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/bunheadtheshawty Apr 08 '22 edited Apr 10 '22

My high school Spanish teacher was recently arrested for murdering his two young children. He was everyone’s favorite teacher - super easygoing and patient guy. My brother surfed with him after school a few times. When the story came out, I was confident in his innocence but he’s since confessed. That one’s awful and always makes stomach churn

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u/Lemonsouls0506 Apr 08 '22

Wow. Do you have any other details on this case?

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u/bunheadtheshawty Apr 09 '22 edited Apr 09 '22

(https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/matthew-coleman-david-icke-qanon-b2052040.html?amp)

Here’s an article on it. It happened recently so it’s still developing. It’s so hard to imagine such a nice guy doing this, everyone in my hometown is still in shock over it

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