The Disturbing Reddit Post Murder Confession

It began with a question that demanded brutal honesty: “To those who accidentally killed someone — what went wrong?”

Buried beneath Reddit’s familiar layers of dark humour and detachment was a thread unlike the rest. It wasn’t there for shock value or spectacle. Instead, it asked people to return to the worst moment of their lives — to trace, in painful detail, how something irreversible could grow out of something ordinary.

Most of the replies were brief and evasive — as though time had worn down the weight of what was being confessed. Yet among them, one story lingered.

A user — perhaps reassured by the belief that his words would be lost in a sea of similar confessions — wrote about his group of friends in the 1980s: barely more than children themselves, suspended in the boredom and recklessness of youth. What began as an unremarkable day ended with a child dead, and a family left without answers decades later.

The commenter did not dramatise the account or ask for forgiveness. He simply described how a small sequence of careless decisions accumulated, one after another, until there was no way back.

The user explained that as children, he and his friends had a secret hideout carved into a dirt cliff. One afternoon, they arrived to find it occupied by a neighbourhood boy they regarded as “weird and creepy,” whom they believed to be mentally handicapped. The boy was sitting atop the cliff in a spot the group referred to as their guard chair.

They shouted at him to leave. He refused, calling back, “Make me.”

According to the commenter, the boy began throwing sticks and clumps of dirt down at them. As the group ran around the side of the cliff to climb up after him, the boy lost his footing and fell to his death below.

The user recalled the sound of the boy’s fall — a sound that haunted him long after. As the reality of what had happened set in, the group ran to where he lay, his body twisted and mangled, blood spilling from his mouth.

They never called for help. Instead, the terrified boys swore a pact of silence and ran home. They never spoke of it again.

The user’s admission — “it gets pretty fuzzy here, all I remember is he fell” — led many readers to suspect that he, or one of the other boys, may have pushed him. He went on to say that the child’s death barely merited a mention in the local newspaper, and that the case eventually slipped into obscurity.

Other Reddit users were deeply unsettled by the account and began digging further. A review of the commenter’s posting history revealed little — he had rarely participated in discussions — but it was enough to place him in Missouri.

Not long after, the user received a reply that reportedly chilled him to the bone. Soon after, he deleted both the comment and his entire Reddit account. The message came from a self-described web sleuth who was determined to identify the child. It read:

“Was the person who died that day maybe Scott Kleeschulte, still missing to this very day…?”

Scott vanished from St. Charles, Missouri, on June 8, 1988. He was nine years old. That afternoon, a heavy thunderstorm swept through the area, darkening the sky and emptying the streets. Witnesses later reported seeing Scott walking alone shortly before the storm broke. After that, he was never seen again.

Six weeks after his disappearance, police launched large-scale searches in the area surrounding his home. Crews combed the vicinity, digging into caves and hollowed-out pockets in the nearby hillside — the same places where Scott was known to play with other neighbourhood children.

For years, many people — including Scott’s family — believed he had sought shelter from the storm and become trapped. The Reddit confession, however, introduced a far darker possibility. Had the boys watched Scott die and then fled, leaving his body to be claimed by the storm — perhaps buried beneath a mudslide triggered by the torrential rain?

Reddit users were quick to alert police in St. Charles, believing the confession might finally carry consequences for the person who posted it.

The image the user had shared of the cliff appeared to match a location just over a mile from where Scott was last seen. The area was threaded with narrow dirt paths and steep gorges — terrain that, once the storm hit, would have been vulnerable to sudden flash flooding, powerful enough to sweep away anything in its path.

Nearly ten years after the Reddit post, police maintain that they have reason to believe Scott Kleeschulte was abducted, and that a person of interest remains under scrutiny.

As of 2026, the case remains unsolved but investigations are ongoing.