rSlash - r/RBI Is My Dad a Murderer?

Episode Date: May 24, 2025

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Investigation is that Reddit helps people investigate weird problems or mysteries in their lives. Our next Reddit post is from Dad Might Not Be a Murderer. In September 2015, my dad's girlfriend, Sherry, started an affair with one of his friends, Billy. Billy and my dad had been friends since high school, and I knew him well. He was nerdy and kind of weird, but he was nice enough. My dad, not surprisingly, was pretty upset about the affair, but he and Sherry were already having relationship issues, and I think that he was happy to find a reason to leave her

officially. I know that he had a to find a reason to leave her officially. I know that he had a few relatively cordial run-ins with Sherry and Billy as they all lived in the same town, but he had mostly cut them off entirely. During this time, Sherry moved to a new house only a few streets from my dad. By Thanksgiving of 2015, my dad was roughing it a little. I think he was still kind of bummed about the affair, but he had recently been in a car accident resulting in him losing his job due to a back injury. So additionally, he was having some money issues pending a lawsuit settlement that he was waiting on.

By December, he was back on the mend and in pretty good spirits. We were very close and spent a lot of time together hanging out or going to bars and concerts. At the beginning of December at 8am, my dad called me at work. We only spoke for about 10 minutes, but he was in a great mood. We had some laughs and made plans to hang out for the weekend. He mentioned very briefly that Sherry had called him about an hour earlier, but he ignored the call. I barely even remember him saying it. I got home from work that night and my phone rang.

It was a family friend calling to tell me that my dad was dead but she didn't have any other details. I was totally shocked. I had no idea what was going on and I was in instant denial because we just made plans. I had a million things running through my head. Car accident, heart attack, etc. A few moments later, my dad's two brothers and my grandmother knock on my door. It was true, my dad was dead. However,

the biggest shock was that Sherry was also dead. A murder-suicide. I could hardly believe what I was hearing. To add insult to injury, Billy was the one who found their bodies at Sherry's house and was currently being interviewed by police. I took a call from one of the investigators on the scene. He mentioned that it was a cut and dry case. Two adults deceased, each with a gunshot wound to the head. My dad was still clutching the gun. My dad was a hunter, so I was curious about the murder weapon.

To my surprise, it was a small gauge handgun. But it wasn't my dad, it was Sherry's. Odd, but okay. During this call, and I will never understand why the officer found these details necessary, he told me that my dad and Sherry had consensual intercourse prior to their death. He also told me that there was a gap in time between the deaths, that likely my dad had killed Sherry, had instant regret, Pace considered his options and ultimately decided to also kill himself. As I'm listening to this, I just cannot wrap my

mind around any of it because it was just so out of character for my dad. And not in a, I don't believe my dad could do something like this kind of way, like a real sincere confusion. First off, he wasn't even that depressed about the affair. They had already been split up for three months at this point and he was seemingly pretty happy in the wake of it all. Second, as I mentioned before, Sherry was living in a new house. My dad didn't know this house at all, so why or how would he have ended up with her gun in her house?

He had his own guns! Thirdly, I knew that she had called him that morning and he ignored her call. It doesn't feel like someone desperate to kill another person would pass up on an opportunity for an interaction with that person. None of it made sense. But I had to come to terms with the information I was giving and trust the police department knew exactly what they were doing. Not to mention, I had a funeral to plan and some deep grieving to do. A few days later, I made the trip over to my dad's house to collect his belongings and settle his affairs. His house was shockingly

fully on, like lights on, TV on, cat not fed, morning coffee and weed still on the coffee table, back door unlocked, etc. It was like he raced out the door really quick with full intentions on being right back. This was not the home of someone who left with the intention of never returning. I know that mental illness can and will do strange things to people, but if nothing else, he would have never let his cat go hungry. Yet another red flag in my mind. But I continued forth. Eventually I was given some of his belongings from the scene of the crime by police, and

my boyfriend decided to go through his phone to see if there were any signs of what might have occurred. We found that after I spoke with him, he did end up answering a call from Sherry, which was around 11 seconds long. But we also found a slew of really weird text messages. None of the texts appeared to have been from my dad because 1. He had terrible grammar and 2. He didn't even know how to text. I never received a text from Dad my entire life.

He had a flip phone with T9 in 2015, for God's sake. For those who don't know what a T9 phone is, that's those phones with actual physical buttons. And if you want to type out the letter B, you have to click one twice because one was ABC. So many people reached out to me saying that this doesn't feel right and I agreed. I didn't feel like any of it felt right, but I had nothing of any real substance other than gut instinct to guide me, which isn't enough when dealing with

police or investigators. At one point, I literally had to ask people to just stop telling me that they thought that this was somehow a set up because I couldn't do anything about it and I was starting to lose sleep over it. I was scared to death of turning into one of these people who obsess over something out of sheer denial. No one was going to take my plight seriously and I already knew that I would be overlooked and disregarded.

So for the last five years, I've done nothing but stress and silence. Until now. This past Friday, I took a call from someone very close to my dad's friend group urging me to push harder into reopening my dad's case. Recently it's come to light that Billie is apparently a master con artist and a fraud. I guess Sherry is one of three girlfriends that Billie has found dead since 2010. So, this is where I need your help, Reddit. Here's the information I was given. At some point prior to my dad and Sherry's death,

Billie was dating a woman who had recently come into money. Shortly after, this woman was found dead at the bottom of her stairs. Around the time that Billy started his affair with Sherry, she had recently inherited between $500,000 to $800,000 from her father passing away. Billy's current girlfriend has had organ failure since last year. She recently inherited a large sum of money and Billy found her dead last Tuesday. Now I know that she was already sick, but the rumor is that she pleaded for medical help for days and I guess he just basically let her suffer. I also found out that Billy took photos of my dad and Sherry's bodies before he bothered to call the police. WHY? He later showed these photos to his young daughter.

DOUBLE WHY! He's also told the story of how he found their bodies numerous times to the same person. Yet, the story has been told in three different ways. Did he take the photos as some sick trophy or did he take the photos to be able to maintain his narrative? Upon learning this information, I kept thinking, but why would he have to kill my dad in order to steal Sherry's money? And then it finally dawned on me today that it was so that my dad could be the scapegoat.

He had to use my dad to portray a crime of passion scene so that he could pretend to be a victim in the whole thing. Even though he was interviewed by police, it was just an interview, not an interrogation. The investigator said that it was a cut and dry scene. They would have had no motive to interrogate him because, as far as they could tell, the murderer was already dead. However, I do know that there was about one hour in Billy's timeline that was unaccounted for. Billy has a very high IQ. I don't think that he would have been strong enough to fight my dad in hand-to-hand combat, but I very much believe that he could have easily outsmarted him. My current conspiracy theory is that Billy went to Sherry's

house that morning before work, had consensual intercourse with her, killed her, then used her phone to call my dad, which was the 7am call. My dad didn't answer the call and Billy went to work to maintain his story. I think Billy then used his lunch break, the unaccounted 4 hour and also the almost identical time of my dad's death to go back to Sherry's house where he used her phone to call my dad again. This is the 11 second call that my dad did answer which caused him to race over to Sherry's house leaving his house in the state that I found it in two days later. I think that he tricked my dad into coming to Sherry's where he would be caught off

guard and out of his element for an attack. I also think that this could be where the gap in their deaths could be. Then I think Billy went back to work for the rest of the day and then found my dad and Sherry, where he took the photos and then called the police. Here's my problem. I have no idea what to do. I don't know how to reopen a closed case. I don't have any direction on who to speak to. I've tried the police department who handled my case, the local FBI and the state's attorney general, And no one can even tell me who could help me with all this. Do I need a private investigator?

Do I need an attorney? Is this worth looking into at all? I would love to clear my dad's name and take this terrible weight off my family's shoulder once and for all. I'm also fully prepared to accept that I could be wrong, but now I have to know. Any help would be appreciated." Also, OP clarifies in an edit, some people have asked how Billy would have been able to financially gain from any of these women considering he wasn't married to any of them.

I don't know any intimate details of the woman who was found at the bottom of the stairs, other than she had recently come into money and that he was the one who found her. I don't know her name or how he would have benefited from her monetarily dead or alive. However, even though there's no confirmation of whether he did or didn't gain from her, she's still one of three women he's found dead. In regards to Sherry, she was never married and never had children, so there was no one to account for her finances other than her. She was also a little flighty and I can see him being able to easily manipulate

her or just flat out steal from her openly without her noticing right away. In regards to the most recent dead girlfriend, there's actual proof that he stole at least 10k from her leading up to her death. Then OP posted an update, I have filed for the Freedom of Information Act regarding all documents that I'm able to obtain, and I've also reached out via email personally to the chief and deputy chief of the police department who handled the case. Then OP posted an update, There's not really much to it, except to say that she did file the FOIA request, and

she also did reach out to the cops who want to talk to her. Then OP posted another update. I reached out to Billy's ex-wife about a month ago. She was very receptive to speaking with me, but she also still has a daughter in high school that she's trying to protect, so our exchanges are rare and often at odd times. On Wednesday night, she called me 30 minutes after midnight and we spoke for about 2 hours. She helped clear up a lot of questions, but as these things do, it created more questions, unfortunately. Billie's wife, Linda, is currently battling a second round of cancer and she's very, very sick. I think she's facing some feelings of mortality and wants to get some things

off of her chest. She's on oxygen and her timeline was a bit off, but I made sure to take notes throughout our whole conversation as to piece together what I could later on. First, she confessed an unknown, completely out of left field thing to me. She claimed to be in love with my dad. What? Anyway, she went on and on about how she always thought that he was so handsome and so fun and such a man's man. It was honestly shocking and I have to say that this being the very first thing she decided to open up about was both a little frustrating and off-putting. Linda's a lovely

lady and I've known her since I was a kid, but I was not at all prepared for her to tell me that she had deep feelings for my dad. The first thing racing through my mind is Billy. Of course she was in love with my dad. This is probably why Billy ran off to bang my dad's girlfriend after his divorce. Linda claims that Billy was totally unaware of her feelings for my dad, but I'm not completely convinced of this yet. Linda proceeded to give me the timeline of events from her perspective.

She started with her divorce from Billy. Linda claimed that she and Billy's marriage was on the rocks, circa 2010 to 2012. She said they decided to take a family trip to Gatlinburg to try to repair their relationship. Their daughters were two and six at the time. Linda said as she was driving through the mountains, she and Billy began arguing about her making a wrong turn. Billy then placed his foot on her foot on the gas pedal and pressed it to the floor. She was desperately trying to keep the vehicle from going off the side of a cliff, and she's pressing both the foot brake and the emergency brake. Finally, the car slows down. Their six-year-old leaps from the car, Linda grabs their two-year-old,

and Billy proceeds to beat the living hell out of her on the side of a mountain with a toddler on her hip. She said that a truck pulled up, pulled Billy off of her, called the cops, and he spent the night in jail. They went home, and she went forward with divorce filings. A few years later, at the time of the affair slash murder slash suicide regarding my dad and Sherry, Linda recounted the way that she knew the story to be true. She claims that this particular Friday was Billy's night to pick their daughter up from daycare. She states that Billy's story is that he went to Sherry's house, found she and my dad dead, left in fear, and then immediately returned to call the police. Once the police were on the scene, Billy asked if he could leave to pick up his daughter and the police agreed.

This is strange to me. It feels like not only is it weird that the police allowed this, but even weirder that Billy didn't just pick up the phone and ask literally anyone else in the world to go pick his daughter up. At this point, Billy picks up his 8-year-old daughter from daycare and proceeds to tell her, in graphic detail, how he had just found Uncle Shane. Linda said that Billy and their daughter entered her home. Their daughter was in complete hysterics, and Billy was ranting and raving about how he didn't have anything to do with it. Linda believed the way that Billy was acting was very unusual for someone who just supposedly happened upon two bodies. Next, there was some clarity about that one girlfriend that Billy found dead at the bottom of the stairs. I literally just heard this story

for the first time back in April when I made the original post. I still don't know the date of the incident or the woman's name, but I do know for a fact that about a year after Billy found my dad and Sherry, his then-girlfriend was found dead at the bottom of his stairs. Initially, I was under the impression that he had found her at her house, much like he did with Sherry, but the news that this happened at his house was just mind-blowing, especially considering that he and Sherry lived on the same street. Basically, the same man has now found three dead bodies all on the same block within a year of each other.

He was able to explain this death away by claiming that she was a sloppy drunk. The investigative journalist I contacted is continuing to look more into this for me as I've researched this in every way I know how via Google, and I just can't find a thing about it, but I've heard this story confirmed by three separate individuals. After this incident, Linda said that she just could not shake the sensation that something was wrong. So, she drove down the street to the police department to plead her case. The lead investigator on my dad's case is now the deputy chief of the department.

Linda spoke directly to this man, who she said could not have been more disinterested in what she was saying to him. She said that he didn't necessarily act like he was against the idea of Billy doing any of this, but more along the lines of just not wanting to do anything about it. To admit that Billy is guilty of any of this would bring light to the shortcomings of his investigation in both my dad's case as well as the situation with the woman at the bottom of the stairs. Linda said that he was very quick to brush her off and send her packing, and she was very frustrated by this. This is important for everyone familiar with this story because I actually reached out to this same officer back in April.

And finally, I got the chance to hear directly from the horse's mouth about the most recent death in March of this year, which was Billy's ex-mother-in-law, Linda's own mother. Linda told me that when she found out Billy and her mom had started a relationship 9 years after their divorce, she was blown away. Wait, what? Hold on, Billy slept with Linda and then Linda's mom? No way! In fact, Linda's youngest daughter, 14, mentioned, Grandma would be the next one dead. Mind you, this woman was also a severe alcoholic and was very sick. I don't know that she was necessarily near death, but it was assumed that Billy withheld medication from her leading to her early demise. She was Jesus, 75 pounds the day she died. Billy and Linda got into quite the public argument a few days after the mother-in-law's

death where Billy apparently exclaimed, I let the B-word die and everything she has is mine. Linda and Billy haven't spoken since this day in early April. This is about where the conversation ended. I thanked Linda for giving me all this information and I let her know how much I appreciated the time she took to help me. I also explained to her something that I wanted her to know which is that if I'm wrong, my life doesn't change. My life isn't altered in any way because I've already spent the last five and a half

years of the world thinking that my dad is a murderous psychopath. If I'm wrong about all this, my life is the same. However, if I'm right, her world and the world of her two daughters could come crashing down around them. I told her that I've honestly dragged my feet on so much of this, because the last thing I wanted to do is make another family endure the same, probably worse, pain that me and my family have since 2015. I don't wish this on anyone, but we all deserve the truth no matter what that truth might be. I'm prepared to be wrong, but are they prepared for me

to be right? She appreciated my concerns, but she more or less gave me her blessings and told me that she would like me to see this through to its entirety, and for that, I'm eternally grateful. Then Opie posts another update, which is fairly dry to start off with. She just says that she's working with an investigative journalist and she's struggling to get the documents from her FOIA request. Then she says, Lastly, Billy has completely disappeared. He hasn't paid child support on his youngest daughter since 2020 and no one has seen or heard from him at all. This includes him being absent from his eldest daughter's wedding last year. I can't decide if this is going to help or hurt me. In a way, I feel like it just

further proves his guilt and shame. But I also feel like if he's gone for good, I'm at a dead end. I have no bad guy to point a finger at and no police department records to use against him. I have nothing at all. Then, OP posted another update. And this is the last update just to give you guys a heads up. So, back in April, about two weeks before my father-in-law passed, my mom and I went with the deputy chief, the lead investigator at the time of my dad's case. He was surprisingly very receptive, kind, and understanding. A few things that happened in this two-hour meeting that were both shocking and frustrating. He sat down with my mom and I, heard our plight, and then continued forward on his stance that,

to him, his team and their evidence, he still feels strongly that the correct judgment was made on the case. He said he understood where my head was at and definitely accepted some of my concerns surrounding Billy and the deaths of the other girlfriends. He happened to also be on the scene for the woman who fell at the bottom of the stairs and also cleared up some confusion about that for us. Of course, he said that he specifically remembered Billy from my dad's case only a few years earlier but said that Billy was not as receptive or helpful in the case of girlfriend number

2. However, he said that the details I was given about girlfriend number 2 were not exactly correct. Yes, there was a second dead girlfriend around 2017, but he recalled a scenario where she drunkenly fell midday off her porch as a result of some sort of an aneurysm type scenario. He said that this was universally agreed on by many on the scene, given the fact that her body was just absolutely covered in multiple unidentified party bruises, both old and new.

Those who were familiar with her attested to both her drinking problem as well as her constant injuries. And from their account, this was an accidental death caused by the woman herself. Although the deputy chief did say that he found it extremely odd that Billy was so standoffish. He said that Billy was up front about feeling like he was going to start looking like a villain instead of a victim. Still, I'm not convinced, but the officer was. He said he definitely agreed that Billy is weird, very unlucky, and just an all-around strange dude in general. But he said that he was about 80% certain that

this was another circumstantial situation that Billy had found himself in, and again, he was questioned and free to go once they came to their conclusion. He said there just wasn't enough to go off of, and being weird isn't indicative of guilt. The officer was unaware of the death of girlfriend number three, Billy's former mother-in-law that he had been sleeping with from the time that girlfriend number two died until girlfriend number three's death, which was ruled accidental. Because that had happened in the city and not the town that the cop was in, so he had no dog in that fight.

But he did raise an eyebrow when I brought it up, which I don't know. It's not his jurisdiction and there's really nothing he can do about it other than agree that it's suspicious. The next point, ugh, this is the worst. I'm guessing that because I've been so involved in this, the cop just assumed that I'd grown accustomed to the details of my dad's case. But as he was pulling files around my dad's case and making copies, he tossed a manila folder on the table that, upon opening, had an 8x10 photograph of my dad's hands in his lap, in a puddle

of blood with the pistol still in his hand. My mom and I both audibly gasped. It was unreal. I still can't believe that I saw that. I had done a really good job this entire time of having the luxury of assuming what the scene looked like without actually seeing it. This was the first time I had seen any photos of the crime scene at all, and it was very hard for me.

It knocked so much wind out of my sails that I was pretty worthless after that. My mom carried most of the rest of the meeting for me. I explained to the cop the multiple stories that had been circulating around Billy's constant retelling of how he found the bodies. Laying down, gun on the ground, sitting up, gun in the lap, sitting up, gun beside him, etc. It almost felt pointless by then because I had just literally seen a color photograph of the murder weapon in my dad's hand.

But since I had a lot of time to sit on those pictures, I almost feel even more strongly like it looks staged. Because I could only assume that Billy had staged the scene to implicate my dad. But even after physically seeing what should have been the proverbial nail in the coffin, it still didn't look, I don't know, right to me. I just didn't feel like a hand would fall so uniform the way it was. I was also startled by the amount of blood in my dad's lap. I was told numerous times that there was no need for me to identify my dad's body because they could easily identify him based on his ID picture.

Furthermore, the bullet didn't even leave his skull and had to be extracted prior to his cremation. So, it was very startling to me that there was what I would describe as a large puddle of blood in his lap. One good thing about all this is that due to the semi-consistent communication that I have with Billy's ex-wife, I explained to the cop that Billy had more or less disappeared off the face of the earth. His ex-wife was recovering from cancer, he hadn't paid child support in years, and he wasn't present at his oldest daughter's wedding. The cop did manage to at least track Billy down to some

extent and report him to the child support courts. So his wages started being garnished and his ex-wife finally started getting a little bit of money out of him to support the kid that he ran out on. So there's one semi-win in all of this. Linda posted a very sincere and heartfelt Facebook status about a little bird, me, doing much of the footwork to hold him accountable, and we later privately discussed my meeting with the cop. I had heard that recently though, she stopped receiving payments again.

One more thing, for some reason, I'm back to believing that Sherry's brother still had something to do with it regarding money. I honestly feel like Sherry's brother talked Billy into this with the promise of a payout on the backend. Why else would her only biological sibling not give a care in the world about her sister's house being covered in emergency vehicles on a Friday night? Something is still off there, but I can't decide what yet. Unfortunately that's the end of all updates, so we can only guess.

Personally I think it sounds pretty convincing. I think Opie laid out a great case here. Billy's looking pretty guilty in my book. It's just statistically impossible, it seems to me, that one person could come across four dead bodies in the course of what, like a year or two? Opie's dad, Sherry, the girl on the stairs, and then also the lady who died at 75 pounds, the girl on the stairs, and then also

the lady who died at 75 pounds, the mother-in-law that he was sleeping with. It's just too fishy for me, man. This dude's a murderer. That was rslashrbi, and if you liked this content, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day.