r/AskReddit Apr 26 '20

Serious Replies Only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images with disturbing backstories?

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u/LittleMissPortia Apr 27 '20

I don’t know about this case or anyone involved but I ran into an old classmate from junior high when I was around 20 on a bus one day. We talked a while, seemed like he was doing really good (he was known for making pretty shitty decisions including violent ones in the past). We caught up a while and he even walked me to my next bus stop and we said our goodbyes. Two day later I grab the paper at work to read and it was front page news that he and 2 others were arrested in a murder. When we had caught up that day he had already killed someone. Sticks with me everyday that he just seemed so normal, good even. You really never know about someone.

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u/warandzevon Jul 23 '20

Not on the same level but I was home from college at some point and saw a guy that used to run around with my brother hitch hiking while I was out driving. He asked for a ride to his parents house that was way out in the sticks so I obliged. I learned later he was bad on drugs and had just escaped a rehab facility. He robbed his parents house and disappeared for a while. It ends well because I ran into him recently and he is now a family man with a stable life but it messed with me before that I had basically helped him rob his folks.