Have you known personally someone that has been murdered?

Answer 1

Yes. She was a woman I worked with and she hung out with about 4 or 5 of we women. She was a wonderful gal with 4 beautiful kids, a lovely home, and a troubled marriage.

Her husband was extremely jealous and tended towards violence and verbal abuse. She put up with if for 14 years. When she made the decision to split from him...things only got worse. He stalked her everywhere; would snatch the younger kids from school and not bring them back for hours and hours.

One Saturday morning, I awoke to the radio to hear the news that her husband had broken into her home and was holding her and the children hostage with weapon. All day, the police were negotiating with him and he eventually let the children leave....but not my friend.

At some point, she must have felt safe making a break for the door...but she wasn't. He shot her in the back of the head. She died instantly.

He, of course, survived it all. He was blubbering like a baby and crying for his "mama" when they took him out of the house in cuffs.

He was found guilty and sentenced to life without parole. This was in 1991....thankfully, he's still in San Quentin.

Answer 2

What a heartbreaking collection of answers, Jenny. Did you expect this when you asked your question? Are you trying to cope with the consequences of someone close who has been murdered?

About 3 years ago, I spent an afternoon on the phone with the mother of a young woman with whom I had become close friends. The girl was very young and I am an older guy, we were simply good friends and there would never have been more of it. She was a troubled young woman - more than I knew, at that time - and she was being stalked by a very nasty, creepy guy I knew slightly. I still remember urging her mother to hurry to court and swear out a restraining order to keep this slimeball away from her daughter. I told her at the time, "I can't bear the idea that the next call from you will be to say she's been killed."

But that was the next call. The very next morning.

I spent the following 10 days carrying her family through the disaster of their loss and grief. I had to plan the funeral, arrange everything, help cope with the friends and family calling at their home, and even deliver the eulogy for a young woman I had known but a short time. I had to confront the man who killed her, a sleazy drug dealer who overdosed her and then had sex with her body after she died, at the funeral home and gravesite. I had to badger the police to investigate her death because they wrote her off as yet another worthless druggie.

Yes, I have known people who were murdered. Some I learned about after their deaths, as a news reporter. Some, like my friend, I knew and cared about before a foul, wretched creature stole their lives from them.

Small comfort for you - or for anyone else.

Answer 3

Yes, he was killed by his son, who had schizophrenia. Everyone knew the son was dangerous and the police were trying to watch the house, but he got in a knifed my friend in an ugly, long death. A case of a seriously mentally ill person unable to be forced into a hospital until he had tried to do something violent. Well, he didn't just try. He succeeded and my friend is dead.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Sadly Yes, My 16 year old neice and god daughter, she was barely 16.
She went to a party with her boyfriend, he was the B@@@@@D who spiked her drinks with a cocktail of drugs, then left her with barely anything on, her belongings were stolen, her disability money and other money, her purse, mobile, jewlery etc.

Her boyfriend an evil B@@@@@D knew she suffered from fits and yet left her slowly dying in the street, if he at least called for an ambulnce chances are she may have survived.
A passerbye spotted her and alerted the emergency services, but it was too late, she was put on life support but she was in a real bad way, suffering multiple organ failure, and blood pouring out of every part of her body along with other problems.
It was unfair on her to sustain her agony, so the machine was turned off, and she died in my sisters ,her mother, arms.

Only a few weeks before she wanted to come to see me, turned out she was running away from home, I alerted my mum who got my sister and her husband to go to the rail station where she was due to board London train, my sister caught her.

I wish I kept it quiet and let her come to me.

Now her so called boyfriend is walking scot free, not enough evidence. He jeers my sister and family, but his day will come.

I am sickened by he police lack of support making my sister drop the case. If I sounded my horn on my car I would get nicked. Trouble is, a lot of piolice are s@@T scared of these druggies etc.

This has broken my mothers heart to pieces, she was my mums only grand daughter.

Answer 6

Unfortunately yes, and the S.O.B. that was convicted of it got life in prison without the possibility of parole. I personally hope he lives to be 100 and remembers every day what he did, and to think we are all out here enjoying life with our families on holidays, eating what we want, going where we want to go, enjoying our homes and careers, and he's just stuck in there 'til the day he dies. Excellent.

Answer 7

No, but a girl I went to University with went missing 10 years ago. She definitely didn't run away because she took nothing and her money has never been touched - she vanished 400 yards from her home and a body has never been found. Very sad and very mysterious.

Answer 8

Yes I have. I knew the murderer as well. Shows that even boring people like me meet strange people in our everyday lives.

Answer 9

My sister was murdered. It's was a soul shattering event in my life that eventhough it's been 5 years ago and I still not over it

Answer 10

unfortunately yes.coming from the north of ireland i have known people who have been murdered in various ways ie; bomb,bullet,stabbing..also witnessed shootings and i can tell you now,it's something that will haunt you for the rest of your days.the youngest victim i knew was a cousin of mine.she was caught in the crossfire at 9 years old.
R.I.P y'all