Comments | thistles: I once met a murderer

thistles

I once met a murderer

Jan 02, 2011 13:32

I found someone on facebook recently who used to live down the street from me. We were friends in childhood and went to the same elementary school. She and her sister are twins, the 5th and 6th children in a family of seven. Families with that many kids were not so unusual in the town where I grew up, not in those days anyway. These twins were ( Read more... )

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marmota_monax January 2 2011, 20:25:13 UTC

Holy crap.

And it's "salutatorian". I remember that much, and not much more, from high school.

thistles January 3 2011, 02:43:43 UTC

right! Salutatorian.

Anyway, you know how some families just seem to be tragedy magnets? Lots of drama, DUIs, people getting killed, dying in car wrecks, etc? Well this girl's family was the opposite of that kind of family. She was the nicest, most stable, drama-free person. Not the kind to attract a murderous German. I still can't believe it, when I think about it.

tupelo January 2 2011, 20:46:51 UTC

A couple of my former students have killed people.

And a couple of my former students have been killed.

Either way it's always saddening.

evilegg January 2 2011, 23:59:16 UTC

I had a well connected POS uncle who shot three ppl and one of them died. He served weekends in jail for a little while and then had his sentence declared served. When my grandmother died I talked to the cemetery ppl about having his shitbird ass dug up and moved. It's easier than you'd think.
Maybe I can get all my cousins to chip in and do it this year.

tanyalita January 3 2011, 02:58:54 UTC

"I know it's been years and she's probably found a way to make peace with the tragedy but I wonder how she could?"

Not sure how anyone does, and I have done it.

ebony_sphynx January 4 2011, 09:24:02 UTC

It's very strange how things happen in pairs, including syblings(sp?). Tonight I watched a film in which one of a pair of twins was killed and you followed the surviving twin as he learned to cope. I couldn't keep it together. It's one thing to lose a friend or a brother or sister...but to lose your other half. The person you've been close to since the VERY BEGINNING... I don't know. I'm not a twin, by a close margin (it runs strongly in my family and as a child my imaginary friend was my twin), but I've always felt that they must have a much harder time than most people, both with death and with relationships.

Thank you for sharing your story. I can't say how much I appreciate that you let me, a person you know strictly online, read such things. It means a great deal to me.