I'm posting in reference to 'The Killing Season's' River Man... I think I may have encountered him in ALABAMA. I thought things about the GB4 cases and everything in between leading up to the introduction of the River Man, sounded an awful lot like a run in I had with a very very strange man when I was escorting in AL in 2017. I was thinking wow, this adds up to pieces of my experience with a man that I believe would've seriously hurt me had I not been on guard as I was, but then I thought, nahh hew has no connection to AL. I was SHOCKED when Rachel and Josh mention that his LAST KNOWN LOCATION WAS ALABAMA! Unfortunately, I only know he was in Mobile, AL last, not when and who he is. Here's why I think he COULD POSSIBLY be someone I encountered. . .
I was living in a hotel, and escorting toward the end of 2017. It wasn't a seedy hotel, it was nice, a very nice Days Inn in Trussleville, AL. Perhaps that had something to do with the odd request...here's similarities to the original GB4 cases, though keep in mind, location is very different as I was about 3.5-4 hrs from the beach, and in AL (but they do have evidence his tail goes cold there. (Anyone know when? If so, please do tell!) Heres the things that make me wonder if he was connected to this man, or who ever the killer or once of the killers are...
1.) I was escorting off of Craigslist, and Backpage, where I came across this man. Name unknown.
2.) He offered $1,000 to me. At one point I backed out, and he upped the ante to $1,500. (Both were exact increments thrown at 2 of the GB4 girls.)
3.) He was offering this kind of money for me to have a CAR date with him, even though I had my own room. (This is the first thing that made me EXTREMELY uneasy. The pricing was the second, as I'm not that naive.)
4.) He requested that when he pulled up out front of the room, that I would open my curtain windows and flash him. (I gave him a room # a couple doors down as I didn't want him to know where my room was just yet, because something didn't feel right. I wanted to be able to scope this situation out first.) After that, I would come out to the car. I asked him where we would go or if we would stay in the parking lot (either was too risky for my liking.) He didn't answer that, he only said "just come out". He said he was there, but I was (very, very discreetly as to not tip off my room location) watching out of the window and saw NO car pull up. Leading me to believe he had already been there. He called and told me to come out to his car, but oddly wouldn't give me a detailed description...just that he was in an SUV out front. This is where it gets BIZZARE! ... After some time, he calls and asks if I'm coming. I said I don't feel comfortable. This was where
he upped the ante from $1,000 - $1,500) making me even MORE SUSPICIOUS. I waited a while, looked out the window for someone sitting in their car, and saw NO ONE. I tip toed out with mace in hand, and a switch knife (locked in the open position to be prepared) in my waistband. I began peeking into a few of the cars between my door and the door number I gave this fellow. I came up to an SUV that I was unfamiliar with being there over the past days, and peek in the back.... and there he was.
This man appeared to be naked, he MAY have had underwear on, but I couldn't see that. This guy was crouched back there facing downward, He was positioned like he was on his knees, then just bent forward until his forehead touched the seat. (Exactly like a yoga 'child's pose'! If you don't know what that is, I have it attached in a pic below.) The parking lot was dark, there was only residual lighting from the lights in front of the hotel doors, so his white skin really stuck out, which is how I know he was unclothed, but at my angle, his head was toward me. If I opened the door, he would've been facing me... SO He may have had boxers on or something, I can't say definitively bc of his positioning, I couldn't see any of that part of him. But I did see the top of his buttcrack so....idk. ANYWAYS
... TOTALLY CREEPY RIGHT!? I've never seen anything like it! My hair's raised and I RAN for my room, got in locked up, stuck a chair under the door handle, and locked myself in the bathroom.
5.) He called. I answered and said "I'm not coming." He said, "$1500. Are you coming?" I said "no im uncomfortable, I'm going to pass. Thank you. He says "$2000, 2500?" I hang up, because I now know he's danger, has no intention of paying, and is probably there to hurt me. My intuition is hardly ever wrong. He calls again. I dont know why I answered but I did...he says "Do you know what happens to a '*advertiser censored*'?" (OH YES, PLEASE NOTE, THERE WAS NOOOO SOUTHERN ACCENT. HE WAS NOT AN ALABAMIAN.) I hung up, afraid. I continued to get blocked calls, and didn't answer. This went on for a few days. I left the hotel the very next morning. Fortunately, the calls subsided a few days after, and I'm left wondering who the hell I encountered and what would've happened to me if I would've opened that car door to meet him had I fell into that money trap.
6.) I, at the time, was also a drug user which is why I was escorting off of CL and BP.
So with aaaaaalllllllllll these coincidences, the escorting, the use of Craigslist and Backpage, drug use (though he wouldn't have known that, it would've had to be an assumption), the strict request for a car date (even with a room I paid for a week, a safer place to be...), the evasiveness of where we'd be going in said car, the ridiculous money offer starting with the 2 increments the other girls fell for, calling me a *advertiser censored*, thes taunting with calls period, the lack of AL accent, AL being the last known location (like I said, idk when, this was 2017, but still the fact that this guy WAS known to even be there...uhg... spooktacular!!!) It just all seems soooooo coincidental. Too coincidental.
