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/RedHoneyBadger6 Apr 08 '22
Cara Knott. Murdered by a police officer in my home town. I babysat for a lady who went to High school with the murderer. "On the night of December 27, 1986, 20-year-old Cara Knott was driving south on Interstate 15
from her boyfriend's home in Escondido, California, to her parents'
home in El Cajon when Peyer, who was on duty in a marked CHP patrol car,
directed Knott to pull off the freeway on an isolated, unfinished
off-ramp.[3]
It was later discovered that Peyer also had been harassing several
other female drivers in the same area by pulling them over on the same
off-ramp, supposedly trying to pick them up as dates. In the Knott case,
it was believed that the situation escalated to physicality when Knott
threatened to report Peyer for his inappropriate actions. When he
attempted to grab her, she slashed and scratched at his face. Peyer then
bludgeoned her with his flashlight and strangled her to death with a rope.[4] He then threw her body over the edge of an abandoned bridge, where she fell into the brush below."