[ SECRET POST #3733 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3733 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Elementary, Kitty Winter]


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[TV Show: MacGyver 2016]


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08. [SPOILERS for Horizon: Zero Dawn]



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10. [WARNING for child abuse]



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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen this particular story you're referencing, but I can understand this mindset on some level. Sometimes some people do make strange choices all the same that leave me scratching my head. I remember seeing a "Dateline" show once about a pastor who'd murdered his wife. Prior to that, his wife kept having all these "visions" about her death, and the pastor was running his church in very odd ways and whatnot, and I think there were rumors of affairs as well.

After his wife's death, he was hitting on so many of the women in the congregation, whom he'd met under the guise of counseling them on their marriages before and after his wife's death, and slept with many of them (and we're talking within mere weeks of his wife's death here)...and he also slept with his deceased wife's mother. Seriously. And these women were all swept up in the BS he was spouting and whatnot. The level of naivety among these people was stunning, and I just couldn't believe how easily they fell for this guy's nonsense.

But yeah, you hear all the time about how people just assume because somebody's the leader of the congregation at church or runs the scout camp or whatever, they can't possibly be a secret serial killer in disguise (somebody should tell those people about the BTK killer), or the usual, "It's a small town, nothing bad ever happens here" comments and whatnot. I know it's hard for people to imagine something like that ever happening to them, but still... That's what other people who were victims of crime/knew somebody who was a victim of crime said, too, at one time.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I watch probably too much true crime, but YES. Another irritating thing I see a lot of is some variation of these two attitudes:

1) "They were good church-going people, I can't believe such a terrible thing happened to them!"
1) "He/she was a member of their local church, I can't believe they did such a terrible thing!"

Maybe it's very American, but people are really stuck on this idea that being Christian = good and safe. As if God would never allow you to be murdered in your beds because you go to church every Sunday. As if a person who goes to church every Sunday could never, ever murder his wife. It's so nuts.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. That mindset bugs the crap out of me. I really do not get that attitude at all.

And then sometimes I'll see interviews where the family members are so adamant that their loved one wouldn't up and leave their kids or commit suicide or whatever...and then they talk about all this shocking stuff they found out about said family member after their disappearance/death. Sometimes people are really good at keeping secrets. Sometimes you are not going to know somebody as well as you think you do.

And yeah, anyone who watches true crime shows is familiar with the running joke that you can make a drinking game out of watching those programs :p. Watch an entire evening of those kinds of shows and at some point you'll run into most, if not all, of these phrases/topics:

"They seemed like the perfect family/couple"
"This is a small town, everyone knows each other"
"Nothing bad ever happens here"
Mention of a life insurance policy
Mention of an affair (or more)

[(Anonymous)]

What I get from that is that people really overestimate just how well they know their friends and family. Especially the friends part, where you see some guy who murdered his wife for her life insurance policy, cut her into pieces and buried her in the backyard and his golfing buddies are all, "Well, I dunno he seemed like a nice guy..." Like they seriously thought because they see the guy a couple times a month and he doesn't seem like an obvious asshole, they know for sure he's not capable of murder. And then it turns out later than oh yeah, they DID hear him screaming at his wife on the phone a lot and he had a mistress but eh, so what...

It's kind of freaky, actually.

[(Anonymous)]

Mmhm.

I also get a kick out of the people who talk about how the last time they saw their family member/friend, that person made a point of saying, before they left, "If something happens to me, my spouse did it."

...and the person they say that to just...lets them go. No asking them to come back in and stay with them, or asking them what they meant by that, or offers to call the police if the situation's getting to a clearly dangerous level. I mean, I know sometimes people's hands are tied and that you can offer all the help imaginable to somebody and they can still push you away, but I dunno, if a friend or family member said something that ominous-sounding to me, I just don't think I'd let it go at that without saying or doing something in response, you know?

[(Anonymous)]

DA I'm not into true crime and even sit I've seen the if something happens to me a LOT in the news / unavoidable stuff. Like even avoiding true crime stuff that is hard to get away from knowing about. How can anyone just laugh that off from a friend or family member?? 😥😣😒😕😑

[sadiesockmonkey]

I've seen that episode a few times. Yeah. That story is wild. Especially his mother in law's involvement.

[(Anonymous)]

I found myself yelling at the TV a lot during that episode :p. Just...the mind boggles.