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“This story was submitted by Reddit user woodsel.


Murdered woman buried in my neighbor’s backyard.

This is a true story about a cold case that came to light a couple years ago.

For a little background, my great grandpa bought my house back in the 50’s. My grandma bought it from him and then my dad bought it from her so it’s been in the family for a long time.

A couple years ago, I got home from school to a bunch of news vans and detectives parked outside of my house. And they were digging in my neighbors backyard, behind our shed right on our property line. I could see from my back window since the houses are pretty close together and the yards are just split by a chain link fence. There is also a creek in the back right corner of my yard which also takes up the entire back of my neighbors yard.

When my mom got home from work she went back to talk to one of the detectives and he told her the story.

It was a cold case from the 50’s, the man who used to live in my neighbors house murdered his wife and buried her in the retaining wall in their back yard (a retaining wall is long slabs of wood to keep the yard from falling into the creek). He remarried and his new wife was on her death bed and called in a tip, giving them the address and saying her husband killed his ex wife and buried her there.

They never found any remains but my mom said that the retaining wall had fallen into the creek a long time ago so her remains have likely floated way down stream by now.

When we told my grandma about it, she mentioned that when she was a little girl, her neighbor would often yell at the wife and even once chased her around the yard with a knife.

My oldest sister and my neighbors daughter were also the same age so they played in the backyard a lot. They once found a knife sort of buried in our neighbors yard when they were playing back there. Nobody thought much of it at the time but after hearing the murder story it became extremely weird.

It’s also scary to think that my sisters and cousin and I used to go down in the creek and play when we were little and collected “fossils” what if we were digging through human remains?

For a couple months after hearing the story I was extremely freaked out to even take my garbage out to the back yard, seeing as there was a dead woman buried there at some point and nobody ever knew.

It is a pretty interesting story though, that happened right in my back yard pretty much. If I find an article about it I will link it. It was in 2015 when they were digging.”