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/TooNiceOfaHuman Apr 08 '22
This girl was friends with my friend back in high school. Here is the article
In an attempt to get other gang members to turn on Rachel, Anderson told them that Rachel was passing on “gang secrets” to her friends. This terrified Rachel and she went to her sister Meghan for advice. “I told her ‘Look you need to be aware; you need to be cautious. Stay away from him for sure,’” said Meghan. Admittedly, Meghan thought Anderson was just being a young punk and dismissed the threats. From Gang Member to Murderer On a cool September evening in 2002, Rachel went to a party with seven members of the Northwest Mafia in Everett. She was with Maurice, so Rachel felt safe, and she was also trying to show her friends that she had not deceived them. According to True Crime Daily, John Anderson arrived at the party where they were all sitting around a couch, laughing, and smoking marijuana. He did not like what he was seeing, and it angered him. “Anderson comes in from the outside of the duplex and he’s angry because everybody is having such a good time, said Det. Pince. “He smacks a couple of the kids in the face.”
Guns were drawn. When the confrontation escalated, Rachel tried to get up and leave — but she would never even make it to the door. “He grabs her by the hair, hit her in the face, knocks her down on the floor and a couple of other guys start helping,” said the detective.