re: Crazy crime stories involving people you've known

I never got the full story, but when I was a kid I was at my grandparent’s house one summer and one of their neighbors skipped town in the middle of the night. Took his whole family with him. We went outside and there was police tape around the house and several unmarked police vehicles with what looked like detectives going in and out of it. All the adults were real hush-hush about it. After the cops left, they left the house open and all the doors unlocked. We snuck in and walked around and we all freaked out and ran out. House was completely empty.

Not what the thread is about but it triggered that memory.