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Imagine how you would feel about seeing one face to face. Back in the late seventies, I came face to face with two men I later found out were the Hillside Stranglers, serial killers of young women in Los Angeles. I didn't know their identity until after they were arrested and I recognized one of them in a news report. It still bothers me since there were reports of their activities and crimes at the time I saw them and, given the situation in which I met them, I could have put two and two together and turned them in and stopped their killing spree. i didn't and now I often wish I had been able to do so...
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That sounds awful, but in my eyes it is the same point as saying what if someone killed Hitler in 1933 when he rose to power.
You had no way of knowing, you can run into murderders on a day to day basis, people have a lot of skeletons in their closet.
And i've read that most serial killers are so adept at hiding their intentions and personality from society that you wouldn't even have known.
Although I do believe in instinct, some people can just give you an uneasy feeling, like something dissent totally kosher with them.
Still, I can imagine always having that feeling of "what if I did? "