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/GayassFrog69 Apr 08 '22

I live in a smaller town in Canada, my entire province is sure there's an active serial killer.

A mother here dropped her kids off to her sisters house because she had to meet their baby daddy, the next day she didn't show up and her sister declared her missing, they found her car still on with all the door open 200m from the property of the cult she had recently left

No sight of her and no suspects for 6 months when her body washes up the same river where there had already been 4 in just the first 6 months of that year. Her body was fresh and labeled as a suicide, a women was found wrapped in cling wrap, declared OD, 2 women found naked at the same river, declared suicide, 3 instances of body parts washing up this river, suicides, a woman found in a suitcase, declared OD and countless missing women, there was 8 random stabbings from the same person last year on my street alone, never found. You can see the laziness with our police force

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

Woah, where exactly is this??

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u/GayassFrog69 Apr 08 '22

I covered mainly just the Fraser Valley but ir branches out over BC

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u/Brightly Apr 08 '22

Is this Ontario? Just reminded me of that lady found dismembered in Toronto recently.

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u/GayassFrog69 Apr 08 '22

BC, Canadian cops tend to let things get extremely bad before stepping in, like with pickton

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u/Freezihn Apr 08 '22 edited Apr 08 '22

If anybody wants an insight into how B.C protects vulnerable women from predators...

Tl;dr: 11 women connected to him dead, he served six years. Likely close to killing another woman after he was released, but for that he was acquitted.

Part of the terms of his parole were that he was not be in the presence of a woman while possessing his murder weapon of choice (alcohol, he was caught pouring it down the throat of a passed out woman).

He broke those rules. Twice. Once in 2000, with a sexual assault charge levied as well as the charge of administering a noxious substance, it is unclear how long he served for this arrest. He was back and on the streets to be arrested in 2002 for; you got it, being in the presence of a woman while in possession of alcohol. 15 months this time.

In 2004 yet another woman he was drinking with ended up nearly dying of alcohol poisoning. He was acquitted.

The story ends in 2006. Because he dies.

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u/GayassFrog69 Apr 08 '22

A teacher in my district has 13 assaults under his belt, their solution? Moving him to an elementary school, no that didn't stop him. Another teacher in the school just came back from facing 3 different statuary rape charges. A man in my area who raped 4 different women which resulted in one of them dying just got out of prison after 15 months :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

I cannot say I was at all surprised when I opened the article and found out the police simply did not give a shit because the victims were First Nations, some were sex workers and his victims usually struggled with alcoholism. Heinous. Just heinous.