https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/09/16/Police-charge-two-in-sweethearts-deaths/3990527227200/

I sat next to Daniel Meyer in an accounting theory class at A&M in the fall of 1986. There were only four students in the class. It was a Tuesday/Thursday class. Since there were only four of us and it was a theory class, we got to know one another pretty well. He was a great guy and respected CT. He was supposed to graduate at the end of that semester (December). One Tuesday he didn't show up for class….everyone was surprised. The next Thursday, the professor told us he and his hometown girlfriend had been murdered.

He and girlfriend were making out at local lovers lane. Robber comes up to vehicle without intent to murder but realizes one of the lovers is an ex classmate. So he murders them both.

Of course it always haunted me…really good guy doing everything the right way. Then in 1997 I'm reading the paper one morning and the headline was that his killer was to be executed that day. It made me very happy.

My uncle was murdered in Florida in the early 80s. Then a few years later his daughter was murdered in Louisiana.

Was a very close friend with her growing up.

https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/affidavit-details-arrest-of-woman-in-connection-with-shooting-of-jack-hunter/503-272781723

Zach Scalf was a friend of mine when I was at A&M. He worked at Fitzwilly's for a while.

https://www.wtoc.com/2022/07/19/2-veterans-former-nine-line-employees-identified-murder-suicide-investigation/

StinkyPinky said:

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Was a very close friend with her growing up.

https://www.kiiitv.com/article/news/affidavit-details-arrest-of-woman-in-connection-with-shooting-of-jack-hunter/503-272781723

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You got any more details?

I'm not including any links for the sake of not identifying people involved, but my husband's uncle was murdered by two people, one of whom was the son of some very good friends of ours. They tied him to a chair, beat him, strangled him to death, then dumped his body in a retention pond just to steal his wallet and car. Our friends' son pled guilty and was sentenced to 40 years. The other guy went to trial and got life without parole.

When I was 19 I was robbed at gun point at the store I managed and pistol-whipped. It's the only time in my life I was ever 100% sure I was about to die. They never caught the perps.

I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

austinAG90 said:

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I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

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Well did he?

Ron Shamburger was in my Spanish 102 class in 1994 until he wasn't.

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/shamburger799.htm


One of my mom's second cousins was Richard Rambo, who drove the truck that Jayne Mansfield's car crashed into the night she was killed in the 60s. He pulled her out of her car because he thought it was going to blow up. They tried to pin the accident on him but the court exonerated him.

This is what was left of her car.

In elementary school, I was best friends with two brothers about my age.
Their father was a cop. I would spend the night over there, we would have barbecue, fireworks, and other get-togethers.
When I was in the third grade, he put in for a transfer to Dallas.
For several summers later, I would visit them and spend a week at their place.

One summer, he (the father cop) ends up robbing a bank, and getting caught. Then his brother says that they need to look into a murder in my hometown--an attorney--the same summer that they moved to Dallas.

He ends up going to prison for both the murder and the bank robbery.

10 years later he gets out and starts reaching out to us to get together again like "the good old days."

3 years later I heard that he went back to his childhood home, killed his mother and then committed suicide.

A high school friend of mine was the manager of the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop in Austin where four teenage girls were murdered and set on fire in the early 1990s. She was one of the last people to see them alive and suffer terrible grief for a long time. DNA testing recently traced the murder back to a serial killer who was not on the radar.

When I was a kid, my dad's uncle was a crooked sheriff's deputy in South Texas. He shot a guy in a bar fight and went on the run. He stayed with us for a little while afterward and gave me a Nintendo and a bunch of bank bags full of dollar and half dollar coins. The Texas Rangers eventually caught up with him in Louisiana and brought him back to Texas. He spent the rest of his days in prison before he passed away.

After he went to prison, my grandpa, my dad, and me went out to his ranch, and he had big barn full of cars, motorcycles, three wheelers, dirt bikes, all kinds of cool ***** I remember wondering how a cop could afford such a nice ranch, house, and all of that stuff.

One of the docs at the practice where I worked in college left her husband and started dating this sketchy dood who was enough of a suspect in some of the I45 Killing Fields cases that the cops went digging for bodies on his property. (Nothing was found..)

As a senior in high school in 1982, a friend and classmate, Amie Hoffman, was walking to her car after work at a local mall. She was likely the nicest, warmest, happiest person I have ever met. She was abducted, thrown into a van, repeatedly assaulted in the worst ways for hours, beaten, and eventually stabbed to death and thrown into a drainage ditch. Her body was found 2 days later.

The killer, James Koedatich, did the same thing a few days later to another young woman.

I also played youth baseball with a kid who at 17 years old, went to his elderly neighbor's house, walked in, beat her to death, and stole $75. That was his reason to kill her.

I've known two people over the last 20 years that murdered their wives and then killed themselves. The first was a guy that I worked with briefly but didn't know well, just seemed like a quiet guy who showed up, did his job, then went home. Evidently he suspected his wife of cheating on him, no idea if true or not, the argument spiraled out of control and he shot her and then himself. Their kids were home at the time and heard the whole thing. No idea why the other guy killed his wife, they had kids as well but I don't think anyone else was home. I never heard anything about why it might have happened.

A friend was leaving a restaurant in downtown Dallas and was approached by a dude with a knife. He was stabbed in the confrontation, and if not for a good samaritan who witnessed the attack and came across the street to help and put pressure on the wound would have died. DPD eventually caught the guy. He's prosecuted and in jail for a good while.

I also had a classmate since elementary school that was robbed and murdered while just trying to earn a living delivering a pizza.

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I've known two people over the last 20 years that murdered their wives and then killed themselves. The first was a guy that I worked with briefly but didn't know well, just seemed like a quiet guy who showed up, did his job, then went home. Evidently he suspected his wife of cheating on him, no idea if true or not, the argument spiraled out of control and he shot her and then himself. Their kids were home at the time and heard the whole thing. No idea why the other guy killed his wife, they had kids as well but I don't think anyone else was home. I never heard anything about why it might have happened.

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I'm glad we're not friends.

My dad's first cousin was Cesar Vela. He lived with my dad's family in the 40s and early 50s after parental deaths orphaned him. He was a lower level executive with KLM Airlines in Houston and was strangled by three of his employees in his home and left for dead in a closet. They robbed him because he was a single man and was wealthy; they stole his cars but were tracked down days later because of early GPS.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/three-arrested-in-austin-after-montrose-man-s-2019064.php

I had a physics class with Diane Zamora in HS. We had assigned seats, so we traded and graded each others homework daily. She was one half of the Texas Cadet Murders, the other being her boyfriend from Mansfield. She'd been admitted to the Naval Academy and I was interested at the time in applying to West Point (she was a year ahead of me), so we talked about it frequently. It was unsettling to look back and think she just came to class every day like usual after committing the murder and getting away with it, for a time anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Zamora


First project I was on after graduation had a coworker that shot and killed one of the local waitresses because he'd gotten her pregnant and her demands for a paternity test interfered with his upcoming marriage back in his hometown. All the evidence was circumstantial because he'd been seeing her for months. The murder weapon was his and had his prints on it (said he gave it to her due to her crazy ex-boyfriend), his prints were all over her house, his truck was parked in her driveway hours before her body was found inside. It was obvious to everyone that knew him, except the local PD who screwed up the crime scene and then butchered the case. He hired a good lawyer and got off. God's justice will prevail soon enough.


Last one was a likely murder-suicide involving a guy I served with in local government. To this day they don't know if he killed his wife then turned the gun on himself, or it was the other way around, or if both committed suicide together. Just point-blank gunshot head wounds to both and the gun laying on the floor between them. This went down three days before his case was to go before grand jury for indecency with a child.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Kerrville-still-awaiting-answers-a-year-later-on-12262508.php