I'm working on a project and researching true crime cases that involve runners. Whether that's people murdered while running, runners who committed crimes, runners who discovered dead bodies, etc. Know of any interesting cases? Do you personally have any stories?
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When I was running in a very remote part of a desert I found a lot of unmarked graves. I think I've spoken about this before on here. There is one aspect of them I can't bring myself to say.
The most interesting crime to do with running, I think, was the one where the guy pretended to be out for a run and spoke to the police face to face for about 10 mins and somehow convinced him that he wasn't the suspect! Someone posted a link to it on here.
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track chick wrote:
When I was running in a very remote part of a desert I found a lot of unmarked graves. I think I've spoken about this before on here. There is one aspect of them I can't bring myself to say.
unmarked graves!?!? did anything come of this?
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David Mack was a star 800m runner at Oregon where he won 3 Pac 10 titles and an NCAA Championship. After college, he joined the Santa Monica Track Club and competed at the 1983 and 1987 World Championships.
After his running career was over, he joined the LAPD where his had a more noteworthy career to say the least. A key player in the Rampart police corruption scandal, Mack went to prison for bank robbery. However, he is more famous for being one of the prime suspects in the murder of Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious B.I.G.He's been out of prison since 2010, so if you can find him, he'd probably be a good interview!
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The case that shocked me and made me super cautious on my runs was Sherry Arnold, 43, a teacher. She was kidnapped, strangled and buried in a shallow grave. She was from Sidney, Montana.80
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“Man found guilty of 2016 murder, sex abuse of Queens jogger Karina Vetrano”
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Ahmaud Arbery murdered by white supremacists.
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txRUNNERgirl wrote:
I'm working on a project and researching true crime cases that involve runners. Whether that's people murdered while running, runners who committed crimes, runners who discovered dead bodies, etc. Know of any interesting cases? Do you personally have any stories?
Mid life crisis, wannabe gumshoe?
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Tim Danielson.
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What about runners who were murdered? Then you can go down the rabbit hole of Sammy Wanjiru. Have a look at the height of the balcony he was supposed to have fallen off, which supposedly killed him. Then explain the blow to the back of his skull. And, also explain how it all started by being locked inside his bedroom and could not get out... how many bedrooms do you know that lock from the outside to keep a person in?
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In a 9 day period in 2016, three women were murdered while running: Karina Vetrano (another poster already mentioned her), Vanessa Marcotte and Alexandra Brueger.
Also in 2016, David Eisenhauer, a member of Virginia Tech XC and track teams murdered a 13 year old girl.
2018, Lauren McCloskey, a heptathlete at U. of Utah was murdered , but not while actually running.
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An American woman working for the US embassy in Kyiv has been killed in an apparent attack while she was jogging in the Ukrainian capital.
A police statement said the victim was found unconscious from a head injury by railway tracks near Kyiv’s Nyvky Park and in the same district as the US embassy. She died in hospital. The statement said the police were looking for a tall, dark-haired man in shorts, T-shirt and running shoes, aged about 30.I find 3 disturbing things relating to this story.
1/ She appears to have been killed by another jogger.
2/ Over 18 months later, there has been nothing more in the media about this.
3/ We're heading towards WW3 for these people.
Oh, and I've made a couple of posts about this in the past here and they got deleted.
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46.xx 400 runner
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Frank Meza, no one person pulled the trigger, it was more of a group LRC effort.
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Mike Rossi was arrested for bearing people up drunk right?
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“True Crime” is a psyop to get people to be afraid of their immediate environment. Just like “serial killers” (which are factually real but really fake). It’s basically a pornography of the nightly news to get people hooked to the tubes might and day.
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What does that make LetsRun?
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Central Park jogger:
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Oscar Pistorius, the "Blade Runner" Olympian from South Africa
Vehicular homicide - Alexandra Loos, HS track star from PA
Vehicular homicide - Abigail Anderson, Gabe Grunewald's sister
It is disturbing and sad how many posts have been made in such a short time.
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