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What is your story about the serial killer you knew before they were caught?
- I didn't know him, but... ten years ago I was living in Moscow having scored myself an internship after uni. It was cool but at times pretty awful, I was tired all the time from working long days and trying to cope with a foreign language etc.
One evening I was on my way home after a loooong day and completely exhausted I just tossed myself down on a seat on the metro without looking at who I'd be sitting next to. It was a well dressed guy, but asleep and smelling of drink. I didn't notice him actually until two kids sitting opposite started to... I don't even know what to call it. One if them was pretending to be kicking him, but not actually touching him. Like he would kick out violently but at too far a distance to actually be touching him. Then they would laugh.
I sat there not knowing what to do, I didn't want to move, because that seemed like tacitly saying that it was ok. But I was uncomfortable with their behaviour. So I just sat there, feeling more and more scared. The kids were about 13, but the ringleader - I don't consider myself psychic or anything- but he had the darkest soul I've ever seen.
At my stop I got off and so did the kids and at that point I realised that the kid had a knife, a serious one. I stared as they disappeared into the crowds thinking that I ought to warn someone about this kid, because I knew he was terribly dangerous. I didn't have anyone to warn.
Ten years passed and I still thought about this kid from time to time. Then about a month ago I was idling on the tube on my way home when I spotted a redtop newspaper and picked it up. There was a story about a group of killers in Moscow, that had attacked and killed homeless and drunks for fun, apparently. And there he was, the kid from the Moscow metro, the ringleader of the group who had killed at least 14 people.
https://en.crimerussia.com/organizedcrime/-only-hate-gang-of-cleansers-charged-with-killing-15-homeless-people-in-moscow/
— IUpvoteCatPhotos
- I worked with a guy in the late 80's. He was from Massachusetts; came to Florida and got a job installing garage doors. He was kind of quiet to the point of being anti-social. At the end of the day, all the installers would hang out at the garage door shop and have a beer before going home. He never joined in.
Years later I ran into one of the other guys I worked with and he told me that the guy had gone back to Massachusetts and murdered some prostitutes. I think he's doing life in prison now.
— edmanet
- Mom's best friend lived in the neighborhood. Knew her for several years, she even baby sat for us one time.
Couple years later, she comes over to our house distraught because her husband is dead.
Turns out she was a black widow (married dudes and killed them soon after) and this was the first one they could actually take her to court for as they didn't have enough evidence on i think 3 others.
SWAT raided my house when they went to serve an arrest warrant and couldn't find her at her house. Full tac gear and stuff. She appeared rather normal for the most part. We had no idea she was behind her husband's death until much later, but she spent most of that day at our house while the police were in her house.
— SenorSativa
- Ah somewhere I can finally post this.
I worked in a social club for multiple years and worked in the bar downstairs quite often, I got to know a man and his father quite well because they'd always be in on my shifts and the downstairs bar had a lot of regulars.
One day the father just stops coming in and all us bar staff were a little worried, the son just kept telling us that his father was on holiday and was having the time of his life.
Turns out the guy murdered his father and chopped him to pieces before he buried him in the back garden, before getting the next door neighbour to be an unwitting assistant to this as the son asked the next door neighbour to help him dig the hole.
Safe to say we were all absolutely blown away, here's the news article for reference
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-17490586
— Martyn470
- My dad and uncle worked with Lonnie Franklin Jr. in Los Angeles back in the day. Said he was generally a nice guy and they didn’t have any issue with him.
Then in 2010 my dad saw him on the news being arrested as a suspect in the “Grim Sleeper” cases. Last year he was convicted for killing nine women and one teenage girl. Eep.
— linzbalinz
- Serial killer no, but murderer yes.
Kid in middle school was super charming. He was a cute, round faced kid with a great sense of humor, shorter than the other kids, the kind who gave teacher's a hard time but they laughed anyways because he was so cute. A few years later he goes from adorable suburban white boy class clown to weird slimey hillbilly. Still short but rail thin, long dirty brown hair, pedo stash, no shirt 80 percent of the time.
My husband was friends with him during this time, and this guy was crazy entitled. A lifetime of people treating him like he was special had him convinced he was. He didn't have a job, nor any intention of ever having one, as his mother and girlfriend worked for him. He'd spend money they'd set aside for bills on shit like video games and weed. When his friends asked him what he intended to do with his life after his mom died, his exact words were "By that time my little brother will have a job, and it's not like that loser will ever get married."
Except he had to watch his girlfriend's kid while she worked, and he didn't like doing that so much. So, his bright idea was to slam the 6 month old's head against the wall when it wouldn't stop crying one afternoon.
When he was arrested he said he had "gently tossed" the baby onto a bed after it fell asleep, but clearly skull fractures didn't reflect that. He was genuinely confused as to why nobody believed him. I guess he was used to wrapping people around his finger and expected this to be the same.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cincinnati.com/amp/29833815
— FusRoDoodles
- I went to a small school with him for 10+ years. He was always polite, nice, went to several parties with him and never got a weird vibe from him. A few years after graduation I was living in a nearby city when I saw him on the news.
He went to a local gay bar, Went home with a guy, then beat him to death with a hammer. He said he just saw a perfect opportunity to do this because the victim wasn't expecting it. When he confessed he stated he had been wanting to commit murder for a long time.
— exhaustedmom
- So this is very crazy, and kind of a testament as to how you just don't really know people. When I was a freshman in high school I didn't know the dude very well; just saw him around school. Later in life, I went to a concert and a girl disappeared there. This was in 2009. They later found her remains in a field. I was working at a gas station overnights at the time, and my coworker there was friends with that same guy from high school. He was a friendly dude, and drove a cab. I gave him a jump one night because his cab wouldn't start. In 2014, another girl disappeared, and they found her dead later, too. Turns out guy from high school was a predator and murdered those two girls; possibly others too. My coworker was around him all the time, and I had countless friendly conversations with him when he came to visit her at work. She was so lucky he never turned on her. You would have never thought it would have been him. It's quite scary how some people can hide their evil.
— SouthWest66
- I didn't personally know him, but an ex-girlfriends father worked with Paul Bernado (the Toronto serial killer) before he was caught.
After several of the killings had happened the police had a rough sketch and it was put up in various locations around the city and on TV. Just rumours, but apparently some of the people at the office had said things like "Doesn't that look at bit like Paul?" in regards to the sketch in a joking manner. He apparently kept to himself mostly and when he didn't he was a fairly normal guy around the office.
Needless to say the joking stopped once he was caught.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bernardo
— magicsalmon
- I went to high school with Tess Damm, she was a one upper and although it was an alternative high school full of social rejects she acted as if she was hot stuff. Her attendance was getting bad and it seemed like she was partying all the time. Turns out she had her boyfriend stab her mom in the face a crazy amount of times, they rolled her up in carpet, stuffed her in the back of a Subaru in the garage and proceeded to throw house parties for weeks.
— StankyDank1019
- A friend of mine in high school was friends with Clay Shrout. I wouldn't consider him a serial killer, but he killed most if not all of his family members before going to school and holding his class hostage. He didn't end up shooting any of the classmates but his family was discovered in his home while he was holding the class hostage. This was back in 1994 before school shootings got really prevalent.
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/clay-shrout-florence-teen-killed-his-parents-sisters-in-their-home-
— unibonger
- The closest thing I've got would be this guy I went to school with from a very early grade onwards. Tall, chunky guy, took to wearing a trench coat in later years. Awkward, but nice enough.
[Long story short, he stabbed his half-brother to death.](http://wivb.com/2014/04/17/judge-sends-man-behind-bars-for-killing-half-brother/)
— breadeggsmilkbees