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  He said very distant cousin. So they could be one of hundreds of people.
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  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? >
  
  Holy fuck dude. At least they had kids first 😯 >
  
  As opposed to having kids after? >
  
  Now I'm laughing in the bus, people are looking, I should just show them your comment >
  
  I'm hoping you showed them the comment >
  
  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.) >
  
  Almost enough to dox yourself.  Here's hoping your history is clean.