Back in 1992, I came face-to-face with a serial killer and the encounter
has haunted me ever since. Let me state right off that nothing
happened. He was working at a gas station and I had to pay him for the
gas I had just finished pumping. End of story…so to speak. The thing is,
that brief encounter terrified me. The instant our eyes met I swear I
had a panic attack. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. I ran back
to my car and locked the doors before I even thought about putting the
keys in the ignition. I had no reason to have that reaction. He did not
go after me. Frankly, he couldn’t. There were other customers…or
potential witnesses.
I also vowed never to return to that gas station. Yes, it still exists. And yes, I've never gone back.
I didn’t know he was a serial killer until 2 weeks later when I saw his picture on the front page of the newspaper.
I’m posting here to ask for opinions:
Could my reaction have been because I saw a demon looking out of those eyes at me? If so, shouldn’t others have reacted the same way? Or…did I sense the fact that he saw me—not anyone else in line there, but me, specifically—as prey?
I periodically check for articles about him online, and recently I found a blog post that shocked the heck out of me. A woman posted that she had encountered this same man, but she didn’t sense anything wrong with him. In fact, she said he was funny. How could she see something so vastly different from what I saw? Unless…again, perhaps he did, in fact, see me as prey, but not her.
He’d actually been a serial rapist before he turned killer. His rape victims had been of all ages. His murder victims were teenagers. He killed 4 girls. The youngest was 14. The oldest was 18. At the time, I had been 31…so when I saw the newspaper article and watched the news stories, I figured I did not fit his profile. That thought eased my mind temporarily. However, I later discovered that he’d been caught with a 38 year old woman trapped in the trunk of his car.
I often find myself wondering if he had, in fact, seen me as prey…that maybe he’d gone after that woman—a mere 2 weeks after our brief encounter—because seeing me sparked something in him to not only kill again, but to go after someone closer to his own age. I often wish I could see what that woman looked like, but her identity has always been protected.
So…I saw this serial killer as evil before I knew who he was, but another woman of a similar age saw a comedian. What did other people see in him? A friend of a friend of mine (yes, I could be more specific but I don’t feel comfortable doing so) had been an FBI agent working on the case. That man had been a 20-year veteran working for the Detroit branch of the FBI. In other words, he’d seen his share of evil, I’m sure. However, my friend told me this veteran had described that serial killer as, “the scariest man he’d ever met,” and that he was “cold and haunting.”
So…was he demon-possessed but his demonic side didn’t show up for that other woman—whereas it did show up out of anger against the FBI agent? Or had he simply been mentally ill, and somehow I could see that in his eyes, or something to that effect?
Some information from articles I’d found online at one time or another revealed that he was a very conflicted individual who seemed to know he had an evil inside him that he couldn’t control:
--As a boy, he was put through psychological testing. They asked several questions and recorded his answers. They asked him what he thought little boys grow up to be, and he answered, “Men.” When asked what little girls grow up to be, he said “Punished.”
--Ironically, perhaps, at least one woman who’d been raped by him talked her way out of being killed by referring to his good nature.
--In court, he expressed sorrow and regret, and explained that when he kidnapped, raped and killed two sisters at the same time, he didn’t want one to watch the other die, so he used something (I don’t remember what) to put them to sleep first.
--In stark contrast, he was horrifically violent with his last, 18-year-old victim. He overpowered her boyfriend and tied him to a tree. Then, after promising her he wouldn’t kill her if she did as she was told, he stabbed her anyway. (He left the boyfriend be—authorities at first considered the boyfriend a subject of interest, despite his having been tied to a tree.)
--I also discovered some court transcripts regarding a pair of horrific murderers in the years after the serial killer was locked up for good. The transcripts came up because the serial killer’s name was mentioned. I only found one reference to him however: those killers said he’d “trained” them. I haven’t been able to find anything else to explain that (i.e. had they been in prison with him? Or how/where had they met him?)
--Those transcripts, btw, include references to the two killers’ faces as being “masks for an evil so dark that your worst nightmare pales in comparison,” and referred to one of them as a “demon.” (Note: the transcripts judged that those descriptions did not violate the defendants’ constitutional rights.)
It’s also pretty clear the serial killer had had a very disturbing childhood. If I recall correctly (I can't seem to find an article about it any longer), he’d witnessed his mother being brutally murdered. Maybe that led to him inviting a demon into his life.
I also vowed never to return to that gas station. Yes, it still exists. And yes, I've never gone back.
I didn’t know he was a serial killer until 2 weeks later when I saw his picture on the front page of the newspaper.
I’m posting here to ask for opinions:
Could my reaction have been because I saw a demon looking out of those eyes at me? If so, shouldn’t others have reacted the same way? Or…did I sense the fact that he saw me—not anyone else in line there, but me, specifically—as prey?
I periodically check for articles about him online, and recently I found a blog post that shocked the heck out of me. A woman posted that she had encountered this same man, but she didn’t sense anything wrong with him. In fact, she said he was funny. How could she see something so vastly different from what I saw? Unless…again, perhaps he did, in fact, see me as prey, but not her.
He’d actually been a serial rapist before he turned killer. His rape victims had been of all ages. His murder victims were teenagers. He killed 4 girls. The youngest was 14. The oldest was 18. At the time, I had been 31…so when I saw the newspaper article and watched the news stories, I figured I did not fit his profile. That thought eased my mind temporarily. However, I later discovered that he’d been caught with a 38 year old woman trapped in the trunk of his car.
I often find myself wondering if he had, in fact, seen me as prey…that maybe he’d gone after that woman—a mere 2 weeks after our brief encounter—because seeing me sparked something in him to not only kill again, but to go after someone closer to his own age. I often wish I could see what that woman looked like, but her identity has always been protected.
So…I saw this serial killer as evil before I knew who he was, but another woman of a similar age saw a comedian. What did other people see in him? A friend of a friend of mine (yes, I could be more specific but I don’t feel comfortable doing so) had been an FBI agent working on the case. That man had been a 20-year veteran working for the Detroit branch of the FBI. In other words, he’d seen his share of evil, I’m sure. However, my friend told me this veteran had described that serial killer as, “the scariest man he’d ever met,” and that he was “cold and haunting.”
So…was he demon-possessed but his demonic side didn’t show up for that other woman—whereas it did show up out of anger against the FBI agent? Or had he simply been mentally ill, and somehow I could see that in his eyes, or something to that effect?
Some information from articles I’d found online at one time or another revealed that he was a very conflicted individual who seemed to know he had an evil inside him that he couldn’t control:
--As a boy, he was put through psychological testing. They asked several questions and recorded his answers. They asked him what he thought little boys grow up to be, and he answered, “Men.” When asked what little girls grow up to be, he said “Punished.”
--Ironically, perhaps, at least one woman who’d been raped by him talked her way out of being killed by referring to his good nature.
--In court, he expressed sorrow and regret, and explained that when he kidnapped, raped and killed two sisters at the same time, he didn’t want one to watch the other die, so he used something (I don’t remember what) to put them to sleep first.
--In stark contrast, he was horrifically violent with his last, 18-year-old victim. He overpowered her boyfriend and tied him to a tree. Then, after promising her he wouldn’t kill her if she did as she was told, he stabbed her anyway. (He left the boyfriend be—authorities at first considered the boyfriend a subject of interest, despite his having been tied to a tree.)
--I also discovered some court transcripts regarding a pair of horrific murderers in the years after the serial killer was locked up for good. The transcripts came up because the serial killer’s name was mentioned. I only found one reference to him however: those killers said he’d “trained” them. I haven’t been able to find anything else to explain that (i.e. had they been in prison with him? Or how/where had they met him?)
--Those transcripts, btw, include references to the two killers’ faces as being “masks for an evil so dark that your worst nightmare pales in comparison,” and referred to one of them as a “demon.” (Note: the transcripts judged that those descriptions did not violate the defendants’ constitutional rights.)
It’s also pretty clear the serial killer had had a very disturbing childhood. If I recall correctly (I can't seem to find an article about it any longer), he’d witnessed his mother being brutally murdered. Maybe that led to him inviting a demon into his life.
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