# So how many of you went to high school with (soon to be) convicted felons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341 "2003-12-11T13:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/1 "2003-12-11T13:11:25Z")
The other day my father gives me a call in regards to an article in the Green Bay Press Gazette talking about a guy who graduated from my high school who is being investigated as a serial rapist. This guy would drug women, and then rape them and video tape it. I went to a small public high school in Door County, Wisconsin. This guy was a year older than me, and while I wasn’t friends with him, I knew him well enough (it’s hard not to know everyone in school when the total student population is under 200). I never would have expected something like this from him. Of course, I haven’t seen him in 11 years, give or take, so that’s plenty of time for a guy to change. The whole thing is actually kind of surreal. I know I shouldn’t be surprised about the whole thing based on the numbers game (there are many sick individuals in society), but coming from as small of a community as I did, the whole thing still seems…surreal. The article is here: [http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local\_13607022.shtml](http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_13607022.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Copper\_moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@Copper\_moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Copper_moon)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/2 "2003-12-11T13:43:51Z")
I went to a small town school too, it had about 400 kids in it at the time. There was this BIG football player that just creeped me out. I would take my books out of my locker for the next two or three classes just so I wouldn’t have to come back and meet him in the hall. He was always trying to kiss me or feel me up. Anyway, fast forward about 12 years and a 9 year old little girl walking home from a friend’s house disappeared in broad daylight. This guy picked her up, raped and murdered her burying her body under a burnpile in his yard. After police became suspicious about the burnpile he dug her up and hid her in his house that they had already searched. Though it doesn’t surprise me that he would do such a thing it is still surreal to have been that close to evil. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/3 "2003-12-11T13:49:45Z")
My og! He must have made an EXTREMELY bad impression on you if you weren’t surprised that he’d abduct, molest and murder a small child. Personally I would be surprised at this sort of behavior from anyone. I am actually quite creeped out at the mere thought of someone I know being capable of such atrocities. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/4 "2003-12-11T13:52:34Z")
Yeah, a guy I knew committed an armed robbery in February of our senior year. He got caught running in Colorado Springs, I remember. He should still be in prison (this was 1995), primarily because they were able to pin an “attempted murder” charge to him because he fired a gun in the air. A good friend of mine was really pissed when this happened because that guy was his badmitton partner in gym class and now he had to go at it alone. ---
**Author:** ![JerH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@JerH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerH)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/5 "2003-12-11T15:34:45Z")
A couple people I went to college with are in prison - does that count? One’s in for murder, the other for drug-dealing. I had a few classes with the dealer, and the murderer was a FOAF. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/6 "2003-12-11T15:35:14Z")
I often get the impression most people would be surprised if they knew how many people they went to high school with eventually got convicted of felonies that didn’t make the papers. Anyhoo, I went to high school with [this guy](http://www.oag.state.tx.us/newspubs/newsarchive/1999/19990216factsheet.htm), executed in 1999 for a triple homicide murder-for-hire. A man hired him to kill his adoptive parents and uncle; he stabbed them to death and burned down their house. My high school girlfriend went to the school across town. While she was in school a student pulled out a gun, walked up the teacher whistling “here comes Peter Cottontail”, and shot him in the face, severely wounding him. My dad ended up representing the student. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/7 "2003-12-11T15:48:12Z")
A guy who was a year ahead of me in class killed his baby a few years after he graduated. He wasn’t a bad person, just rather slow and naive. The whole situation just makes me feel sad when I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/8 "2003-12-11T15:50:49Z")
I grew up in the 'burbs in RI. I can think of three people off the top of my head that are in prison, just from my graduating class alone: two for murder (one murdered a pregnant woman, the other a guy in a fight, IIRC) and another for drug charges. Two were in my homeroom. Aah, high school… ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/9 "2003-12-11T16:07:07Z")
Hell I was best friends with a convicted felon. He ended up having sex with a girl who was under 18. Here in Maryland, if there is more then 2 year age difference the parents can push to have the person arrested. That’s what happened, he ended up in jail for two years. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/10 "2003-12-11T16:07:58Z")
LOL. I went to a large high school in Los Angeles. There were a couple of street gangs whose members attended with me. My graduating class had over 700 people and I would imagine that dozens of them are convicted felons. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/11 "2003-12-11T16:22:59Z")
We had a kid get arrested way before graduation for killing his father. He was 15, I think. Our art teacher in high school was convicted for seducing and photographing male students of his. ---
**Author:** ![Astra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@Astra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/12 "2003-12-11T16:33:04Z")
A kid in my middle school class once captured a lizard and ripped its backbone out. I wouldn’t be surprised a bit if I heard he turned out to be a killer. It wasn’t just misplaced childhood curiousity - there was something truly disturbing in his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/13 "2003-12-11T16:36:48Z")
Hmm, how about future convicted felons? I went to a fairly uppity private school for the last three years of HS, and two members of the class that graduated before me are currently partners selling crack! That blows my mind. They’re in a good college, too. That can’t be a very common story, can it? LC ---
**Author:** ![AntaresJB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/14 "2003-12-11T16:52:47Z")
Not high school, but a guy who was here at my very small college – he was in the IT department as well as the music department, always seemed like the biggest suck-up ever, nobody actually liked him but he was always around in everything. Summer after my sophomore year he got busted for purposely messing up some sensitive stuff in the campus computer system. In the course of that investigation, they searched his apartment and seized his laptop, which happened to be filled with a whole lot of pictures of naked little boys. Nice big story about it on the front page of the school paper the first week we were back. Hm. Pretty sure he’s in jail now. ---
**Author:** ![Innanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/15 "2003-12-11T17:06:46Z")
Three or four for drug use–coke, I think. At least one for robbing the local grocery store. And two or three are already dead by violence. Class of 88 people from quiet, rural Ohio–and that is just my class. Guy who went to school with my brother was convicted of raping a 6 year old. Great place to raise your kids, really. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/16 "2003-12-11T17:20:19Z")
**AntaresJB** , you wouldn’t happen to go to Penn State, would you? If so, I think I know exactly who you’re talking about. And I have the complete story. (Dear Og, no! It isn’t me! But I know him quite well.) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/17 "2003-12-11T17:25:37Z")
Back in the '70s, a bunch of my classmates and I were out on the town one night, and we stopped in to visit the cousin of one of our group. The cousin and her husband lived in a pretty grody appartment in a run-down section of town. I was not altogether surprised when, a year or so later, the husband was arrested and convicted of murdering the cousin. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/18 "2003-12-11T17:42:13Z")
Went to high school (and was “kinda” friends with) a dude who spent some time indoors for homicide or murder. I never really got all the details, but somebodys pushing up daisys. He is out now, and pals with my old best friend and has him over to his house, and lets him play with his kids. No, thanks! * * * BCS stands for (illegitimate child) + (crowing rooster) + (Tootsie Pops) ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/19 "2003-12-11T17:43:43Z")
**AntaresJB** , I’ve sent you an email. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341/20 "2003-12-11T17:43:44Z")
Bah! I hear about some doofus from my graduating class getting busted about once a month. Dealing, pimping, prostitution, embezelment, grand theft, murder, etc. etc. And I went to a _GOOD_ highschool too. :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-many-of-you-went-to-high-school-with-soon-to-be-convicted-felons/218341.md?page=2)