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

kind of. a kid who went to my primary school was the accomplice (as a teenager) in a brutal murder and helped dispose of the victim's body. the child was dirty looking by anyone's standards, smelly with food remnants on face, unwashed greasy hair, stained uniform, anger issues/behavioural problems along with a chaotic home life. the child and their siblings were also bullied and ostracised at school - this was long before the child became the accomplice.

I knew a family years ago dad wanted to know when he could be bothered mum was useless (didn't bother trying to bring them up was more bothered about what she could claim from the benefits and just allowed everyone else to bring them up) and the kids where feral-ive never met kids so badly behaved in my life-dad got sent down for abusing a 9 year old child kids got put into care and mum found god and left the area
A few years later I was at home when my daughter & her boyfriend came home and told me they'd seen a young lad walking around the end of our street laughing and covered in blood
Turns out the eldest had murdered his mothers new boyfriend and walked away
When the police caught him he just laughed and said that this bloke deserved it
Claudia Laurence also left her home walked past my house walked up the riad and was never seen again
Caroline stuttle went to school with my brother-she was on a gap year-went to phone her mum and was thrown off a bridge

My old boss did actually work with Dennis Nilsen. When he was applying for a promotion he asked me to review his CV. Same office, same years. Not that I doubted him but it does seem to be a thing that anyone working for the CS in London in the 1980s always seems to know someone who did.

He was working up in Yorkshire with us when Nilsen was arrested. He and his wife had relocated up north due to caring responsibilities. He actually looked ill when he talked about how Nilsen used to bring curries and the like into the office that everyone used to tuck into. Everyone used to bring in food on the last working day of every month and nobody thought anything of it. Well you wouldn't would you? Who would assume that your colleagues are serving up human flesh? Whilst I don't think it was ever proved that he did cook human flesh for his colleagues, it has to be a possibility. And a hideous one at that.

We used to have the odd office buffet but Patrick never, ever ate anything that he hadn't brought in himself. Don't blame him.

And apparently he was a very nice, quiet and gentle man. A bit odd, but mostly well liked.

I knew Russell Bishop's mother-did dog training classes with her. Poor woman.

I've worked in two care home within my local town. In one a colleague was in the home on her own when a builder came in to do some repairs. In the other we found the signature of the same man in some old plaster when doing some refurbishment.
The man was Fred West. Apparently, he was ever so friendly, in an, apparently, harmless way. It's only hindsight that makes my colleague think he was even slightly creepy.