Crimes that have stayed with you for years

I have just come across this thread and there’s definitely a few cases that will always stay with me and I often think about.

One of the more recent cases is that of Aisling Murphy who was just out for a run. I think that will remain in the public conscious for a long time to come. Also, the murder of Sarah Everard in London. The details are haunting. I can’t imagine what she went through, especially as he was a police officer, you would automatically think you would be safe with someone in that position. Both cases happened within a short timeframe of each other and are not at all that long ago.

Similar cases that I often think of include Karen Buckley in Glasgow, Nicola Furlong in Japan, Jill Meagher and Michaela McAreavey. Being a young Irish woman who lives abroad they definitely had an impact on me. There was something about Karen Buckley that always made me feel like I knew her. Another extremely haunting case, I remember clearly her parents appeal and crying watching it.

I was the same age as Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002 and can vividly remember the news reports and the newspapers. It was huge at the time. I still think of them every now and again.

Being from Kerry originally the Kerry Baby case. I wasn’t born when it happened but have heard of it throughout the years. I think it’s a story that’s always remained with my parents generation and older. Its quite chilling to think an innocent little baby boy met such a horrendous end and washed up on the beach in such a beautiful part of the country. How could anyone do that to a newborn baby. Poor little boy. Which also reminds me of the Lucy Letby case only a few months ago. What a complete psychopath. Truly evil.

It’s amazing how certain cases can resonate with you and remain with you for years to come for whatever reason. May all the innocent victims rest in peace and their families and loved ones find closure.

The child that washed up mutilated in the Lagan, believed to be a victim of John McKeag the beast of Kincora (and Red Hand Commander founder, and informer)

The UVF man who took pity on the kid they were about to torture he opened a window and said run for it kid. But being in a loyalist area he was lost and knocked on on a door, A woman brought him in and cleaned out his wounds, before calling her dsughter, who showed up with her UDA boyfriend. He didn't survive the night

He preaches in Belfast city centre now

Edit double post

"Off you go and sin no more!" Used to be a running joke, If you had a penny for every born again Christian who was a loyalist serial killer, well you'd have a lot of pennies, it was a way to try and get out of jail too

That's what made it scary, the descriptions of Venables by the adults who first met him are chilling to the bone

"Cold, lifeless, nothing in his eyes, he stuck his middle finger up against the partition window, I had to say this was the most evil child I've ever met"

the other kid (Robert something for googling it) was a compulsive liar and obviously a nutcase himself but he showed fear, emotion at the gravity of the situation, and claimed Venebles scared him and madehim do it. Now all killers say this right?? Bit these are children we're talking about, it's known that Venebles has consumed child pornography in prison, is that a sign that he was sexually abused?? That he never grew up from the day he murdered James Bulger, and may still be a psychotic child since that's when he was incarcerated

the other kid never reoffended after he got released with anonymous name, Venebles was found with child open and all sorts, would probably desecrate and kill a kid of he were released, I don't think Venebles is reformable

Edit: Robert Thompson was the other kid

Why not their seventeenth?? Sixteenh? Eleven?? If you're going to kill them for a crime they committed as preteens, then don't bother saying you want to wait until they're of legal adult age to kill them, what does that change?? Is executing a child too cruel so you have to wait until he "legally" becomes an adult before you kill him?? See that's the road you go down with with these draconian attempts at "justice"

Of course it is, but you know the history of pure retributive and impulsive justice don't you??? We would also as a society be executing two boys, two children, yes two murderers, but as a society we have to have the balls to start analysing and fixing, instead of just killing the problem, what does it say that as a society the best solution for this would be to execute the child perpetrators and just end their lives

It's all wrapped up in a very neatly macabre box

An early internet one, around the time that two girls one cup bollocks was going around, a friend asked me had I seen three guys one hammer, I said no wtf is that, he said it's the worst thing I've ever seen, it's a guy being murdered, it's horrific etc.

So I googled it when I got home , and immediately regretted my decision as I sat frozen in horror as these two Ukrainian serial killers were torturing and beating a man to death, I cried my eyes out and went over and over it in my head, the way they laughed, the man struggling to breathe as he choked on his own blood

It was these fellas

Prepare for some very very disturbing reading on that page, their motive?? In a nutshell, to be famous