There was just a cold blooded emptiness in his eyes."
1.Charming, had lots of friends.
I remember sitting on the school bus thinking I should have a go at be more like him.
Lacie Slezak
He was always smiling, and girls would flirt with him.
2.Does a mass murderer count?
He was a jerk.
His wife was my friend, and she started slowly telling me a few things about him.
He left, angry.
I was not home that night, thankfully.
He hunted down and killed five people, one of whom was a friend of mine.
He committed suicide when the police had him cornered.
That was nearly 30 years ago.
3.He was like a big, goofy, brother.
I loved him to bits but fell out of contact with him when I split with my ex.
There was just a cold blooded emptiness in his eyes.
Hes still waiting to be put on trial.
4.He was fairly normal.
My ex girlfriends brother.
5.Played D&D with a guy on deployment for a few months while I was in the Navy.
We hung out in the same group of people.
I stopped playing because he kept trying to rape all the female NPCs/player characters.
When we got back from deployment the FBI and NCIS were pier side waiting for him.
Him and some other guys had raped and killed a woman whose husband was on deployment.
They tortured him for hours, then killed him and tried to burn the body.
Two got life, the other turned evidence and only served a few years.
He bought fake C4 from and undercover agent, they swarmed him while he was pushing the switch.
As I write this, I realize Ive been close to some really messed up people.
Nothing specific really stands out.
His mom was one of our teachers in elementary.
He left school early and joined the military.
Did a couple tours, including the Haitian disaster relief in the early 2010s.
Apparently fishing bodies out of wreckage is what messed him up really bad.
After that he had horrible PTSD and developed some bad mental health issues.
Horrible story and outcome from someone who was once pretty normal.
I knew him from 3rd grade or so until senior year.
Not great friends or anything but he seemed like a decent guy.
He was known to have previous drug addictions, and was overall a very weird guy.
He and his wife had two kids together, but they always had a very rocky marriage.
She left him numerous times, but they always got back together.
She ended up moving out of state to take care of an ill family member and left him.
He showed up at their door insisting on talking to her, and she eventually let him in.
It was an incredibly sad and sickening story, no one could believe he would do such a thing.
8.My mom used to work with Dana Sue Gray and was friends with her.
There was no other connection she had to Dorinda and she strangled her in a storefront downtown.
She said she was a sweet girl, and that her kids were very close friends with her.
She would frequently babysit the kids in her neighborhood, this was mid 90s to early 2000s.
Come college he was so invested in his studies they grew apart and eventually moved away cutting all contact.
11.He was so sweet, he was basically my childhood friend.
I said yes and was so happy.
I really did love him.
On the way to the restaurant someone hit my car and I wasnt able to go.
all of them severely damaged and beaten.
When I was little I wished he was my dad.
Dirt poor, but always took time took us sledding when it snowed.
Took us fishing at the river once and we found these big old turtles.
And we ran to tell him.
He came over with a machete and chopped their heads off.
Made a game of it.
With his 6 year old boys helping pull the head out and laughing.
I was pretty traumatized by that incident.
But other than that, he was just a guy.
He was a little bit drug addled.
There was a murder and not long after they picked him up for it.
And while he was in jail, awaiting trial, he confessed to a bunch of other stuff.
Other murders, dozens of rapes.
Im not convinced he did them all.
It was national news.
His family had a hard time shaking the stigma, so I dont want to be too detailed.
I feel like I owe it to them to let that time in our lives be forgotten.
13.I went to high school with not 1, but 2 murderers.
This was a suburban Atlanta high school.
Bit of a problem kid.
But he was funny and had friends.
When his GF broke up with him, he snapped.
Hed always had trouble with his emotions.
Just too happy, too sad, too angry.
Extremes in every directions.
And he shot her at her bus stop, then killed himself.
He once got busted for stealing a credit card at our towns local grocery store.
16.Honestly, she was like any other person with seemingly normal mental health issues.
I knew she had depression, but a lot of people do and dont kill people.
She was a high achiever in school and her extra curriculars.
She had loving parents and a fluffy dog.
She was goofy and had a naivete about her.
She later got diagnosed with a number of psychological disorders.
Then he got roped into drug dealing, and I saw less and less of him everyday.
Opening the curtains slightly, and was aghast to see him being tackled to the ground by the police.
He lied, a lot, but they were always dumb little innocent lies.
He babysat us from time to time.
He was a gentle giant.
We all figured it out when we read it in the towns newspaper.
I found out that his mom had sent him pictures of the family, including my toddler daughter.
I absolutely lost my shit.
I want nothing to do with him.
20.I have a friend that worked with Mark David Chapman.
He is the man who killed John Lennon.
My friend said that Mark David Chapman was a really nice guy when she worked with him.
I guess you never really know someone.
He was the worlds nicest, most easy-going guy.
Never had an unkind word for anyone.
Hard to believe he could do something like that.
I think he bottled it up inside until he just snapped.
Dont always pretend to be happy if youre not.
Someday it might be too much for you.
22.It wasnt a friend, my Aunt was Aileen Wuornos.
She was executed a few years before I found out.
23.A guy I was in high school with was a multiple murderer, but not quite a serial killer.
24.Pretty cool janitor at our middle school.
Would sometimes play Magic: The Gathering with us when his lunch and our recess lined up.
Was kinda surreal when they found several dead prostitutes in his attic a few years later.
No suspicion of being a killer at all.
Thats what scares me the most, they arent the weird quiet kid.
Theyre the charming funny guys.
