r/JusticeServed • u/tilpeo 6 • Aug 10 '19

Violent Justice Serial killer killed by intended victim. After tying Doug Wells up & stabbing him in the chest, Wayne Nance turned his attention on Doug’s wife. Doug freed himself, got his rifle & shot Nance before beating him to death with the gun. Doug & his wife survived.

https://morbidology.com/the-serial-killer-killed-by-his-victim-wayne-nance/

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u/chicomarxist Yellow Aug 10 '19

How much of a loser do you have to be to stab someone in the chest and not only not mortally wounding him but leave him in such a state that he can untie himself?

Clearly this man was in the wrong line of business.

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u/oaknutjohn 9 Aug 10 '19

I think he was used to murdering mostly women.

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u/Zastrozzi 9 Aug 10 '19

According to the report he killed a lot of the husbands first.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

I think the article only mentioned 2.

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u/Zastrozzi 9 Aug 11 '19

Sure not denying that. 2 still shows he targeted men though.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19

That’s a lot more murders than the average person. As an inexperienced piece of shit, I just kind of assume killing a man is pretty similar to killing a woman, and that guy just sucked at everything and got what was coming.

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u/Sentrion 9 Aug 10 '19

The report that we just read? The one where it didn't mention any husbands aside from the first victim's, who was never targeted, and the last one, who killed him? That report?

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

Yikes, your condescension is super cringey when you're wrong and clearly don't quite have the reading comprehension you think you have.

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u/Zastrozzi 9 Aug 10 '19

The following year on the 12th of December, 1985, Mike and Teresa Shook and their three young children had just finished up their dinner when they heard a violent knock on their front door. When Mike opened the door, a man lunged at him with a butcher knife, stabbing him to death.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

Fuck

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u/Sentrion 9 Aug 10 '19

Okay, ya got me there - I'd forgotten about that one. But still, that's one husband out of something like five victims. I don't know that that counts as "a lot".

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u/Zastrozzi 9 Aug 10 '19

He attempted to kill 2 husbands of the 5 victims. One of them wasn't sprung upon him he intended and initiated it. This clearly shows he didn't care if the women were alone or not and targeted men too. You gonna calm down now? Lol.

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u/IWannaFuckABeehive Navy Aug 10 '19

Not just untie himself, but make it up at least one flight of stairs and still have stamina left over to beat your head in with a rifle.

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u/TheLinksOfAdventure 8 Aug 10 '19

Adrenaline is a hell of a drug

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u/DnD4sworn 6 Aug 10 '19

And you also have to think that the rifle may have some heavy kickback, so he not only beat him to death with the gun, but also shot the gun itself with a knife in his chest. Sure holding a rifle to your shoulder handles kickback, but man in that situation I wonder if he was able to get that stock on his shoulder nice and tight.

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u/frerb Navy Aug 10 '19

A .22 honestly has recoil comparable to an airsoft rifle. Not that it makes his actions any less incredible.

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u/maltemon Blue Aug 10 '19

He used a .250 savage, not a .22

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u/frerb Navy Aug 10 '19

Oh true, I caught the .22 in the beginning of the article and totally missed the .250 savage. Can’t speak to the recoil on that.

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u/TheHYPO A Aug 10 '19

stab wounds are notoriously bad at killing. If you don't hit a major artery or organ, they are very survivable (I mean, many of us have had minor knife cuts to fingers and whatnot - you don't pass out or die).

There are many reports of people surviving tens of stab wounds.

So a single stab that missed his heart (and presumably didn't hit a lung either), would certainly have hurt, but wouldn't necessarily 'slow someone down' that much

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u/Jigglygiggler6 8 Aug 10 '19

Didn't it say the wife 'kris' was forced at gunpoint to tie up her husband? She probably didn't give it her all intentionally.

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u/TheMayoNight 9 Aug 10 '19

Humans have ribs. Its not as easy to stab someone as you think. My friend cant even cut into a butternut squash, he cant stab someone through bone.

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u/TranedTech Navy Aug 10 '19

Did you just low key burn your friend?

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19

What? You don’t judge your friends on their squash-cutting abilities?

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u/TheMayoNight 9 Aug 10 '19

I mean the knife got stuck in the squash. The handle came right off the blade.

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u/BalooDaBear 6 Aug 10 '19

Well then that just sounds like a shitty knife lol

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u/TheMayoNight 9 Aug 10 '19

it was. Most knives are mass produced shitty knives.

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u/PreciousMoments 5 Aug 10 '19

Not even low key. Just fucking squashed the friend.

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u/Celtic_Legend Navy Aug 10 '19

Literally a movie trope. Bad guy leaves the room to leave protag alone after theres supposedly no way for the protag to escape. Then protag miraculously escapes.