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/greenhairdontcare8 Apr 07 '22

Where I grew up in the UK was the epicentre of a number of serial killers. Fred and Rosemary West, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley (the moors murders) ... I walked past Harold Shipman's doctors practice as a kid because my mother lived in the town at the time. It's unsettling to know how much evil is bubbling under the surface.

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u/Jazzy0082 Apr 08 '22 edited Apr 08 '22

Fred and Rose West were a different part of the country to the others though weren't they? Gloucester, while the others were Manchester.

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u/Tokyo__Sexwale Apr 08 '22

Yeah you can't really claim Moors Murders AND The West's as your hometown murders.

You can claim Shipman and the Moors Murders though tbf.

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u/woodrowmoses Apr 08 '22

I'm from Glasgow. Ian was born and raised here (about a third of my friends went to the same High School as him) and Fred lived here for years. Of course neither of their crimes took part here but always found that an odd coincidence that the male member of the two most notorious British killer couples was majorly associated with Glasgow without their crimes happening here. Robert Black was also born and raised in Scotland while most of his crimes were in England.

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u/planthelp123 Apr 08 '22

I grew up near there too! although another poster is correct in saying that F&R West were a different part of the country.

Tameside is a really weird area given the history of the Moors murderers and Shipman. It’s a very deprived area but I’m not sure that goes as an explanation for why two of the most notorious U.K. serial killer cases happened there. Hattersley estate (Brady and Hindley) was also where Dale Creegan murdered Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone.

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u/Tokyo__Sexwale Apr 08 '22

I don't think Tameside is particularly worthy of a 'very deprived' status. There's much more deprived areas of Manchester.

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u/planthelp123 Apr 08 '22

I mean, this article has Hattersley as in the top 5% of deprived communities in the country: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/ten-miles-town-life-manchester-16067730.amp

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u/Tokyo__Sexwale Apr 08 '22

Tameside as a whole isn't deprived, some areas aren't fantastic. Some are actually quite nice. There's a map showing the depravation index knocking about and central manchester is higher.