“You blink. You look again. You look at other photos. You wonder if you’re being melodramatic, if your memory is faulty. You wonder if people will believe you, or simply think your imagination has run away with you. You wonder if there is a class of neurotic people who make up false accounts of run-ins with serial killers. You realize that to be true to your story and yourself, you can’t let what you are reading create false memories.”
– In Orange Coast Magazine, a former Marine describes what it’s like to come to the realization that he may have met a notorious serial killer many years ago. See also: Vanessa Veselka’s 2012 GQ story about her possible run-in with a serial killer.
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Photo by: Dick Uhne
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