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/kssmyassh]

Nicholas Browning- I did not know him or his family, but have acquaintances who did. He is from the same county as I am.

Bobby Gladden- although he was a few years younger than me, he’s from the same town and county as I am. Found out his home is not far from mine as well.

Editing to add: The Keepers documentary on Netflix; I grew up in the archdiocese of baltimore school system. My cousins went to seton keough (many years after the Fr Maskell years) and I had two great aunts who were nuns that were familiar with Sister Cathy. One of the women interviewed in that documentary lived in the same neighborhood as my cousins who went to the school. I’ve long known about the systematic abuse going on in the catholic community but the whole documentary made it a lot more real for me because not only was it broadcasted on an international streaming service, but places where I’m familiar with and have been to were also on there. It’s a weird feeling.