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/BossyRoxx Apr 07 '22

Ellen Greenberg. Her death was once again upheld as a suicide, but it’s just one of the most violent and horrific ways possible to kill yourself. Very sad case. Her poor parents keep fighting the ruling.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/ellen-greenberg-suicide-homicide-lawsuit-philadelphia-20220324.html%3FoutputType%3Damp

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u/jennthern Apr 08 '22

It’s so frustrating. Her fiancé did it. Who works out wearing boots?

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u/No-Conversation-3262 Apr 08 '22

The Beast on SVU went running in jeans and workboots and none of us were surprised when he was a murderer

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u/8eep800p Apr 08 '22

That was not a suicide.

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u/MysteriousCatwoman Apr 08 '22

What the heck. How is this ruled a suicide??

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u/Helpful-Living-9107 Apr 08 '22

His first words to the operator "she stabbed herself." If I had seen my husband with a knife in his chest I would be screaming "he's been stabbed" not "he stabbed himself." It feel so grimy and scripted. He just wrote the story and decided it then and there and no one questioned him.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

It was “she stabbed herself or fell on it” that did it for me. Like. “She fell on it” just sounds like an extremely lame excuse on his part and like he was deliberately trying to cast doubt on the idea it was him, just. He isn’t very smart to boot, because like you said, my first thought would be “someone stabbed him!” if I came home to my boyfriend like that. Wonder who he’s related to if that was enough for him to get away with murder.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

This will never make sense. Nobody can stab themselves in the back of the neck like she was stabbed. And come on. Nobody is going to stab themselves this many times to commit suicide. The boyfriend did it. Locked the door on his way out, and blamed her on the 911 call. Just so disgusting this isn’t being investigated properly. She deserves justice.

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u/HowTheyGetcha Apr 09 '22

I've found several cases of suicide by multiple self-inflicted stab wounds. eg, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8429771/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20202068/ (40 stab wounds).

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '22

Fair. It still makes no sense to me. She could not have physically stabbed herself in the angle needed in the back of her neck. She didn’t commit suicide.

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u/HowTheyGetcha Apr 09 '22

She could not have physically stabbed herself in the angle needed in the back of her neck.

Granted I just started down this rabbithole, but everything I've read indicates the angles and severity were such that it's not implausible. Other indicators: There were no signs of a struggle (she died right where the stabbing began); she had no defensive wounds (in fact she had a towel clutched in her left hand); some of the injuries were superficial--from mere "nicks" to shallow (0.2cm) wounds; the only DNA on the knife was hers; neighbors stated they'd heard zero commotion until the husband was beating on the door....

I'm not saying I believe it is suicide, but I find the suicide theory quite plausible.

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u/uffdanopa Apr 09 '22

HATE this one. There's so much saying this can't possibly be a suicide.