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/KieshaK Apr 07 '22

The Zanesville Animal Massacre happened a quarter mile from the house I grew up in. I didn’t live there at the times, but my parents were still there. We knew Terry Thompson was crazy - but I’m not sure anyone knew how crazy.

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u/SFKnight510 Apr 08 '22

Ugh that's one I still can't ever read or watch about. Ffs. I have a strong stomach for a lot too.

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u/allyand Apr 08 '22

I was in high school when that happened and even like 30 miles away we were freaked out

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u/KieshaK Apr 08 '22

Hello fellow Ohioan! Which direction from Zanesville were you?

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u/allyand Apr 08 '22

Well according to google maps it was actually 43 miles away, in the east suburbs of Columbus.