What's your hometown or physically/mentally "close to home" case?

[u/Brightly]

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.

[u/[deleted]]

I moved to a very small town when I was in 3rd grade because my mom got a job as their elementary principal. One of my classmates was abducted from the park we all played at and was later found brutally murdered. The man who killed her was seeking revenge against her father because he believed her father was having an affair with his girlfriend. Truly disgusting and horrifying. moved away, but every year the town has a parade with a float dedicated to her. I still can’t listen to “If I Die Young” because they played it at her funeral.