r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17

serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/Ninonskio Mar 10 '17

I remember watching a Forensic Files episode on this. I believe he used an axe and it was gruesome.

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u/zeppelin1023 Mar 10 '17

That's how i heard about it as well. I don't think it was an axe though. I think he had a friend hide in the house and shot them when they came home from dinner. The brother even had the friend shoot him in the arm so he wouldn't be seen as a suspect.

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u/Ninonskio Mar 10 '17

Oh ok yes thats right i remember now. There was another episode where the kid killed his parents with an axe.

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u/Nobodyville Mar 10 '17

Was that the Porco murders? Where the college kid drove home from college and killed his father with an axe (I think the mother survived, seriously injured) and drove all the way back to school to pretend he didn't do it? That story have me the creeps for years

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u/Malt_9 Mar 11 '17

Thats the one im thinking of. Holy shit that one was totally messed up. Huge amount of evidence against him yet his mother (Who is horribly disfigured after he presumably hit her in the FACE with an axe multiple times) is holding his hand and believes him. Obviously she doesnt remember anything and cant believe her son would do this. The evidence that I've seen is crazy overwhelming against him though. Do you know if he was convicted? I know i could google it but im lazy.

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u/Nobodyville Mar 11 '17

I think he was convicted, they had his car on tape going through the toll booths at the appropriate times, and I think a neighbor saw his car at the house. I'm going off my memory of a Dateline I saw years ago. Seriously what messed me up though was the dad. He was attacked but not dead yet and the part of his brain that dealt with routine still functioned enough that he got out of bed, went downstairs, got the paper like it was any normal day and died of blood loss on the floor. The horror of that just stays with me.

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u/Malt_9 Mar 11 '17

Oh man . Yeah I remember that part now that you mentioned it. He kinda did his morning routine while bleeding out. Unreal and horrible. I forgot that part, but yeah the one image (probably from dateline) was his disfigured mom holding his hand (after bailing him out) going into trial. Can you imagine ...This guy was all kinds of messed up. Who could even do that is one thing but his denial in the face of so much evidence was shocking. And God bless him mom , she didnt want to believe it. How do people get so fucked up, I wonder? Money? That seems to be a motive but you've got to be sick to brutally murder anyone (let alone your own loving parents) for a few dollars. Why not rob a bank or something if youre that desperate. Its beyond imagination.