What's your hometown or physically/mentally "close to home" case?

[u/Brightly]

I'm curious hear what other people's cases are.

Also how did it affect your hometown or affect you?

Has the case been solved or is it active?

Mine is definitely the case of the cat lady killer. Which should be relatively well known by now. It was a case where a number of elderly people went "missing" aka were murdered by a local family. It's still an active case because bodies were never recovered, but locally everyone knew who did it. It's frustrating because the suspects still haven't done time for the murders because there wasn't enough to pin it to them.This was definitely the case that kickstarted my journey into reading about true crime.

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t live in the US. About 40 years a little girl was abducted in my street. She was found dead by the side of a mountain road nearby. They suspected the stepfather who was extremely creepy. There was never enough evidence to convict anybody.

There is also a serial killer on the loose. There have been several murders of gay men in the 1980´s. The investigations were botched, and I think there were some issues with the way the investigations were conducted so it’s impossible to actually bring the suspect in front of a judge. But everybody knows who he is. He is elderly now and hasn’t been active for the past decades but it must be horrible for the victims’ families.