# True Crime Stories: Headline Murders In Your Small Hometown? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 9, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-crime-stories-headline-murders-in-your-small-hometown/153857 "2003-02-09T08:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-crime-stories-headline-murders-in-your-small-hometown/153857/61 "2003-02-11T17:06:25Z")
I just realized that my post gives the impression that this happened in Salem, Oregon. This all happened in Philomath, Oregon which is my hometown. I was living in Salem at the time, but we moved back shortly thereafter. Anyway, once again, let me know if anyone finds anything on the net about this. It’s always haunted me. I have George and Shane’s signatures in my yearbooks, fer chrissakes. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-crime-stories-headline-murders-in-your-small-hometown/153857/62 "2003-02-11T19:18:34Z")
No worries, **tanstaafl**. It happened the year I was born, so I don’t remember too much about it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cagiva650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cagiva650](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cagiva650)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-crime-stories-headline-murders-in-your-small-hometown/153857/63 "2003-02-11T20:23:23Z")
Very strange times for the small town of Zeeland Michigan. One day before the 9-11 terrorist attack a young mother (Tracy Camburn) stabbed to death her two daughters ages 11 and 6 after making them drink paint thinner, she claimed that voices told her the world was gonna end. This is a small conservative alcohol-free church dominated town. The trial revealed that she was attending a bible study class that focused on armaggedon and all the evils in the world. Her pastor and Mother think that Tracy somehow ‘knew’ about the WTC attacks in advance! THey classified her insane and sent her to prison for the rest of her life. Also in the news is a another Mom currently on trial also from Zeeland who is accused of setting her 14yo daughters bedroom on fire which resulted in her daughters death. The mother was prone to alcoholic blackouts and was heard to say she hated her daughter because she was disobediant. ---
**Author:** ![Aynna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Aynna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aynna)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-crime-stories-headline-murders-in-your-small-hometown/153857/64 "2018-05-27T08:17:45Z")
> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#): > > From the local paper, the Ithaca Journal: > > “Dec. 22, 1989: Four members of the Harris family are bound and slain in their Ellis Hollow Road home. Their bodies are set on fire. An attempt to burn the house with them fails. A suspect, Michael Kinge, is shot and killed by police. An investigation later reveals that state police officials fabricated evidence in order to implicate Kinge’s mother, Shirley. Kinge’s attorney said last month that he has new evidence to support that state police set out to murder Michael Kinge. Officials have yet to respond to that charge.” > > Shirley Kinge used to be my family’s houskeeper in the house we lived in during most of the 80’s. The Harris’s lived and died around the corner from the house we moved to in mid-1989. > > Twiddle I remember this. That poor family, I was very young but wasn’t there some scandals about shirley kinge getting engaged to one of the cops or legal team? Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-crime-stories-headline-murders-in-your-small-hometown/153857/65 "2018-05-27T11:06:12Z")
The last two people executed in the UK were hanged for a murder committed in the village I grew up in. This happened about a quarter mile from where we lived. I was a child at the time, but what seems to me now to be extraordinary is that I remember nothing about it from that time - and we’re talking about Back Of Beyond, UK in the 1960s, when murder was an astonishingly rare and terrifying event. We played in the woods right next to the house, so I assume we would all have been locked down for weeks - but I have no memory of it at all. > **[Murder of John Alan West](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Alan_West)** > > The murder of John Alan West on 7 April 1964 was the crime which led to the last death sentences being carried out in the United Kingdom. West, a 53-year-old van driver for a laundry company, was beaten and stabbed to death by Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen, who had gone to rob him at his home in Seaton, Cumberland. Both murderers were unemployed, had a history of petty crime and were arrested and charged within two days of the crime. At trial, each blamed the other, but the jury found both men g... j ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-crime-stories-headline-murders-in-your-small-hometown/153857/66 "2018-05-27T11:50:01Z")
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