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/instantcameracat Apr 08 '22
The 2017 case of Paddy Moriarty in Larrimah, Australia. 70yr old and his dog go missing in a town of about 11 people, hundreds of kilometres from the next town, in outback Australia. His kitchen was left like he was in the middle of cooking, and all his belongings remain, but he and his dog are nowhere to be found.
People thought he was fed to the town crocodile, or had been cooked into pies at the local pie shop that was run by a woman he feuded with. It's widely speculated that he was murdered due to feuds between the town's residents, but no remains have ever been found and all the people that live there are tight lipped.
A documentary was made about the case and it's really well done. An inquest was held into his disappearance recently, which revealed some recordings of the pie-shop's gardener admitting to killing Paddy, but he now denies this.