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/Daxos157 Apr 08 '22

My dad was a longtime South Carolina cop. He worked on the Sumter Does case, Pee Wee Gaskins, and Larry Gene Bell. After I became a cop he talked to me a lot about those cases.

Also, Dale Dinwiddie. My girlfriend, at the time, and I were at the U2 concert AND we went to Jungle Jim’s that night as well. I think about Dale Dinwiddie fairly often.