While in high school, I worked at the local cinema and we had formed a football team that would play other businesses in the area. One of the older workers was also the team quarterback and I played center. A couple of years after I left for college, he wound up killing his ex-girlfriend (a co-worker of ours) and committing suicide thereafter.
Even us *ordinary *criminals have our standards.
One co-worker who shot and killed someone in a very odd turnabout situation.
He was 18, his 3 hoodrat buddies were 12-15. They decided to jump two guys for their 2 cases of beer in the parking lot of a liquor store.
The guys in question were already a little tipsy and big ass corn fed shit kicking country boy types.
They attacked, and immediately started to lose badly, the 15 year old actually is permanently disabled because of injuries he sustained. Coworker ended up the only one standing and ran. The two guys pursued, coworker fearing an inability to outrun them, pulled his gun and threatened to shoot. Guys apparently told him something to the extent of “you don’t have the balls”. Apparently they did a pretty good job beating him down and was pretty seriously hurt before he did finally pull the trigger, shooting and killing one of the guys. He ended up being released on appeal for time served (4 years IIRC) based on a self defense claim which apparently the appelate court bought.
I just recently found out a guy I went to school with through most of elementary school and high school is in prison serving something like 28 years for half a dozen odd sex charges with minors/underage girls. He also had the misfortune of being located by several male relatives of one of the girls in question and the police most likely saved him from being beaten to death.
He was always the prototypical bad kid. Very Sid from “Toy Story”. We always knew he would not come to a good end.
There used to be a nice guy who ran a video store near me that my wife and I would always talk to for a bit every time we went into his store. He was a former police officer and my brother in law is a police officer, which is I think how we started to have more personal conversations. We knew him for many years and always had nice conversations in his store. We’d talk to him for about ten or fifteen minutes each time, so this was more than just hey how are ya thanks for the video.
Then last year, it turned out he was a serial rapist. He used to drive down to Baltimore to pick up women, handcuff them in the back of his van, and rape them. He ended up on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list, and was featured on America’s Most Wanted on TV. He fled to New York. When police ended up finding him, he killed himself.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=753116
It still boggles my mind.
My supervisor at my first job out of college ended up brutally murdering his wife, cleaning himself up, and hopping into a cab for a business trip 15 minutes later. I worked with him during the summer of 2000, but this crime was committed in June 2007.
I always thought he was a really good guy - quiet, gentle, and intelligent. I even interviewed with him for a job at another company in early 2005. When we all first heard that his wife was murdered, we felt really bad for him until things started to just not add up. He was arrested a couple of months later with a mountain of evidence against him. He plead guilty.
I’ve known two murderers.
The first was a truck driver who worked for my dad. He was pretty rough and when I found out he had killed a prostitute, it wasn’t a huge surprise.
The second was a guy that handled my dad’s computer system. He set up our home computer and I spent the day with him, buying the system, helping to set it up and learning how it worked. He was a timid-looking guy with a bit of a perm and an awkward manner. Typical computer geek, I suppose.
At any rate, a couple years later, and oddly, just down the street, he flipped out on his ex-girlfriend and killed her and her daughter with an axe. At the time I knew him, he probably weighed about 130 pounds and was not weight lifter. The idea that this little mouse of a guy killed someone with an axe was and still is pretty shocking. That a child was involved is even more saddening.
Did he ever tell why he did it?
Too much World of Warcraft, man. Too much.
Not that I know of. You can read about the case here, though.
This has bothered me tremendously ever since I read it yesterday.
I too have apparently led a very sheltered life. I can’t even imagine how disgusted I’d be to meet someone like this.
My cousin. He was in jail for drug charges, gets out on parole and promptly beats up some guy while he was drunk. Goes back to jail, gets out and does something else to go back to jail yet again. While nowhere near as violent as a lot of the other people in this thread, it’s the closest I know of. I did know a few guys in high school that are now in jail, but for what I don’t know and don’t care.
I went to the same high school as this guy:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/04/husband_charged_2.html
and my sister was in his class. I remember he made big news in our town when he won the science fair and was thought to be a genius.
When this happened last year we were all really saddened to read it. He appears to have been completely paranoid and unstable, poor guy.
Scary.
How do you shoot someone more than a dozen times in the head with a .45? How is there any head left by that point?
If he painted the axe purple to make sure it was a more powerful weapon I might agree with you.
Killing two with a typical grey axe…you would be there all day.
what…
I knew a guy (PWT) who went to several juvenile lockups for rape, and then eventually to prison for kidnapping, rape and murder.
I found his info online recently. His sentence expires 99/99/9999.
I used to work with a guy who was a former Black Panther, and a very angry person generally. After he got laid off, he came back and threatened the owner, at gunpoint. Shortly thereafter he murdered his girlfriend’s ex, and has been in prison ever since.
I went to school with a guy who has been convicted of several rapes in Indiana and Michigan.
The son of one of my cousins is doing thirty to life for murder in the commission of a felony.
One of my ex-BILs is doing life in Cali for two murders.
Another ex-BIL died in prison in Kentucky while serving time for aggravated assault.
A nephew is doing time for manslaughter.
And these are just the violent ones!
What, you know some… jaywalkers? :eek:
My best friends used to work for Larissa Schuster. They said that she was the kind of person that, after the fact, you’d ask her neighbors if they thought something was weird, the neighbors would say, “Oh, yeah. I’m not surprised at all that she dunked her husband in a vat of acid. Yeah, that’s her, all right.”
Joe
That’s a nice change from “Oh, he was a quiet guy, kept to himself”.
Saw a portable highway announcement sign on 192 in St Cloud yesterday that read “No jaywalking. Strictly enforced.” I didn’t know there was a rash of brazen jaywalking in those parts recently. 
(It wasn’t even next to any sort of event arena nor seem to intersect the type of neighborhood where people were used to walking to the other side casually.)