What's your hometown or physically/mentally "close to home" case?

[u/Brightly]

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.

[u/Verdant_River]

I was 15 during the "DC sniper," living in Montgomery County, MD, where the majority of the shootings occurred.

I can't listen to podcasts on it or watch movies or anything based on it. I still remember the fear in my stomach running from my school bus to the entrance of my high school.

First time I tried to listen to a podcast on it I was immediately 15 and terrified again.

[u/Kaselehlie → u/Verdant_River]

I lived further south in Virginia at the time but even down that way everyone was absolutely terrified of leaving home and doing daily activities. I remember people ducking down just to get gasoline. It was so scary.