I’m talking REALLY bad. I used to know Shawn Dee Adams and his wife. If you don’t remember them you can get the story here.
http://www.texnews.com/texas97/terror042597.html
He seemed like such a nice guy.
One of the teenaged murderers of Frank and Jocelyn Toopeused to play with my youngest brother. We didn’t like him much, and my mother banned my brother from associating with him after a couple months.
Of course, I run into lots of people who make the news now, since I’m a TV News Producer. Some of them make the news for worthy, respectable reasons.
I wish I could find a link to this somewhere online, but it was more than ten years ago. Before we were married, Leigh-Anne and I were out visiting some friends one night, a fraternity brother of mine and his girlfriend, who went to high school with Leigh-Anne.
When we got home, the 11 o’clock news was one, and they had live coverage from the scene of a double murder in Mentor, where we lived at the time. A husband and wife had been murdered, apparently shotgunned to death while they slept. As we were watching, we heard the anchor say something along the lines of, “The couple’s son, Michael Bailey, is being held for questioning.”
Michael Bailey?! Michael Bailey happened to be the ex-boyfriend of the girl we had just been visiting. Michael and I were attendants of, and group leaders for, several Episcopal Youth Services events. Michael had joined the Air Force for a few years, and had recently returned home. At the time, we were both attending Cleveland State University, and we had a class together.
I had been in class with him that day, and he had told me all the stuff he had done the night before. He said he had gone down to Akron, and seen some girl at some restaurant, blah, blah, blah. Mike was tried and convicted for both murders, and sometime during the whole thing (although none of us was ever questioned by police, because we weren’t that close to him), it dawned on me that he might have been trying to establish an alibi.
Needless to say, people in my class were freaked out the next day. It turned out to be a particularly bad semester; one of the grad students helping out with this class happened to be a babysitter for Amy Mihalovich, who Clevelanders will remember was a little girl who was kidnapped and murdered. Her body was found that same semester.
I can’t find a link for mine either. It happened about 14-15 years ago. There was a kid (Johnny Moss) who was in my oldest brother’s class and he was a real troublemaker. When he was 18 he got in a fight with someone and beat them to death with a bat. It took a couple of days before he was arrested and he ended up going to prison. He had gotten some girl pregnant a few months before all this happened and she was always afraid that he would try to take her son away from her or fight for custsody when he got out of prison. She got remarried but was/is afraid he’s going to do something when/if he gets out. The last I heard (a couple years ago) he was still in prison but was up for parole soon.
This was a kid that stole my bike lock when I was 8 and my brothers tracked him down and got my lock back for me. He was always picking on me and my brothers were always sticking up for me and fighting with him. He was always a violent person. It was really weird that someone we knew had done something so terrible.
I grew up with the guy who created and produced “Friends.” Does that count?
Sorry for the slight hijack, but I know one of the FBI agents who made the arrest in this case. According to him, these folks were Republic of Texas members.
One of the guys they busted asked them to be careful because he had a bad leg. My friend said it was a pretty pathetic scene.
Yeah. Some freaky shit too. I use to hang out with Natasha Cornett. She was part of the group from Kentucky that murdered most of the Lillelid family.
http://www.geocities.com/justice_cove/
She used to date a guy I was in a play with in high School. I picked her up from school a couple times to take her to our rehearsals. I hung out in her house. New her pretty well for about 6 months. Graduated, moved away, never heard of her again until someone sent me a copy of the news story. Crazy shit.
One night I saw her on a show called “Bad Girls” on some cable channel. Life imprisonment. Deserved at that. Shame on you Natasha. A little child?
I can’t find a link to the story, probably because it didn’t make national news, but one of my high-school classmates beat his mother to death.
The really creepy part, from my perspective anyway, was that it happened in the house where I grew up, which my parents had sold to his parents some years earlier.
A few years ago, there was an Army officer who was discharged and/or prosecuted for sexual misconduct. It was a pretty big deal at the time. He is my wife’s childhood best friend’s brother.
I also saw a guy that I went to high school with on “Emergency 911” many years ago. He had tried to make a plaster cast of his face, and the plaster stuck. 911 was called, and the EMTs - with camera crew in tow - arrived. What a maroon.
While not on par with murder, I once caused an accident that shut down all northbound lanes of the 101 Freeway in Santa Barbara…during rush hour.
No injuries but mighty embarrassing. There is something surreal about sitting in your totaled truck listening to the traffic report about the accident you caused and the resultant 5 mile back up.
Sasquatch:
Best mental image I’ve had in a while. Of course, the time you make a dumb ass move, fox tv happens to be in your neighbourhood with cameras looking for stupid shit. Murphy’s law if I’ve ever seen it.
Jimson Jim:
I love it. Reminds me of an episode of Malcolm in the middle!
DaLovin’ Dj
Guy I went to middle and high school with. Wasn’t a particular friend, ran w/a different crowd. Several years later couldn’t make it to the reunion 'cause of those pesky immigration and extradiction laws.
You know those magazines that come in Sunday’s papers??? He made the cover of the “Detriot” magazine supplement, “Fast times of” When the DEA did a search and confiscation of his home, they took several slot machines, several million in cash, several cars, etc etc, confiscated his home, his mom’s home, etc. He even raced cars with Paul Newman. Of course, he was also importing great quantities of cocaine at the time. He won’t be available for the next several reunions (doing something like 40 years in the federal system).
Now, dat funny!
A cousin of mine (the family black sheep), was recently sentenced to 5-8 yrs for holing up in his apartment with an “arsenal” and firing down the hallways of his complex (apt complex, that is. Not whatever complex made him do this in the first place). That was quite the local news story at the time.
Even odder, a good friend of mine was the 2nd cop in when they finally stormed the building.
Sorry, no link to the news story.
About 10 yeasr ago, I was bartending in an upscale nightclub/pool hall (yes, such places exist) 
. Anyway, one of our regulars, a nice guy who hung out with the staff, turned out to be one of two bankrobbers (plus a driver) that had been going thru a rampage around the region. Although they had not shot or seriously injured anybody during the robberies, they were armed and had scared the crap out of a lot of people.
Some of the female staff of the bar got a funny look on their faces (hmmm, wonder why?) when the R.C.M.P. and provincial police came to investigate and question us about this guy.
He got a few years in a federal pen. You never know who you’re really talking to.
Knew the couple of kids involved in a murder suicide at Kalamazoo College a couple of years ago. They were a couple, and she broke up with him, so he killed her, then himself. Happened in the same dorm building I was in, though not when I was there (thankfully). I had both of them in separate classes of mine. Terrible thing.
I’m not sure which is worse:
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I met (not actually a friend, more of a real FOAF) the guy who shot up the state lottery HQ here a few years back killing 5 (I think), one of whom I used to work with at my last job, then himself. (Note to self, get a fraggin grammer guide, no-one could diagram that rambling mess).
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In high-school, Adam Sandler was a year behind me.
I knew Lizzie Grubman, the publicist that allegedly drove her SUV in reverse outside a Hamptons nightclub, running down a bouncer and 15 other people. It’s the biggest tabloid story in New York this summer.
Her father, Alan Grubman, is one of the biggest entertainment lawyers around.
I was law school buddies with her ex-husband. Their celebrated wedding made the cover of the New York Times Magazine, with the Village People performing and Madonna showing up. The marriage, however, broke up shortly thereafter.
Anyway, after law school my buddy went to work for her father’s entertainment law firm. Through both the marriage and the divorce (and now this), he’s still working for the father.
By the way, the really bad hair dye job you see in all of the pictures of Lizzie looks even worse in person.
Met Lyle Menendez at the small restaurant he once owned in Princeton, NJ. Also several years back I worked in a dental office in the North End of Boston. A coulpe of years ofter I left there, there was a shooting at a “99” restaurant in Charlestown. Peopel on both ends of the deal had been patients at the office.
My great, great grandfather shot a guy and did time for it, was back when, in Tucson. I only found this out a few years ago and never met him, he died before I was born. But its kind of interesting to look up all of the newpaper articles from back when covering the trial. There is some sentiment that he was framed since the guy he killed came from a rich family, and my ancestor was a relatively poor Mexican. Arizona at the time was a territory but not yet a state.
One of my cousins on the same side of the family is currently doing time for running down and killing his wife’s lover with his Cadillac. He is still in prison but has reconciled with his wife. Ain’t love special.
A closer cousin, on the other side of the family, was arrested at least once for armed robbery. But my mother doesn’t talk to her brother so not sure exactly what is happening over there.
As far as friends and people I choose to associate with sadly I have only know a victim, never a perpetrator.
My high school class’ ASB president just pled no contest to charges of taking topless pictures of underage (15 and 16)girls. Can’t wait for our 20-year reunion in two years 