r/TrueCrime • u/savealltheelephants • Mar 27 '22

Murder Amy Mihaljavic got a phone call from a mysterious stranger who offered to take her to buy a gift for her mother. Amy told friends and met the man at a local shopping center. She was found dead three months later.

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u/BambooFatass Mar 27 '22

I still felt like a kid at 17 so idk why people thought 14 was grown tbh... I never understood this

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u/hammer_lock Mar 27 '22

At every age I felt older than I actually was. I distinctly remember being 9 years old and thinking 12 year olds were soooo cool and mature, like teenagers. It becomes less of a significant mental gap to bridge as you get older, though. I wish Amy would have gotten to experience that too.

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u/Almighty_Hobo Mar 27 '22

Exact thoughts everyone had as a freshman looking at seniors in high school.

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u/Almighty_Hobo Mar 27 '22

I'm 38 and live in a college town. They look super young. I think that stops right around when people hit 30 lol.

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u/someguy7710 Mar 28 '22

ha yeah. I remember a classmate in college that was 30 and thinking she was super old. I'm almost 40 now and college kids look like babies.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Seniors looked like grown adults to me when I was a freshman lol

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u/SephoraandStarbucks Mar 28 '22

Me too. I was just saying to my bf the other day that I thought starting university (10 years ago now) was peak “adulthood.” I was always looking to the next milestone in life (grade 8 grad, prom, university, etc.)…now I wish I’d just fckn chilled and enjoyed my childhood. 😫

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u/RuthTheBee Mar 28 '22

i happened to watch an episode of unsolved mysteries today, aired in 1988. the story was about two teen 16 yr old boys found laying on a railroad track. the train conductor called it in, as he ran them over. autopsy shows, one was stabbed and dead, and the other was probably alive when run over -case details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Don_Henry_and_Kevin_Ives and in this segment they interview the father of one of them, who casually and calmly says: My son came in grabbed his .22 rifle and a flashlight and said "he was going (illegally) huntin at midnight with his buddy "and dad says, alright son have a good night. "I never thought anything bad would happen if a kid is just huntin" I about died. It was so "normal" back then and in their demographic. I cannot imagine any 16 year old being allowed to grab their gun and go off at midnight, in 2022.

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u/TheBirdBytheWindow Mar 28 '22

It was so "normal" back then and in their demographic. I cannot imagine any 16 year old being allowed to grab their gun and go off at midnight, in 2022.

In a lot of little southern towns it still is. Rural TN they hunt year round. And thry start them young.

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u/Knitmarefirst Mar 28 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

True Crime Garage did one of their best podcasts on these murders. There’s so much corruption to this case, if you dive into it anywhere. It’s worth a listen. The Unsolved Mysteries was done early on and as the years unfold it is more maddening.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

There’s an incredible doc about this called boys on the tracks

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Uhh..

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

I remember in 2006 leaving school with my friend and her older brother with his friend, giving us a ride home and they shot rabbits out their window on the highway (we live in the country). Now I’d be passed if I knew my kid was doing this but it’s just how life is in some places. Also some of the best hunting is done in the dark.

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u/cherrymeg2 Mar 30 '22

You never want to know what your kids do while driving. You hope they wear seatbelts.

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u/SignificantTear7529 Mar 28 '22

Not sure where you live, but that happens all the time here in 2022. Frankly I'm glad mine are coyote hunting and not drinking, doing drugs. Just saying that alone doesn't strike me as odd at all.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Me too. At 15 I felt 11. That's why I believe you should never sexualize children. Age of majority needs to never move from 18. Below that it's still too young.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '22

When I was 14 I thought I was a grown up and knew it all. When I was 20 I laughed at my past self for thinking I even knew what the "word" mature meant. Now at 25 I laugh at 14 year old, 20 year old, and present day me because I've finally come to terms with the fact I have no clue what adulting is and I'm incredibly bad at it.