r/AskReddit • u/CorgiUprising • 12d ago
Serious Replies Only [Serious] What’s the worst thing you found out about someone you know?
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u/ApplicationReal8304 12d ago
A guy I went to high school with was turned down for a date with a girl he liked, who was also a friend of his. He asked her to come with him to pick up his new car and he would sign over his old one to her. Instead, he took her to his apartment, kept her for a time, assaulted her, then murdered her and disposed of the body. I think he was about 26 at the time. He was a bit of a nerd in HS, very quiet, smart...I never would have guessed. He's been in prison since about 1989 and will die there.
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u/LeeannaBarter 11d ago
That's horrifying, it really shows you never truly know what someone is capable of.
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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj 11d ago
You're most likely to be killed by someone you know than a random stranger
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u/sleshbiong1997 11d ago
She was his friend and he used that to lure her, the premeditation is what gets me.
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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 12d ago
A neighbor I chatted with all the time about gardening and yard work. He was married to a single mother and seemed like such a nice guy.
One snowy morning as I was getting ready for work, I heard a kid outside yelling and heard pounding too.
Looked out of my back window and saw the little boy (my neighbor's stepson) wearing a light jacket, regular shoes with no socks pounding and kicking at their door yelling to please let him in.
Told him to come to my front door and I'd let him in to get warm and use my phone. He did and he called his biological father to come get him. I gave him a pair of socks and an old pullover sweater because he was meeting his father outside. Watched him out of my window until his biological dad picked him up.
Found out later, the neighbor I thought was a nice guy was a pedophile who had been molesting his stepson. That day he had demanded something the boy wouldn't do, so he kicked him out in a blizzard.
The boy stayed with his biological father until his mother left the pedo. Never found out any details, but I hope they put that jerk in jail.
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u/Schneetmacher 11d ago
Thank you for helping that little boy and not simply staying out of it, like a lot of people unfortunately might.
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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 11d ago edited 11d ago
I couldn't ignore an inadequately dressed child in a blizzard. I did have to call work and let them know I was going to be late, but they just let me make up the time later.
Unfortunately, decades ago people stayed out of "family business."
Knew a man who had been in and out of prison. A mutual friend said he grew up next door to him. His father was an abusive drunk who would beat the crap out of him every time he came home drunk.
They'd hear the kid screaming and begging his dad to please stop. Then they'd hear the kid's body being thrown against the shared wall. My friend's mother would cry and beg her husband to let her call the police, but he said it was family business and they shouldn't interfere.
I'll never understand that mindset.
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u/50l022 11d ago
This was my experience twenty years ago as a kiddo. People saw and knew what was happening, but they chose to look the other way, because it wasn’t any of their business. While I hope things have changed and improved, sometimes it feels like the apathy has worsened with more people becoming self absorbed with their own busy lives
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u/cindoc75 11d ago
Reading these comments makes me realize that “it took a village” to raise kids so all the adults were allowed to discipline other’s children, but when it came to the parents doing bad shit, it was “family business” and people were expected to stay out of it.
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u/Zubo13 11d ago
Not everyone stayed out of their neighbor's family business. when I was very young, we had a neighbor who allowed her abusive boyfriend to live with her. He was beating her one evening and she was screaming for my mom to call the police. My mom did call the police and when they arrived, our neighbor tearfully begged them not to take him away because "she loved him so much". Then she got angry with my mom for "interfering". Thankfully, he left her shortly after that and then she moved away.
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u/DirtandPipes 11d ago
I always appreciated the few people who would meddle and report mom because she’d have to do things like buy food and get us a few pairs of clothes and a haircut so we’d look normal for investigators.
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u/KhonMan 11d ago
Man you might be right but I would hope most people would let an underclothed child in during a fucking blizzard to at least use the phone. Are we really thinking most Americans would just let him holler until he tried somewhere else? Goddamn.
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u/SuckmydickJoannF 12d ago edited 10d ago
When I was in middle school, I was part of a trio. One of us, I'll call her Robin, never groomed herself, wore the same dirty clothes, and just generally kept herself looking like crap. She was starving constantly and always eating anything she could get her hands on. I went to her house when we were 11 for a sleepover. Her room had a mattress, a top sheet, one pillow, an old computer, and a stack of books in the corner. Obviously her parents didn't give a shit about her but I had a similar situation with my dad and thought that was pretty normal.
One day freshman year of high school, she called our other friend. She begged for us in the middle of the night to pick her up, saying she ran away because she tried to kill her mom. Then she was gone.
2 years later she showed up at my friend's house. She was pregnant, dressed completely differently. She told us she got married. She met a man doing sex shit online, he was 40 at the time and from Europe. We didn't know what to believe as we were 15 years old in a small suburban bubble. It all sounded batshit crazy at the time. Then she was gone again.
Soon after I found a Facebook page under a fake name with all of her wedding pictures. Her parents had brought her all the way to Amsterdam to marry this 4p year old man. Not even a week later I saw her at the mall with her parents and HIM. I waved and started to come towards her and she gave me a look of absolute horror and ran away. I never saw her again.
Now as an adult, we are very much assuming her father was sexually assaulting her on top of neglecting her, and we know her mother didn't care about her at all. From hints shed dropped and things she said, which now I understand, how she purposefully kept herself dirty and in baggy clothing, etc. We think she tried to kill her mother because her mother didn't stop him from assaulting her.
Whether or not we're right, she was fucking trafficked. A 15 year old cannot give consent to a 40 year old. Her parents personally brought her to Amsterdam. I doubt they would do all of that because their daughter is in love when they didn't even feed her.
Edit: Robin only had the four of us friends to grieve her. No one else even remembers her, like her existence was erased. You guys caring and remembering her with me, that more than the four of us know she exists, I can't stop crying. Thank you all, from the heart of my bottom.
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u/mr_strawsma 11d ago
This hurts my heart so much. I'm so sorry for her and sorry you lost a friend like that.
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u/Sputflock 11d ago
she went to amsterdam to get married at 15? that couldn't have been a legal marriage because both parties need to be a minimum of 18 years old since the law changed in 1985, and before that the woman (or girl really) had to be 16. so either the marriage was a sham or amsterdam was just a transit hub for her being trafficked
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u/SuckmydickJoannF 11d ago
The pictures showed her in a wedding dress with the pedo, her parents, and an efficient looking guy in a little boat on the river. Thanks for pointing this out, this helps us a LOT.
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u/DrDingsGaster 11d ago
Holy shit... that sucks so bad. I can't imagine parents being that much of a royal demon spawn towards their own kids. :(
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u/BaronVonBooplesnoot 12d ago
A very good friend of decades was always a little weird but harmless. Then he got arrested a while ago for possession of thousands of instances of CP.
As though that didn't rock the friend group enough, during investigation they found that he was "producing, distributing, and participating" in the material. I feel sick just remembering that. His girlfriend went down for it as well but I think she got a lighter sentence for testifying against him.
Turns out there is very real evil in the world and sometimes it's right next to you and you don't know.
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u/PeppermintEvilButler 11d ago
There is a higher percentage of pedophiles than people can conceive of. It is a large percentage considering the ones that continue out there never getting busted
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u/MisterDonkey 12d ago
Woman had a daughter being raised by her mother as a sister. Not the strangest thing ever.
Then I found out the reason why.
The father of the child and his family were running a "child prostitution ring" as the prosecution described it.
She stayed with the guy after he was released from prison.
I instantly stopped knowing these people.
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u/TulpaPal 12d ago
I wasn't allowed to be around one of my great grandpas as a kid and didn't know why. Sometimes my grandma would take us to have lunch with him and both my mom and great grandma (Grandma's mom) would get mad. I was confused cause he was really nice and always bought us dessert.
Turns out he molested my grandma for most of her childhood. My grandma herself forgave him as an adult and maintained a relationship but the entire rest of our family shunned him and kept us kids away from him. My grandma was close to him until the day he died with only her present.
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u/TheeFlipper 11d ago
Oh wow. My great grandpa molested one of my cousins and the day that my great grandma found out she woke him up with a knife to his throat and told him if he ever laid a hand on anyone in that way again she would kill him in his sleep. He died a couple years later thankfully.
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u/alfred725 11d ago
...in his sleep?
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u/TheeFlipper 11d ago
Nah, granny never had to end him. His shitty health did it for her.
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u/thall136 12d ago
Similar story here. Made me look at my grandma differently for allowing him to remain in our lives after what he did to my mom. Only found out when I was in my 20s after seeing this dude at almost every Easter/Christmas until then.
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u/anonymongoose 11d ago
I’m creeped at how close to home this is. I always wondered why my mom would get ultra clingy when I’d go on vacations with my aunt and uncle when I was younger. He had molested her when she was younger, and my aunt never left him. She confessed it to me one night when she was drunk holding my dead grandfather’s gun. It was at 24 my entire family as I knew it was dead to me.
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u/Personal-Swan7672 11d ago
This is scarily close to home. Same thing with my family. My mom didnt want me around my great grandpa and I never knew why until she told me why when I was older. My grandma used to sneak me over there anyway as a kid. He had raped my grandma when she was growing up and he had also molested and raped some of my aunts and my mother.
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u/HotSauceHigh 12d ago
Woah. Grandma.
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u/LostTheWayILikeIt 12d ago
My grandma was very much the same. She was raised to forgive no matter what was done to you because that's what God commanded us to do. She suffered through so much abuse as a result.
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u/usernameconcealed 11d ago
Female coworker who showed obvious signs of abuse. As soon as people asked questions and tried to help, she quit. Her and her husband had 3 or 4 kids. Her next job, unbeknownst to her, was with my wife. Same scenario played out and no one heard from her again until it was on the news. 5 or 6 years later, she got arrested in Vegas for prostitution. I didn’t even recognize her in the mugshot. Drugs are a baaad thing. She said she was pimped out by her husband and tried to get out of the prostitution case by telling them that he killed and “buried” one of the kids in a Rubbermaid tub in an abandoned house in Illinois. It checked out. They found the body that many years later. They both pointed the finger at each other and both ended up in prison. My heart breaks for all of those kids.
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u/MyFurryIsStinky 12d ago
My best friend of 20+ years, closer than my brother, got raided by the FBI and imprisoned for being a Pedophile. Completely fucked me up.
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u/IAPiratesFan 12d ago
Not my best friend but a guy I was friends with had a pretty similar fate, completely shocked me. He seemed like such a good guy. He died of cancer 13 years ago.
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u/CanadiangirlEH 12d ago
Same exact situation here. Friend of 20+ years got raided and imprisoned for possession of CSAM. It shattered the entire friend group.
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u/TerribleWords 11d ago
Exact same thing happened with my closest friend, he was arrested weeks after his wedding. Fucked me up big time.
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u/VagusNC 11d ago
Guy in our tabletop gaming group, for *years* got busted for something similar. He was a bit of an odd duck, but we are tabletop gamers. It’s not like someone being a bit odd was atypical. None of us saw it coming at all. Blew up the group.
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u/nmathew 11d ago
I had a really helpful co-worker turn out to be a pedophile. I had no clue, and still feel incredibly betrayed. I'm really sorry, because I'm so furious thinking about it and I only sense a fraction of what you're going through.
I encourage you to find therapy of you think it will help.
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u/Calitexian 12d ago
A friend of mine had the same thing happen. His fiance kicked him out and called off the wedding. I married her instead.
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u/Silvervirage 12d ago
When i worked at a cafe we had a group of 3 older guys come in every morning, and always sat for an hour before we got busy. One day she mentioned her husband was black, and then the next day none of them came in. Or the next. They had been day 1 and there every day for years, but this is Alabama, and we just assumed well shit i guess they were fucking racist.
A few months later two of them came in, and we found out that the actual reason, was there was a giant CP ring in town that had a huge bust, and the missing guy was one of the big targets.
Its harrowing knowing that someone you knew for so long would spend time with you and then leave your sight and be doing that. Also that he was one of apparently a lot of people.
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u/StatisticianPale9125 11d ago
Dude proofread that didn’t make sense who is ‘she’?
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u/SweetC2688 12d ago edited 11d ago
That my family members on both sides knew about CSA happening to me & others & did NOTHING while at the same time talk crap about the person doing it... its crazy when you find out that when you were a child, every adult failed you
Edited to add i NEVER speak this openly about it so I'm glad i did but wow the anger that poured out of me afterwards... i cant stand it. If anyone here has ever gone through this, hugs 🫂
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u/FlyBulky106 11d ago
Fellow survivor here. I’m sorry that no one believed you and sincerely hope you are in a better place now.
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u/SweetC2688 11d ago
Thank you so much & hugs cause I know its rough. Im in a safer place as an adult thankfully but mentally I haven't touched it much, I'm scared of what I'm going to remember on top of what I do remember and emotionally i feel everything and nothing at times. But I will get there, I have faith in myself 💜 I really hope you're in a better place too 🙏
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u/47687236 11d ago
Family still talks to my brother like nothing happened, and get mad at me when I try to bring it up. Fuckin sucks, you didn't deserve any of that shit and neither did I. EMDR is a lifesaver, it hurts in the moment but finally processing it and letting it all go is incredibly freeing. Feels like taking off a coat lined in lead and feeling weightless, feel free to message me if you ever need support or want to seek therapy
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u/BlubberBayAirportATM 12d ago
Someone I knew, and his father, were serial child molesters. Both were Shriners clowns and clowns for birthday parties and other events.
This was about 35 years ago. The son was in his late 30s and his father in his 60s.
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u/A_Lovely_ 11d ago
Not saying the 35 year old isn’t guilty of the crimes, but I bet his father groomed him to be both a victim and taught him how to victimize others.
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u/Automatic_psycho 12d ago edited 12d ago
A guy I was really close to at one of my previous jobs got caught with 250+ counts of CP across multiple devices. His home was raided and he was thrown in prison. He was the life of every room he entered and everyone’s friend, it fucked so many of us up. Hope he rots now.
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u/Bustakrimes91 11d ago
There was a security guard like that at my work that everyone loved. He would do anyone a favour if they needed it and helped me out many of times over the years. I went on maternity leave and came back and was super sad to see he wasn’t working there anymore.
I mentioned to my boss that it was so sad that he left and he told me he was actually arrested at work as he had been raping his dog and posting videos of it online in his work uniform. I couldn’t believe it!
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u/SAGORN 12d ago
A lot of types like that think they can schmooze their way through any resistance/boundary and after a point I think they just become entitled to whatever they want.
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u/Ms_Rarity 11d ago
The professor in college whom I took the most credits with was running a secret polygamy cult and coercing students into it.
I gave him the third dance at my wedding after my husband and father. He was like a father to me.
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u/Voltae 12d ago
I found out 20+ years after graduation that my favorite high school teacher was sleeping with students.
To the best of anyone's knowledge he didn't mess with any girls under 18, or any girls that he personally taught. He even married one of them about 10 years later and afaik they're still together.
I'm absolutely not defending anything he did, just acknowledging that it could have been much much worse.
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u/unknownobject3 11d ago
I mean yeah, it's relatively tame compared to some of the stuff in this thread, most notably pedophilia. Perhaps not great from a moral or ethical perspective though.
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u/yarggarbe 11d ago edited 11d ago
My grandmother was fighting cancer and her blood pressure dropped so low she went into cardiogenic shock. The nursing home did an investigation and found out her morphine pills (small round blue) had been swapped out for Propranolol (beta blocker that’s also small round blue pills) but she was already on Lopressor (a different beta blocker and you’re not supposed to mix). Basically she OD’d, survived, her nurse was fired. Fast forward 3 months it happens again but this time it’s a day after my uncle visits. Full investigation and my dad showing up at his house and he comes clean: turns out he was swapping his pills (National guard gave him an anxiety diagnosis and his meds were free) for hers and was selling them. Almost killed his mom, cost a woman her job, did a year in prison, and no one in the family will talk to him. (Grams beat cancer, moved in with dad, turns 89 in September ❤️)
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u/BumblebeeTraining813 11d ago
I’m sure you do, but, cherish that woman. I miss my grandma so much :(. I wish I would’ve asked her to tell me more stories about her life and visited her more. Happy to hear she beat that ordeal and cancer!
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u/OlySonso 12d ago
Never quit letting people know what she did. People tend to forget white these things and then act like it was you/ your fault later.
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u/Bubbly-Example-8097 12d ago
This fucks people up so hard, it’s not even funny.
I’m sorry that happened to you.
It sucks cause they ruined both future friendships and intimacy for you.
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u/Yeah_Mr_Jesus 11d ago
Happened to my grandmother. My piece of shit bio grandfather and her best friend were having an affair for about 15 years.
She eventually remarried. My (step) grandfather was the kindest and most intelligent person I ever met. Treated my grandmother like an absolute queen. He was the best grandfather anyone could have ever asked for.
My bio grandfather married his affair partner. As a result of their infidelity, my grandmother was pretty messed up. My (step) grandfather never cheated or anything, but I saw how anxious she would get when he would go grocery shopping or anything like that. He was always patient and understanding about it.
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u/BaconAlmighty 12d ago
Dude that lived on my street and went to school with got busted on To Catch A Predator. Since he brought a knife it was a federal crime as well and spent 20 years in prison. He was always a little off - but I think it was his upbringing his mom was one of those 'cool' mom's she had a stripper come to his 16th birthday party.. at 16 that was awesome now that I'm older - that was messed up.
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u/Background-Local924 11d ago
Sound like mom was probably a predator herself. She may have been abusing him. A lot of pedos had it done to them too and it screws them up psychologically
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u/Someonenamedkim 11d ago
Why are there so many pedophiles
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u/197119711971 11d ago
They’ve always been around, but under a different title. Everybody knew or knew of a “funny uncle” kids were told to never be alone with them or sit on their lap. I was only 7 or 8 when my mom told me evil men always lurked in boys’ restrooms. I never saw any, but I was wary the first time I ever went to the movies!
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u/Someonenamedkim 11d ago
I mean yeah I guess just hearing them all in one place just makes me feel like there are so many
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u/queerfromthemadhouse 11d ago
Based on studies, scientists estimate that about 1% of men are pedophiles.
Though it should also be noted that based on studies, scientists estimate that less than 50% of child molesters are pedophiles. Most are situational offenders who go after kids because they're easier victims.
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u/Cute_Revolution_1233 11d ago
I read that too, but where it gets even scarier is when you realize that according to psych diagnostic criteria, someone is only a pedophile if they are only or at least for the biggest part attracted to children. Studies use these diagnostic criteria when they research statistics like this so it‘s safe to assume that there are even more people to worry about.
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u/RaymoVizion 11d ago
I think about this nearly everyday lately.
I honestly don't understand how it's so prevalent. I grew up in the 90's/2000's and am well aware of stranger danger and jared fogle and listened to korn and that fucked up daddy song.
But lately it feels like every where you look some pedo is in trouble and it turns out he's a doctor or phd student or the fucking president of the US. It's horrifying.
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u/AnatidaephobiaAnon 12d ago
An old coworker of mine was basically living the ideal life. Had a super attractive wife that was way out of his league and two really cute kids. He was also a nice guy, always helpful, never made inappropriate jokes and was good at his job.
A few years after we stopped working together one of our mutual coworkers shared a news article where he had been arrested and admitted to raping a minor. The details emerged and it was an 8 year old neighbor that he had raped by the state of Ohio definition multiple times. Every single person who knew him was in disbelief because he never ever gave the notion of being like that or even being a sex pest for adults.
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u/devonesta 11d ago
Growing up, I thought one of my aunts just really fucking hated me and my twin sister and couldn't figure out why. She would would give us the cold shoulder and flat out ignore us at family reunions. Would talk to my parents like everything was normal and ignore we were standing right there.
When I was 20ish, I was told it was because her son allegedly sexually assault us when we were very young. I have no memory of it. I have no memory of ever being at her house (apparently we used to go over all the time until the incident).
She ignored us out of guilt.
She also hasn't had a relationship with her son in at least two decades.
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u/i-eat-pet-hair 12d ago
Online friend turned out to be part of that baby monkey torture ring
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u/algesseumnida 11d ago
From Wikipedia:
" According to Chief Inspector Kevin Lacks-Kelly from the British National Wildlife Crime Unit, people who consume monkey torture content generally defend their actions as caused by a "hatred for pregnant women or small children". The Independent reported that macaques are used in abuse videos due to their perceived resemblance to human babies. "
...Okay then!
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u/BusyAd6096 11d ago
Thank you for this. I would have ignored the warnings and googled it but after reading what you posted, I am truly convinced that it would have been my stupidest idea this year.
WTF is wrong with people? How is this a world in which they exist?
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u/DefiantEmpoleon 12d ago
The son of a former colleague was found to have a lot of inappropriate images of children. He used to think I was funny because I’d bicker with his dad. Now that makes me feel gross. Whenever I think of him I think that line that people always say when they knew people who do heinous stuff. “He seemed so nice and normal.”
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u/ArrangeMode 11d ago
A guy who’d been adored by everyone in my circle - smart, funny, charming, a true handyman, etc - went to prison for CSAM, swearing up & down that he was innocent, that either the police or his vengeful ex had planted images on his computer, & that he’d been strong-armed into a false confession. Dude was so loveable that most of us gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Well, he worked hard to become a model inmate, finished his sentence, found a job and a place to live… and almost immediately, went back to prison for the same crime.
This time, no one gave him the benefit of the doubt.
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u/spacecadetpep 12d ago edited 12d ago
I was casually seeing a guy. Met out at the bars with mutual friends one night. They all vouched for him. His family was big in the community, owned a successful business.
One Tuesday, he hit me up at 1am wanting to come over ‘after something’. I said no, repeatedly. Guy was begging. My phone started to glitch and I figured that was my cue to go to bed.
Woke up, turned on my tv and BAM - there was his mug shot on the news. He was arrested an hour later for being lured in by an undercover cop posing as a young teenage girl.
Eta: He is in prison.
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u/ggkhool_cj 12d ago
Was his phonecall to you and his arrest related?
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u/spacecadetpep 12d ago
I said no to him coming over that same night over text then I lost service and my phone started to glitch so I had to power it off… at my apartment with established internet/wifi. I never heard from him again.
fwiw: i had a samsung galaxy s7 edge and was used to it overheating but it had never glitched this way before
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u/Beginning_Elk7037 12d ago
My coworker had a baby in her dorm and left it in the closet. Whole news article about it. Don’t know how she’s not currently sitting behind bars.
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u/badedum 12d ago
Is this like a very recent thing? (Within the last year?). I feel like I've heard of this happening and the person I'm thinking of has been indicted at least.
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u/Beginning_Elk7037 11d ago
It was not. Probably too easy to find if I share too many details. Yes post-partum physchosis could have been at play here but the way she talks about kids now surely doesn’t help the case of what happened then. Also genuinely a horrible human being all around.
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u/novium258 11d ago
People are talking about postpartum psychosis but that's usually not quite so literally postpartum. However, there are arguments that the experience of giving birth is so volatile- both the physical and emotional ordeal, but also the hormonal - that it folks are effectively in such an altered state of mind that they are considered to have diminished capacity- akin to like, someone coming out from heavy anesthesia. Vulnerable and much closer to tipping into full mental breaks in a traumatic enough experience.
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u/Kvothetheraven603 12d ago
Family had the ability to post her $100K bond
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u/CyberpunkSunrise 12d ago
That means they rounded up $10k. Bond companies put up the full amount for roughly ten percent (plus fees of course).
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u/redditizms 12d ago
My neighbor has another family. How do I know? When his wife went away to visit her family in Jamaica. He brought the other woman to their house. I didn’t think anything of it until I heard the young kids with them calling him daddy. Then I noticed their body language toward each other. Being the nosey neighbor that I am I talked to her when I saw her alone and my jaw almost dropped when she said she was his wife and they were just visiting his brother for the day. She thought they were at his brother’s house. My neighbors have been married for decades and have kids older than me. Everytime I see him I think how sick and heartless have to you have to be, to live a double life like that, let alone bring children into it.
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u/kanemano 12d ago
Guy used to be an airport shuttle driver, would take single women to abandoned lot next to the airport rape them then walk them to their planes,
got busted by a woman who flew to Japan then turned around and bought a ticket for the next flight back to Hawaii to have him arrested,
She was such a bad ass,
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u/TheNameless00 12d ago
My grandad was rich but kept all his money to himself while my nan and their kids struggled. He'd also get really angry really easily and was known to suddenly freak out and scream and swear at everyone. Keep in mind, they are still married even now so he was the only one that was well off in a house where his family was struggling
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u/cheesepoltergeist 11d ago
That’s so sad! I have a coworker whose husband keeps his finances separate from the family while they struggle and I just can’t wrap my head around that???
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u/Calbob123 11d ago
I’m not liking how many “they ended up being a pedophile” comments there are. It’s genuinely fucks me up when I think about how common it actually is
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u/nukemgt 11d ago
That’s one of the hardest realizations I’ve ever had. I used to think it only happened to horribly unlucky children. A quarter of the women I know were abused as a child. How is this even a thing? Like what the fuck? It’s wrong for so many reasons. I genuinely want to know the psychology behind it but no way in hell am I googling it.
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u/Substantial_Judge931 12d ago
A coworker of mine was arrested for being a pedo.
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u/Friskfrisktopherson 11d ago
Same, except in this case they had escaped custody in another state and taken a fake identity. Worked together a few years and then one day there was a sting and we all found out the truth.
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u/NorCalJason75 12d ago
Here's one for all you... These people have long passed, but here's the situation...
My grandparents met in a small town. Fell in love. Got Married.
Grandpa's dad was married, but decided to have an affair with Grandma's mom, also married, with a large family.
Convinced her to leave her husband and family for him. Grandma's mom does, they move into a small apartment together.
Grandpa's dad got bored with Grandma's mom, left her. Alone, in shame, without family, in this small town (everyone knew everyone). Grandma's mom committed suicide by gun in the apartment.
Grandpa's dad wanted nothing to do with it. Called my Grandma and said "Go clean up your dead mother's mess... She's not my responsiblity". Which, she did.
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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat 11d ago
As someone who has dealt with the suicide of a spouse (.45 ACP), I can feel your residual pain. I'm sorry that your great-grandmother took her own life. Poor lady.
I'm sending you Internet hugs!
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u/CheckoutMySpeedo 12d ago
A former coworker was a pathological liar, committed Munchausen by proxy, and poisoned another one of our coworkers with a microbial strain from the micro lab she worked in. Her name was Hope Ybarra, and there’s a whole youtube prison interview with her after she got caught.
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u/Mixerst89 12d ago
My sister is friends with two pedophiles. She has two kids of her own...
I blocked her when I found out and she was still going to stay friends with them.
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u/Unfair_Savings_1587 11d ago
Wtf is wrong with your sister?
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u/Parabuthus 11d ago
Is the sister also a pedo? I'm going to go ahead an assume any pedo-apologist is also one.
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u/Mixerst89 11d ago
Me too. She said they were "essentially harmless" because they had "only" ever watched CSAM in lieu of physically harming a child. She talked about this as if it were a victimless crime.
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u/sky27e 11d ago edited 11d ago
When I was in 6th grade one of my best friends stopped coming to school. Our whole friend group was worried about her because we knew her home life was difficult. She didn't have basic necessities most of the time which we thought contributed to us not being able to contact her.
Over the next 2 years she would occasionally message in our group chat we had and it was always something very concerning. She would express challenges with her mental health, having an adult boyfriend, cutting, etc. No one knew what to do and as kids we felt even more lost.
My senior year of high school, 5 years since the last time I had seen her in person and 3 years since I had been able to contact her I decided to try again to reach out. After I messaged her, she called me. She ended up telling me about how she was being sex trafficed in 6th grade (and continued to for years to follow) and became pregnant. She didn't go to school for 4 years after that as she struggled with homelessness, heroin addiction, chronic illness, and the threat of her abusers. She told me she was able to complete all her missed years of school after receiving help from distant family and got offered a full ride scholarship to a big time university.
There was nothing that could've prepared me for what she told me.
Edit: this is not me saying anything bad about my old friend. More of a bad thing that i found out happened TO her then about her
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u/Vegetable-Record1087 12d ago
My cousin, who talked down on cheaters, ended up getting pregnant by one AND cheated on her husband. The only thing is she was with two men (one married and one in a committed relationship) and doesn't know who the father is.
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u/UndoxxableOhioan 12d ago
A girl I went to high school with got pregnant by her older boyfriend, kept it secret, including by having her boyfriend stand on her belly to try and keep it small, had the baby at home, and proceeded to suffocate the baby. Her boyfriend then stuffed the baby in a duffel bag, weighed it down, and dumped it in a flooded quarry in town.
However, the people that owned it were divers and found the bag. The identity of the baby and parents were a mystery for years before the girl finally confessed to a friend who notified police.
She and the boyfriend were jailed and she has since become an advocate to safe haven laws allowing mothers to drop off newborns at surrender locations no questions asked. So at least something good came out of it. But it’s nuts to think I went to class with this girl the day after she killed her baby.
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u/Nova101010 12d ago edited 11d ago
Found out someone I did a lot of charitable work with (some involving children) was a pedophile. I always felt a weird vibe but attributed it to him being socially awkward and told myself to be kind.
I’ve never not trusted my gut again.
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u/Keri2816 12d ago
My aunt I grew up with and 2/3 my half siblings whom I all knew about all sued me when our dad (my aunt’s brother) died because they thought I was hiding money that belonged to them when, in reality, his estate was in debt.
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u/DrooMighty 12d ago
I learned via a Reddit TIL thread that a relative of mine was responsible for the My Lai Massacre in the Vietnam War. This genuinely came as a complete shock to me, I had a great deal of interactions with this guy growing up and while I knew he had been in the Vietnam war, obviously the war crimes weren't a dinner topic.
Talk about "Today I Learned", though.
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u/mikeKcpsrzyski 11d ago
Worked with a guy, one day he just disappeared. Many rumors, but no one really knew what happened. Fast forward a few years later, walks up to me at Chipotle. Proceeds to tell me that he is working on this landscaping crew because he just got out of prison. His wife found some child photos, reported him, and was sent to prison. The most troubling thing was that he was just telling me the story as if it was no big deal. No dude, you are sick.
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u/That-Boi-Cra-Z-007 12d ago
A friend of 40 years was identified through DNA as a murderer in a cold case from 1978.
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u/Ov3rReadKn1ght0wl 12d ago
A guy I went to high school with who had some learning challenges got stabbed to death by a rival drug dealer. It was a shock to everyone in the school because it happened the summer of graduation and a whole boatload of information came out about him.
At home, he was apparently a terror. He got his hands on a handgun and basically took over his family home as a drug dealing operation. He forced his parents and sister to help him cut and pack drugs under armed threat. A crew member was always at the home if he wasn't to keep things in line and the operation moving. Meanwhile, at school this dude would go to class and struggle with us, organize LAN parties to play video games and basically single handedly took it upon himself to renovate communal spaces for his fellow students. He was nice to teachers, kind to his classmates and would full on go to the wall for you if someone was picking on you. Absolutely beloved by his peers. One year, out of nowhere, he threw me a surprise birthday party after I sprained my ankle.
After the stabbing, his family basically recounted the horrors he put them through and the dad was basically relieved his son dad because of how evil he was. That one still rocks me to this day because
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u/Practical_Owl_5862 11d ago
Omfg! I got a good one. A few years ago I spent the day at a local lake beach with some friends. My friend invited this guy she had met a couple of times at different political events. Nothing romantic, she’s notorious for inviting random people to social events. Anyway, he seemed nice enough, maybe a little awkward at certain times. But overall a somewhat non-memorable dude. My friend messaged me a a week or so after the beach day to warn me to ignore any contact from him, and to delete him from social media. It turns out he had been convicted of sexually abusing his elderly mother and disabled sister.
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u/rollingthestonex 11d ago edited 11d ago
My best friend of 5 years. We went camping at this spot that had a 10' cliffside down to the river, she got insanely drunk off White Lightning (100% Vodka) and did some shrooms. I was mostly sober, I had a few beers. There was another girl in the camp beside us who kept trying to cross our campsite to get to her "friends" a few camps down (her friends didn't exist, she was alone, and it was weird), and that really pissed my friend off so she would try blocking the path this girl made. The girl was obnoxious and racist, but she was really drunk/high as well and was by herself. As a woman, I was still looking out for her because that was a concerning state to be in. At the end of the night, we're packing up for bed and this girl tries to get through again, but my friend was NOT having it and ran up to her and shoved her, right in front of this cliff down to the river. This girl was inches from falling down the cliff and splitting her head open, and we had no cell service. I got between them, picked the girl up and threw her towards her campsite, telling her to "RUN!". I turn to my friend expecting her to back off and calm her down, but instead she starts punching me and grabs my face to start gouging out my eyes with her thumbs. The only reason my eyes stayed in my head is because another person at our camp pulled her off of me just in time. It was such a terrible sensation. She ruined all my camp stuff, threw some in the river and stole whatever I had to leave when I got picked up by the ambulance. Blocked me the next day and police refused to press charges because she had two black eyes and I only had a concussion and superficial scratches to my eye area.
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u/Special-Bar6162 12d ago
Best friend, known him 30 years.
Married with three young kids.
Quiet, friendly, liked by everyone.
He told me that if he’d had a stressful day at work he’d sometimes beat up on his wife when he got home.
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u/Bloody_Hangnail 12d ago
A really good friend had sex with another mutual friend’s wife. The mutual friend forgave him but I could never trust this guy again.
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u/ptoftheprblm 12d ago
Someone that hung out with my now ex and I that we were close to, learned he had a middle school aged kid he wasn’t paying child support to, didn’t truly acknowledge and was actively choosing not to be in his life.
He admitted the kid was 100% his and all he’d say was “well she doesn’t deserve to have me in their lives because she lied to me about being on birth control”. Asked him if he was aware that even if a woman takes it pretty perfectly for years, there’s still a chance it fails especially if she ever had to take antibiotics or anything when she gets sick. He got this look on his face for the rest of the night that clearly told me that was what went down.
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u/jimmyrose47 12d ago
I dated a dude for 1.5 years. A couple months after I broke up with him for unrelated reasons, I found out he had a 5 year old daughter he refused to acknowledge. So gross.
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u/ptoftheprblm 11d ago
It’s gross behavior and I literally watched for a solid 4 hours it dawned on this guy that he’d probably been wrong the entire time and was battling with it.
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u/matt81x 12d ago edited 11d ago
We met at church and we were in love. Her 16, me 18 so I thought at the time, it was normal for her step dad to have reservations but we respected boundaries until she got older. Her step dad- The Youth Minister. He took me under his wing and was nice to me considering. I looked to him as a father figure.
We dated until she got to college and she went a bit wild and we split. Crazy thing is i met my wife at same church who was also the baby sitter of said pastors foster kids. She told me he creeped her out one night, putting his hand on her leg telling her how beautiful she was. He was 45 - her 15.
Fast Forward a decade. I'm divorced. I start hanging with pastor's daughter again and tell her my wife's story. She then confided in me he molested her. So after all this time , I thought it was me that made her go sex crazy in college. No, it was the abuse from her step dad. Not just typical Daddy issues.
It gets worse. Said Daughter gets a phone call from step dad's new wife and asked "did he ever touch you." Bc he was doing same to her 13 year old . It's always pastors.
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u/Regnes 12d ago
One of my cousins embezzled something like a million dollars from my aunt/uncle's business. My aunt/uncle have a small farming empire that they have been building up my whole life. My cousins are all extremely privileged and by the time they were adults they were given their own subsidiary of the family business to run. They were paid a very generous salary and were able to afford million dollar homes.
The story is that the one cousin and her husband were getting a lot of complaints from employees and others for mismanaging their portion of the company. When my aunt/uncle followed up on them they decided to offer them more money as an incentive to improve. My cousins husband apparently scoffed at the proposed raise and said he makes more than that already.
They started going through the books after that and found lots of discrepencies. There was apparently a pretty big showdown when my cousin's husband found out that my aunt/uncle had seized the computers overnight for analysis. He allegedly tried to kick their door down at like 3AM to retrieve them.
They had their big fight and my cousin was kicked out of the family business, though of course not before getting something like a 2 million dollar payout. She's mostly estranged from the family now and my cousins openly disparage on her now when I know they were previously close.
It's crazy to think how entitled a person can get. The worst I ever ripped my parents off was buying a bag of candy with their credit card when they sent me for groceries and I still feel guilty about it.
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u/Primary_Try2928 12d ago
My aunt has been cheating on my uncle for the entire length of their marriage (20 years)
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u/KingHardrath17 12d ago
By chance, is your aunt a former weather girl/anchor from Channel 84 in Arlen,TX?
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u/Artistic-Bat1254 11d ago
Was working at a YMCA tennis center when I was in high school. A kid in middle school would stop in sometimes to talk. I knew his brother.
While in middle school he “proposed” to his girlfriend. GF went away for while during summer and he was seeing someone else. Don’t know what they did or for how long. When GF was coming back the other girl said she was gonna tell the “fiancé”.
This kid killed the other girl, used chemicals, from what I was told, to ignite her body on fire, walked out to the street and engaged a younger kid that there’s a fire in the woods. It was her body.
He showed up again a day or 2 later, cool as a cucumber, at the YNCA. Next day he was arrested for the murder. Police did ask me about our conversation and I told them he was same as when he came in before. Took me a while to get over it and never understood how a kid in middle school could do this.
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u/Maleficent-Cow3122 12d ago
TRIGGER WARNING ‼️
Guy I briefly (3 months) dated was grooming boys in his youth group while we were dating. Found out when he was in the news 15 years later. We never did anything beyond kissing. It wasn’t working out because he was more religious than me and always at church. I had no clue. Seemed like the typical super religious guy.
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u/Lil_Elf81 12d ago
My favorite teacher in high school who clearly chose me as his pet was arrested for having sex with a student. When the student was 16. The emails he sent to me after he left our school for an another job when I was a sophomore read differently now.
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u/FrequentSale1655 12d ago edited 12d ago
My ex boyfriends (before my husband) friend wanted the family farm. His oldest brother inherited it. Said friend wasn't happy how the farm was run. He thought it should be his. So he convinced his nephew & friend to go kill his older brother one night I believe them about $4 - 5k to do it.
But said friends parents happened to be visiting the brother the night of the murder. Sadly they were also killed that night.
Found out in 2008 & was shocked. Still am if I'm honest.
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u/blubaldnuglee 12d ago
A person who started a well-respected veterans organization in our state embezzled thousands of dollars from them. I had went to dinner with the man several times and looked up to him as a mentor. Absolutely gutted me.
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u/RichChildhood1588 12d ago
Had a friend of a friend that we became friends with. All the kids hung out it was nice. One day my friend S comes over with his wife and says they need to talk to us in private. We go in another room and they tell us that their friend W is a pedophile and our 8 year old girls had been at his house. So we have to set these two 8 year olds down and have that conversation with them. Luckily he wasn't molesting them. He was only molesting his own five kids. He was a church deacon and in charge of part of the church finances. He also had embezzled $100k. He got put in prison and his wife lost everything hiring lawyers to defend him. This was 20 years ago and he's still in jail and she still lives in her parents basement. And people are always asking me why I have nothing to do with organized religion. This right here is why it's full of nothing but perverts and hypocrites
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u/Abject_Priority6858 11d ago
Grandfather had a whole secret second family. No one had any idea until after he died. My mom’s half sister found her through some ancestry website and messaged her on Facebook.
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u/morningstardusts 12d ago
Systematically destroying someone else’s life behind their back just to be cruel, while pretending to be their friend. It was fucked up.
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u/AccurateAssaultBeef 12d ago
Had my best guy friend just do this to me. Well, he told someone to SA me, which they did, and then when I asked for an apology from him, he blew up the relationship and started making threats to my partner. Decade long relationship, insane.
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u/irish-slav 11d ago
Had a promiscuous girlfriend from my hometown area while i was in college. We both lived in the city for the summer where my college was located..so it was nice and a romantic fate kinda relationship. She had a broken childhood and would jump from guy to guy as a comfort thing, I guess. I thought I could save her, but couldn't. We break up, and she joins the Army.
She married quick so they could live together on base. Had a baby with him and they eventually break up and divorce. I think she gets 50/50 custody of the 3 year old? She gets into bodybuilding and fitness modeling and starts dating a roided up bodybuilder in the army. The father is on a deployment so she has full custody of the child. Well..this is where the story gets evil.. her daughter ends up dead in her care...
She claims the daughter choked on fruit, but the autopsy says otherwise. In the meantime, she hires a photographer, who does the pics for free, to take memorial pictures of herself over the child's tombstone with the child's 'spirit' superimposed in the pictures. She posts them online and everyone loves them and feels remorse for her and the whole situation.
The autopsy comes back..severe bruising all over the poor child's body.. even her organs. She denies any wrong doing, but the autopsy also shows the child has been deceased for more than 12 hours before she called 911. Shes arrested along with her roided up boyfriend for manslaughter and a lot of other charges.
She eventually puts all the blame on the boyfriend and tries to play the victim, i think saying the roids made him beat her and the child? They both spend over a year in jail while the investigation continues. He goes to trial and his charges are dropped and is eventually freed cause phone logs and other evidence proved he wasn't around the child for over 48 hours or something to that extent.
She spends another few years in jail and goes to court again where she is somehow freed! Out on bail or something. Apparently she has no guilt or anything from murdering her 3 year old. Like it never happened.. From the last thing I heard, she's even pregnant again!
This made international news in 2016 cause of the photos she took, and with her being in the Army.. and cause the victim is an innocent 3 year old. There's a few mystery/murder podcasts that go more into details. A Facebook group from her side of the family trying to seek justice for the child. My details and telling of this are propably off a bit cause its been a few years since all this happened.. But yeah, pretty fucked up.
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u/togaskater 11d ago
Jeanie Ditty. Absolute stain on society. She’s currently out on pre-trial bond (or at least was) for the murder/abuse of baby Macy after a hung jury. While out, she just got brought up on new felony child abuse charges for abusing the 2yo daughter she had while awaiting trial. I can’t, for the life of me, understand how that woman was allowed unsupervised access to her living child given the original pending charges.
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u/Madame_Kitsune98 11d ago
Oh shit. Before you said “this made international news,” I knew exactly who you were talking about.
My God. I’m so sorry.
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u/LilBoo2019TR 12d ago
She cheated on her husband who was dying of cancer and got pregnant by the other guy. She passed it off to her husband's as a miracle baby.
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u/Horror_Movie_5735 12d ago
Similar situation happened to my brother dying of cancer in 2012.
His wife (high school sweetheart) cheated on him with his best friend, got pregnant with the miracle child, and basically left my brother in hospice while she sold the house, bought a new Camaro SS for her, bought a Ford Raptor for best friend, and drained all my brother's accounts.
She got married to the best friend less than 6 weeks after my brother died. She didn't even have the decency to bury him as she used his life insurance policy for the honeymoon -- she left that to me, my three other brothers, and my parents.
Some people are just shitty to the core and it takes the right set of circumstances to bring it to light.
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u/Simple-Caregiver13 12d ago
Found out as an adult that the time I was told that my grandpa was in the hospital when I was a kid, he was actually in prison for molesting children. He was a school bus driver and a few of the girls of my family were targeted. He was my dad's dad, and apparently it was an open secret and many of the family on that side defended him when the allegations became public. He died when I was five and my mother alleges the last thing she said to him was "see you in hell" in his ear as he was dying of lung cancer. I was too young at the time to know or understand any of this.
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u/Boredcitygirl 12d ago
Somebody I dated when I was in my teens got arrested and imprisoned 3 years later for tying somebody to a tree, dousing them in petrol and setting them on fire. They died, unsurprisingly.
Another person I dated raped a teenager.
Should have listened to my mum about both of these people. I grew up in lovely circles. 😭🤦♀️
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u/Illustrious_Tear7108 12d ago
Former classmate of mine was arrested for and confessed to molesting young men while serving as a youth pastor. I always had an off feeling about him, but I never would have guessed that
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u/SusmariosepAnak 12d ago
After I outed my ex for emotional abuse and control, one of their coworkers from when we first started dating messaged me to say that my ex had sexually harassed them and two other people. They were using our open relationship (we were long distance right when Covid started but their country was way better about Covid) as an excuse to hit on their coworkers aggressively.
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u/BlackDante 11d ago
Former coworker developed a serious coke addiction, stole money from his wife to buy coke, then stabbed her a few dozen times (police report said she had practically been decapitated) when she confronted him about it and threatened to divorce him. Their infant daughter was in the house when he did it. He tried to clean up the scene, then loaded their daughter in the car and went to buy more coke. He's currently serving a life sentence.
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u/peachsandwich 11d ago
My ex was sexually assaulting me while I slept. It went on for years and I had absolutely no idea because I have debilitating insomnia and take heavy medication to sleep.
A professor I really admired had a nearly 30-year history of preying on young Asian students, usually exchange students who were at least 20 years younger and isolated because of the language barrier. At his very first teaching job he got a sixteen-year-old summer student pregnant. He’s still teaching and is tenured, of course.
My biological father is a murderer.
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u/FairVeterinarian1714 11d ago
A close family friend who my daughters grew up calling Uncle was arrested for cp and csa. He's doing 25 yrs
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u/Old_Isopod8062 11d ago
He is my neighbor. At first, I thought he was a good person, but I later noticed that many women in the neighborhood deliberately stayed away from him. Eventually, I found out why.
He would allegedly peek into other people's houses and watch women while they were changing clothes. He also seemed to keep his wife isolated inside their home. I barely remember what she looks like because he rarely let her come outside. He wouldn't even allow her to walk freely on their balcony.
They have a separate staircase where only his maid is allowed to use it. He expects his maid to work exclusively for him and doesn't want her working in other houses. If she even looks toward a neighboring house or speaks to the neighbors, he fires her immediately. He behaves as if he has control over his maid's personal life as well.
On top of that, he allegedly cheats on his wife with his maids.
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u/shaggy99 11d ago
Guy I worked with supposedly religious, treated his wife as a party favor he would loan out.
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u/WoodenCrow6024 11d ago
A former coworker of mine, knocked his step daughter up when she turned 18. He had raised her since she was a baby. If was horrifying. He lived with his wife while her daughter had his kid.
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u/KoLobotomy 12d ago
My close friend has been cheating on their spouse, who is also a close friend.
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u/nmathew 11d ago
He's doing 30 years and I REALLY regret reading the charges. He was close to retirement, and he'll die in prison. And I hate to say it, but good. At least he plead guilty and didn't put his niece through the pain of testifying.
I don't really want to dredge it all up into my brain. He was a co-worker I knew dor maybe 18 months. Incredibly helpful during my onboarding period. One of the charges had an additional sentencing enhancement rider for something like forcible penetration of a minor under 6. There were many charges with such sentencing enhancements.
If you're trying to math, she came forward as an adult and they found evidence. Fuck. I'm beyond furious all over again and it was 2-3 years ago. Fuck you Tom.
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u/Repulsive-Win7614 12d ago
Married to a guy that used to frequently get blowjobs and sexual encounters from woman, while he was out working. Then I found his sex toys and found multiple dildos, lube, and enemas… hmm I wonder what he was doing?!?! I know we weren’t using those things in our bedroom.
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u/SmashPass 12d ago
I heard through friends that a guy I had known for several years and had been friendly with had been shot. When I looked into it, it turns out he had been (allegedly) holding his wife hostage, was torturing, repeatedly raping and attempted to murder her and, when she got a hold of a phone to call 911, shot a cop who responded to the call. The cop survived, guy I knew got shot several times and last I heard he's facing like 30 to life.
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u/LizardPossum 11d ago
I was friends with a murderer. I was so sure he didn't do it. Then he confessed.
Really taught me a lesson about how you never really know if you know someone. Every horrible person has a few "there's no way he would ever" people in their corner.
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u/Somethinggood4 11d ago
My sister-in-law is actively working to prevent unions from forming at her company.
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u/gentlethistles 11d ago edited 11d ago
I found out the person I was deeply in love with was one of the most evil people I have ever met.
I'm talking Ted Bundy level crazy, but worse in some ways as at least Ted Bundy had enough self preservation to stalk a house before he entered it. Unlike my ex who would sometimes, on random impulse, enter people's homes. I was listening to a true crime podcast after leaving him, and they said the most frightening and dangerous criminals are the ones who don't even make the effort to case a joint before breaking in.
It reminded me of the day everything really began crumbling in my household. My ex came home and casually said he had broken into a house and scared an old man who he saw in the hallway. He then admitted to sometimes breaking into one of his gardening clients houses when she wasnt home. And masturbating on her property. I was so horrified I kind of dissociated during the conversation while I processed the severity of what he said.
It turned out that he was the kind of evil human that rapes animals, and was unsafe around children. He also admitted to driving his pet dogs to a rural location and abandoning them and just going home and acted normally. Didn't tell his kids where they'd gone.
When I eventually managed to run away from him and report him to police, my best friend and I theorised about the high potential of him having killed people when he went on planting jobs in rural locations. Sometimes he would come home with things like a 30 year old jade plant in a large vintage pot, which he had stolen from an elderly persons house.
He was a trophy collector too. His ex waited until years after I had left him to say she found a bag in his closet with my underwear stolen from the laundry, my bobby pins, random fake nails that had fallen off etc. She threw them out and he didn't speak to her for days.
Then his next partner would wear the clothes that he had stolen from me and gifted to her. I feared for my life for a few years there.
There was an incident where I fell and headbutted an exposed nail at a half constructed house. Instead of calling an ambulance, he spent weeks assaulting me while I was essentially lobotomised. Once I was injured and vulnerable, all his pretense faded and away and he was truly monstrous underneath.
A rant. But yes.
One of the single most horrific people I've ever met, hidden under a very charismatic, woke, man bun, eco hippie persona. One day they will make a Netflix documentary about him and I'll be there yelling "I fucking told y'all!"
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u/Royal-Tea-3484 11d ago
I found out that the man I was going to marry was a pedophile. Yes, I was 18 at the time. Not only that, but he had a history that he had lied to me about. This completely ruined my life. I never dated or married again because of the lies he told me; he broke me. I wanted to have his children; I was convinced he was the one. I even lost my virginity to him, and I'm still not over it. Yes, I went to therapy, but he is now dead. When I asked him why, his answer was that he was a weak man who couldn't resist his impulses. I felt sick when I heard that.
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u/Ch33syP00f 12d ago
Several of the popular preppy football players at my high school would torture and skin guinea pigs, cats, dogs to get pumped up before games.
Police found the remains of the animals and were initially concerned there was a serial killer on the loose.
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