Since they closed the previous thread, I could not quote and reply to those that I wanted to like you normally can.
And since I am doing this from my phone, it may not turn out at neat as I would like. I will do my best however, and just ask that you bare with me.
I have copied the comments and usernames, and then my reply will be underneath each, respectively.
OK, here we go :
Hatfield-
Welcome and thank you for helping to bring some reality to this situation.
It is good to be reminded that multiple peoples lives in the area have been affected by this.
For those of us living far away it sometimes is easy to lose sight of that.
So thank you for joining and sharing. Feel free to post anytime you want.
This is a really respectful group of people here. Due to the nature of the subject matter it sometims may come across crass but the people here always have good intentions and very nice.
-Thank you for the warm welcome. I must say I am generally impressed by the group of people that are gathered here. I know I may not see eye to eye with everyone, and others may not agree or see eye to eye with me. I personally like to hear others viewpoints and take on the situations. We all think differently. We will not always agree with how others think or view the situation. However, this is not the place for that. We are all here with one goal; to bring home those that are missing and to hold those responsible accountable for their actions.
But again, thank you for the welcome, and I hope I can contribute to this community as much as possible.
SStarr33-
Welcome jlattimore86. Thank you for the local "color" and for the information about your interactions with SM. It really helps because we have had very little info about SM other than what TM has said about him.
Have you spoken to anyone who has directly had a different experience with him?
-There are people at my job that knew SM better and longer than I did. I am pretty sure none of them actually hung out with him outside of work, but they talked with him frequently while he was at work. They have all come to the same conclusion; they never saw this coming. It literally blows their minds. He was always friendly and willing to go out of his way and above and beyond the job he was there to do. When the murder charges were announced, everyone I work with was astonished. It became such a 'big deal' at the place that I worked that we had to call a meeting of all the employees, and were told to no longer discuss SM.
So to answer your question, no. Everyone I have talked to that has met him has had the same general take on him. Very well spoken, easily approachable, always In a good mood, and well mannered. I never heard anything bad about SM from anyone until charges were filed, which at that time, he obviously no longer had a contract with us.
StarryNight-
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on SM! I think a lot of us were very curious because somewhere in one of these many Heather threads, it was said that SM was a real flirt with the ladies. So strange (and scary) how people can be so seemingly normal even if they aren't. IMO of course.
-He was definitely talkative with the ladies. But, he was talkative with everyone. When I saw him communicating with other females, it always seemed to be respectful, and because he was nice to everyone, I don't think it set off any red flags with any of us at work. As I said in my previous post, he was always striking up a conversation with 'my boss', whether he was busy or she was busy, and that could have been because she is attractive and around his age, or because she signed his paycheck and determined if he would be called upon again in the future.
It is crazy how some of the most violent, seductive predators can be right before our eyes, and we don't even notice.
Surfside-
BBM: I can't think of a better choice of words.
-I agree. This case has affected me in numerous ways, therefore I have been following it from day one. Now that we have those responsible for her disappearance, I pray that we can bring her home. To me, that is the most important thing right now. Laying her to rest peacefully.
I know how this case has affected me, I can only imagine the pain the Elvis's are going through. My heart goes out to them.
While we are on the discussion of local payphones, there used to be one 1/4 of a mile from where HE lived. There is a local bar right down the road from her, and there is/was a payphone at their entrance. I have personally made several phone calls from this payphone. However, I haven't been to this particular bar in several years, so whether or not it is still there I am not certain.
Just throwing that out there...
-Restless in Horry County
-JL
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When I was a little girl a friend of the family worked at a motorcycle repair shop. I would visit and many of the other mechanics would talk and play around like normal people do, who like children. This particular one was always nice and friendly. I always felt comfortable around him and liked his company. Later when I was a teen, he had a night of binge drinking and drugs and killed 4 random people driving down the road. He says he thought they were demons. It just so happened that one of the victims was my 16 y/o friend, Crystal and another was my boyfriend at the time's uncle. It's sure not easy to know the murderer and the victims.
