In intermediate, there was a guy who was always a massive dick to me, but we had a mutual friend and were in the same house so we interacted far more than I would have liked.
Turns out he fucking killed someone.
My person is a well brought up Italian Catholic girl I was friends with, and when I looked her up she was wanted by the RCMP for embezzling millions out of an investment fund with her husband and then fled the country for years. She came back after they split and pleaded guilty and did four years in federal prison. This was a nice girl and this is super shocking.
That’s basically the profile for an embezzler. It’s one of the few crimes you don’t expect to be done by a young male.
Hopefully not that mutual friend!
A couple are dead, they just weren’t the ones I expected.
One is a park ranger across the country and caught a pedophile from our home county that went on the run with their grooming victim! Im not sure if he did it in the course of park ranger business or what, but he got a cash reward from the parents regardless which is neat.
Everyone else is boring because we were a boring class.
I am just surprised when I Google one and they are still alive. Meth hit my small hometown really hard after I left there. A few people I knew had heart attacks in their 20’s. Sure, meth was likely the direct cause, but it was common place to start drug use early, so it was probably just a contributing factor. (Highschool jumpstarted my own alcholisim. We didn’t think of it as abuse at the time because it was so normalized.)
Going way back before high school here…
In the 70’s in elementary school I had a classmate who had a brother about two years younger than we were. In 1978 when the brother was only 8 years old he was killed in a freak accident. The family had moved to a new house whose previous owner collected war memorabilia. The brother found a hand grenade that had somehow been left behind. It was live and blew up in his hands.
Ten years later my former classmate was killed on board the Pan Am 103 bombing.
Archived New York Times article that is mostly about my classmate but mentions the death of the younger brother as well: https://archive.is/ykLi0
Those were the only two children in that family. I still think about them all from time to time to this very day…
This made me look up my best friend and it’s hilarious that I get an IMDB page for a modern actor with the same exact name and he even looks similar. Had to send it to said friend and be like “Yo, when did you start acting?” lol
Really not that shocking at all compared to many… occasionally finding out someone is dead and etc.
But one of the ones that got me was finding out that the girl who I grew up… initially was sort of friends with and eventually painfully shunned me and treated me like an alien eventually became a therapist lmao
Her experience with you made her want to go into psychology? I jest… unless?
Lol! She was a real “mean girl” growing up. I’m hesitant to outright call her a bully because she wasn’t ever direct like that, but she played a part in making multiple people’s lives kind of miserable tbh.
She just loves manipulating people!
We were friends for a short while…
But during the time we went to the same school, weird behaviors showed themselves, they told friend R that I would not play games with R unless R did what they said.
This turned me off them completely.
Anyway, I googled their name one day a few years back, and found that they have completely flipped out.
They have seemingly lost all control, and they and their family are have been bullying their neighbors and other in the community.
They have been to prison for stalking and assulting people, there have been reports of them even driving agressively towards random pedestrians.
They will latch on to other people and can make their life a living hell.
I am being deliberately vauge here.
When I was in elementary school, we came home from shopping and discovered someone had pried off the lock and stolen my bike. I was inconsolable. About an hour later I spotted a kid from my class riding my bike, and managed to recover it.
I looked that guy up a few years ago. Found him on the sex offender registry.
In high school, one of my classmates shot and killed his sister’s friend while cleaning a .22 rifle. There was a trial, but I don’t remember the verdict. As a minor, it might have been sealed. He disappeared for about a year. When he came back, he was completely withdrawn and…changed.
I looked that guy up a few years ago. Found him on the sex offender registry.
There was a guy at my high school that was just an absolute jackass. One of those guys that you know is never going to amount to anything, and will probably be in prison shortly after graduation. He disappeared my junior year, I thought he had moved.
I looked that guy up a few years ago. Actually, he had broken into someone’s house (a burglary) and beat the shit out of the homeowner when he was discovered. But he’d also been held back in school a couple times, so he was 18 when he did it. When I looked him up, he had just been released from prison.
I’ve known this guy as an acquaintance for a few decades back to my high school years. I’m a dude but 3/4 of my friends are women and some went to high school with him (I was at a different school). Though superficially incredibly charming, he’s been pushy, stalkerish, and manipulative as fuck to people over the years, doesn’t understand the word no, and has crossed many lines more than he ever should have been allowed to. We pushed him away from our extended friend group, but most of the women didn’t report and the ones that did didn’t see much in the way of results (just retaliation).
Looked him up recently, he’s got a case, looked it up… CP & sexual assault on a minor. Stacks of felonies pending. Out on bond. I am both shocked and not surprised. Not at all surprised he’s a scumbag rapist, shocked he did it to a minor.
I want to go to the trial, but I’m not sure if it’ll be open to the public based on the nature of things. Would love to see this chapter of life end for my friends who were impacted by him.
We called her Biscuit, and the last time I bothered to look her up she was working for then presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
several of mine transitioned and became musicians…
A student who was a year older than me became a trans performance artist who became quite famous! She had a flirtation with Tommy Lee for a while before he realized she was trans. She does a great deal of theater work and is very talented.
I only remembered ones name, and turns out he is gay (didn’t know that at the time, he had girlfriends) and is now married, living in nyc as some kind of banker type so good for him?
I knew someone with the exact same story.
Multiple dui mugshots before 30.
Checked out honestly.
I occasionally googled the names of a couple of friends growing up. Nothing terribly unusual for a rural farming area. Several joined the military, but most stayed local (or returned after uni). One of my two best friends from childhood apparently became a far-right nutjob. Some died from drugs, some from accidents, and a couple died in the military. I graduated in the late '90s.
I’m surprised how many of them turned into single moms shortly after graduation.
There were something like 11 births in my senior class
I casually brought up the fact that my high school had a daycare in conversation. The person I was talking to thought my school was k-12. Nope the daycare was for all the student mothers. I didn’t know that wasn’t normal lol.
My school didn’t have that but a couple of others in the same city did. I get the idea, they don’t want moms to have to drop out and end up on welfare.
Didn’t need to Google him because it was in the news. He got shut down by the colombian air force trying to smuggle drugs out of the country.
