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?

I’ve always worried that the brother really is innocent

This was NZ in the mid 90s - I grew just down the road from where the mother and her three children were killed - one child (son) and the father survived. The son was convicted but was acquitted many years later, lots of theories that the father was the killer.

Grooming gangs

In a previous town I lived in, my colleague went to a nightclub and had a row with another bloke. When he left, the other man followed him in his car, and ran him over repeatedly until he was dead.

Another colleague hung himself by accident, in a sexual game gone wrong.

Nicola Payne is still missing in my city- a 18 year mum to a 6 month old little boy, disappeared on the way to her mum's house in December 1991. Her poor mum died recently without knowing what happened to her. Somebody knows what happened to her - I don't know how they sleep at night .

Due to my job (not law enforcement) I know children and adults who have been murdered, even though I know its more likely because of my job it's always an awful shock. My partner and sister both at school/college with Harold Shipman's kids. Moors murders. The unknown (now known) man who died at a local nature spot in strange circumstances. Dale Creegan. The Creegan one was particularly shocking as I was working closely with Police at that time and the ripple effect across teams was awful. I also remember being with Police officers the day after the Manchester arena attack, such a strange atmosphere.

The Zeebrugge disaster. I'm from Dover originally and everyone knew someone on the ferries and we personally knew several families impacted. Terrible times.

Colin Stagg was cleared and compensated for being wrongly accused of Rachel Nickell's murder. The killer was later found to be Robert Napper through DNA evidence.

I'm sure there's a few from my home town, but the one that sticks out to me the most would be the murder of Nicola Stevenson. Attacked by her lodger, Richard Canlin, with a claw hammer, then stuffed in a wheelie bin which he left in the undergrowth on the local recreation ground. Her body was found about a month after the fact. Sent shockwaves through the local community, the attack on her was barbaric, and all because she wanted him out of her home.

Jo Cox. 5 Mins from my house

Jesus Christ. So before the argument she was just fine living with a murderer? I just can't understand some women.

In 2006 a young lad disappeared from our village and has never been seen or heard from since. There have been a few documentaries about it with theories, but his poor mother is still waiting for news or of course, a body.

Probably terrified because she lived with a murderer!

Many years ago, someone in my hometown cut off somebody's head. The head and torso were found in separate locations. The victim had allegedly being having an affair with the perpetrator's wife.

Just after the end of WW2, a few years before I was born, a boy called Quentin Smith was murdered in our small NW town and all local men had to show the police their clothing, especially jackets and ties. A few days later they called again, Where's the green tie you used to wear? Some neighbour had remembered a tie Dad wore before the war. The murder was never solved but 40 years later we were viewing a house and the seller, learning the area I was from originally, told us that he'd worked on the case as a young constable and that the police knew who'd done it but couldn't prove it. They let the man know they knew and he moved away but the police where he went we told, unofficially, about it.
When the Yorkshire Ripper was caught my OH looked at his photo and said 'F*, that's Pete who I worked with in Bingley churchyard when I was a student!

I’m from Southport, no more explanation needed!

This, along with the horrific murder of Bobbi Anne Mcleod in 2021 - which, given the nature of the crime, I was surprised did not receive more national press attention than it did. But maybe that's a blessing for her family.

She was 18 years old, sitting at a bus stop alone, on her way to meet her boyfriend. There, she was violently attacked from behind by a 24 year old man, who was a total stranger to her. What he did to her from there was horrific.

One thing I'll say about her murder, was it showed me how disgusting people in general can be. I heard multiple "versions" of what had been done to her, or what had happened to her body by her murderer but it wall all made up. The truth of her case was bad enough, but I simply did not understand what people got from adding in their own, entirely false details.

Murder of Stephen Lawrence 1993

Well, I'm sure there have been quite a few, but round the corner from where I was living a while back, a woman, mother of 5 went missing. Her body has never been found but her ex-partner and father of her youngest kids was convicted of her murder, and it's assumed he buried her somewhere in local woodland. Lots of controlling stuff, they'd split up, he had cameras all over the house etc

And when I was a teenager in the late 80s, a girl I'd met only a couple of weeks before and been chatting to at a disco, a friend of a friend, got abducted, raped and frenziedly stabbed to death "in a lover's lane" by a guy who gave her a lift. It was all over the news. Her murderer was released 30 years later, only to be put away again because he reoffended pretty much immediately. I only met her that one time, but I think of her often. Her name was Amanda Hopkinson.

Levi Bellfield committing murders and attempting to murder other girls. Seeing the road next to my son's junior school cordoned off near the bus stop that Marsha McDonnell got off and was murdered shortly after. She's buried in our local church 😞

The murders of Adam Fanelli and Patrick Howard. It was the subject of a 24 Hours in Police Custody episode.

One of the men had custody of his teenage daughter, who moved to live with him after her mother was murdered - and which was the subject of an episode of Killer In My Village.

2 days ago, a 10 year old child who was in the care of Tusla was raped by a man in the IPAS centre and now there are riots.

It was in the early hours of the morning and she was on a recreational day out with those in charge of her care.

A few years ago a mother killed her 3 small children.

Suetonius ordered the murder of the women, children, and non-warriors, and the slaughter of all the baggage train animals after defeating Boudicca

Fred West.

people from not so nice neighbourhoods come into nice neighbourhoods.
people that live in nice neighbourhoods can also be sex offenders.