A guy I knew as a kid was charged with murder last week

I suppose statistically it's easy to imagine someone we knew through school ends up a criminal.

Wow, that's crazy!!! Did you ever hang out with him when you were younger??

Yeah, I know the feeling, happened to me too. I went to elementary school with a guy and even hanged out with him for some time. Then, 15 years later, I open a newspaper and see a big picture of him in handcuffs and his name written in bold letters with the mention "sentenced for murder". It does feel strange.

I once had a co-worker I disliked and tried to avoid, even though he tried hard to be affable, something about him seemed horribly off and creepy. After a couple of years he married some young simp, moved to another state, and then I heard that the young wife had died "mysteriously". I never heard anything else, and as his name was so common googling was no help, so I never found out if she'd ben murdered or if he was a suspect, because yeah... he seemed THAT off.

No, he wasn't Moviebuff. He'd be much older.

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Sorry to hear your buddy killed somebody.

One of my very close childhood friends was charged with "assault with intent to kill" a little less than 10 years ago. He basically got into a fight and stabbed the guy. He plead down and served a year in a maximum security prison. Definitely a strange feeling, but I don't hold it against him considering the circumstances that I'm not going to get into.

I don't know if you've thought of it, but have you considered reaching out to him? Guy is probably in a dark place right now and hearing from an old friend might make a world of difference.

I knew a girl who was murdered. I didn’t know her well but she dated a friend of mine. I remember just casually looking at a newspaper in a vending machine reading the headline and started walking away and then it suddenly hit me that I knew the victim.