Crime!

[Amethyst]

Now, that is some hard-core ER. Too bad he had to go back to work.

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Originally Posted by aaronc879 I worked with a guy for a few years who spent 30 years in prison for killing his boss when he was 19. A.

[easysurfer]

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Originally Posted by pjm-7 Yes, Jeffery Dahmer WAS my cousin's neighbor!

Really?

I met a guy briefly who said that he knew someone who lived in the same apartment complex that Dahmer lived in. Gave the guy chills just thinking about that.

[MRG]

Geeze I forgot some folks:

A childhood friend is doing life for murder. A lopsided love triangle that went bad. Too bad, he was a mental health counselor.

There was a gentleman I worked with in a sawmill, he was guilty of killing his wife's lover. Spent 13 years in Lansing then was released. It came to light his then ex-wife had been sleeping with his public appointed defense attorney. Nice guy, told a lot of interesting stories

[ivinsfan]

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Originally Posted by MRG Geeze I forgot some folks: A childhood friend is doing life for murder. A lopsided love triangle that went bad. Too bad, he was a mental health counselor. There was a gentleman I worked with in a sawmill, he was guilty of killing his wife's lover. Spent 13 years in Lansing then was released. It came to light his then ex-wife had been sleeping with his public appointed defense attorney. Nice guy, told a lot of interesting stories

Do you mean he "seemed nice"?

[Choices]

Girl I went to school with from 5 th thru 12 th grade. Convicted of robbing a gas station and killing the attendant the year we graduated.

[Winemaker]

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Originally Posted by Mdlerth It's time to stop running from the law. Turn yourself in and pay your debt to society. Only then can the healing begin. With good behavior, they might let you out of the slammer early.

I was caught, as was my best bud. Put us in the back of the squad car, and it was the first time I ever experienced automatic door locks, a new feature back about 1970. Sounds just like a dungeon door slamming. We then got taken to the borough jail and given a cell to sit in, after we got our picture and finger prints taken. My dad, who usually worked afternoon shift, was home and he got us out of the slammer, and was not too happy.

Picture perfect example of scared straight. I don't even have a parking ticket with my name on it, or ever had a overdue library book.

[Taxman59]

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Originally Posted by Breedlove Remember a night in Cleveland as kids we screwed up and ended up at Murray Hill . Followed and told ……….Time to get out of here you don't belong here . Nice but firm men . We left .

A friend of my older sister lived in the Murray Hill area while at school. One day her car was stolen from in front of her apartment. She told the bartender (an old fashioned bar with some food). He asked her for the details of the car and asked her not to report it to the police for 24 hours. After her class, her car was outside of her apartment all cleaned up and with a full tank of gas. She mentioned it to the bartender, and he said it just isn't acceptable for cars to be stolen in the neighborhood!

[Amethyst]

Well, I guess basically anybody who smoked weed in the U.S., until recently, was a criminal...

[Keim]

I had a HS classmate commit suicide by cop this year.

Many years ago another went in an armed stand off.

Wasn't too surprised about the recent one.

Used to work with a teacher that spent his summers at the local summer camp. He was caught in 2009. Story made the national news for a blip or two. He now has a life sentence for diddling kids. They only charged him with a few, 10, but suspect MANY MANY more, going back into the 90's.

[Aerides]

I learned years ago the best thing to do when you google someone is go to the images tab, pictures speak volumes, etc.

When I was RIF'd, my friend a work would fill me on on the candidates to replace me, as he was being tapped to help interview (boss wanted local vs. remote).

Too bad our recruiters weren't smart enough to google/images: the guy had a unique name, and a half page results of his pic: Half from his linkedin page, the other half in an orange jump suit.

[Wishing]

One of my vet school classmates was going through a divorce and custody battle. He decided that the wife wasn’t going to get the kids - took them to a motel and injected them with a veterinary drug. Fortunately he called 911 and the paramedics arrived in time to save the kids. He’ll spend the rest of his life in Angola prison (Louisiana). Another vet classmate was involved in an insurance scam involving pricey hunter jumper horses. She insured the horses and then killed them and collected the insurance money - i believe some Olympic level jumpers were involved. I liked both of these classmates and never expected to see them serving hard time.

[REWahoo]

One of my high school classmates (there were only 70 of us) got into a little trouble with the law.

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...[he] was found guilty ... on 10 counts of possession of child pornography; four counts of possession of child pornography with intent to promote; 16 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a mentally disabled person; and five counts of indecency with a child.

He was sentenced to a total of 1,440 years.

[Amethyst]

I worked briefly, decades ago, with a woman who eventually murdered her two children while her husband was on deployment. When I worked alongside her, she was years away from marriage and children...I distinctly remember wondering why such a beautiful woman always seemed so on edge/annoyed.

[pjm-7]

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Originally Posted by easysurfer Really? I met a guy briefly who said that he knew someone who lived in the same apartment complex that Dahmer lived in. Gave the guy chills just thinking about that.

Yup. My cousin was in his 1978 high school graduating class.

[Clone]

When I was in college, I worked at a manufacturing company nearby. I went across the hall to get something out of the vault, I think they kept some of the engineering materials in the vault. Had a nice conversation with the woman who was the book-keeper for the company. Later that morning, the police showed up and took her away. She had shot her husband in the head multiple times the night before.

[Mr._Graybeard]

I went to grade school with this guy. He's in prison for leading a murder cult that newspapers dubbed the Chicago Rippers. Prior to his conviction he worked on John Wayne Gacy's construction crew.

I still have a memory of him from kindergarten during nap time, playing with a makeshift toy he had built out of a broken ballpoint pen, ink smeared on his hands. Strange kid.

[Elbata]

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Originally Posted by Wishing I liked both of these classmates and never expected to see them serving hard time.

I've always wondered, what is "hard time"? I used to hear that term as a kid and thought of prisoners breaking big rocks all day long with a sledge hammer. I guess hard time is being in a prison with lots of violence/stress.

[marko]

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Originally Posted by CoolRich59 Not to go off on tangent, but I had a similar experience on the west side of Chicago years ago. I was with a coworker and we were trying to find our way somewhere (pre GPS).

Visiting from Boston, a bunch of co-workers had gone to a Black Hawks game years ago. When we got out of the game, we couldn't get a cab so we walked about 5 blocks figuring we'd be better able to find a taxi.

A cab did pull up. The driver rolled down his window and said: "What the hell are you guys doing out here? Get in this car!"

Back on thread, we had a very nice, respectful, personable guy deliver a washing machine one day. Two days later he murdered a man. Still in prison.

Closer to home, an acquaintance at our marina killed a woman and threw her overboard claiming it was an accident. I knew the woman, the guy, worked with the guy's FIL and the detective in charge is our neighbor. The whole story was on Dateline once and a few books written about it. At the time mom was part of the DA's office prosecuting the whole thing.

[Souschef]

I have 2 corporate ones. Two weeks after I left a certain Megacorp division, the FBI raided the place and the Director of Marketing, Director of Finance, and a few others were sent to jail on the "Ill Wind" operation involving bribing a government official.
The other was the president of the company and the VP of Marketing hired an engineer from a competitor and proceeded to do some industrial espionage.
They were both canned and the company had to pay $$$ to the other company.

[catii]

My former daughter-in-law remarried, to a guy who turned out to be a serial child molester, & who will spend the rest of his days in federal lockup.


As far as obituaries go, as long as my name isn't in them, I'm not worried!