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Category: Culture

Your Neighbor May Be an Axe Murderer

Aug 08

6:01 PM

Do you wanna know who lives next door to you? Maybe you're sleeping with the enemy and don't know it? I watch too much Dateline and 48 Hours so I'm kind of paranoid about that. Well, now you can conduct criminal background checks on your boyfriend, your daughter's prom date, or your son's baby-momma for free online at criminalsearches.com/

I wanted to try it, so I started thinking about all the criminals I knew. I thought, thought, and thought some more and came up empty until *ding* a light bulb went off: there was this pretty boy from our neighborhood growing up-- he was messed up. And of course I ended up dating him. Briefly. >ahem< Anyway, he was doing drugs and stuff in high school after his father died and ended up in juvie a couple of times. After graduation, he moved to California where I heard he was in and out of jail. A year ago, I ran into his best friend growing up who said he was just finishing up a sentence in James City County. So I plugged his name and year of birth into the database and checked both California and Virginia. I found one conviction in California but it didn't specify the crime, and nothing in Virginia. So maybe the site's not that reliable after all? Try it for yourself and see!

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So it's true...

Submitted by Maria on Thu, 08/07/2008 at 6:52 pm.

that the site sucks! According to the NY Times article I read about the site, "normal" people were upset because they were coming up on the site for having had traffic violations. So Charles Manson comes up "clean" and regular Joes come up as criminals... Hmmm... maybe my friend was right when she sent me the article with the note to "Be scared. Be very scared..."

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Not completely accurate?

Submitted by eeyore1978 on Thu, 08/07/2008 at 11:37 am.

I wonder how extensive this database is... I punched in the only guy I could think of... I went to elementary, junior & high school with him. He used to come to class messed up in the 10th grade... then after that I never saw him again. Then a few years later he was a waiter at Ruby Tuesday, looked completely different and seemed like he was getting it together. Then a few years later I saw his picture in the Beacon because he was one of Virginia Beach's Most Wanted!!! I typed in his name and nothing came up though... HMM!!!

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criminalsearches.com relialibility

Submitted by contractorva on Thu, 08/07/2008 at 7:50 am.

I entered the name Charles Manson. There were 34 hits, & I've never even heard of any of them. The Charles Manson I was trying to find was not even listed!

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