What’s the most shocking thing to happen in your neighbourhood/home town.

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Had the police around earlier to fill in a quick questionnaire in regard to a serious incident that just happened locally. As we live on the main road they wanted to know if we saw anything, the usual. My mum then pipes up that’s she’s been through this years ago when they were investigating a murder in our home town (not our current hometown) I was shocked as I’m 37 and never heard of this murder in my whole life, granted I was 3 at the time but still… things like that usually spread for years. I then went down a rabbit hole, turns out the murder happened right across the street from our old estate. The woman murdered was called Penny bell. She was found stabbed more than 50 times in her car, they still haven’t caught the killer. I never knew this whole time and it kinda threw me.
what’s the most shocking thing to happen in your hometown?

Yes, you are correct.

If this is One Stop then you live near me, I posted earlier about Steven Grievson who murdered 3 boys at our local school

70s child abduction and torture the little girl was found alive.
Murder and rape of a woman walking short distance home from pub plus he set her on fire.
A paedophile who went to B&Q to get duct tape a knife got a bus to our area and attacked a Gran walking in a park area with the knife with the intent of kidnapping a child.
She fought him off and survived.

Should have said the Gran had her Grandchildren with her and fought to protect them.

I'd moved away by then, but the recent 2 are shocking, especially poor Olly.

I'm in Edinburgh so our history with crime is well storied, but one that got me recently was the young pregnant woman whose abusive husband insisted walk with him along the Crags. He pushed her off, and she lived long enough to tell the passer by who ran to her aid what he had done. I grew up playing in the Queens Park (King's Park now?) and for this evil to take place up there is heartbreaking. I think about her often.

In the town where I grew up, my classmate's mother was murdered by her father. Where I live now, I'd say Libby Squire. Of course, all murders are equally shocking but this case really got to me.

Lee Rigby murder

that's the story I posted further back on here was a shocking crime did you see the documentary

You need to write a book!

Dr Beeching who was responsible for decimating the railway network in the 1960s lived nearby. Ironically his own home town was badly affected. That's it AFAIK

If it’s the most recent one where the lad murdered his 3 family members and on his way to St Joe’s, then yes.

The Mary Bell Murders. The Murder of two young boys by a child of 11 years old.

Gosh yes that was horrible. I read the back story of that, her mum was a prostitute and got Mary involved in the roleplay/fantasy's with her clients. No wonder the poor kid was disturbed, not that it excuses what she did, but certainly a mitigating factor.

Home town (not where I currently live) probably the American plane that came down on the school in WWII.

The murders of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan by their respective husband and wife Colin Howell and Hazel Buchanan, who were having an affair. They lived in/around our current neighbourhood at the time of the murders. James Nesbitt played Howell in a TV series called The Secret.

also a dreadful man who worked in a mortuary and carried out abuse

Nothing interesting back where I grew up, but in the city I live in now, they dug a legless body from the neighbouring garden. That was quite a thing to come home to! Thinking that someone had been out there burying a body while we slept peacefully was seriously creepy.

Was that the electrician guy.
He is a monster.

This bit dark + depressing peeps 😉🤣

A chip shop that turned out to be a bomb factory. It was a very popular chippy. DH's colleagues daughter had a weekend job there and said the owner was really nice and a policeman friend was a customer who said he thought the owner was a good bloke. I heard the controlled explosion from my house.

Gary Glitter was a local and a small local girls' school had been targeted by him. It's closed down now, I cut through the grounds when walking my dog.

I live in a tiny village where everyone knows everyone. In the past 3 years there has been a murder suicide (husband killed his wife in front of his children then killed himself), a man trying to escape from the police ( after trying to kill his girlfriend) who fell to his death from a roof top, 2 paedophiles arrested in dawn raids and a pillar of the community imprisoned for sexual assault.

Obviously the murder suicide was the most shocking. It didn't get reported in the national press, just our local paper. That's how common this level of violence against women is.

The Yorkshire Ripped killed his last victim 3 kms from where I live.

It was a reign of terror for women.