Have you ever met or had any scary encounters with a notorious criminal...

[3littlemincemeatpies]

I am fascinated by true crime, particularly the behaviours shown and also how the investigations unfold into catching them...

I’m also a big fan of NM’s WOO/scary/creepy threads and thought I’d tie the two together and ask for your scary/near miss encounters with any evil and notorious criminals.

I actually don’t have any of my own other than my dad being involved in the investigation/operation that led to the arrest a well known Scottish peadophile, it was all very dramatic with the raid team (dad included) gaining access to his property in the back of a RM van...

Does anyone have anymore?

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Yeah I know loads who worked with Huntley at Kimberley Clarke. They called him 'woman beater' behind his back

My dad had a relationship with a woman who had killed her own child back in the 70s. They kept it a secret from me for 8 years, until they were pushing to babysit my 18 month old and my aunt put her foot in it by mentioning this woman’s stint in Holloway.

My ex went to prison a year or so after we split, his crime was in national papers but I don't want to go into identifiable specifics. He scared me when we were together and I often thought there was something deeply wrong with him. He had no empathy at all and sometimes his mask would slip and there was nothing there. The judge described him as a danger to the public in court. I often think about how I had a lucky escape.

I used to scuba dive with Derrick bird

Everytime I go to my local hospital, Pinderfields, I always see someone in handcuffs with a chaperone. It is close to Wakefield prison which is maximum security and holds the likes of Bronson, Sutcliffe, Watkins and, previously, Huntley.

My Uncle is a prison officer and when he first started working then the Kray brother that outlived the other one, was an inmate at his prison.

My mums neighbours mum was a witness in court for a very infamous Scottish serial killer and it was a high profile case, as she had worked in the chip shop where a victim had been seen last.

As a late teen, I was in a taxi coming home from work. The taxi driver started to talk about time he’d spent in a remote village somewhere, where as the only white man, he’d been asked by the village elder/tribe leader to have sex with all the virgins in the village .

He pulled up outside my house, but had locked the doors. I was really scared, but was trying to be calm. I told him I was going to be late for my bar job and he started talking about barmaids being whores.

After about 15 minutes, my ex boyfriend turned up. I have never been so glad to see anyone ever. He came to open the car door and the driver unlocked it.

A few months later, an elderly woman was raped and murdered in her bed nearby. It was him. My friend’s elder sister did jury service for the trial. She didn’t tell us anything until afterwards, but what he did was beyond sick. I know I was very lucky... but that poor lady .

Omfg Shockers that’s shocking and so scary!

Not directly but I have met several of Fred West's children. Fred West also worked on a friend's extension shortly before he was arrested. She said he was charming.

In my work as an estate agent I have sold 3 houses where murders took place. In one, where it had been a random attack, the police set up a video camera to film all the viewers. They told me that the murderer often returns to the scene.

Oh, I forgot, also had a neighbour who pushed his wife into a bonfire and held her down on fireworks night. Police suspected him but he was never arrested. He eventually committed suicide when his mistress was about to tell all.

I went out with a lad when I was 16, mostly to make another lad jealous (I know, terrible).
He was a bit of a creep, overly nice to my parents, brought flowers for my mum, just a general sense of ick. I was a virgin at the time and told him I wasn't up for that, he used to persist and I would say no. The last time he tried it I said no and he got really angry. Total change from his usual sweetness and light attitude, so I dumped him that evening. I was a bit nervous to so took two friends with me.

5 years later, he was done for raping several girls at a club he was part of. Two had been too scared to come forward.
Knew he was a creep.

I'm a prison psychologist and usually only work with life or indeterminate sentenced prisoners, so yes have met a few! We spend a lot of time talking in depth about their offence(s) when doing risk assessments for the parole board, to assess their current level of insight into their offending and risk of future offending etc., if they know how to manage their risks of doing it again and so on. It's amazing how quickly you get desensitised. My DP works in a similar field but not with lifers. He always wants to know who I'm working with but also knows it isn't ok for him to ask, as I can't tell him.

@Buddywoo
I've always wondered about what happens with houses that horrific offences have taken place in, that's really interesting. Does it have to be disclosed to buyers?

I don't know much about the practical stuff, have never been to a crime scene or anything like that, but some of the offences I know about for work, I imagine they must involve so much blood I don't know how they ever fully clean it, off floor boards and walls and stuff? Maybe I'm being swayed by watching it being overdramatised on TV though lol. Can you imagine buying a house and ripping up carpets to find massive blood stains or something.

I am not a psychologist but I’m a true crime follower and I’m desensitised to awful things I watch.

It’s like in that Don’t F*ck with Cats thing on Netflix, I was upset about the animal abuse but not so upset that he killed and dismembered a human, it’s like ‘oh here we go, another psycho who likes to dismember people’, like I’ve heard it all before.

Went to the birthday party of a little boy who has no friends because I was a friend of his cousin.
So cousin and I trooped off to this party where we were the only guests age 10 and 11.
Strange little boy- his mum had gone to a lot of effort with the party.
There were rumours of domestic violence between the parents.
Forgot all about it until many years later when saw in newspaper the little boy had murdered a girl.

We had a member of the Mafia living next door to us and he used to practice shooting by killing squirrels with an air rifle, then he’d go off to Sicily ‘for his parents health’. My grandmother once told me that she had known a woman who narrowly escaped being a victim of Jack the Ripper by proving she was a respectable housewife because she was able to show him the food she was taking to her husband.