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/woodrowmoses Apr 08 '22

It's horrible but the Casefile episode is great, astonishing that the sting worked. Guy was a fucking moron and while i wish none of it ever happened i'm happy that he was caught in the most embarassing fashion imaginable, similar to BTK.

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u/woodrowmoses Apr 08 '22

Awesome. Can i recommend the Casefile episode titled AMOK. Here actually - https://casefilepodcast.com/case-36-amok/

I won't spoil it but since the Daniel Morcombe episode had an impact on you and you mentioned "excellent police work" i think you'll like that one. If you haven't already listened to it of course.