To ask if you’ve ever become obsessed with a murder case?

Ive driven through Wadhurst quite a few times. It was big news in the area at the time I think and I’ve since seen the case featured on crime watch on YouTube.

@Wildbird12 yeah that's the murder/suicide I'm talking about, there's no way he "flipped" like you said it was all planned, I just can't imagine the terror in that house.
Shortly after the funerals Clodagh's family requested & were granted that his body be removed from the families side & rightly so, there was certainly an element of "the poor man, he must have been under so much stress" everyone was outraged & that particular narrative stopped pretty sharpish

It was three sons I think? Absolutely awful... I think people can't process that a person could plan out the murders. I remember getting into a discussion withy mother in law where she said he 'flipped' and went crazy... But he planned it - had his weapon ready, etc. He seemed so normal - I don't know how the families move on from it.

The death of baby Victoria following the runaway parents - aristocratic mother , convicted rapist father who were finally found after sleeping in a tent in January and dumping their deceased baby in a carrier bag full of rubbish in an allotment.
RIP Victoria

Yes, I came across that case on a previous MN thread.

I was so angry that the church had her buried next to him and so glad she was moved away. I’ll always remember that name.

That reminded me of a case over here, a whole family, wife & two sons murdered by (of course) the dad because obviously they couldn't possibly live without them, he's cooked the books in school, think he was the treasurer, usual "pillar of the community" comments from the priest at the funerals sent shockwaves through the country, another prick, RTÉ made a program about it "Her Name Is Clodagh"

Peasenhall Murder
This is the podcast of the murder of Rose Harsent in a village close to me.
My late great aunt could remember it happening and used to talk to me about it.

I'm exactly the same & it's literally once you start on one you're done for hours (days!)

@Boiledbeetle jesus christ I'm gobsmacked, I can't believe you lived through that x

I think I lost a whole weekend on Tsunamis and flash floods. Flash floods in particular are insane! I’m such a ghoul.

Oh god me too! Any kind of disasters really tbh, I lose hours to them

@redalex261 Rachel Callely's (O'Reilly) mam was on the radio during the week over here, it's been 20 years if you can believe that? That prick is still trying for parole every chance he gets, no remorse, nothing, the poor woman sounds broken, he took so much from that family, they're from my home area

I watched The Laci Peterson, An American Murder series on Netflix recently, again another senseless murder by an absolute monster

Janet Brown in Radnage.

Same here, I sobbed for days reading about that darling boy, it really got to me. I will never in a million years understand women who put boyfriends before their children.

Yep the baby P case. To this day I get a lump
in my throat when I think about that poor child. How he was utterly failed by everyone who should have protected him. I read about the case constantly and watched all the news reports. I think there was an element of my brain not being able to comprehend how horrifically the poor mite was treated

Claudia lawrence
And Nicola Bulley although it was ruled as an accident

Same. I'm fairly hardened to true crime but I can't read anything about it. My little boy is 5.

Someone mentioned Billie Jo Jenkins. Her foster dad was charged I think ,but acquitted. Can’t remember if he went to prison for a while.Sean Jenkins was his name.

So her murder was never actually solved.

Crazy isn’t it ? He murdered two women and was let out because he served his minimum term..

Thankfully murder sentencing does seem higher than it was previously..

Channel 5 had a doc on it last night, one of the talking heads said that Chris Watts may have wanted to wipe out the view of himself as a man who cheats on his wife by killing them all. He couldn’t just leave them with a divorce.

I think she’s right, he was a narcissist that put his self-image ahead of the lives of his wife and children.

Suzanne Sevakis.

Kidnapped by her step-father at the age of 4, sexually abused, forced to marry him as a teen, raped at gunpoint, forced to be a stripper / prostitute to earn him money, went through 2/3 pregnancies, finally killed by him in a ‘hit and run’ car accident. After her death he then killed her son.

A bright girl who dreamed of becoming an aerospace engineer. So much potential stolen by a depraved man.

Years ago I read up on the James Bulger case and watched documentaries.

But since being a parent, I struggle to read anything to do with it. I think it’s because I have a son who’s 4 now, and I can completely imagine him going off with two older boys to play.

I often think of this case.

Poor James, he was only out shopping on an ordinary day but with his mum.

No mystery involved, but I think often of poor Emily Jones who was killed in Bolton by a woman with paranoid schizophrenia. Just the random horror of it - that a normal day out in the park with your child could end with them dead. I can't begin to imagine how her parents must have suffered.

The other one that sticks in my mind is the disappearance of Ruth Wilson in Surrey in 1995. The circumstances are so odd and it is one of those rare cases where it's possible to believe she is still alive somewhere.

I've made my peace with it as much as I can. Hopefully once the file on the murder is allowed to be accessed it will help answer some of the questions I still have as to how he managed to end up in my life!