4. “He was fairly normal as far as most people are.”
Lived in the same neighborhood as Drew Peterson, who was a cop convicted for killing his third wife and suspected in the murder/disappearance of his fourth wife.
He was fairly normal as far as most people are. His older kids went to our schools and the one closest to my age was his senior class’s valedictorian – very smart kids and nothing out of the ordinary.
5. “From what I was told, he was a nice guy.”
There was a guy, a hired gun for the Hell’s Angels lived a couple houses from mine. He killed 27 people. And nobody ever had the single doubt about it (including my father who is a policeman). From what I was told, he was a nice guy…
6. “She said he was nice but mostly kept to himself.”
My aunt lived up the street from [serial killer] Robert Berdella for a couple of years. We went to his store Bob’s Bizarre Bazaar a few times but I was too little to remember. She said he was nice but mostly kept to himself. She never thought anything of him really. He was just a dude up the street. She moved just a few weeks before that man escaped from Berdella’s house. She that looking back there were no red flags or anything suspicious. She said that knowing those horrible things were happening just a few yards away from where she slept gave her nightmares for years after the news broke. Kansas City is kind of fucked-up place.
My aunt on the other side of the family went to church with BTK. I think he was even a deacon or something in their church. She said that she never liked him and thought he was a creep. She never would of thought he was capable of that kind of evil but that there was something very off about him. She mentioned not liking the guy long before he was a suspect in the killings. Wichita is also kind of a fucked-up place.
7. “I went to high school with the Dark Knight Shooter James Holmes.”
I wasn’t his neighbor and I knew him in high school… but I went to high school with the Dark Knight Shooter James Holmes. I had a few classes with him and talked with him from time to time but that’s it. When I tell people this, the obvious question is the same thing you asked, and ill tell you to me this was quite a surprise. He was smart, in honors classes, on sports teams, and though after HS I lost contact with him, I’ll tell you this. Something changed in that time. Whatever it was may never be known, but the kid I knew isn’t the same one that shot up a movie theater.
