What crazy thing happened in your home town when you were growing up?

[Chan790]

17. One of my classmates was murdered.

She had been having an incestuous relationship with her adult brother (she was 14 or 15, he was 19-21) since he was in HS and she was 11. She tried to end it and he ended up coercing her for a few more months; she confronted him, told him she'd told a teacher and was going to tell their parents as soon as they came back from a few days trip out of town if he didn't turn himself in. He murdered her, stuck her in the trunk of his car planning to dispose of the body; the school called their parents over her truancy and what she'd reported to the teacher and they came home earlier than expected...and she was still in the trunk of the car. He was questioned about the sexual-assault allegations but as there was nothing to hold him on, he was released...but the cops kept an eye on him 24/7, involved him in the search in the hopes he might give himself away...and she's still in the trunk of the car. After about a week, biology gave him away when an officer from the State Police smelled her coming from the car, got the brother to give him a ride which allowed him to get into the car looking for other evidence which was used to obtain a warrant and they found her in the trunk.

I don't know what happened to him after that. It was a DP state at the time and I'm surprised they didn't seek a capital sentence.

Other than that, the next biggest things to happen there were the parents of the HS basketball coach committing suicide and the teen who lived one farm up the road from us killed himself because he was wanted for a string of B&Es...He was 16 so he was looking at a few years in juvie, nothing serious; my mother was the one that found him because she heard the shot and knew it was too close for hunters and too big of a gun, so she went running towards the shot while the other neighbor called 911.

If you expand it to the area I grew up in, one of the most-notorious murders nationally in the past decade occurred two towns over from me to the family of a friend of my parents.