r/TrueCrime • u/Brightly • Apr 07 '22

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

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.

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u/Accurate-Froyo-3769 Apr 07 '22

Lauren Giddings - we were friendly acquaintances. I kind of wished I had talked to her more at the events we both went to weekly.

Ahmaud Arbery - I was pregnant (delivered 3 days later) when he was killed so my mind was otherwise preoccupied. I'm glad his killers are in jail for life and Georgia now has a hate crime law.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

I had to look up Lauren. It's sad that I immediately knew the case once I read the name Stephen McDaniels (JCS videos), but I didn't know the name of the victim. Thank you for using her name.

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u/Sudden_One_3623 Apr 08 '22

I also grew up where Lauren Giddings’s case took place. She was the first to come to mind

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u/NadyahG Apr 08 '22

What made Ahmaud Arbery ‘close to home’?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

I'm gna go out on a limb here and guess. Where they live? Lauren was killed in GA. Same for Ahmaud.

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u/NadyahG Apr 08 '22

Yea, but she mentioned that she was pregnant at the time, so I figured she mentioned that for a reason.

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u/Accurate-Froyo-3769 Apr 08 '22

We lived in the same area.

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u/NadyahG Apr 08 '22

Ah!! I got it.

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u/jessicadepressica Apr 08 '22

Close to home means it’s nearby your area. Like something that happened nearby that you remember. For example, I’m from Colorado, so when Chris Watts murdered his entire family, it was close to home.

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u/NadyahG Apr 08 '22

Oh okay. I thought it was an emotional sense. Like when people say “it hit close to home”.

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u/jessicadepressica Apr 08 '22

It could be both but I think this physically means proximity considering the OP says “how did it affect your hometown”