I was having an incredibly hard time finding any information on a murder I remembered from around 2009. I thought maybe it somehow got memory holed, even though it was reported by conventional news outlets at the time.
I remember it because I tried jiu-jitsu classes at this place, and it seemed unnecessarily rough. Like, I was a new guy doing a trial class, and a guy put a
calf slicer on me. Generally, in grappling circles, pain compliance techniques are considered out-of-bounds in friendly training and casual competition.
The next week or so, I heard that three kickboxing instructors from that school murdered two guys at Revere Beach. The owner then put an angry disavowal of those instructors on his web site, and then got a famous MMA fighter Wanderlei "The Axe Murderer" Silva to do a clinic at the gym to offset the bad publicity.
I was thinking of that because someone brought a black gi to judo, and the sensei didn't allow it, but wacky gis are common in jiu-jitsu. I tried looking it up and couldn't find anything on the web. It bothered me because I had told someone about this a little while ago and did not want to seem like a liar.
Then, I grabbed what I think is a
compreshensive spreadsheet of US murders. But there were no murders in Revere in 2009. Or nearby Chelsea.
Did I get the date wrong?
I tried searching for "beating" instead of "murder" and finally found an
article about the incident.
What I had misremembered was the actual crime. It was an assault, not a murder. The two victims were severely injured, possibly permanently, but not killed.
So, I accidentally partly lied, but at least my brain didn't produce it from whole cloth.