Comments on: So I Moderated an Axe Murderer

By: v

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:38:36 +0000

damn…

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:32:05 +0000

Zach, you’re on a roll with these DE murders.
The Capano stuff completely slipped my mind. My parents tell me that when I was little I went to his niece’s birthday party and he was there- I have no memory of this, though.
My Dad also had delivered to his house a bunch of times. He points it out to me whenever we drive by. creeeeepy.

By: L1

L1 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:00:26 +0000

A few stories on my brushes with murder(ers).

#1- I roomed with a guy when I was in tech training in the USAF. He was kind of a jerk, very much a bully, and always looking for a fight. One night a bunch of guys snuck out and went drinking by the bay. An arguement ensued and he stabbed another troop several times. Due to the circumstances of the case he was allowed to stay in technical school while the murder was investigated. He would attend class and act angelic by day but at night would tell my friends and I that he killed a man and we would be next if we “got in his way”. Quite discomforting to have to room with a murderer. Eventually he got taken away and went to prison but I don’t know anything more.

#2- Another USAF buddy, years later, told me this story… He was a “wild child” in the small Texas town where he was raised and always causing trouble. Long story short his older sister had a boyfriend that would dare my friend into doing stupid things (which he would usually do). One such dare was to steal the bug zapper off the porch of the local “old crazy guy”. He waited until late at night and snuck up to the guys house. He grabbed the zapper but the “old crazy guy” was awake and chased him out of the house. As my friend jumped into the boyfriend’s pickup truck and they sped away the “old crazy guy” shouted obscenities and fired a shotgun in their direction. Next morning this same guy goes into the Luby’s in Kileen Texas and offs a bunch of people. My friend always said he felt guilty for sending the guy on a rampage.

#3- Lastly, while not a murder, I went to grade school/junior high at a New York City school in Harlem where the kids that raped the central park jogger also were schooled. These were the punks that, when captured, simply said by way of explanation “aww, we was just wildin’” as though it were all a game. They didn’t kill the victim but I will confirm that these were some stone cold evil SOBs. I mention it here because it seemed to me that these guys had the propensity for murder if the conditions were right (wrong?). Seems to me that some people are just wired different.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:59:38 +0000

Must be something in the Delaware water.

The older brother of my best friend from high school killed his wife not too long ago.

By: Heebies AND jeebies

Heebies AND jeebies — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:59:21 +0000

My husband plays in a rock band and was scouting for jobs in local bars (really). In one place he said the owner was kind of a strange guy – he was talking himself up as this great entrepreneur when clearly the bar was a real hole. His wife worked nights as a nurse. He said he got the money for the bar in an insurance settlement from a fire in which his first had wife died. A few weeks after that he made the headlines for knocking his current wife unconscious and driving their truck into a river, in which he ‘miraculously’ escaped death by swimming to shore, but sadly, she did not.
He was so inept at murder that they used him as an example of what NOT to do on one of the crime shows. (He stupidly called the insurance company the same day, among other things.) He was granted a second trial recently so I won’t mention his name, but this was in upstate New York. My husband had always felt uneasy around this guy. From the other stories here, I wonder if these sickos put out some kind of vibe.
For the record, John shouldn’t really carry any guilt over this – the guy would have done it anyway. It’s a nasty world sometimes.

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:55:19 +0000

Laura, I also knew the key witness in the Capano murder trial, Capano’s other mistress. She worked at my school.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:25:04 +0000

Yeah, that’s crazy, Zach.
I didn’t recognize the picture of the kid, even though he was just a few years behind me. I had never seen him around school before. It was weird looking in my yearbook and seeing a murderer, though.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:52:43 +0000

My ex-boyfriend was babysat by serial killer John Robinson, who had one of the most twisted cases that I have ever heard of exposed back in 2000. A good synopsis of the story can be found on CrimeLibrary.com but basically he sought out young women over the internet, murdered them, and then sealed them in barrels all around his property.

By: name withheld

name withheld — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:47:17 +0000

my former boyfriends mother is dennis rader’s cousin.

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:20:58 +0000

Definitely the same guy, Laura.
He and I were at Tatnall in Wilmington. He switched schools some time after I left.
It was weird seeing his picture in the News Journal.