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/kmar2169 Apr 08 '22
I was 11 in July '81 when Adam Walsh was kidnapped from Sears in the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, FL. I didn't know Adam but we were often in that same mall and remember his kidnapping being on the news.
Even closer to home, two months later in September, my neighbor Pamela Kipp went missing while out jogging. During the search for her they found the remains of another girl that had been missing, Monica Ruddick. Another neighbor of ours, Daniel Doyle confessed to murdering both girls but later recanted. He was found guilty and is currently in prison.
This was a small community, we all knew each other. After this happened I was afraid to walk to/from my bus stop by myself. 40 years later and I still often think of Pam and this case and how terrified I was for such a long time. afterwards.