We need a place to feel comfortable talking about the times we have had knives at our throat or narrowly escaping a sk without realizing it until much later. Myself I dont want le to have a hold on me they dont already have so I wont be reporting to le or fbi my narrow misses but I maybe inclined to talk about them here!
I believe this is a safe place to post personal experiences and close calls. While I was never involved in sex work, drug addictions, etc, I had my own close call with a serial killer.
Without a doubt I was going to be a victim but I fortunately got away from the situation. It was only years later, maybe 20 years later when I was watching a episode of Paula Zahn's On The Case when "my" SK was featured. I never knew the guy's name but I had never forgotten him.
While the episode was going on it mentioned a club I use to go to that caught my attention. That's where I met him at this club. He bought me a drink and we danced. I wasn't there to pick up men, I was there to dance and just have fun. After a couple of dances, he and I went back to our seats at the bar. He tried to engage me in conversation but I was there to dance.
I looked across the bar and saw a really nice looking guy, think MacGyer or 80's Don Johnson. I told the guy I was with that I was going to ask the guy across the bar to dance and the man went ballistic on me. He was stomping his feet, talking about the drink he had bought for me, and was just became so angry at me. I walked away and for the rest of the evening I danced with the MacGyer guy.
Over the years I talked about the guy who became so angry with me for leaving him to dance with another person. It never occurred to me to be afraid of him. But it was while I was watching the show that they showed who this guy was. It was the guy I left at the bar to dance with someone else. He's also since been featured on Dark Minds and is considered a suspect in a unsolved murder back in the 80's. Fortunately he's locked up now and will be for the rest of his life, but it scared me half to death to see him again on these shows.
His name is Edwin "Ned" Snelgrove. His idol Ted Bundy. He still can't be linked to the woman in Newark, NJ back in the 80's but evidence was found that he had been in the area of her apartment. He was just getting started when he was finally locked up for good. When I met him that night he seemed like a really nice guy, decent, normal, until I wanted to leave his company. It still scares me how close I was to becoming one of his victims....