This is interesting to me that so many that knew her say they have felt this.
I have felt evil on people. Not often, but I have felt it. I have literally felt sick to my stomach. Oddly enough, or I should say scary enough, one of these I am mentioning looked right thru me, but with intensity. I knew he knew I knew. Creepy!!!! If I were her atty I don't know if I could sit by her if I felt what others have said.
Next, I wonder why Travis didn't sense it immediately.
Btw, I do not mean any of this from any religious aspect.
I have had the experience of being in the presence of absolute evil and it is a feeling I'll never forget. Living in Dallas, I had read the book "Fatal Vision" and it really affected me and stayed with me, more so than other true crime books that I had read.
While I was living in Austin, for a lot of very complicated reasons, I found myself in the extremely surreal position of having to go with an attorney to visit a very recently indicted inmate at the nearest Federal Prison at Bastrop, TX. I was scared out of my mind and the process a visitor has to endure is horrible, humiliating and scary. I had to do this 3 times over the course of 3 days. I had only ever been to any jail twice in my life, to bail out a friend for a misdemeanor.
Once finally inside the crowded visiting room to wait to see the person we were there to visit, the attorney and I took seats in the long rows of chairs. I was afraid to look anywhere or at anyone other than the attorney and I was so anxious I thought I was coming out of my skin, practically hyperventilating, the room was so hot and stuffy.
As we were waiting, there was a large Hispanic family sitting in the seats immediately to my right. They were obviously visiting with two inmates, talking, telling stories, laughing, seemingly having a wonderful time visiting with toddler grandchildren playing. I couldn't fathom that. When some of them made eye contact with me, they looked kind and smiled, appearing to recognize my discomfort and "newbie" status.
As it turned out (later, to me)that family and those inmates were the Chagra Family, who along with Woody Harrelson's dad Charles, conspired and laid in wait to shoot and kill Federal Judge John Wood. As skittish as I was, they couldn't have been nicer.
I gradually became somewhat more comfortable, just happy and relieved to see the person we had come to visit. At one end of the room was a big row of vending machines that offered a huge variety of drinks, sandwiches, snacks, and candy that both inmates and visitors were allowed to have.
I decided to go up and get a drink. I was standing back from the machines a bit, money in hand, seeing which drink machines had which sodas, looking for Dr Pepper.. All of a sudden, in that hot stuffy room, I felt a cold, cold sensation, and I actually shivered, got goosebumps and felt strange. Then I felt someone's breath coming from behind me, talking into my right ear......"May I help you??"
Startled to have my space invaded like that, I turned around quickly to say no and move away and I was staring straight into the eyes of Jeffery MacDonald. I just froze and stared. All of a sudden I recalled that Bastrop Federal Prison was where he had been relocated and realized with horror that the person we came to visit was in the same company and sharing the same space as JEFFERY MACDONALD!!??
My whole world, my whole life, turned upside down and went up in flames in a blaze of glory that week and this was the topper. The person that we were there to visit wasn't picked up and taken to the Austin City Jail to await being bonded out. He was onsidered to be one of "those people". On the following visits,due to a complaint filed by the attorney, MacDonald stayed far away from me but stared a hole through me the whole time.
Creepiest experience ever....or at least in the top 3.