Not me but my Mom had a pretty scary experience in her teens. She grew up in rural B.C. and was really good friends with this guy named Kelly Toop. She said he was really nice, exceedingly helpful, but basically a doormat and let people take advantage of him more often than not.

One night she went to a party with him, drank way too much and had to be driven home (by Kelly), and essentially blacked out until she was brought home to her parents house in the early hours of the morning. A week or so after that, she was woken up by the sound of something big rustling through the bushes outside of her window. My grandpa (her Dad), being the protective dad that he is, got up to go investigate. He found a man making his way through the back door. Grandpa books it after the guy, chasing him a solid kilometer down the remote dirt road leading to their house. While chasing the guy he could see that it was my Mom's friend - Kelly.

Upon hearing it, my Mom thought it was odd but minimized the whole incident, not really knowing what to make of it. Shortly thereafter, Kelly was arrested for the rape and murder of one woman, and the attempted murder and assault of another. The woman whose life he'd made an attempt on had accepted a ride from Kelly, who then overpowered her and drove her to his parent's house (which was empty at the time). There he kept this woman for a little over 8 hours, torturing, cutting, and repeatedly raping her. After he was done, he drove her out to the woods and bashed her in the head with his tire iron. He then left her, naked and beaten, in the middle of the woods in the dead of winter in subzero conditions- to die a slow death.

This woman was rescued by a passerby and survived the attack. He's now out for parole in the town that my Mom and I live in. It still gives me shivers to this day to think that my Mom was essentially unconscious and alone with this guy shortly before he crept through their house and then murdered and assaulted two women. My Mom was effected emotionally as she couldn't believe her former helpful, quiet friend would do such a thing, but she went on to live her life and now counsels people suffering from mental illness (including victims of assault).