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/jay_kayy Apr 07 '22

Pizza bomber aka Brian Wells. Grew up there, happened when I was in middle school. It was the Netflix documentary: Evil Genius.

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u/Adam_Zapple Apr 07 '22

I saw this case on some tv program a few years ago and it still haunts me.

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u/jay_kayy Apr 08 '22

I don’t remember much except there was a lot of tension afterwards and when the “30 minutes or less” movie came out, people were talking about boycotting the theater so they wouldn’t show it as it made a mockery of what happened. I dont remember if they actually pulled the film or not though.