Brushes with Madness

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Planet,

Today I was reminded of how often I live in a cocoon. I overheard some coworkers talking about a recent murder that happened in town, they then mentioned a past incident regarding a student and suspicious circumstances.

It turns out that a student committed suicide eight months ago by jumping off of a parking garage in town. Some months after his death, multiple witnesses came forward implicating him in the death of a professor, including bludgeoning and immolation, in a parking garage no less, eight years earlier. These witnesses claimed they were afraid to come forward for fear of reprisal.

It turns out that the now deceased student was a student of mine a few summers ago. He came off as a bit irascible, but it's difficult to conceptualize occupying a shared space with an alleged murderer for six hours a week.

Needless to say, spooky.

Any similar events from you all?

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I went to Junior High with two kids who murdered a young mother and took her car, robbing her of less than a dollar in change. Still, I didn't really know them, I just knew of them or walked past them in the halls.

[Shogun]

I made a fake ID once.

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The ten-story monstrosity.

a shocking amount of suicides at/near parking structures. ****ed up either way.

[Mr. Wizard]

Originally Posted by Ebolapox

a shocking amount of suicides at/near parking structures. ****ed up either way.

I think it has to do with the fact that the person who paints the yellow lines owns a smart car. After parking between those line I want to kill myself.

Just sayin

[notorious]

I refinished all of the wood floors in the house that the Clutters were murdered.


Does "In Cold Blood" ring a bell?

[Sfeihc]

A good friend of mine in high school parents died in a murder/suicide. Dad shot Mom and then himself. Luckily her and her sister and brother were not at home when it happened. I was @ their house for a movie night two weeks prior.

[Lex Luthor]

I once left a very nice overcoat in the Westport Flea Market. I called the next night and they said they had it, but when I went to pick it up, nobody could find it.

A week later Bob Berdella, Kansas City's notorious serial killer, was arrested. He was the guy who would kidnap young gay men, hold them prisoner in his house, inject them with all kinds of weird shit, write down the details of his "experiments" on them in his journal, and eventually kill them. They caught him when one of his victims escaped.

At the time he had a shop in the Westport Flea Market called Bob's Bizzare Bazaar.

I always wondered if that SOB stole my overcoat.

[Shogun]

I'd made a thread about it when it happened. But one of my really good friends dad killed her mom with an axe and then drove to new mexico and offed himself. the mother was cheating on the father, they were separated at the time.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by notorious

I refinished all of the wood floors in the house that the Clutters were murdered.


Does "In Cold Blood" ring a bell?

Anything creepy about the place, other than just knowing what happened there?

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Douchemaster General

Anything creepy about the place, other than just knowing what happened there?

Nope.


Looked like every other old house I have worked in.


EXCEPT the driveway to the house. It has a row of trees on each side of a 1/4-1/2 mile dirt road. I worked on the house late December/Early January so the trees had no leafs.

That was about the only creepy thing.

[Direckshun]

Remember the lab scientist that was alledgedly responsible for the anthrax mailings in 2001?

My mother went to several microbiology conferences with the guy. Said he was a totally nice dude.

[Shogun]

I met Dennis Rader

[notorious]

Originally Posted by Shogun

I met Dennis Rader

One of the investigators in that case taught my CCL class.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by notorious

Nope.


Looked like every other old house I have worked in.


EXCEPT the driveway to the house. It has a row of trees on each side of a 1/4-1/2 mile dirt road. I worked on the house late December/Early January so the trees had no leafs.

That was about the only creepy thing.

Did the owners talk about it?

[Shogun]

Originally Posted by notorious

One of the investigators in that case taught my CCL class.

My childhood friend went to church at christ lutheran where he was president at and I went to church with him a few times. Have no real interesting stories though.