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

Not a serial killer, but I knew a woman who got her boyfriend's mate to kill her husband

Let''s just say that nobody was very surprised

Much as I think this thread is fascinating, I don’t think anyone with professional knowledge or information should be posting. I’ve dealt with famous cases. I won’t discuss them on the internet, no matter how anonymous I think I am.

Don’t do it.

I worked with a man who once gave me a lift ftom Bournemouth to Nottingham. He was quite odd but had told me he had MH problems in the past. My OH and,I went out with him and his lovely partner a couple of times. He murdered her. Then it came out that he used to force her into S and M and dogging. She had a small son from a previous relationship. I was beyond shocked and often wonder what happened to her son.

The killer of Caroline Hogg used to drive a lorry and deliver to our family business, police did interview us but he just dropped the stuff off and left, no different to any other lorry driver

One of my teachers killed his wife who was also a teacher at the school. She was having an affair with a third teacher at the same school. They had young kids. Always felt for them knowing what their dad did. They must be early/mid twenties now.

Yes, a boy i went to school with was jailed in his late teens for murdering someone. Not really a great surprise, he was troubled from a young age and poorly supported. On the rare occasion he pops into my head I can't help but wonder what he would have been like with proper support in place growing up.

The priest at my childhood church is a convicted paedophile and told me I was to blame for a sexual assault.

KingIrving - is that Katy Piper's attacker?

My dad has the same name as a murderer, made national news and has been mentioned on this thread already. He has now changed his name legally but it was a nightmare for a long time and we lost a lot of friends, obviously they knew it wasn't my dad but the crimes were pretty shocking and I guess no one wanted to associate with us with that name around (luckily my siblings and I have our mothers surname)
That's as close a link as I get though, reading some of these are absolutely fascinating!

@joeturnersleftfoot Yes, dear... and I'm Cleobloodypatra.

I know the parents of Peter Morgan who murdered his escort/girlfriend a couple years back.

@flowerfae I used to work with Peter Moore's business partner from the cinema and later on worked with the daughter of one of his victims.

I don't know anyone distant or close that have murdered anyone but I am fascinated with true crime.

It seems a large proportion of killers have had trauma in their backgrounds. The one that has stayed with me was the Mary Bell case.

Her childhood was horrific, it doesn't excuse what she had done of course but, her mother was vile.

Professionally not in my personal life...came accross a notorious child murderer a few years before it happened.
Chatty and pretty normal,a ladies man vibe. Never warmed to him and found him a bit creepy

I've had a few patients who have murdered, some with police escorts 24/7 and chained to them and others who were never sentenced but known locally.

When I was 8 I heard our upstairs neighbour being killed. Remember the police coming round the next day to ask some questions and when I told her what I heard she said the workmen had been in fixing the lift and that's what all the banging was. Asked my mum about it recently and she was properly shocked that I remembered it and that I knew it wasn't the lift being fixed.

I live in a block of flats, December 2017 we were woken by a knock on the door, it was the police asking if we had heard any domestic violence from the other end of the block as there had been a serious incident. I told them that we couldn't hear the other end of the block as we are separated by the stairwells. The police forensic team were in & out all day & in the afternoon we saw a body being taken away. Turned out that a couple ( I had always thought that they were mother & son) had been fighting & he had strangled the woman, dumped her in the bath & then tried to kill himself, someone in the flat below had heard & rang the police who had the man taken to hospital, never looked in the bathroom & only later went back & found the lady's body in the bath behind the shower curtain. The man was sent for trial & found guilty of murder by diminished responsibility, he has been sent to a secure hospital in the next town until they decide he is sane enough to be released. There was nothing out of the ordinary about either of them, you never really know what anyone is capable of.

This is a horrendous thread and quite fascinating...

My terrible family connection is not serial-killer based, but a distant relative gave the order for the charge at Gallipoli...which didn't go so terribly well

Back in the 1980s I worked for several years with a man who was really popular, life and soul type. He was happily married with two children, and we met all of them at various company social events. Several years later I read in the paper that he'd shot his wife and son and then himself (the other child had only escaped as she was at university) - turns out that their marriage had broken down, due to his violent and controlling behaviour, and he was determined to take his revenge for her leaving him. Absolutely horrific. But you would never have guessed he'd have been capable of something so awful.

One of my children knew Ian Huntley and both Holly and Jessica and their siblings, my other child knew Maxine Carr and was a classmate to both girls. Both of my children are now grown up and the murders still affect them to this day.

A girl I worked with was walked home across playing fields near Garden Lane by Peter Sutcliffe. She knew him vaguely as they were neighbours.

My brother in law worked with Fred west when he was a builder.

I didnt meet but I had dealings on the phone with a lad who was convicted of killing his parents a couple of months later. I remembered him because he was so charming on the phone. He is in a high security mental health facility, not Broadmoor but somewhere like that.

Very sadly my friends nephew was murdered a few years ago, he was mugged near a tube station and they killed him. It hit national headlines at the time. I met him just the one time, was a really lovely young man engaged to be married.

theluckiest one of DH ancestors signed Charles I death warrant.

Forgot...used to work with her. She was very quiet and unsociable and a bit weird!

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/declan-hainey-tragedy-mother-who-3540785.amp

Harold Shipman was my Doctor.