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

Fascinating thread.

I’m extremely grateful that I have an absolutely dull life

Namechanged1111 I live near you!

The case preferred to was different but on a different peninsular. The murderer and I worked together on that beach though

I referred to! Different case - nearby peninsular! (Fat fingers 😂)

I have met a few killers through work, not serial killers as far as I know. The one that stays with me the most was the quiet young man who: moved in with a mum and three children. He wouldn’t have been noticed in a crowd, had nothing about him that stood out and was content that his very bubbly and organised partner took the lead.
They were together for years and had another child until he was arrested for sexually torturing, raping and mudering an old lady a few streets away. Nothing about him would have suggested that kind of savagery.
He would be out of prison now.

My childhood friends older brother was convicted of one of the most notorious murder in Scotland.

He gave no signs of being capable when we were young. Very much rescuing animals and helping old ladies cross the road. I was really close to the family until I was about 20.

I don't find the murders/acts fasinsting but rather what made them do it was it their child hood, like how could some one be ok with hurting some one. It just doesn't compute.

Someone I went to primary school with for a bit was also later convicted of a murder. His conviction was later found to be unsafe and there was a big thing about contaminated evidence and fingerprints and police were taken to court about it all.

When we were kids my brother had this friend who would come to ours to just hang out and “play around” with motorbikes. Years later, this friend went on to murder a local woman. He had been paid to do it by a friend of his, who was a relative of the woman and apparently couldn’t stand her.

I won’t say any other details as it wasn’t all that long ago and could be outing (I haven’t name-changed).

Oh, I will just say that I was served by the victim at her place of work just before she left for the day, and she was followed by her murderer to the place where he took her life.

RJ Was that in Scotland?

I have known several killers on a professional level, the youngest was a pre-teen.

I went to school with both of the women who murdered Liam Fee (don’t believe they should have use of the title mother) they were in a relationship and it was very odd even then, both in the school choir.

I’ve had contact with “Wearside Jack” on a professional basis since his release from prison, he was fairly open about his past however didn’t seem to have any remorse about sending the letters and contributing to the deaths of women

I went to school with someone who stabbed his fiancee and mother of his children to death a few years back.
He was very quiet at school.

In my area of work I've had dealings with both the Suffolk strangler and the crossbow killer.
Stephen Wright was literally the most creepy man I have ever met. It was clear given half the chance he would have headbutted me at the very least.
However, the crossbow killer was impeccably charming and I had a hard time believing he had murdered anyone in all honesty.

Yep nicknack that was Scotland too. Both incredibly well known cases.

I knew someone who killed his partner in a horrific way and then went on to commit suicide. Tragic and absolutely shocking for our small community.

My mother and her school friend hitched a ride from a lorry driver back in the 60s after a night at the dancing. Mum got out at town A and headed home. Her friend should have got off at town B just down the road. She never made it home and she was never seen again. They still haven't found her body.

RJ The Shirley Mckie case. Strangely I can name her but not the alleged murderer or victim.

I was in Gloucester police station as a child (parent was in the force) when some of the forensics team came back from excavating 25 Cromwell St in search of Heather West. Someone said ‘find her?’ and one of them replied, ‘we found two’. I was only a kid but knew what I’d meant

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I can't remember the name of the poor woman who was killed either. I do know no one was ever caught for it though. I was at the same school as him for about 2 years, hadn't seen him for over ten years then the court case was in the news.

I hope he's built a good life, I think he was in prison for 3 years or so for something he didn't do.

Hmmm not sure I share the shame sentiment about him but the case was destined to fail as soon as the issue with the fingerprints came up!

I knew Tony Teare as a kid (and thought he was weird then). Didn't surprise me to hear he'd murdered a girl with a Stanley knife for £600...

winter I really wouldn’t have posted that. Your wife shouldn’t have told you that.

My husband spent time as a child with a man who later killed his mother’s partner - when we found out DH said that he could have guessed he’d do something like that one day. A very strange child, apparently.

I worked on a ward where we had a patient who we had to put a false name on the board for. I was new to the area and hospital but found out from colleagues he had murdered his wife and hid her body under the floorboards

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-39717729

Just did a google of it there and see he has now died in prison. Very odd to be the nurse of someone like that