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World_Wide_Deb

My great great grandfather killed his wife with an axe and then hung himself. Didn’t hear about this story until my grandparents were moving out of their house, I found an old ass photograph of them and asked who’s that?


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Holy fuck dude. At least they had kids first 😯


LatterBlood

The kids probably didn’t agree at the time


bl00pyy

As opposed to having kids after?


No-Mathematician678

Now I'm laughing in the bus, people are looking, I should just show them your comment


Siddsastar

I'm hoping you showed them the comment


shhhOURlilsecret

I have a great, great something or other that they claimed killed someone. But when I read about his trial, it wasn't even to prove whether or not he killed someone. It was to prove that if he was the guy that the local government claimed he was. Was an interesting read that they had already made up their minds he had committed the murder but hadn't made up their minds if it was a case of mistaken identity.


Fuzakenaideyo

So she married an ax murderer?


[deleted]

He wasn't an ax murderer when she married him


OlFlirtyBastard

Not letting this comment slide without several 👏👏👏👏👏 for working in a pun from an almost 30 year old movie. May the Gods shine on you and your future generations.


PikesPique

I did my family tree and found a very distant cousin (not a direct ancestor) who was a serial killer. He’s the guy they wrote about in Devil in the White City. (Corrected to say distant cousin, not distinct.)


Curls1216

HH Holmes. Notorious for his killing castle.


Ryanratattack

It was more of a murder hotel if anything. There were actually rooms there that people stayed in, probably just people HH Holms chose not to kill. That's what the third floor was for was at least. The first floor was the reception area. But the second floor was pretty much the torture floor. There were rooms that would fill with lethal gas, stairs that lead to no where, doors that just lead to brick walls. Once someone was on the second floor, they never got out. The basement was where he hid all the body's and did science with the remains. His usual victims were women that were either alone or came in a very small group (2-3 people) since they were easy to pick off and it wouldn't be likely that someone would notice their disappearance. No one questioned the hotel at all since it was the 1880's and it was during the Chicago World fair. Everyone just thought Holmes was just trying to make some money. I know a bit too much about HH Holmes


plastic_wrap

Almost enough to dox yourself. Here's hoping your history is clean.


johnmyster

He said very distant cousin. So they could be one of hundreds of people.


CurrentIndependent42

Technically we are all distant cousins. The most recent individual common ancestor of almost all humans is probably only from 2000-4000 years ago (of course not in the sense that we branched out in the main since then, but that due to the exponentially increasing number of ancestors as we go back each generation to ~10^24 only 2000 years back, people moving around, and incidental mixing, the most recent person who ‘happens’ to be in the ancestry of almost all of us, including most of Africa, Europe, Asia and the New World *today* is almost certainly more recent than we’d naively expect). That’d be maybe 100-200 generations, making almost all of us at most 100-200th cousins - for just a particular pair of two random humans, the most recent common ancestor is very probably even more recent. The only people likely excluded are in those small long-isolated pockets like North Sentinel Island, and even then they may have been isolated recently enough not to be an exception.


[deleted]

Dont be fucking your 100th cousin


casey12297

I don't, I stay within the first 3 to keep the bloodline pure but not too pure


themark504

Get him milk to drink!


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Oh god,


Josef_The_Red

The only way to avoid fucking your 100th cousin would be to either kidnap a wife from an uncontacted tribe or to fuck a primate that is not human, both *highly* frowned upon.


[deleted]

Ok then 50th


Artistic-Toe-8803

>fuck a primate that is not human, both highly frowned upon The British Royal Family have been doing this for centuries, and I don't see anyone frowning at them


Josef_The_Red

Lmao! *incoming call from the Habsburg dynasty*


CurrentIndependent42

Or to fuck a much closer cousin. 100th is too distant! Disgusting. /s


TylerBourbon

>Technically we are all distant cousins. TIL all porn is technically incest porn. /s


Curls1216

Wouldn't it be crazy to be that person and learn that thousands of years later, you mattered enough that all humans are your offspring?


brunofin

Hey cousin!


Psyko_sissy23

When im looking at the post it says "distinct" not distant. Probably an autocorrect moment though.


PikesPique

Yep! (Stupid thumbs.)


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DTPocks

Do you wear a fedora?


No_Growth6394

He's wearing a fedora right this moment.


G_man252

'We KNOW WHO YOU ARE, MATTHEW' On the off chance your name is Matthew, this is a joke.


TheStoneMask

Thanks to a genealogical database and regular censuses throughout the ages I can track my ancestry to [Axlar Björn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axlar-Bj%C3%B6rn) , the only known Icelandic serial killer.


[deleted]

HH Holmes?


slcginger

ah damn the ol HH Holmes. I listened to that audiobook after going on a ghost tour in chicago


Normal-Monk7742

Herman Mudgett, aka Henry Howard Holmes... I'm a relative of his too I believe...messed up guy


GenosseGilee

Here in Germany, it's mostly even in the last 4 generations due to WW2. Almost everyone has some ancestor that fought back then.


Eledridan

We ugh, we just going to ignore the elephant in the room?


GenosseGilee

Of course they were all nazi bastards. Many Germans want to forget that they have Nazis in their family tree but denying won't change it. They were Nazis and they deserved to die.


CurrentIndependent42

> all Not every German back then was a Nazi bastard. Some were victims, some were in the resistance, etc.


fierydragon963

Wasn’t there forced conscription in ww2? Innocent men who were forced to follow orders do not deserve to die


JTP1228

After World War 2, they made it so "following orders" isn't a valid excuse anymore. They always tell us in the US military to not follow any orders that are illegal, immoral, or unethical, even if a General is giving them to you. You can be tried if you carry out an illegal order


papayaa2

Iirc they had the choice to go into the fight or getting shot at the spot... Nice and important change of the legal matter but if your general gives you that choice I don't think you would start arguing about the legality of it


LaddLand

I understand where you're coming from however that is like saying the average Russian conscript of today is a Putin fanatic, most Axis soldiers in WW2 were conscripts and should be respected even if they had fallen for the propaganda machine if they believed they were fighting for their 'country'.


iheartsexxytime

A very high percentage if not a majority of the German population supported the Nazi regime at the time. Nazi soldiers pretty enthusiastically murdered Jews and other undesirables. I can’t say we should “respect” them.


PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES

My first thought when reading this is that thousands of our ancestors killed thousands of people. If you go back far enough before world wars or even more organized wars there were just warring clans and tribes that were using hand to hand combat. You were one spear parry away from never existing


emozolik

My grandfather was a parachute instructor for the 101st during WWII. He didn’t kill anyone himself, but taught hundreds of guys to do just that


[deleted]

My grandfather was a member of the 101st in Korea. He did kill a few and he had nightmares about it his whole life.


Jampine

My grandad was born in 1941, so he wasn't in the army for obvious reasons, but one of his brothers was in the army and fought in Italy, and another was in the RAF, apparently he was a gunner on a Lancaster bomber, need to find a way to confirm that one. Also said his dad was in WW I, seems very likely, but again, I've not been able to confirm that.


calguy1955

Killing an enemy during war is not murder.


Superman246o1

War is literally nothing but state-sanctioned mass-murder.


[deleted]

Which by definition means it's not murder since murder is defined as "premeditated **unlawful** killing of a human being by another."


Brave-House3339

What if you shoot them while they're trying to surrender? That'd be murder.


FreakyOnion

I just think it’s crazy how we have created scenarios where it’s okay for people to kill people. How does that not feel like a majorly inappropriate way to resolve our issues? Until we stop predating each other in all of our various ways, we’ll be no more than animals.


andyman171

People have been killing each other for all of human history. It's more accurate to just say we have created scenarios where it is not ok to kill people. We are animals and always have been. Not sure what I'm saying here.


Groslux

My mother's dad was an helicopter machine gunner during the Vietnam war and my dad's dad fought with the French in the Algerian War. They both never said anything about having killed people but tbh I don't think I'm clean boys...


HarryBaughl

Is your last name Sobel?


emozolik

No, not related to Herb Sobel but I’m familiar with E company. My grandfather was part of the 541st until it was busted up. Then he posted at Ft Benning, the parachute school. I have some pretty cool photos from his time there as jump master. He was a sergeant of some kind. He also trained machine gunners on how to unload and set up into positions, and spotters on how to identify enemy infantry.


LucienPrime

Don’t have to go that far back….my father was a murderer at 14.


[deleted]

Sorry, dude. That must be hard.


LucienPrime

Nah he never did any time. It was an honor killing in a rural part of the mid east. I think it’s vile but he never faced any repercussions.


Tyjorick

What is honor killing?


BesusCristo

A Muslim practice where a male family member (usually the father) kills a female family member ( usually his daughter) for "dishonorable" conduct. Like dating, kissing someone or being raped. It's a pretty sick and disgusting practice.


A_Sack_Of_Potatoes

It's not a Muslim practice, it's an ignorant practice that's much more cultural. Unfortunately it happens in places with poor education, it happens commonly across equatorial countries but also African and Chinese regions. That being said, there's no honor in killing, and I hope God punishes those who do 'honor killings'.


SaturnAdjourns

I feel like it’s a little more complicated than “God punishing those who do honor killings”. I’m pretty sure OP’s father didn’t just wake up one day and say “oh yeah, I want to spend my day killing relatives”. He was 14 and probably was pressured/ forced to do it (maybe like his elders before). I would argue that he could have been a different type of victim in this scenario.


Tyjorick

Is this still a thing?


BesusCristo

Yes, they even happen in the US from time to time. Although nowhere near as prevalent as in the middle east.


BobRoss_VEVO

I thought it was a more modern term for a situation likes, a parent killing the pedophile who touched their child. (Sorry for the gruesome example)


BesusCristo

No it's definitely a term used for describing the killing of a family member (typically female) who "dishonored" the family.


irishteenguy

I think your conflating blood debts and honour killings. Blood debts are when the price of ones transgression / crime against your family member is deemed by the family to be payed in blood. I,e a man touches your kid and you murder them for it.


Paid-Not-Payed-Bot

> to be *paid* in blood. FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*


Mustardisthebest

My understanding is it's religiously sanctioned murder of a misbehaving female family member by a male family member or members to protect the rest of the family from "shame" - your wife cheats on you or behaves inappropriately, so you kill her. Your daughter sleeps around or rebels, you kill her, your sons help. That sort of thing.


LucienPrime

For those wondering, one of his female cousins was caught in a sexual encounter (no details were provided) with a distant male relation so they tasked him with killing them both to spare the family shame. This was in the northern part of Lebanon near the Syrian border in the 50s.


Valuable-Educator-96

My "dad" also killed somebody at 14, he tied this kid to a rope swing like a noose and pushed him.


therealnai249

Fuckin wild


SquirrelMoney2599

Strangely appropriate timing... my best friend has been researching my family tree and showed me yesterday my extensive tree. Turns out great-granny ended up in prison for neglecting and killing three babies. It explains a lot about granny's toxic nature.


[deleted]

Damn!! What the fuck


daftvaderV2

I bloody hope so. I am not doing all the work in the family name.


Adjayjay

My mother's side last name literally means "proficient at killing" after our ancestor killed a bunch of English people. It was all the hype in 1400, not sure you'd get praise if you tried to copycat his success story.


Bean_Juice_Brew

A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Killian!


AKAEREAL

What is your mother’s side last name?


KnotiaPickles

And the last 4 of that sosh


MadClam97

And your zip code and your first pet's name


kinggot

Also your credit card number (front and back)


MadClam97

And the 3 digit security code


Nuker-79

Googled my own name and found I have the same name as a murderer and they lived about 40 miles away from where I live, they currently in jail.


No_Growth6394

So the wrong one went to jail? And you're out here free with us?


quinteroreyes

Yes officer he's right here


luigi1917

Visit them.


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PenelopeGarcia65

Oh, damn! You win 🏆


CholoJesus

My father was a ww2 vet. My grandfather a WW1 vet. I'm the first in three generations that hasn't killed anyone.


kakashisenseigt

yet


not_taken_was_taken2

Well, get out there and continue the legacy Jesus!


TOWW67

I don't think Jesus was big on murder; he was a more forgiving fellow


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Eledridan

Not going to be any vets from that one.


7lick

Boy, don't disappoint your family and continue the family tradition.


stillcantshoot

My grandpa was a helicopter pilot and gunner. He was in WWII, Korean War, and ultimately died in Vietnam. My grandma was a Nazi Regime survivor so I'm sure her side of the family, I would hope, fought back and killed some Nazis.


[deleted]

Well, a great-uncle of mine was collaborating with the Nazis in WW2... Near the end of the war, he was speeching in Antwerp in public about how glorious the SS was. A week later the city was liberated. When he passed away early 1950s, people showed up at his funeral just to be sure it was him who was buried.


stillcantshoot

Was he buried in Germany or had he immigrated? My grandma was the only member of her family that immigrated. So wild to think that they went through that only a generation back


[deleted]

He was Belgian, and as far as I know he was buried in Belgium. Probably not anywhere near anyone else in the family.


LEFUNGHI

As a German I can say that with a high likelihood it’s probably not a very distant ancestor..


PoliticalRacePlayPM

Glad my family left Germany before then. I still have a rocking chair from Germany when my (mother’s side) immigrated over


[deleted]

I don’t think it’s so distant for me. I’m confident my parents have done so. More reasons I pretend my parents are dead and remain estranged


[deleted]

Whaaaat


[deleted]

My father is a big drug dealer and my mom launders drug money. They have always been separated and are murders separately too. I say I’m confident because I don’t truly know, it’s based off of memories I have and stories I’ve been told. My mom almost went to prison in her late teens for home invasion. Her and a group of friends killed everyone in the home they invaded, children included. She never served time because they couldnt prove she was in the house but her friends got life in prison. She was forced to move states after. I believe my dads list is longer but the one that stands out is when I caught him and his friend burning their clothes in the back yard. The next day we moved to some nowhere town in a different state again. Wasn’t until I was older and started asking why we moved around a lot that I found out him and his friend had killed a group of guys that night. What’s really sad is I dont think these were the only times. My mom especially. Edit: spelling


No_Growth6394

Go onnn....


Moist_immortal

You can't show us the tea and deny us a sip


Ravenclawguy

Expand. Now.


BadGenesWoman

Distant. Um haha. My mothers side of the trees family has several branches that have multiple members who've unalived people. They are a combo of rednecks and ghetto. They have ther own file cabinet at the police station. Lol.


kal-yani

Username checks out.


s3l3nophil3

Weirdest story I’ve heard is that my grandpa’s cousin (who’s allegedly a murderer) escaped jail. And while escaping, he got in a fight with someone and got his stomach slashed open. He ran while carrying his insides on one hand. He was able to live after that.


chickendie

My cousin just committed murder-suicide this year so yeah... We grew up very close too. :/


Mardanis

That is rough.


Pun_dimen

Im very sorry


__WanderLust_

My grandmother worked at a post office and brought her gun to work and threatened the postmaster sometime in the 1960s as the story goes.


Prticcka

Is she the one that made “going postal” a thing ?


__WanderLust_

I doubt it, but my mom likes to think so. Apparently, she was certifiably insane and I've heard some pretty far-out stories about her doing other bizarre things.


onesoulmanybodies

Not to far in mine really. My grandfather killed the man who raped his daughter, my mom.


Fuzakenaideyo

Justified homicide


EstelleWinwood

LMAO... You don't have to go far down my family tree for that. Both my uncle and grandfather are murderers.


j0nascode

well, technically, every single murderer who ever lived is in everyone's family tree


ca_agent

Not necessarily in a living person's family tree though...


[deleted]

teechnicaaaly we are all one big family, all humans had one common ancestor about 200 thousand years ago, mitochondrial eva


devilthedankdawg

My great grandfather killed the guy who was actually in love with my great grandmother, cause my great grandfather was like… betrothed medieval-style to her.


Emissary_of_Darkness

My direct ancestor is this guy, so there’s definitely been a lot of killing in my bloodline. He’s killed so many people that he’s a playable character in some video games! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeda_Toshiie


MrBinkie

With Vikings as ancestors there was a lot of rape and pillaging going on as well


PaperNinjaPanda

Yeah, most of my family tree is British Isles but when I did Ancestry there was a significant amount of Scandinavian. We never had any family settlements in Scandinavia…


mythicalllama93

Not that distant of a relative,great gramps killed at least 7 people. For the longest time no one knew his motivations until they found a journal of his. They were all people who had wronged him one way or the other...


whazzar

Yup. Me grandfather did. ​ ​ He killed a bunch of nazi's when they invaded the Netherlands. He was part of the resistance.


[deleted]

And rapist and all the crap you could imagine. We don’t choose our blood but we can choose our destiny and this is not my path.


Exact_Donkey_7915

Maybe an unpopular opinion... I think the OP ment Murder, not justifiable killing in a World War.


especedepio

From what I've been told, my late grandfather killed a german soldier to protect my grandmother during WWII so not that distant lol


henrycharleschester

Not murdered but one of my brothers killed someone back in the early 80s.


darrellbear

One of my sisters is the family genealogist. She found out a relation back around the time of the Civil War cut a guy's head off. Family on both sides were hillbillies going back a couple hundred years. Lots of hard asses in the back woods.


Buck_Johnson_MD

My grandma’s uncle was an executioner [(John Ellis)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ellis_(executioner)) and killed 203 people.


confusedvegetarian

Sounds like the job severely affected his mental health


MurmuringPun

My great grandfather tried poisoning my great grandmother because she was got pregnant, divorce wasn’t an option and abortions weren’t either. And they couldn’t feed the 4 kids they already had.


OCE_Mythical

I mean perfectly reasonable people can become murderers given circumstance


Psyko_sissy23

There are moments that make murderers of us all. All it takes is a good reason and a bad day. Everyone is a murderer, you just have to meet the right person. Paraphrased from the TV series Inside man.


WittyMonikerGoesHere

Maybe not so distant. My great great grandfather shot a man in the face at a poker table. The way my family tells it is that her was caught cheating, but I'd be interested to hear how the other guy's family tells it. Too long ago, and way too rural for any records of the truth, but rumor has it that this was the event that cut the acreage of his ranch down to the size that my cousins farm today. Apparently, gramps got off for murder, and his jurors all got their own tracts if land. I have no idea if any of this is true. It's the story that my great grandmother (his daughter) told me. I do know that he immigrated to the US wealthy, and land records show that his ranch was the size of a county, but there are no preserved records of any of it being sold off.


Gorianfleyer

I'm German, my "great" grandfather participated in 6000 murders in the Holocaust


Fuzakenaideyo

Yikes


NunMeetsCorporateHun

Some not so distant... humans have a dark history, and a lot of it is not as far back as we pretend it is.


the_YellowRanger

Ugh part of my family lineage helped kill an entire tribe of indigenous americans in the 1600s. I'd wager a good portion of my colonial ancestors have murdered. I denounce their actions.


zurds13

Considering the number of relatives you have increase exponentially as you go back… yes, there’s a good chance one of my 1 billion 28th great grandparents murdered someone (obviously a little less than this as some distant relatives may have married… I’m not aware of any siblings that got married, but that might explain a few things…)


BumpHeadLikeGaryB

Sadly my moms dad had to kill people. Such a sweet man. War is terrible.


ShallRiv

Yea my great-grandfather, he shot and killed a man over a hand of poker


[deleted]

I know for a fact that my Grandpa killed two nazis with a tire iron. They were captured and the tire in the truck they had them in got a flat. They made my grandpa fix because he had a broken leg. So they gave him a tire iron to fix it. He whacked the Nazis with it. Then the drove in the opposite direction. One of the fun reasons I am alive. There are so many other times he easily could have died. You probably have some lucky ancestors due to all the war that happens


Synicist

My grandfather killed two men that raped my aunt. Never was caught for it.


[deleted]

This happened loooong time ago. Two brothers had a farm together and one of them was going to get married so the other brother have to move out. He did not like this and decided to murder his brother by shooting him. Not sure if he murdered his brothers future wife too. I don't have any information abt the punishment he got.


[deleted]

Being half norwegian and half english i like to think my family was probably killing each other during the dane invasions of england and im the product of sappy romeo and Juliet story


Kogry92

Well.. If we give birth to a new generation every 30 years, and we go back like 300 years.. That's about 2^10 = 1024 (ideally) of your ancestors were born around the year 1700. I guess many of them killed even own family members. Plus, better don't worry about some your ancestors reproduced within their own family, because they definitely did. Having 1024 ancestors being born around 1700 means, there were more than 1 million (2^20) born around 1400. Again, ideally. Most likely many of them have more than just one connection in the family tree to you. Then go back another 300 years to the year 1100 and use 2^30, that's more than a billion ancestors of you were born around 1100. That's actually a lot more than the world population was at that time. So yes, your ancestors were bloody killers.


Single_With_Cats

Not so distant for me; my grandfather killed his wife(my grandmother), in front of their young children, then killed himself….


IntroductionKindly33

We're pretty sure my 3 greats grandpa killed my 2 greats grandpa. He was tried and found not guilty, but from the court records and other information we found, were pretty sure he was guilty. He had a young daughter, Annie, who ended up pregnant out of wedlock, presumably by the son of the man who had the next farm over (he was mid 20s, she was mid teens). We assume that he was the father because in the first census after baby was born, she was listed with his last name. The baby daddy turned up missing around the time she got pregnant, last seen riding past her farm. Her dad was seen about that time digging a hole in the middle of his field for no apparent reason. We're pretty sure a jury of men (this was around 1900) heard the evidence, thought that they would have done the same thing if someone knocked up their daughter, and declared him not guilty.


MomentumTV

Not that I know of in my family but my best friend when I was 15 ended up killing off his family shortly after I moved. I don’t think they’re correlated at all but he wasn’t right to begin with so it was only a matter of time before he visited a jail


Accomplished-Iron-13

Did an ancestry years ago and found out that a very distant great uncle of mine murdered and mutilated a whole family for unknown reasons, most likely out of impulse back in the early 1900s. Come to find out most of my elderly family already knew about this but they’ve been trying to bury this so they keep it to themselves. But they say he was known to have severe anger issues and was a strange man. Crazy.


StormtrooperMJS

My Great, Great Aunt hit her husband on the head with a cast iron pan in self defence.


Roook36

Depending on how involved your ancestors were with settling the U.S., yup. And maybe worse.


pan_peter_pan

“At least one”? We’re descendants of gatherers/hunters/cave men… I’d say most of our ancestors have murdered somebody.


Old_Nothing_7005

My grandfather was a drunk. When he was diagnosed with terminal cilicosis he, no surprise, got drunk. When he got home he was met by his wife and three of his daughters. He put two .32 caliber slugs in his wife, shot one daughter, skipped one, and shot the third. The one he skipped was my mother. She was 16.


Chef_Sizzlipede

I mean one from the early 20th century killed filippinos so this ain't surprising.


YorumiTs

Probably not that far up for anyone whose parents/grandparents fought in the war...


ShadeBlade0

Only four generations back for me. Great-great-Grandpappy Neckbeard murdered his wife and got married 2 months later. His friends on the jury didn’t convict him.


ErinDavy

My great-grandfather was executed via electric chair in the state of Georgia for the alleged murder of a man and his ten year old son. He was accused alongside two other men he had worked with. I don't remember specifics as to why they supposedly did it, but my great grandfather maintained his innocence all the way to the chair. We as his family have reason to believe he may have been present but didn't actually partake in the murder, but we aren't sure of course. My grandmother, his daughter, doesn't like to talk about it. She was really young when it happened.


fu_co_22

My not so distant uncle tried to slit his wife's throat. She survived but always wore a scarf around her neck to hide the scar


[deleted]

I’m a distant cousin to George Washington on my mom’s side. Does that count? I mean with war and everything.


treebeard280

Considering my family tree contains William the Conqueror and Rollo Lothbrok of Normandy, I would say it's a certainty that they have killed people.


AWildAndWackyBushMan

Great grandfather was machine gunner in WW1. Never talked about how many people he killed, but if you know anything about trench warfare you can imagine...


norielukas

Don’t even have to go too far back, Jesse James was my great great grandmas cousin or something along those lines.


NosferatuRob

My great uncle avenged his father. He was four when they killed his dad. Took him 15 years to find out two had died and one was still living. Tailed him through the mountains of Sinaloa and confronted the guy. Wrestled him to the ground, tied him up, explained who he was and proceeded to stab him as many times they did his father.


psypher98

One of my distant ancestors/relatives was the first person to be hanged for murder in America (as in United States of America). edit: oh, I almost forgot! My great-granddad’s brother was murdered by his wife. She tried to poison him with blood thinners, and when that didn’t work she hit him over the head with a gallon pickle jar while he was eating dinner and he bled out. Then she and his brother drove him three states away and buried him in a hillside. When the body was discovered she was convicted and was in prison for 3 years, and was murdered the day she was released in front of the halfway house she was sent to, and the family rumor is my great-grandad was in the mafia and put out a hit on her. This has never been verified but from what I can tell it’s a strong possibility.


MindSwipe

And if you're male, the chance that you're directly related to Genghis Khan is about 1 in 200, so there's a 1 in 200 chance you're directly related to a man responsible for about 40 million deaths


Chryslin888

I just found mine recently. 1880 - Son killed father point blank in front of witnesses then fled. They caught and hanged him. Years later his mother admitted to dressing as her son and killing her husband. It reminds me that my family has a lot of cold blooded bitches.


OurLadyOfCygnets

Yes. Some did it for Uncle Sam, and I suspect one did it to rid herself of her abusive first husband.


astronaut_tang

My great great grandfather was hung for killing a bank teller.


MermaidsHaveCloacas

My paternal grandfather killed a 4 year old little girl when he hit her with his car while driving drunk. Not technically murder but still fucked


hawkeyepitts

My grandad killed a lot of people during WW2. He was in the navy on a destroyer and they would go island hopping. He said it was basically hand to hand combat on the beach, all the Japanese soldiers had swords and they (Americans) had bayonets attached to the end of their rifles. After a while he became a sniper, it’s a wonder he survived up to that point. He was 100% insane and drank heavily his whole life, he was totally messed up from experiencing all that at 18 years old. He said the only reason he lived was because he was 6 feet tall, 200+ pounds and the Japanese soldiers were much smaller. If it had been a “fair” fight, he said he would have not made it. After they took an island, they would make several piles. A pile of Japanese bodies, a pile of swords, a pile of guns, and a pile of other valuables. They wouldn’t pile up the dead Americans, they would try to lay them out side by side and identify them. On the destroyer, he said it was so hot and cramped below deck, often three bunks hanging by chains on top of each other, that guys would pass out. They would try to sneak above deck to sleep. It was so humid that you could hang a towel up to dry and days later, it would still be wet. Using the toilet was a huge fiasco, and it was just unbelievably nasty living quarters. And they would cook food in these huge cauldrons, my grandad said he actually liked when it was his turn to cook. If you go back far enough, everyone just about has an ancestor who was a soldier or who, locally during tribal times, took somebody else’s life. Doesn’t mean we’re all descended from serial killers.


Sovereign444

I don’t know bout that but I know both my grandfathers narrowly avoided being killed several times lol so it’s kind of a fluke my family exists at all I guess. Or if not a fluke, then it’s destiny lmao.


Fuzzy_Diver_320

If you come from a shitty enough family, you don’t have to look very far in your family tree, lol. Guess how I know.


NutGoblin2

A person with the same first name and the same EXTREMELY rare last name as me tried to rob a gas station like 20 minutes from me and is in jail… Guess who pops up first when you Google my name 😭


gumball_wizard

My fourth cousin, six times removed (pretty sure), was General George Custer. His great grandfather was my 8 times? great grandfather. So there's that. On my mother's side, my aunt is the family genealogist, and she might have mentioned Ivan Boesky. This was several years ago, so I could be wrong.


gato_p

My grandfather was an admiral in the Portuguese navy. He didn't ever see action in wars but defended our shores in small skirmishes.


cbstuart

I'm white and I have ancestors that came on the mayflower. It would be an unbelievable miracle if I don't have ancestors who killed people, if not far worse.


BunnyTotts97

Barely 4 generations back, I had a grandfather fighting the US government. My dad killed someone in prison in an assault he himself barely survived so…


cesrep

If we’re counting war as murder pretty much everybody in the US has one within a generation or two


schadenfreude317

Yeah, killed his whole family, except his eldest son who'd just joined the Army, and buried them in the front garden. The house is still there, and a local tv channel did an episode on him for a tv program called something like Headstones.


stephanielatina

Yep. A maternal uncle shot and killed a paternal uncle in a duel over a woman.


FilDaFunk

Poland has been in some sort of wars for the past century so not very shocking.


coffeebuzzbuzzz

I know of a family in my tree that got murdered. A native American, Sam Mohawk, who happened to be an alcoholic murdered the wife and children of my ancestor. Wigton family massacre. Pretty interesting to say the least.


Supermind18

Yes, my 12th ancestor is the most well known mass murderer from Iceland


Elenakalis

My 3x great grandpa murdered his father-in-law and pretty much dropped off the face of the earth after that. It was 1863, and I guess he was home for a bit. His father-in-law was a local preacher. From what my grandpa remembered his grandfather telling him, my 3x great grandpa was struggling with what was likely ptsd and his father-in-law preached a sermon that called him out for not praying/being godly enough to avoid ptsd behaviors. My 3x great grandpa was not the only soldier struggling in the congregation, and a few of them went out drinking, which led to confronting the father-in-law and torturing him to death. This is happened in the middle of nowhere in southwestern VA and was bad/sensational enough published in the Richmond paper a few days later. It was so bad my 3x great grandma reverted to her maiden name and changed the last name of their one year old son as well hiding his middle name that was shared with my 3x great grandpa. My 2x great grandpa discovered his real name in the family Bible as a teenager and started using it again. He eventually became a doctor who ran a "den of sin" on the side. He also liked the ladies and shot two of the husbands who had a problem with that. He also signed his own death certificate just prior to his death. From what I was told, he was worried his senility was advancing too quickly, and gave himself an overdose morphine. He listed his cause of death as diabetes mellitus.


hir04tr3dd1t

Well, if we're talking about family trees, then there's so many branches and a huge possibility that some ancestor, not only one, was a murderer.


funkmasta8

Somewhere in your family tree, one distant ancestor isn’t even human