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admonition : This post mentions sexual abuse , tyke abuse , intense wildness , domestic violence , and animal vilification .
Recently, Reddit userKi2525_asked, “People of Reddit, if you knew somebody in school who later made the news for being charged with murder: What was that person like? Were you surprised?”
Shockingly, there were A LOT of replies. Here are some of the most compelling:
1.“My friend Mike spent 18 years in prison for murdering the uncle who sexually abused him and his brother. Mike always told me he’d do it someday, so I wasn’t surprised — just sad that he had to go to prison for doing society a favor. He’s been out for over 20 years now and never committed another offense.”
2.“He was an unremarkable, regular Joe. Meth got the better of him later in life. Paranoia convinced him his wife was conspiring. He shot and killed her while she was holding their toddler.”
— BrevitysLazyCousin
3.“A guy I went to middle school with killed his father by shooting him over 20 times. He was in the middle of a mental breakdown, and there was suspected drug use. He was an athlete, had a lot of friends, and was always nice. He was reportedly devastated after he did it, never denied it, and couldn’t explain why he would do it.”
" His entire menage and residential district did n’t understand his motive and said that he and his sire love each other and were best friends . Such a sad story all around . "
— Swan663
4.“The father of my primary school friend murdered his wife about 20 years after I knew the family. It certainly put some things into perspective from my childhood, like why the family had such bad luck with pets dying in unfortunate accidents.”
— cacklehag
5.“A quiet, shy kid a few grades below me beat his mother to death with a baseball bat. He went back to her dead body for three days to beat her more. The investigation found evidence of his mom abusing him and his sister. He spent nine years in the state mental health hospital, got out, and currently owns an insurance company.”
6.“A girl I was friends with in middle and high school made the news for murdering her child. I was not surprised. Her favorite thing was herself, and she had a lot of rage. That’s a bad combo.”
— fiberartistmom
7.“His name was Joey. A bit of a class clown. Generally a good guy, but just really immature. About five years after we graduated, he was driving down the main road in our hometown and hit and killed an older guy riding his bicycle. From there, panic brain apparently took over. He fled the scene, dumped his dented bumper in the woods, and went home like nothing happened. They caught him pretty fast. Haven’t really been keeping up with whatever happened next.”
— tkcool73
8.“This happened with my daughter’s first boyfriend just last month. We were both shocked. If we were to rank every guy we knew who we thought would murder someone, he would have been quite low on that list. He was a sweet, non-violent kid. As a man, he murdered his partner in a domestic violence situation.”
9.“A college friend introduced me to her boyfriend, who later went on to run her over and leave her for dead on the side of a rural road. She survived, but she had a traumatic brain injury that made her lose the memory of the preceding seven months or so, including that night. He skipped town and hid out in Alaska until they picked him up on assault charges.”
" He gave me the heebie jeebies . She was so mad to bring in us , but he seemed awfully insouciant . He pretend to be kind of nice , but his stagnant shark eye creeped me out . "
— objective - help2369
10.“A severely bullied kid with severely unsupported autism and other comorbidities beat his mother to death with a broomstick. This was the ’80s. Many neurodivergent kids were just expected to fend for themselves in high school.”
" That environment was ruthlessly brutal equate to the environs I see at my child ’s high school today . "
— theferalforager
11.“He took his own life before he could be charged with murder. But yes, I was very surprised. We had the same classes for grades 7-12. He was a smart kid, kind of funny, and sometimes got into trouble — but never anything too serious. A few years after we graduated, he killed someone at a college party. It was over nothing. Then he fled and took his own life.”
12.“You could tell she was wired a bit differently than most people. Let’s just say that if our high school yearbook had a ‘Most Likely to Murder Her Lesbian Lover’ superlative, she would have won.”
— Les_Americ*nt
13.“My friend’s older brother had a psychotic break and beat his mother (my Sunday school teacher) to death. His younger brother witnessed the entire thing. I never would have guessed something like that would happen. Psychosis is no joke.”
— postmormongirl
14.“A guy at my high school bullied me quite a few times when he was a senior and I was a freshman. He was arrogant, foul-mouthed, and literally did not care about anyone. Even the teachers didn’t like him. I found out in 2017 that he’d stabbed someone to death and is serving 21 years to life.”
" I always knew he would venture into crime , but I never expected murder . It still appal me when he ’s referenced online . "
— Ki2525 _
15.“My old English teacher murdered her partner via stabbing. She was a very kind woman. I was extremely surprised. She was genuinely one of the reasons I stayed in school as long as I did. She won’t be out for a long time.”
16.“He is serving life. No one is surprised. He was a prolific drug user and dealer. He stole cars, used women, and had jobs that required travel so he could have multiple girlfriends in different cities. Oh, and the girlfriends were all single moms…of little girls. Yeah, let that sink in.”
— VixenTraffic
17.“My husband went to high school with a girl who was a spoiled lawyer’s kid. She always got out of trouble because of her dad’s connections. She went to Nashville and shot a homeless man who was sleeping near her car because he told her the exhaust was bothering him. She got away with it. No jail time.”
— kaytay3000
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