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.
19. Not in my current town, but the last town I lived in. Fella there killed two little girls, said God told him to do it. After a ludicrously short sentence (less than ten years for torture, rape and murder of two kids), he moved right back into his old home. He still lives there and lives an invisible, ghostly life. Everybody obviously knows his name but everyone acts like he isn’t standing right next to them. I used to work in the pharmacy, and the rule was to take his prescriptions out of the drawer and put them on the counter without actually acknowledging his physical presence. The coffee shop across the street knew his order and would just get it ready and he would put change on the counter. Sometimes I would see stuff like this happen and start to feel sad before I remembered he murdered two children.
20. Cheating husband came home to find out his wife knew. Fight ensued, he stabbed her and fled. She light the house of fire as she was dying with their three kids inside asleep. He then hung himself in jail after being arrested before his trial.