40 Creepy Crime Stories From Small Towns You Haven’t Seen In The Newspaper
There is a convicted cannibal in our town. Seriously. He killed his friend while drunk, then ate his jaw.
33. I live in a town of about 700 in rural Oklahoma. We’ve got one restaurant in town and it went up in flames last weekend. At first, everyone was pretty sad and did everything they could to help out the family that owned the restaurant. But now there’s a rumor going around that the owners set the building on fire themselves to collect the insurance payout. It’ll be interesting to see how the story develops over the next few weeks.
34. There’s still an ‘ unsolved ‘ murder. The whole town and most of the next county knows who did it but no one will come forward. It was a terrible story- teenaged girl vanished while in plain sight. Seriously- from the middle of the town, in a place where you got a phone call because your 17 year old kid was walking down Main Street, what was he doing there? You couldn’t blow your nose there without 20 people reporting the next day they saw you do it. There’s only one genuine suspect- it really was kinda a done deal but….. no arrest.
It’s a weird, weird place anyway. 1/100th uber wealthy, the rest poverty level. This suspect was from the 1/100th of the population, the whole family owned half the town for generations. Suspect ‘ remains at large ‘ although comfortingly was mysteriously beaten up a few years ago. He’d walked into a bar and made a joke about the missing girl.
Case was on one of the TV shows asking for help solving it, there were billboards put up by her family for years and it’s still a major source of scandal. Dirty secret indeed.