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

I worked in a prison so knew a few, some were serial killers another raped and killed a family member and the body has never been found. Also a fair few that had killed their partners.

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What were they like as children?

I’ve taught three children who’ve gone on to commit murders later. I can honestly say that if two of them had been better looked after by the state (so, yes, I think we should absolutely throw piles of money at the benefit system and I don’t care if some of it is wasted) then those deaths would never have happened.

I taught one of the boys as a very young teacher. He was 11. He was very, very difficult. I can remember after one incident hearing two more experienced teachers chatting. One joked, ‘We should just cut out the middle man and put him in prison for life now’. At the time I thought they were heartless. Now I realise it was obvious. He had attachment disorder, his mum was a heroin addict, he was already so messed up a serious crime was inevitable.

To PP who said they knew Robert Thompson - are you definitely sure because he has been living with a male partner for a long time!

I was going to say that I was pretty certain that he was gay.

I know a few people who claim to have worked with him. He allegedly worked in a restaurant here for a time. I don't know how true any of it is.

I also know a few people who were friends with poor Shafilea Ahmed. They were questioned after she went missing and were so shocked when it transpired what had actually happened.

Very tenuous but I have a friend who was in the same prison as Rose West for a time. She never met her but she saw her once. Cold eyes apparently.

I worked with someone who murdered his mum, fled the country and murdered another woman whilst on the run.

My colleagues and I would joke that we thought he was a serial killer. He used to say some really worrying things about women. Very worrying but we weren't surprised when we saw him in the news.

I worked with someone who murdered his mum, fled the country and murdered another woman whilst on the run.

My colleagues and I would joke that we thought he was a serial killer. He used to say some really worrying things about women. Very worrying but we weren't surprised when we saw him in the news.

I know a man who likes his wife- his sister walked in and witnessed it, as the sister ran out the house for help he dragged her back in and killed her too. He was out of jail after 22 years. 22 years for two lives and leaving his child Without a mother.

What I cant get over is that the rest of his family forgave him. How do you possibly
Forgive something like that!

Sorry meant killed his wife.

Waving at the "Murderinos" on this thread.

Stay Sexy, Don't Get Murdered

@daughterofanarchy that's horrific! I couldn't forgive either.

@MeOldChina 😂😂

Fairly close on the family tree is a serial killer. It gets chucked into those arguments where you list every minor wrong the other party has ever done at times... "You ate my last Rolo back in 1983... Well it's your side of the family that are the serial killer" type squabbles

Not me, but my mum used to know Thomas Hamilton. She said he was a total oddball, I was in primary school in Stirling when the Dunblane incident happened, I remember us all being sent home early. Apparently I'd met him once or twice, but I don't recall.

@HexagonalBattenburg 😂😂 sorry I don't mean to laugh but that has had me stitches 🙈

Many years ago, one of my first boyfriends visited a mate of his. Turns out it was Winston Silcotts brother and they were campaigning for his release.

The Broadwater Farm really is a horrid place. Apologies if anyone lives there

My parents knew someone considered to be a psychopath who lead a gang who tortured and murdered 23 people under the guise of ‘political’ killings. Everyone was terrified of him unsurprising and they roamed untiuched by the police for 8/9 years despite everyone know who they were and what they were doing.

@Surfingtheweb

Someone who was once very close to me actually lent his car to Stephen Marshall. The same car he used to ferry the body parts about.

Friend was completely unaware and wasn't convicted of anything

I live in the U.S. A guy I used to work with murdered his wife three years after leaving our company for another job. He was very quiet. Looking at him you’d never, ever suspect he was capable of such a thing.

Yes I have but that’s all I want to say about it!

Anyone else read this in the voice of Forrest Gump?

lol @ the one who said it was Robert Thompson she saw.

What, did he blow his cover and say "Hi, I'm Robert , Robert Thompson!"

I know a brutal double killer who reformed in jail. His past is horrific but he’s really changed now.

(trying not to be too outing).

I used to have a leisure activity as a teenager and met two lads who were twins and they became part of the group I hung around with. They were a couple of years younger than me, I was 18, they were about 16.

I got a boyfriend and drifted away from the leisure activity so didn't see the twins after that.

A few years later one of them was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an elderly female.

As well as obviously being horrified at the crime, I just struggled to compute that this lad I considered a friend a couple of years earlier could have been capable of such a horrible crime.

I knew, through work, where he was a regular customer, Mick Philpott, who killed 6 of his children in an arson attack. Bloke was a complete knob. Never thought he was capable of what he did though.

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@WhentheRabbitsWentWild Well quite. Do people not stop to think that Robert Thompson isn't that unusual a name? Perhaps it was just some other bloke with the same name!