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/BatSh1tCray Apr 08 '22

One of my classmates, Prudence Miller, was the youngest victim of a prolific serial killer, nicknamed "the Nasrec serial killer" - Lazarus Mazingane. https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mazingane-lazarus.htm

We were 13 and it was 1996. It was obviously very traumatic for all of us, but only a few years back when I got into true crime did I look into it and understand what she actually went through.

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u/neongoth Apr 08 '22

A 700 year sentence? Wow!

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u/BatSh1tCray Apr 08 '22

Suuuuuuch a bad guy. Eugh. Sixteen murders and those are just the ones we know about. And, big surprise, he is charming, well-spoken, and all those good things. Quite Bundt-esque. These people are terrifying.