Going way back before high school here…
In the 70’s in elementary school I had a classmate who had a brother about two years younger than we were. In 1978 when the brother was only 8 years old he was killed in a freak accident. The family had moved to a new house whose previous owner collected war memorabilia. The brother found a hand grenade that had somehow been left behind. It was live and blew up in his hands.
Ten years later my former classmate was killed on board the Pan Am 103 bombing.
Archived New York Times article that is mostly about my classmate but mentions the death of the younger brother as well: https://archive.is/ykLi0
Those were the only two children in that family. I still think about them all from time to time to this very day…
Multiple dui mugshots before 30.
Checked out honestly.
In intermediate, there was a guy who was always a massive dick to me, but we had a mutual friend and were in the same house so we interacted far more than I would have liked.
Turns out he fucking killed someone.
My person is a well brought up Italian Catholic girl I was friends with, and when I looked her up she was wanted by the RCMP for embezzling millions out of an investment fund with her husband and then fled the country for years. She came back after they split and pleaded guilty and did four years in federal prison. This was a nice girl and this is super shocking.
Hopefully not that mutual friend!
I’ve known this guy as an acquaintance for a few decades back to my high school years. I’m a dude but 3/4 of my friends are women and some went to high school with him (I was at a different school). Though superficially incredibly charming, he’s been pushy, stalkerish, and manipulative as fuck to people over the years, doesn’t understand the word no, and has crossed many lines more than he ever should have been allowed to. We pushed him away from our extended friend group, but most of the women didn’t report and the ones that did didn’t see much in the way of results (just retaliation).
Looked him up recently, he’s got a case, looked it up… CP & sexual assault on a minor. Stacks of felonies pending. Out on bond. I am both shocked and not surprised. Not at all surprised he’s a scumbag rapist, shocked he did it to a minor.
I want to go to the trial, but I’m not sure if it’ll be open to the public based on the nature of things. Would love to see this chapter of life end for my friends who were impacted by him.
Really not that shocking at all compared to many… occasionally finding out someone is dead and etc.
But one of the ones that got me was finding out that the girl who I grew up… initially was sort of friends with and eventually painfully shunned me and treated me like an alien eventually became a therapist lmao
I only remembered ones name, and turns out he is gay (didn’t know that at the time, he had girlfriends) and is now married, living in nyc as some kind of banker type so good for him?
