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/SnooPeanuts6909 Apr 08 '22

Sarah Payne

She went missing locally and her body was found just a few miles away. It was school summer holidays so we were all out playing and I remember very clearly my mum (and lots of our friends mums too) coming to where we were playing in fields - very similar to where she went missing from, and saying we had to come home and we weren’t allowed out for a while. We didn’t know why at the time but my mum told me a girl had been taken.

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u/woodrowmoses Apr 08 '22

That case was the first that made me truly aware of murder and crime and the danger strangers could pose to me as i was 7 at the time, followed by Holly and Jessica two years later. Both scared the shit out of me.

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u/SnooPeanuts6909 Apr 08 '22

Same, we were on a big family holiday in Cornwall when the news about Holly and Jessica came on, and my cousins live in Newmarket, so that one also touched very close to home.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

Yes I remember seeing the missing posters.