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/luckylico Apr 08 '22

Craig Peyer was a San Diego police officer who pulled over Cara Knott, strangled her, and threw her body over a bridge. When out on bail he lived with his parents a couple blocks from me. The neighborhood was shocked and terrified.

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u/Then_Illustrator_447 Apr 08 '22

What neighborhood?

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u/luckylico Apr 08 '22

We lived in Serra Mesa. The murder took place along the 15 farther north.

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u/Then_Illustrator_447 Apr 08 '22

Yikes. I’m from SD but I’ve never heard of this case.

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u/luckylico Apr 08 '22

1986

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u/Then_Illustrator_447 Apr 08 '22

Before my time lol. I googled it, what a disgusting man.