Finding it hard to try to fall asleep tonight, I can't seem to unplug thoughts just keep coming back in my head. I also keep getting reminded recently about my time spent on back roads in Fulton County many different ones over the years when I was doing a little storm chasing and storm spotting for the Skywarn weather Watchers group as I am a trained storm spotter. I also would go almost every night for a long period of time to take pictures at sunset ..several times I encountered strange people including one very creepy one that parked a little ways down the road from me and stopped in the middle of the road just watched me take pictures of the sky. I was actually talking to a friend on the phone a few moments later and he recalled the conversation we had that day and how scared I felt at that time and I'm seriously wondering if that could have been JDW that night. I'm trying to find time to go through all those old pictures and videos I took then to see if I got a picture of that vehicle to see if it's was a known vehicle of his at the time. It just chills me to the Bones to think I was that close to possibly encountering him and someone told me that they won't be surprised if I was mentioned in one of his journals, if he really was keeping disgusting timeline track of certain women he was taking note of their routines of when and where they were because I was very predictable being there during Sunset hours .but anyways I just once again want to extend my heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends and loved ones of the Sierah Joughin's Family and to the law enforcement who had to see things they wish they never had . I can't even begin to imagine and my heart just breaks for all of you and there's just no words left to try to convey all the feelings and emotions I have about this. Sorry I am rambling and tor the long run on sentences. I'm exhausted .
I've had a similar experience, BoggLed in Ohio.
I had an unsettling encounter on my Virginia college campus years ago with a soft-spoken young black man (boy?) whom I did not recognize as a student at that small school.
An article I read about JLM 's encounters with women in Charlottesville the night of Hannah Graham's abduction stated, "After one of the women slipped off the boots she was wearing, LJ unexpectedly pulled off her socks, saying he wanted to see her toes." (
http://insidecville.com/blog/ljs-timeline/)
Chills. Trembling.
When I was a college student, I was walking back from the library one night at about 10 o'clock. I stopped at the student center to check for mail, and the boy, who was wearing mustard-yellow sweats, followed me in and said something too quiet for me to hear. He left, and I did soon after, once I thought he'd be gone.
He wound up behind me somehow as I continued my walk to my dorm, approached me, and asked me to remove my shoes so he could see my toes.
I was shy and naïve and taken aback, told him no, and continued on my way. When I looked back to see if he was following me, I saw him approach another female student and ask to see her toes.
The encounter was so unsettling and he was so out of place on campus, but I talked myself out of reporting it to campus police. (Marching in there and declaring that a strange boy had just asked to see my toes? I thought I'd be rebuffed as silly or overreactive.)
Instead, I returned to my dorm in tears, feeling violated and no longer safe on that campus. I'd been carrying an apple and heaved it at the wall in anger. It splattered everywhere.
JLM would have been in his teens then, but given his height and size now, perhaps he was bigger than the typical pre-teen and was just beginning to act on his urges.
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