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

My dad drove one of the hearses at a Kray’s funeral ( can’t remember which one) .

My Dd went to school with a lad that murdered his friend.

My grandparents were very friendly with Peter Tobin, who murdered a young Polish girl and buried her in the chapel.
Really affected my grandparents as they always said he's was a nice but lonely old man. They also knew the young girl he murdered. She had been to their house for dinner a few times.
My grandparents never set foot in that chapel again after it.

I used to work as a nanny and I took a job where I lasted one day, the kids were out of control, total nightmare. They were 2,4 and 5. The 4 year old killed someone in the name of religion when he was 17.

A guy we were at college killed his parents.

He was a paranoid schizophrenic- ‘‘twas very sad

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A few years ago now, DH and I were good friends with a couple who lived a few doors down from us. The couple eventually split up

The DH killed his daughter, the family dogs and them himself

He always seemed like a really nice guy, we spent lots of time with them over the years so it was a complete shock. He got very depressed after they split but he seemed to be getting better

When I was 17 my boss’s estranged wife was killed by her new boyfriend. I’d met the new boyfriend several times, he seemed really nice

In my line of work have met some very dangerous men

What is interesting is that some can be quite charming then as someone else has pointed out can switch. Nothing is said no threatening behavior but what they project it can be absolutely terrifying even for professionals that have worked with them for years what is going on in their head I don’t want to know

It feels as though they are passively reminding you what that are capable of

Not a famous case but my dad had a long relationship with a lady who was a paranoid schizophrenic who had once killed her baby. My Dad kept it a secret from DH and I for 8 years, and we only found out when DS was two and they were going to babysit him and my aunt mentioned my dad's DP's prison sentence!

I knew a young woman who was murdered by her stbxh. He was abusive and she had left him. She was in hiding at her sister’s house and he had their 5 children. Arrangements were made for her to spend the weekend with the children. He killed her in the house in front of 2 of the children and hid her body in the house, then he and a friend buried her on the embankment of the M6.
She was missing for over 6 months before the friend went to the police and told them what had happened.
The husband was jailed for 6 years. When he was released he applied for and got custody of the children ☹️
I also know a guy who has severe MH issues who stabbed his mother to death when he was younger. I worked alongside him for 4 years before a customer told me. I still struggle to accept he was capable of violence as he is so gentle and quiet

I personally knew Levi Bellfield. Through his ex girlfriend.

I work on a forensic unit with mostly murderes pedophile patients, many have committed murders, some even as children but will never be released. They have committed some awful crimes that have never been reported in the press.

My caravan nearly got broken into, but we woke up and whoever it was ran off. The next day a Nepalese lady was raped and murdered by the man who lived in the caravan next to us. It was him who tried to break into our place. We found a knife outside the bathroon window. ( I remember putting a thread on here about it a few years ago)

My mums best friend was stabbed 52 times by her husband. That was only reported in the local press.

The father of a friend of my XPs (bit tenuous, I know) was sort of treated by Bashar al Assad at a hospital on the Marylebone Road. He was an ophthalmologist in training so sat in on an early stage glaucoma consultation. FFXP remembers him being very quiet and introverted and virtually whispering when the consultant asked him questions. For years we thought he was making it up until there was an article in the paper about Assad’s time in London.

Not a murder, but attempted- my ex’s best friend was the man who stabbed Abigail Witchalls. I never met him because the crime happened a few years before I met my ex. He was convinced his friend was innocent but his arguments always seemed very weak to me.

Luna, how weird - I’ve just read the thread with your post on it earlier today! I glad the traveller boys moved you. It freaked me out a bit.

Edit: I should probably say “suspected of” the stabbing since he died before he could be arrested or charged. I think it’s widely accepted that he did it though.

In the 70's a girl on our small estate drowned both her children. It was a very sad case to do with post natal depression.

In the 80's we rehomed our dog to a teenager who came to the house with her dad. A few years later he murdered her.

In the 90's I knew (through work) three of Fred West's children.

Also I sold a house in Yorkshire where a woman had been randomly murdered. There were still bloodstains on the back bedroom floor. I had to report every viewing to the police and there was also a camera in the house to film people outside. The police told me murderers often return to the scene of the crime. The murderer was caught a few years later after he had been breathalysed through his DNA.

Not serial killers but a young woman whose mother I know was part of a group of people who kidnapped and murdered a guy because they thought he had a lot of money in his safe. He didn’t.

Another young woman I knew from the school run is currently on remand awaiting trial for murder, along with another person. Both have young children

I've always loved all of the true crime programmes I watch everything on Crime & Investigation channel or ID

A few years ago my ex next door neighbour brutally murdered someone. It creeps me out just thinking about it, this person had been in my home hundreds of times.

shall small world!

One of the other residents thought it was his knife. But when the police later checked to try and account for potential weapons, the one we found came from the knife set that murderer had in his caravan.

He originally came from Kent. He had just been released from prison there due to a violent sexual attack. His parents were worried about vigilantes so found this caravan, drove him to Berkshire, paid the first months rent and left him there.

Not me but hubby knows someone who decades ago murdered his wife and dumped her body in a lake in the Lake District. He got caught because divers were looking for another body years later and found his wife instead. Iirc if he'd rowed out about another 4ft her body wouldn't have landed on the ledge where it was and would have been a lot deeper and he'd never have been caught.

They were/are in the same sports club. Sports club checked the constitution and he hadn't broken any club rules so they decided they couldn't expel him. He paid his subs while he was in prison and is now out and still in the club (I think, he certainly was).

When we bought our house 18 years ago we pulled the dining room carpet up and the previous owners had used newspaper as underlay and the very old newspapers were full of coverage of his trial. So I was reading this quite fascinated and dh pipes up that he knows him, he'd been released by then. Think the trial must have been in the 80s or 90s.

Not personally but professionally, yes. Comes as part of my job.

murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hogg-peter.htm

It was this case, he only got 4 years! Unbelievable.

Joanna Dennehey. I came across her in my work
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Bert Spencer (Carl Bridgewater case) was the boss of my dsis best friend's mum. She provided his only alibi because she thought the sun shone out of him. He gave my dsis and bf a lift to the airport once, and they thought he was great too.
Watch the documentary - gives me chills.

www.channel4.com/programmes/interview-with-a-murderer/on-demand/62882-001