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First Crime story you remember?

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TazzyDrunk · 29/12/2019 18:57

I would say the first one I remember was Damilola Taylor briefly , I was about 7 and remember seeing it on the news.

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DuckWillow · 30/12/2019 13:32

Lesley Whittle is the first one I remember...poor girl was only 17. Back in the 1970s

TonTonMacoute · 30/12/2019 15:02

The Moors murders (very old!)

dayswithaY · 30/12/2019 15:06

I remember graffiti all over London saying "George Davis is Innocent". It was everywhere - bridges, tunnels, the side of buildings. Quite impressive when you consider this was in the 1970s so all done by word of mouth. I think he was an armed robber and I've no idea if he was innocent or not.

I also remember the siege of the Iranian Embassy being shown live on TV as the SAS went in - very exciting. The Yorkshire Ripper dominated the news for a while. I remember walking home from the youth club in the dark with friends and being terrified that he was lurking around every corner. We lived in a village in the South East - clearly we didn't understand distance!

Other than that I spent my whole childhood and teens being terrified of a nuclear bomb being dropped, I genuinely didn't think I would ever make it to adulthood. Seems like every generation has it's demons to live with.

ToEarlyForDecorations · 30/12/2019 20:47

A girl who went to the shop to buy milk and didn’t come home. I can’t remember anymore details though.

Lindsay Rimmer (it was cornflakes she bought)

Her body was found in a canal several months later. She had been strangled. No one has yet been found guilty of her murder.

MadisonAvenue · 30/12/2019 21:03

dayswithaY I only know of George Davis because he's mentioned in a Duran Duran song.

As for the fear of nuclear war, I was in my teens in the 80s and remember being terrified as it seemed like a real possibility that a bomb would go off.

StarbucksSmarterSister · 30/12/2019 22:03

dayswithaY

George Davis may gave been innocent of that but he was subsequently convicted of 2 further crimes, so who knows.

It's actually occurred to me that the first "crime" I was aware of is the assassination of John Kennedy. I was 7 and remember seeing it ( the Zapruder footage so a day or two later) on tv .

InAPrettyCabinet · 30/12/2019 22:03

James bulger. My cousin was the same age as the little boy and I was the same age as the boys that murdered him. It was probably the first time I really knew that children could hurt children.

DickAmbush · 30/12/2019 22:16

The disappearance of Melanie Hall. It was a big deal in our family - we're related to her parents by marriage - and I was still at school when she went missing.

GinisLife · 30/12/2019 22:36

Christine Darby because she went missing 2 days before my 9th birthday in 1969. Every man in Walsall of a certain age were Interviewed by the police including my Dad. I remember them coming to the front door. He killed 2 other girls as well, all found on Cannock Chase. Turned out he was living opposite the police station. He was never released from prison and died a few years ago. Life meant life back then.

MoiraRose · 30/12/2019 23:04

Susan Maxwell in 1982. She was a year younger than me and remember seeing her face and hearing about it a lot on the news

fussychica · 30/12/2019 23:09

Great train robbery 1963 then the Moors murders 63-65. I also remember my mum being upset and asking her what was wrong and she said President Kennedy has been shot, so again 1963.

LaurieFairyCake · 30/12/2019 23:27

Susan Maxwell - she was abducted and murdered in the same area and same age as me

I wasn't allowed out on my own for years when I previously had been

Fluffymammoth · 31/12/2019 04:04

Susan Maxwell, the same age as me and same area

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 31/12/2019 04:11

Peter Sutcliffe.
My dad was from Bradford, and my mam was at teaching college there when they met. They knew the streets on the news and that somehow made it much more "real" to me.
I remember the bombing of the Conservative party conference hotel in Brighton too, seeing Norman Tebbit lifted from the wreckage has always stuck with me.
I do remember some of the other things mentioned, but those two were the ones that came to mind without prompting so to speak.

NewMe2020 · 31/12/2019 05:23

Genette Tate. I gave up my paper round after that I was so scared

Gingerkittykat · 31/12/2019 07:01

The murders of Caroline Hogg and Susan Maxwell, I was around the same age as Caroline and lived very close to where she disappeared. We had endless stranger danger talks and videos at school and there was a real sense of fear about it happening again.

Auldspinster · 31/12/2019 07:08

Susan Maxwell then especially Caroline Hogg. I'm from Edinburgh so had visited the amusement park she was abducted from many times and she was the same age as my little brother.

Fucket · 31/12/2019 07:18

I don’t know if it was a crime as such, possibly dangerous driving, a motorbike lost control and killed twins I was at school with as they were walking home from their first bonfire display. It was on the local news and I remember the assembly at school. Being told our friends weren’t coming back to school. I was 5. It shook everyone up and their grave is not too far from family graves. I always get sad when I see it. Such young lives lost, its more upsetting now as back then I dont think I understood.

Hillsborough disaster is also an early memory.

Deathraystare · 31/12/2019 07:52

The Moors Murderers. Remember Myra Hindley's staring eyes out of Dad's Daily Express.

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