Not that I know of. Just the general thought I think.
Was it a small town or area where everyone knows everyone else either directly or word of mouth? Hard to get people to forget about attempted murder in those areas.
I’m curious how the women in your company knew of your intention to hire him, and whether they knew him personally.
This was many years ago. One of my store managers had just hired a mid 20s guy to work overnight shifts with a woman. Back then you called around to do your own background checks. Local police said he was clean. A few days after he started, one of our regular delivery drivers pulled aside the manager and said he knew the guy and that he was a convicted rapist in a nearby state.
Seems the years he listed as college were the years he was in prison for raping an underage girl. Since college wasn’t a job requirement, the manager never checked that reference. A call to the police there confirmed he had just been paroled. I guess his probation officer was surprised to find out he had left the state. The local police picked him up at home and held him until he was extradited back.
Background checks are more thorough now, but it just shows if you lie and get away with it, you can still be found out.
So did I. Wonder that is. I don’t think they knew him personally.
This was very near/in a major metropolitan area not a smaller town where everyone knows everyone.
My guess is they found out his name and went to the Internet. As for knowing that he was my frontrunner…well that is easy to tell by the number of interviews and the fact that the owner interviewed him as well. She only wanted to be bothered when I had made up my mind and she was essentially a rubber stamp.
She was very Aristocratic. Very. She entertained with personal chefs. She was upset at Clinton because he/she got a breed of dog that the owner just got and now everyone will just assume she was following the Clintons. Now, everyone assumes Aristocrats (with a capital A) are 100% bad…but they do have a few good points and she did as well…and one is that you appoint good people that know about this trivial mundane stuff and then let them do what they do. Essentially be cute little aristocrats themselves within their sphere anyway 
That way you can concentrate on the important stuff!
She would object to many of my choices. Hey, it was hard to get even semi-viable people in so I had to ‘roll with it’ as they say. I remember her objecting to someone I wanted to hire because he had “Skunk Hair”. They younger guy put some weird white stuffing stuff in his hair which he dyed extremely black. It looked weird but…who cares? She didn’t like this unusualness but when I showed her why he was the strongest candidate by far…she was ok with it. Same with this attempted murder guy.
I know…Miranda Priestly (?) in The Devil wears Prada. The owner even looked much like her. However, she wasn’t out there and could hold logical, normal conversations when needed…but, in general, she acted much like Miranda Priestly. Even to the point that the reason she owned the company she had was because she had made a huge impact in the field, so much that potential clients would still call looking to hire her/her company and people would ask her opinion on something and, if she wasn’t in favor, pretty much would kill the idea (in the industry)
Years ago an employee told me there was a guy out front who she recognized as a registered sex offender and she wasn’t comfortable interacting with him. I found his picture & details of his crime online and didn’t want to interact with him either.
When I went out front to tell him we didn’t want his business, he seemed to know what was coming. He left quietly and never returned.
Of course, sometimes - depending on local laws - that just means the parents of a 17-year-old girl objected to her choice of boyfriend (or having any boyfriend). Details are always important.
However, skipping out on parole indicates an inability to make intelligent choices.
Back then, no one would have even blinked an eye at a 17 year old having sex with a 20 year old. IIRC, the girl he raped was 13 or 14.