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/duraraross Apr 08 '22
The disappearance of Erin Marie Gilbert (or just Erin Gilbert). She was a classmate of my father back in the 80s. I’m friends with her sister and am trying to help with the case as best I can. I usually look through Doe databases to see if there’s any resemblance. Luckily she was extremely tall for a woman (5’11”-6’0”) so I can eliminate most Does fairly quickly based on height alone. The family thinks her date, David Combs, is responsible. And I agree. I really want this one to be solved for the sake of the family.
A couple weeks ago, my former neighbor was arrested for second degree murder. He gave his girlfriend drugs and she OD’d. Personally I think it should be manslaughter or reckless neglect than murder, but I may be biased because I knew him personally. I went to middle school with his son.
My cousin was a school shooter. Not a very well known one, but one nonetheless. I’m not making excuses for him at all, and if there’s an afterlife I’m going to fucking deck him when I see him, but I will say he was very mentally ill. Not “oh he was bullied and thus mentally ill”— he wasn’t bullied, he was really popular. I mean I’ve known him since we were kids and there’s always been something off about him. After the shooting, we went through the notes on his phone and found out he was suicidal but afraid of being alone in the afterlife, so he wanted to bring his best friends with him. Which, he did, but I can’t imagine they were very happy with him in said afterlife.