Have you ever known someone who turned out to be a murderer?

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A friend of my sister in law was getting a lot of hassle from.a guy who she met in a club. He wouldn't take no for an answer when she said she didn't want to go out with him. This guy turned out to be Levi Bellfield.
I think he’s been responsible for so many more crimes
 
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I don’t know of any but I always wonder if I’ve ever walked past someone who has just killed someone, or if someone has ever thought about killing me? Ive said to my partner a few time’s when driving that would could pass someone or pull up at the traffic lights next to someone who has a dead body in their car and never know! 😱

I’ve just read this back and realised I watch far too many crime documentaries and dramas 🙈
 
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I don’t know of any but I always wonder if I’ve ever walked past someone who has just killed someone, or if someone has ever thought about killing me? Ive said to my partner a few time’s when driving that would could pass someone or pull up at the traffic lights next to someone who has a dead body in their car and never know! 😱

I’ve just read this back and realised I watch far too many crime documentaries and dramas 🙈
😂 I do too, if we go past isolated woods I always wonder how many dead bodies are buried in there....really need to stop watching them!
 
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When I was in high school a teacher was robbed and murdered by four senior kids. It was a botched robbery and quite a stir.

I also dated a guy who would go on to rape, rob and murder an 80 year old woman a couple months later. It messed with my head pretty badly. He never gave any indication he was the type.
 
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No, thankfully not. But I did work with Suzy Lamplugh's sister. Can't imagine what that family went/is going through.
 
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No, thankfully not. But I did work with Suzy Lamplugh's sister. Can't imagine what that family went/is going through.
I remember The Suzy Lamplugh trust, which was run by her family, releasing rape alarms. I worked for the NHS at the time and we were given one free.
 
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Someone I went to school with killed a local lady. Who turned out to be related to another mutual schoolmate. So there were several years when we all knew each other, socialised, etc.
 
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Three girls who were at school with me (one in the year below, two in the same year, all unrelated) all went on to commit murder within the last 7 years or so 😳
 
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Not a murderer but my child’s primary school teacher turned out to be a pweirdo. Their class had had this brilliant teacher the year before. She was young and fun and they all adored her. Then they went into the class above, had a teacher they weren’t keen on who left at Christmas and was replaced by a male teacher. Everyone instantly loved him (basically because he was a man and they’d never had a male teacher in the school before) but I wasn’t sure about him and neither was my child. My child used to say that they were all being disloyal to the brilliant teacher they’d had before and that they didn’t like him, but I always felt there was something not quite right. I can remember my kid telling me that he made pupils stand on a chair in the middle of the classroom when they’d been naughty to shame them. I can’t describe it, he just felt slightly off despite being fun and cheerful and friendly.

a few years went by and they all went off to high school. Then one day we see in the news that he’s been jailed for filming pupils getting changed for PE with a hidden camera in his shirt button and he’d been distributing child porn. Loads of my child’s friends were gutted and said they would never have seen it coming but he really did used to make use feel ‘off’ and I couldn’t say why.
 
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A bloke my husband knows, who I only knew to say hello to in passing, although through my husband know his background of being a heroin addict, getting help, being in recovery for well over 10 years then unfortunately meeting a woman who re-introduced to him to that lifestyle then she left him and he was fully hooked again. Over a period of a few years we saw him lose so much weight become more skeletal just by seeing him when he was out walking. We then heard that he had murdered his mother but I don't know the circumstances.

My ex went to prison for rape. He served his time and is now out in the community with his soon to be wife and their 2 kids... I see him from time to time locally. He has always been the type of person to think with his d*ck but I just didn't think he was capable of that. He sent me a VO from prison... I politely declined :oops:.
 
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Ooooo interesting thread!
I’ve briefly dated three guys, all around my age (early twenties) who have committed murders. Such nice guys, never came across as weird or anything. Then again it was gang related.
 
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Oh, also...my Mom sent me and my Sis to pick up our family car when she was just 17, and I was 15. The service guy wanted my Sis to take it for a drive with him in it. I sat in the backseat really uncomfortable with this decision. He started to teach her how to double clutch the transmission. He urged he to drive for about 30 mins. We dropped him off and drove home. A few months later he murdered two teenage girls and went to jail.
 
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Met a couple through my neighbours, not long after I befriended them (neighbour had know the girl from school) a 15yr old had been stabbed to death locally. We all sat round the table discussing how awful it was that this lad n his mate were innocently going to the shops when 2 men attacked them. The guy of the relationship was a nice lad, he always babysat my neighbours kids. Anyway turned out that he was the 1 that stabbed the lad for the sole reason of him being a catholic. Couldnt believe it we were so shocked.

Ended up on a blind date with a guy, turns out his brother was a murderer throughout the troubles in belfast. Didnt go on a second date.

My ex is in for accessory to murder right now.

My friends dad was a lifer, got let out under the good Friday agreement (there are a lot of instances of this in belfast)

That's all I can think of right now!

Just remembered my ex's uncle murdered my uncle.

Also know a fair few attempted murderers
 
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This is the most fascinating part of it all.

Childhood trauma is very common for serial killers so there’s definitely the environmental factor with it but genetically are they predisposed?

Or is the ability to kill within us all, but our upbringings and socialisation teach us right from wrong and create a boundary that decency won’t let us cross?

I love trying to understand it and am fascinated by the serial killer interviews and the creation of behavioural science (made famous by the Mindhunter series) and the original book the series was based on is really interesting.
Yessss I love Mindhunter. I’ve always been absolutely fascinated with this kind of stuff.

My old best friend from high school had a step dad who always seemed weird. He was a weed dealer and was always shouting at her mum, some of the arguments I heard during sleepovers petrified me. Anyway, 3 years ago I heard that he was doing time in prison as he had developed a crack habit and was mugging people in the street to fund his crack habit and even put his mum in hospital as she wouldn’t give him money to fund his habit. I wasn’t completely shocked but it’s still awful to think about.
 
A relative by marriage went to prison for shaking and killing his baby. This was 30 or so years ago, I only met him once as a young child. Not to excuse his actions but he had a very chaotic upbringing, was in children's homes, into drink and drugs from 12 or 13. Never really had a proper family or any actual parenting. He died in prison a few years later.

I went to primary school with someone who used to torture insects and small animals for fun. I wouldn't have been at all surprised if he'd turned out to be a murderer.

One of my secondary school teachers was really unpleasant. Used to encourage boys to lie on the floor to look up our skirts, how to cop a feel when using equipment etc. bleeping grim. He left suddenly one day and was never mentioned at school again. Turned out he was arrested for abusing his own children and being part of a pweirdo ring.

Oh, I also know someone whose ex-husband is a convicted violent rapist. He only served about 8 years, is out now. Still sees his kids from 1st marriage and recently remarried. I do wonder if his new wife knows. That said everyone else around him just treats it like it's no big deal, like he stole someone's wallet 😟
 
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I went to school with a lad who’s sister was involved in a killing. I must have been about 13 when it happened and the poor man’s body was found a 5 minute walk down the road from my dads house. She had to change her name and the whole family moved away for protection.

 
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My dad use to work with a girl who was murdered by a guy she went on a date with. She was very savvy, told her parents where she was going etc. But the guy seemed a bit ‘off’ and got really drunk. She helped him back to his hotel and because he was in such a state walked him to his room. He then killed and raped her, wrapped her body in a rug and dumped her in a woods. He was later caught and confessed to it all and that he had planned to do it.
This wasn’t Carl Langdell was it?
If so, I knew his older brothers for a time.
He was a brat.
 
Someone in my year at school murdered a work colleague a few years ago. I was so shocked when I read about it as he always seemed so easygoing.
 
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