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black_flag_4ever t1_itqps02 wrote

I wish the journalist would have explained how the daughter found out. It's one thing if she discovered this after he died, but quite another if she knew while he was alive, but did nothing about it.

Edit: https://www.newsweek.com/dad-was-serial-killer-woman-says-cadaver-dogs-scour-field-nightmares-1754083

She claims she tried to tell anyone she could but was ignored.

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bannana t1_itqso3s wrote

>She claims she tried to tell anyone she could but was ignored.

Def wouldn't be the first time cops ignored a woman reporting a serious crime.

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DeadSheepLane t1_itra6vg wrote

“Ma’am, are you currently at that time of the month ?”

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FlyingFlipPhone t1_itrz7lk wrote

"Please escort yourself out, and take that skull with you... We have men's work to do."

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DragoonDM t1_its9a6r wrote

Wouldn't even be the first time this month there was a news story about cops ignoring reports of a potential serial killer.

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Redtwooo t1_itr8v4r wrote

"You sure they didn't fall down that 90' well there themselves?"

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Potential-Reply729 t1_itr2xfx wrote

The article says she called the police “at least twice” but unclear what the timeline is.

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tardersauced t1_itrun9k wrote

I read a slightly more local article that said the daughter came forward to Nebraska and Iowa authorities "many times throughout the years" and she did so the first time 45 years ago.

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finnerpeace t1_itsi33z wrote

>"Every time I went to the well or into the hills, I didn't think I was coming down. I thought he would kill me because I wouldn't keep my mouth shut."

She was a brave-ass girl. Despite this indeed told people.

You know, with the Dahmer case etc folks always tell about how no one believes black folks. Which I don't doubt. Yet here was a white family in the middle of a white-ass state. And she still wasn't believed. I'm sure some was that she was a kid, and some that she was a girl rather than boy. But I'm thinking what's up is people just don't want to believe these things, either from horror, fear, not wanting to have to deal with it, or the simple surprise-disbelief when we see something absolutely insane and our minds can't process it, especially not quickly. And all these factors become excuses to look the other way.

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finnerpeace t1_itsjcjb wrote

Thinking more about this, I mean, if a kid told me something like this, I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to deal with it. And I'm very ethical, and have done shit pretty regularly like jump in pools to save a kid, yoink an attacking dog off a smaller one, etc. So I'm likely among the more-likely to respond types. Yet still if a kid told me this, I'd be terrified to act, and beyond that terror, I'd simply have no idea what to do. Call the cops and report? But then I'd worry I'd be getting the kid killed...

Anyone know what we actually do if someone does tell us about serious, needs-intervention crime?

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SofieTerleska t1_itstg8s wrote

Also, we don't know how direct she was about reporting. It sounds bad now but if you have a 12 year old saying something indirect like "I just get a really bad feeling about that well" or calling in a tip anonymously then it's hard to know how serious it is. And I wouldn't blame her one bit for not just spitting it out, because in that sort of situation, if you tell the wrong person and they roll their eyes, send you home, and possibly even tell your father what you said, you could have just punched your own ticket.

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SignificantTear7529 t1_itsmh6z wrote

The daughter and her siblings were made to help dispose of the bodies. Her brother committed suicide age 39 I believe it said.

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SignificantTear7529 t1_itsmys2 wrote

This happened while she was a child. Her brother committed suicide as an adult and her dad's wives died by strangling and shooting themselves. You can't blame a someone who was a dependent child and raised in that hell. Just stop.

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