She was single at the time and living alone in her ranch style home.
She walked out to her living room to check things out.
Door was locked, first window she checked was locked.
God & Man
She said he laughed this evil laugh and said party time then he started to climb in.
She screamed that she had a gun, her dog started barking his head off.
The would be rapist decided to bolt.
My aunt did get a gun after that and learned how to use it.
belai437
No running
During college, I lived in an apartment with a community pool.
His feet slipped out from under him on the wet concrete and he went down.
I watched someones life be ruined and it was terrifying.
Listen to the lifeguard and walk.
wex52
Child abuse
I grew up with a very mentally ill and abusive father.
Thankfully, it missed his heart by two inches and he is still alive today.
It was the most terrifying and surreal thing Ive ever experienced.
To this day, little bits of shrapnel still surface in my brothers chest.
She started dating a man that fell in love with her because of how sweet and kind she was.
He killed her for being the person he knew her to be when they started dating.
The fact people like him exist is terrifying to me.
This is was a daytime flight.
Passengers knew what was happening.
They could see the mountains getting closer out the windows.
program_alarm
My neighbor the murderer
I lived next to a murderer.
Faye Swetlik was 6 years old when she was kidnapped out of her front yard.
It was all over the news.
I had news crews, cops, even the FBI all over my townhouse complex.
My fiancee and I met with the FBI 3 times.
They searched our home and everything.
They pulled out her boot and a bloody knife.
Then they found her body, dumped maybe 300 feet from my house.
He had watched them find the murder weapon.
Dumbass put it in a trash bag along with his other mail.
He went to his back porch and opened his own throat.
I had conversations with the guy.
I never knew he was a psycho.
This all happened a year ago.
She was tipsy and ended up going home with a man who lived with another male.
They spent the next week putting her body in plastic bags and hiding them in bushes etc.
They were caught pretty quickly and thankfully are in prison for life.
craftingfirerunes
Brain aneurysms
A good friend died of a brain aneurysm.
One of the hardest working and smartest people Ive known.
She never woke up.
As a father of two I think about that a lot.
The man got out, fiddled with something under the hood and then closed it.
He asked me hey kid do you know how to pop a clutch?
Spending my childhood on a farm, I did indeed know how.
Yes I responded give me a hand real quick he said.
I heard the door slam, the truck start, and he drove away.
What the fuck????
What bullet did I dodge??
I mean you ever have a memory come back and you get scared?
I mean scared over the memory?
I was shaking for at least a half hour over it.
Its still freaks me out thinking about it.
That was the last time she ever heard from him.
It was carbon monoxide posioning.
It is so scary to think how fast your life can change.
Chlooeeeee
Abusive ex
My mothers friend left her abusive husband.
My mother met her while working at a womens shelter.
They were really close, and my mother fought so hard to get her somewhere safe.
They did everything right.
She helped her file divorce papers.
And she checks the newspaper.
And she calls in sick to work.
Which she never did.
And she sat my down in tears and told me what happened.
Her friend was home, with her son, when her ex broke in.
He killed her and left the baby there, in his mothers blood.
And then he hung himself outside of Raleys.
Last I heard their almost two year old went to live with his uncle.
Went about her business having dinner, watching tv then decided to go to bed.
She was lying in her bed with her back to her closet when she heard the door open.
She immediately called her boyfriend to ask him to come over then called her parents and then the police.
They found a ton of surveillance footage of her sleeping and pieces of her clothes and stuff.
halfyellowhalfwhite
The corpse sat up
My dad worked in a morgue in during college in the 60s.
The body was under a sheet but all of a sudden started to sit up.
The guy immediately freaked out, ran out the doors and quit.
Annah didnt survive, but Mesfewi confessed to murdering them, usually for a tiny amount of money.
His initial sentence was crucifixion a very unusual punishment even then.
However there were many protests from powerful foreign embassies, and Morocco couldnt do much against them.
Instead he was sentenced to beheading, a more common punishment.
A special cell was constructed in the wall of the bazaar, about 2 X 2 X 6 feet.
Chains were attached to one wall to ensure he would be kept standing.
He screamed nearly constantly for two days.
On the third day he fell silent.
mordenty
James Bulgar
He was just 2 years old and with his mom running errands.
She let go of his hand to pay the cashier, and he wandered away.
They took him to a remote location, pushing and kicking at him the whole time.
They took him to a secluded spot and tortured him.
I dont want to recount the torture details, its just too gruesome.
He was found days later, his body severed in half by a train.
The boys were caught and became the youngest convicted murderers in British history.
Security footage from the day they took James shows them watching children, picking out a target.
And they were just kids themselves.
They were released at 18.
One of them is back in jail for possessing child abuse photos on his computer.
It was premeditated and intentional and entirely random.
Just a momentary lapse in attention and he became a target of two murderous children.
To think that children younger than my step son are capable of such a thing… ugh.
Everything about this case is just horrifying.
sai_gunslinger
Stone cold
I grew up in a funeral home.
I helped out in the office.
There were very few clues.
Cops set up surveillance at the viewing.
It was heartbreaking, as the mother was holding the baby in her arms.
I then photocopied them and put them back.
I did it because I was a kid, people knew me, and I was unobtrusive.
I talked to the husband quite a bit.
He seemed devastated and shaken.
The cops told me they had an eyewitness to someone leaving the house the day of the murder.
The witness was a three year old girl.
She recognized the man leaving.
It was the husbands best friend.
The little girl identified the friend, and I guess one of them cracked.
They both went to jail on multiple counts, all on the testimony of a three year old.
I dont think I ever looked at life the same way after that.
