Random Police Officers Reveal The Worst Criminal Encounters Of Their Careers (19 items)

• (#15) A Neo-Nazi Child Predator Was Caught In A Facebook Sting

  From Redditor /u/auxillary-priest:

  My father is currently a chief and used to be a detective for a short stint. The majority of his detective career [was spent] chasing down a [predator] who was tried for 30 counts [...] [including] sexual misconduct with a minor, and various charges of the like. My father spent day and night for close to a year gathering enough evidence to ensure he could put the bastard away for good. Aged my father like nothing I've seen. Finally arrested the guy by posing as a 13-year-old that we'll call Amber on Facebook. Agreed to meet up with the scumbag at a local park to have sex. My father and his crew rolled up quietly and approache him from behind the bench he was sitting on and says, "Hi sweetie, my name's Amber." [The criminal is] currently serving a 180-year sentence without parole.
• (#17) A Father Secretly Drugged His Young Daughter's Friends

  From Redditor /u/Dobbsie:

  A fellow who [harmed] a number of his pre-teen daughter's friends. He'd have her invite them over for movies and such, then drug their SunnyD and [assault] them. We never figured out exactly how many girls he [victimized], but we were able to prove up 28 counts.

  The arrest was not particularly satisfying. Having to be near him and listen to his diatribe made me feel unclean. His conviction and subsequent LONG sentence made me feel like being a cop was worth it at least one percent of the time.
• (#10) Trick-Or-Treaters Were Mowed Down On Halloween

  From Redditor /u/str8emulated:

  I was a detective in the town I worked at, and of course had to cover calls on a rotation. I was on call on Halloween one night and got a call about a shooting that had just occurred in a fairly decent part of the town I worked in. I was already out due to another incident and decided to head on that way figuring if there was anything to it, I would get called anyway. Being that it was Halloween and the part of town, I of course thought this was just another prank call. As I'm heading to the call, dispatch advised that they are getting multiple calls and reports of multiple victims. With this, I realized this probably wasn't a prank call and actually ended up being the first person on scene. Turns out that some kids were trick or treating and when they knocked on the door of this one house, the guy inside freaked out and unloaded am AK-47 through the glass door, into two kids and the father. The kids being over 10 but less than 14. The oldest child took most of the bullets, [which ended his life]. The father and the younger child survived.

  I then spent three hours interviewing the suspect. I've interviewed a lot of suspects, [serious offenders] included and this was the most mentally and physically exhausting interview of my life. That was almost 8 years ago and the whole thing still haunts me.
• (#14) A Man Made Clothes Out Of Cat And Dog Skins

  From Redditor /u/AbsentStraw:

  My worst was a response to a home for attempted suicide with the individual still armed with a knife. When we arrived the suspect was walking down the side of the road at 3 AM. Covered in blood from having cut himself over most of his body with moderate to deep cuts. While we were standing around ordering him to drop the knife, he stood like a statue not saying anything but staring. This guy was a towering 6'5 220-pound man who looked at me a 6' 160-pound 22-year-old and said, "I'm going to take your gun and shoot him." Referring to my FTO at the time who was similarly built to me. I deployed a taser which did nothing but anger him, my FTO deployed his which brought him down.

  Trying to handcuff a man covered in blood is terrifying, all the blood-borne diseases you can contract. He was transported to the hospital for his self-inflicted wounds. Upon further investigation this guy had been luring cats and dogs to him which he would end up [...] skinning. In this guys shed he had a harvesting room where he would turn the pelts of these animals into clothing, you name it, this guy had made it. The entire thing reminded me of some horror movie with a stench you could not stomach. That was my first week as a sworn officer, I turned 21 three days before graduating the academy. I've been on now for a year or so and that is the only guy I have ever met I believe could have taken my weapon and [ended] me. He later was declared mentally competent and charged. [It turns out he] was not suicidal but angry, because he messed up on one of his creations.
• (#9) A Father Shot His Son In The Face During An Argument

  From Redditor /u/fukkinmike:

  This might be a little different, and I'm late to the party, but here goes. A few years ago we get sent as the second car to a family disturbance, sent as routine. Halfway there we get updated to roll code three to a shots fired call... at the same house. We arrive and there is a young man with what looks like a stick in his hand lying on the ground already zero (dead). My partners have an older man in handcuffs in the back of their unit. After speaking to a lady (the wife) and another young man (son) who were home, the story comes out. The family disturbance was the deceased young man breaking a chair and hitting his dad with the broken chair legs. Dad gets gun, warns son, son doesn't stop, dad [fires]. I will never forget the way the father looked me in the eye and said, "I'm going to hell for this aren't I?"
• (#18) A Sunday School Teacher Preyed On Children Without Fathers

  From Redditor /u/08mms:

  I worked in a criminal court for a while, and one of the darkest cases we had was a [predator] who was also a Sunday school and grade school teacher that would seek out 10-14 year olds online whose fathers had recently passed away, "befriend" them, ply them with presents (including lots of recording equipment so they could make "videos") and eventually get them in a situation where he could [violate] them.

  The detectives had found his diary running from when he first started getting urges in high school/college to him starting his bad actions in his late 20s and it was one of the most disturbing things I've ever read. The part that made me the most angry is that right before he [harmed] his first kid, he had a crisis of conscience and went to a pastor in his church confessing that he had those urges and he was worried he would hurt someone, and that bastard pastor, instead of steering him to professional counseling or calling authorities, just told him to pray about it and God would show him the right path. [Offender] did just that, and randomly opened his bible to the story about Jesus and the children that has the "let the children come to me" line. He took this as a sign that he was somehow okay in what he was doing and preceded to go on and emotionally break several kids' lives.

  The prosecution did a great job, the jury convicted him quickly, but while he was in the court lock-up before his sentencing hearing, some gang member facing a [...] trial later that day had overheard the charges [and] beat the [perp] nearly to death and they had to backboard his bleeding body out through the open court.

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