To ask if you've ever personally known an infamous killer/serial killer/

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I'm fascinated with true crime and was having a conversation with my Grandad once. He told me that one of his brothers mates was friends with peter sutcliffe,and that he had met him a couple of times.

Interested to know if others have have had encounters or known a serial killer

Weirdly jaunty thread about murderers, but you do you.

Not a serial killer, but a very famous killer.
We went on holiday together as part of a group. He plotted to have someone kill his girlfriend in an horrific way. She survived but with life changing injuries. He was sentenced to 20 years. Very very famous case. They even did a movie on it.
I still find it hard to believe it. He appeared such a sweet and handsome man.

I'm very distantly related to one of the suspects of Jack the Ripper and also the last executioner in England .
Clearly my family has a very dark background !

I worked with Ian Huntley briefly. He seemed to be a friendly, helpful, cheery man, although I didn't know him well, just chatted in passing at work.

Just shows that some people who are capable of doing horrendous things can appear perfectly normal. I guess that's how they get away with stuff for so long.

Where do you draw the line for your ghoulish entertainment? Are child murderers fascinating too? Bloody hell.

Not quite, but having been told a story about a friend's crap GP, I said "Bloody hell. Who's your family doctor? Harold Shipman?!"

...turned out it was. And he'd killed her grandmother.

My uncle was a prison guard and one on the inmates was Rose West.

If people don't like the thread why comment on it? So why don't you do you elsewhere!

I've never met a killer but I grew up in the house next door to one of the Yorkshire rippers victims.

Very tenuous link but I used to work with a bouncer that was good friends with that POS Levi bellfield.
I also lived in the same small town Bellfield used to hang around in with his sick “mates” but didn’t realise that until very recently

On another thread a poster revealed she was almost a victim of Bellfield. She refused a lift from him. So close!

Where do you draw the line for your ghoulish entertainment? Are child murderers fascinating too? Bloody hell.

You’re obviously oblivious to the vast popularity of true crime podcasts like ‘my favourite murder’ and ‘all killer no filler’. Not a problem in the slightest if true crime isn’t your thing, but OP is hardly weird or unusual!

I went on a pub crawl with someone who went on to kill their parents. It was during an overnight stay for a medical school interview at Oxford. It really threw me when I saw him all over the news a few months later.

NC'd for this.
I knew Colin Norris (nurse who murdered old people).
My friend is his friend and has supported him throughout. No one knows the truth other than him but there have been a few documentaries alleging it's a miscarriage of justice. I think the idea is it's a medical thing that we don't yet understand (similar probably to where mothers were suspected of harming their babies before cot death became more understood).
I don't know what I believe but from the times where I did meet him there were no warning signs. He seemed to be a normal guy.

My brother went to a boys club ran by Thomas Hamilton. He only went the once cos he didn’t like the leaders

Not a serial killer but knew someone whose dad was imprisoned for fraud, a very high profile fraud case which I remember well. It was in all the papers and on the news, I saw the dad on television during the trial, protesting his innocence. The family had a very unusual surname and I made a joke about it to the person I knew, was really surprised when he said it was his father, I apologised & was embarrassed. Lovely chap (the one I knew, I didn't know his dad), nice family actually. Dad had poor health and was moved from his prison to one nearer home so he could have more regular visits, I think he died while still serving his sentence.

My Brother in law was in the same class at school with somone who murdered an elderly lady in a bus station in the most horrific of circumstances it was notorious locally for years who only got caught years later by a chance .

I briefly dated someone who turned out to be a really nasty piece of work- he was jailed indefinitely. I had no clue.

Professionally, a larger amount than I imagine most people would consider usual

I saw a patient at work, then saw him on the news a week later as he’d killed a young woman on the Isle of Wight.

I have known several notorious criminals through my previous job role.
Some were just boring, ordinary people, others gave me the creeps and some had a switch they could open and close at any time, from nice to nasty in a second.

You'd love Netflix. Loads of documentaries about stuff like that

My Friend was a killer, I think we all knew he was capable as back when we was younger and the estate we lived on it was crime ridden and this stupid London gang shit was just starting to appear, he shot someone dead the first time, then another guy a second time although it wasn't actually him but he was there at the time. He got convicted for it and got given 33 years. He was actually really nice to me and used to always look out for me it was crazy.

Ian Brady sent me a Christmas card once. I wrote to him for a while when I was studying criminology at uni years ago.

I was good friends with & worked for the jigsaw killer when I was younger. I was only a teenager but I knew he was dangerous.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247710/Jigsaw-killer-Stephen-Marshall-spend-36-years-jail-Jeffrey-Howes-murder.html

my granda worked with peter manuel.