the chair. After all, what were the women to do, report them? And that is what happens when ab.ortion is made illegal.
#36
Went to elementary school with stephen grant’s kids…don’t know if that was a national story or pretty local. dude chopped his wife up and spread her throughout the area woods because she caught him f*****g the maid or something. i don’t really remember, i was in middle school when it happened.
#37
I lived in a very rural town, farming community. Fishing is big there.
1. Farms bus in illegal families. If the family tries to escape the farm, they k**l the mother and bury her in the fields. Then threaten the father that his children will be next. Majority of the town knows about it, but no one openly talks about it because the farmers control everything.
2. Local bad boy fell in love with a somebody's daughter. She, for all anyone could tell, was equally in love. She got him to start cleaning up his life. And he had even enrolled in the local community college to get his GED. He suddenly went missing. His parents found a handwritten note on their door, to not call the police or go looking for him. But that it was time to hold a service. He was gone. They called police, investigation was over within a week. He was officially declared missing, possible runaway. Parents held a service. Rumor has it, that the service was paid for by someone else. As the service itself happened quickly, and was a bit nicer than this family should've been able to afford. Literally a week later, the girl was shipped off to a private school. And just like that, nobody ever talked about it again.
#38
Like 10-15 years ago a young girl (high school) was brutally m******d on an overpass walkway by a few classmates. It was big news at the time and now noone speaks of it. They named the overpass after her. They mutilated the poor girl.
#39
I was friends with this kid whose brother m******d his ex girlfriend. Hammer blows to the head, burned her body in front her mother’s house. The town went silent … never heard anything about it since. That was 17 years ago.
#40
A girl from my high school was followed home by a boy she rejected, and lit on fire in her own garage.
To be fair I think (I'm hoping) some of that might be for her sake (she survived, but very badly injured) but the story just disappeared after it was initially reported. Like I don't even know what happened to the guy that did it (he was caught, but I don't know if he ever got sentenced).
#41
I lived in one of the houses on the Alamo property here in Arkansas. Tony and Susan Alamo. I was completely unaware when i first moved my family in. The guy I was paying to mow my lawn was very happy to enlighten us of the story. The cult still seems alive in that town. If you park at the grocery store from time to time you will still get Alamo flyers on your windshield. We moved. Couldn't get far enough away from all of that.
#42
In the 70s the BLA threw a g*****e at a cop car, blowing that s**t up and injuring two officers.
In my life time, the Genovese and Gambino families did a lot of stuff that barely made local news.
#43
In my hometown, in a building that used to be the high school, a state politician was paying a company called Clonaid, who have ties to a UFO cult, to clone his dead son.
#44
In the 70s there was a dude who would kidnap/k**l young men and glue their eyes and mouths with super glue.
#45
They found a human skull at the river this summer and there's been no update on the identity. I feel like I'm the only person who cares.
Savannah greenleaf 1 month ago
Probably a very old skeleton of a person. My partner works construction and this happens from time to time. If the death occured at least 100years ago nothing much comes up about it later. People have lived and been buried all over long before us.
#46
The first Zodiac murders were discovered in a turn-out a couple miles from my parents house. It doesn't get mentioned often, but it's covered with creepy graffiti, and there *is* a Geocache there.
#47
My partners friend died along with her children to a family annihilation by her husband. 5 gunshots 4 dead including the shooter s*****e. Maybe it gets talked about but not to us.
#48
I live in a super small town. A high schooler k****d his best friend in a crash while driving home drunk from the mayor’s party where he was served alcohol as a minor. Rumors can get out of hand in towns like mine but there is a lot of talk that the party was known to be a massive o**y/swingers meetup so there’s plenty more reason that the town government covered it the hell up.
This wasn’t that long ago- maybe 15 years? Definitely does not get talked about enough.
#49
That time a woman threw her six-year-old child off a bridge after taking him to get ice cream. He drowned in the bay.
#50
City Council woman who was running against the incumbent for the mayor seat submitted a questionable reimbursement request for mileage to a meeting she did not attend. Political opponent mayor brought charges against her and threatened to publicly disgrace her. Councilwoman calls Police Dept. late at night and says something about the door being unlocked before hanging up. Then she shoots her sleeping husband before turning the gun on herself.
#51
A man made a VBIED for a lawnmower to k**l his old landlord, failed, hid in the woods for while, and then torched the farm that the Budweiser Clydesdale horses used to live at.
Andrew Burke 1 month ago (edited)
With all the censoring this article is impossible to read. And ow words like VBIED? *edit. Okay figured it out: Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device.
#52
Ohhh my turn. So my dad goes to a small Baptist church, I went there growing up with my mamaw, I know everyone. So there was two couples (stay with me) the men were best friends and as were the women. One couple (b&m) had three young kids and (j&t) had three grown kids and grandkids. So B is sleeping with T and M has no idea but T’s husband J finds out. T is supposed to be babysitting a child from another family and leaves the child with T to go and get cozy with B while his wife M and her family are on vacation. J drives there and calls M and says his wife T is at their home and he’s going to deal with the issue, he goes in the house and shoots and kills both T and B, he calls M to tell her he did it and she thought it was a joke so he’s sent her pictures OF THE DEAD BODIES. So J had the small child in his car and he packed the trunk full of guns and went to m****r his wife and best friend for sleeping together. B and T did a horrible thing but J ruined so many lives. I just went to visit her grave recently, I loved that woman, she was one of the kindest and most loving women. Honestly before this if you had told me he would do this I never would have believed you, this is the same guy who gave me almost $1000 worth of tires for free when I couldn’t afford s**t. It is one of the messiest things I’ve ever had to witness. B & T are dead, J is in jail awaiting trial, and M is raising three kids (who adored their father) alone. It’s F****D.
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SaladSpinnerDeux 1 month ago
Bernardo/Homolka. My home town in Ontario, Canada in the 90s. May they one day rot in a gangrenous h.e.ll.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I'm not sure that my hometown has a single "dark" crime, but... well. Let's just say that in a predominantly Democratic/blue state (California), my hometown of Huntington Beach has far too large of a population of Proud Boys, neo-Nàzis, and Trump cultists. Our councilmembers are 100% MAGA. I've lived here my entire life, and I've watched it slide from a lovely touristy beach town into the disgusting swamp of political fúckery it is today. Luckily there are enough normal, sane residents remaining that it isn't too awful to LIVE here (and I can't afford to move), but I'm no longer proud of my hometown like I was as a kid. I hate what's happened to my city.
Chewie Baron 1 month ago
There are a lot of young men - mainly gay - who are dying in Manchester, UK. They’re mainly drowning in the city centre canals. Everyone apart from the Police (I should add the there is a huge level of hatred by the Gay Community and Greater Manchester Police, a hangover from self appointed ted “God’s Cop” James Anderton who was Chief Constable of the whole force and was an absolute b*****d in his dealings with the Gay peeps) actually think it could be a serial killer, as there is no way over 30 people call all die in the exact same way. But the Police think they can.
Rika 1 month ago
A man went to this gay bar in my street, enjoyed a few drinks and some flirting and went home to m*rder his elderly parents he was living with. Then he went back to the bar and kept having fun. It (fortunately) didn't make much noise on a national scale but the bar still closed down because the homophobes loved that story: it backed up their theory that all gays are dangerous.
hannahbahngswife 1 month ago
Not as "dark" as these, but here we go: The staircase area of my primary school faced the garden area of my high school (separated by a field and wall). I swear I remember seeing a rope on one of the garden's trees back when I was still in primary school. My friends, too, remember seeing it. We were like 6 at the time. Fast forward to high school, I find out that apparently a girl k****d herself, but it may have been covered up. My high school was a "star" high school, as in, the best of the best goes there, students get good results, etc... By the time I actually went there, it wasn't a star school anymore, just a normal high school. By what I heard, the school pressured students too much, and one simply couldn't take it. I don't know if it's real, or just made up. I know that I saw a rope though.
Rathoren 1 month ago
I am from a tiny town and was part of a very small Christian group of teenagers, the guy who did that first Bitcoin pizza swap thing was in that group, turns out he molested his sister.... Another of our friend group got in trouble for having a gun and k****d himself by police :'(
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 month ago
Native American Indian. Grew up on a Reservation. They did find a mass grave of children. Nobody really talked about it. It was Residential Schools. I wear an orange wristband to honour the memory... But there's been some really scary disturbing things happen, not only to me but others. Which is why I try and support others. You don't have to tell me the full details, you don't have to say anything that you don't want to. So long as you're safe? I'll help if I can but whatever secrets you're holding? Go no further.
Pittsburgh rare 1 month ago
30 years ago, my then boyfriend introduced me to a couple from his country. She was a dentist, making most of the bread, and he was an orthodontist. Despite being the lower earner, he had expensive hobbies that the wife would fund, like collecting Harley Davidsons and guns. In the morning of New year's Day, after a night out alone, he came back home and shot her dead in front of their two kids, both under ten yo. Barely made the news but everyone who knew them was pretty shaken. She was smart, kind and classy. He was a pretentious jerk even before his m****r. My boyfriend said he'd ruined _his_ life, and I promptly replied that _her_ life was kinda definitely ruined. Didn't last much longer with the boyfriend, someone told me he even went to visit him in prison 🙄
David 1 month ago
Not that far from me, back in the 1980s, at a college, during the break inbetween semesters, a student who stuck around the dorms was found m******d and his body chopped. No one has solved the case, though a few months ago, the police reopened it due to new evidence. Interestigly the police's main suspect, who most people still think was guilty was let go due to lack of evidence. Basically a janitor, who was working that night, next day took an abrupt on the fly trip back to the Dominican Republic where he came from. But there was no evidence to tie him to anything. Same school, a few years later a student hung himself in the bathroom. The school after that, gutted and redid the dorms bc no students would go back after both things just a few years apart.
Pittsburgh rare 1 month ago
The Alcasser girls? I don't think that'll ever be solved. Too many theories and suspects over the years but no concrete evidence. The rumour that there was powerful people involved seems more believable as years go by
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SaladSpinnerDeux 1 month ago
Bernardo/Homolka. My home town in Ontario, Canada in the 90s. May they one day rot in a gangrenous h.e.ll.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
I'm not sure that my hometown has a single "dark" crime, but... well. Let's just say that in a predominantly Democratic/blue state (California), my hometown of Huntington Beach has far too large of a population of Proud Boys, neo-Nàzis, and Trump cultists. Our councilmembers are 100% MAGA. I've lived here my entire life, and I've watched it slide from a lovely touristy beach town into the disgusting swamp of political fúckery it is today. Luckily there are enough normal, sane residents remaining that it isn't too awful to LIVE here (and I can't afford to move), but I'm no longer proud of my hometown like I was as a kid. I hate what's happened to my city.
Chewie Baron 1 month ago
There are a lot of young men - mainly gay - who are dying in Manchester, UK. They’re mainly drowning in the city centre canals. Everyone apart from the Police (I should add the there is a huge level of hatred by the Gay Community and Greater Manchester Police, a hangover from self appointed ted “God’s Cop” James Anderton who was Chief Constable of the whole force and was an absolute b*****d in his dealings with the Gay peeps) actually think it could be a serial killer, as there is no way over 30 people call all die in the exact same way. But the Police think they can.
Rika 1 month ago
A man went to this gay bar in my street, enjoyed a few drinks and some flirting and went home to m*rder his elderly parents he was living with. Then he went back to the bar and kept having fun. It (fortunately) didn't make much noise on a national scale but the bar still closed down because the homophobes loved that story: it backed up their theory that all gays are dangerous.
hannahbahngswife 1 month ago
Not as "dark" as these, but here we go: The staircase area of my primary school faced the garden area of my high school (separated by a field and wall). I swear I remember seeing a rope on one of the garden's trees back when I was still in primary school. My friends, too, remember seeing it. We were like 6 at the time. Fast forward to high school, I find out that apparently a girl k****d herself, but it may have been covered up. My high school was a "star" high school, as in, the best of the best goes there, students get good results, etc... By the time I actually went there, it wasn't a star school anymore, just a normal high school. By what I heard, the school pressured students too much, and one simply couldn't take it. I don't know if it's real, or just made up. I know that I saw a rope though.
Rathoren 1 month ago
I am from a tiny town and was part of a very small Christian group of teenagers, the guy who did that first Bitcoin pizza swap thing was in that group, turns out he molested his sister.... Another of our friend group got in trouble for having a gun and k****d himself by police :'(
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 month ago
Native American Indian. Grew up on a Reservation. They did find a mass grave of children. Nobody really talked about it. It was Residential Schools. I wear an orange wristband to honour the memory... But there's been some really scary disturbing things happen, not only to me but others. Which is why I try and support others. You don't have to tell me the full details, you don't have to say anything that you don't want to. So long as you're safe? I'll help if I can but whatever secrets you're holding? Go no further.
Pittsburgh rare 1 month ago
30 years ago, my then boyfriend introduced me to a couple from his country. She was a dentist, making most of the bread, and he was an orthodontist. Despite being the lower earner, he had expensive hobbies that the wife would fund, like collecting Harley Davidsons and guns. In the morning of New year's Day, after a night out alone, he came back home and shot her dead in front of their two kids, both under ten yo. Barely made the news but everyone who knew them was pretty shaken. She was smart, kind and classy. He was a pretentious jerk even before his m****r. My boyfriend said he'd ruined _his_ life, and I promptly replied that _her_ life was kinda definitely ruined. Didn't last much longer with the boyfriend, someone told me he even went to visit him in prison 🙄
David 1 month ago
Not that far from me, back in the 1980s, at a college, during the break inbetween semesters, a student who stuck around the dorms was found m******d and his body chopped. No one has solved the case, though a few months ago, the police reopened it due to new evidence. Interestigly the police's main suspect, who most people still think was guilty was let go due to lack of evidence. Basically a janitor, who was working that night, next day took an abrupt on the fly trip back to the Dominican Republic where he came from. But there was no evidence to tie him to anything. Same school, a few years later a student hung himself in the bathroom. The school after that, gutted and redid the dorms bc no students would go back after both things just a few years apart.
Pittsburgh rare 1 month ago
The Alcasser girls? I don't think that'll ever be solved. Too many theories and suspects over the years but no concrete evidence. The rumour that there was powerful people involved seems more believable as years go by
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