The Reveal

THE REVEAL

A British family's neighbour kept insisting that the kids were yelling insults and heckling him when they were outside playing in the garden... only the father immediately knows it's bullshit because the kids are too afraid of the neighbour to even go outside.

When the father confronts the neighbour for his lies, the neighbour threatens him and expressly threwtens the lives of the kids - the oldest no older than six, making it clear that he'll teach those kids some manners. Naturally, the father calls the police.

Here's where it gets worse.

The neighbour's "name" was Harry Street and when the police started investigating the threats,.a junior officer noted that despite being close to his seventies (the incident took place in 2013), none of Harry's public records start until the mid-nineties.

Junior officer immediately realises that Street is living not only under an assumed name but an assumed name given to him by the government. This means he's an ex-con whose crimes were so notable that the police had to give him a fake name after his release for his own safety.

But there are no clues to his former identity on his police records - around the mid-nineties is when they switch from paper records to computer databases and sadly, it's not uncommon for some paper records to have not been transferred over to the databases due to human record.

Luckily, they still kept the original paper records just in case such a situation ever arose. She goes to the paper storage facility, tracks down Street's real criminal record...

And calls the family in the middle of the night to warn them to get the fuck out of their house immediately while also getting armed response to kick his door in, where they find an arsenal of handmade guns, ammo and bombs.

"Harry Street" was once known as Barry Williams and as a result of psychotic and paranoid delusions caused by being an undiagnosed schizophrenic, Williams went on a spree killing provoked by his delusions in the 1970's. He was institutionalised for twenty years until he was determined to recognise the error of his ways and the need to self-manage his condition but emigrated to Spain right after his release without letting the police know about his past when he emigrated back to the UK a decade later.

Williams had stopped taking his anti-psychotic meds years ago and his delusions were convincing him to go on another mass shooting. If not for that threat or the junior officer realising his cover identity was fake, he'd have murdered his neighbors just like when he started his first rampage.