What is something shocking you found out about a friend or family member after they died?

I knew this guy who was bit weird, but generally a good guy. We both went to film school and we worked in several projects together. He was the kind of dude who would ask us girls if we needed company at 5AM to go home to make sure we were safe. Later, we worked on a webseries together and he was outstanding with the whole crew. I remember we had a lot of issues, mostly the crew fighting, and he actually helped me a lot keep things in check and not lose my mind. He was known as the dude with the funny walk and someone with a weird humour, but generally harmless.

Years later, in our production Facebook group, someone shared an article. it was weird because that group had been pretty much dead, but even weirder that it was a news article that they were sharing. It took me minutes to realise why they'd shared a link to a tabloid about some guy murdering his girlfriend, until I read the name on the headline. It was this guy.

And he didn't just murder the girlfriend. Apparently, she got pregnant, she wanted to keep the baby, he didn't. They fought and he pushed her down the stairs. When he realised she was dead, he cut off her feet and hands, threw her body in the river, wrapped up her torn limbs, and then drove 70 km to another district and buried the severed limbs in the middle of the woods. I'm not even sure how he did all this because last I knew, he didn't drive a car, he drove a motorbike.

I swear thinking about it still makes me shiver. The name of his girlfriend was on the article, and I remember him talking about her to me once. What was so chilling was when I read that he took a guilty plea in court, and the words he used they just... Idk man I just remember thinking "That's exactly the kind of thing he would have said". I even remember reading them in his voice.

You know when someone commits a horrible crime and friends and neighbour say "I never saw it coming, he was a nice guy"? Yeah, I felt like shit about that for months.

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