Do you personally know someone that has murdered someone else?

[Indy Coug]

If so, please describe your relationship to that person and what happened.

[Indy Coug]

I used to home teach this guy.

http://www.weblo.com/property/real_e...PPLEBEES.News/

[I.J. Reilly]

There is one I know for sure (with whom I used to frequent church and had eaten dinner with my family) and many others I suspect.

[FN Phat]

Family member

[wuapinmon]

My second cousin (dad's first cousin). He was high and beat a man to death in a bar fight in 1969, apparently hitting him still after it was clear that the dude was done for. He was sentenced to death. When the Supreme Court made the death penalty illegal for a season. The governor switched all the death row inmates to life sentences (I think it was in Kansas or Nebraska). Due to a technicality, when the death penalty was reinstated, Billy qualified for parole. He got paroled sometime in the early 90's, though I believe he is back in jail, for life this time, for another crime.

He is unstable and used to torture animals when he was a kid. Everyone in the family is scared to death of him, and my grandfather, an attorney, writes a letter against his release, every time he comes up for parole.

[DU Ute]

A kid I played HS football with is serving life for a double homicide stemming from a botched drug deal.

[smokymountainrain]

At the time of this post there are almost twice as many people who know a murderer as those who don't. That is mind boggling.

[The_Tick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Brothers

[Clark Addison]

Several years ago, I used to be a product manager and frequently travel to one of our main offices, in Lincoln Nebraska. While there, I would sometimes meet with a woman who ran the inside sales group, and who, I thought, was kind of cute. One day, I find out that, in the middle of a messy divorce (or maybe right after one), she went out, killed her ex-husband's girlfriend, set fire to the car, and then killed a guy that saw the fire and came to help. She is currently serving a life term in the Nebraska State Pen. On the plus side, I had a couple of to-dos that she had asked me for, that I was able to take off of my list.

[Babs]

I guess I've never told you guys, but this really close friend of mine, he accidentally killed the district attorney once.

It was awful. They had worked together but always had a kind of rough relationship. Then this one time, they were messing around on the top of this building, and the DA fell to his death.

I mean, honestly, the DA was kind of a shady character and we were all relieved to be rid of him, but it was a huge ordeal for everybody involved. It was even more awkward for me, because my dad's in charge of the local police department and I had to watch him publicly vilify my closest friend.

[Indy Coug]

Let me share more about my acquaintance. I home taught him for 3 years. He had a family of 5 small boys and a wife. They were all very quiet, sweet people, but there were signs of emotional problems and they had a lot of financial problems. They moved away to Cincinnati, where the murder happened. After the murder, he came back to our ward for a few weeks but by himself.

He got up during testimony meeting and told of this touching tale of caring for his father at the end of his life which brought many to tears. A few days later, the local cops busted him for something unrelated (I can't remember what) and he fessed up to the murder while in custody. He pleaded guilty, but with diminished capacity and so he got a reduced sentence (I'm hazy on the details).

Sad story.

[wuapinmon]

Our ward mission leader in New Orleans tried to kill his wife. It was ghastly to see her in the hospital when we gave her a blessing. I wanted to kill him. He drank bleach rather than turn himself in....it didn't work.

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[il Padrino Ute]

I went to high school with a guy (I wouldn't consider him a friend, though we played football and baseball together) murdered his business partner at the partner's home in Sandy. Apparently, the business partner had found evidence that this guy had been embezzling and was going to have him charged for it, so the guy I know killed him then buried him in the victim's backyard. A neighbor noticed him burying something in a blue tarp and asked what was going on and he told her that his business partner's family pet had died, so he was burying the dog because the family had asked him to do it.

Long story short, the police searched the guy's house and found business papers in the garbage can that were stained with the victim's blood. He was arrested, but it didn't go to trial because he plead guilty to 1st degree murder in exchange for life without the possibility of parole rather than take his chances because the prosecutor wanted to go for the death penalty.

[Goatnapper'96]

This was a sad story.

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-..._1_simi-valley

I knew the kid in elementary school all the way thru HS. He was really a good kid. Good student, popular and a great athlete and could have been a really good high school athlete in either baseball, hoops or football. In the fifth grade his mom died and he was the never the same thereafter. It still hurts me a bit to spend time thinking about it. He became really withdrawn and never reached his potential. He thought the guy he killed was the devil. My brother, who was a Ventura Country Sherriff, worked the trial.

[FMCoug]

More than I care to admit. Most of the people I grew up with are dead or in jail.