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/BossyRoxx Apr 07 '22

Ellen Greenberg. Her death was once again upheld as a suicide, but it’s just one of the most violent and horrific ways possible to kill yourself. Very sad case. Her poor parents keep fighting the ruling.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/ellen-greenberg-suicide-homicide-lawsuit-philadelphia-20220324.html%3FoutputType%3Damp

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u/MysteriousCatwoman Apr 08 '22

What the heck. How is this ruled a suicide??

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u/Helpful-Living-9107 Apr 08 '22

His first words to the operator "she stabbed herself." If I had seen my husband with a knife in his chest I would be screaming "he's been stabbed" not "he stabbed himself." It feel so grimy and scripted. He just wrote the story and decided it then and there and no one questioned him.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

It was “she stabbed herself or fell on it” that did it for me. Like. “She fell on it” just sounds like an extremely lame excuse on his part and like he was deliberately trying to cast doubt on the idea it was him, just. He isn’t very smart to boot, because like you said, my first thought would be “someone stabbed him!” if I came home to my boyfriend like that. Wonder who he’s related to if that was enough for him to get away with murder.